Vladimír Smíchovský Movies

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...

In a country whose people have just been successfully persuaded of their superiority and the justification for military expansion by the fiery...

The orphan Eliška Irovská, nicknamed Líza, arrives in her native village of Ptačice. As an orphan she is housed in the...

A story about domestic life in a typical working-class environment. Life and trials and how little situations have big consequences.

The most important silent film by director Martin Frič. Poet Vitezslav Nezval did scenographic modifications to the original story by...

Venice Film Festival 1939

A working class young woman disregards the wishes of her father to stay in her place, and marries higher in society by wooing a wealthy car...