Biography: Jiří Zahajský (19 January 1939, Mšeno - 19 July 2007, Prague) was a Czech actor and dabér. He was a member of the Theater in Vinohrady, Theater behind the gate and longtime member of the Prague Drama Club. He played in a number of Czech films of both serious and comedic. Jiri Zahajsky was born in Mšeně near Mělník. As a child, he showed a tendency to acting when he played in the amateur performance of Snow White by Dwarf Dwarf. After the war, the Zahajski family moved to Děčín. As a student, he was playing a very good ensemble of amateurs under the direction of director Hipia. He recognized Zahai's talent and negotiated his studies at E. Burian. Zahajsky then studied at the DAMU and became a member of the Vinohrady Theater (1961-1965). In 1965 Zahajsky became a member of the Theater behind the gate, where he played together with Vladimír Menšík for example in the Maskary of Ostende. In 1972, the Administrative Theater behind the gate was canceled and Zahajský and Libuší Šafránková left for the Činoherní klub. His colleagues included Petr Čepek, Jiřina Třebická, Josef Somr, Jiří Kodet, Jiří Hrzán and others. Jiri Zahajsky made mainly small characters in film and on television. Unforgettable is his character, Inspector Trachta of the comedy Dissolved and launched. He created several roles of criminologists, his beard gave him the opportunity to perform the roles of the grooms, he played in the roles of his fathers (TV series Křeček in the nightgown). Daddy also played in a number of television fairy tales especially in the 1980s. Jiri Zahajsky was for 31 years a life partner of TV advertiser Kamila Moučková, since 1992 she was the fourth husband of actress Jana Brejchová. Jiri Zahajsky died in Prague after a long fight with prostate cancer on July 19, 2007. (Wikipedia)
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 19, 1939
Deathday: July 19, 2007
Popularity:
1978-08-25
Overview: The director of films for kids called Bonzurka together with her loyal assistants Drahuska and Honza are looking for the actors for a new movie "The Knee". Children for this movie should not be afraid and shy and they must have talent for acting. Thus the scouting is quite difficult. The most difficult is to find an actress for a main character who lost her hair after a serious illness and now has to spent the whole holiday in the countryside with a bald head resembling a knee. Although the makeup artist does his best an artificial baldness does not solve anything. From the selected little girls only the self-assertive Rosemary has the guts to let her long hair to be cut and shave off her head.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-08-25
Popularity:
1978-04-21
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-04-21
Popularity:
1978-11-10
Overview: Second movie of the famous Czech adventure trilogy: Osada Havranů Na veliké rece Volání rodu
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-11-10
Popularity:
1978-04-14
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-04-14
Popularity:
1978-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-01-01
Popularity:
1977-12-15
Overview:
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1977-12-15
Popularity:
1979-03-02
Overview: Julie, the youngest daughter of a bankrupt merchant, sacrifices her life in order to save her father. She goes to an enchanted castle in the woods and meets Netvor, a bird-like monster. As Netvor begins to fall in love with Julie, he must suppress his beastly urge to kill her.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1979-03-02
Popularity:
1979-05-18
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1979-05-18
Popularity:
1978-06-23
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-06-23
Popularity:
1978-12-07
Overview:
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-12-07
Popularity:
1981-04-20
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1981-04-20
Popularity:
1980-08-22
Overview: Tomás lives in a very small Czech town and is a nature lover and a birdwatcher. He struggles to keep the forests he loves clean and constantly fights his "archenemy" whose sister and Tomás's classmate is secretly in love with him.
Genres: Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-08-22
Popularity:
1980-02-01
Overview: Vera, wife of the plumber Simandl (Josef Somr), is found murdered in the cinema next to the IDOC (Information and Documentation) agency where she worked. Police captain Marha (Frantisek Nemec), who is leading the investigation, is informed by Simandl that on the day of the murder Vera promised to bring home fifty thousand crowns to buy a car. Marha's primary suspects are the three men working at the agency: deputy editor-in-chief Brandl (Jirí Pleskot) and editors Pernata (Eduard Cupák) and Remes (Ludek Munzar, and of course also Simandl.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-02-01
Popularity:
1982-12-08
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1982-12-08
Popularity:
1985-01-01
Overview: A police inspector and inexperienced trainee search for a mysteriously disappeared manufacturer of ointments for hair growth.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1985-01-01
Popularity:
1981-06-19
Overview: A red haired Petra is not your ordinary girl - in addition to her regular "girly" interests she's also a goalie in boys football team.
