Karel Hovorka Movies

The happenings in a shoe factory serve as a not very thinly veiled examination of the pros and cons of both socialism and democracy.

It is the 1920's. The good-looking hostess Věra demonstrates household robots to visitors of the Futurum exhibition. Young inventor Petr comes...

Spouses Vojta and Růžena Koskub are an ideal couple: they both love each other and are both doing well at work. But six months after their...

Jana is forced to live in a foster home and always dreams about family reunion.

An ideologically-oriented film set in a prestigious medical sanatorium - a young doctor sympathizes with the poor people of the area, helping workers...

Václav, a successful man in his fifties, falls in love with his charming young secretary Miluška and leaves his wife Milada, his adult...

Vladimír Menšík in a dramatic story of a suddenly rich peasant. The play tells the story of the tragic fate of A....

The honest and a bit naive director of a variety agency, Jožin Petránek, sits on the qualification committee that judges entertainers and...

Baker Jan Racek (Vladimír Repa) is a very hard-working and sensible man. His great passion is pigeon-keeping and also, for many years, Ruzenka...

A loose continuation of the production of The Fiery Women. The souls of the witches Marta and Magdalena, burned in the 17th century, enter the bodies...

In the last days of the war, American planes bomb a synthetic gasoline plant in the Sudetenland. The workers are then faced with the enormous task of...

It is 1883 and Josef Hibes, a social democrat, is organising a strike of textile workers. The main demand is a reduction in working hours...

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

The theft of a pearl necklace and subsequent murder took place at the Tartaros cabaret. All this could compromise the minister, who is an admirer of...

Shortish forty-year old Ludvík Podzimek, lute and flute player in a Prague orchestra, is far from being an attractive man. He is nevertheless...

The short story explores the often tragic impact of prejudice or suspicion that relies on the appearance of the human face. Guests in a remote pub...

A biographical film about the traveler Emil Holub, conceived as an illustrative story of an exceptional man, who, however, encounters the disinterest...

The story of a traveling comedy family that ends up in court, where young Fricek is charged with attempted murder because he protected his sister...