Ota Hofman
Known for Writing
Born
April 10, 1928
Died
May 17, 1989 (age 61)
Birthplace
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Filmography
147 films, 15 shows
Known for Writing
Born
April 10, 1928
Died
May 17, 1989 (age 61)
Birthplace
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Filmography
147 films, 15 shows

Kačenka a zase ta strašidla
1993
country: Switzerland
This time, the eight-year-old girl must fight to keep her parents from turning the House of Horrors, which she received as a gift from her grandfather, the Viennese Czech Swoboda, into a family villa. Helping her are her old friends, with the help of a magical clockwork mannequin, the witch Bertha, the charming Elvira and Dr Caligari. She arranges for notary Weber to come from Vienna to check that the terms of the gift agreement have been kept and that the attraction is fit for purpose...

Pan Tau – der Film
1988 · 1h 30m
country: Germany
Pan Tau, the friend of all children, now also helps the adults. A movie producer is in trouble and decides to shoot another Pan-Tau movie. But the old Pan-Tau actor Karasek is no longer young enough to walk the almost weightless walk of Pan Tau. Mr. Novak turns up - he resembles Pan Tau like a twin brother. He succeeds every pirouette. And as if by magic, he solves all the problems between people! Who is Mr. Novak? Is he really ...?

Merry Christmas Octopus
1987 · 1h 32m
country: Czechoslovakia
Eva and her younger brother Johnny own two sentient octopuses made out of strange matter. Will their parents divorce and ruin Christmas? Will a scientist find a way to use their pets as fuel? Live action film with stop-motion octopuses.

The Octopuses from the Second Floor
1987
country: Czechoslovakia
While on vacation with their bickering parents, young Eva and her little brother Johnny find in a polluted lake two strange friendly sentient octopuses made of strange material that attracts electricity. They take them as pets.

...and again that Lucy!
1984 · 1h 22m
country: Czechoslovakia
A second part of a funny adventures of six years old Lucie and her two magic dolls.

Lucy, the Menace of Street
1984 · 1h 14m
country: Czechoslovakia
A first part of a funny adventures of six years old Lucie and her two magic dolls.

The Third Prince
1983 · 1h 24m
country: Czechoslovakia
Brave sons of the king, twin brothers Jaroslav and Jaromír love and help each other. It was they and another brother - Jindrich, who once saw the portrait of Princess of Diamond Mountains, fell in love and went on her quest.

The Cat Prince
1979 · 1h 19m
country: Czechoslovakia
The castle custodian Král is moving to a new place of work with his wife, son Radek and a five - years old daughter Terezka. Radek takes his cat Líza with him. A fully loaded truck moves through the country which is in spring blossoms, gradually changing into a snow-covered land. Children's imagination creates from real experiences magic stories - a fairy-tale grandpa takes them to a new castle, the children fear a black-horse rider who - as the grandpa and the cleaning lady assert she hates cats.

Beauty and the Beast
1979 · 1h 31m
country: Czechoslovakia
Julie, the youngest daughter of a bankrupt merchant, sacrifices her life in order to save her father. She goes to an enchanted castle in the woods and meets Netvor, a bird-like monster. As Netvor begins to fall in love with Julie, he must suppress his beastly urge to kill her.

Meeting in July
1978 · 1h 27m
country: Czechoslovakia
A romantic story about Jakub, a student in the summer camp, and his teacher Klara.

30 Maidens and Pythagoras
1977 · 1h 8m
country: Czechoslovakia
A musical starring Jiří Menzel (whose part is sung by Achilles Michailidis) as a math and physics teacher employing innovative teaching methods.

Odysseus and the Stars
1976 · 1h 21m
country: Czechoslovakia
A group of children are investigating a chain of mysterious events during the seventies.

Love
1973 · 1h 28m
country: Czechoslovakia
Sixteen-year-old students of a grammar school are supposed to write essays on "Love". The class best student Andrea (Jaroslava Schallerová) writes about a patriotic love to a country as she has no experience with a partner love. She has been living alone with her divorced pretty mother Eva (Milena Dvorská), a dentist, for many years. Recently, however, Eva met her former school-days love at a graduates' party, nowadays a famous hockey goalkeeper Brukner (Frantisek Velecký). Also his marriage fell apart; he leaves the national team and decides to leave Prague for his home town and to share flat with Eva. He takes with him his son Petr (Oldrich Kaiser), in Andrea's age, who gets his last chance to finish a grammar school in the town.

Vlak do stanice Nebe
1972
country: Czechoslovakia
The last winter of the Second World War in the Beskids. To escape the bombing, eight-year-old Dagmar is taken by her mother from Prague to a mountain village. From there, they take the narrow-gauge railroad to school...

