Biography: Karel Effa, originally named Karel Effenberger (May 23, 1922 in Prague - June 11, 1993 in Prague), was a Czech actor. As a professional soldier during World War II, he served in the Government Army during the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, which was deployed to Italy. Here he later ran to the Czechoslovak troops fighting on the side of the Western Allies. After the war, he remained in the army with the rank of sergeant, playing and singing for two years in the newly formed Army Art Ensemble of Vít Nejedlý. From there he went to the Theater of Satire, from there to the Theater of State Film, from there to the Music Theater in Karlín, from where he briefly jumped to the ABC Theater to return to the Karlín Theater. He has been a member of the Semafor Theater since 1979. Karel Effa was a very prominent comedian who created 71 smaller and episodic film roles during his life - such as the villain Pancho Kid in the Czech comedy Lemonade Joe or Horse Opera, the black Gustav in Zeman's famous film The Stolen Airship, or the treasure keeper in the fairy tale film Proud princess. Karel Effa worked for many years as a member of the Czechoslovak State Film Ensemble, resp. Film studio in Barrandov, he also performed in the Theater in Fidlovačka, or in the former musical theater in Prague's Nusle, he also worked in the post-war Theater of Satire. In addition to performing in theater and film, he has given six thousand touring performances during his lifetime, where he has used his folk humor, playing the guitar and singing tramp songs. He also remained a hiker all his life, he went to Brdy, often to the settlement of Ztracenka. In 1964, he became a founding member of the Department of Friends and Supporters of Slavia, which aimed to save and lift football Slavia, which at the time lived in the Second Football League.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 23, 1922
Deathday: June 11, 1993
Popularity:
1978-08-04
Overview: When famous detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in strange case of a missing dog and even stranger carnivorous plant. He becomes convinced that he is standing against his greatest enemy, the Gardener, who supposedly died years ago in a swamp...
Genres: Comedy Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-08-04
Popularity:
1964-10-16
Overview: A satire of the Great American Way, with Lemonade Joe a "clean living" gunfighter who drinks only Kola-Loca Lemonade and convinces everyone else in town (with his gun skills) that all "real men" drink ONLY lemonade!
Genres: Comedy Western Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1964-10-16
Popularity:
1977-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1977-01-01
Popularity:
1977-03-18
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1977-03-18
Popularity:
1952-09-26
Overview: It's very human and nice story about lofty princess (her father is amiable but incapable - unforgettable performance of S. Neumann) and good, nice, kind and well-principled young king (prince) who tries to make tender her calm heart to get married with her. After being refused (she's very capricious), he conclude to make her better. He start to work as a gardener at her castle (in secret) and successively bring she to her senses...The story continues when already reformed princess and the young king (she learn about his real identity later) have to take refuge from troops, that princess father (old king) has sent (of course he took a bad and mean counsellors advice). They have to take shelter by several ordinary and poor families, which are always very friendly and give them a help... Of course the tale has happy end.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1952-09-26
Popularity:
1980-08-15
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-08-15
Popularity:
1970-10-09
Overview: When a comet passes the Earth very closely, it pulls a small part of North Africa, and a small swathe of humanity, along with it.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1970-10-09
Popularity:
1985-01-01
Overview: Postavička prostého lidového chytráka, který se zaplétá v šachové partii mocných, poskytuje vynikajícímu Josefu Dvořákovi prostor pro řadu brilantních klaunských čísel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1985-01-01
Popularity:
1966-08-26
Overview: In this zany Czechoslovakian comedy, a scientist invents a machine that projects a sleeping person's dream on a screen; disaster soon follows when the machine malfunctions and the cartoon-like dream characters become very real!
