Jiří Sovák
Birthday: Born in 1920-12-27 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Deathday: 2000-09-06
TV Credits
Bakaláři
Character: Host
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Bakaláři
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Byli jednou dva písaři...
Character: František Diviš Bartoloměj Bouvard
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Chalupáři
Character: Evžen Huml
Chalupáři is a Czechoslovak comedy TV series filmed in 1974 and 1975 by František Filip....
Arabela
Character: Theophil Vigo
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....
Eliška a její rod
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Druhý dech
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Hříšní lidé města pražského
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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 ...
Slavné historky zbojnické
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F. L. Věk
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Příběhy slavných
Character: Himself (archive footage)
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Klapzubova jedenáctka
Character: starý Klapzuba
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Byl jednou jeden dům
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Území bílých králů
Character: Roušar
The story centers around a group of children, led by Leontinka and Olda. Father of Leontinka manages the local Deer Park with an invaluable breed of white deer. A series of mysterious events unfolds, threatening the deer. Leontinka and Olda, who is in turn a son of a local police officer, search for the villain....
Der fliegende Ferdinand
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Young boy Cestmir finds a magic rock which allows him to bring the seeds of the flowers which allow flying from Blue Planet......
My všichni školou povinní
Character: František Lamač
Stories from a daily life of children attending a regular school....
Advokát ex offo
Character: Grecman
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Movie Credits
I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen
Character: Professor David Moore
This futuristic science fiction comedy features an atomic bomb blast that causes women to grow beards and lose the ability to have children. A summit meeting is held at the United Nations, with the proposed solution of building a time machine. The decision is made to travel back in time and murder Einstein, with the hopeful result being that without the noted mathematician's research there will be no atomic bombs....
Long Live Ghosts!
Character: rytíř Brtník z Brtníku
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....
The End of Agent W4C
Character: Foustka
The invincible agent Cyril Juan Borguette alias W4C has been assigned a mission to go to a hotel in Prague, get hold of a saltcellar with a plan for the military exploitation of Venus hidden in it, and hand it over to the beautiful agent Alice. He will have to compete for the saltcellar with other agents working for the world's various greater and smaller powers. The head of the Prague counter-intelligence unit gets news of agent W4C's mission. Deficient in personnel, he nominates accountant Fou...
Who Wants to Kill Jessie?
Character: Doc. Jindrich Beránek
In this zany Czechoslovakian comedy, a scientist invents a machine that projects a sleeping person's dream on a screen; disaster soon follows when the machine malfunctions and the cartoon-like dream characters become very real!...
A Nice Plate of Spinach
Character: údržbář František Liška
The heroes of this absurd comedy, full of confusion and humor are Dzharda Zemanek and Frantisek Liska....
How to Wake a Princess
Character: King Dalimil I.
At long last, King Dalimil and Queen Eliška have produced an heir, Princess Růženka. Consumed with envy, Eliška’s sister Melánie casts a curse: On the day Růženka turns seventeen, she will prick her finger and fall into a deep sleep together with the entire kingdom....
Men About Town
Character: Tonda Skopec
Three blue collar workers have a night out in big city Prague....
Probuzení
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Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea
Character: Klaus Abbard
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....
Sny na neděli
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Marecek, Pass Me the Pen!
Character: Kroupa sr.
This comedy is about one average family. The father works as master in the factory and his son is studying on high school. One day father must start to visit the evening school. It's the same school as his son visiting. The lives both students are connecting together. The son must teach the math and physics his own father. The father getting to know, that the life of the students is not simple as he supposed....
Hledá se táta!
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OK 12 startuje
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Ceiling
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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....
Darbujan and Pandrhola
Character: Kuba Dařbuján, havíř a léčitel
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Bohous
Character: Alois Randa
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90° in the Shade
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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....
