Jan Oliva Movies

A gifted poet checks into a Gothic hotel in hopes of meeting the woman with whom he has long been enamored. He is surrounded by a variety of offbeat...

Comedy about a group of village boys and in one selfless father who wants his players to do the real football.

Princess Julia doesn't want to marry an old prince Hubert so she runs away from home. She meets two old magicians and join the circus, where she...

Pohádka o mladém ševcovském tovaryšovi Jírovi, který si vyrobil z jemné kůže...

In an unusual, apolitical approach, director Jaromil Jires has fashioned a standard drama that features an older lawyer with failing health who goes...

The harsh reality of a home for abandoned children blends with episodes of youthful fantasy and slapstick comedy in this story of an orphan girl....

Michal's father and his friends are stigmatized by their war experience and the post-war social deformations in which they took part either directly,...

The late summer of 1918. Paul, Willi and Heinrich from an age-old German town are good friends, although there is a great deal that divides them....

Seven days, or rather evenings and nights, in the life of Jenka (Stanislava Bartosová), a young good-looking nurse. Jenka is attractive to men...

A passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure of his peers to live up to his ideals.

A story about young girl Hanka who doesn't have parents and is forced to spend most of her time in a hospital bed.

A model Communist village is visited by a flying saucer.

Lieutenant VB, disguised as a laborer, is looking for a young woman killer among the staff of a wheel loader. But which of the possible motives found...