Richard Staněk Movies

A police inspector and inexperienced trainee search for a mysteriously disappeared manufacturer of ointments for hair growth.

The film from 1976, a film that is exemplary in its devotion to the canons of normalised cinema, is the work of director Stanislav Strnad. He brought...

It is a story of three veterans released from the army. During one night spent camping in the country they one by one wake up and meet three elvish...

A professor reunites with an old friend who inspires him to return to Czechoslovakia for the first time since he emigrated years ago.

A story about childhood - real and the dreams. After finding a magic shell young Kačenka uses it to model her family life on the sea shore.

A fifteen years old Jana escapes summer camp wearing nothing but bikini...

After her mother's death, twelve-year-old Johana lives only with her father, who is clearly unable to raise her on his own. Therefore, she is sent to...

Three stories from the school environment, mostly from the perspective of teachers. In the first story we see an unnecessarily strict teacher, in the...

March 1945. It is already quite obvious to the Nazis that they cannot win the war. So it is time to think about the future after the war and to cover...

In 1781, Countess Marie Karolina shelters an influential Abbé, a former Jesuit who vehemently opposes progress. Only Dr. Kamenický...

A dramatic patrol car weekend on the streets of Prague's city centre. Lieutenant Josef Kabát and his colleagues drive through the centre of...

A gloomy tale about a king whose pride robbed him of love, friends and power. A cruel curse is at the beginning of the story of this fairy tale based...

Chronicle of frontier division Czech police (SNB) in the years 1946 - 1949.

Director Tomáš Vorel created his experimental feature debut with members of renowned Prague non-traditional auteur theaters. The...

Two people scarred by a wartime past meet again years later during an archaeological dig. But the silent, inaccessible man in particular is reluctant...

The main character of the story, which is a sensitive probe into the soul of a little girl, is five-year-old Kačka Znamínková, who...

Black comedy about a genius inventor and two young, smart and beautiful women. Both of them putting all their effort into getting the one man. This...

A 17-year-old student unexpectedly gives up her newborn for adoption and must confront the emotional fallout, family tensions and societal shifts of...

Father Holy, a village priest, battles against the state and religious bureaucracies of 1980s Czechoslovakia in his fight to raise money for a new...