Karel Čapek Movies

A young woman visits the island factory of Rossum's Universal Robots to emancipate the robots from capitalist exploitation, with catastrophic results.

An anthology of three absurd, ironic tales inspired by Čapek’s “Tales from One Pocket” and “Fables and Side...

The Dung Beetle is late, the Parasite is asleep and Mrs Larva is more interested in her knitting than the director’s instructions. It’s...

A remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit. Engineer Prokop creates the devastating explosive “Krakatit” and soon...

Commissioner Bartošek is visited by Dr. Goldberg, who reports the disappearance of his friend, the famous actor Benda. From the flimsy...

The unfortunate 1930s also befell the student Standa Půlpán. For existential reasons, he had to abandon his studies and entered the...

The film is based on a story by the renowned Czech writer Karel Čapek, which the filmmakers adapted to the everyday life of the region of...

Five crime stories connected by the narration of police superintendent Bartosek.

Who would have thought that the magician Magiáš would need a doctor! But when it came to it and Magiáš lost his voice,...

In a country whose people have just been successfully persuaded of their superiority and the justification for military expansion by the fiery...

Two short stories by Karel Čintamani a ptáci An avid collector of carpets, MUDr. Vitásek discovers a unique piece in Mrs....

This biographical film examines the multitalented personality of Karel Čapek and the context behind the creation of his works such as Krakatit,...

What makes us human? What do robots bring to us? Seiji Nozoe directs this masterpiece by the Czech national author and playwright Karel Capek. This...