Ladislav Potměšil
Birthday: Born in 1945-09-02 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Deathday: 2021-07-12
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Bakaláři
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Bastardi
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Cesty domů
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Doktor z vejminku
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Malý pitaval z velkého města
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Hříšní lidé města pražského
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Hospoda
Character: Václav Novák - speditér
Hospoda is a Czech television comedy series which premiered on TV Nova. From 1996 to 1997, 52 episodes were aired....
Pan Tau
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Pan Tau always had a gentle expression and a friendly smile, he was elegantly dressed in a stroller, with an umbrella and a white carnation in the lapel. Foremost, he was famous for his magic bowler hat. By tapping on his hat, Pan Tau was able to change his appearance into a puppet, to conjure up miscellaneous objects or to do other magic. His most characteristically behavior is that he would help children who were experiencing some sort of difficulties in-between their dreams and reality, like ...
Cesty domů
Character: Petr Kosík
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Svatby v Benátkách
Character: Alois Drozd
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Přístav
Character: Alois Drozd
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Přístav
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Slavné historky zbojnické
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Hříchy pro pátera Knoxe
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Movie Credits
Zlaté rybky
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Podfuk
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The Loveliest Riddle
Character: král
Inspired by two fairy tales by Jan Drda, this film tells the story of young Matěj, who enjoys a good riddle. When he is chased off by a farmer for falling in love with his daughter Majdalenka, he sets off to the castle to see the princess, who presents her suitors with three riddles. But Matěj always escapes any pitfalls that he may encounter. (filmovyprehled)...
90° in the Shade
Character: Jirka Kurka
In a Prague shop, an assistant has been carrying on an affair with the dishonest, married manager. An emotionally repressed auditor with domestic problems of his own uncovers serious stock discrepancies. A test of loyalties and a questioning of values concludes in tragedy....
Bastardi
Character: Kamil Halbich
The story of a practical education environment without superficiality, clichés and affectations. The film is based on a real basis and shows what happens when the system fails. Set in the harsh environment of elementary school. The group of local students - young thugs are accused of rape and murder of a young trainee. Still have not been sentenced yet and still attend school. Until it starts young teacher, who had his unorthodox approach gains the sympathy of other cantors and students. For wha...
Ledové moře volá
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Divoký koník Ryn
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Several of the works of writer Bohumil Říha have been filmed. This novel by the pro-regime writer also inspired a children’s film, which was directed in 1981 by the experienced family filmmaker Václav Gajer. The story takes place in 1947 and it is based on the popular model of the relationship between a human hero and an indomitable animal protagonist. The tale of the freedom necessary for life, is, of course, beholden to the standards of the time: the Hucul horse that heals an old villager, has...
Každému jeho nebe
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Láska na druhý pohled
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Sny o Zambezi
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Drama directed by Stanislav Strnad....
The Fifth Horseman Is Fear
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In Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, a doctor-turned-warehouse employee reluctantly agrees to treat a gravely wounded political fugitive, putting himself and everyone living in his building complex in danger....
Bubny
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Zelená vlna
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A Place in the Crowd
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A film in five episodes, all based on an attempt to show the life of young people today, their feelings and relationships, their behaviour in public and private life....
Škola hříšníků
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Byl jednou jeden polda II – Major Maisner opět zasahuje!
Character: Major Maisner
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Byl jednou jeden polda
Character: Major Maisner
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Discopríbeh 2
Character: Karel Horáček
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Discopříběh
Character: Karel Horáček
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The Matches of a Beautiful Dragoon
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In a suburban villa, a woman of means is murdered. Police Superintendent Zdychynec from the Prague Liben neighborhood reports the case to Police Councilman Vacátko, upon whose order an investigation is launched immediately. Zdychynec begins to suspect the wooer of his own daughter, a handsome dragoon named Rudi, of the crime. In Rudi's absence, Zdychynec searches his rented room in the apartment of the elegant Mrs Dragicová. All his findings - among others, sand left on Rudi's jackboots and a de...
The Great Unknown
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Three detective stories, three different views of life and death... Collection of three horror short stories....
Five Men and One Heart
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In modern hospitals are carried out intensive cardiac surgery. Daily operations individually comments attendant Cajthaml ... Stylized ,, dream "scene are combined with documentary footage of actual operations, which were filmed at the University Hospital in Hradec Králové. The unique cinematic experiment theater and TV director after only a few years remind viewers....
