Václav Křístek (Director)
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Works
Martin Fruwein osmadvacátý odsouzený
Release Date2021-06-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd
Corpus delicti
The subject of this film, which takes an analytical look at the life of all of us with an analytical eye, is the evil microbe that has slowly infiltrated the organism of the Czech nation. Through the intertwining fates of three couples, it evokes domestic life before November 1989, burdened by a suffocating atmosphere of unfreedom, and after November, when relatively nothing has changed because people have not changed. The bleak conclusion suggests that the plague epidemic is still ongoing.
Release Date1991-11-14
Charactersd Bobo
Vote Count4
Třicet návratů
Release Date1999-10-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
GENUS
Release Date1995-01-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Zvláštní znamení touha
Release Date2015-09-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count13
Vote Count1
Hlas pro římského krále
Czech Television's epic historical film draws on the breathtaking dramatic life of the great of Czech history, King Charles IV.
Release Date2016-05-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
The Fair Is Here
Children from the village Bystrá are awaiting a nice and thrilling weekend. On Saturday they will play the championship football match with the nonresident boys from the village Skuhrov, on Sunday there will be the funfair with merry-go-round, swings and stalls with dainties. The members of the family of the merry-go-round man are brother and sister Janek and Zaneta Mareks whom the children have known since the last year. At that time Zaneta made friends with girls and Janek, an excellent football player, has been a welcome support of the football club.
Release Date1974-11-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count5
Heydrich - konečné řešení
Release Date2011-09-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count44
Bigbít
Release Date1998-01-01
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count1
Plešatá zpěvačka
Release Date2009-05-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Bazilika
Release Date2013-07-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Tresty v Čechách
Release Date2020-09-03
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Episode Count6
Druhý tah pěšcem
Inspired by the activities of counter-intelligence officers, Jan Prokop plays chess at every opportunity. In addition, he works with his team to uncover a resident network that attempts to recruit domestic experts to work abroad.
Release Date1985-11-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count2
Pěsti ve tmě
The year is 1936, the nervous atmosphere of the Nazi threat penetrates into the sport. Upgrade boxe Vilda Jakub will compete with German Kurt Schaller. The Nazis decisions are used in order to win his master even the dirtiest means. Vilda inspect their game and focus on the preparation of environmental events. The story culminates in the victory of one of the two lovers, between which Vilda tense moments in the decision.
Release Date1987-03-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count5
Česká soda
This sharp Czech soda first appeared on Czech Television screens on June 4, 1993, and for four years it fundamentally changed the concept of Czech television satire and pushed the boundaries of viewer tolerance into completely unprecedented, uncomfortable zones. The feature film summarized the most vivid episodes of the show and still feels like an uncompromising, comprehensive punch to the solar plexus.
Release Date1998-03-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Příliš velká šance
A dedicated biologist, Dr. Petr Gabriel accidentally kills a child in a hit-and-run and, fearing the ruin of his career, hides the body and shifts blame onto two intruders. His new acquaintance Olga and investigator Major Válek grow suspicious as Petr’s fabricated evidence unravels, plunging him into increasingly desperate mistakes.
Release Date1985-09-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count4
Deník šílené manželky
Unusual comedy about women and their marriage troubles.
Release Date2001-05-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Pravidla kruhu
In the second half of the 1980s, so-called critical films began to emerge, but they were afraid to make a sharper statement, moving on the basis of an engaged morality that wanted to improve the existing conditions cosmetically at best. The theme of the search for a new anchor in life becomes a central element: the protagonist, after returning from the war, does not want to devote himself to the constraints of elite sports, he rejects the dubious business of a friend. Most of all, he would be attracted to a perfectly ordinary job in a bakery. The dance clip inserts, however, make it difficult to navigate the already rather confusing narrative.
