Jiří Strach

Ulice

Ulice is a Czech soap opera produced and broadcast by Nova. In the Czech language Ulice means street. The show describes the lives of the Farský, Jordán, Boháč, Nikl, and Liška families and many other people that live in Prague. Their daily battle against real problems of living in a modern world like divorce, love, betrayal and illness or disease. Ulice often shows crime.

Release Date2005-09-05

Charactersd messenger

Episode Count1

Vote Count32

Labyrinth

Finding the body of the regional politician Karas, killed in the spirit of medieval torture and carefully arranged in a strange scene, unleash police hunt for a sadistic perpetrator. He puts investigation team in the way of a complex series of murders that shake the local region and criminologists themselves.

Release Date2015-08-31

DepartmentCamera

JobDirector of Photography

Charactersd vyšetřovatel GIBS

Episode Count7

Vote Count8

Hraběnky

Release Date2007-09-03

Charactersd obhájce

Episode Count2

Vote Count2

Let's All Sing Around

A comedy on a typical children summer camp from the socialist time, telling the truth about it: combination of strange cynical leaders, absent-minded young assistants with complexes, teenage girls desperately in love with them etc. What a pioneer camp pretended to be and what it really was about. All this produces many embarrassing situations.

Release Date1991-07-15

Charactersd Saďour

Vote Count6

Ztracená brána

Release Date2012-09-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd mnich

Episode Count3

Vote Count6

Bylo nás pět

Young Petr (Adam Novak) and his four friends undergoes several adventures throughout this series--setting a field on fire, sneaking into a theater without paying and many more.

Release Date1995-01-09

Charactersd Láďa Bajza

Episode Count6

Vote Count7

Cesta na jihozápad

Based on a Jack London story, this is another attempt at a Western spectacle - after the short story triptych The Canyon of Gold - about a teenage boy who, after his father's death, lives in a gold-mining town. He even witnesses a cruel fight between two cowboys over a supposed treasure.

Release Date1989-11-01

Charactersd Ben Collins

Young Edisons

Children's film about a young boy who moves from the city to the country. At first he finds it difficult to make friends, until others discovers his gift with electronics.

Release Date1987-12-01

Charactersd Jirka

Vote Count2

Ruffiano and Sweeteeth

Famed outlaw Lotrando sends his son to a strict Catholic boarding school to learn manners, but the boy becomes too polite to lead the band. When they inadvertently arrive in a sultanate where the princess Zubeida lies gravely ill and are mistaken for physicians, father and son must overcome their inexperience and imposture to heal her and save the realm.

Release Date1997-09-11

Charactersd Lotrando

Vote Count14

Zázračné meče

The third and final installment of the fairy-tale fencing comedies Crossed Swords and Ringing Swords. Once again, they are full of intrigue and misfortune, but also the search for happiness and love. The villain, Count Meron, attempts to poison the young king, seize the throne, and pin the blame on the innocent Peter. New characters also play a significant role in the story - the camp follower Vilma and her young daughter Jana, who is disguised as a boy out of fear of bandits. Love naturally reaches its goal, evil in the form of Count Meron is punished, and the inevitable fairy-tale happy ending follows...

Release Date2002-02-17

Charactersd Alík, jeho syn

Elixír a Halíbela

The king raised two unbearable daughters—Princesses Jája and Anýzka. He no longer knows what to do with them. Perhaps the only solution is to send them to the charming witch Halíbela for re-education! She won't coddle them! But her son Elixír claims that almighty love can change them for the better more than witchcraft. And so he ends up making a bet with Halíbela...

Release Date2001-04-16

Charactersd Elixír

Vote Count1

Stará láska nerezaví

A comedy from the hotel where it all began and ended.

Release Date2003-10-12

Charactersd fotograf (uncredited)

Vote Count3

Pan Samochodzik i praskie tajemnice

A Polish criminalist specialises in various historical mysteries. He is aided by a miraculous car, with the help of which he also reaches Prague, where he unravels ancient cabalistic mysteries.

