Vlastimil Brodský
Birthday: Born in 1920-12-15 in Hrusov, Ostrava, Czechoslovakia
Deathday: 2002-04-20
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Bakaláři
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Stříbrná pila
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Arabela se vrací aneb Rumburak králem Říše pohádek
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Arabela
Character: King Hyacint
Arabela was a children's television series produced in Czechoslovakia which aired from 1979 to 1981. The series has 13 episodes and is in the Czech language....
Dobrá Voda
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Die Tintenfische aus dem zweiten Stock
Character: Holan
While on vacation with their bickering parents in Portugal, Eva and her little brother Johnny find two strange clots of clay on a polluted beach, who can speak and move on their own. They create two octopuses out of the blue and green material and take them home to Prague, soon discovering that their new pets attract electricity and other disasters....
Život na zámku
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Rozpaky kuchaře Svatopluka
Character: číšník Gráf
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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 ...
F. L. Věk
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O makové panence
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Jak Ťuk a Bzuk putovali za sluníčkem
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Jak Ťuk a Bzuk nechtěli, aby pršelo
Character: Narrator (voice)
Two little bumblebees, Bzuk and Ťuk, are worried about the weather again. It bothers them that it's raining on their meadow. And so they set out into the world again to find who is to blame. The wise bee Alka reveals many secrets of nature to the little pilgrims, and with her help the bumblebees finally understand that without the rain, everything in their beautiful meadow would have dried up and withered....
Slovácko sa nesúdí
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Návštěvníci
Character: Alois Drchlík – Great Teacher
It's the year 2484 and the Earth is threatened by a rogue comet which could fatally change its orbit. The solution is surprising - Adam Bernau, the greatest genius of 20th century developed 500 years ago an ingenious formula for easy transporting of continents and even worlds. Unfortunately, he made this discovery at the age of 11 and the exercise book containing it was destroyed in the fire. But this is not a challenge to Academic Filip who decides to send an expedition back in time to retrieve...
Slavné historky zbojnické
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Movie Credits
Jacob the Liar
Character: Jakob Heym
A Jewish ghetto in the east of Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making slow by steady progress towards central Europe. In order to keep his companion in misfortune, Mischa, from risking his life for a few potatoes, he tells him what he heard and announces that he is in possession of a radio - in the ghetto a crime punishable by death. It doesn't take long for word of Jakob's secret to spread - suddenly, there is new hop...
Closely Watched Trains
Character: Counselor Zednicek
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to the war and the resistance that surrounds him, this young man embarks on a journey of sexual awakening and self-discovery, encountering a universe of frustration, eroticism, and adventure within his sleepy backwater depot....
Julek
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Hodina pravdy
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Podivný výlet
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Larks on a String
Character: Professor
In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation. Among them is a young man who pines for a female convict....
Nechci nic slyšet
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The King of Colonnades
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In May 1945, a broken violinist lies drunk by a creek, haunted by memories of his life before and during WWII. Once the celebrated first violin in spa orchestras, he married Jewish nurse Róza and dreamed of fatherhood, only to face brutal anti-Jewish persecution. Relegated to second violin, he spirals into alcoholism and betrayal, while Róza and their daughter are deported. Cast out by colleagues and lovers, he descends into madness, murdering a vagrant with his violin case. In a final psychotic...
Žalobníci
Character: Hanzl
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Autumn Spring
Character: Frantisek Hána
A bittersweet comedy starring the great Vlastimil Brodský as Fanda, an old man who refuses to grow up. Despite pleas from his exasperated wife who wants him to make serious decisions about the future, Fanda ignores the nagging and spends his days seeking amusement and adventure....
Capricious Summer
Character: Major Hugo
Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimming and philosophizing. Then it starts to rain. It just seems to be that sort of summer. Antonin runs the swimming bath with his portly wife Katherine... A man appears with his horse-drawn caravan. He lays a striped pole across the river and walks over. With a handstand and a magic trick, Ernie the Conjuror invites everyone to that evening's performance... Ernie is a tightrope walker of only modest...
Three Wishes
Character: Karel
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Operation Bororo
Character: Dr. Burger
A man and a woman from a different planet come to the Earth to get a cure for a disease that is apparently threatening to eradicate their civilisation....
Long Live Ghosts!
Character: Vávra (ředitel školy)
A trespassing gang of boys encounter a ghost in the ruins of a castle. When they rescue the ghost who is caught in a trapset, they become allies in a fight to prevent ruins from being turned into mushroom farm by the city authorities....
