Dana Vávrová
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dana Vávrová (9 August 1967 in Prague – 5 February 2009 in Munich) was a Czech-German film actress and director.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 09, 1967
Deathday: February 05, 2009
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Brother of Sleep
1995-09-08
Brother of Sleep
Overview: In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austrian mountains. While growing up he is considered strange by the other villagers and discovers his love of music, especially rebuilding and playing the organ at the village church. After experiencing an "acoustic wonder", his eye color changes and he can hear even the most subtle sounds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-09-08
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Autumn Milk
1989-01-19
Autumn Milk
Overview: With the death of her mother, eight-year-old Anna ends her childhood: From now on, she has to look after the nine-member family. Deprivation-rich years, which also find no end when Anna marries: Her husband Albert must be a soldier in the Second World War, and the pregnant Anna has to work hard in the farm and care sick relatives. Lonely and exposed to the harassment of the tyrannical mother-in-law, she waits for Albert, with no certainty that he will ever return.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-01-19
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Až bude padat hvězda
1976-12-23
Až bude padat hvězda
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1976-12-23
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A Major Role for Rosmaryna
1978-08-25
A Major Role for Rosmaryna
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
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M/S Gustloff
2008-03-02
M/S Gustloff
Overview: Joseph Vilsmaier Two-part TV movie focuses on the tragic events surrounding the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German passenger ship, at the end of World War II. On 30 January 1945, Captain Hellmuth Kehding was in charge of the ship, evacuating wounded soldiers and civilians trapped by the Red Army. Soon after leaving the harbor of Danzig, it was hit by three torpedoes from the Soviet submarine and sank in less than an hour.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-03-02
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Stalingrad
1993-01-20
Stalingrad
Overview: A German Platoon is explored through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After half of their number is wiped out and they're placed under the command of a sadistic captain, the platoon lieutenant leads his men to desert. The platoon members attempt escape from the city, now surrounded by the Soviet Army.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-01-20
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Život je tvrdolín
1980-04-06
Život je tvrdolín
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Genres: Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-04-06
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Rock Crystal
2004-11-18
Rock Crystal
Overview: The towns of Gschaid and Millsdorf are in a constant state of feuding with each other. Nevertheless Gschaid's Sebastian and Millsdorf's Susanne are married. In her husband's town Susanne has to put up with daily harassment by the locals, which also extends to her two children. Finally she moves back to her parents, alone. When the children, who long to find a magical crystal they believe has the power to reunite the family, get lost in a howling blizzard on the exposed mountain after bringing their mother her Christmas presents, both towns set up rescue missions.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-11-18
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Ball Lightning
1979-08-10
Ball Lightning
Overview: A comedy about exchange of 12 apartments , which, its organizer, lawyer Radosta, rightly called Action Ball Lightning. To prepare, organize and execute the exchange of twelve apartments is a work worthy champions. Radosta, who was excellently played by Rudolf Hrušínský, solved all sudden difficulties and complications on the fly and with grace. To be sure that the on the D-day everything goes well he prepares a little rehearsal, which reveals many minor issues caused for example by wedding ordered to inappropriate term or hesitation of some participants. Last but not least a night exercise announced by drunk psychologist Knotků, creates a lot of confusion that nearly sabotaged the whole operation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1979-08-10
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Vražedné pochybnosti
1979-06-29
Vražedné pochybnosti
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1979-06-29
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Concert at the End of Summer
1980-02-15
Concert at the End of Summer
Overview: A docudrama about four weeks in the life of famous Czech composer Antonin Dvorak. The drama - filled with many of Dvorak's compositions - begins when the composer suddenly decides to cut a concert in London and return home. While on the train, flashbacks reveal his relationship to his wife Anna and her sister Josefina. Both women gave him inspiration, yet Dvorak is clearly troubled in some way as musical excerpts come and go in his creative mind.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-02-15
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Long Live Ghosts!
1977-11-11
Long Live Ghosts!
Overview: 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.
Genres: Family Comedy Music Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1977-11-11
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Jedničky má papoušek
1979-06-02
Jedničky má papoušek
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Genres: Music Family Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1979-06-02
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Lamento
2007-06-14
Lamento
Overview: Sensuous Eva keeps quite a few of the villagers on the go and likes to stir up trouble. But what else can she do in such a sleepy village where even her best friend Katharina no longer has any time for her. When Eva is found dead, the whole village is in turmoil. The presumed killer is quickly arrested: Clemens, the sexton of the local community and a peeping-tom. Katharina becomes more and more suspicious when she finds one of Eva's earrings in the church. Does Christoph - her father - have something to do with the murder of her friend?
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-06-14
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Grenzverkehr
2005-06-07
Grenzverkehr
Overview: When three teenage boys from Bavaria try to lose their innocence in the neighboring Czech Republic, they get themselves and a young pregnant Ukrainian immigrant into trouble with local pimps.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-06-07
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Svítalo celou noc
1980-10-03
Svítalo celou noc
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-10-03
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Něco je ve vzduchu
1981-05-08
Něco je ve vzduchu
Overview: The urn supposedly containing the remains of Alice's grandfather falls out of the window and breaks. To Alice's great surprise, the urn is empty and the girl learns that the grandfather didn't die but disappeared under mysterious circumstances on the 2nd September 1946 in the town of Telc. Her grandmother claims that a mysterious young man with dark glasses was implicated in her husband disappearance. Alice is determined to solve the mystery. Grandmother's story leads Alice to a shoemaker who hands her Professor Jeník's - her grandfather's - invention, called the Force-fields Accelerator. Alice tells her boyfriend Petr about the device and the young man creates a time machine following the professor's instructions. The young couple then travel back to 1946 and there they indeed meet Alice's grandfather, and his daughter Blanka, who will later be Alice's mother.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1981-05-08
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Rama Dama
1991-01-09
Rama Dama
Overview: Munich, World War II: The young Kati Zeiler runs a small barbershop. Her husband Felix is fighting on the Eastern Front. So Kati draws her daughter Marie alone. A bomb attack destroys the shop and the apartment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-01-09
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The Neighbour
1992-06-17
The Neighbour
Overview: Set in an old suburb of Vienna traversed by the local railway line and full of old dilapidated houses. In this district, and old man lives and when his neighbour dies and new tenants move in his existence is transformed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-06-17
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Rosen-Emil
1993-08-19
Rosen-Emil
Overview: The ex-gymnast and survival artist Emil falls in love with the prostitute Lissy. Through her he meets some criminals whom he can help thanks to his gymnastic skills. But on his rise in the criminal hierarchy, Lissy might fall by the wayside.
