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- The series Prague Underworld relies on understatement to colorfully depict the history of Czech criminology. Each episode is a precise miniature portrait, full of tragicomic figures: petty criminals and thieves, prostitutes, con men and even major criminals. Using 1930's society and a touch of nostalgia as a backdrop, the series shows the varied atmosphere of a world long forgotten: technology seemed to be at its peak, limousines were ever more elegant, political life ever more confused and women ever more seductive. The protagonists of the series are old-fashioned detectives in bowler hats: Messrs. Bruzek, Bouse and Soucek. Their universally admired boss, respected Police Commissioner Vacátko, has recently died, and the new commissioner brings different times. Only the sins of the Prague's underworld remain basically the same.
- This television series takes place during the first Czechoslovak Republic (1918 1939).
- The heroes and heroines of the famous 1970s tv series are back, let us see how life has treated them. The present story is based on the passing of time and the natural aging of the characters, the changed political and social conditions in the Czech Republic. The children born in the first two series have grown up. The main characters take stock of their lives, come to terms with the generation problem, with latent racism, with crises brought about by new phenomena of the post-communist economy. The members of the young generation seek their right partners in love and their right niches in life.
- The further sequel to the legendary serial takes us right up to the present. At the 50th anniversary of the regional hospital in Bor we enjoy a reunion with all the characters who are still working at the hospital, we will be intrigued to see how the old hospital traditions are being taken up - or not being taken up - by their children, and we meet new characters who will bring new turns to the story.
- The Land Gone Wild is a television serial composed of forty-five episodes in four series shot in 1997, 2001, 2008 and 2012, based on Jirí Stránský's novels Zdivocelá zeme (The Land Gone Wild) and Aukce (Auction). Combining the retrospective with the adventure genres, it covers the period from the first weeks after the end of World War II till the 1990s, and through the story of its fictitious protagonist - war-time RAF pilot Antonín Madera - describes the real developments in post-war Czechoslovakia.
- Follow the pioneers of criminalistics across four centuries, be a witness to groundbreaking discoveries that forever changed the world of crime-fighting. From fingerprints to forensic ballistics, from Vidocq to Pinkerton.
- In the series Life at the Mansion we get a peak at a very contemporary, very Czech family with all its typical daily pleasures and problems. The father is a dentist, the mother a grammar school teacher, the son and daughter are students, and their good-looking grandmother is still full of energy. The situations are often comical but the family experiences both love and strife as well, reflecting the joys and sorrows of any typical family like everyone else they win a few and lose a few.
- A series of detective stories where realistic old mysteries are linked with contemporary criminal cases. Our guides through all the parts are the author, who is fascinated by the unsolved mysteries of the past, and a student who has extra-sensory abilities. And of course the Guardian of Souls.
- The series entitled Capek's Pockets represents a novel and unique student project in which talented young directors and experienced scriptwriters came together to produced their rendering of Tales from One Pocket and Tales from the Other Pocket by the outstanding Czech writer Karel Capek. Rather than experimenting with the model, its authors sought to "put new life" into the classical piece of literature, and commemorate Capek's great mastery as a writer and thinker. The tales with crime plots of a humorous slant are situated in the 1920s and 1930s, and their protagonists are not big criminals but petty thieves or little crooks. And the detective is an ordinary man, too. The main focus is always on capturing the diversity of personality types - people whom their life situation forces to deal with things the way they do.
- Motto: "Everybody has a reason sometimes not to tell the truth". Each of the protagonists of the thirteen episodes of the Innocent Lies series has personal reasons not to tell the truth. And each time we understand them, and what's more - we believe them. Because it's us who's in their shoes. But supposing a small, intimate and seemingly innocent lie swells up, assumes unforeseeable dimensions, and seizes the opportunity for turning our life inside out? Though telling the personal stories of individuals, the episodes concern topical social phenomena, such as new family patterns, the power of the media, economic crisis or false accusation of sexual abuse.
- Two farms with marvelous thoroughbreds - and two families, competing with each other. Only one can win ... A series in thirteen parts, capturing the environment of horse breeding and racing. After the death of her husband, Dasha Horová has to fight for her Sunny Mountain farm against Marcel Kalina, owner of the St Hubert farm, who wants the two farms to merge into one. She is being helped by her stepson David, who has come to Sunny Mountain to hide from debt collectors, and her own son Luke, fresh veterinary college graduate. They and other people around them are grappling with problems small and great, united by the bond of love for horses.
- Continuation of the series about the emergency medical service which was highly popular in the 1980s, featuring some of the original characters - for instance doctor Jandera, his great love Eliska, and brother Jarda with his girlfriend Alzbeta. They are just "somewhat" older, and have plenty of personal and working experience which they are more or less managing to put to use. And there are other, completely new figures appearing in the thirteen episodes about the emergency services of today. The task the paramedics fulfill is the same as years ago, but what has changed are the times, the people and their relationships, bringing many surprising situations full of suspense.
- Detective stories full of suspense and disguises, peppered with humor The central characters of the plots of all the five episodes are the retired lawyer Kveta Kalendová and her twenty-seven-year old grandson Kamil, officer of the criminal police. Kamil is bedeviled by bad luck and as a result constantly in danger of being dismissed from the police ranks. And each time it is his grandmother who helps him to track down the villain and thus keep his job ... at least till the beginning of the next episode. Grandmother Kalendová is an amateur actress and therefore has access to all sorts of costumes, which she uses as a disguise when sneaking unnoticed into the environment in which the respective crime was perpetrated.
