Zdeněk Hess Movies

A remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit. Engineer Prokop creates the devastating explosive “Krakatit” and soon...

On 20th of April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germany and Hitler decides to commit suicide. In...

The plot begins in the Soviet Union showing first efforts to establish the Czechoslovak legion in 1942. The film also shows the assassination of...

A commemorative and essayistic meditative piece on the Prague quarter Libeň during the 1950s.

The life of the famous French writer Alexander Dumas the Elder. Screenwriter Jaroslav Dietl did not hide his admiration for this literary giant, and...

People in Czechoslovakia perceive the events of February 1948 differently. This movie tells how they behave depending on their views, beliefs and...

Jirka Horáček, a teenager living with his father on a Pilsen housing estate, spends his free time at discos with friends. One night he...

Marek (Jirí Holý), formerly a driver of a long-distance lorry, has served his term for smuggling art works abroad and is released from...

This time, the eight-year-old girl must fight to keep her parents from turning the House of Horrors, which she received as a gift from her...

The future communist journalist Julius Fučík had a stimulating childhood and youth in a working-class environment, when his moral...

The opera lady singer Ema Destinnová is in all her splendor at the American stages. But in Europe there rages war and she decides to return...

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....

A mail truck is robbed near the small town of Kostelec, during which the perpetrators steal CZK 2.5 million. The local police fail to solve the case....

Julie is a woman who seemingly has everything. A handsome husband, teenage daughter and a thriving, undemanding job as a translator and now even a...

A communist agent, who has successfully caught on with the stupidly gullible American secret services, does not have it easy - he is threatened with...

A psychological drama about a nurse and a seriously ill car racer and factory driver...

Lucie Rýdlová is found dead at a destroyed car after a night accident. The seat position shows that she cannot have been driving, and...

A film about a young sanitation worker who tries to prevent the pollution of a river, but pays the price...