Karel Effa Movies

Jaroslav Hašek screens four film stories in the fairground shed around 1900. After period advertising slides and a "newspaper", we see "the...

To Moscow have arrived the participants of the international conference of the zoophilologists and also the international jury which is to elect for...

Two criminal gangs are ruthlessly fighting for a 1-million dollar check that, purely by chance, got into the flat of shy high school teacher George...

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 50th anniversary of the Barrandov studios was celebrated with a spectacular show: many directors and other important people gathered in the...

A Czech fairy tale about a princess named Lada who runs away from home in a mouse fur disguise in order to escape an unwanted and forced marriage.

No Woman is allowed into Karlstejn Castle! Yet the enamoured Daniele Kolářová and the equally enamoured Jana Brejchová...

Like a fairy tale, King Henry and King Good-thought decided long ago that their only children should marry and so prevent war arising between their...

Doctor Adéla Neradová, a medical doctor, has succumbed to the desire to uncover a criminal and become a kind of Sherlock Holmes in...

A trespassing gang of boys encounter a ghost in the ruins of a castle. When they rescue the ghost who is caught in a trapset, they become allies in a...

During the Thirty Years' War, ploughman Petr, recruiter Matěj and country girl Lenka are caught up in both sides of the war and experience many...

The plump, punctual and slightly despotic Mr. Tříška worked as a housing officer, which completely damaged his psychological...

After a soldier cuts off the arm of king's cousin, king decides to deactivate the army. Of course, generals don't like it at all and they try to kill...

The Sultan awaits the arrival of his son, Prince Omar, who has brought up in a distant land. The master tailor and his assistances are making clothes...

Professor Wilkens has invented a formula for a new type of fuel and puts it on a microfiche that he sends to his daughter and her bodyguard, but ...

Even ideology permeated the children's stories: the beginnings of forced collectivisation in the village are seen through the eyes of a young boy. As...

In one kingdom, there was a stupid king. And he suddenly became wise because he met a magical grandfather who gave him a backpack. Who would have...

A satirical story about a young teacher, Josefína, who resolutely embarks on a fight against a group of bricklayers who demand exorbitant...

Four short stories by the greatest Czech satirist Jaroslav Hašek. "Soup for Poor Children" tells the story of how Prince Robert himself cooked...