Directing

Zdenek Sirový

Born — Died

1932-03-14 — 1995-05-24

Known for

Directing

Credits

32 titles

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

The Finnish Knife poster
4.7

Two young men, thinking that they've killed someone, flee to Poland.

The Finnish Knife

1965

The Finnish Knife poster
4.7

Two young men, thinking that they've killed someone, flee to Poland.

The Finnish Knife

1965

No artwork available
NR

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Daniel

1961

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NR

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Daniel

1961

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NR

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Láska malovaná

1974

Kaňon samé zlato poster
9.0

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Kaňon samé zlato

1972

Kaňon samé zlato poster
9.0

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Kaňon samé zlato

1972

No artwork available
9.0

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Claim na Hluchém potoku

1972

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9.0

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Claim na Hluchém potoku

1972

Paragraf 224 poster
8.0

Placek (Josef Kemr), the head of research in a chemical plant, appreciates the help of his younger colleague Bernát (Alois Svehlík) in the creation of a new synthetic material.

Paragraf 224

1980

No artwork available
9.0

Elementary school student Jožka has a great love – horses. He is looking forward to turning this love into a profession. However, he is atoning for his father's criminal activities, he is not accepted into his dream school focused on horse breeding due to a bad report and has to be content with learning to be a tractor driver. However, he continues to do his best for horses, he trains the racehorse Palisander, who has never won. His outsider fate is similar to his. However, Jožka wins everything there is to win despite various ups and downs – he stands up to bullying in the youth home, an arrogant tutor, human weaklings, manages to study well even at a school that he doesn't enjoy and does sports. He also gains the respect of his classmates. Real jockeys also star in the film. It also features the birth and death of a horse. The scene where Jožka's father saves a horse from a burning truck is dramatic. The scenes with carrier pigeons are touching.

Outsider

1987

Funeral Ceremony poster
6.0

Matylda, who lives in the Czech countryside, is trying to arrange burial plans for her dying husband, Jan. While Matylda hopes to have a funeral for Jan in the small town where they once lived, there are complications. Years earlier, Jan spoke out against the Communist government and was consequently expelled from the town. When Matylda fails to convince a local politician to allow the ceremony, she uses her husband's funeral as a public show of dissent.

Funeral Ceremony

1990

Funeral Ceremony poster
6.0

Matylda, who lives in the Czech countryside, is trying to arrange burial plans for her dying husband, Jan. While Matylda hopes to have a funeral for Jan in the small town where they once lived, there are complications. Years earlier, Jan spoke out against the Communist government and was consequently expelled from the town. When Matylda fails to convince a local politician to allow the ceremony, she uses her husband's funeral as a public show of dissent.

Funeral Ceremony

1990

Družina černého pera poster
NR

A group of children from a working-class neighbourhood in Pilsen search for a way to effectively protest against the rampage of the First World War and the oppressive state power...

Družina černého pera

1974

Black Barons poster
7.2

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.

Black Barons

1992

Black Barons poster
7.2

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.

Black Barons

1992

Cesta na jihozápad poster
10.0

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.

Cesta na jihozápad

1989

No artwork available
10.0

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Poslední výstřel Davida Sandela

1972

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10.0

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Poslední výstřel Davida Sandela

1972

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2.0

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Ještě včera to znamenalo smrt

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2.0

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Ještě včera to znamenalo smrt

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No artwork available
NR

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Klíče na neděli

1993

Handlíři poster
NR

JZD Hořičky is one of the best cooperatives in the district. Its chairman, who knows how to get advice and money wherever he can, is supported by the district secretary - even at the expense of others. The cooperatives will reject high state honours as undeserved... An unconvincing attempt at a critical film from the present day.

Handlíři

1964

Handlíři poster
NR

JZD Hořičky is one of the best cooperatives in the district. Its chairman, who knows how to get advice and money wherever he can, is supported by the district secretary - even at the expense of others. The cooperatives will reject high state honours as undeserved... An unconvincing attempt at a critical film from the present day.

Handlíři

1964

No artwork available
7.5

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Chlapec a srna

1962

No artwork available
7.5

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Chlapec a srna

1962

The Dynamite Watcher poster
7.0

Three separate short stories by Jan Drda from the collection The Dumb Barricade: The Dynamite Watchman, Hatred and Traces.

The Dynamite Watcher

1963

Hrozba poster
7.0

The story takes place in a metallurgical plant where important technological changes are being made while the plant is in full operation. However, a mistake in the project puts the entire plant at risk, as a gas explosion threatens. All the workers then forget about any potential rifts and join forces to prevent the worst...

Hrozba

1978

Hrozba poster
7.0

The story takes place in a metallurgical plant where important technological changes are being made while the plant is in full operation. However, a mistake in the project puts the entire plant at risk, as a gas explosion threatens. All the workers then forget about any potential rifts and join forces to prevent the worst...

Hrozba

1978

No artwork available
5.0

A TV adaptation of the famous novel in which writer Zikmund Winter depicts the life story of Prague university professor and humanist poet Jan Campanus Vodňanský and his efforts to save the ancient university after the Battle of White Mountain. Campanus gradually loses all his battles. The path of concessions leads to unintentional but tragic guilt when, at Campanus's unwitting instigation, the Jesuits seize the child of the executed Jesenius. The difficult post-White Mountain period in the Czech lands presented Campanus with a dilemma: whether to convert or to keep a clear conscience, a conflict of power and honor so common in our history...

Mistr Kampanus

1993