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1966-08-26
Popularity:
1959-05-05
Overview: May 1945. On the outskirts of Prague, ordinary people meet Soviet soldiers-liberators with tears of joy in their eyes. In the early days of the lull, someone sadly recalls a pre-war life; someone unexpectedly meets his love; someone is returning from enemy dungeons looking hopefully into the future; and someone, having moved from a tank into a Czech tram, warmly recalls his craft as a car driver... These days, all those who survived the Great War fire swear an oath to keep peace on Earth forever, honoring the memory of those who gave their lives for simple human happiness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-05-05
Popularity:
1959-12-18
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
Popularity:
2016-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2016-01-01
Popularity:
1961-01-06
Overview:
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1961-01-06
Popularity:
1964-12-18
Overview: An anti-war black comedy set during the Thirty Years' War. It follows ploughman Petr, recruiter Matěj and country girl Lenka who get caught up in both sides of the war and experience many adventures before they find happiness. The film combines live action with animation to suggest the artistic style of the engraver Matthäus Merian.
Genres: Adventure History Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1964-12-18
Popularity:
1977-11-11
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
Popularity:
1966-08-30
Overview: This three-part Austrian/Czech comedy stretches the boundaries of what is considered to be humorous. Part one finds a silent film actor upset because of a rival actor's attention to the former's wife. When he kills his rival, it is only when he is strapped to the electric chair that he realizes that this is his last live scene. The second episode has the wife of an elderly British nobleman having an affair with the young gamekeeper of their estate. Part three finds a peasant woman taking a lover when her husband goes off to fight the war.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1966-08-30
Popularity:
1968-09-20
Overview: Two young boys, play hooky from school in order to explore an ultramodern world's fair. They take in the many marvelous scientific and industrial exhibits, obtain literature, eat food, and generally run amok.
Genres: Adventure Family Science Fiction
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1968-09-20
Popularity:
1955-05-27
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1955-05-27
Popularity:
1969-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1969-01-01
Popularity:
1970-02-27
Overview: This futuristic science fiction comedy features an atomic bomb blast that causes women to grow beards and lose the ability to have children. A summit meeting is held at the United Nations, with the proposed solution of building a time machine. The decision is made to travel back in time and murder Einstein, with the hopeful result being that without the noted mathematician's research there will be no atomic bombs.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1970-02-27
Popularity:
1974-09-14
Overview:
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1974-09-14
Popularity:
1972-03-24
Overview: Slacker Maurice Fadinar wasted his whole inheritance and the only way out of this situation, as it seems, to marry Helen Nonankur - daughter of a wealthy farmer. At the last meeting with his mistress in a nearby forest Fadinar's horse eats straw hat which belongs to a married lady, spending time in the company of young and hot Lieutenant Emil. Emil literally puts a knife to Maurice throat - or the lady will get back the exact same hat immediately, or he will arrange such a scandal that no wedding will not happen ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1972-03-24
Popularity:
1988-01-17
Overview:
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1988-01-17
Popularity:
1971-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1971-01-01
Popularity:
1973-03-16
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1973-03-16
Popularity:
1974-07-12
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
Popularity:
1977-07-15
Overview:
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1977-07-15
Popularity:
1961-12-25
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1961-12-25
Popularity:
1947-03-14
Overview: Czech film tells the story of a border town in World War II. Family members and friends become enemies.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1947-03-14
Popularity:
1965-12-24
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
Popularity:
1984-12-01
Overview: A second part of a funny adventures of six years old Lucie and her two magic dolls.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1984-12-01
Popularity:
1949-06-03
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
Popularity:
1985-02-01
Overview:
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1985-02-01
Popularity:
1981-09-11
Overview: The dreaded Italian mafioso, Marian Labuda, will also be convinced. Mafioso Carmello was guilty of the principles of his organization when he tried to fool the boss and earned a death sentence. The convict runs away from the killer through Vienna to Prague, which his Austrian colleague in crime recommended as a safe hiding place. None of them knows that the Czechs learned so much tricks under real socialism that a seasoned Italian professional is not enough to watch.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1981-09-11
