Movies and TvShows featuring "czech-crime-literature-on-screen" theme.
Set in Prague, during World War II, the film follows the life of a crematorium manager named Karl, who becomes increasingly delusional and embraces his Nazi collaborationist beliefs. As he descends into madness, the line between reality and imagination blurs, leading to a series of surreal and darkly comedic events.
This time the detectives deal with the case of a murdered professor. One day a cleaning woman finds him shot to death in his own study. The detectives will thus investigate whether the murder is connected with the victim's persistent effort for the removal of the University's quaestor because of the latter's strange machinations during the reconstruction of the University building. And they'll also want to know why the murderer took the great risk involved in killing the victim on the university soil. The search for the answer to the question who could wish the death of the peculiar but honest professor will take them farther than they have expected.
An escort composed of three people transports a huge amount of new one-hundred crown banknotes in a special railway car. At the 196th kilometer, a village girl is waiting at the railway crossing and spots two men removing some packages from the track. The scene is immediately followed by the report of a gun and the unwanted witness is shot dead. Soon afterwards, on the 201st kilometer, the train explodes. Only one of the escorts Lenk (Radoslav Brzobohatý) survives the explosion, taken to hospital with serious injuries. Criminologist Major Kalas (Jirí Sovák) and the very young Second Lieutenant Karlícek (Jaromír Hanzlík) patiently gather facts, leads and testimonies.
In this 1957 movie, a mysterious man gets involved in a secret mission as a Soviet spy. He poses as a psychiatrist and faces various challenges as he navigates the world of espionage. Set in Europe, this film is an adaptation of Czech crime literature and showcases the intricacies of the spy world.
A remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit.
In Dissolved and Effused, a rich man goes missing, leading to a murder investigation. As the story unfolds, it is revealed that his rival businessman may be involved. The investigation takes a humorous turn, with plenty of parody and double entendre. The plot also explores themes of wealth, rivalry, and the manipulative nature of some individuals. The story includes scenes set in a duck farm, a psychiatric hospital, and a bathtub.
It is the 1930s. Physician Bartos devotedly attends poor patients in the city suburbs, at the same time researching the possibilities of regeneration of human tissues after transplantation. His former colleague Rosen, now working as an assistant at the private clinic of surgeon Kirchenbruch, considers the research a mere utopia. The disappointed Bartos, trying to verify his theories, therefore accepts the outrageous proposal of Marion, owner of a brothel - to surgically replace the face of her lover, the wanted thief Cutter, with the face of murdered Father Hopsasa. Bartos is well paid but his successful operation remains a secret.
A writer of pulp crime novels is drawn into a series of real crimes. This film was one of the first Czech attempts on a genre parody.
In Vražda v hotelu Excelsior, the interwar period homicide detective squad from Prague investigates the murder of a wealthy woman, Mrs Matoušová, which threatens the reputation of the eponymous luxury hotel popular with Prague’s elite. Even the retired police inspector Mrázek (František Filipovský), who works at the Excelsior as a hotel detective, is unable to help at first. Although the investigation inevitably uncovers the hotel staff’s scheming, Vacátko and his team unerringly follow the trail that leads them to the murderer…