All My Good Countrymen
Character: Očenáš
The lives of 7 friends in a small Czech town from 1945 to some time after 1958....
The Jester and the Queen
Character: Václav
The movie is a satirical look at foreign occupation - a medieval Czech jester entertains a German king and his French wife, or a modern Czech villager helps a Bavarian hunter and his French wife find wild boar in Bohemia - the story switches back and forth between the two plots and time-periods....
Men About Town
Character: Gustav Prouza
Three blue collar workers have a night out in big city Prague....
Kolik slov stačí lásce?
Character: Ferda Kalina
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Pět z milionu
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Dissolved and Effused
Character: Oulík
A police inspector and inexperienced trainee search for a mysteriously disappeared manufacturer of ointments for hair growth....
Aber Doktor
Character: Dr. Flanke
Dentist Dr. Franke's selfless willingness to help is much appreciated by neighbors and acquaintances in the GDR. There is only one exception: Biggi, the beautiful coach of the ice hockey team that Dr. Franke looks after. Biggi thinks Dr. Franke is a particularly clumsy little man. But there's also Nurse Agnes, who once again has to stick her nose into matters that don't really concern her, and thus helps things along......
Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea
Character: Ing. Bauer
Former Nazi Klaus Abard survives to the 1990s by taking anti-ageing pills. He plans to use a time travel trip to return to Germany in 1944 and present Hitler with a hydrogen bomb, so that he can win the war. Unfortunately the pilot, woman-chasing Karel Bures, dies on the morning of the trip and his earnest twin brother Jan impersonates him, without knowing about the plot....
A Night at Karlstein
Character: Karel IV.
No Woman is allowed into Karlstejn Castle! Yet the enamoured Daniele Kolářová and the equally enamoured Jana Brejchová manage to spend one night in disguise in the Castle despite the strict royal ban....
The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians
Character: komorník Ignác
In 1897, in a castle near the town of Werewolfville in the Carpithians, a slightly deranged Professor Orfanik experiments with his new inventions which include, even at this early date, television and a film camera. He is also an obsessed opera fan, keeps the body of his favorite diva preserved in a crypt in the castle. In order to keep away nosy visitors, the baron's mad-scientist assistant, invents all sorts of spooky phenomena in order to give the castle a creepy reputation....
Valčík pro milión
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Hledá se táta!
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Ceiling
Character: Hajaja in Radio (voice)
The young Marta has made a break in her medical education to fully invest in her career as a model. We follow her for a day in her life, almost completely without hearing her voice. It is seldom that Marta gets the space to speak, instead she is mostly subject to the voice of others....
The Flying Sneaker
Character: Prof. Renc
Little Rehor isn't allowed to play with the other boys. His only friend is the girl next door, Luci. Rehor's father is doctor on a boat and he has sent Rehor a package with butterfly larvae. When they hatch he discover a fairy who can do magic tricks....
Einstein kontra Babinský
Character: Dáreček (voice)
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The Thing in the Castle
Character: Prof. K.
A senior professor is kidnapped in the park by residents of a veterans home. Once there, he is asked to invent a "rejuvenating machine" to restore their youth....
If a Thousand Clarinets
Character: pluk. Helmuth
A military base. An awkward soldier. A statue of Bach. And suddenly all guns in the area change into music instruments. Great mystery is immediately found by TV station. And soon the military base becomes a stage for huge TV show....
The Return of the Prodigal Son
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Engineer Jan Sebek (Jan Kacer) is undergoing treatment in a mental home after his unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide. His therapist, via discussions both with the patient and with people who know him, tries to find out what made the young and seemingly satisfied man decide to end his own life. Jan's pretty wife Jana (Jana Brejchová) claims not to know about anything but she is conducting an affair with a family friend, almost publicly and with the blessing of her parents....
Courage for Every Day
Character: Reporter
A passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure of his peers to live up to his ideals....
Return to Paradise Lost
Character: Ocenás
A professor reunites with an old friend who inspires him to return to Czechoslovakia for the first time since he emigrated years ago....
Meze Waltera Hortona
Character: Walter Horton
The fact that the man succumbed one morning to an irresistible urge to sit down at the piano and play the entire Chopin Sonata in B Minor would not have been so strange if it had not been for the fact that he had never played the piano in his life and he himself had no idea that he could....
Too Loud A Solitude
Character: Uncle Albert
An elderly paper-crusher branded a fool in Prague secretly stashes condemned books, preserving their contents and extrapolating from them eccentric scenarios of wit....
