Josef Oliak Movies

The Emperor's mismanagement of his country is provoking some in his court to plot to overthrow him. He feels successful, at least, when he discovers...

Venice Film Festival 1941

A czech film that focuses on an unfaithful husband who married in to money, as well as an impoverished man who is turns to theft.

The Portorican prime minister asks British detective Sherlock Holmes to find a twin for King Fernando XXIII, a weak and frightened man who fears...

An ambitious and selfish lawyer confesses to the murder of his first wife. Some of the scenes were filmed in the last weeks of the war.

Prague, during World War II. Hana Kaufmann, a Jewish ophthalmologist, marries Dr. Antonín Bureš, a Christian man. When her family is...

A 1931 Czechoslovak black-and-white comedy film based on Jaroslav Hašek's novel The Good Soldier Švejk.

Five crime stories connected by the narration of police superintendent Bartosek.

Skid-row epic about a lawyer's decline.

A painting of a girl from another time comes to life for it's buyer in this costume comedy.

Ríša, a student of law, neglects his studies in favour of parties and pranks. His angry father refuses to continue helping him out of...

A story about domestic life in a typical working-class environment. Life and trials and how little situations have big consequences.

Venice Film Festival 1938