Jiří Ornest Movies

A film in five episodes, all based on an attempt to show the life of young people today, their feelings and relationships, their behaviour in public...

On the 16th of January 2009, it will be 40 years from the self-burning of Jan Palach. He committed this act in protest against the progressing...

Webs of Prague's post-war underworld.

An 11-year-old boy is the only survivor of a tragic car accident in which both parents are killed. It's not until he meets a travelling student...

Based on an autobiographical novella by Ivan Olbracht, the film tells the story of Hanele Safarová, who grows up just after the First World...

A famous actress arrives at her brother's estate with her son and boyfriend, a writer. There they meet young Nina, who flies through their lives like...

A romantic story about Jakub, a student in the summer camp, and his teacher Klara.

Technical school student Pavel Brychta, arrives at a youth correctional facility located within a chateau in Konečno. He is an atypical, but not...

When a band of robbers menaces the realm, the Duke of the Winter Castle sends his enchanted, crystal-tipped sword to his friend Matěj the...

In the era of normalisation, a number of (pseudo)historical films were made, even described as reconstructions, which glorified the world-building...

In 1930s Ukraine, the desecration of a sacred bath disrupts the sex lives of Jewish villagers.

A dramatic story from the setting of a youth de tention center. Youngster Jakub, out of delusory solidarity, gets convicted of theft and goes to...

The 19-year-old volleyball player has been bedridden for a long time due to a spinal injury. The self-confident and energetic girl has time to recap...

A man decides to take the madness of the world around him as inspiration.

Three short stories ("Zelenáči 1945", "Silvestr 1948" and "Zimní vítr 1951") about members of the SNB units guarding the...

A story inspired by true events, the fate of a multiple juvenile murderer, takes place in an apprentice boarding school. "A series of sexual murders!...