Movies by Antonín Novotný

V tom domečku pod Emauzy

V tom domečku pod Emauzy

Elective Affinities

Elective Affinities

Documentary showing the Czechoslovakian political landscape in March 1968, when president Antonin Novotny, a hardline Stalinist, stepped down and moderate communist Ludvik Svoboda was elected. Five months later, in August 68, the Prague Spring would end with the military intervention of the Warsaw Pact.

Poslední muž

Poslední muž

The Catacombs

The Catacombs

The title refers to the office of records in the basement of a large company... sort of the place where a troublesome employee may be dumped in a dead end job. If fact, the story is a simple romantic comedy, with Burian as the kindly old stick-in-the-mud who helps the young man to sort out his romance with the daughter of the company's owner.

The White Yacht in Split

The White Yacht in Split

When the yacht of her former lover Mario Tudor arrives in Split, widowed Countess de Milesi, plagued by financial troubles, is hell-bent on selling him a fake copy of an expensive painting.

Manželství na úvěr

Manželství na úvěr

Vzdušné torpédo 48

Vzdušné torpédo 48

Ulice zpívá

Ulice zpívá

Naše XI.

Naše XI.

Příklady táhnou

Příklady táhnou

Fugue on the Black Keys

Fugue on the Black Keys

Fati Farari, a black man from Africa, is completing his studies in classical piano at the Music Academy of Prague. It's the day before his first solo concert, where he is going to play Bach. While he strolls around the city he is thinking, not so much about the concert as about himself, both as a lonely foreigner and as a human being in cosmos. Here and there he encounters some racist comments, but mostly he just feels the weight of social exclusion because of his otherness, especially when it comes to women. On the morning of the day for hi...

Sedmá velmoc

Sedmá velmoc

Ballad-Singer

Ballad-Singer

Lojzička

Lojzička

Veselá bída

Veselá bída