Genres: Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1981-06-19
Popularity:
1986-02-01
Overview:
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1986-02-01
Popularity:
1980-06-05
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-06-05
Popularity:
1960-12-09
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1960-12-09
Popularity:
1961-12-22
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1961-12-22
Popularity:
1962-03-15
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1962-03-15
Popularity:
1981-04-09
Overview: In his feature debut, Dneska přišel nový kluk (A New Boy Started Today) from 1981, the director Vladimír Drha set the tone for a number of Czech films, which critically depicted the state of society from the perspective of young protagonists. Although, Drha primarily found scope for his work in television, he returned to the world of a “working youth” in his second film Mezek (The Mulish Victor, 1985) – albeit following him from the point of view of an educator. NFA.CZ
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1981-04-09
Popularity:
1982-02-12
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1982-02-12
Popularity:
1984-10-13
Overview:
Genres: Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1984-10-13
Popularity:
1981-11-26
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1981-11-26
Popularity:
1963-08-16
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1963-08-16
Popularity:
1984-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1984-01-01
Popularity:
1982-12-03
Overview: The director and choreographer from Prague are preparing a show performance "Oriental Fairy Tale" - a ballet on ice with the participation of vocal and instrumental ensembles and pop singers. They are shooting their picture in Kazakhstan at the Medeo high-altitude skating rink.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1982-12-03
Popularity:
1993-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Fantasy Family TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1993-01-01
Popularity:
1968-02-02
Overview:
Genres: Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1968-02-02
Popularity:
1980-10-31
Overview: The trenches of World War I provide for a captivating backdrop to the drama of Corporal Hoferik. In his devotion to the Habsburg Monarchy, he fanatically carries out his military orders, but he ultimately suffers the Empire's disfavor.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-10-31
Popularity:
1982-03-13
Overview:
Genres: Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1982-03-13
Popularity:
1971-06-25
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1971-06-25
Popularity:
1971-01-03
Overview: Czech television production of Dracula that is very faithful to Bram Stoker's novel.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1971-01-03
Popularity:
1972-01-02
Overview:
Genres: Crime History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1972-01-02
Popularity:
1973-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Fantasy Family TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1973-01-01
Popularity:
1992-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Fantasy Family TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1992-01-01
Popularity:
1972-05-26
Overview: This film, chronicling the last days of Czech resistance fighter Maruska Kuderikova (played by Magda Vasaryova), is based on her diaries. Though she was tortured and eventually executed by the Nazis, her diaries indicate that she was optimistic for the humanity of her captors and did not by any means hate them. Told with simple dignity, this film makes clear why Maruska became a national hero.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1972-05-26
Popularity:
1973-01-26
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1973-01-26
Popularity:
1972-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1972-01-01
Popularity:
1996-09-05
Overview:
Genres: Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1996-09-05
Popularity:
1974-12-29
Overview:
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1974-12-29
Popularity:
1975-05-09
Overview: The plot begins in the Soviet Union showing first efforts to establish the Czechoslovak legion in 1942. The film also shows the assassination of Heydrich and the subsequent annihilation of Lidice. The main topis of the film is battles with German troops for Sokolovo.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1975-05-09
Popularity:
1975-03-13
Overview:
Genres: History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1975-03-13
Popularity:
1976-02-01
Overview:
Genres: Fantasy Family TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1976-02-01
Popularity:
1991-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1991-01-01
Popularity:
1989-01-29
Overview:
Genres: Fantasy Family TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1989-01-29
Popularity:
1985-09-01
Overview:
Genres: Fantasy Family TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1985-09-01
Popularity:
2006-12-25
Overview:
Genres: Fantasy Family TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2006-12-25
Popularity:
1976-04-02
Overview:
Genres: Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1976-04-02
Popularity:
1986-07-06
Overview:
Genres: Fantasy Family TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1986-07-06
Popularity:
1976-12-17
Overview: Three short stories ("Zelenáči 1945", "Silvestr 1948" and "Zimní vítr 1951") about members of the SNB units guarding the Šumava border in the post-war years. Ivo Toman had artistic supervision over the debutants. The theme of the third short story was made in 1959 for the film "Entry Forbidden" by František Vláčil, who was also starting at the time.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1976-12-17
Popularity:
1984-05-01
Overview:
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1984-05-01
Popularity:
1984-02-01
Overview:
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1984-02-01
Popularity:
1977-05-27
Overview:
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1977-05-27
Popularity:
1977-02-04
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1977-02-04
Popularity:
1978-02-03
Overview: Sarcastic comedy about the Czechoslovakia of the seventies. A young gynaecologist can't figure out whether to get serious with a young nurse or to stay casual with his married lover. Things get complicated when both women don't want to play his game anymore.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-02-03
Popularity:
1991-10-22
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1991-10-22
Popularity:
1994-11-24
Overview: Set in 1776, this historical film by Petr Hvizd concerns an army deserter who takes refuge within the walls of the Convent of St. Claire. The investigation to find him soon becomes a question of morality concerning the value of human life in the context of the diversity and hierarchy of social laws.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1994-11-24
