The best Vlastimil Brodský’s drama movies

Vlastimil Brodský

Vlastimil Brodský

15/12/1920- 20/04/2002
Today we present the best Vlastimil Brodský’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Vlastimil Brodský’s movies.
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Closely Watched Trains

Closely Watched Trains
7.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaWar
  • Release: 18/11/1966
  • Character: Counselor Zednicek
In a small town still occupied by the Germans as World War II's tide is turning toward the Allies, apprentice train-watcher Milos is oblivious to the war. Instead, he is obsessed with having his first sexual experience. Despite the favors of train conductor Masa, Milos has no luck. His quest leads him to a female Resistance fighter who, in passing, recruits him to the cause. As Milos finally finds love, danger draws closer.

Larks on a String

Larks on a String
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 31/12/1969
  • Character: Professor
Set in the late 1940s, the film concerns the treatment of suspect "bourgeois elements", a professor, a saxophonist, and a milkman, who are put to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation.

Today for the Last Time

Today for the Last Time
8.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/12/1958
  • Character: Old man
Concert master Karel Mašek is a drunk, as well as engineer Danda and other regular guests of the pub U Kroců. Mašek returns from the pub in the morning and promises the woman that he will stop drinking. But he failed again, and the orchestra players refuse to play with him. Danda returns home without a bag and goes to Krocs again in the morning, even though he has an important job at work. He has been degraded to subordinate job position, but he refused to admit it at home.

Jan Žižka

Jan Žižka
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaHistoryWar
  • Release: 05/02/1956
  • Character: Jochlík - Denunciator
The second part of the revolutionary Hussite trilogy takes place in the years 1419-1420.

Three Wishes

Three Wishes
7.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 21/06/1963
  • Character: Karel

All My Good Countrymen

All My Good Countrymen
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 16/05/1969
  • Character: Očenáš
The title "All My Good Countrymen" is not without irony as this epic tale of Czech village life from shortly after the end of the Second World War concentrates on the activities of a group of friends who are not beyond reproach in siding with a politically corrupt regime for material advancement. Are these the "good countrymen" of the title or does it refer to the rest of the village who scorn these petty authority figure with silent contempt?

Jan Hus

Jan Hus
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 29/04/1955
  • Character: mladík v Týnu
Jan Hus is a 1954 Czechoslovak film directed by Otakar Vávra. It is the first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", one of the most famous works of the Czechoslovak director, completed with Jan Žižka (1955) and Proti všem (Against All Odds, 1957).

Counting Sheep

Counting Sheep
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaFamily
  • Release: 16/08/1981
  • Character: Head physician Klofác
A story about young girl Hanka who doesn't have parents and is forced to spend most of her time in a hospital bed.

Dog's Heads

Dog's Heads
6.2/10
Dog's Heads (Czech: Psohlavci) is a 1955 Czech drama film directed by Martin Frič, based on the novel of the same name by Alois Jirásek. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival.

Transport from Paradise

Transport from Paradise
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 25/10/1963
  • Character: Mukl
Czechoslovakian Zbynek Brynych directs this psychological drama set in World War II Terezin ghetto. A dark, visual portrayal of the trials and tribulations the Theresienstadt people faced on a daily basis presented in a series of memorable stories. Their hopes and dreams unfold against the perpetual threat of deportation (or worse) by the Nazis. Based on the novel "Night and Hope" by Arnost Lustig.

Courage for Every Day

Courage for Every Day
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1964
  • Character: Reporter
A passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure of his peers to live up to his ideals.

Desire

Desire
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/12/1958
  • Character: Shoemaker Novosad (segment "Andela")
A poignant overview of how short life can be, this interesting drama from Czech director Vojetch Jasny is divided into four separate segments. In the first skit, a young child's impressions are observed as his newborn baby sister becomes a part of the family. In the second, a young woman falls in love for the first time one summer, and in the third, a tough, older peasant woman battles against the farming cooperatives. Finally, in the last segment, everything comes full circle as a woman who is about to become a grandmother dies while her daughter-in-law has not yet given birth.

Return to Paradise Lost

Return to Paradise Lost
4.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/05/1999
  • Character: Ocenás

Five Men and One Heart

Five Men and One Heart
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 24/12/1971
  • Character: Dr. Hýbl
In modern hospitals are carried out intensive cardiac surgery. Daily operations individually comments attendant Cajthaml ... Stylized ,, dream "scene are combined with documentary footage of actual operations, which were filmed at the University Hospital in Hradec Králové. The unique cinematic experiment theater and TV director after only a few years remind viewers.

Jacob the Liar

Jacob the Liar
7.1/10
A Jewish ghetto in the east of Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making slow by steady progress towards central Europe. In order to keep his companion in misfortune, Mischa, from risking his life for a few potatoes, he tells him what he heard and announces that he is in possession of a radio - in the ghetto a crime punishable by death. It doesn't take long for word of Jakob's secret to spread - suddenly, there is new hope and something to live for - and so Jakob finds himself in the uncomforting position of having to come up with more and more stories.

Autumn Spring

Autumn Spring
7.4/10
A bittersweet comedy starring the great Vlastimil Brodský as Fanda, an old man who refuses to grow up. Despite pleas from his exasperated wife who wants him to make serious decisions about the future, Fanda ignores the nagging and spends his days seeking amusement and adventure.

I Survived Certain Death

I Survived Certain Death
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 18/11/1960
  • Character: lékař
Telling the prisoners of a death camp. Boxer Tony Majer, who got into a concentration camp for a fight with the Gestapo, remembers the murderous work in quarries, on the cruel torture of the Nazis and prison solidarity that helped him survive.

The Secret of Blood

The Secret of Blood
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 25/12/1953
  • Character: Dr. Kozdera

Chance

Chance
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/06/1971

Rudá záře nad Kladnem

Rudá záře nad Kladnem
2.5/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 24/02/1956
  • Character: Holecek

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