Jan Oliva Movies

This film, chronicling the last days of Czech resistance fighter Maruska Kuderikova (played by Magda Vasaryova), is based on her diaries. Though she...

A twelve-year-old is looking for his biological parents after discovering the fact that he was adopted.

In this character study by Czech director Frantisek Vlacil, a stout middle-aged physician whose marriage has come apart establishes a practice in a...

A passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure of his peers to live up to his ideals.

A story about young girl Hanka who doesn't have parents and is forced to spend most of her time in a hospital bed.

Michal's father and his friends are stigmatized by their war experience and the post-war social deformations in which they took part either directly,...

Seven days, or rather evenings and nights, in the life of Jenka (Stanislava Bartosová), a young good-looking nurse. Jenka is attractive to men...

A gifted poet checks into a Gothic hotel in hopes of meeting the woman with whom he has long been enamored. He is surrounded by a variety of offbeat...

Little Vendulka receives a birthday gift of a seemingly innocuous children's book. Little she knows that the book is actually a portal into the...