Jan Oliva Movies

Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the...

A comedy concerning a down on his luck bookshop owner with a penchant for women who decides to make some money by pretending to be a waiter and...

A little boy, named Prdelka, traveled with his father from Prague to the country during the Second World War. There, the boy became friends with a...

There are fairy tales that appear on TV screens every Christmas and there are fairy tales that have somewhat fallen into oblivion and few people...

A story about an everyday life of an inflectional department of Prague hospital.

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

A poignant overview of how short life can be, this interesting drama from Czech director Vojetch Jasny is divided into four separate segments. In the...

The holidays of Vince Adamek, a student of the agricultural school in his native village in South Moravia, are purely working. He likes his job as a...

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

In the forest near the village of Drahovice, a nurse from the local health center is found murdered. Three months ago, another young woman died...

The late summer of 1918. Paul, Willi and Heinrich from an age-old German town are good friends, although there is a great deal that divides them....

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...

Three short stories. Prague finally sees the approval of the subway construction. Thousands of individuals took part in preparing, course and...

Sometimes it's hard to understand what's important in life... The main character of the story, young Magda, works in a small textile factory in North...

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...

Comedy about a group of village boys and in one selfless father who wants his players to do the real football.

Police discover Eva Nejtková dead in her apartment and her husband Zdeněk unconscious from a shotgun wound. Captain Hora leads the...

In the spring of 1945, the last war clashes took place on the Czech-Moravian border. However, amidst the heavy gunfire, colourful boyhood adventures...