Devilish Honeymoon
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Black comedy about a genius inventor and two young, smart and beautiful women. Both of them putting all their effort into getting the one man. This will inevitable lead to all sorts of mischief, crime and even a murder. This murder-comedy, shot at the dawn of normalization has intentionally broke off from any connection to the reality of its time. The director Zdeněk Podskalský has focused on creating intriguing story lines, revolving around the two endeavouring female characters who are figh...
Do We Match Each Other, Darling?
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Marta (Jana Brejchová) and Viktor (Vlastimil Brodský) celebrate the tenth anniversary of their wedding half-heartedly. They both think they don't suit together. While visiting Marta's friend Alena (Iva Janzurová), who just got married for the third time, they learn an interesting thing. It was a computer which selected a husband for Alena and she claims she is happy. The couple gets off after certain hesitation to a cybernetic institute, where the computer tells them that living together is a ri...
I Survived Certain Death
Character: lékař
Telling the prisoners of a death camp. Boxer Tony Majer, who got into a concentration camp for a fight with the Gestapo, remembers the murderous work in quarries, on the cruel torture of the Nazis and prison solidarity that helped him survive....
Of Things Supernatural
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Czech comedy fantasy directed by Jiri Krejcik et al....
The Great Movie Robbery
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The film is essentially a feature-length commercial for an exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of the nationalisation of the Czechoslovak film industry, to be held at the Prague U Hybernu venue. The protagonists of the piece are comedians Oldrich Kaiser and Jirí Lábus, who are set to accept an award from Japanese television representatives at the exhibition. At the same time, five gangsters plot to seize a revolutionary invention devised by professor Suzuki - a super holograph, which enables...
Transport from Paradise
Character: Mukl
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....
Touha Sherlocka Holmese
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Sherlock Holmes likes to play violin and expects a great career in music. He gets a place in a spa orchestra, but he is again and again distracted by criminal cases. Therefore he is the only one who does not see that his violin has no future. He solves the criminal mysteries in passing but the final test shows that the famous detective is tone-deaf....
When the Cat Comes
Character: Robert
While old Oliva tells a group of children about his life as a sailor and how he met Diana and her cat with sunglasses, a strange circus arrives in town....
No Magic from Tomorrow
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Mr. Tau, the quiet and kind magician with a bowler hat and an umbrella, shows up unexpectedly on the wings of a plane during flight. The terrified crew contact the airport security service. After the plane lands, Mr. Tau disappears. The third security inspector Málek is determined to catch the hooligan at any price. To achieve this, he gives up his holiday to visit the children's summer camp. Mr. Málek's son, who just like all the other children is delighted by the new camp cook, Mr. Tau himself...
Smích se lepí na paty
Character: Joska Platejz
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Als Großvater Rita Hayworth liebte
Character: Großvater Zikmund
The story of a family that is forced to flee the ČSSR in 1969 and seeks a new home in Germany....
Štědrý večer pana rady Vacátka
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The Death of Black King
Character: Ludvík Král
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Alarm in the Clouds
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In defiance of all the laws of physics Mr. Tau is walking on the wing of an aircraft flying close to Prague. Young Alenka is enthusiastic, but the other passengers are horrified. The security inspector Málek believes the report from the crew to be a code alerting him to a hijack, and orders an emergency landing. In the confusion at the airport the fairytale Mr. Tau disappears into one of the halls....
Čintamani & podvodník
Character: inspektor vlakové služby Václav Holub
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Tale '88
Character: Antonín
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....
Christening
Character: Humpl
Deputy of cartography enterprise Mr. Ciruvka tries to seduce the colleague's assistant to destabilize his confident in a run for the director's chair. But things can go wrong....
When the Woman Butts In
Character: Borovicka
Kam Cert Nemuze by director Zdenek Podskalsky is a routine farce that slowly builds up steam to some rib-tickling slapstick episodes. (Miroslav Hornicek) is a deluded young man who is convinced he is Faust incarnate. This turn of mind leads to some ludicrous situations, such as when he believes a woman is really a cat. Before he can be rounded up and interned wherever they keep people with this type of a problem, love enters his life and the clouds that obscured his vision begin to dissipate....
Táto sežeň štěně
Character: hajný
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Zdravý nemocný Vlastimilený Brodský
Character: Self
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Plavení hříbat
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The Borrowed Face
Character: Dr. Bartoš
It is the 1930s. Physician Bartos devotedly attends poor patients in the city suburbs, at the same time researching the possibilities of regeneration of human tissues after transplantation. His former colleague Rosen, now working as an assistant at the private clinic of surgeon Kirchenbruch, considers the research a mere utopia. The disappointed Bartos, trying to verify his theories, therefore accepts the outrageous proposal of Marion, owner of a brothel - to surgically replace the face of her l...
