Bedřich Karen
Also Known As: Бедржих Карен
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Plzen/Pilsen, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Plzen, Czech Republic]
Birthday: October 15, 1887
Deathday: August 21, 1964
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Devil's Trap
Overview: A small town is one day visited by a priest who is there on a secret mission. He is a member of the Inquisition sent to investigate the activities of a local miller. The miller and his son are the descendants of an old family whose ancestral home burned down a century ago, but was rebuilt from scratch. The miller inherited much of his knowledge about the land, water, and a building's stability from generations of family experience. His reputation for finding water and predicting when a structure might collapse have come to the attention of the Inquisition -surely he must be in league with the Devil.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1962-04-20
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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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The White Disease
Overview: In a country whose people have just been successfully persuaded of their superiority and the justification for military expansion by the fiery speeches of a dictator, the bacillus of a highly destructive form of leprosy has spread. It is called morbus Tshengi, or popularly „white disease“. The only one who has developed an effective cure for it is a physician of the poor named Galén. But he refuses to reveal the secret of his cure as long as the powerful destroy human lives through wars.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1937-12-21
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Anna the Proletarian
Overview: The movie describes proletarian life in the Czech Lands after World War I.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1953-02-20
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The Guild of the Kutná Hora Virgins
Overview: A morally questionable lord comes to the aid of a working class man who is to be executed for speaking out about thieving rich scoundrels sticking it to the poor.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1938-09-16
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The Strike
Overview: In late 19th century Czech-speaking Bohemia, oppressed workers at German-owned mines and foundries revolt against their harsh working conditions. Made shortly after World War II as Czechoslovakia was falling to communism, the film resonates in Czech resentment of the German occupation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1947-04-11
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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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Velké dobrodružství
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1952-11-21
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Mikoláš Aleš
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1952-01-11
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Neznámé matky
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1921-03-04
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Mnichovo srdce
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1921-09-16
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Kidnapped
Overview: Based on a true story
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1953-01-30
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From My Life
Overview: Venice Film Festival 1955
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1955-10-28
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The Dogheads
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1931-09-18
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Against All
Overview: After the battle of Sudoměř the Hussite teaching spreads through the whole country and people start leaving their homes to help build the fortification of Tábor. Prague citizens request help against the army of Zikmund. The Hussite army with Jan Žižka in the lead make their way towards Prague. They fortify themselves on the mountain Vítkov and engage in a bloody battle with Zikmund’s huge army.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1957-10-04
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Výstraha
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1954-06-04
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Jan Hus
Overview: Jan Hus is a 1954 Czechoslovak film directed by Otakar Vávra. It is the first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", one of the most famous works of the Czechoslovak director, completed with Jan Žižka (1955) and Proti všem (Against All Odds, 1957).
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1955-04-29
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Čaroděj
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1918-12-20
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Colonel Svec
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Genres: Drama War
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1930-02-14
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Posel úsvitu
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1951-09-28
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Jánošík
Overview: Janosík, a friar retrained as a bandit, becomes the farmers' symbol of resistance and fight against the feudal conditions.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1921-11-25
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