František Svačina
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The King of Kings
1963-07-12
The King of Kings
Overview: During his work assignment in Tamani Kingdom, Czech worker Lojza saves a local man from dying in the desert. Two years later, it turns out the saved man was also the Taman king; and he has decided to name Lojza, a communist, his royal heir.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1963-07-12
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Beauty and the Beast
1979-03-02
Beauty and the Beast
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
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The Phantom of Morrisville
1966-07-15
The Phantom of Morrisville
Overview: Inspector Brumpby (Jaroslav Marvan) and the young crime reporter Allan Pinkerton (Vít Olmer) attend wedding of Sir Hannibal Morris (Oldrich Nový) with beautiful Clarence (Kveta Fialová). After the ceremony, Clarence's ex-husband, criminal Manuel Diaz (Waldemar Matuska), who was believed dead, shows up in her room. He wants to get his hands on Clarence and, most importantly, on the money she would inherit in the eventuality of her new husband's death. Diaz makes attempts on Hannibal's life. He knows his way about an underground labyrinth in the château and the traps he sets up for Hannibal seem to work, since Hannibal is apparently found dead after an explosion in the labyrinth, after which his body vanishes. The inspector tries to solve the countless mysteries. In this, he is joined by Allan, always ahead of the man of the law in his estimation and judgment of the situation.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1966-07-15
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The Limping Devil
1968-09-13
The Limping Devil
Overview: A baleful limping man walks through Prague. He is Asmodeus (Juraj Herz), the fiend of lustfulness, entertaining himself by putting together by magic couples of lovers. He only fails at the swimming pool. Zuzana (Jana Sulcová), the good-looking blonde, ignores the men whom the devil foists off onto her. She loves Honza (Václav Neckár) and the boy shares her feelings. The fiend is annoyed by the couple and tries to provoke a row. He sends heavy rain to force them into a hotel and then warns Zuzana's father by phone, but the young lovers manage to get out in time. Then the obstinate Asmodeus takes Honza in his sleep to the Institute for Emotional Disorders, where he shows him the ugly sides of love - hysteria, voyeurism, fetishism, suicide attempts...
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1968-09-13
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Slasti Otce vlasti
1969-07-08
Slasti Otce vlasti
Overview: The young Prince Charles (Jaromír Hanzlík), the future King of his country Charles IV, is being educated at the French court in the company of his fiancée Blanche (Daniela Kolárová). One day he receives a summons from his father John of Luxembourg (Milos Kopecký) in Italy. He leaves for Italy accompanied by a deputation from Bohemia. On the way the prince's company fights a battle with armed Milanese against heavy odds. Thanks to Charles's perspicacity, the prince's almost naked soldiers win through. In Lucca in Italy Charles joins his father, and here he experiences an amorous adventure and escapes from the traps laid by the Italian rebels.
Genres: History Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1969-07-08
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Legenda, the Robber
1973-03-09
Legenda, the Robber
Overview: It is 1905. The police director gets Jindrich Legenda (Eduard Cupák) shadowed as, yet Legenda had served his sentence for a burglary, the jewels have not been found. Russian revolution encouraged also Czech workers to fight for their rights. Radical anarchists are followed by Legenda's friend Karel Wohryzek (Vladimír Mensík) who was forced to collaborate with the police as he was convicted of pornography distribution.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1973-03-09
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A Night at Karlstein
1974-07-12
A Night at Karlstein
Overview: No Woman is allowed into Karlstejn Castle! Yet the enamoured Daniele Kolářová and the equally enamoured Jana Brejchová manage to spend one night in disguise in the Castle despite the strict royal ban.
Genres: Comedy History Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1974-07-12
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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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Smrt na černo
1977-05-13
Smrt na černo
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1977-05-13
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Ta naše písnička česká
1967-08-11
Ta naše písnička česká
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Genres: Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1967-08-11
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The Borrowed Face
1965-12-24
The Borrowed Face
Overview: It is the 1930s. Physician Bartos devotedly attends poor patients in the city suburbs, at the same time researching the possibilities of regeneration of human tissues after transplantation. His former colleague Rosen, now working as an assistant at the private clinic of surgeon Kirchenbruch, considers the research a mere utopia. The disappointed Bartos, trying to verify his theories, therefore accepts the outrageous proposal of Marion, owner of a brothel - to surgically replace the face of her lover, the wanted thief Cutter, with the face of murdered Father Hopsasa. Bartos is well paid but his successful operation remains a secret.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1965-12-24
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