Jiří Šafář Trailers
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Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, a Sailor from York TrailerThe King and the Goblin TrailerMaster Hanus Trailer
Total trailers found: 48
16 May 1958
Jean-Paul is a Frenchman who yearns to live in communist Czechoslovakia. His wish is granted when, mistaken as a masseur of a French boating team, he manages to elude the democratic authorities long enough to scamper over the Czech border.
01 January 1977
An adaptation of the 1764 work of the same name, the first Gothic novel. In this mockumentary, the amateur archaeologist Dr.
01 October 1982
The picture, unlike the other film adaptations of the story, focuses much more on Crusoe’s life before and after his stay on the island.
01 January 1977
A film story based on the old Prague legends. It tells about a poor student lured by wealth, which he prefers to knowledge.
19 March 1965
Taken from Boccaccio's Decameron, this lovely puppet film tells the bawdy story of the beautiful young Venetian lady who confesses her sinful passion for the Archangel Gabriel to a lustful monk, who promptly impersonates him in her bedroom with predictable results.
21 April 1977
One of the film stories based on the old Prague legends. This one is about the old master clock maker Hanus who construed the Prague Old Town astronomical clock.
01 January 1968
An animated lecture that totally overthrows the idea of the tender character of women and violent character of men.
01 January 1980
Wealthy but alone, a king spends his days obsessively polishing shiny objects throughout his opulent castle.
11 February 1966
A modern fairy-tale about Otýlie, a girl who each time she writes something gets all dirty from the ink.
26 October 1965
A happy little potter is approached by a huge hand which wants him to sculpt its statue. The potter refuses, wanting nothing more than to be left alone with his only friend, a potted plant.
01 January 1967
A humorous modern fairy-tale about boys who woke up a mammoth in a school biology room and experienced a lot of adventures with it.
01 January 1967
Episodic slapstick comedy about package deliveries and a lady who likes to steal letters and make paper planes out of them.
29 April 1955
The first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", completed with Jan Žižka (1955) and Proti všem (Against All Odds, 1957).
01 January 1976
A sarcastic horror parody of comic book series from the 1930s.
24 October 1952
A group of union members, impressed by the First World Festival of Democratic Youth, held in Prague in 1947, decide to found a dance troupe.
01 January 1974
A cocky man plays skittles and tries different methods to throw the ball. But then he goes berserk when he starts losing.
01 September 1966
Two puppets, Punch and Judy, do battle to the death over the custody of a live guinea pig.
09 January 1959
An anthology of three absurd, ironic tales inspired by Čapek’s “Tales from One Pocket” and “Fables and Side Stories,” each showing uncanny forces disrupting ordinary lives: in Krejčík’s “Glorie,” a gentle clerk is haunted by a sudden halo; the other two segments by Mach and Makovec similarly blend everyday routines with ironic, supernatural twists.
27 August 1948
A young doctor and a group of injured are hiding in an underground shelter and are liberated by Soviet soldiers.
10 March 1960
Miroslav Hornicek is a deluded young man who is convinced he is Faust incarnate. This turn of mind leads to some ludicrous situations, such as when he believes a woman is really a cat.
01 January 1968
A puppet story about a lighthouse keeper who saves a paper boat while a real ship is sinking nearby.
10 May 1957
In the middle of the eighteenth century, at the time of the Prusso-Austrian War, a cuirassier, a hussar and an infantryman meet by chance and hide together in a secluded place.
15 June 1967
A small, animated figure learns how to use a whip, a pair of wings and a house.
15 February 1963
Trnka’s sci-fi vision of the future in which machines and robots try to substitute themselves into the most beautiful human relationships.
01 January 1969
Night after night, Bodřík dutifully protects his master's humble farm and livestock from prowling wolves.
01 June 1956
Jaroslav Hašek screens four film stories in the fairground shed around 1900. After period advertising slides and a "newspaper", we see "the first part of a sensational, exemplary, parfuss, salon program - a film from the life of school-age children, shot under very difficult circumstances".
27 June 1958
A detective comedy about ex-cashiers who - except for one - have improved and lead a proper and peaceful life and mostly desperately resist the slightest reminder of their past.
23 November 1956
The year is 1941 and the German Nazis rule Bohemia with a free hand. Engineer Otakar Racek is an extremely cautious man who tries to avoid problems at all costs.
01 January 1972
Animated drawings inspired by Leonardo da Vinci are intercut with seemingly unrelated (but in fact strangely similar) live-action scenes.
01 January 1961
The passion for high speed can nowadays almost be seen in the new-born. The film shows that such passion, if not controlled, is self-destructing and even suicidal.
18 June 1954
In a South Bohemian village in 1951, the local rich organize acts of sabotage and try to stop the establishment of an agricultural cooperative with threatening letters and arson.
01 May 1970
A gang of gas-using murderers are on the loose. Can our badminton-playing hero save the day?
19 January 1951
The North Bohemian town of Chudoplesy in the middle of the 19th century: the only local industry is the domestic production of reed goods.
01 April 1966
A satiric film that through a lecture of a cracked brain pedant describes the increasing disobedience of children.
03 July 1953
Two poor students, Strnad and Křepelka, console themselves with the fact that Křepelka is to inherit, but it later turns out that the inheritance is only an old hat.
19 August 1976
After trying to prepare dinner without any luck, the only meal left is an egg. But the egg suddenly begins to live.