Movies by Zdeněk Štěpánek

The Invisible

The Invisible

Odměna

Odměna

Third Company

Third Company

Today for the Last Time

Today for the Last Time

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.

A Face in the Window

A Face in the Window

A movie built up of three stories about life in a small Slovak town. The Prosecutor: the district attorney is a jazz orchestra soloist at the same time and that is much disliked by the local provincial society. The Defender: is about a young doctor's relation to his patient, who is open about his reactionary opinions. The Judge: it is only after long years that the old judge realizes that his own marriage is in jeopardy.

Občan Brych

Občan Brych

The Adventurous Bachelor

The Adventurous Bachelor

Shown in Cannes 1946.

Národní umělec Zdeněk Štěpánek

Národní umělec Zdeněk Štěpánek

Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist

Pentos a Iola

Pentos a Iola

The White Disease

The White Disease

In a country whose people have just been successfully persuaded of their superiority and the justification for military expansion by the fiery speeches of a dictator, the bacillus of a highly destructive form of leprosy has spread. It is called morbus Tshengi, or popularly „white disease“. The only one who has developed an effective cure for it is a physician of the poor named Galén. But he refuses to reveal the secret of his cure as long as the powerful destroy human lives through wars.

Horoucí srdce

Horoucí srdce

Na zapřenou

Na zapřenou

The Secret of Blood

The Secret of Blood

The Magic House

The Magic House

When Vilem appears in the road with an unconscious young woman, it disturbs the peaceful life of three generations of the Balvínova family.

Román hloupého Honzy

Román hloupého Honzy

Sign of the Cancer

Sign of the Cancer

A murder in a hospital run by incompetents.

Mist on the Moors

Mist on the Moors

Mist on the Moors examines fates of just about a few people. Their stories are outlined in a short space of time and are a symbolic representation of the drama of life, struggle for justice, human cognizance and the healing power of love. One of the most important components of the film is the nature, which ceases to be a mere stage for its plot—it serves almost as an autonomous plot agent. The movie landscape is a precisely defined and localized one. Only the South Bohemian ponds can serve as the right environment for development of such ea...

Její hřích

Její hřích

Bez svatozáře

Bez svatozáře