Popularity:
1970-07-16
Overview: Two criminal gangs are ruthlessly fighting for a 1-million dollar check that, purely by chance, got into the flat of shy high school teacher George Camel. As the number of victims sharply increases, Camel is mistakenly regarded as a mass murderer and cunningly uses his horrifying reputation to get the respect and heart of his beloved Sabrina, a journalist from a local newspaper. But this game turns out to be risky and in the end, both gangs don't hesitate to seize the check at all costs, including an improvised operation
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1970-07-16
Popularity:
1984-09-19
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
Popularity:
1985-10-01
Overview: A fairy-tale about an old lady who takes care of snow and Jakub who does not fear death. It reflects the idea of people's longing for happiness, love and understanding, their effort to overcome troubles and win over death. It criticizes greed and evil desires.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1985-10-01
Popularity:
1984-04-10
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1984-04-10
Popularity:
1985-06-01
Overview: The Sultan awaits the arrival of his son, Prince Omar, who has brought up in a distant land. The master tailor and his assistances are making clothes for the prince. Labakan, the most gifted of his assistances, craves to be a Sovereign's heir so he steals the princely garments snd poses as the Sultan's son.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1985-06-01
Popularity:
1986-08-29
Overview:
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1986-08-29
Popularity:
1962-07-01
Overview: A 20th century man lands on the Moon and discovers that Baron Munchausen has beaten him to it, accompanied by Cyrano de Bergerac and the characters from Jules Verne's novels about the conquest of the satellite.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Animation Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1962-07-01
Popularity:
1960-05-12
Overview: A young boy from Prague is trying to find a Soviet soldier from the old 1945 picture.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1960-05-12
Popularity:
1963-09-20
Overview: While old Oliva tells a group of children about his life as a sailor and how he met Diana and her cat with sunglasses, a strange circus arrives in town.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1963-09-20
Popularity:
1963-04-27
Overview: About the great Czech satirist Jaroslav Hašek, who was captured by the Russians during the First World War. Not wanting to fight for the interests of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Hašek enters the Red Army and, as a commissar of the international brigade, goes the military way from Samara to Irkutsk.
Genres: Drama War Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-04-27
Popularity:
1971-01-01
Overview: A rich man can not cheer his daughter Marcelka. He calls overseas doctors and tries to repaint his castle but nothing helps. Only young boy Petrik is able to amuse Marcelka with his artistry.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1971-01-01
Popularity:
1957-12-27
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1957-12-27
Popularity:
1976-02-13
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
Popularity:
1967-04-28
Overview: The Stolen Airship (Czech: Ukradená vzducholod) is a 1967 live-action/animated film by Czech filmmaker Karel Zeman. The story is based loosely on Jules Verne's novels Two Years' Vacation and The Mysterious Island. The film in Art Nouveau style consists of live-action scenes, generally shot in black and white, as well as hand-drawn, stop motion, and cutout animation. Various live-action and animated elements are often composited into the same scene.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1967-04-28
Popularity:
1956-01-20
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1956-01-20
Popularity:
1959-01-09
Overview: Czech comedy fantasy directed by Jiri Krejcik et al.
Genres: Mystery Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1959-01-09
Popularity:
1971-01-15
Overview: After a soldier cuts off the arm of king's cousin, king decides to deactivate the army. Of course, generals don't like it at all and they try to kill the king. The assassin should be artificial body in the shape of actress Evelina Keleti and with brain of psychotic serial killer Fany Stubová. They also manage to kill king's astrologer Stuart Hampl, who warns the king. Accidentally, Hampl's brain is implanted into assassin's body, actress Keleti is killed and chaos begins.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1971-01-15
Popularity:
1968-06-07
Overview: Musical fairy tale tells the story of prince and princesses from neighbouring friendly countries who have to marry each other, as decided by their wise fathers with their advisors. However, the royal children want to decide their fate themselves. They meet in the royal garden, where princess pretends to be a maid and prince to be a herdsman. Prince under cover is imprisoned and helps princess with rebellion. She becomes sad all the time, because she does not want to marry anyone. Luckily, love finds way to their life . . .
