Movies: Kamil Bešťák

Good-natured and garrulous, Schweik becomes the Austrian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of World War I -- although his bumbling attempts to get to the front serve only to prevent him from reaching it. Playing car...

This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot), politicians and ordinary citizens, to save the independence and the territorial integrity of the state from ...

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The happenings in a shoe factory serve as a not very thinly veiled examination of the pros and cons of both socialism and democracy....

The young Prince Charles (Jaromír Hanzlík), the future King of his country Charles IV, is being educated at the French court in the company of his fiancée Blanche (Daniela Kolárová). One day he receives a summons from his father John of Luxembourg (M...

The movie describes proletarian life in the Czech Lands after World War I....

Managers at the construction of a big hydro plant are accused of having embezzled money....

Based on book by Svatopluk Turek....

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