Václav Halama
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 22, 1916
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Junk Shop
Overview: Juraj Herz adapts Bohumil Hrabal's story about a man who works in a junk shop.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1965-12-17
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Sign of the Cancer
Overview: A murder in a hospital run by incompetents.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1967-05-05
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How to Get Rid of Helenka
Overview: Radio announcer Petrícek reads the evening news in a studio. Viki, the female editor of a woman's program, is annoyed by the stereotypical information he provides as well as by the speaker's melodious voice and his heart-felt performance. Then she gets an idea for a prank. She calls the speaker from the neighboring room on the phone and pretends to be an unhappily married woman who draws all her strength to live from Petrícek's voice.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1968-01-12
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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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A Man on the Run
Overview: More than twenty years after the Second World War, a mining engineer named Fischer is revealed as a former member of the Gestapo, Karel Kraus. He is sentenced for murder to eight years in prison and now works with other prisoners on the renovation of the Convent of St Agnes of Bohemia in Prague. Then a car with a foreign registration begins to park regularly close to the construction site. Its crew, a man and a woman, contact the construction foreman, who probably would not reject a bribe offer to perform some service. The prisoner Bicík is appointed to work with Kraus; Bicík gives him a message from Kraus' brother Bert, who lives abroad, that he wants to help him escape.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1969-02-07
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Zločin a trik II.
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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A Man Who Rose in Price
Overview: Mr. Benda, a married father of two children, works for a company that liquidates old banknotes. After one drunken party, he is visited by a painter who tattooed his back in drunkenness the previous night. The image tattooed on Benda’s back is considered the painter’s best work by the professionals.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1968-06-28
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Červená kůlna
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Genres: Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1968-11-01
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Naše bláznivá rodina
Overview: Twelve-year-old Jana returns from the hospital. She notices some changes at home and is worried that her parents are going to divorce. In reality, however, they are expecting another child.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1968-11-07
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A Matter of Days
Overview: Françoise, a French sociology student, moves to Czechoslovakia to write her thesis. She falls in love with Pavel, a professor. But the events of the "Prague Spring" begin and Pavel decides to collaborate. Françoise returns to France and meets up with her militant friends on the eve of the events of May 68 in Paris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-04-30
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Crime in the Night Club
Overview: A black comedy set in a Prague cabaret.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1968-12-20
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Panenství a kriminál
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1970-01-16
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On the Trail of Blood
Overview: Major Kalas from the Prague criminal intelligence service has been sent to a small town of Dubá in North Bohemia to help with the investigation of the puzzling death of a child. A gypsy boy has been killed three weeks ago and his body found under a rock. As the investigation continues, another dead boy is found. The boy has bled to death after someone cut his artery with a handsaw. Both deaths are obviously the work of a murderer - a perverted pedophile, sadist who gets sexual satisfaction from the sight of a young boy's blood.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1970-03-27
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Looking Back
Overview: Young script-writer Frantisek (Petr Cepek) is hired to write a film script based on the successful novel Looking Back. He meets with the novel's female author, a University professor and writer named Olga Machová (Jirina Trebická), approximately ten-years-older than him. In the beginning, they do not understand each other at all. Frantisek is a skeptic experiencing a moral crisis, unsatisfied with both his work and his private life - he lives separated from his wife and has no deeper feelings for his numerous lovers. He even gets drunk from time to time and breaks the public peace. Olga is lonesome, too, but considers her life fulfilled.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1969-01-03
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Hvězda
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1969-12-19
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I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen
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
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Men About Town
Overview: Three blue collar workers have a night out in big city Prague.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1969-10-10
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Lucie and the Miracles
Overview: The harsh reality of a home for abandoned children blends with episodes of youthful fantasy and slapstick comedy in this story of an orphan girl. Lucy's fondest wish is to find new parents and leave an orphanage. She befriends a man who can create doors from paint. He gives her a stuffed dog that magically comes alive when placed on the ground, and he and his wife end up adopting the little girl. After finding parents of her own, Lucy sets out through fantasy to find parents for her orphan friends. All of the people Lucy meet during her remarkable make believe wanderings end up taking children home.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1971-06-18
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Nevěsta
Overview: The female employees of the poultry-processing factory find relief from their monotonous work in chatting about weddings and marriages. The very young Zdena (Marta Vancurová), too, dreams about a white veil and an entourage of bridesmaids. On her return home from work, she runs into a peculiar man on an abandoned road who pertinaciously offers to read her palm for a few crowns to buy soup. His augury is rather usual - wealth and poverty, suffering and happiness. Then however, he declares that Zdena must marry exactly on 3 November of that year otherwise she will be unhappy.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1970-09-24
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Three of Us and Dog from Petipas
Overview: The summer holidays are approaching and the children are bragging about all the exciting places they are going to visit during the long-awaited two months of summer. Only Tonda is not looking forward to staying in Prague over the holidays. He brightens up after his father announces that the boy can visit some friends of the family in the village of Petipas.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1972-08-04
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Six Bears and a Clown
Overview: The owner of a circus decides to swap his trained bears for trained pigs, and fires clown Cibulka. The clown gets a job at a local school, bears escape and seek him out and a school inspector comes into town.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1972-12-29
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A Touch of a Butterfly
Overview: A romantic story of a young nobleman who sees a beautiful girl at the carnival who seems familiar to him. He feels that he saw her in an old castle, where only the old countess and sister live. It is precisely in their salon in the city that she meets the girl again and learns her history
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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The Cremator
Overview: In 1930s Prague, a Czech cremator who firmly believes cremation relieves one from earthly suffering is drawn inexorably to Nazism.
Genres: Comedy Horror Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1969-03-14
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Oil Lamps
Overview: In 1900, Stepha, the vivacious 30 year old daughter of a wealthy couple, agrees to marry her cousin Paul, who has accumulated large debts as an Austrian army officer. Paul refuses to work or to consummate the marriage, and then his health steadily declines.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1971-11-05
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Horký vzduch
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Svatá hříšnice
Overview: In the Prague Old Town and the adjoining streets there is always plenty of life. Housewives shop, beggars arouse sympathy, the Salvation Army tries to put the godless on the road to salvation by hymns and sermons, and Ferdys Pistora hunts in the pockets of his fellow men and isn't even put off by the presence of an officer of the law. Ferdys sets off to burgle villa of the banker Rosenstok, but a fire breaks out in the house and Ferdys ends up saving the banker's two small children. For this he is celebrated as a hero and gets a place as an errand boy with the Rosenstoks. At home he is visited by representatives of the Salvation Army, Captain Kosterka and Terezka, with whom Ferdys instantly falls in love.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1970-12-25
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Jak se dělá divadlo
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1970-05-31
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Dobrodružství na Zlaté zátoce
Overview: Orphan Jirka lives alone with his grandfather by the river. He spends all his free time by the water and does not grow up with the other children. His biggest dream is to catch a big pike, which he knows that he can't do without friends. ► International Film Festival of Documentary and Experimental Films Montevideo - 1956 - 1st Main Prize (Distributor's Official Text)
Genres: Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1955-08-09
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DS-70 nevyjíždí
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1951-11-09
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Ta naše písnička česká
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Genres: Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1967-08-11
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Silvestrovské kousky Františka Housky
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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