Release Date1989-01-09

Charactersd Boy

Vote Count2

Zvonící meče

This loose sequel to the fairy tale Crossed Swords reunites you with the clever and brave Princess Alexandra, who is now accompanied by her loyal and beloved husband Valentin. An exciting story of the royal family awaits you, full of intrigue that will be revealed in due course. The evil, vengeful Duke Gaston cannot accept that his older brother has gained the crown and with it all the power, and he weaves vile intrigues and evil plots with the generous help of the old magician Oton and his mute assistant Alík. The Duke longs to get rid of three people in particular who prevented him from achieving ultimate victory when he was already...

Release Date2001-01-01

Charactersd Alík

Vote Count1

Mladý chemik

Release Date1999-04-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd

Pan herec Miroslav Donutil

Release Date2021-02-06

Charactersd Self

Docent

Release Date2023-02-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

Vote Count4

Lovec

Release Date2024-10-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count8

Vote Count2

Ďáblova lest

Sumara, the head of the criminal investigation department, is investigating the case of a girl who was found covered in snake blood. Coincidentally, the girl is studying archaeology and is conducting excavations at the nearby Podlažice monastery. The magical number 666 was written in blood on her forehead, and her body was wrapped in a snake coiled around an egg. This prompts the involvement of Dr. Runa, an expert in magic and the occult. The incredible mysteries surrounding a satanic cult and the creation of the Devil's Bible begin to unravel.

Release Date2009-02-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count3

Vote Count7

Angel 2

A story that takes place during Advent, we'll meet again with your favorite pair angel Petronel and devil Urias. Their eternal wrangling causes the rare apple from the tree of the knowledge to roll on earth. And that God is really angry. Petronel with Urias find themselves in a small Czech town on the eve of the feast of St. Nicholas. And after a series of human and "divine" tests our heroes eventually find that the path to knowledge leads primarily through self discovery through the strength of friendship, love and forgiveness skills.

Release Date2016-12-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count25

Svatojánský věneček

Princess Verunka's marriage is supposed to save the kingdom, which has been impoverished by the crazy ideas of its ruler. And she has several suitors! The poet Alexander Alexandrovich, who would make even Pushkin pale with envy, the two-headed baron, military leader and composer Wajsman, the mysterious Marquis, who rules with the magic of his mother, the queen of death Morana, and the eccentric inventor Sir Klevr. Can Ondra, a boy who longs to become a whitewater swimmer, be their worthy opponent?

Release Date2015-12-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

Oldies but Goldies

A bitter-sweet comedy about two people who wish to live life to the full despite their age. Ota is a retired high-school teacher and at this point in life has various foibles that complicate life for his son and daughter-in-law. Moreover, he has a complicated and risky eye operation ahead. That is why Ota decides that this is the time to look up Jana, the retired actress who had influenced the course of his life many years ago. However, his reunion with Jana - who lives in a retirement home - works out differently to his expectations. Although disappointed at first, it is actually this zestful lady who sets Ota in the right direction again. Thanks to Jana, Ota finds the courage to set out on an exciting road-movie trip of the kind he would never have had the courage for in his youth. Their meeting and the excursion, full of unexpected turns and new impressions, give their lives a new dimension.

Release Date2012-04-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Portréty

Release Date2005-04-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Black Barons

Life of Czechoslovak soldiers in a military unit for the so called "politically unreliable" - the Technical auxiliary battalions, aka "the black barons". Although it might seem like a political satire and it's mostly funny, it shows the reality and the absurdity of military service under the communist regime. Based on a novel by Miloslav Svandrlik.

Release Date1992-06-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobSecond Assistant Director

Vote Count20

Operation Silver A

Based on actual events. Late 1941, Group Silver A are dropped into occupied Czechoslovakia on an SOE mission to set up a Radio communications centre for the resistance, and contact a German Army officer whom is forwarding information to the British.

Release Date2007-01-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Vyvraždění rodiny Greenů

A detective story set in New York in the 1920s.

Release Date2002-09-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Lucky Loser

Young Filip is cursed with terrible luck ever since his father dared to outwit Lady Fortune herself, and to make matters worse, Filip falls hopelessly in love with Fortune’s daughter, Hanička. Determined to win her heart and break his family’s jinx, he embarks on a fantastical journey around the world, where an unlikely alliance with a compulsive liar named Kdokoliv (“Anybody”) becomes his only hope in the struggle for Hanička’s love.

