A good news arrived! I am pleased to announce that my new documentary film: A Man Created the Robot, was selected by the program committee to THE CZECH-SLOVAK COMPETITION of the 53rd year of the Academia Film Olomouc International Film Festival, which will be held on April 24-29, 2018 in Olomouc.

Produced by: Czech Television
Format, screenplay and director: Zora Cejnková
Director of photography: Michal Vojkuvka
Duration: 2 min
Language: Czech (so far…)

An unofficial trailer of the second season of the situation drama; 15 brave participants enter the 19th century to meet the technological challenges of a steam-powered engineering workshop together with the dramatic events of the Czech national revival, the social tensions between working class and upper-middle class, difficulties of the Czech-Austrian relationship and the last decades of the Austrian Empire.

Screenplay and director: Zora Cejnková
Director of Photography: Jiří Berka
Editor: Krasimira Velitchkova
Original Music: SypeStudios
Duration: 8 epizodes x 55 min

The TV series is an original format which its´ author calls „situation drama“,( a winner at the Eurovision Creative Forum Berlin 2015 for best TV format). A three-generation family goes back in time to the occupied Czechoslovakia in World War 2, trying to deal with a extremely difficult time in their own way; their quest is enhanced by dramatic situations when period characters (played by actors) put the family into historically accurate situations. How they are solved depends only on the family...

Screenplay and Director: Zora Cejnková
Director of Photography: Daniel Souček
Original Music: SypeStudios
Editor: Krasimira Velitchkova
Duration: 52 min
Producer: Czech Television and National Library of the Czech Republic, 2014

The documentary film unveils a long-time forgotten story of the most valuable manuscript in the Czech Republic named later as Codex of Vysehrad. Film includes unique reconstruction of medieval techniques of book painting dating back to the early 11th century and also a story of coronation of the very first Czech king Vratislav II. who could have been the possible secret donor of the book.

Story by: Czech Heritage Institute
Directed by: Zora Cejnkova
Director of photography: Daniel Soucek A.C.K.
Animations: Animation People, Czech Television
Original Soundtrack: SypeStudios c 2012

Once a powerfull nobel Czech family whos routes are lost in the mists of time and legend, rise and fall over the centuries. Overstretching their credit, apparable for modern times, perhaps.

Story and director: Zora Cejnkova
First cameraman: Daniel Souček
Second and Third cameramen: Kiko Keteleš, Michal Vojkuvka
Original music: SypeStudios
Duration: 57 min
C Czech Television and KMB International Film Ltd.

Psychological documentary film about the dangerous and perverted world of road pirates and their victims. Can the victims ever achieve justice? Will they ever forgive?

Story and director: Zora Cejnková
Director of photography: Michal Vojkuvka
Duration: 26 min
C Czech Television 2010
The documentary film was awarded the prize at the international film festival ArtsFilm Telč /CZ/.

Story: Zora Cejnková and Jan Hlaváček
Screenplay and director: Zora Cejnková
Duration: 58 min
© OC FIS NORDIC WSC 2009, o.s.

The film features a very turbulent year of Ms Katerina Neumannova, a Czech cross-country Olympic gold medal winner, who was given the unique chance to run the organization of the FIS Nordic World Ski Championship Liberec 2009, the greatest sport event ever in the Czech Republic. It was and still is one of the most media covered stories.

Screenplay: Sarka Horakova
Director: Zora Cejnkova
Duration: 26 min
© Czech Television 2008

Presented at the opening ceremony of the 16th annual Czech and Slovak documentary and animation film review 2008, www.fites.czThis historical reconstruction investigates the riverting story of Soviet ocupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and the role of the secretly written invitation letter by the Czechoslovak hard-line communist prominents which was used by Breznev as an invitation to annect the country

Director: Zora Cejnková
Duration: 58 min
© Czech Television and Zora Cejnkova – KMB Intl.
2008 Prix Jury awarded to the film at the International Film Festival TOURFILM 2008.
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"Wales Forever" presents the Welsh people and Wales as an unique example of a traditional culture surviving and developing despite many English attempts in the past to swallow them and turn the Welsh into the English.

