Jan Kraus Movies

A four-story omnibus depicting different Czech slices-of-life from the titular city.

Based on an autobiographical novella by Ivan Olbracht, the film tells the story of Hanele Safarová, who grows up just after the First World...

The teenage hero tries his best to meet the nomination limit for important races, but his coach's insensitive approach causes him to temporarily lose...

This story from the time of the occupation tells how the students of the teachers' institute decided to hold a traditional ball despite the ban....

The protagonists are the same, only five years older: Kocourek Kolman, mother Kocourková, mother Kolmanová and father Kolman. Kocourek...

Twelve-year-old Jana returns from the hospital. She notices some changes at home and is worried that her parents are going to divorce. In reality,...

Police find a girl with a bleeding face in a small town park at night. First the girl, a textile factory worker Jana, refuses to talk, and then she...

Our story begins years later. A grand engagement is being planned in the kingdom. The prince has come of age. The time has come for him to marry the...

Sixteen-year-old apprentice Zuzka commutes to Prague, where she is studying to become a "mechanic and agricultural machinery adjuster." She lives...

Two men of principle face each other. One is backed by a whole, however poor village, the other by the law. It is a conflict that reaches it's climax...

The short story film follows the fate of three young men who will soon have to decide what to do with their lives. The first "Poet", an aspiring...

Sliding, skiing, snow forts, snowball fights, in short, winter is the right season for the children from the village under the...

A comedy about the love of the Czech nobleman Záviš of Falkenštejn for the Hungarian princess Kunhuta, who later married...

Examines the human relationship with food by showing breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Little Péťa visits his grandfather in the Krkonoše Mountains, where a swarm of bees settles on a tree. When Péťa...

The protagonist is supposed to go to a graduation reunion and, because she is ashamed to reveal that she is still lonely and unmarried, she makes up...

Friends Petr and Michal, who have known each other since high school, live completely different lives: one has already settled down, has a well-paid...

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...

In May 1945, Czech revolutionaries used several armoured trains in the fighting - partly captured, partly assembled from whatever the railway...

Antony is obsessed with the idea of a happy family life, but his young daughter has to be cared for by the parents of his wife, who died in a car...