Josef Bek Movies

A live, semi-documentary TV broadcast investigates why former prisoner Dr. Benet collapsed after defeating world chess champion Mirko...

A satire about small and large crooks who thrive in a planned economy. They made great use of all its strengths and weaknesses.

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

In late 19th century Czech-speaking Bohemia, oppressed workers at German-owned mines and foundries revolt against their harsh working conditions....

It seemed that the arrogant princess was tormenting the king with her whims. When she thought she would only marry a groom as frail as herself, the...

A fiction piece centered around the Czech resistance to the Nazis.

This exemplary "psychological drama" depicts the difficulties with which a new socialist mindset is born. Director Jiří Sequens warns...

Cooperative members are harvesting crops, trying to get new water piping installed and preparing to plough away the field boundaries in autumn. Local...

The story of a poor, disintegrating family of a mother Fišerová and her three children. It is set in the 1890s - a time when the poor...

The conflicts in one pilot's fractured marriage come to a head just as Soviet jets are introduced to international airliners. Naive psychological...