An optimistic collective drama from the life of the workers on the construction site of the Youth Track. An amnestied prisoner wants to atone for his wrongdoing with an honest strike and reveals the vandal who was going to poison the drinking water cistern.

Veliká příležitost

1950

8.0

The happenings in a shoe factory serve as a not very thinly veiled examination of the pros and cons of both socialism and democracy.

Shoesmachine

1954

No artwork available

No synopsis available yet.

Zámky se otvírají

1948

3.7

Based on book by Svatopluk Turek.

Nevěra

1956

Behind the camera

6.8

A Czech fairy tale about a princess named Lada who runs away from home in a mouse fur disguise in order to escape an unwanted and forced marriage.

The Princess with the Golden Star

1959

No artwork available

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Taneční zeměpis II. – Z Balkánu do Prahy

1948

No artwork available

6.0

Veliká příležitost

1950

No artwork available

6.0

Veliká příležitost

1950

8.0

The happenings in a shoe factory serve as a not very thinly veiled examination of the pros and cons of both socialism and democracy.

Shoesmachine

1954

8.0

The happenings in a shoe factory serve as a not very thinly veiled examination of the pros and cons of both socialism and democracy.

Shoesmachine

1954

No artwork available

No synopsis available yet.

Zámky se otvírají

1948

No artwork available

No synopsis available yet.

Zámky se otvírají

1948

3.7

Based on book by Svatopluk Turek.

Nevěra

1956

3.7

Based on book by Svatopluk Turek.

Nevěra

1956

No artwork available

No synopsis available yet.

Taneční zeměpis III. – Mládež pěti kontinentů

1948

7.5

A B&W film poem of the Czech countryside and Weiss’s personal favorite of his early shorts. Mythical images of mountains and streams and rural farmers tilling the land make this a precursor to the mystical visions of the forest in ‘The Golden Fern’. Filmed traveling on horseback through the mountains of Ruthenia (then part of Czecholovakia, now part of Ukraine), shooting the diverse community with Ruthenians (Slavs), Jews and Roma all living in the same area.

Song of Ruthenia

1937

No artwork available

No synopsis available yet.

Rok stalinské epochy

1951

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Rok stalinské epochy

1951

No artwork available

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Taneční zeměpis I. – Z Moskvy do Prahy

1948

6.0

Young engineer Petr Pavelec works on a dam plan on the Loučnica River. He meets Irena, the daughter of an unscrupulous construction entrepreneur Berka, and falls in love with her. When Petr's project wins the tender, Berka and Irena take him on as a partner, and the company is awarded the contract to build the dam. Petr, in love, does not see how sloppy the construction is being carried out. He only sees it when a worker is killed on the construction site...