Fear
Character: učeň zvaný Domovníček
A car deliberately runs down a young man on a road by a small border town. The locals recognize the dead man as one of the students who were there on volunteer work some time before. The police detectives, Major Kalas (Rudolf Hrusínský) and Lieutenant Varga (Radoslav Brzobohatý) can then get on the trail of the people with whom the victim was involved, especially at the photographic studio headed by Bohuslav Pacer (Bohus Záhorský)....
Transport from Paradise
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Czechoslovakian Zbynek Brynych directs this psychological drama set in World War II Terezin ghetto. A dark, visual portrayal of the trials and tribulations the Theresienstadt people faced on a daily basis presented in a series of memorable stories. Their hopes and dreams unfold against the perpetual threat of deportation (or worse) by the Nazis. Based on the novel "Night and Hope" by Arnost Lustig....
Půlnoční kolona
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Forbidden Dreams
Character: ředitel Korálek
Leo Popper is a happy family man living in rural Bohemia in the years preceding the Nazi invasion. Out of economic necessity he moves with his family to the big city and becomes an enterprising vacuum cleaner salesman. There he embarks on a series of adulterous adventures, has encounters with boxing pros and famous portrait artists, and schemes to purchase the perfect pond to fulfill his passion for fishing. When the Nazis gain control, the comedy turns sour - he loses his lake, his job, and fin...
The Halftime of Happiness
Character: Matousek
A movie directed by Zbynek Brynych....
Ohnivé ženy
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Dita Saxová
Character: Fici Neugeborn
A beautiful, underachieving, 18-year-old orphan considers various suitors, ponders philosophy, and takes a young girl under her wing....
Love from the Passage
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A drama based on the criminal youth life in Prague during eighties....
Drsná Planina
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Chronicle of frontier division Czech police (SNB) in the years 1946 - 1949....
Jen o rodinných záležitostech
Character: tajný
Life in communist Czechoslovakia in the early 1950s and the punishments for going against the state....
It's Not Me
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Ants Bring Death
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A crime movie directed by Zbynek Brynych....
Kamarád do deště
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The Secret of Steel City
Character: Dozor na internátu
The film is a metaphor for the Cold War. It depicts two neighbouring nations: peace loving Fortuna and the not so peaceful land of the Steel City....
Oasis
Character: Pepin
The year is 1943. The war is raging between the Germans and the Allies in North Africa. A truck with a Czech crew, Lieutenant Navara and six soldiers, escapes from the Foreign Legion fortress. Their aim is to reach the Allies and fight against Nazism. The truck is destroyed by a German army plane, which is hit by enemy fire in its turn. One Czech soldier dies in the attack, the driver is badly wounded, and Navara has serious burns on his face. The group has very little water and must reach an oa...
Brouk v hlavě
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RumplCimprCampr
Character: nevlastní otec Božidary
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Byl jednou jeden polda III – major Maisner a tančící drak!
Character: major Maisner
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Panelstory or Birth of a Community
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An old man is wandering round a badly signposted and as yet mostly under construction Prague housing estate looking for the high rise block into which he is supposed to be moving with his daughter's family. The old granddad from the countryside likes chatting, nothing escapes his eyes and he wants to give everyone a helping hand....
Vekslák aneb Staré zlaté časy
Character: hospodský
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Dvě věci pro život
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After returning home from the army, Vasek (Ladislav Potmesil) has married Bozka (Eva Trejtnarová) and the couple now live at her parents' house. Vasek is unhappy both with his work and with sharing the house with Bozka's parents. He and his friend Ruda (Oldrich Vlach) decide to take a temporary job in Ostrava for a year. Bozka is against this, but Vasek gets his way. Mining is hard work but Vasek gradually adapts to it. He gets homesick from time to time and wants to go back, but his pride alway...
Maratón
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It is 5 May 1945 and the uprising against the hated German occupiers has broken out in Prague. The Czech guards open the gate of the Pankrác prison to allow the prisoners to escape en masse. Many of them are shot dead by the German guards but young Ruda (Jaromír Hanzlík) manages to run away. He is taken care of by one of the Prague fighters, concierge Kytka. Kytka hides him in the flat of the house's owner where only the young maid Karla (Jana Brejchová) is left, ordering her to take care of Rud...
Zdivočelá země
Character: Bouček
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