Movies: Jan Skopeček

  • 1976
    Marecek, Pass Me the Pen!

    Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (1976)

    Marecek, Pass Me the Pen!

    7.71976HD

    This comedy is about one average family. The father works as master in the factory and his son is studying on high school. One day father must start to visit the evening school. It's the same school as his son visiting. The lives both students are co...

    Marecek, Pass Me the Pen!
  • 1957
    The Good Soldier Švejk

    The Good Soldier Švejk (1957)

    The Good Soldier Švejk

    7.71957HD

    Good-natured and garrulous, Schweik becomes the Austrian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of World War I -- although his bumbling attempts to get to the front serve only to prevent him from reaching it. Playing car...

    The Good Soldier Švejk
  • 1981
    The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians

    The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians (1981)

    The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians

    6.31981HD

    In 1897, in a castle near the town of Werewolfville in the Carpithians, a slightly deranged Professor Orfanik experiments with his new inventions which include, even at this early date, television and a film camera. He is also an obsessed opera fan, ...

    The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians
  • 1985
    Give the Devil His Due

    Give the Devil His Due (1985)

    Give the Devil His Due

    7.61985HD

    Dorota, a bad woman married the miller, out of sheer greed drives him to death. She then took the mill away from his son Peter and threw him out of the hime. Lucifer, who is known to rule in hell, sends out the devil Janek. He is supposed to fetch Do...

    Give the Devil His Due
  • 1959
    The Princess with the Golden Star

    The Princess with the Golden Star (1959)

    The Princess with the Golden Star

    6.71959HD

    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....

    The Princess with the Golden Star
  • 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?
  • 1980
    The Medal

    The Medal (1980)

    The Medal

    6.71980HD

    The trenches of World War I provide for a captivating backdrop to the drama of Corporal Hoferik. In his devotion to the Habsburg Monarchy, he fanatically carries out his military orders, but he ultimately suffers the Empire's disfavor....

    The Medal
  • 1958
    I Dutifully Report

    I Dutifully Report (1958)

    I Dutifully Report

    7.11958HD

    A comedy based on the novel of Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Svejk happens during the World War I. I Dutifully Report: In the introduction to the second part of the film adaptation of Hašek's novel The Good Soldier Švějk presents his main charact...

    I Dutifully Report
  • 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
  • 1986
    '38 - Vienna Before the Fall

    '38 - Vienna Before the Fall (1986)

    '38 - Vienna Before the Fall

    6.21986HD

    The film presents the political events surrounding the Anschluss in March of 1938 through the lives of Carola Hell, a popular young actress at the prestigious Theater in der Josefstadt, and Martin Hofmann, the Jewish journalist she plans to marry. Wh...

    '38 - Vienna Before the Fall
  • 1960
    Higher Principle

    Higher Principle (1960)

    Higher Principle

    8.21960HD

    During the Nazi occupation of a Czech city civilians are being rounded up on the slightest of pretexts and shot. One day three high school boys who crack jokes about a recently deceased "hero of the Reich" are pulled out of school by the Gestapo....

    Higher Principle
  • 2009
    It Is Hell with the Princess

    It Is Hell with the Princess (2009)

    It Is Hell with the Princess

    5.42009HD

    To help his daughter avoid marriage to an inept prince, King Leopold claims that Lucifer himself is wooing the princess. Satanic panic ensues....

    It Is Hell with the Princess
  • 1977
    Šestapadesát neomluvených hodin

    Šestapadesát neomluvených hodin (1977)

    Šestapadesát neomluvených hodin

    01977HD

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    Šestapadesát neomluvených hodin
  • 1988
    Who's That Soldier?

    Who's That Soldier? (1988)

    Who's That Soldier?

    71988HD

    In the Czech film comedy from 1988, you can see for yourself that the war was not easy, but otherwise it was great fun. Sergeant Kouba serving with the paratroopers has a soft spot for women. His superior does not like him. However, during a military...

    Who's That Soldier?
  • 2015
    Christmas 'Killing Joke'

    Christmas 'Killing Joke' (2015)

    Christmas 'Killing Joke'

    5.72015HD

    As a mayor dreams of spreading holiday cheer with a new ski jump, the town's citizens experience wacky antics while searching for love in wild places....

    Christmas 'Killing Joke'
  • 1968
    Maratón

    Maratón (1968)

    Maratón

    5.41968HD

    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 prison to allow the prisoners to escape en masse. Many of them are shot dead by the German guards but young R...

    Maratón
  • 2009
    Grapes 2

    Grapes 2 (2009)

    Grapes 2

    5.12009HD

    The film follows Marie, Jirka and their wealthy parents, as well as murderer Jiří Tichý. The film takes place mostly in southern Moravia....

    Grapes 2
  • 1979
    No Magic from Tomorrow

    No Magic from Tomorrow (1979)

    No Magic from Tomorrow

    7.51979HD

    Mr. Tau, the quiet and kind magician with a bowler hat and an umbrella, shows up unexpectedly on the wings of a plane during flight. The terrified crew contact the airport security service. After the plane lands, Mr. Tau disappears. The third securit...

    No Magic from Tomorrow
  • 2003
    Kameňák

    Kameňák (2003)

    Kameňák

    3.92003HD

    Risque jokes acted out in short skits....

    Kameňák
  • 1977
    Almost King

    Almost King (1977)

    Almost King

    6.31977HD

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    Almost King