Zdeněk Svěrák Movies

Two short stories in which novice detective Sergeant Zahrádka is tasked with carrying out trivial orders, which he fails to do due to his...

The film follows Karel Novák, who is appointed as the head of a research institute's new department. His ambitious wife, Eva, sees this as an...

"A man is immortal as long as he lives in the memory of others,” said well-known Czech writer Arnošt Lustig with a wry smile. In...

Famed outlaw Lotrando sends his son to a strict Catholic boarding school to learn manners, but the boy becomes too polite to lead the band. When they...

When late in life was presenting Cimrman his artistic activity, came arresting knowledge: none of the works he had signed, not recognition. And so he...

Two guys buy a car and travel through the country until they meet a lonely girl on the road. They begin travelling together, having fun, enjoying...

Jára Cimrman in the whirlwind of the past forty years, as discovered, recorded, and brought to life by the theater.

A dramaturg is present during the writing of the screenplay, but does not write the film. A dramaturg is present on set, but does not direct the...

A scientist meets a nice girl and they start dating. He decides the only way to find out for sure if she’s the one is to take a long trip with...

Funny banter about love, sex, social status, and other ideals, while a new railway employee is trained and sent on his first run as driver.

The result of a clash between two intellectual forces: the artist's irrepressible creative instinct and the equally irrepressible instinct of the...

Cimrman's play about Czech expedition to north pole.

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

The fourteenth Cimrman play takes us to the heart of a continent almost untouched by civilization. Czech travelers encounter a strange tribe of...

In this movie, TV sets are full of life. If a person is in TV (e.g. because it was filmed on the street) it has a double that's right in the TV set....

The impetus for writing the play was a real event - the investigation of the loss of the class register at a boys' school in Vienna's 4th district....

This film is a documentary-style look at the life of the beloved Czech actor, Zdeněk Svěrák.