Oldřich Lukeš Movies

A funny story about a friendship between the children of East Germany and Czechoslovakia.

Dog's Heads (Czech: Psohlavci) is a 1955 Czech drama film directed by Martin Frič, based on the novel of the same name by Alois Jirásek....

Jan Zika is the legendary hero of the communist resistance movement during World War II and leading functionary of the second underground Central...

A fiction piece centered around the Czech resistance to the Nazis.

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

Venice Film Festival 1955

This early short by Jaromil Jireš anticipates the formal and stylistic experimentation that would characterize VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS.

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