Jiří Vršťala
Birthday: Born in 1920-07-31 in Liberec, Czechoslovakia
Deathday: 1999-06-10
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Geheimkommando Ciupaga
Character: Jurian
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Clown Ferdinand
Character: Clown Ferdinand
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Schatten über Notre Dame
Character: Jacques Batissier
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The Story of a Murder
Character: Dr. Hoffmann
In the mid-1950s, mayor Zwischenzahl is killed on the day of his inauguration in a West German town. The killer is Ruth Bodenheim, a Jewish woman, who wanted to avenge the death of her parents. Zwischenzahl, a former SA member, was apparently involved in the deportation of her parents to a concentration camp during the war. Ruth cannot bear the horrible events and the death of her parents and wants to open the eyes of the town′s residents....
Just a Joke
Character: Zdenef Huba, Czech clown
The grey hero of grey workdays, the divorced cashier of a cinema who is always willing to sacrifice herself for others, Etelka, is awarded a two-week-holiday at Lake Balaton. Following the advice of her female friend, she tries to live life at full speed....
Transport from Paradise
Character: Binde
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....
Fortress on the Rhine
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During the Second World War, an old fortress is transformed into a detention camp for arrested allied generals who the Germans provide with every possible comfort. In the nearby garrison camp, however, hundreds of captured private soldiers try to survive hunger and cold....
Assassination
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The assassination of Heydrich in Prague during WWII....
Bubny
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The Five Sinners
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The Sons of Great Bear
Character: Red Fox
As American settlers encroach on the lands of the Lakota people, Tokei-ihto witnesses the murder of his father at the hands of Red Fox, who wanted information on where the tribe finds its gold. Two years later, at the height of the Great Sioux War, Tokei-ihto and Red Fox meet again....
Der kleine und der große Klaus
Character: Bauer Preben
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Dialogue 20-40-60
Character: Fabián (segment "The Twenty-Year-Olds")
"Using the same, three times repeating dialogue – dramatic conversation between man and woman – Jerzy Skolimowski from Poland, Slovak director Peter Solan and Czech director Zbynìk Brynych shot three different stories. The result was an extraordinary experiment in the world cinema, which we can call an insight in the relationships of men and women of different age groups, an analysis of love and marriage of those who are at the beginning, in the middle or going towards the end of their life."...
The Fifth Horseman Is Fear
Character: Police Inspector
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....
I, Justice
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At the year 1946, the time of the Nuremberg Process. One of the main actors of the Second World War, who reportedly committed suicide, Adolf Hitler is, however, missing. The Czech doctor Herman (Karel Höger) is kidnapped from Prague and driven to the sanatorium of Professor Rolf Harting (Jirí Vrstála). The sanatorium is a disguised military stronghold, most probably occupied by a Nazi garrison, with prison cells and an execution chamber in the basement. At night, Herman is taken to a patient in ...
Clown Ferdinand and the Rocket
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When Clown Ferdinand enters an abandoned city in his wagon he ends up on a space rocket where he meets a robot that can turn invisible. This film reuses sets from Polák's Ikarie XB 1 (1963)....
Ants Bring Death
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A crime movie directed by Zbynek Brynych....
Frozen Flashes
Character: Professor Rahn
In November of 1939, the British consulate in Norway receives documents saying that the Nazis are conducting secret rocket research in Peenemünde. But the British doubt the authenticity of the so called "Oslo report". Thus, the Germans continue their experiments unimpeded. At the same time, resistance groups from France, England, Poland, and Germany try to find and to sabotage the secret Nazi research base. When the first "V 2" rocket is successfully launched, the Allied commanders finally becom...
Clown Ferdinand will schlafen
Character: Clown Ferdinand
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A Face of an Angel
Character: Augustin
Story of 11-year old Tadeusz, a prisoner in a children's concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland....
The Criminal on Vacation
Character: Max Scheffler
The plot takes place in a picturesque Montenegrin islet of Sveti Stefan. The local authorities investigate the murder of a tourist, which background turns out to be connected with the Nazi crimes....
Der Weihnachtsmann heißt Willi
Character: Clown Ferdinand
Five-year-old Peter and his older brother Hans drop the Christmas present for their parents in the middle of the road and it gets flattened by a car. Deeply distressed, they go to a Christmas fair and buy a lottery ticket with their remaining money. To their delight, they win a washing machine! Peter is especially excited when Santa Claus shows up and promises to transport the machine for him, but the old man instead vanishes with the boys' gift. Hans is convinced that Peter has been conned and ...
Plavecký mariáš
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Death Behind a Curtain
Character: pašerák Filip Lavedan
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Die Nacht im Grenzwald
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Flucht ins Schweigen
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The Devil's Trap
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A small town is one day visited by a priest who is there on a secret mission. He is a member of the Inquisition sent to investigate the activities of a local miller. The miller and his son are the descendants of an old family whose ancestral home burned down a century ago, but was rebuilt from scratch. The miller inherited much of his knowledge about the land, water, and a building's stability from generations of family experience. His reputation for finding water and predicting when a structure...
Anna the Proletarian
Character: Young Man from Stromovce
The movie describes proletarian life in the Czech Lands after World War I....
Severní přístav
Character: porucík Patera
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The Best Man
Character: Divák
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From My Life
Character: Karel Purkyně
Venice Film Festival 1955...
Ikarie XB 1
Character: Erik Svenson, Pilot
The year is 2163. Starship Ikaria XB 1 embarks on a mission deep into space in search of alien life. During their perilous journey the crew confront the effects of a malignant dark star, the destructive legacy of the 20th century and, ultimately, the limits of their own sanity....
Mordová rokle
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Na konci města
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Muž v povětří
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Punta and the Four-Leaf Clover
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A film about a boy who is protective of a runaway dog and the dog, who is protective of the boy....
Páté oddělení
Character: Karlík
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Artur Becker
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The young communist Artur Becker fights with the Interbrigades against the Franco putschists during the Spanish Civil War. He had experienced his baptism of fire in Germany at the time of the Weimar Republic during the Kapp Putsch. He was seriously wounded and arrested. After an unsuccessful escape attempt, he was interrogated several times by Spanish and German putschists and then shot....