Release Date2012-12-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count7

Angel

An angel who ruins everything he touches is sent to Earth to learn about love, forgiveness and selflessness -- and he has just one day to do it.

Release Date2005-11-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count28

The Cage

She was once the wife of an important man, lived in a beautiful house in Hradčany, and was friends with the famous race car driver Eliška Junková. Today, however, she lives somewhere on the outskirts of Prague in a ground-floor apartment overlooking the courtyard and the street, alone and abandoned by practically everyone. Her husband died a long time ago, and her life now consists only of regular meetings with the postwoman, who brings her pension and her favorite motoring magazines, and regular help at the rectory and the local church. She occasionally cooks and bakes for Father Jan, and with her characteristic willingness, she also does his laundry and ironing. However, one of the last certainties in her life collapses unexpectedly quickly—Father Jan is transferred somewhere to Hradec Králové and is replaced by a young priest who is used to doing everything himself. At that moment, a smiling young man with dark glasses and a flower in his hand enters Květa Galová's life.

Release Date2019-05-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count12

Osmy

An ordinary man with an ordinary job, ordinary family and ordinary affair has an unordinary day after he signes the Charta 77.

Release Date2014-12-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

O dívce, která šlápla na chléb

A hopeful girl from Copenhagen’s poorest quarter reinvents herself as orphan “Brigita” to win a place in a wealthy baker’s home, trading her shabby shed for glittering displays and elegant company.

Release Date2007-12-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Vůně vanilky

A dramatic love story, taking place in the final days of the Second World War when the American Army liberated the Pilsen region of West Bohemia. Anne lives with her mother, husband and stepchildren at a solitary country farm. But her life is not what she would wish it to be. She had previously lived with her aunt in London, and the only reason why she returned to Czechoslovakia was to look after the orphaned children of her sister. She married their father, but the rural environment is alien to her, and neither does she get on very well with her husband. A group of American soldiers arrives at the farm, having strayed away from their designated route of advance. To their great surprise, they are welcomed by a young woman who speaks fluent English, and invite her to go with them to Pilsen as an interpreter. Anne long hesitates, well aware that she attracts the affection of one of the soldiers, and herself becomes fond of him, too. She feels that the trip to Pilsen could mean an ....

Release Date2002-05-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Genij vlasti

When Vojtěch Hynais, who lived in Paris in the 1880s, received an offer to paint the curtain for the National Theater, he accepted it. However, his modern concept for that time was not accepted by the academically rigid commission. He did not depict the required figures from Czech history, but rather an artist kissed by the Muse. Although he completed the work, he was never paid for his work on the largest curtain in Austria-Hungary. Author Martin Šafránek very sensitively uncovered the issue of moral failure at the cost of material benefits on the one hand and the courage to risk these values to the point of self-destruction on the other. Director Jiří Strach, who made his debut with this work in 1998, cast Radek Holub and Klára Issová in the leading roles.

Release Date1998-10-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Povodeň

It was a fateful August, and devastating floods ravaged Bohemia. Mrs. Gabriela lived alone in a spacious apartment near Prague. Perhaps she just wanted to help, or perhaps she wanted something more: either way, she called the news station to offer accommodation to an elderly disabled woman. The next day, Mrs. Věra arrived with only a bag of personal belongings that she had managed to salvage from her flooded apartment in Karlín. But perhaps this woman was looking for something more than just a roof over her head. As it gradually became clear, everything was a little different than it seemed. In any case, this situation offered both women a chance to resolve their lives, which were already drawing to a close...

Release Date2005-04-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Santini’s Enigma

During his routine work, Martin Urmann, employee of an advertising agency, discovers a series of cryptic messages inscribed by the architect into his structures, and sets out to decipher them. His way is lined with mysterious murders which are obviously connected with his search. The fascinating power of the world into which he is gradually descending makes it impossible for him to give up his intention. He has to reach the end, where he anticipates a revelation which will totally change his entrenched view of the world.

Release Date2011-12-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Tři životy

Three soldiers desert and take refuge in an ancient, crumbling castle where three veiled maidens welcome them with a sumptuous feast, on the sole condition that they neither lift a veil nor lay a hand on their hosts during the night. Only one, Jakub, keeps his vow and is rewarded by a freed princess and a magical token that grants him three extra lives.