Genres: Music Comedy Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1968-06-07
Popularity:
1949-12-30
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1949-12-30
Popularity:
1979-04-13
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
Popularity:
1961-12-22
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1961-12-22
Popularity:
1972-06-02
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1972-06-02
Popularity:
1954-10-15
Overview: A few bus-loads of holidaymakers from the agricultural cooperative on a day trip arrive to see the show at the Slavia Circus. But, they have bad luck. It is Monday, the day on which the employees have their extra day off.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1954-10-15
Popularity:
1961-09-29
Overview: After inheriting a villa from his uncle, Emil Tuma meets its strange inhabitants, getting him in trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1961-09-29
Popularity:
1964-05-15
Overview: The Prague Grand Orchestra travels by train to a music festival in Yugoslavia. Only the singer Sona Klánová missed the departure. In the meantime, she managed to buy a ticket to Belgrade at the air-terminal from Mrs Navrátilová, who couldn't make the trip. In the meantime, the orchestra conductor is beside himself with despair. He phoned to Prague from the border, and when he realized that Sona had left her house in a taxi, he thought that she would catch up with them by the road. The orchestra delayed the train's departure with an improvised concert for the custom officers and the passengers.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1964-05-15
Popularity:
1949-06-10
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1949-06-10
Popularity:
1978-01-27
Overview: A young man seeks freedom and eventually gets conformed. To escape society, he wanders south. After some adventures he returns to his lover, where he expects a civil career.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-01-27
Popularity:
1952-12-25
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1952-12-25
Popularity:
1953-01-30
Overview: Based on a true story
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1953-01-30
Popularity:
1956-06-01
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1956-06-01
Popularity:
1956-12-21
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1956-12-21
Popularity:
1986-02-02
Overview:
Genres: Family Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1986-02-02
Popularity:
1963-05-14
Overview:
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1963-05-14
Popularity:
1966-05-26
Overview: Captain Martin from the police's child department and his colleague Kraus are called to Znojmo to help solve a case regarding stolen toys found in the town's subterranean passages. The members of the local police department are convinced that the thieves are the well-known "customers" from the Znojmo elementary school, pupils Exner and Mandlík. Martin, however, has doubts about these culprits. These doubts grow even stronger after the local self-service shop is robbed and the local tobacco store reports that it is missing a lot of imported cigarettes. Martin questions the children, inspects both shops and searches through the underground.
Genres: Family Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1966-05-26
Popularity:
1947-11-28
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1947-11-28
Popularity:
1947-10-10
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1947-10-10
Popularity:
1947-10-24
Overview:
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1947-10-24
Popularity:
1947-09-05
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1947-09-05
Popularity:
1961-05-19
Overview: Farmers get away from their arguments by embarking on a religious pilgrimage, enjoy a picnic en route, and on their return decide to form a cooperative.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1961-05-19
Popularity:
1966-12-31
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1966-12-31
Popularity:
1948-05-21
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1948-05-21
Popularity:
1948-02-20
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1948-02-20
Popularity:
1947-10-31
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1947-10-31
Popularity:
1949-02-11
Overview: Grammar school teacher Bláha hurts himself in pursuit of a red lizard, and is lying unconscious in the lonely house of Santrucek family. The postman, who found Bláha's coat and hat in the water, announces to everyone in town that the professor has drowned. But, the venerable citizens are at that moment more interested in the theatre group with the beautiful guest actress Eva Gazdová. They demand a change of repertoire and manage to persuade the theatre manager to have the group play the musical comedy The Red Lizard instead of an established play.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1949-02-11
Popularity:
1948-12-03
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1948-12-03
Popularity:
1961-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Music Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1961-01-01
Popularity:
1949-01-01
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1949-01-01
Popularity:
1949-01-01
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1949-01-01
Popularity:
1953-03-27
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1953-03-27
Popularity:
1961-03-10
Overview:
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1961-03-10
Popularity:
1984-12-01
Overview: A second part of a funny adventures of six years old Lucie and her two magic dolls.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1984-12-01
Popularity:
1973-11-30
Overview: Three Men Travelling is billed as a loosely related sequel to Tri chlapi v chalupe (1963), sending our country protagonists set out from their family nests in the village of Ouplavice into the big wide world. Grandpa Potucek, (Lubomír Lipský) and his son Václav (Jan Skopecek) take part in the cooperative's excursion to spa town Karlovy Vary, a Pilsen brewery and some agricultural enterprises in western Bohemia. During the course of a series of misunderstandings and merrymaking, grandfather Potucek decides he will not let problems with sick calves unsettle him, and that he will persevere in his role as the leader of the cooperative.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1973-11-30
Popularity: