Movies: Lucernafilm

  • 1939
    Humoreska

    Humoreska (1939)

    Humoreska

    61939HD

    Dvořák's well-known composition reappears again and again in the serious moments of the lives of the father and son Hupeks - talented non-professional musicians for whom music gives them the opportunity to rise above difficulties and problems......

    Humoreska
  • 1939
    Fiery Summer

    Fiery Summer (1939)

    Fiery Summer

    51939HD

    This romantic story turns on a stirring infatuation that takes hold of three young people under the influence of Simon, a Prague student. After the study year, 18 year-old Julio returns to his parental home, a little chateau on the Otava river. There...

    Fiery Summer
  • 1937
    Mother-Hen

    Mother-Hen (1937)

    Mother-Hen

    6.51937HD

    A comedy about a caring protector of the family who had help, good advice and understanding for everyone. No one in the family calls Anna Svojanovská anything other than Kvočna - everyone is used to running under her protective wings as soon as any p...

    Mother-Hen
  • 1940
    Grandmother

    Grandmother (1940)

    Grandmother

    6.11940HD

    A highly romanticized autobiographical novel by a Czech 19th century writer, Bozena Nemcova. It's a classical, compulsory reading in Czech schools, about a wise, working-class woman, happier in her simplicity and good heart than the nobles whom she s...

    Grandmother
  • 1937
    Virginity

    Virginity (1937)

    Virginity

    5.31937HD

    The doomed love of a city girl caught in the vise of poverty is detailed in Vavra’s fluid, romantic work, one of the most elegant creations of the Czech Modernist era... The film lingers over its characters’ habitats and haunts, finding psychological...

    Virginity
  • 1943
    Čtrnáctý u stolu

    Čtrnáctý u stolu (1943)

    Čtrnáctý u stolu

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    Thirteen people have gathered at Mayor Bartoš's. The company is uneasy about this number and therefore warmly welcomes the fourteenth guest, who is the new librarian Pavel Čtrnáctý......

    Čtrnáctý u stolu
  • 1943
    Skill of Gold

    Skill of Gold (1943)

    Skill of Gold

    8.51943HD

    A village shop owner is convinced by his children to move to Prague, where they say he'll be able to enjoy a fine retirement in a modern furnished apartment. Bored by life in Prague with nothing to do, the old man takes to helping a young widow in he...

    Skill of Gold
  • 1938
    A Step into the Darkness

    A Step into the Darkness (1938)

    A Step into the Darkness

    5.51938HD

    A dashing but mysterious man saves a gambler from suicide, crashes the posh party of a prominent industrialist, falls in love with his daughter, and finds himself in a web of intrigue revolving around her blackmailing fiance and a gang of counterfeit...

    A Step into the Darkness
  • 1945
    Sobota

    Sobota (1945)

    Sobota

    61945HD

    A social comedy about a wealthy man in his prime, for whom marital infidelity is just a pleasant and regular sport. A young flower shop owner, to whom her husband seems to be generally ordinary and overworked, nevertheless manages to resist the advan...

    Sobota
  • 1938
    Slečna matinka

    Slečna matinka (1938)

    Slečna matinka

    7.71938HD

    The owner of a fashion factory, Rafael Klučina, is desperately looking for an imaginative advertising campaign that would attract the public and raise the profile of his business. However, the head of his advertising department, Filip Muška, seems un...

    Slečna matinka
  • 1943
    Happy Journey

    Happy Journey (1943)

    Happy Journey

    51943HD

    Filmed during the Nazi occupation, this panoramic drama set in a Prague department store follows the divergent destinies of four female coworkers, each of whom seeks happiness in a different way....

    Happy Journey
  • 1942
    Okouzlená

    Okouzlená (1942)

    Okouzlená

    51942HD

    In the garden of Hojtaš's estate, local dignitaries gather to watch a theatrical performance starring the author of the play, Dr. Pavel Chvojka, the landowner's granddaughter Olga, and Lenka, her ward. Lenka is intoxicated by the theater and Pavel, b...

    Okouzlená
  • 1940
    The Girl in Blue

    The Girl in Blue (1940)

    The Girl in Blue

    6.31940HD

    A painting of a girl from another time comes to life for it's buyer in this costume comedy....

    The Girl in Blue
  • 1942
    Muži nestárnou

    Muži nestárnou (1942)

    Muži nestárnou

    5.31942HD

    In 1911, Stáňa Járský was giving music lessons to little Jiřina Horníková and fell passionately in love with his pupil's mother. The evening before he left for his studies, Mrs. Helena succumbed to him. Nine years later, engineer Járský met the grown...

    Muži nestárnou
  • 1941
    Preludium

    Preludium (1941)

    Preludium

    71941HD

    Theater props maker Karel Vajgant has a young wife, Magda, and two children, seven-year-old Pavlík and eleven-year-old Pepička. Magda is a caring mother, but she feels that her husband prioritizes work and his comfort. In a weak moment, Magda becomes...

    Preludium
  • 1941
    Chalk and Cheese

    Chalk and Cheese (1941)

    Chalk and Cheese

    91941HD

    Rudolf Bartoš, the owner of a farm, quarry and factory, is extremely rich, however, he is unapproachable and irritable, and the dread of his employees. One day he falls down a steep slope by a river and hurts himself. The quarryman Fábera finds him g...

    Chalk and Cheese
  • 1939
    Eva Fools Around

    Eva Fools Around (1939)

    Eva Fools Around

    6.71939HD

    Eva's aunt is jealous of her neighbor's excellent roses and wants to know the secret. To help auntie out Eva applies for secretarial work at the neighbor's house in order to find out the formula. Things get complicated when it turns out that Eva's br...

    Eva Fools Around
  • 1943
    Tanečnice

    Tanečnice (1943)

    Tanečnice

    51943HD

    The bourgeois family does not forgive, from her point of view, inappropriate behavior - contempt overtakes both the girl who decides to dedicate her life to dancing and her sister, who takes in her child, passing it off as her own. The sinister lesso...

    Tanečnice
  • 1941
    Jan Cimbura

    Jan Cimbura (1941)

    Jan Cimbura

    81941HD

    Two good friends return from long-term military service: Jan Cimbura from Semic and Josef Piksa from Putim. Piksa farms on his own, Cimbura accepts service with the Hradiště farmer and mayor of Kovanda. The farmhand Cimbura is a real treasure for the...

    Jan Cimbura
  • 1938
    The World Where One Goes Begging

    The World Where One Goes Begging (1938)

    The World Where One Goes Begging

    01938HD

    The smooth narration, corresponding to the requirements of a light comedy, develops the smiling and optimistic story of the "one-armed" beggar Dostál, who earned enough money with his excellent begging skills to buy a nice house, become a respectable...

    The World Where One Goes Begging