Jan Oliva Movies

Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the...

A comedy concerning a down on his luck bookshop owner with a penchant for women who decides to make some money by pretending to be a waiter and...

A man boards on a tram together with a naked boy. Somebody has stolen the boy's clothes when he was out bathing, leaving him with not even change for...

A gifted poet checks into a Gothic hotel in hopes of meeting the woman with whom he has long been enamored. He is surrounded by a variety of offbeat...

A twelve-year-old is looking for his biological parents after discovering the fact that he was adopted.

This film, chronicling the last days of Czech resistance fighter Maruska Kuderikova (played by Magda Vasaryova), is based on her diaries. Though she...

In the forest near the village of Drahovice, a nurse from the local health center is found murdered. Three months ago, another young woman died...

The late summer of 1918. Paul, Willi and Heinrich from an age-old German town are good friends, although there is a great deal that divides them....

A model Communist village is visited by a flying saucer.

A passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure of his peers to live up to his ideals.

Michal's father and his friends are stigmatized by their war experience and the post-war social deformations in which they took part either directly,...

The harsh reality of a home for abandoned children blends with episodes of youthful fantasy and slapstick comedy in this story of an orphan girl....