Release Date2007-12-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

BrainStorm

Private psychologist Jakub tries to help others, but he has his own problems. Then he gets to take care of his old father which starts a lot of funny situations due to fathers starting dementia. Then this new medication appears...

Release Date2008-03-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Z lásky nenávist

Release Date2017-06-20

DepartmentCrew

JobSupervising Technical Director

Probuzená skála

A poor girl named Sanchika longs to find a mysterious treasure hidden in the rocks. In the end, she realizes that the greatest treasure, love, can be found in her heart.

Release Date2004-04-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Na zámku

Olga, a young and sensitive governess, comes to an impoverished aristocratic family full of ideals and determination to love the children entrusted to her. Lonely among people, she experiences the feeling of not belonging anywhere. Neither among the arrogant nobility nor among the servants. She experiences many situations that hurt and humiliate her, but at the same time teach her lessons for her future life.

Release Date2000-01-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Svatá

Olga, a spirited 90-year-old gulag survivor, lives with her daughter Hana in a modest, aging home, their relationship marked by unspoken scars from the past. As Olga gains attention through her memoirs and public talks about her wartime ordeal, investigative reporter Dastychová, who appears to know more about Olga’s history than anyone else, prepares to expose a long-held secret.

Release Date2024-05-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Máma

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Hlava Medúzy

Release Date2021-01-11

Episode Count1

Vote Count4

Dobrá čtvrť

Release Date2005-09-19

Episode Count7

Vote Count2

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

Vote Count3

Evropa tančila valčík

Otakar Vávra dedicated his latest film to events accompanying the devastation of the first World War. It takes place in representative centers of power, in the courts of Vienna, Berlin and Moscow. In parallel, it develops the fate of the Czech archivist, who will take part in the Serbian anti-Austrian branch.

Release Date1989-10-01

Vote Count1

Čapkovy kapsy

Release Date2011-09-04

Episode Count1

Martha and I

Emil (Vaclav Chalupa as a teen, Ondrej Vetchy as an adult) has been naughty, and his family is at a loss about what to do with him. He's been dallying with the family maid. They decide to ship him off to spend time with his uncle Ernst Michel Piccoli), who married his family maid. The boy has a good relationship with his uncle, and a touching picture of Czech family life just at the advent of World War II emerges. Since Emil and Ernst are both Jewish, they are eventually carted away by the Nazis.

Release Date1990-09-01

Vote Count1

To jsem z toho jelen

Release Date2001-05-18

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Poste restante

Release Date2010-02-26

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Forbidden Dreams

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 to the big city and becomes an enterprising vacuum cleaner salesman. There he embarks on a series of adulterous adventures, has encounters with boxing pros and famous portrait artists, and schemes to purchase the perfect pond to fulfill his passion for fishing. When the Nazis gain control, the comedy turns sour - he loses his lake, his job, and finally, his family.

Release Date1987-09-01

Vote Count16

Není sirotek jako sirotek

Release Date1987-02-01

Veronika

Emperor Francis Joseph I is about to arrive in Prague, and among those who came to Stromovka to welcome him is Veronika Pavlitová. She wants to submit a request for clemency for her imprisoned father to the emperor, because she is barely able to support herself and her siblings on the meager salary of a seamstress. By chance, the girl meets Božena Němcová, whom she admires immensely. She becomes her friend and confidant for a while. However, police director Paümann, who has been following Božena Němcová for a long time, takes advantage of the naivety of the young girl. Veronika, in her simple-mindedness, tells him many things. Only later will she understand how she was abused.

Release Date1986-05-01

Vote Count2

Boomerang

The story, written by former George Stransky former political prisoners and today's chairman Pen Club is situated to 50 years and uranium camp of political prisoners in Pribram, where after the fall of the Stalinist cult comes at the end of 1958 as a prisoner of the former Chief of Main Administration of correctional facilities Colonel Good. Former chief topic of coexistence, "a guard" and political prisoners in the Bolshevik camp served timeless makers to reflect on the possibility (or impossibility) of forgiveness and a sense of justice. The film, unfortunately, below expectations - mainly because of its rarity and lack syžetovou arching dramatic arc of the story, including natural gradation. Nice camera and vice versa are cast, formed literally myriad of top Czech actors. A representative of one of the main roles - Jiri Schmitzer in 1997 was awarded the Czech Lion.