The Pipes
Character: Kurt (voice)
This three-part Austrian/Czech comedy stretches the boundaries of what is considered to be humorous. Part one finds a silent film actor upset because of a rival actor's attention to the former's wife. When he kills his rival, it is only when he is strapped to the electric chair that he realizes that this is his last live scene. The second episode has the wife of an elderly British nobleman having an affair with the young gamekeeper of their estate. Part three finds a peasant woman taking a lover...
Sign of the Cancer
Character: MUDr. Karel Petera (voice)
A murder in a hospital run by incompetents....
Return to Paradise Lost
Character: Strejcek
A professor reunites with an old friend who inspires him to return to Czechoslovakia for the first time since he emigrated years ago....
A Killer on the Tracks
Character: major Kalaš
An escort composed of three people transports a huge amount of new one-hundred crown banknotes in a special railway car. At the 196th kilometer, a village girl is waiting at the railway crossing and spots two men removing some packages from the track. The scene is immediately followed by the report of a gun and the unwanted witness is shot dead. Soon afterwards, on the 201st kilometer, the train explodes. Only one of the escorts Lenk (Radoslav Brzobohatý) survives the explosion, taken to hospita...
Death in the Saddle
Character: Mikota
On the state stud-farm, Tomás (Rudolf Jelínek) is preparing to become a jockey together with other boys. He loves to read cowboy stories and Western pulp magazines and his passion makes him......
Objížďka
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I Survived Certain Death
Character: Josef
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....
Divoké pivo
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The Song of the Grey Pigeon
Character: Fero Šlosiarik
An unusual children's film set during World War II in Czechoslovakia, this compelling drama unfolds five different segments that present the war through the eyes of three youngsters. The three have a series of adventures which include saving a soldier from being captured by the Germans, helping out the resistance fighters, and meeting up with a young Russian woman trained in guerrilla warfare. As they learn more about life and danger, various circumstances constantly recall the reality of war it...
A Star Is Falling Upwards
Character: Kalenda
Švand, a room painter from Strakonice, begins a dizzying career as a pop music star, but he soon discovers that fame is not the most important thing in life or what he is looking for and what he longs for in life....
When the Cat Comes
Character: Karel
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....
Tie malé výlety
Character: Landa
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The Best Woman in My Life
Character: Láďa
Ordinary man making his dirty actions in the small town and his coming to the right side....
Silvestr 79 aneb Hrajeme si jako děti
Character: Self
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Tank Brigade
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Člověk není sám
Character: major Sýkora
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Co je doma to se počítá, pánové...
Character: Novák
Czech comedy from the 70ties....
Čintamani & podvodník
Character: sňatkový podvodník Vincenc Plichta
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When the Woman Butts In
Character: Chairman of JZD Hatl
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....
Six Bears and a Clown
Character: ředitel školy
The owner of a circus decides to swap his trained bears for trained pigs, and fires clown Cibulka. The clown gets a job at a local school, bears escape and seek him out and a school inspector comes into town....
Plavení hříbat
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You Are a Widow, Sir
Character: král Rosebud IV.
After a soldier cuts off the arm of king's cousin, king decides to deactivate the army. Of course, generals don't like it at all and they try to kill the king. The assassin should be artificial body in the shape of actress Evelina Keleti and with brain of psychotic serial killer Fany Stubová. They also manage to kill king's astrologer Stuart Hampl, who warns the king. Accidentally, Hampl's brain is implanted into assassin's body, actress Keleti is killed and chaos begins....
Among Us Thieves
Character: František Fafejta
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The King of Kings
Character: Lojza Králů
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....
Kudy kam?
Character: Vojta
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Poklad byzantského kupce
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Chicken on Travels
Character: Kaláb
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Mature Wine
Character: Čestmír Semerád
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Magnetické vlny léčí
Character: Joe Banks, starosta a soudce
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Young Wine
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Circus in the Circus
Character: Professor Růžička
To Moscow have arrived the participants of the international conference of the zoophilologists and also the international jury which is to elect for the world festival the best performance of the program of Moscow circus. Mrs Whistler (Iva Janzurová), British associate professor, makes her understood with the animals in their language but the Czech professor Ruzicka (Jirí Sovák), though he is capable of using the animals language, prefers teaching the animals the human language. Ruzicka's friend...