Release Date1988-08-01
DepartmentWriting
JobLyricist
Vote Count1
Divoký koník Ryn
Several of the works of writer Bohumil Říha have been filmed. This novel by the pro-regime writer also inspired a children’s film, which was directed in 1981 by the experienced family filmmaker Václav Gajer. The story takes place in 1947 and it is based on the popular model of the relationship between a human hero and an indomitable animal protagonist. The tale of the freedom necessary for life, is, of course, beholden to the standards of the time: the Hucul horse that heals an old villager, has remained in the small village in Šumava after the Soviet soldiers have left. This is a pleasing movie that engages with the acting performance of Zdeněk Řehoř and the depiction of the indisputable beauty of the Šumava landscape as shot by cameraman Jan Němeček.
Release Date1982-03-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count1
Čeští trampové v Americe
Release Date2018-06-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Samorost
Even the best of resolutions can crumble, especially when late paternal feelings are echoed. Although the protagonist is a lecturer in ethics at the university, explaining the principles of good behaviour to the students, he himself experiences many confusions and troubles when he tries to get his teenage daughter from his first marriage admitted to medical school. The eloquent, self-confident man slowly turns into a bully, who also defies his own principles.
Release Date1984-06-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count3
Hřiště
Civil engineer Luděk Turna accepts an attractive offer from a Prague design office. He tries to get ahead even at the cost of deception, but he recovers in time and voluntarily leaves to build a motorway...
Release Date1976-02-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count3
Přátelé bermudského trojúhelníku
The idea of mystery unites the three debut stories - the original Bermuda Triangle with its mysterious phenomena has begun to shift and can be traced anywhere in the world, including Czech and Slovak territory. Here, too, unexplained shifts in space and time occur. This idea is supported by the aforementioned short stories, but the inventiveness of the subject matter and staging is very heavy-handed, and the film passed through the cinemas without much interest.
Release Date1987-07-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
Vyžilý Boudník
Two inseparable friends, Vyžilý and Boudník, a village self-made talent and a not-so-successful professional theatre actor, want to make a living as entertainers. But they are running up against both the ceiling of their abilities and the disfavour of the approval authorities. The normalization era of the 70s and 80s does not favour anything distinctive and both heroes repeatedly experience setbacks. Although the story of a lost generation was planned at the end of the former regime, it was not released until 1990.
Release Date1991-05-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Muž na drátě
The protagonist is the ordinary and still blameless Evžen Macík, who one day, while waiting for his lover Maria, witnesses a robbery of a savings bank. When the robber drops a briefcase with half a million in loot, the loot falls in front of Evžen, who can't resist, picks it up and disappears. He knows that someone might have seen him at the scene of the crime, so he turns himself in as a witness to Captain Richter, who is investigating the case. Shortly thereafter, however, Maciek is contacted by the robber, who begins to force him to hand over the money with constant threats, initially only by telephone. In addition to pressure from the robber, pressure from the police is added because Captain Richter correctly suspects that Macík is hiding something from him. The mounting pressure leads to Eugene starting to make mistakes.
Release Date1986-05-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobFirst Assistant Director
Vote Count3
Z rodinného alba
Release Date2002-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Emperor and the Drummer
A fairy tale based on motifs taken from Josephine tales. Like Josef II, the fictitious emperor Maxmilián often disappears from the castle in disguise in order to find out how his vassals live. On one of these 'trips' he meets a drummer returning home from his stint in the army. They live through various adventures together, meeting bandits as well as human foolishness and perfidiousness which almost leads them to the scaffold.
Release Date1998-10-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
Zbraně pro Prahu
In May 1945, Czech revolutionaries used several armoured trains in the fighting - partly captured, partly assembled from whatever the railway brought. One of them was commanded by the shunter Jan Chýň, who managed to bring weapons from the ammunition depot in Libčice to help the fighting in Prague.
Release Date1975-05-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count2
Zvířata ve městě
The juxtaposition of animals locked in cages in a zoo and people shackled by the confinement of the city has not lost its impact to this day. The amorous enchantment, passing and bonding of the two protagonists, a young conservationist and a paleontologist, takes place against a backdrop of subtly affected period realities. The debuting filmmakers, screenwriter Jaroslav Vanča and director Václav Křístek, have attempted to spice up the story with the character of a mysterious man who turns out to be the writer of the events just narrated.