Lucie and the Miracles
1971 · 1h 12m
country: Czechoslovakia
The harsh reality of a home for abandoned children blends with episodes of youthful fantasy and slapstick comedy in this story of an orphan girl. Lucy's fondest wish is to find new parents and leave an orphanage. She befriends a man who can create doors from paint. He gives her a stuffed dog that magically comes alive when placed on the ground, and he and his wife end up adopting the little girl. After finding parents of her own, Lucy sets out through fantasy to find parents for her orphan friends. All of the people Lucy meet during her remarkable make believe wanderings end up taking children home.
Červená kůlna
Červená kůlna
1968
country: Unknown
A little boy, who has no time for his busy parents, solves his loneliness by befriending a dashing old man whose shed holds many surprising secrets and unseen things.

Martin a červené sklíčko
1967
country: Czechoslovakia
Children's detective stories were very successful in the 1960s, and the stories of Martin the criminal even had several sequels. In this film, Martin investigates a mysterious ancient crime in a castle where today the guide mentions this fact only as a curiosity. He is led to this by a broken display case on which he finds a child's handprints. And in a seemingly mundane red slide, easily mistaken for a rare diamond, he finds an important clue...

Martin Speaking
1966 · 1h 28m
country: Czechoslovakia
The second installment of children's stories investigator Dr. Martin. The film has two stories:

Volejte Martina
1966
country: Czechoslovakia
The series of children's films about Detective Martin, who intervenes in cases involving children, begins with this film. It consists of two short stories: in the first ("Three Bottles"), the young hero, escaping from an orphanage, gets involved in a robbery of postage stamps..., in the second ("Flying Carousel"), the children fight a dishonest owner of fairground rides...
Martin and Nine Fools
Martin and Nine Fools
1966 · 1h 8m
country: Czechoslovakia
Captain Martin from the police's child department and his colleague Kraus are called to Znojmo to help solve a case regarding stolen toys found in the town's subterranean passages. The members of the local police department are convinced that the thieves are the well-known "customers" from the Znojmo elementary school, pupils Exner and Mandlík. Martin, however, has doubts about these culprits. These doubts grow even stronger after the local self-service shop is robbed and the local tobacco store reports that it is missing a lot of imported cigarettes. Martin questions the children, inspects both shops and searches through the underground.

Délka polibku devadesát
1965
country: Czechoslovakia
Young couple Eva and Jarda Tům face housing shortages just as Eva miraculously gives birth to quintuplets, drawing intense media and state attention. Authorities install them in a high-tech villa monitored by a commission led by Drahoslav Svitáček. As intrusive experiments, constant scrutiny, and malfunctioning gadgets strain their family life, a planned railway project momentarily frees them. Eva conceives again, but when only one baby arrives amid fading public interest, the state and the spotlight move on.

Clown Ferdinand and the Rocket
1963 · 1h 6m
country: Czechoslovakia
When Clown Ferdinand enters an abandoned city in his wagon he ends up on a space rocket where he meets a robot that can turn invisible. This film reuses sets from Polák's Ikarie XB 1 (1963).
Králíci ve vysoké trávě
Králíci ve vysoké trávě
1962
country: Czechoslovakia
Ten-year-old Martin attends religion at school and is always an altar boy at church. That's the wish of his mother Anci, a bigoted believer. However, Martin encounters hypocrisy at every turn and begins to doubt that God exists. His older brother Eda steals money from his father with impunity, his father steals materials from the cooperative building, and even Martin's best friend Kovajs "sins" without scruples. Pastor Hornof tries in various ways to maintain his influence over his sheep, but is hindered by people with a "progressive" socialist mindset. When Martin's beloved Angora rabbits, who have done nothing wrong to anyone, die, the boy's faith is clear. He decides to join a pioneer organisation. All that's left is to keep it a secret from his mother...
Pohádka o staré tramvaji
Pohádka o staré tramvaji
1962
country: Czechoslovakia
Frantík arrives in Prague for the holidays and discovers an abandoned tram named Terezka. With local children, he secretly paints and hides it to prevent scrapping, then organizes a scrap-metal collection to raise funds for its restoration.
Oranžový měsíc
Oranžový měsíc
1962
country: Unknown
A medium-length story about the birth of a father and son friendship.
Magical Day
Magical Day
1961 · 1h 14m
country: Czechoslovakia
Little Honzík tries everything he can in order to join the team for Spartakiada Games.
Sedmý kontinent
Sedmý kontinent
1961
country: Czechoslovakia
Together with a group of temporary workers, a group of experienced labourers is building a land reclamation system to turn the South Bohemian marshes into a "Seventh Continent" of fertile soil.

Sny na neděli
1959
country: Czechoslovakia
In the pulmonary sanatorium, patients live out their small fates. But not everyone takes a responsible approach to their illness. For example, a young student falls in love, the lovers even take a secret flight, but the young man's condition deteriorates dramatically because of it.

Six O'Clock at the Airport
1958 · 1h 18m
country: Czechoslovakia
The nine-year-old Prague boy Pepiček flies to Moscow as an involuntary stowaway on an airplane. Together with the Soviet pioneer Mischa, he pursues an alleged agent in the hustle and bustle of the World Festival and is flown back to Prague in the evening.

Punta and the Four-Leaf Clover
1955 · 1h 38m
country: Czechoslovakia
A film about a boy who is protective of a runaway dog and the dog, who is protective of the boy.