Ondřej Vetchý

This romantic fairy tale, loosely based on an anonymous Arabic story, takes place at the sultan’s court, where the evil sisters of the kind ...

A cheerful fairy tale about a prince whose parents wanted to cure him with a magic potion. The king and queen are very unhappy with their ...

Capturing the dark humor of Czech author Michal Viewegh’s chronicle of life after the Velvet Revolution, this black comedy chronicles three ...

“Drink your life, drink it to the fullest…” sings Ješek, a carefree squire, surrounded by friends and pretty girls in a village ...

It tells the story of a young man who was turned into a donkey by curiosity and a fatal mistake. While the hero despairs and does not know how to ...

After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly take responsibility for her son. However, it’s ...

An evil witch is trying to steal a magic purse possessed by the local ruler. Thanks to Princess Blanka’s love, Prince Petr wins out over ...

A dramatic action film about stuntmen who perform the most dangerous stunts in the film world. One day, however, one of them is struck by a ...

In 1930s Ukraine, the desecration of a sacred bath disrupts the sex lives of Jewish villagers.

A celebrated theatre director’s perfect life unravels when his wife’s secret lover exposes the hollowness beneath his success, leading to a calm ...

The TV fairy tale based on a book of tales and legends from Prague’s Old Town. Its author, writer E. Petiška, set the story at the end of ...

Who among us would not want to find themselves, at least for a short time, in the romantic era of knightly duels, a time when friendship, love, ...

A TV adaptation of the famous novel in which writer Zikmund Winter depicts the life story of Prague university professor and humanist poet Jan ...

Janez Burger’s FAMácké exercise is exceptional in that it is the only comedic or actually parodic work he has ever made. The screenwriter ...

Life of Czechoslovak soldiers in a military unit for the so called “politically unreliable” – the Technical auxiliary ...

“Dear sister, strawberries don’t grow in winter!” Marushka begs, but her crying is in vain, neither her stepmother nor Holena ...

Unlike any other opera, the so-called Beggar’s Opera is not just one composition, but a lineage of adapted compositions, beginning with the ...

The time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside Prague. In school, their class is so wild and ...

The theatre director encounters the disinterest and irresponsibility of the acting troupe, whose members are scheming and looking for side ...

W. A. Mozart’s childhood was very busy, connected with constant travelling, full of fame and admiration. His father Leopold, an ...

No one has ever managed to enter the dark cave of the fairy Asteria twice. Anyone brought here by chance or curiosity has been petrified. Only ...

Emil (Vaclav Chalupa as a teen, Ondrej Vetchy as an adult) has been naughty, and his family is at a loss about what to do with him. He’s ...

The hero of the story is a forty-something intellectual, a sensitive composer of classical music. His exclusive profession, his work, which is ...

Two happily married couple, Michal and Blanka, experience a regrettable misunderstanding: the wife leaves home with their young son, but ...

Woodcutter Ondra, who for his bold nature is called Nebojsa. He goes into the world to learn fear. During his journey, on which he is accompanied ...