Movies: Bedřich Kubala

  • 1970
    Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

    Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)

    Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

    71970HD

    Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the effects she experiences when she puts on a pair of magic earrings. Now seeing the world around her in a dif...

    Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
  • 1966
    Who Wants to Kill Jessie?

    Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (1966)

    Who Wants to Kill Jessie?

    71966HD

    In this zany Czechoslovakian comedy, a scientist invents a machine that projects a sleeping person's dream on a screen; disaster soon follows when the machine malfunctions and the cartoon-like dream characters become very real!...

    Who Wants to Kill Jessie?
  • 1970
    Adelheid

    Adelheid (1970)

    Adelheid

    6.81970HD

    In the aftermath of World War II, a soldier takes charge of a manor formerly owned by a German family and falls in love with the daughter, now a maid. Their relationship forces him to confront the tension between his love and his conscience....

    Adelheid
  • 1962
    The Devil's Trap

    The Devil's Trap (1962)

    The Devil's Trap

    6.91962HD

    A small town is one day visited by a priest who is there on a secret mission. He is a member of the Inquisition sent to investigate the activities of a local miller. The miller and his son are the descendants of an old family whose ancestral home bur...

    The Devil's Trap
  • 1968
    The Valley of the Bees

    The Valley of the Bees (1968)

    The Valley of the Bees

    71968HD

    Cast out by his father, young Ondrej joins the Order of the Teutonic Knights, where he is raised by strict monk Armin. After years of hardship, Ondrej escapes from the Order when he is wrongly punished, and sets out for his former home. Arriving to ...

    The Valley of the Bees
  • 1960
    Romeo, Juliet and Darkness

    Romeo, Juliet and Darkness (1960)

    Romeo, Juliet and Darkness

    6.21960HD

    Pavel, a young student living in Prague in 1942, hides a Jewish girl in his apartment building's attic. Amidst the brutality of the occupying German army, love blossoms between the two. He is her only link to the outside world. Then the two are disco...

    Romeo, Juliet and Darkness
  • 1970
    I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen

    I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen (1970)

    I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen

    6.11970HD

    This futuristic science fiction comedy features an atomic bomb blast that causes women to grow beards and lose the ability to have children. A summit meeting is held at the United Nations, with the proposed solution of building a time machine. The de...

    I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen
  • 1965
    Courage for Every Day

    Courage for Every Day (1965)

    Courage for Every Day

    5.91965HD

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

    Courage for Every Day
  • 1946
    Magical River

    Magical River (1946)

    Magical River

    7.51946HD

    Leopold Kohák married a rich widow a long time ago and now has nothing to do compared to his energetic wife. He's growing old and troubled by the fact that he betrayed his first love Emča and his beloved river Sázava where he spent his childhood and ...

    Magical River
  • 1970
    Murdering the Devil

    Murdering the Devil (1970)

    Murdering the Devil

    61970HD

    Comedy with fairy-tale touches, about Kate, who wants to marry, and Mr. Devil, who is not interested in the heart or soul of this passionate and aging lady, but is interested in her good cooking – for Mr. Devil is a glutton....

    Murdering the Devil
  • 1969
    The End of a Priest

    The End of a Priest (1969)

    The End of a Priest

    6.11969HD

    A verger, who likes to dress as a priest, is invited, by one of the villagers, to be the pastor at a vacant church. The atheist teacher resents the pastor, and tries to embarrass him in various ways, including being caught with the local girl, Majka....

    The End of a Priest
  • 1970
    On the Trail of Blood

    On the Trail of Blood (1970)

    On the Trail of Blood

    4.51970HD

    Major Kalas from the Prague criminal intelligence service has been sent to a small town of Dubá in North Bohemia to help with the investigation of the puzzling death of a child. A gypsy boy has been killed three weeks ago and his body found under a r...

    On the Trail of Blood
  • 1951
    Temno

    Temno (1951)

    Temno

    51951HD

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    Temno
  • 1967
    The Return of the Prodigal Son

    The Return of the Prodigal Son (1967)

    The Return of the Prodigal Son

    5.81967HD

    Engineer Jan Sebek (Jan Kacer) is undergoing treatment in a mental home after his unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide. His therapist, via discussions both with the patient and with people who know him, tries to find out what made the young and see...

    The Return of the Prodigal Son
  • 1965
    Místenka bez návratu

    Místenka bez návratu (1965)

    Místenka bez návratu

    01965HD

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    Místenka bez návratu
  • 1967
    Martyrs of Love

    Martyrs of Love (1967)

    Martyrs of Love

    5.21967HD

    This three-part ballad, which often uses music to stand in for dialogue, remains the most perfect embodiment of Nemec’s vision of a film world independent of reality. Mounting a defense of timid, inhibited, clumsy, and unsuccessful individuals, the t...

    Martyrs of Love
  • 1966
    The Pipes

    The Pipes (1966)

    The Pipes

    51966HD

    This three-part Austrian/Czech comedy stretches the boundaries of what is considered to be humorous. Part one finds a silent film actor upset because of a rival actor's attention to the former's wife. When he kills his rival, it is only when he is st...

    The Pipes
  • 1963
    Vertigo

    Vertigo (1963)

    Vertigo

    71963HD

    Psychological study of country girl Jitka and her blossoming love for an older man afraid of her youth and spontaneity....

    Vertigo
  • 1959
    King of the Sumava

    King of the Sumava (1959)

    King of the Sumava

    4.71959HD

    A movie about Czechoslovak border guards trying to arrest the famous escapee called "King of the Sumava"....

    King of the Sumava
  • 1966
    Every Young Man

    Every Young Man (1966)

    Every Young Man

    6.51966HD

    Jurácek's feature debut is shot in two parts. In the first, a corporal accompanies a new recruit with a sore Achilles tendon for his physical, and all the girls or young women they see are played by the same actress (Ruzickova). In the longer second ...

    Every Young Man