Jan Waldmann

Movies5

• Movie7.4

  Comedy

  The Lavicka's, a Czech family from the city, rents a house in the country with the option to buy. However, old Mr Komarek seems reluctant to sell the house as they agreed.

  Na samotě u lesa

  Secluded, Near Woods

  1976 · 44 votes

• Movie6.2

  DramaHistory

  The opera lady singer Ema Destinnová is in all her splendor at the American stages. But in Europe there rages war and she decides to return home to Bohemia.

  Božská Ema

  The Divine Emma

  1979 · 11 votes

• Movie4.0

  CrimeDrama

  The problematic protagonist is the head designer of a housing association who wants to make a profit at any cost. His unwitting opponent is a bar pianist who accidentally witnesses the murder of a young man and sets out to investigate on his own. An old-world and somewhat comical figure, he poignantly interferes with the cops' work, only to find that he is the one who is credited with catching the perpetrator...

  Noc klavíristy

  1977 · 5 votes

• Movie4.7

  Drama

  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...

  Hřiště

  1976 · 3 votes

• Movie6.0

  HistoryDrama

  In the era of normalisation, a number of (pseudo)historical films were made, even described as reconstructions, which glorified the world-building mission of the Communist Party and attributed to it exclusively humanitarian intentions ("Days of Betrayal", "Sokolovo", "Liberation of Prague", "The Victorious People"). In 1929, when its fifth congress met, Klement Gottwald, who had taken the line of the Russian Bolsheviks, took over the leadership of the Communists...

  Dvacátý devátý

  1975 · 2 votes