Flying Saucers Over Our Village
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A model Communist village is visited by a flying saucer....
Něco je ve vzduchu
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The urn supposedly containing the remains of Alice's grandfather falls out of the window and breaks. To Alice's great surprise, the urn is empty and the girl learns that the grandfather didn't die but disappeared under mysterious circumstances on the 2nd September 1946 in the town of Telc. Her grandmother claims that a mysterious young man with dark glasses was implicated in her husband disappearance. Alice is determined to solve the mystery. Grandmother's story leads Alice to a shoemaker who ha...
Five Men and One Heart
Character: Dr. Hýbl
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....
Čas lásky a naděje
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Smrt na černo
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...and again that Lucy!
Character: Narrator (voice)
A second part of a funny adventures of six years old Lucie and her two magic dolls....
Secluded, Near Woods
Character: Voice in Radio (voice)
The Lavicka's, a Czech family from the city, rents a house in the country with the option to buy. However, old Mr Komarek seems reluctant to sell the house as they agreed....
The King of Kings
Character: Eda Brabec
During his work assignment in Tamani Kingdom, Czech worker Lojza saves a local man from dying in the desert. Two years later, it turns out the saved man was also the Taman king; and he has decided to name Lojza, a communist, his royal heir....
Adam and Otka
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On the holidays, ten years old Adam and his little sister Otka, four years junior to him, travel from a village Vykán to their aunt to Prague. Their parents left for Hungary to the world championship in ploughing. The children have the address but they do not know the way to the Northern Town. They set out for a place on foot, across the historical parts of the town....
The White Lady
Character: Kastelán Jindřich Pupenec
This castle has its own ghost - a mysterious White lady. She emerges from the painting on the wall when someone speaks out magic formula. White lady is good ghost, she can make someone's wishes true. Even if it is a new duct. But a miracle is not the thing that Communist leaders want in the town....
Zaostřit prosím!
Character: accountant Macek
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Counting Sheep
Character: Head physician Klofác
A story about young girl Hanka who doesn't have parents and is forced to spend most of her time in a hospital bed....
The Secret of Blood
Character: Dr. Kozdera
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Tchán
Character: Dědeček
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Freon Spirit
Character: Leopold Lorenc
A group of children are helping a good spirits who are living in a cave near school....
The End of a Priest
Character: kostelník
A verger, who likes to dress as a priest, is invited, by one of the villagers, to be the pastor at a vacant church. The atheist teacher resents the pastor, and tries to embarrass him in various ways, including being caught with the local girl, Majka....
The Lost Photography
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A young boy from Prague is trying to find a Soviet soldier from the old 1945 picture....
Desire
Character: Shoemaker Novosad (segment "Andela")
A poignant overview of how short life can be, this interesting drama from Czech director Vojetch Jasny is divided into four separate segments. In the first skit, a young child's impressions are observed as his newborn baby sister becomes a part of the family. In the second, a young woman falls in love for the first time one summer, and in the third, a tough, older peasant woman battles against the farming cooperatives. Finally, in the last segment, everything comes full circle as a woman who is ...
I Dutifully Report
Character: maďarský infanterista
A comedy based on the novel of Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Svejk happens during the World War I. I Dutifully Report: In the introduction to the second part of the film adaptation of Hašek's novel The Good Soldier Švějk presents his main character Josef Švejk. With the distinctive traditional Czech cartoon character of a soldier Svejk, this time you meet on the way to the front and eventually right in the firing line. You can look at his famous train events, and also probably the most famou...
Crime in the Night Club
Character: Ministr
A black comedy set in a Prague cabaret....
Podezření
Character: Adámek
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People From Caravans
Character: Beznohý
Story about the people around the circus and the unfortunate love of a young man an acrobat. Before the dispute escalates so much that, according to the old clown, Vincek ends up with a noose on his back and Lotyš in a bass, fate intervenes and the young acrobat is called up to the war, where he serves with the dragoons. After serving his time and being released into civilian life, he sets out to find the National with his beloved Nina. However, she has not been with the circus for almost a whol...
