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Československý státní film

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Distant Journey poster
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Prague, during World War II. Hana Kaufmann, a Jewish ophthalmologist, marries Dr. Antonín Bureš, a Christian man. When her family is sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, their romance turns into a struggle for survival.

Distant Journey

Jun 1949

Dva ohně poster
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A socialist drama from the time of the February coup. The owner of the brickyard will use several workers before February in order to subvert worker solidarity and continue to do his black business. However, the vigilance of a young, aware worker prevents him from doing so.

Dva ohně

Feb 1950

Kariéra poster
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Karel Kubat, the successful director of the Globus printing house, learns on his fiftieth birthday that he has a serious heart condition. The bad news forces him to take stock of his life. In his mind, he returns to key situations that gradually changed his character and outlook on life...

Kariéra

Oct 1948

The Emperor and the Golem poster
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The Emperor's mismanagement of his country is provoking some in his court to plot to overthrow him. He feels successful, at least, when he discovers the legendary Golem, which he believes can protect him and even cure his imaginary illnesses but, when he disappears while on a bender, his kindly baker, who looks just like him, is mistaken for him, and begins to put things in order. However, the conspirators, not to be outdone, determine to bring the Golem back to life to do their bidding.

The Emperor and the Golem

Jan 1952

It’s Not Always Cloudy poster
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A film about life in the Czech borderlands after the expulsion of the Sudeten Germans.

It’s Not Always Cloudy

Oct 1950

The Trap poster
Movie

The drama from the time of the Nazi occupation begins at the train station, where a transport with German soldiers is passing. The train is stopped due to improvised sabotage by one of the railway workers. Resistance liaison Růžena Kubínová is arrested in a random raid. The cynical councilor Dönnert discovers her false documents and has her brutally interrogated. He suspects that she could contribute to exposing the entire group. He puts a informant, Herta, in her cell.

The Trap

Nov 1950

Pára nad hrncem poster
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Pára nad hrncem

Oct 1950

Divá Bára poster
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This is a romantic story about a brave, self-made girl, despised daughter of a shepherd. She is not afraid of anything - neither night nor swimming. But the superstitious villagers are telling weird stories about her and about all sorts of strange things, even her conjunction with the powers of hell.

Divá Bára

Apr 1949

Year of the Revolution 1848 poster
Movie

The Czech revival movement is divided at the end of the first half of the 19th century. While the older generation, such as František Palacký, urges restraint, students lean towards radical positions. A report on the revolutionary events in Paris prompts Czech Prague residents to write down the demands of the Czech nation for self-determination and the proclamation of a constitution. Tensions peak during the All-Slavic Congress in Prague's Žofín. Vienna rejects the Czech demands and the congress is brutally dispersed by the Austrian police. Prague begins to build barricades...

Year of the Revolution 1848

Dec 1949

Pan Novák poster
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Mr. Novák, an insurance company clerk, only cares about his job, nothing else interests him. Even the social changes in February 1948 leave him indifferent. He only becomes aware of them when the insurance company is closed down. He has to make a decision: either retire or go to work in a factory. Neither of these options appeals to Mr. Novák...

Pan Novák

Jun 1949

Křížová trojka poster
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An attempted theft of a rare antique is uncovered at a castle that houses an apprentice recreation center. The apprentices help uncover the real perpetrators and their accomplices.

Křížová trojka

Jan 1949

Žízeň poster
Movie

The catastrophically dry weather of 1947 causes immense problems in the countryside. In the small village Klícov, only farmers Hánek and Bervida and the old Hromádka have water. The others must queue every day for a drop for themselves and their cattle. All the villagers lament over their previous decision to turn down the cooperative chairman Kouba's proposal to built a new village water-supply system.

Žízeň

Mar 1950

Pětistovka poster
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The management of the Meteor motorcycle factory is forced by a representative of the central headquarters to accept the expensive design of a racing machine and abandon the unfinished prototype of a folk motorcycle of their own design. However, the factory's workers and technical team decide to complete the prototype of the "Pepíky", as they call their five-hundred-horsepower motorcycles, ahead of schedule.

Pětistovka

Sep 1949

Vstanou noví bojovníci poster
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The leader of the emerging organized labor movement in the 1880s, Ladislav Zápotocký-Budečský, is exiled to his native village, where he works as a tailor and continues to raise social awareness among members of the working class.

Vstanou noví bojovníci

Feb 1951

Podhale w ogniu poster
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Podhale, 17th century – the story of an anti-nobility peasant rebellion led by Aleksander Kostka Napierski.

Podhale w ogniu

Jan 1956

Láska poster
Movie

Montage of documentary footage from the liberation and building of the republic as a tribute to JV Stalin on his seventieth birthday.

Láska

Dec 1949

Hostinec „U kamenného stolu“ poster
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An innkeeper is grieving because his wife left him for a second-rate actor. His two nephews, who are not on speaking terms, have to take over the running of the establishment...

Hostinec „U kamenného stolu“

Sep 1949

Mikoláš Aleš poster
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A biographical film about the famous Czech painter Mikoláš Aleš, portrayed as part of the vanguard of the working class and a spokesman for the oppressed, who asserts himself despite the opposing bourgeoisie and reactionaries of all kinds. The film focuses on the period when Mikoláš Aleš participated in the competition to decorate the National Theatre.

Mikoláš Aleš

Jan 1952

The Proud Princess poster
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It's very human and nice story about lofty princess (her father is amiable but incapable - unforgettable performance of S. Neumann) and good, nice, kind and well-principled young king (prince) who tries to make tender her calm heart to get married with her. After being refused (she's very capricious), he conclude to make her better. He start to work as a gardener at her castle (in secret) and successively bring she to her senses...The story continues when already reformed princess and the young king (she learn about his real identity later) have to take refuge from troops, that princess father (old king) has sent (of course he took a bad and mean counsellors advice). They have to take shelter by several ordinary and poor families, which are always very friendly and give them a help... Of course the tale has happy end.

The Proud Princess

Sep 1952

Karhanova parta poster
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A construction comedy about the labor struggle of two groups of workers in a Prague factory. The old group is led by the grinder Karhan, while the young group is led by his son. The struggle between the two groups leads to the emergence of socialist competition and cooperation, in which the old share their experience with the young, and the young share their new ideas.

Karhanova parta

Mar 1951

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