- Danny, a high-school student, is the hero of this series set in the early forties. Everyone in his small Czech town thinks he's girl crazy, but he knows it isn't so. Danny plays the tenor saxophone in the student jazz orchestra, but as this is the period of the German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, jazz is forbidden. He doesn't give up, but fights for his dreams with youthful vitality and the irony one turns to when dealing with fate and hard times. In each of the independent episodes he asks himself 'Will I find love this time?'
- The serial in thirteen parts about the life and time of judge A.K. tells an up-to-date, realistic and internally dramatic story of a young man struggling his way through the maze of civil law disputes typical of the present-day society. He has to try and understand each of the parties, and pronounce a judgment in keeping with his idea of justice. And he also must bear never-ending responsibility for the way his verdict impacts the painful spots in the parties' lives. Judge Adam Klos strives to understand not only the cases he deals with, but himself as well.
- The story of this serial is set in contemporary days and tells about the lives of a group of high-school students in their final year, their parents and teachers. The young people are on the threshold of life, and life does mostly not consist of fun and games. Life can be difficult and unfair and young people have to learn to accept its gifts and its minor and major losses; finally they come to terms with it all, each in his or her own way.
- A gripping story that develops in the setting of the real-life natural disaster that took place along the shores of the Indian Ocean in December 2004. The all-destructive Tsunami wave hit the very lives of hundreds of thousands. Amongst them were two lifelong friends, Adam and Robert. Adam had come to these parts to spend a holiday with his young wife; Robert the eternal bird of passage had cut short his roving lifestyle to settle here in a Hispanic colony. The two men are overjoyed to meet again, they have many years to catch up on. Then the great Tsunami came crashing onto these peaceful shores and the gigantic ocean waves flooded all around them. Only one of the two men survived. As he regains consciousness at hospital, at first he remembers nothing at all and he doesn't even know who he is.
- This series of six stories is a loose continuation of the series Town Square and Village Green and we return to some of their characters to follow the next phase in their lives. The stories mainly pivot round family relationships, and children in particular - after all, children are our future. We bring them up and look after them - but how well and for how long? We adore them - but how long? And sometimes we lose touch altogether.
- The series of individual stories about the ordinary and extra-ordinary joys and sorrows of everyday living in a small Czech town is a riveting mosaic of destinies linked through the setting of the Town Square and two characteristic personalities the lady in the newspaper booth and a former inspector.
- The main hero of this series set in present times is Honza Boudny, a detective. He was injured in a shoot-out during a police action, with the result that he is bound to a wheelchair for life. But for the resolute young man this does not mean the end. While still at the rehabilitation center in Kladruby, his friend and colleague Lada comes to him asking for help with a case that has its roots here at this institution. After his release from the center Honza decides to become a taxi driver. In a large city like Prague there is no lack of customers nor of mysterious and criminal cases in which a taxi driver gets involved all too easily. And then of course he helps his former colleagues to resolve them.
- Princess Verunka's marriage is to save the kingdom, impoverished as a result of its ruler's crazy ideas. She's not hard up for suitors: there's a talented poet, twins - one a general, the other a composer - as well as a mysterious marquis wielding the magic of his mother Morana, the Queen of Death. Could Ondra, an ordinary youth, desiring to become a rafts man on wild waters, stand a chance in competing with them? At first the game is about Verunka's hand in marriage, but later on the lives of all the kingdom's inhabitants are at stake. This time the path to a happy end will have many curves and turns. But there's also a small wreath floating on the river surface, and carrying a message of love, plus the king's latest invention - so that the end may be happy after all...
- A loose series of thrillers with criminal plot, each narrated from the viewpoint of one of the main characters. There is no central character of a detective, and in many cases even the police do not intervene. The key figures are two inconspicuous funeral service employees a sort of memento mori ...
- The story of a group of thirty-somethings who are too old for juvenile games and seemingly too young to enter the adult world.After her divorce, Bára Dusková must work and take care of her kids alone. Ten-year-old Ondrás has little affection for P.E. or, for that matter, any other activity involving movement, and his older sister Marcelka is in the throes of adolescent insolence. So Bára decides that the kids need to get involved in sports.
- University student Jarda is still suffering his mummy's incessant, strict and loving care. One day the boy's cup of patience with his domineering mother overflows, he drops out of his studies, leaves home and finds a job at the post office. But mother finds him of course and is about to insist on her own way as usual. Jarda is unexpectedly helped out by the ghost of Mr. Kercl, a thief who had the bad luck to lose his life while trying to rob Jarda's mail-bag. Mr. Kercl's ghost helps Jarda several more times, but in exchange Jarda is to help him achieve definite entry into the land of the dead. But it is no simple matter to set right earthly sins and deserve eternal peace, and so they must both try really hard.
- We need not always understand the dreams of our loved ones, but we should understand that we all have our dreams. That could be the motto for this serial set in a present-day village, a story about a farmer named Hrabe (Count) and his four daughters. His life-long striving have all gone into the blossoming of the family farm. He has the best possible conditions; arable land, machinery, experience, and mainly - a wife and four adult daughters. Except that their ideals differ greatly to those of their father. When Hrabe buys more land, to further enlarge the farm, the family rebels and his daughters start realizing their own dreams.