Ilja Prachař Movies

In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imaginary witchery, and engages in brutal...

In 1930s Prague, a Czech cremator who firmly believes cremation relieves one from earthly suffering is drawn inexorably to Nazism.

The lives of 7 friends in a small Czech town from 1945 to some time after 1958.

This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot),...

The trenches of World War I provide for a captivating backdrop to the drama of Corporal Hoferik. In his devotion to the Habsburg Monarchy, he...

A directors autobiography about his debut during the rise of socialism.

Czechoslovakian Zbynek Brynych directs this psychological drama set in World War II Terezin ghetto. A dark, visual portrayal of the trials and...

In 1947 by the Beskid mountains, the traces of war still linger, destroyed tanks dispersed throughout the farmland creating an eerie backdrop. This...

Children from the village Bystrá are awaiting a nice and thrilling weekend. On Saturday they will play the championship football match with...

Story about the people around the circus and the unfortunate love of a young man an acrobat. Before the dispute escalates so much that, according to...

Drama directed by Karel Kachyna.

A group of wealthy American Jewish businessmen have been captured by the SS and are told that they are to be traded to the American army for several...

The story of 1947, when Bender's band, after a beating of the Nazis, tried to fight their way through Czechoslovakia to Austria. They come out of the...