Release Date1997-01-31

Vote Count1

Mít někoho do deště

Release Date1986-12-25

Učitel tance

A special story about love, dance, and immortality takes place in the late 1940s. A young man, dance master Mayer, arrives at a pulmonary sanatorium. His diagnosis is serious—tuberculosis. However, he does not give in to his illness and begins to actively fight it with dance and optimism. Gradually, he wins over other patients who had previously resigned themselves to their fate. Soon, however, his illness breaks out in full force and insidiousness. Facing death, he embodies human courage and a positive attitude towards life.

Release Date1995-01-26

Vote Count8

Winning Quietly

Comedy about a group of village boys and in one selfless father who wants his players to do the real football.

Release Date1986-03-01

Vote Count2

Vohnice a Kiliján

The witch is a bit of a wildflower, a bit of a witch - and she loves the prince! Silver Hata, who rules the land below Radobel, no longer believes in human kindness, or even love. She does not want to let her favourite magical forest creature, the young and beautiful Vohnice with the red shining hair, among the people. That they would not disappoint and betray her. But Vohnice looks out at the human world day after day from the tallest tree in the forest. Until one day her curiosity gets the better of her and she secretly goes straight to the castle where Prince Kilian lives. The love between the two of them ignites like a wild fire. But Kilian is the heir to the throne and Vohnice is a bit of a wildflower, a bit of a fairy and a bit of a witch...

Release Date2007-04-19

Království za kytaru

A 16-year-old young man, a budding rock enthusiast, spots a beautiful guitar but soon finds he doesn't have enough money. In vain, he asks his parents to help him. Eventually he tries to raise the necessary funds on his own. This is a not very believable normalisation morality tale, which was supposed to guide teenagers towards desirable patterns of behaviour.

Release Date1990-03-01

Kolotoč

The TV comedy takes aim at the dark side of "maternal bliss." It is a period when new mothers spend their days with their small children, breastfeeding, changing diapers, putting them to sleep, doing laundry, etc., which not only their husbands, but all of us take for granted. However, with a slight exaggeration, thanks to many accurate and well-paced situations, the author humorously shows what this time can do not only to the new mother herself, but also to her immediate surroundings, in this case her husband and his career...

Release Date2007-11-04

Romeo, Julie a tma

The new television adaptation of Jan Otčenášek's famous novella of the same name tells the story of the love between a teenage boy and a Jewish girl in the midst of war during the Heydrich terror. Ester seeks refuge, which Vojta provides her with, knowing the risk to his life. From this moment on, the situation of the protagonists of the story becomes a kind of existential island where fundamental human values—love, death, loyalty, and betrayal—are tested. This experience marks the main character of the story for life. This intimate drama, directed by Karel Smyczek with remarkable artistic means, is effective in its urgency and has timeless validity. The screenplay is the work of experienced author Petr Zikmund.

Release Date1998-05-06

UŽ

A naive village girl, Valentýna, arrives in Prague and, under dramatic circumstances, becomes reluctantly entangled in the Karlín underworld as a novice prostitute controlled by the slimy gangster Pavouk and his bumbling henchman Milan. She repeatedly refuses the genuine support offered by the incorruptible mounted policeman Viktor Sokol, even as two eccentric observers serve as a choric commentary on the absurdities around them. Through parodic and poetic scenes, ranging from western-inspired mounted police sequences to a surreal “war” over exporting plastic gnomes, the film satirizes contemporary Czech society.

Release Date1996-03-21

Tom v kozí kůži

One day, young Tom found a whistle at home and enjoyed playing it. He couldn't understand why his mother took it away from him in anger and threw it away. Tom didn't know that the whistle was the only thing his mother had left from his father, the god Cernunnos, who had abandoned her. The embittered Tom leaves home, and so begins a series of adventures, at the end of which he not only saves the country from invasion by Danish troops and wins the hand of his beloved, Princess Olwen, but also finds his father.

Release Date1999-12-12

Houpačka

A 17-year-old student unexpectedly gives up her newborn for adoption and must confront the emotional fallout, family tensions and societal shifts of the tumultuous post-revolution era as she seeks to understand her choices and find her own way in life.

Release Date1990-12-01