Release Date1989-09-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
Comeback
Pavel Medek is leaving a psychiatric hospital. His world consists of the musicians from the band he used to perform with, managers of recording studios and concert agencies, and the atmosphere of clubs and pubs. His marriage is falling apart, his colleagues and friends are disappearing. He decides to move to the countryside and start over. Will he manage to change his lifestyle, find new inspiration, restore confidence in himself and his family, and jump back on the pop culture bandwagon?
Release Date2006-12-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Tři srdce
A fairy tale about brotherhood that turns into hatred and betrayal, and about love transformed into heroism and fearlessness.
Release Date2007-12-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Ztracený princ
Where has Prince Rujan disappeared to? Has he gone to slay a dragon? But where is the dragon? Military veteran Plavák, with the help of the dwarf Trpaja and Princess Aurora, uncovers even more. A Czech Television fairy tale about the victory of love and goodness, but also about the wisdom and mature decisions that the heirs of ruling dynasties come to in their new positions. Prince Rujan of the Kingdom of Arcadia kills the dragon to which the princess of the Principality of Aquitaine was to be sacrificed. We can rejoice that good has triumphed once again, but it won't be that easy. We are at the very beginning of a story in which evil will sometimes prevail and the injustices of the past will come back to haunt the new generation. The old familiar truth that every evil deed will eventually come back to haunt you is reflected in the fate of all fairy-tale heroes.
Release Date2009-01-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Rajónové blues
This tragicomic musical film by renowned screenwriter Karel Čabrádek deals with compulsory military service during the end of normalization in the 1980s. The main characters are two conscripts with different personalities, Pavel and Tonda, who serve in a military band in a remote garrison town.
Release Date2005-06-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Pátek čtrnáctého
The psychological story begins innocently enough with a meeting between two young people in the basement of a suburban house. A flirtatious and bored girl, who is not particularly selective about her lovers, provokes an unpredictable reaction in her partner with her unexpected rejection. Not only does the boy rape the girl, but, fearing discovery, he kills her. All this is witnessed by a little boy wandering through the holiday-empty house, who thus becomes an inconvenient and dangerous witness for the murderer. The psychological and later physical "battle" between these two unequal opponents, who are not really opponents at all, culminates in a story of guilt and punishment, and at the same time of a special friendship and loyalty.
Release Date2003-01-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Tajemství Lesní země
King Jaroslav and Queen Anna rule over the kingdom of humans. At first glance, it is clear that they do not elevate themselves above others; their children play normally with others, and the royal couple has a good relationship with the family of the stable boy Petr. The neighboring Forest Land is a place where laws that should not be broken reign supreme. Its ruler remains mysteriously in the background, and people can only meet the land's administrator, Pavučinec. King Jaroslav is punished for breaking a long-standing ban and must balance his freedom with a gift for Pavučinec. When he finds out that he would have to give up his son, he tries to save him. But something for something—will Pavučinec choose his sacrifice after all?
Release Date2006-12-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
What's Up Doc?
Bohouš Burda, a forty-year-old idealist disillusioned with city life and his failing marriage, abandons it all to run a mobile dental clinic in the mountains. He meets Terezka, who shares his yearning for a simpler existence, but even in remote nature they must confront unforeseen challenges.
Release Date1985-07-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count9
Tři holky jako květ
Eliška Balzerová, Iva Pazderková, and Marie Doležalová star in a comedy about life, with all its joys and sorrows. The heroines are women from three generations: an energetic and tolerant grandmother, a perfectionist and therefore stressed single mother, and a crazy, rebellious granddaughter. The play is written in the form of stand-up comedy, which is cleverly woven into the story of one family with its everyday worries and joys, as well as major problems.
Release Date2015-04-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector