Václav Wasserman
Also Known As: Alois Barva, Marie Svobodová, Václav Šolín, F. Formen, Wenzel Wassermann
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Writing
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: February 19, 1898
Age: 127 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 28, 1967
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Where an Alibi Is Not Everything
Overview: “A bored housewife, a husband who married her for show, and a stupid boy who is full of himself because he is dating a Swiss woman.” The words of Inspector Tůma sound like they’re from a European melodrama, but in fact they come from a Czechoslovak crime story. A pair of detectives, counterfeit medicine, the high-society setting of a Karlovy Vary hotel, and Oldřich Nový as the aging hotel manager Kraus.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1961-07-28
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Pět z milionu
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1959-08-07
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První a poslední
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1959-07-24
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Valčík pro milión
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1961-03-10
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Kotrmelec
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1962-03-09
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Dva z onoho světa
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1962-12-28
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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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Bez svatozáře
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1964-07-03
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Einstein kontra Babinský
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1964-06-05
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Třiatřicet stříbrných křepelek
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1965-09-10
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Alibi on the Lake
Overview: Miss Nováková reports to Major Tuma (Karel Höger) from the police about the disappearance of her roommate, the model Zuzana. Shortly afterwards, a film director named Konrád (Otomar Krejca) asks Tuma to cooperate on a new cinéma-vérité film describing the story of Zuzana's disappearance.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1966-01-21
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Katya and the Crocodile
Overview: It is the summer holiday and little Mísa Horák has taken a few animals from the school's so-called "Corner of Living Nature" home to care for. But when he brings home two Angora rabbits, a starling, a little monkey, a tortoise and a small crocodile, his parents order him to take them away. He is helped by Káta, who offers to place the animals in the child's room of her family's apartment. Mísa leaves for her friend where the animals will hopefully be able to stay. Káta goes shopping. In the meantime, Káta's younger sister Minka wakes up and begins to play with the animals, who gradually run off in disarray.
Genres: Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1966-04-11
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Crime at the Girls School
Overview: Three short story omnibus. The main hero and connecting link is Lieutenant Boruvka, created by Lubomír Lipsky. He deals with the murder case between climbers, the death of the dancer in the music theater and the strange disappearance of the mathematics professor.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1966-02-18
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If a Thousand Clarinets
Overview: A military base. An awkward soldier. A statue of Bach. And suddenly all guns in the area change into music instruments. Great mystery is immediately found by TV station. And soon the military base becomes a stage for huge TV show.
Genres: Comedy Music Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1965-01-26
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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 Prime of Life
Overview: Juraj, a Slovak artist living in Prague, takes stock in his life, realizing that his days pass without purpose. He lives a carefree life. But now he has to choose between two women, between the city and the country, and between creative work and craftsmanship. He has a passion for art but he also has to make a living. Through his relationships with close people, he grows aware of his position and this knowledge helps him to live a more fulfilling and better life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1967-10-13
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Father Vojtech
Overview: Father Vojtech (Czech: Páter Vojtěch) is a 1929 silent Czech romance film directed by Martin Frič.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1929-03-01
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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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The Lupinek Case
Overview: In a wooden hut used as a canvassing center, members of a children's puppet-theatre group are rehearsing for a production about a journey to the Moon. The goings-on inside the hut and outside are being closely followed by amateur detective Pepik Barnabás. He, however, is the first to be under suspicion when a trunk containing puppets goes missing. The children follow him but, when they catch up with him, they discover he hasn't got it. Pepík offers to help them in their search.
Genres: Family Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1961-04-07
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Dva tygři
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1966-06-03
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The Organist at St. Vitus Cathedral
Overview: The most important silent film by director Martin Frič. Poet Vitezslav Nezval did scenographic modifications to the original story by Václav Wasserman. Film producer Jaroslav Stransky didn’t witness premier; because of fear of financial collapse, he killed himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1929-08-30
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Příběh jednoho dne
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1926-04-16
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The Good Soldier Schweik
Overview: Joint montage of the first three silent films about Švejk: Good Soldier Švejk (1926, director: Karel Lamač), Švejk on the Front (1926, director Karel Lamač) and Švejk in Russian Captivity (1926, director: Svatopluk Innemann, model Karel Vaněk). The lead role was played by Karel Noll, who was very popular at the time. The last silent sequel Švejk v civilu (1927) exists independently, but the copy of the film is badly damaged.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1930-06-11
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The Stolen Airship
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
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Duchacek Will Fix It
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1938-06-03
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Ty petřínské stráně
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1925-08-28
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Pohorská vesnice
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1928-11-02
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Taková láska
Overview: A student commits suicide out of unhappy love to a married man; story is recounted in retrospective by a "judge" who asks the audience to decide who is the guilty party.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1959-10-02
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The Good Soldier Švejk
Overview: Good-natured and garrulous, Schweik becomes the Austrian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of World War I -- although his bumbling attempts to get to the front serve only to prevent him from reaching it. Playing cards and getting drunk, he uses all his cunning and genial subterfuge to deal with the police, clergy, and officers who chivy him toward battle.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1957-08-23
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Vintage Car
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Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1957-03-29
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Hlavní výhra
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1959-05-15
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Mezi nebem a zemí
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1958-10-24
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