Jan Oliva Movies

In an unusual, apolitical approach, director Jaromil Jires has fashioned a standard drama that features an older lawyer with failing health who goes...

The harsh reality of a home for abandoned children blends with episodes of youthful fantasy and slapstick comedy in this story of an orphan girl....

Comedy about a group of village boys and in one selfless father who wants his players to do the real football.

Three short stories. Prague finally sees the approval of the subway construction. Thousands of individuals took part in preparing, course and...

Seven days, or rather evenings and nights, in the life of Jenka (Stanislava Bartosová), a young good-looking nurse. Jenka is attractive to men...

A story about young girl Hanka who doesn't have parents and is forced to spend most of her time in a hospital bed.

The late summer of 1918. Paul, Willi and Heinrich from an age-old German town are good friends, although there is a great deal that divides them....

Young script-writer Frantisek (Petr Cepek) is hired to write a film script based on the successful novel Looking Back. He meets with the novel's...

A story about an everyday life of an inflectional department of Prague hospital.

Michal's father and his friends are stigmatized by their war experience and the post-war social deformations in which they took part either directly,...

In the thick woods at the edge of the Bohemian Forest, two border guards are keeping watch - rifleman Kucera (Rudolf Jelínek) and dog handler...

A model Communist village is visited by a flying saucer.

Marta (Lucie Patikova) was blinded in an accident brought on by her careless and indulgent younger sister. Now in a school for the blind, Marta keeps...