Ondřej Vetchý
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1962-05-16
Locus Natus: Jihlava, Czechoslovakia [now Czechia]
Et ut: Ondrej Vetchy, Ondrej Vetchý, Ondra Vetchy, Ondra Vetchý
Kolya
After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly take responsibility for her son. However, it’s...
release : 1996.05.15popularis : 9.801
Girlie
A love story which unfolds over three days and nights on the outskirts of the metropolis. Seventeen-year-old Ema (Dorota Nvotová) breaks up...
release : 2002.11.30popularis : 0.742
Empties
Czech literature teacher Josef Tkaloun, who is past retirement age, realises one day that he no longer understands his pupils, and so he...
release : 2007.03.08popularis : 6.146
Army of Thieves
A mysterious woman recruits bank teller Ludwig Dieter to lead a group of aspiring thieves on a top-secret heist during the early stages of the zombie...
release : 2021.10.29popularis : 29.108
Cerni baroni
Life of Czechoslovak soldiers in a military unit for the so called "politically unreliable" - the Technical auxiliary battalions, aka "the black...
release : 1992.06.04popularis : 2.539
Broken Promise
Slovakia, on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. The family of the young Jewish Martin Friedmann gathers to celebrate his bar mitzvah and make a...
release : 2009.04.30popularis : 3.571
Dark Blue World
Lt. Franta Slama is a top pilot in the Czech Air Force who is assigned to train a promising young flier, Karel Vojtisek, and they soon become...
release : 2001.05.17popularis : 14.494
The Wonderful Years That Sucked
Capturing the dark humor of Czech author Michal Viewegh's chronicle of life after the Velvet Revolution, this black comedy chronicles three decades...
release : 1997.04.03popularis : 1.668
The Trial
Joseph K. awakes one morning, to find two strange men in his room, telling him he has been arrested. Joseph is not told what he is charged with, and...
release : 1993.06.18popularis : 5.867
Kooky
Young Ondra has asthma and so his parents throw away his favourite toy: a musty old stuffed bear named Kooky. That night Ondra dreams that Kooky is...
release : 2010.05.19popularis : 2.695
Give the Devil His Due
Dorota, a bad woman married the miller, out of sheer greed drives him to death. She then took the mill away from his son Peter and threw him out of...
release : 1985.10.01popularis : 3.723
Don't Be Afraid
Woodcutter Ondra, who for his bold nature is called Nebojsa. He goes into the world to learn fear. During his journey, on which he is accompanied by...
release : 1989.08.01popularis : 1.073
Innocence
The fall from the top to the absolute bottom can be very fast. A renowned physician, also a beloved father and husband, is accused of a serious...
release : 2011.01.20popularis : 1.427
Car Fairy Tales
This adaptation of a book by Jiří Marek consists of four animated episodes that are interconnected by a live-action element.
release : 2011.03.17popularis : 2.772
Don't Call Me Major
A group of children is trying to solve a mystery related to the diamonds smuggling.
release : 1981.12.04popularis : 0.323
Lovers & Murderers
Lovers & Murderers is about the ongoing war between those who have and those who want to have what the others have. The have-nots see themselves...
release : 2004.12.09popularis : 1.957
The Confidant
New husband Adam reluctantly takes a job with state security in a totalitarian country, thus becoming a secret police agent. This "contract with the...
release : 2012.04.19popularis : 1.749
Love Is Love
The Czech romantic comedy hit “Love is Love” tells the story of Maruska, a blind girl and student at the Conservatory of Music who dreams...
release : 2012.01.19popularis : 4.678
Kožené slunce
As the name suggests, the movie is about football. It is not about big league soccer, making huge money. It is about football, which lives just from...
release : 2002.09.08popularis : 0.959
The Emperor and the Drummer
A fairy tale based on motifs taken from Josephine tales. Like Josef II, the fictitious emperor Maxmilián often disappears from the castle in...
release : 1998.10.29popularis : 1.555
Return to Paradise Lost
A professor reunites with an old friend who inspires him to return to Czechoslovakia for the first time since he emigrated years ago.
release : 1999.05.27popularis : 1.178
Dirty Soul
When sisters Jana and Anna meet their half-brother at their father's funeral, the siblings' lives entwine as they navigate relationships and setbacks.
release : 2004.10.14popularis : 1.634
Cruel Joys
This simple story is the feature debut for well-known Slovak theater and television director Juraj Nvota. Set in a Slovak village at the turn of the...
release : 2002.10.03popularis : 1.857
Shadow of the Deceased
The nurse Helga meets Baltic nobleman Arno when he's wounded in the Russo-Finnish war. They have a short but passionate affair before Arno is called...
release : 2005.03.10popularis : 1.273
Seven Days of Sin
This story actually happened in the region around the city of Sumperk in Jeseniky Mountains in May 1945. The disappearance of Agnes, the German wife...
release : 2012.11.01popularis : 1.899
Godfather's Story
Godfather's story is the story of the greatest of Czech post-revolutionary 'entrepreneurs'. His activities often crossed the edge of the law, and his...
release : 2013.10.24popularis : 1.271
An Earthly Paradise for the Eyes
Adolescence is always a difficult time; it is doubly so for Gábina. For one thing, she is growing up in the normalization years of the 1970s,...
release : 2009.11.19popularis : 2.317
Fandy ó Fandy
Little kids, little worries, big kids, big worries, sighs many a parent often. This is no different for the mother of eighteen-year-old Frantisek,...
