Known for Directing
Born
March 10, 1962 (age 64)
Filmography
26 films, 1 show


The Face of Horror
2026 · 2h
country: United States
In medieval England, the beautiful Eleanor pines away for her errant husband, the handsome but adulterous knight Edward. When Edward’s treachery culminates in a tragedy that robs Eleanor first of her beauty and then of her life, she returns as a ghost to eke bloody revenge on Edward and his new bride.


The Hungarian Dressmaker
2024 · 2h 9m
country: Czech Republic
Ema & Death’s-Head deals with the precarious border between humanism and the protection of one’s own life in situations when one excludes the other. Marika Sándorfi is hiding a Jewish boy during the dramatic era of the First Slovak State on the Slovak-Hungarian border. Šimon Holan, the boy in hiding, has a special ability to survive thanks to dreaming and a child’s fantasy.


The Promised Land
2023 · 2h 7m
country: Denmark
Denmark, 1755. Captain Ludvig Kahlen sets out to conquer a Danish heath reputed to be uncultivable, with an impossible goal: to establish a colony in the name of the king, in exchange for a royal title. A single-minded ambition that the ruthless lord of the region will relentlessly seek to put down. Kahlen's fate hangs in the balance: will his endevours bring him wealth and honour, or cost him his life...?


The Don Juans
2013 · 1h 42m
country: Czech Republic
An opera troupe in a small town decides to perform Mozart's Don Giovanni. The view behind the scenes uncovers the world of opera without the glitter. A tale of love and disappointment, about music and passionate love-making and about people that live their lives in spite of the opera.


The Darkest Hour
2011 · 1h 29m
country: United States
In Moscow, five young people lead the charge against an alien race which has attacked Earth via our power supply.


Habermann
2010 · 1h 44m
country: Austria
A story set in a small village in Sudetenland between 1937 and 1945. "Habermann" is based on true events.


Babylon A.D.
2008 · 1h 41m
country: France
A veteran-turned-mercenary is hired to take a young woman with a secret from post-apocalyptic Eastern Europe to New York City.
Do nebíčka
Do nebíčka
1997
country: Czech Republic
After her mother's death, twelve-year-old Johana lives only with her father, who is clearly unable to raise her on his own. Therefore, she is sent to spend her holidays with her uncle, who lives alone on a rural farm. Johana, who is attracted to everything mysterious, discovers a mysterious German man living in an old tower in the neighborhood. Together, they search for the secret of a medieval legend about a gateway to other worlds. During their search, not only is their shared "Dänikenian" belief confirmed, but they also learn more about each other.


A Pin for the Butterfly
1995 · 1h 53m
country: Czech Republic
Communism seen through the eyes of a young girl who watches her beloved uncle struggle with the oppressive government .
Klauni a vlastenci
Klauni a vlastenci
1991
country: Czechoslovakia


Pražákům, těm je hej
1991 · 1h 32m
country: Czechoslovakia
The story begins in 1984 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, few years before the end of Communist era. The band Pražský výběr (Prague's selection) has just received the news thier 5-year ban has expired and they are alowed to perform once again. This half fantasy half document about the band would draw the atmosphere of middle european late Communist era and the eufory of it's end.


Tale '88
1989 · 1h 28m
country: Czechoslovakia
The lead character is a young woman who becomes close with a colleague of her husband. She finds herself at an important crossroad in life and considers whether to take a decisive step.