Jan Oliva Movies

Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the...

In the thick woods at the edge of the Bohemian Forest, two border guards are keeping watch - rifleman Kucera (Rudolf Jelínek) and dog handler...

A man boards on a tram together with a naked boy. Somebody has stolen the boy's clothes when he was out bathing, leaving him with not even change for...

A comedy concerning a down on his luck bookshop owner with a penchant for women who decides to make some money by pretending to be a waiter and...

A gifted poet checks into a Gothic hotel in hopes of meeting the woman with whom he has long been enamored. He is surrounded by a variety of offbeat...

In the forest near the village of Drahovice, a nurse from the local health center is found murdered. Three months ago, another young woman died...

A passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure of his peers to live up to his ideals.

This film, chronicling the last days of Czech resistance fighter Maruska Kuderikova (played by Magda Vasaryova), is based on her diaries. Though she...

Little Vendulka receives a birthday gift of a seemingly innocuous children's book. Little she knows that the book is actually a portal into the...

A twelve-year-old is looking for his biological parents after discovering the fact that he was adopted.

A story about young girl Hanka who doesn't have parents and is forced to spend most of her time in a hospital bed.

A story about an everyday life of an inflectional department of Prague hospital.

Seven days, or rather evenings and nights, in the life of Jenka (Stanislava Bartosová), a young good-looking nurse. Jenka is attractive to men...

Young script-writer Frantisek (Petr Cepek) is hired to write a film script based on the successful novel Looking Back. He meets with the novel's...

Michal's father and his friends are stigmatized by their war experience and the post-war social deformations in which they took part either directly,...