Alois Vachek
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 28, 1903
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Gender: Male
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Closely Watched Trains
Overview: At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to the war and the resistance that surrounds him, this young man embarks on a journey of sexual awakening and self-discovery, encountering a universe of frustration, eroticism, and adventure within his sleepy backwater depot.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1966-11-18
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Dveře
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1977-03-05
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Hodina pravdy
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1977-12-16
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Those Wonderful Movie Cranks
Overview: Returning home to Prague, the magician Pasparte, an owner of a circus caravan, meets his dying colleague who entrusts his beautiful daughter Aloisie to his care. In Prague they all take up their lodgings at the house At Blue Fish in which they intend to arrange the programs. The firm is owned by widow Evzenie with whom Pasparte shares flat and bed. Evzenie is jealous of Aloisie therefore Pasparte sends Aloisie as a housewife to the single man Jakub Kolenatý who earns his living by photographing and wants to record the revived pictures of Prague. Pasparte wants to found in Prague the first permanent Czech movie theatre in which there would be projected also the original Czech films.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1979-08-03
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Past na kachnu
Overview: Taxi driver Koukal (Miroslav Machácek) is stopped by the police for a routine traffic check. In the boot of his car the police find the body of a naked man. Koukal is arrested even though he claims he knows nothing about it. The case is assigned to Major Mlynár (Milan Sandhaus). The police identify the corpse as that of an Austrian citizen called Mitrik. Koukal has been regularly driving people interested in gambling to a secret gaming den. The police are put onto the gambling den by another taxi driver, who admits that he drove Mitrik there. Mlynár and officer cadet Pecka (Ivan Vyskocil) feign interest in gambling and visit the gaming den incognito.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-12-29
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Capricious Summer
Overview: Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimming and philosophizing. Then it starts to rain. It just seems to be that sort of summer. Antonin runs the swimming bath with his portly wife Katherine... A man appears with his horse-drawn caravan. He lays a striped pole across the river and walks over. With a handstand and a magic trick, Ernie the Conjuror invites everyone to that evening's performance... Ernie is a tightrope walker of only modest skill, but with a slim and beautiful assistant, Anna. Antonin speaks to her. The two spend the night in the change room by the river, Antonin massaging her feet all night long. Katherine decides to move into the caravan with Ernie. But now the major and even the canon sense Anna's attractiveness...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1968-05-24
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Pearls of the Deep
Overview: A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave, this five-part anthology shows off the breadth of expression and the versatility of the movement’s directors. Based on stories by the legendary writer Bohumil Hrabal, the shorts range from the surreally chilling to the caustically observant to the casually romantic, but all have a cutting, wily view of the world.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1966-01-07
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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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The Unfortunate Bridegroom
Overview: A comedy about two bumbling policemen investigating an alleged rape in a small Czech town. One of the alleged rapists is supposed to get married the day he's locked up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1967-06-30
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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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A Nice Plate of Spinach
Overview: The heroes of this absurd comedy, full of confusion and humor are Dzharda Zemanek and Frantisek Liska.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1977-09-09
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Case for a Rookie Hangman
Overview: Lemuel Gulliver (Lubomír Kostelka) has had a car accident and continues his journey across the unknown countryside on foot. On the road he finds a dead rabbit dressed like a man and takes a watch from its waistcoat breast pocket. The half-ruined house that he enters reminds Lemuel of his childhood and brings up a painful memory of a dearly loved girl Markéta who was drowned years ago. Gulliver finds himself in Balnibarbi, a country where he doesn't understand the laws and habits and so continually offends against public decency. It is a day when people are ordered to keep their mouths shut and they force their visitor to follow suit. He faces harsh interrogation and finds it difficult to explain that he is not the rabbit Oscar whose watch has been found in his possession.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1970-07-03
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Larks on a String
Overview: In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation. Among them is a young man who pines for a female convict.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1990-02-01
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Witchhammer
Overview: In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imaginary witchery, and engages in brutal torture and persecution of their subjects.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1970-01-23
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Návraty
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1972-09-01
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Miss Golem
Overview: It is the 1920's. The good-looking hostess Věra demonstrates household robots to visitors of the Futurum exhibition. Young inventor Petr comes to her rescue when she tries to flee from two men wanting to take her away. Věra confesses that she has fled from home because her father, a factory owner, wanted to profitably marry her off. Petr is fascinated by the emancipated woman and shows her round his laboratory, where he plans to create a robot of his own - but one that would be far more advanced. Věra cuts herself on a broken test-tube and a drop of her blood gets in the solution. In the morning, they are taken aback to see Věra's double. This lucky chance has helped Petr create an artificial being, Miss Golem. She has a single motive for her actions: to take care of Věra and allow her to do only what is good for her.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1973-03-30
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Dvacátý devátý
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1975-04-25
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Who Looks for Gold?
Overview: When he returns to Prague from a stint in the Army, Lada does not seem to fit in anywhere, and he cannot get the hang of the system of deliberately underperforming on the job. His girlfriend tries to keep him in the city with a variety of stratagems, but he eventually takes a job as a truck driver on a dam-building project. He uses the truck to visit his girl on weekends. Ingenuous, he is unaware that the truck is being used for black-market smuggling, and that his girlfriend two-times on him when he cannot arrange to leave on time for his weekend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1974-12-20
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Profesoři za školou
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1976-08-06
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Boty plné vody
Overview: Three short stories ("Zelenáči 1945", "Silvestr 1948" and "Zimní vítr 1951") about members of the SNB units guarding the Šumava border in the post-war years. Ivo Toman had artistic supervision over the debutants. The theme of the third short story was made in 1959 for the film "Entry Forbidden" by František Vláčil, who was also starting at the time.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1976-12-17
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Secluded, Near Woods
Overview: The Lavicka's, a Czech family from the city, rents a house in the country with the option to buy. However, old Mr Komarek seems reluctant to sell the house as they agreed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1976-09-10
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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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The Secret of a Great Narrator
Overview: The life of the famous French writer Alexander Dumas the Elder. Screenwriter Jaroslav Dietl did not hide his admiration for this literary giant, and in addition to the screenplay he also wrote a three-part TV play about Dumas (starring Vladimír Menšík). In Kachyn's film, Dumas played the father and son of the Štěpánková brothers, and it was a very difficult and difficult task for these young actors.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1972-04-28
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