Movies by Karel Höger
Doktorská pohádka
Otevřený kruh
Pan Jordán a Habada
Nástup
"The Rally" is based on a communist writer Vaclav Řezáč's well-written novel of the same name
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.
Poutník Václav Vydra
Fortress on the Rhine
During the Second World War, an old fortress is transformed into a detention camp for arrested allied generals who the Germans provide with every possible comfort. In the nearby garrison camp, however, hundreds of captured private soldiers try to survive hunger and cold.
Občan Brych
Národní umělec Zdeněk Štěpánek
Jak pejsek s kočičkou myli podlahu
Kam s ním?
I, Justice
At the year 1946, the time of the Nuremberg Process. One of the main actors of the Second World War, who reportedly committed suicide, Adolf Hitler is, however, missing. The Czech doctor Herman (Karel Höger) is kidnapped from Prague and driven to the sanatorium of Professor Rolf Harting (Jirí Vrstála). The sanatorium is a disguised military stronghold, most probably occupied by a Nazi garrison, with prison cells and an execution chamber in the basement. At night, Herman is taken to a patient in whom he, to his horror, recognizes Hitler (Frit...
August Sunday
This lyrical comedy story takes place in two hot days in the small South Bohemian village. On the shore of a small pond, summer guests and local youth meet. As is typical of the works of Hrubín, it is a conflict of youth and age, life and death, represented by the medical student Zuzana and her beloved Jirka.
From My Life
Venice Film Festival 1955
Pochodně
Jarní povětří
Red tulips
Lekce
Jurášek