Movies by Čestmír Řanda

Wine Working

Wine Working

It is the summer of 1968 and also in South Moravian Pálavice appear political clashes. The so far peacefully farming Unified farmers' cooperative starts splitting. Some of the farmers have found the cooperative called Vidrupa and want to deal with wine in private trade. Michal Janák, chairman of the farmers' cooperative is a deliberate man and refuses the latent return to the capitalism. As an excellent farmer he continues preparing planting out new vineyards. His adversaries do not agree - the returns will come many years later. Jozka Hrdli...

Pan Selichar se osvobodil

Pan Selichar se osvobodil

Tři muži se žralokem

Tři muži se žralokem

Kosmas a paní Božetěcha

Kosmas a paní Božetěcha

The White Lady

The White Lady

This castle has its own ghost - a mysterious White lady. She emerges from the painting on the wall when someone speaks out magic formula. White lady is good ghost, she can make someone's wishes true. Even if it is a new duct. But a miracle is not the thing that Communist leaders want in the town.

Přehlídce velím já!

Přehlídce velím já!

Oil Gobblers

Oil Gobblers

A zoologist and a biochemist go out into an oilfield with a cameraman and filmmaker to observe and study the elusive oil gobblers.

Bratránek z Batávie

Bratránek z Batávie

Prodaná nevěsta

Prodaná nevěsta

Ženitba

Ženitba

Můj nezdolný lev

Můj nezdolný lev

Lidé z maringotek

Lidé z maringotek

The Nun's Night

The Nun's Night

A dark fable set in an early 1950s Czech village, a time of Soviet-style socialism which saw the implementation of collectivized agriculture and the mass closure of monasteries and convents.

Přísně tajné premiéry

Přísně tajné premiéry

The Seven Ravens

The Seven Ravens

Vychovatel

Vychovatel

The Divine Emma

The Divine Emma

The opera lady singer Ema Destinnová is in all her splendor at the American stages. But in Europe there rages war and she decides to return home to Bohemia.

Maurův odkaz

Maurův odkaz

Hotel Pacific

Hotel Pacific

Set in the early 1930s, a young man finds a job as a dishwasher in a hotel and quickly works his way up the ladder. Loosely based on the novel by Henryk Worcell.

Den končí ráno

Den končí ráno