Jan Kraus Movies

The Czech film Svítalo All Night was made to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the liberation of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Army and is...

Two men of principle face each other. One is backed by a whole, however poor village, the other by the law. It is a conflict that reaches it's climax...

Biography of Karel Čapek.

Based on an autobiographical novella by Ivan Olbracht, the film tells the story of Hanele Safarová, who grows up just after the First World...

Sliding, skiing, snow forts, snowball fights, in short, winter is the right season for the children from the village under the...

The protagonist is supposed to go to a graduation reunion and, because she is ashamed to reveal that she is still lonely and unmarried, she makes up...

A four-story omnibus depicting different Czech slices-of-life from the titular city.

A costume, slightly erotic, love fable with grotesque elements and a distinct black humor accent. Historicizing, Rococo decadence, visual stylization...

A quarrel between divorced waitress Mája and her fifteen-year-old son Petr ends with the boy physically attacking his mother, and he is sent...

Car transport of the locomotive is difficult, as the cargo is bulky. The three-man crew of the tractor therefore experiences many difficulties on the...

Little Péťa visits his grandfather in the Krkonoše Mountains, where a swarm of bees settles on a tree. When Péťa...

Based on a Jack London story, this is another attempt at a Western spectacle - after the short story triptych The Canyon of Gold - about a teenage...

Third wine session, this time with a computer. The film was made in direct relation to the audience success of the previous two: "Stormy Wine" and...

Ten short unrelated stories that move chronologically through Slovakia's twentieth-century history as seen from the perspective of life in small...

A loose sequel to the 1976 comedy Stormy Wine. The screenwriters and the director recreate on screen a number of characters from the South Moravian...

Captain Martin from the police's child department and his colleague Kraus are called to Znojmo to help solve a case regarding stolen toys found in...

Antony is obsessed with the idea of a happy family life, but his young daughter has to be cared for by the parents of his wife, who died in a car...