Miroslav Svoboda
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 03, 1910
Deathday: December 17, 1988
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The Ninth Heart
1979-04-13
The Ninth Heart
Overview: Martin, a poor student, volunteers to go on a quest to find a cure for the princess Adriana, who is stricken with a strange illness. Unknown to Martin or anyone else, the princess is actually under the spell of the powerful magician Andlobrandini, who is preparing a rejuvenating elixir made from the blood of nine men's hearts.
Genres: Fantasy Family Horror
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1979-04-13
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The Emperor and the Golem
1952-01-04
The Emperor and the Golem
Overview: The Emperor's mismanagement of his country is provoking some in his court to plot to overthrow him. He feels successful, at least, when he discovers the legendary Golem, which he believes can protect him and even cure his imaginary illnesses but, when he disappears while on a bender, his kindly baker, who looks just like him, is mistaken for him, and begins to put things in order. However, the conspirators, not to be outdone, determine to bring the Golem back to life to do their bidding.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Horror
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1952-01-04
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Love Between the Raindrops
1980-05-23
Love Between the Raindrops
Overview: Set in Prague during the years leading up to World War II, this family saga tells the story of a cobbler named Vincenc Bursik (Vladimir Mensik), who uproots his clan from the country to the city, only to suffer the loss of his wife and the failure of his shoe business within months. When his daughter moves away to go live with a wealthy businessman as his mistress, Vincenc is left to take care of his two sons, who spend their days in a secret garden vying for the affections of a teenage girl.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-05-23
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Cesta do věku petrolejových lamp
1961-01-01
Cesta do věku petrolejových lamp
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Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Pozor volá Liška...
1962-01-01
Pozor volá Liška...
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Prague at Zero Hour
1963-07-06
Prague at Zero Hour
Overview: Czech friends help refugees from Nazi Germany escape in 1939.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1963-07-06
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Higher Principle
1960-11-23
Higher Principle
Overview: During the Nazi occupation of a Czech city civilians are being rounded up on the slightest of pretexts and shot. One day three high school boys who crack jokes about a recently deceased "hero of the Reich" are pulled out of school by the Gestapo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1960-11-23
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A Ridiculous Gentleman
1969-11-28
A Ridiculous Gentleman
Overview: When a noted professor receives a new treatment for his heart ailment, his outlook on life changes. Despite doctor's orders, he is determined to live out his final days on his own terms and fulfill his fantasies. He saves the life of a young woman who tries to kill herself after his recovery from heart surgery in this symbolic story of a man trying to determine his own fate in his last days alive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1969-11-28
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Takže ahoj
1971-04-02
Takže ahoj
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1971-04-02
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Transport from Paradise
1963-03-15
Transport from Paradise
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1963-03-15
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How to Drown Dr. Mracek, the Lawyer
1975-03-01
How to Drown Dr. Mracek, the Lawyer
Overview: There are still water spirits among us. One group lives in Prague, led by Mr. Wassermann, who is using his wife's family as a servants. All they need is their old house near the river. But the house is to be demolished. They have to stop it. And the only way is to drown Dr. Mrácek, who is responsible for the demolition. But he falls in love with Wassermann's niece Jana. He changes to fish, is mistaken for water spirit from Germany, is drowned and revived again. The other problem is the flour with ears... and so on...
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1975-03-01
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The Golden Fern
1963-08-29
The Golden Fern
Overview: Wandering through the forest, a woodcutter finds a golden fern whose seed turns into a beautiful woman - they fall in love. After getting drunk in a village feast, he gets to sign up to the army. The fairy gives him a shirt to wear and asks him to swear he will never abandon it. At the war front, he falls in love with the the colonel's daughter and will have to perform various feats to get her attention.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1963-08-29
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The Liberation of Prague
1977-05-06
The Liberation of Prague
Overview: On 20th of April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germany and Hitler decides to commit suicide. In Prague K.H. Frank (Nazi Secretary of State and Chief of police in the Protectorate of Bohemia a Moravia) discusses with his commanders how to transform the city into an impregnable fortress, but the Praguers do not intend to wait any longer. From the early hours of 4th of May people start assembling in the streets and tearing down German signs. On the next day, the 5th of May, the uprising begins.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1977-05-06
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Putování Jana Amose
1983-10-01
Putování Jana Amose
Overview:
Genres: History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1983-10-01
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Distant Journey
1949-06-03
Distant Journey
Overview: Prague, during World War II. Hana Kaufmann, a Jewish ophthalmologist, marries Dr. Antonín Bureš, a Christian man. When her family is sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, their romance turns into a struggle for survival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1949-06-03
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The White Disease
1937-12-21
The White Disease
Overview: In a country whose people have just been successfully persuaded of their superiority and the justification for military expansion by the fiery speeches of a dictator, the bacillus of a highly destructive form of leprosy has spread. It is called morbus Tshengi, or popularly „white disease“. The only one who has developed an effective cure for it is a physician of the poor named Galén. But he refuses to reveal the secret of his cure as long as the powerful destroy human lives through wars.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1937-12-21
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Before Graduation
1932-09-09
Before Graduation
Overview: The story of high school students, talented Jan and Karel, who has a problem with math. Their life affects pedantic professor of mathematics Klec, that goes with them on a school trip, which escalates the conflict between them. Jan wants to escape, but Professor Donat will discourage him. Karel fails the exam of mathematics and decides to commit suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1932-09-09
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...and Life Goes On
1935-10-18
...and Life Goes On
Overview: On the coast of Yugoslavia lives fisherman Ivo Kralj, his wife Marie, son Vuk, and Ivo's mother in one happy home. Marie, who loves her husband and always looks forward to his return from sea, attracts Nikola, with whom Ivo, out of jealousy, has a scuffle at a dance. After the outbreak of World War I Ivo is mobilized. He ends up in a P.O.W. camp where he is subjected to hard labour. His family then receives news of his death. The years pass and the lonely widow Marie is occasionally visited by her friend Nikola. Ivo's mother would like her to remarry. Soon after the wedding Marie becomes pregnant. Ivo, who has been thought dead, succeeds in escaping the P.O.W. camp where he has spent several years. Upon his arrival home he finds his name on a memorial erected to the victims of the war...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1935-10-18
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School for Fathers
1957-11-08
School for Fathers
Overview: A new teacher with high standards and a strong sense of duty replaces an easy grader. Once bad grades begin to pile up, a product of his predecessor's subservience to the system, the new teacher has to stand up for himself and his students.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1957-11-08
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Circus in the Circus
1976-02-13
Circus in the Circus
Overview: 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 poodle Archibald, speaks "in Human" very well. The scientific dispute ends with a bet - if Ruzicka teaches the circus elephant to sing, Mrs Whistler will eat up her hat.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1976-02-13
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Heave-Ho!
