Ladislav Potměšil Movies

Inspired by two fairy tales by Jan Drda, this film tells the story of young Matěj, who enjoys a good riddle. When he is chased off by a farmer...

Three detective stories, three different views of life and death... Collection of three horror short stories.

A woman attempts to cover up the thefts committed by the manager at the shop she works at.

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...

An old man is wandering round a badly signposted and as yet mostly under construction Prague housing estate looking for the high rise block into...

In a suburban villa, a woman of means is murdered. Police Superintendent Zdychynec from the Prague Liben neighborhood reports the case to Police...

Criminal comedy, a first movie from the "Chief" series.

In Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, a doctor-turned-warehouse employee reluctantly agrees to treat a gravely wounded political fugitive, putting himself...

Life in communist Czechoslovakia in the early 1950s and the punishments for going against the state.

The film is a metaphor for the Cold War. It depicts two neighbouring nations: peace loving Fortuna and the not so peaceful land of the Steel City.

A movie directed by Zbynek Brynych.

A film in five episodes, all based on an attempt to show the life of young people today, their feelings and relationships, their behaviour in public...

A car deliberately runs down a young man on a road by a small border town. The locals recognize the dead man as one of the students who were there on...