Popularity:
1965-03-25
Overview: Seven days, or rather evenings and nights, in the life of Jenka (Stanislava Bartosová), a young good-looking nurse. Jenka is attractive to men and enjoys their company, but there is a limit beyond which she won't go, since she is faithful to her Filip, who is doing his military service. On Sunday the girl awaits Filip to arrive on a short period of leave, but instead his friend Míla (Frantisek Nemec) turns up and apologizes for Filip, who has to stay in the barracks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1965-03-25
Popularity:
1981-11-16
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1981-11-16
Popularity:
1978-12-29
Overview: Taxi driver Koukal (Miroslav Machácek) is stopped by the police for a routine traffic check. In the boot of his car the police find the body of a naked man. Koukal is arrested even though he claims he knows nothing about it. The case is assigned to Major Mlynár (Milan Sandhaus). The police identify the corpse as that of an Austrian citizen called Mitrik. Koukal has been regularly driving people interested in gambling to a secret gaming den. The police are put onto the gambling den by another taxi driver, who admits that he drove Mitrik there. Mlynár and officer cadet Pecka (Ivan Vyskocil) feign interest in gambling and visit the gaming den incognito.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-12-29
Popularity:
1986-04-01
Overview: A crime movie directed by Zbynek Brynych.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1986-04-01
Popularity:
1983-10-01
Overview: Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Ladislav Smoljak, about the fictional national hero Jára Cimrman (universal genius, inventor, sportsman, criminalist, poet, writer and philosopher).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1983-10-01
Popularity:
1975-07-06
Overview:
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1975-07-06
Popularity:
1989-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1989-01-01
Popularity:
1984-12-31
Overview:
Genres: Family Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1984-12-31
Popularity:
1982-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Family Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1982-01-01
Popularity:
1997-12-14
Overview:
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1997-12-14
Popularity:
1983-01-02
Overview:
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1983-01-02
Popularity:
1985-12-31
Overview:
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1985-12-31
Popularity:
1997-11-16
Overview:
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1997-11-16
Popularity:
1983-11-20
Overview:
Genres: Family Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1983-11-20
Popularity:
1986-01-26
Overview:
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1986-01-26
Popularity:
1998-01-04
Overview:
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1998-01-04
Popularity:
1992-01-01
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1992-01-01
Popularity:
1990-01-01
Overview:
Genres: TV Movie Fantasy Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1990-01-01
Popularity:
1985-04-06
Overview:
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1985-04-06
Popularity:
1981-12-05
Overview:
Genres: Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1981-12-05
Popularity:
1983-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1983-01-01
Popularity:
1968-12-31
Overview: It is 5 May 1945 and the uprising against the hated German occupiers has broken out in Prague. The Czech guards open the gate of the Pankrác prison to allow the prisoners to escape en masse. Many of them are shot dead by the German guards but young Ruda (Jaromír Hanzlík) manages to run away. He is taken care of by one of the Prague fighters, concierge Kytka. Kytka hides him in the flat of the house's owner where only the young maid Karla (Jana Brejchová) is left, ordering her to take care of Ruda.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1968-12-31
Popularity:
1991-01-12
Overview:
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1991-01-12
Popularity:
1986-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1986-01-01
Popularity:
1975-12-26
Overview:
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1975-12-26
Popularity:
1974-03-01
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1974-03-01
Popularity:
1992-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Drama Romance Family Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1992-01-01
Popularity:
1987-01-06
Overview:
Genres: TV Movie Fantasy Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1987-01-06
Popularity:
1981-01-23
Overview: Matej and Jenda, two of the eight children of the poor Pelc family in the Giant Mountains, help in a glass works where the oldest brother Francek works. They hide into a tub not to be seen by supervisors checking on the ban of children labor. They miss the Epiphany carol (songs and treats door-to-door) and all neighbor village boys again on them in all the neighbor houses. On their way home they are passed by a fast moving big man with a large backpack. The boys send the customs officers, who are pursuing the strange man, to the opposite direction. The man then thanks them and rewards them the next day. Based on fairy-tales and legends the boys think the man is Krakonos (the giant living and ruling in the Giant Mountains).
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1981-01-23
Popularity:
1961-03-10
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1961-03-10
Popularity:
1991-03-01
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1991-03-01
Popularity:
1984-02-05
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1984-02-05
Popularity:
1993-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1993-01-01
Popularity:
1980-07-31
Overview:
Genres: Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-07-31
Popularity:
1979-01-19
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1979-01-19
Popularity:
1982-02-06
Overview:
Genres: Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1982-02-06
Popularity:
1979-04-26
Overview:
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1979-04-26
Popularity:
1987-07-01
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1987-07-01
Popularity:
1987-04-01
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1987-04-01
Popularity:
1988-07-01
Overview: As the Khmer Rouge carves a path of death throughout the land, a Czech doctor falls in love with a Cambodian woman. Their relationship, though sorely strained by the war's horrors, produces a child. The doctor is separated from his family once Pol Pot assumes control.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1988-07-01
Popularity: