Movies by Václav Babka

About Show-White

About Show-White

Sixth-grade pupil Katka daydreams during a math class about being Snow White and being freed by a prince who looks very much like Dzery from the eighth grade. Katka, her girl friends Lenka and Martina, and her fellow-pupils Franta, Joska and freckled Vrabcák, have spent five years going to the same little one-class school in their home mountain village of Pastvina. Their kind teacher Smetácek was very understanding about their games and fantasies, but he didn't teach them much about arithmetic. They are now laughed at for their ignorance by ...

Rodeo

Rodeo

Proč nevěřit na zázraky

Proč nevěřit na zázraky

The Curious Letter

The Curious Letter

An adventurous letter that wandered around the world instead of rushing to a summer camp to see its little recipient.

Škaredá dědina

Škaredá dědina

Captain Korda

Captain Korda

A story of Pepik, an orphaned boy recently adopted by foster family.

Mlčení mužů

Mlčení mužů

Délka polibku devadesát

Délka polibku devadesát

Tvář za sklem

Tvář za sklem

The Explosion Will Be at Five

The Explosion Will Be at Five

This tale is about young Ludvik (Robert Nespor) an erstwhile, budding scientist whose practical sense leads him to experiment before his common sense has figured out the results. Due to that unfortunate pattern, he variously floods the bathroom while working on displacement of volume and weight in water, he shatters the harvest pumpkins but not the law of gravity, and now he is eyeing the neighbor's rabbits for an electricity experiment. While the rabbits remain safe for awhile, Ludvik's parents wish he would follow in their more traditional...

Javorová fujarka

Javorová fujarka

Nedělní dostaveníčko

Nedělní dostaveníčko

Dogs and People

Dogs and People

On a Wayward Princess

On a Wayward Princess

Princess Julia doesn't want to marry an old prince Hubert so she runs away from home. She meets two old magicians and join the circus, where she meets lovely Franta Kuldan and evil devil performer.

Zlatník Ondra

Zlatník Ondra

I Love, You Love

I Love, You Love

The drama called I Love, You Love was made in 1980 but because of the absurd ideological ban, the film entered cinemas nine years later. Pišta is an unmarried man who works at a freight wagon which carries letters and parcels. Alcohol helps him to overcome his handicap of being short and not good-looking. He wishes he had a woman, but the woman he really wants, ageing Viera who reloads the cargoes, has a soft spot for another man. So, Pišta has nobody and nothing, except for senile mother who sometimes fails to recognize him. The film receiv...