Jaroslav Průcha
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1898-04-24
Locus Natus: Skvrnany, Plzen, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
Et ut: Ярослав Пруха
Journey Into the Depth of the Student's Soul
Small stories from a grammar school.Děj je poskládán z celé řady epizod, které během jednoho...
release : 1939.10.31popularis : 1.915
The White Disease
The White Plague, a leprosy-like disease, ravages the world during a war. Based on a play by Karel Čapek.
release : 1937.12.21popularis : 2.451
Silent Barricade
A fiction piece centered around the Czech resistance to the Nazis.
release : 1949.05.06popularis : 5.159
Virginity
The doomed love of a city girl caught in the vise of poverty is detailed in Vavra’s fluid, romantic work, one of the most elegant creations of...
release : 1937.11.04popularis : 1.939
May Fairy Tale
Ríša, a student of law, neglects his studies in favour of parties and pranks. His angry father refuses to continue helping him out of...
release : 1940.10.25popularis : 1.314
Wolf Trap
The title of this highly-regarded Czech drama translates as Wolf Trap. Set in the 1920s, the story revolves around an ambitious young provincial...
release : 1958.05.23popularis : 0.781
Grandmother
"Grandmother" is a highly romanticized autobiographical novel by a Czech 19th century writer, Bozena Nemcova. It's a classical, compulsory reading in...
release : 1940.11.15popularis : 2.43
Dog's Heads
Dog's Heads (Czech: Psohlavci) is a 1955 Czech drama film directed by Martin Frič, based on the novel of the same name by Alois Jirásek....
release : 1955.03.25popularis : 2.151
The Guild of the Kutná Hora Virgins
A morally questionable lord comes to the aid of a working class man who is to be executed for speaking out about thieving rich scoundrels sticking it...
release : 1938.09.16popularis : 0.534
Capek's Tales
Five crime stories connected by the narration of police superintendent Bartosek.
release : 1947.09.19popularis : 2.099
School Is the Foundation of Life
Seventh form pupils at a grammar school in Přívlaky are preparing for a secondary school sports competition. Class creep Krhounek gives...
release : 1938.11.11popularis : 2.174
The World Belongs to Us
One of the few European films of the 30s to criticize the Nazis, even if they couldn't be directly named due to censorship: Gangsters with gray hats...
release : 1937.07.30popularis : 2.204
The Magic House
When Vilem appears in the road with an unconscious young woman, it disturbs the peaceful life of three generations of the Balvínova family.
release : 1939.11.21popularis : 0.51
Mist on the Moors
Mist on the Moors examines fates of just about a few people. Their stories are outlined in a short space of time and are a symbolic representation of...
release : 1944.01.14popularis : 0.401
The Avalanche
An ambitious and selfish lawyer confesses to the murder of his first wife. Some of the scenes were filmed in the last weeks of the war.
release : 1946.07.05popularis : 1.038
Karel Hynek Mácha
Film about famous poet Karel Hynek Mácha
release : 1937.09.15popularis : 2.117
The Good Soldier Schweik
A 1931 Czechoslovak black-and-white comedy film based on Jaroslav Hašek's novel The Good Soldier Švejk.
release : 1931.06.11popularis : 0.932
Nástup
"The Rally" is based on a communist writer Vaclav Řezáč's well-written novel of the same name
release : 1953.05.01popularis : 1.768
Your Money or Your Life
A czech film that focuses on an unfaithful husband who married in to money, as well as an impoverished man who is turns to theft.
release : 1932.10.14popularis : 1.037
Heave-Ho!
A Milk-Cannery baron, Jakub Simonides, is broken by the Canned Milk-Trust and, in his wanderings with a worker, Filip Kornet, he discovers he still...
release : 1934.10.26popularis : 1.911
U nás v Kocourkově
Curious citizens await the arrival of an important guest, the son of poacher, who became famous abroad. Begins celebration in his honor, but nobody...
release : 1934.11.23popularis : 1.17
History of Philosophy
A student rebellion precedes revolutionary events in Prague.
release : 1937.11.05popularis : 0.526
Krakatit
In early 20th century Czechoslovakia, a gravely ill chemist recalls his discovery of a powerful explosive and how it landed in the hands of...
release : 1948.04.09popularis : 3.009