Ladislav Potměšil Movies

It is 5 May 1945 and the uprising against the hated German occupiers has broken out in Prague. The Czech guards open the gate of the Pankrác...

Leo Popper is a happy family man living in rural Bohemia in the years preceding the Nazi invasion. Out of economic necessity he moves with his family...

An old man is wandering round a badly signposted and as yet mostly under construction Prague housing estate looking for the high rise block into...

In a Prague shop, an assistant has been carrying on an affair with the dishonest, married manager. An emotionally repressed auditor with domestic...

The film is a metaphor for the Cold War. It depicts two neighbouring nations: peace loving Fortuna and the not so peaceful land of the Steel City.

The story of a practical education environment without superficiality, clichés and affectations. The film is based on a real basis and shows...

A film in five episodes, all based on an attempt to show the life of young people today, their feelings and relationships, their behaviour in public...

In Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, a doctor-turned-warehouse employee reluctantly agrees to treat a gravely wounded political fugitive, putting himself...

A car deliberately runs down a young man on a road by a small border town. The locals recognize the dead man as one of the students who were there on...

A drama based on the criminal youth life in Prague during eighties.

Chronicle of frontier division Czech police (SNB) in the years 1946 - 1949.