release : 1983.12.01popularis : 2.759
All My Loved Ones
Told from the perspective of man reflecting on his childhood in Prague in the early years of World War II and the eventual destruction of his family...
release : 1999.10.21popularis : 4.329
The Rain Fairy
The elements that rule Earth - Air, Fire, Earth and Water - are in their "regular inspection tour". We are following Water, in the form of the Rain...
release : 2010.02.11popularis : 2.346
A Little Piece of Heaven
A Little Piece of Heaven tells a story of love, friendship, and solidarity, aspects of life that allows us to live with dignity even at the most...
release : 2005.02.10popularis : 1.41
Hostage
Tragicomic family film about the world of children heroes - particularly the son of a local communist officer and his friend, a little hostage of the...
release : 2014.12.04popularis : 1.179
Life Is Life
Pedantic policeman Frantisek (Ondrej Vetchý) wants to bring up his three daughters with a firm hand. He would like to see the girls coupled...
release : 2015.05.21popularis : 1.422
Martha and I
Emil (Vaclav Chalupa as a teen, Ondrej Vetchy as an adult) has been naughty, and his family is at a loss about what to do with him. He's been...
release : 1990.09.01popularis : 1.284
Even Mice Belong in Heaven
Whizzy is a little mouse, Whitebelly is a fox. They are naturally mortal enemies. One day, after an unfortunate accident, both meet in animal heaven....
release : 2021.10.01popularis : 5.221
Born Into Sh*t
Worried that his father is gay and that it's hereditary, 13-year-old Tomás gets his girlfriend pregnant. Therein ensues a romantic comedy of...
release : 2006.11.23popularis : 2.14
How Poets Are Losing Their Illusions
A story about a young medical school student and his adventures.
release : 1985.04.01popularis : 1.359
Love from the Passage
A drama based on the criminal youth life in Prague during eighties.
release : 1985.07.01popularis : 1.358
Autumn Spring
A bittersweet comedy starring the great Vlastimil Brodský as Fanda, an old man who refuses to grow up. Despite pleas from his exasperated wife...
release : 2001.09.27popularis : 2.325
Every Man for Yourself
Georges Flavier, once renowned Parisian hairdresser, lives alone since the death of his son and the departure of his wife. One night, he saves a...
release : 1994.01.24popularis : 1.494
Through This Night
The film portrays the final days of the most famous Czech authoress, Božena Nìmcová, who in the mid-19th century dared to live a...
release : 2005.06.30popularis : 0.399
Devatenáct klavírů
Czech Television has successfully aired two TV movies detective novels by Emil Vachek: The man and the Shadow and Evil minute. In both stories of the...
release : 2008.12.21popularis : 0.589
Stuck with a Perfect Woman
Eliska's husband has left her for a younger woman. She is childless, in her early forties, yet still attractive. Till then she had taken care of her...
release : 2016.10.13popularis : 2.286
The Elementary School
The time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside Prague. In school, their class is so wild and indisciplined...
release : 1991.08.02popularis : 6.443
To See the Sea
As preteen, aspiring filmmaker Tomas trains his new camera’s lens on his own world, shocking family secrets around him come into sharp focus.
release : 2014.04.10popularis : 1.989
House for Two
House for Two is a 1987 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Miloš Zábranský. This film stars two of the most recognized Czech...
release : 1987.01.01popularis : 2.142
Barefoot
Story of a small boy is forced to move out of Prague during World War 2 to a small village of Slavonice where he meets the rest of his family. He...
release : 2017.08.17popularis : 3.128
Colette
As World War II rages on, Villi and Colette are captured and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp. Imprisoned within separate compounds, the lovers...
release : 2013.09.12popularis : 5.383
My Uncle Archimedes
Telling the story of Archimedes, one of thousands of refugees who left Greece for Czechoslovakia at the end of the 1940s, as the Greek civil war...
release : 2018.01.14popularis : 1.889
The Infinity Castle
Technical school student Pavel Brychta, arrives at a youth correctional facility located within a chateau in Konečno. He is an atypical, but not...
release : 1984.11.01popularis : 2.812
The Magic Book
An evil witch is trying to steal a magic purse possessed by the local ruler. Thanks to Princess Blanka's love, Prince Petr wins out over the witch.
release : 1996.02.22popularis : 1.556
Medieval
The story of fifteenth century Czech icon and warlord, Jan Zizka, who defeated armies of the Teutonic Order and the Holy Roman Empire.
release : 2022.09.08popularis : 22.719
The Magic Quill
The devil's magic quill keeps a tight record of sins. But when this precious artifact is stolen, a demon must find a way to make things right again.
release : 2018.11.29popularis : 2.932
Women on the Run
Vera has lived a wonderful life with Jindrich, and she is fully determined to fulfill his last wish - running a marathon. The emancipated and...
release : 2019.01.31popularis : 4.981
Sweethearts
The fates of several women intertwine as they navigate professional setbacks, repair dysfunctional relationships and take control of their lives.
release : 2020.09.24popularis : 3.555
The Golet in the Valley
In 1930s Ukraine, the desecration of a sacred bath disrupts the sex lives of Jewish villagers.
release : 1995.05.11popularis : 0.822
Bethlehem Light
A well-known writer now aged 75 is aware of his increasing age and the risk that his literary style will grow worn. His everyday existence is...
release : 2022.03.10popularis : 2.638