Tažní ptáci
Character: alkoholik Fendrych
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Never Strike A Woman... Even with A Flower
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Shortish forty-year old Ludvík Podzimek, lute and flute player in a Prague orchestra, is far from being an attractive man. He is nevertheless generally considered a great 'Don Juan'. Women take up with him out of a certain motherly compassion and Ludvík's tender heart does not allow him to split with any of them. His lovers thus accumulate and cause him numerous troubles....
Florián
Character: profesor Hňupka
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The Octopuses from the Second Floor
Character: děda Holan
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....
Utopím si ho sám
Character: Havlík
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30 Maidens and Pythagoras
Character: profesor chemie Brom
A musical starring Jiří Menzel (whose part is sung by Achilles Michailidis) as a math and physics teacher employing innovative teaching methods....
Three Men Travelling
Character: zootechnik Béda Nedoma
Three Men Travelling is billed as a loosely related sequel to Tri chlapi v chalupe (1963), sending our country protagonists set out from their family nests in the village of Ouplavice into the big wide world. Grandpa Potucek, (Lubomír Lipský) and his son Václav (Jan Skopecek) take part in the cooperative's excursion to spa town Karlovy Vary, a Pilsen brewery and some agricultural enterprises in western Bohemia. During the course of a series of misunderstandings and merrymaking, grandfather Potuc...
Tears the World Can't See
Character: Ivan Ivanovič Dvojetočijev
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Bomba
Character: mason Zajíc
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Spadla s měsíce
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Chance
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Dogs and People
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Cars Without a Home
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Jan Schmidt and Pavel Juráček turn their attention to the problem of Czechoslovakia's unloved cars in this whimsical documentary short....
This Is How Love Begins...
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The Adventurous Bachelor
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Even the pre-Blohemian times were not idyllic. Even a bachelor, invited by the consuls to Rakovník to elevate the local education system, finds out. But the stingy and proud townspeople soon grow to dislike him, and even love does not develop according to his wishes....
Kavárna na hlavní třídě
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Vstanou noví bojovníci
Character: uredník Reiter
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The Secret of the Gold Buddha
Character: Artur Schlieffer (voice)
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Rudá záře nad Kladnem
Character: Holecek
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Florenc 13,30
Character: magician Jan Maria Čuc
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Jaroslav Hasek's Exemplary Cinematograph
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Uncle
Character: Thief
In this six-minute short, a man’s attempt to burgle a home is interrupted by a child....
Jan Hus
Character: mladík v Týnu
Jan Hus is a 1954 Czechoslovak film directed by Otakar Vávra. It is the first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", one of the most famous works of the Czechoslovak director, completed with Jan Žižka (1955) and Proti všem (Against All Odds, 1957)....
Jan Žižka
Character: Jochlík - Denunciator
The second part of the revolutionary Hussite trilogy takes place in the years 1419-1420....
Today for the Last Time
Character: starožitník
Concert master Karel Mašek is a drunk, as well as engineer Danda and other regular guests of the pub U Kroců. Mašek returns from the pub in the morning and promises the woman that he will stop drinking. But he failed again, and the orchestra players refuse to play with him. Danda returns home without a bag and goes to Krocs again in the morning, even though he has an important job at work. He has been degraded to subordinate job position, but he refused to admit it at home....
The Pilgrimage to the Holy Virgin
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Farmers get away from their arguments by embarking on a religious pilgrimage, enjoy a picnic en route, and on their return decide to form a cooperative....
The Stolen Border
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Czech film tells the story of a border town in World War II. Family members and friends become enemies....
Ta naše písnička česká
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Dog's Heads
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Dog's Heads (Czech: Psohlavci) is a 1955 Czech drama film directed by Martin Frič, based on the novel of the same name by Alois Jirásek. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival....
The Thirteenth Chamber
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Twelve-year old Kosta, a little boy of an overactive imagination, makes friends with equally sensitive eleven-year old Blanka. Fantasy leads the two children to the forgotten attic in the house of Blanka's parents. For them, this is the forbidden "thirteenth chamber," and to Kosta, an old glass vase becomes a magic ball with the help of which he can play his favorite play "on fate". The children observe the adults and unconsciously sense that something has gone wrong in Blanka's family. Her dad ...
Desire
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A poignant overview of how short life can be, this interesting drama from Czech director Vojetch Jasny is divided into four separate segments. In the first skit, a young child's impressions are observed as his newborn baby sister becomes a part of the family. In the second, a young woman falls in love for the first time one summer, and in the third, a tough, older peasant woman battles against the farming cooperatives. Finally, in the last segment, everything comes full circle as a woman who is ...
Mezi nebem a zemí
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Merry Christmas Octopus
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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....
Kinkongova smrt
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