Story and director: Zora Cejnková
Duration: 57 min
© Czech Television and Zora Cejnková – KMB Intl. 2006
English subtitles.

Film shows the unique story of a one hundred year old man from Brno who as a young man witnessed the bolshevik revolution in Russia 1917.

Story: Jan Hlavacek, Zora Cejnková
Director: Zora Cejnková
Duration: 58 min
© Czech Television and Zora Cejnkova – KMB Intl. 2006
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This film is a thrilling espionage-like story from Czechoslovakia of the 1980´s.

Screenplay and director: Zora Cejnková
Duration: 56 min
© Czech Television and Zora Cejnková – KMB Intl. 2005
English and Czech language version

The documentary shows the most sophisticated inventions of the Brno Technical University. www.vutbr.cz

Story and director: ZC Duration 28 min © Czech Television and Zora Cejnková – KMB Intl. 2005 English versionPresents history and a present time of the most sophisticated technical university in the Czech republic and its way how to finance the scientific research in difficult conditions of an ex-communist country.

Story and director: Zora Cejnkova
Duration: 58 min
© Czech Television and Zora Cejnkova - KMB Intl. 2005
This film was awarded the first prize in Tourfilm International Festival in Karlovy Vary (2005). Links www.radio.czThis was a real thrill, a travel film produced in spite of a strict ban by Cuban authorities. It presents the beauties of the country and also the difficulties of a daily life on „the island of freedom“.

Czech original title: „Rímané za humny!“
Story, screenplay and director: Zora Cejnková
Duration 57 min
© Czech Television and Zora Cejnkova – KMB Intl. 2004
Czech and English version

The documentary presents the a generally unknown history of Roman Empire on the Danube river in central Europe. It was filmed in the Czech republic, Slovakia, Austria and Hungary. The situation on the Limes Romanum in this region was far more active then was known before. It shows that the Central European border was one of the most turbulent parts of Limes, place of the clash of the two great continental military powers of that time – Romans and Germans. Incredible stories of „The Frontier“ start after German victory in a battle in the Teutonberg Forest in 9 AD. Three Roman legions were annihilated, the Germans won; that time. The documentary shows a hostile world of Roman German border where fights used to be a daily issue, but also investigates the peaceful life of the enemies when wars were temporarily over. So we learn for example that the best Roman villas along the Danube River were constructed by Romans for the Germans! „The Frontier“ toured major European capitals through Czech Cultural Centers, the latest show took place in New York in the spring 2009.

Czech original title: Egyptane
Story, screenplay and director: Zora Cejnkova
Duration: 57 min
© Czech Television and Zora Cejnkova – KMB Intl. 2004
"The Egyptians" investigates the way how today´s Egyptians, mostly of the Arabic origin, live and how they deal with the cultural, political and historical heritage of the ancient Egyptian civilisation, all of it during the holy month of Ramadan. We interviewed the descendant of the King Fouad's Chamberlain in Cairo, who still preserves a royal menu of the Ramadan dinner of 1921. We spent one day with a widow from a little city near Cairo. Her sister, living in Aswan came to see her to help with the birth of a new child in the family. In Kurna village near the Valley of the Kings we interviewed sons of Abd-el- Rasúl, the man who helped to explore King Tutanchamun's Tomb. To show Ramadan events as an entire part of family life we accepted invitation to share an "iftar" dinner with Nubian family in Aswan village. The film shows that the large and inhomogenous country is united by two powerful forces, Islam and the concept that they are all somehow directly descended from the Pharoes!

Czech originial title: Otloukanek
Screenplay and director: Zora Cejnková
Duration: 25 min
© Czech Television and Realfilm 2002

Documentary from Czech TV series "Death Penalty" shows a very specific case from 1973. That year a young woman Olga Hepnarova, 22, decided to kill as many people was possible using a lorry. She drove in a queue of pedestrians who were waiting for tram on the tram stop in Prague 7. She killed eight people and wounded thirty. Immediately after the event she claimed that she had committed it on purpose. She wanted to publicly present that her crime was a revenge. Revenge for what? This was the most important question for the investigators. The answer would have implications for Hepnarova's fate. If she was right and her statement about revenge was correct, she would have been sentenced to death without any doubts. But if she was a menthally ill person she wouldn't be sentenced at all. The film includes contemporary police items and acted reconstruction of the day when Hepnarova committed her crime.

