Jan Pivec Movies

The first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", completed with Jan Žižka (1955) and Proti všem (Against All Odds, 1957). The...

A story about the conditions in Bohemia in the second half of the nineteenth century, when small-town officials, such as Hrdlička, succumbed to...

Explores young adults' fears of being conscripted by the communist government into working outside of Prague, a relative oasis of creativity and...

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....

The story of a Czech national revivalist, writer and author of a famous cookbook... The story takes us to Litomyšl in 1836. The local...

A tragicomedy set in wartime Germany. The protagonist is 16-year-old Bruno, who is considered by everyone to be an uneducated goofus. But he hates...

František Brych, a principled lawyer, refuses to back the new Communist regime at his factory and grows increasingly alienated, even as his...

Slightly ironic comedy of wretches, who come to understand the rich and are able to accept charity, and also about how love and work prevail over the...

After the battle of Sudoměř the Hussite teaching spreads through the whole country and people start leaving their homes to help build the...

Kaspar Len returns home after three years in the army. He vainly searches for the mason Kryštof’s family where he had lived before he...

From a scientific enterprise, a large sum of money has been stolen, in addition, research protocols have been photographed...

A Czech satirical comedy, filmed according to a script by the State Prize laureate Jiří Marek based on several of his satirical short...

In the garden of Hojtaš's estate, local dignitaries gather to watch a theatrical performance starring the author of the play, Dr. Pavel...

An unknown gang has again broken into a van containing money from the European bank. Banker Sam Hamilton decides to use an armoured car for the next...

The family of Prague greengrocer Pavlas was among the first immigrants to settle in the border village of Severov. Together, the new residents manage...

A comedy about a grandmother who raises her granddaughter Jarmila according to the rules of the old days. Only her second granddaughter, a university...

The bourgeois family does not forgive, from her point of view, inappropriate behavior - contempt overtakes both the girl who decides to dedicate her...