Screenplay: Jan Otcenásek

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Jan Otcenásek. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Romeo, Juliet and Darkness

1960 · Movie · 92 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Jirí Weiss

Cast Ivan Mistrík · Daniela Smutná · Jirina Sejbalová · Frantisek Smolík

Plot Pavel, a young student living in Prague in 1942, hides a Jewish girl in his apartment building's attic. Amidst the brutality of the occupying German army, love blossoms between the...

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Lovers in the Year One

1974 · Movie · 95 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Jaroslav Balík

Cast Marta Vancurová · Viktor Preiss · Libuse Svormová · Petr Svojtka

Plot It is the summer of 1945. A party of young people are enjoying the beginning of a new life to the full. One of them, law student Pavel (Viktor Preiss),...

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Zlociny Velké Prahy (TV Series)

2020 · Series · 50 min. · Czech Republic

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Murder Czech Style

1968 · Movie · 90 min. · Czechoslovakia

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Shades of Fern

1984 · Movie · 90 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Frantisek Vlácil

Cast Marek Probosz · Zbigniew Suszynski · Miroslav Machácek · Frantisek Peterka

Plot Ruda and Václav are best friends, working together in a local quarry. While out poaching for deer one night, they are caught red-handed by the gamekeeper, and Ruda empties his...

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Lásky mezi kapkami deste

1980 · Movie · 126 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Karel Kachyna

Cast Vladimir Mensik · Lukás Vaculík · Michal Dlouhý · Jan Hrusínský

Plot Colourful picture of working-class Prague in the thirties focuses on the vain struggle of a small trader against shoe factory. From a stylistic point of view, this film is out...

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The American Letters (TV)

2015 · Movie · 101 min. · Czech Republic

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Jak se krade milión

1967 · Movie · 91 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Jaroslav Balík

Cast Rudolf Hrusínsky · Slávka Budínová · Libuse Svormová · Jarmik Kolarova

Plot The exemplary accountant Antonín Safránek lives his orderly life as a citizen of a small town. His wife Eliska brings up their three children and desperately tries to get by...

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