Movies: Filip Balek-Brodský

In early 20th century Czechoslovakia, a gravely ill chemist recalls his discovery of a powerful explosive and how it landed in the hands of anarchists....

A story of two story of two children tossed between their indifferent parents and a progressive boarding school....

A story about domestic life in a typical working-class environment. Life and trials and how little situations have big consequences....

Venice Film Festival 1941...

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Czech history movie....

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"Grandmother" is a highly romanticized autobiographical novel by a Czech 19th century writer, Bozena Nemcova. It's a classical, compulsory reading in Czech schools, about a wise, working-class woman, happier in her simplicity and good heart than the ...

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Comedy film directed by Karel Lamač....

A Milk-Cannery baron, Jakub Simonides, is broken by the Canned Milk-Trust and, in his wanderings with a worker, Filip Kornet, he discovers he still owns a half-finished apartment-house. They rally the workers and complete the building for use as a co...

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The illegitimate child, Marie Růžová, grows up in the family of the Bořický miller. Childhood and youth spend with the son of Bořice, Klement. Klement asserts the rights, becomes a lawyer, and marries Jirina. In order not to cause further contradicti...

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Venice Film Festival 1939...