Czech original title: Chomutovsky fantom
Screenplay and director: Zora Cejnková
Duration:30 min
© Czech Television and Realfilm 2002

First part of crime documentaries from Czech TV series "Death Penalty". It reconstructs a story of the most crucial criminal case in Czech modern history that took the great attention of the public and also communist politicians. Czech crime history never recorded such a hunt for unknown series killer than the one which lasted from 1951 till 1958 in the neibourhood of northern Bohemian city Chomutov. For eight years criminalists didn't suceed in identification of a sexual killer who, as was proved later, committed more than 140 crimes. Vaclav Mrazek killed eight women and one couple, raped dozens of teenage girls and tried to sexually attack many other women. In the political atmosphere of the 1950s the communists didn't allow any public warnings or an public police investigation. The reason was that in progressive socialist countries there were no killers, especially not sexual ones. When local women feared to go to work because of the growing numbers of attacks, criminalists decided to check on each man living in or near Chomutov, i.e. 40 000 persons. In spite of this enormous effort the killer escaped the trap moving to another Bohemian city, Kladno. He was eventually arrested thanks to a great luck when a local policeman identified him when he committed a minor crime. To demonstrate instant justice and meet the demands of the public outrage, the killer was put quickly to trial and sentenced, the whole proces took only couple months. Despite criminalists' protests as they hadn't got their investigation finished yet, he was executed on the last day of 1958.

Story and director: Zora Cejnkova
Duration:57 min
© Czech Television 2001
A unique description of how the Czech crime scene changed after the Velvet Revolution in 1989. Police specialists and witnesses talk about the most serious cases, police video reveals the investigation of the most significant criminals of the 90´s. From the wide scale of new types of crime we chose five special topics which we investigated in depth. The documentary shows how the development was in each field, what the mistakes and successes of Czech criminal police were and what were the reasons - either political or legal - of their failure. All chapters are illustrated by police video, none of which have been seen by the public before. Scenes include murderers and DNA testing contract killers economic crime racial crime drug smuggling

Story and director: Zora Cejnková
Duration 112 min
© Czech Television 2001

This film, partly filmed by its main heroes, shows an increadible work of the team of Czech egyptologists who have been excavating in Abúsír near Giza in Egypt for more than 80 years in very difficult conditions.

Czech original title: Moravsti Lucemburkove Story
screenplay and director: Zora Cejnková
Duration:28 min
© Czech Television 2002

English version Links MORAVIA Wikipedia Documentary is unveiling the unknown history of Czech king´s dynasty of Luxembourgs that ruled Bohemian kingdom in 14th century. The film presents the life stories of King Charles's brother, the Moravian count John Henry and his three sons Jobst /Jodoc/, Jan Sobeslav and Prokop. This branch of the Luxemburgs, even though its members did not have royal powers, also acquired a powerful position in Central Europe. Besides Moravia, Count Jobst acquired control of Brandenburg and as the first ruler, promoted Berlin to a royal seat. At the end of his life he was also elected as the King in the Holy Roman Empire. On the other hand his brother Prokop became famous as a military leader who several times imprisoned Czech King Wenceslas IV. Count Jan Sobeslav achieved an important position in the Church - he became Patriarch of Aquila, which is situated in the territory of today's Italy. He was, however, such a cruel ruler, that his enemies had him murdered. The documentary contains unique sequences of the archaeological excavations from St. Thomas' church in Brno, where the specialists from the Brno Museum in 2000 revealed the crypt of the most important Moravian Luxemburg - Jobst. Thanks to this discovery the Brno archaeologists obtained further unique information of the life of Count Jobst. The research has brought many unexpected findings and there even exists a hope that from the skeleton of Count Jobst it could be possible to extract DNA and compare this to other relics which are possibly members of the Luxemburg family.