Ladislav Potměšil Movies

Three detective stories, three different views of life and death... Collection of three horror short stories.

A car deliberately runs down a young man on a road by a small border town. The locals recognize the dead man as one of the students who were there on...

It is 5 May 1945 and the uprising against the hated German occupiers has broken out in Prague. The Czech guards open the gate of the Pankrác...

In Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, a doctor-turned-warehouse employee reluctantly agrees to treat a gravely wounded political fugitive, putting himself...

The film is a metaphor for the Cold War. It depicts two neighbouring nations: peace loving Fortuna and the not so peaceful land of the Steel City.

In a suburban villa, a woman of means is murdered. Police Superintendent Zdychynec from the Prague Liben neighborhood reports the case to Police...

Drama directed by Stanislav Strnad.

A woman attempts to cover up the thefts committed by the manager at the shop she works at.

Czechoslovakian Zbynek Brynych directs this psychological drama set in World War II Terezin ghetto. A dark, visual portrayal of the trials and...

An old man is wandering round a badly signposted and as yet mostly under construction Prague housing estate looking for the high rise block into...