Karel Mareš
Biography: Karel Mares (2 August 1927 – 11 November 2011) was a Czech composer, songwriter, actor and theater director.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 02, 1927
Deathday: November 14, 2011
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Known For
Case for a Rookie Hangman
1970-07-03
Case for a Rookie Hangman
Overview: Lemuel Gulliver (Lubomír Kostelka) has had a car accident and continues his journey across the unknown countryside on foot. On the road he finds a dead rabbit dressed like a man and takes a watch from its waistcoat breast pocket. The half-ruined house that he enters reminds Lemuel of his childhood and brings up a painful memory of a dearly loved girl Markéta who was drowned years ago. Gulliver finds himself in Balnibarbi, a country where he doesn't understand the laws and habits and so continually offends against public decency. It is a day when people are ordered to keep their mouths shut and they force their visitor to follow suit. He faces harsh interrogation and finds it difficult to explain that he is not the rabbit Oscar whose watch has been found in his possession.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1970-07-03
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A Report on the Party and the Guests
1966-12-30
A Report on the Party and the Guests
Overview: A picnic is rudely transformed into a lesson in political hierarchy when a handful of mysterious authority figures show up.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1966-12-30
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If a Thousand Clarinets
1965-01-26
If a Thousand Clarinets
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Music Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1965-01-26
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The End of a Priest
1969-01-10
The End of a Priest
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1969-01-10
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Crime in the Night Club
1968-12-20
Crime in the Night Club
Overview: A black comedy set in a Prague cabaret.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1968-12-20
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Larks on a String
1990-02-01
Larks on a String
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1990-02-01
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Nevěsta
1970-09-24
Nevěsta
Overview: The female employees of the poultry-processing factory find relief from their monotonous work in chatting about weddings and marriages. The very young Zdena (Marta Vancurová), too, dreams about a white veil and an entourage of bridesmaids. On her return home from work, she runs into a peculiar man on an abandoned road who pertinaciously offers to read her palm for a few crowns to buy soup. His augury is rather usual - wealth and poverty, suffering and happiness. Then however, he declares that Zdena must marry exactly on 3 November of that year otherwise she will be unhappy.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1970-09-24
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Lítost
1970-10-18
Lítost
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1970-10-18
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A Star Is Falling Upwards
1975-08-29
A Star Is Falling Upwards
Overview: 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.
Genres: Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1975-08-29
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Audition
1964-02-28
Audition
Overview: Two closely related episodes. Youths make problems for two local orchestras about to compete nationally, and in a talent competition a young girl gets stage fright, while another lies to her boss to compete.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1964-02-28
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The Guard
1970-08-14
The Guard
Overview: Even in 1970, films were made, prepared in previous years and expressing the poetics of that time. Ivan Renč created an almost protocol parable, deliberately set outside time and space, playing out a supremely model situation. In a somewhat rambling and not always convincing story, it tells the story of a young prison guard who dreams of living on a lonely lighthouse. He is ridiculous in his own way, with a distorted character, he hardly finds any satisfaction in his job, he cannot command the slightest respect from the prisoners - and the hero then takes out his excess pressure by abusing a defenseless dog. And one day there will be a short circuit meeting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1970-08-14
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