Jan Pivec
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1907-05-19
Locus Natus: Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
Et ut: Ян Пивец
Mstitel
Kaspar Len returns home after three years in the army. He vainly searches for the mason Kryštof’s family where he had lived before he...
release : 1960.04.08popularis : 1.765
Divá Bára
This is a romantic story about a brave, self-made girl, despised daughter of a shepherd. She is not afraid of anything - neither night nor swimming....
release : 1949.04.29popularis : 1.649
History of Philosophy
A student rebellion precedes revolutionary events in Prague.
release : 1937.11.05popularis : 0.526
Rozina the Love Child
Prague, the beginning of the 17th century. Rozina falls in love with Italian glass worker Nikolo, but after returning home, she gets a message that...
release : 1945.12.14popularis : 1.787
Armored Car
An unknown gang has again broken into a van containing money from the European bank. Banker Sam Hamilton decides to use an armoured car for the next...
release : 1930.01.31popularis : 1.616
Girls, Stand Fast!
Emanuel Pokorný, a bachelor, is to join a rural church school as a professor. Before leaving, however, he finds an infant abandoned in his...
release : 1937.08.27popularis : 1.26
Camel Through The Eye Of A Needle
Slightly ironic comedy of wretches, who come to understand the rich and are able to accept charity, and also about how love and work prevail over the...
release : 1937.01.19popularis : 0.92
Puppies
Explores young adults' fears of being conscripted by the communist government into working outside of Prague, a relative oasis of creativity and...
release : 1958.03.21popularis : 1.858
Story of the Bass Cello
"Román s basou" is another short by master a stop-motion puppet-animator Jiri Trnka. The story is based on Anton Chekhovs story "Roman s...
release : 1949.01.01popularis : 2.199
Against All
After the battle of Sudoměř the Hussite teaching spreads through the whole country and people start leaving their homes to help build the...
release : 1957.10.04popularis : 2.289
Jan Hus
Jan Hus is a 1954 Czechoslovak film directed by Otakar Vávra. It is the first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", one of the most...
release : 1955.04.29popularis : 7.003
Jan Žižka
The second part of the revolutionary Hussite trilogy takes place in the years 1419-1420.
release : 1956.02.05popularis : 2.327