The Frog Prince
Character: Hippolytus
When a young princess, instead of being fully dedicated to her love, persists in running around like a tomboy and roaming the forests with her gang, and a young prince refuses to give up all his vices and mischief, an aquaphobic fairy takes their fate into her hands. The princess then falls in love with the prince, who declares eternal fidelity to her. When he however breaks this promise, the fairy turns him into a frog. With which the loyalty of the princess is being tested as well....
Muž v povětří
Character: Jenda Pospíchal
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Terrible Woman
Character: Koválek
Film by Jindrich Polák....
Plavecký mariáš
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Florián
Character: Florián Jírovec
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Zlatá svatba
Character: předseda MNV
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The Circus Will Be
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A few bus-loads of holidaymakers from the agricultural cooperative on a day trip arrive to see the show at the Slavia Circus. But, they have bad luck. It is Monday, the day on which the employees have their extra day off....
Kolya
Character: Růžička
After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly take responsibility for her son. However, it’s not long before the communication barrier is broken between the two new family members....
Tenkrát o vánocích
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Neporažení
Character: Jarda
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Tears the World Can't See
Character: Pružina Pružinskij
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Spadla s měsíce
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Hry lásky šálivé
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A Star Named Wormwood
Character: Červenka
At the end of May 1918, released prisoners return to the Rumburk garrison from Russian captivity, hoping that the war is over for them. The only thing they want is to get their withheld ......
Vstanou noví bojovníci
Character: Sláma
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Action B
Character: Pvt. Jula
Film shows the struggle of the Czechoslovak armed forces against groups of Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) under command Burlak, who tried to pass through the territory of Slovakia....
Severní přístav
Character: Beránek
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The Best Man
Character: citizen at a meeting
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Zaostřit prosím!
Character: Pošahal's friend Zoun
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Tři nevinní
Character: Halama / Poupě / Pic / Vlk
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Florenc 13,30
Character: Tachecí
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The Hour of Blue Elephants
Character: Magician Bertoldi (voice)
Two days before Christmas. Zuzanka and Tomás, friends from a kindergarten wander off during a walk. They admire toys and decoration in shop-windows. Zuzanka shall receive a sledge as a Christmas present and Tomás even a desired little brother. At a shooting gallery Tomás aims at a target on the trunk of a blue elephant which can call in Christmas. The impatient Zuzanka pushes to her friend and he shoots directly to the elephant's red eye. Things which the owner of the shooting gallery warned abo...
Jaroslav Hasek's Exemplary Cinematograph
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Občan Brych
Character: clerk Hlaváč
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The Hero Is Afraid
Character: úředník Zdeněk, Honzův přítel
Honza Vavrinec (Rudolf Hrusínský) works in the investment department of a large office. One day he gets involved in the case of an unjustly convicted worker who mistakenly considers him a parliamentary deputy. Honza as a "deputy" interferes in the case and helps the worker. Encouraged by the success and possibly also out of love for the beautiful secretary Svatava (Blanka Bohdanová), the then shy and fearful Honza stands up for the chief of the department, Hofmánek (Ladislav Pesek), who has been...
Today for the Last Time
Character: holič A. Zemánek
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....
Nobody Knows Anything
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The Man from London
Character: kasar Josef Reiner
A British citizen by the name of George Reiner (Jirí Sovák) arrives at Prague airport. He was once a Czech safe-breaker, and has now returned home after thirty years to steal twenty-dollar gold coins still kept in the safe at a private villa in Pilsen whose owner fled to the West....
Přísně tajné premiéry
Character: spisovatel Vladimír Hudec
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Chlap jako hora
Character: Duda
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Jahrgang 21
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Film by Václav Gajer....
Mezi nebem a zemí
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