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...

In an unusual, apolitical approach, director Jaromil Jires has fashioned a standard drama that features an older lawyer with failing health who goes...

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 model Communist village is visited by a flying saucer.

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...

Marta (Lucie Patikova) was blinded in an accident brought on by her careless and indulgent younger sister. Now in a school for the blind, Marta keeps...

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

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

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

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....

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

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