Karel Höger Movies

Three stories from the school environment, mostly from the perspective of teachers. In the first story we see an unnecessarily strict teacher, in the...

Prague in the 1870s. Work in Smolík's sulphur factory is hard and dangerous to health. The poorly paid workers resemble torches because their...

At the year 1946, the time of the Nuremberg Process. One of the main actors of the Second World War, who reportedly committed suicide, Adolf Hitler...

The first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", completed with Jan Žižka (1955) and Proti všem (Against All Odds, 1957). The...

When sixty-year-old Karel Pluhař meets Marie, a woman who is unhappy in many ways, he feels that if he seizes this opportunity, regardless of...

An outdated fireclay factory is due to close, but its long-time employees can't imagine stopping what has fed them all their lives and what they do...

The history of motoring in Bohemia begins when Laurin and Klement founded a factory for the production of motorcycles. In 1904, the first motorcycle...

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

During the Second World War, an old fortress is transformed into a detention camp for arrested allied generals who the Germans provide with every...

A short, humorous history of aviation based on Kamil Lhoták's book "Balloons, Wings, Propellers."

A group of saboteurs search for a weapons cache hidden by the Nazi army. Beskydy in the summer of 1950: the StB agent Borek infiltrates a group of...

The imperial councilor Ullik decides to modernize his old mills by installing a new turbine. His eccentric brother-in-law Artuš tries to...

Early Days follows the early life of famous Czech writer Alois Jirásek. Jirásek had already developed his own view of the history of...

It is 5 May 1945 and the uprising against the hated German occupiers has broken out in Prague. The Czech guards open the gate of the Pankrác...

The film, in individual episodes, captures the fate of Bedřich Smetana from 1856 until the end of his life, from his young years until the...

The second part of the revolutionary Hussite trilogy takes place in the years 1419-1420.