Czech Movie Wednesday on May 6 and two TV recommendations
28.04.2026
Dear movie lovers,
In addition to the announcement of the next Czech Film Wednesday, we also have two TV tips for you today. Please use them responsibly and don't neglect the movies because of them.
Czech Film Wednesday on May 6
At Film Wednesday on May 6 in the Central Cinema, we will be showing "Nejistá sezóna" (An Uncertain Season) from 1987. You will probably never get as close to the brilliant duo Smoljak/Svěrák as in this film.
It is about an amateur theater, which is easily recognizable as the Jára Cimrman Theatre. The socialist authorities make life difficult for them. Although they are allowed to perform, they have to move constantly, further and further to the periphery. The audience remains loyal to them, but for the amateur actors it becomes more and more exhausting. In addition, the authorities are constantly interfering with the content. Internal tensions are also inevitable.
In the film, we get a glimpse behind the scenes of the famous and popular Jára Cimrman Theater and actors who essentially play themselves, e.g. Zdeněk Svěrák as a rather silly child and Ladislav Smoljak as the serious, worried leader of the troupe. At the same time, the character of Jára Cimrman can be seen in his original form: as the protagonist of absurd, pseudo-scientific lectures, without ever appearing himself.
The screening at 8 pm is almost sold out, but there are still a few tickets left for 6 pm.
More about the movie and tickets
Návštěvníci - The visitors
Some may remember the Czech-West German cult series "The Visitors" from 1983, which was also shown on GDR television, but under the title "Expedition Adam '84" (which fits better). You can now watch this series again on ARD plus, the ARD streaming service. It actually costs 5 euros a month, but you can try it out for free for two weeks.
At the beginning of the 15-part series, Earth in the year 2484 is threatened by a disastrous meteorite impact. The salvation could be a formula found in the exercise book of (future) genius Adam Bernau, who was only 11 in 1984. So a group is sent to the year 1984 to get the booklet. Of course, a lot of things go wrong in the process, and the conditions in 1984 are made fun of.
The series is perfect for indulging in nostalgia and reliving Czechoslovakia in the 1980s (minus the negative aspects, of course, which are not shown). You will also recognize many popular faces familiar from various Czechoslovakian television series.
Star hour of the murderers
A current short series in the ARD media library takes us even further back in time, to the last days of the war in April and May 1945, without any nostalgia. In occupied Prague, a murderer of women is up to mischief and a young Czech police detective has to investigate together with an older Gestapo man. At the same time, the Red Army and the US Army are moving ever closer and the Nazis in the city are coming under increasing pressure. Their fear of a resistance movement within the Prague police further hinders the investigation.
A special feature of the series is that the characters often speak Czech and this is subtitled. This is not often the case on German television, but it contributes enormously to the authenticity of the series. The differentiated drawing of the characters is also quite remarkable for television. The four-part series is based on the novel of the same name by the famous Pavel Kohout from 1995, incidentally his only crime novel. More important than the case is probably the portrayal of the turbulent, often cruel time of the last days of the war, which played a major role in Kohout's life.
Watch the series in the ARD media library