Genres: War Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-08-19
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Ein Hauptgewinn für Papa
2006-05-25
Ein Hauptgewinn für Papa
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Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-05-25
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The Harmonists
1997-12-25
The Harmonists
Overview: Comedian Harmonists tells the story of a famous, German male sextet, five vocals and piano, the "Comedian Harmonists", from the day they meet first in 1927 to the day in 1934, when they become banned by the upcoming Nazis, because three of them are Jewish.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-12-25
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Pan Tau – der Film
1988-11-03
Pan Tau – der Film
Overview: Pan Tau, the friend of all children, now also helps the adults. A movie producer is in trouble and decides to shoot another Pan-Tau movie. But the old Pan-Tau actor Karasek is no longer young enough to walk the almost weightless walk of Pan Tau. Mr. Novak turns up - he resembles Pan Tau like a twin brother. He succeeds every pirouette. And as if by magic, he solves all the problems between people! Who is Mr. Novak? Is he really ...?
Genres: Family Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-11-03
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August der Glückliche
2002-12-28
August der Glückliche
Overview: When the heart-sick bus driver August is forced into involuntary retirement, he decides to gamble away his severance pay at the casino. But he wins: a million euros! Looking for a person who truly loves him, August places an advertisement in the newspaper: Millionaire is looking for a loving wife who will give him an heir! The pretty Sonja answers. She is supposed to give August a child, in exchange for the child inheriting the assets. What Sonja August is keeping quiet about: She is already pregnant and in acute financial trouble. But August's relatives also sense their chance at the million.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-12-28
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Getting a Life
2003-07-02
Getting a Life
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-07-02
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Ich wünsch Dir Liebe
1999-05-28
Ich wünsch Dir Liebe
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-05-28
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Der Vater meines Sohnes
2004-04-13
Der Vater meines Sohnes
Overview: Silvia, a successful architect and single mother of nine-year-old Marc, is about to marry her colleague Rolf. Just now, after years of silence, Marc's father Ricardo, a rich South American entrepreneur's son, shows up.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-04-13
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Zatracení
2002-02-07
Zatracení
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2002-02-07
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Die Nacht hat 17 Stunden
1996-09-30
Die Nacht hat 17 Stunden
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-09-30
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Sascha darf nicht sterben
1995-02-25
Sascha darf nicht sterben
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-02-25
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Beichtstuhl der Begierde
1997-12-09
Beichtstuhl der Begierde
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-12-09
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Levé křídlo
1984-05-01
Levé křídlo
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Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1984-05-01
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Jestli jednou odejdu
1985-12-26
Jestli jednou odejdu
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1985-12-26
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Amadeus
1984-09-19
Amadeus
Overview: Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Viennese composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Genres: History Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-19
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Brontosaurus
1980-08-22
Brontosaurus
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
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Drahý Bedřichu
1985-12-25
Drahý Bedřichu
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1985-12-25
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The Conception of My Younger Brother
2000-01-27
The Conception of My Younger Brother
Overview: Director's memoirs of his childhood in a lively tenement house, in particular one hot summer day in 1949 when all tenants gathered to celebrate the wedding of the landlord's daughter. Small details slowly reveal that the narrator's recollection of the events may not be altogether correct.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2000-01-27
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Čarovné prstýnky
1978-05-07
Čarovné prstýnky
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Genres: Family Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-05-07
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Das Weibernest
2001-09-14
Das Weibernest
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-09-14
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Bear on the Run
2000-04-06
Bear on the Run
Overview: Thirteen-year-old Julia leaves Berlin, where she resides with her father, to spend vacation in the Czech Republic. While there she experiences first love, and also tries to help the local kids rescue a circus bear from a rich German hunter who's willing to pay for a bit of sport. If the parents get their way they'll use Mr. Big Game to finance the circus and even contribute to local pensions. The children and the bear head for the forest.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-04-06
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Daleko od stromu
1983-05-14
Daleko od stromu
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Genres: Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1983-05-14
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Kluk za dvě pětky
1983-11-01
Kluk za dvě pětky
Overview: Even under socialism, it was not advisable to cross the line between rich and poor. When a mason's apprentice falls in love with a girl from a wealthy family who lives in a magnificent villa during his first thug, he can hardly expect his feelings to be fulfilled. The schematic and lifeless depiction of the young generation has hardly contributed to a truer view of contemporary reality.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1983-11-01
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Lion with a White Mane
1987-12-01
Lion with a White Mane
Overview: The film tells the exciting life of the great Czech composer Leos Janácek (1854-1928), also known by the thick silver hair that crowned his head and his strong character, which could overcome the adversities of fate.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1987-12-01
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