1934-10-26
Heave-Ho!
Overview: A Milk-Cannery baron, Jakub Simonides, is broken by the Canned Milk-Trust and, in his wanderings with a worker, Filip Kornet, he discovers he still owns a half-finished apartment-house. They rally the workers and complete the building for use as a collectivist dairy. The cooperative flourishes and after a chase/pursuit with the police, pratfalls, slapstick and various crashes, the workers buy out the Milk-Trust.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1934-10-26
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Romeo, Juliet and Darkness
1960-04-15
Romeo, Juliet and Darkness
Overview: Pavel, a young student living in Prague in 1942, hides a Jewish girl in his apartment building's attic. Amidst the brutality of the occupying German army, love blossoms between the two. He is her only link to the outside world. Then the two are discovered by Pavel's mother, who forces the residents of the apartment building to decide whether Hana can remain.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1960-04-15
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The World Belongs to Us
1937-07-30
The World Belongs to Us
Overview: One of the few European films of the 30s to criticize the Nazis, even if they couldn't be directly named due to censorship: Gangsters with gray hats stir up trouble in what is obviously the Sudetenland.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1937-07-30
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Paní Kačka zasahuje...
1939-12-08
Paní Kačka zasahuje...
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1939-12-08
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Vražda v Ostrovní ulici
1933-03-24
Vražda v Ostrovní ulici
Overview:
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1933-03-24
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Velká přehrada
1942-10-16
Velká přehrada
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1942-10-16
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Studentská máma
1935-09-20
Studentská máma
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1935-09-20
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Druhá směna
1940-12-20
Druhá směna
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1940-12-20
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Vzdušné torpédo 48
1937-03-05
Vzdušné torpédo 48
Overview:
Genres: Drama Adventure Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1937-03-05
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Lidé pod horami
1937-03-18
Lidé pod horami
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1937-03-18
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Žízeň
1950-03-24
Žízeň
Overview: The catastrophically dry weather of 1947 causes immense problems in the countryside. In the small village Klícov, only farmers Hánek and Bervida and the old Hromádka have water. The others must queue every day for a drop for themselves and their cattle. All the villagers lament over their previous decision to turn down the cooperative chairman Kouba's proposal to built a new village water-supply system.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1950-03-24
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The Magical Hat
1953-07-03
The Magical Hat
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1953-07-03
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Action B
1952-02-22
Action B
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1952-02-22
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The Secret of Blood
1953-12-25
The Secret of Blood
Overview:
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1953-12-25
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Karel Hynek Mácha
1937-09-15
Karel Hynek Mácha
Overview: Film about famous poet Karel Hynek Mácha
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1937-09-15
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The Windy Mountain
1956-02-03
The Windy Mountain
Overview:
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1956-02-03
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Pan Habětín odchází
1949-10-28
Pan Habětín odchází
Overview: Cold War Spy FIlm
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1949-10-28
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Rukavička
1941-01-01
Rukavička
Overview:
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1941-01-01
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Puppies
1958-03-21
Puppies
Overview: Explores young adults' fears of being conscripted by the communist government into working outside of Prague, a relative oasis of creativity and freedom of thought. From an early script by Milos Forman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1958-03-21
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The Princess with the Golden Star
1959-12-18
The Princess with the Golden Star
Overview: A Czech fairy tale about a princess named Lada who runs away from home in a mouse fur disguise in order to escape an unwanted and forced marriage.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1959-12-18
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Záhada modrého pokoje
1933-02-03
Záhada modrého pokoje
Overview:
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1933-02-03
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Ballad-Singer
1932-11-25
Ballad-Singer
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1932-11-25
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Milan Rastislav Štefánik
1935-10-25
Milan Rastislav Štefánik
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1935-10-25
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Today for the Last Time
1958-12-13
Today for the Last Time
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1958-12-13
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Dnes o půl jedenácté
1949-11-25
Dnes o půl jedenácté
Overview:
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1949-11-25
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Pětistovka
1949-09-02
Pětistovka
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1949-09-02
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Karhanova parta
1951-03-23
Karhanova parta
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1951-03-23
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Taková láska
1959-10-02
Taková láska
Overview: A student commits suicide out of unhappy love to a married man; story is recounted in retrospective by a "judge" who asks the audience to decide who is the guilty party.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1959-10-02
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Dog's Heads
1955-03-25
Dog's Heads
Overview: 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.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1955-03-25
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Vintage Car
1957-03-29
Vintage Car
Overview:
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1957-03-29
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Roztržka
1957-02-15
Roztržka
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1957-02-15
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Večery s Jindřichem Plachtou
1954-03-05
Večery s Jindřichem Plachtou
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1954-03-05
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