Movies by František Velecký

Sweet Games of Late Summer

Sweet Games of Late Summer

Impressionistic film based on a Maupassant story about five friends who fall in love with the same beautiful girl one summer.

Smrť chodí po horách

Smrť chodí po horách

Stopy na Sitne

Stopy na Sitne

The Water of Life

The Water of Life

A king was dying. An old man told his sons that only the water of life would save him.

Prince Bajaja

Prince Bajaja

The hero of this popular fairy tale is a young prince who, after the death of his parents, goes out into the world. During his travels he meets a magical talking horse and falls in love with the beautiful princess Slavna. On the advice of his horse, he binds one eye and pretends to be dumb and enters into service as the castle gardener.

Noc labutí

Noc labutí

Nylon Moon

Nylon Moon

Love

Love

Sixteen-year-old students of a grammar school are supposed to write essays on "Love". The class best student Andrea (Jaroslava Schallerová) writes about a patriotic love to a country as she has no experience with a partner love. She has been living alone with her divorced pretty mother Eva (Milena Dvorská), a dentist, for many years. Recently, however, Eva met her former school-days love at a graduates' party, nowadays a famous hockey goalkeeper Brukner (Frantisek Velecký). Also his marriage fell apart; he leaves the national team and decide...

Unruly Heyducks

Unruly Heyducks

This film, set at the beginning of the 17th century, is the first East-European "Eastern". Bocskai István orders the free Heyducks to shepherd a huge herd of cattle through the country torn to three parts, to the Dalmatian coast, where he can get weapons in exchange, for fighting the Austrians.

Every Week Seven Days

Every Week Seven Days

The film could have been a lyrical evocation of the ČSSR's first generation: the youngsters born during the war, who grew up in a state violently at pains to find and define itself, and were now ready to break away from the nation-builder ethics of their elders – but Grečner turned it into an anxiety-riddled existentialist vision of a whole globe in fear.