Ota Motyčka Movies

Eight-year old Dominique has a name-day. Her parents have a gift for her, but only give it to her in the evening, when everybody has come home from...

Prague in the 1870s. Work in Smolík's sulphur factory is hard and dangerous to health. The poorly paid workers resemble torches because their...

A musical comedy about two indistinguishably similar siblings who love music, but each of them is completely different. Pavel Fořt is a...

Venice Film Festival 1939

What chance does a fairy tale have when socialist realism is running rampant in the world? The sad hero of the story, Petr, an ordinary lawyer in a...

Grammar school teacher Bláha hurts himself in pursuit of a red lizard, and is lying unconscious in the lonely house of Santrucek family. The...

A "fairly ordinary and mundane" working day in various operations of large steel mills...

A story about the uproar caused by the arrival of a new, young and, by local standards, too energetic zookeeper in a village JZD. Her name is Maya...

Working in the city office is a bitter clerk who believes he has only 14 days to live and so he bravely stands up to his bureaucratic director.

Juraj Herz adapts Bohumil Hrabal's story about a man who works in a junk shop.