Karel Kachyňa Movies

Psychological study of country girl Jitka and her blossoming love for an older man afraid of her youth and spontaneity.

A movie about Czechoslovak border guards trying to arrest the famous escapee called "King of the Sumava".

Jitka is a 12-year-old girl who feels the first stirring of love. She becomes friends with a young man who is hospitalized with paralysis. Jitka...

This is an engaging drama by director Karel Kachyna about the growing pains of a young teen (Jorga Kotrbova) and the hardships of a noble steed...

Adam is a young farmer. As a child, fleeing the bleak reality of his mother's life as a prostitute, he tumbled from a mountain and was mentally...

Sixteen-year-old students of a grammar school are supposed to write essays on "Love". The class best student Andrea (Jaroslava Schallerová)...

A satirical military "Fashion Show" instructing Czechoslovak soldiers how and how not to dress.

Little boy Milan is going to visit his grandfather in the countryside - for a first time.

A young Czech boy is freed from a concentration camp and now is working for the army against the Germans.

As the name suggests, the movie is about football. It is not about big league soccer, making huge money. It is about football, which lives just from...

Surly solitary truck driver is given an assistant for his daily rounds: a young woman with a fondness for mini-skirts and boys, fresh out of prison.

Oldrich is the runt of his village, beaten by his father, bullied by the other boys. But he has imagination on his side, and a wiry toughness they...