Josef Střecha
Also Known As: Josef Strecha, Josef Strecher
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Camera
Place of Birth: Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
Adult: No
Birthday: November 03, 1907
Age: 117 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 29, 1985
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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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Hodina pravdy
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1977-12-16
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Monkey's Playtime
Overview: The fisherman Fuksa fishes in the creek an old bottle and he sells it to innkeeper Merta. When Merta opens it, a genie appears, who can fulfill all his wishes.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-02-10
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How to Wake a Princess
Overview: At long last, King Dalimil and Queen Eliška have produced an heir, Princess Růženka. Consumed with envy, Eliška’s sister Melánie casts a curse: On the day Růženka turns seventeen, she will prick her finger and fall into a deep sleep together with the entire kingdom.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-03-24
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A Major Role for Rosmaryna
Overview: The director of films for kids called Bonzurka together with her loyal assistants Drahuska and Honza are looking for the actors for a new movie "The Knee". Children for this movie should not be afraid and shy and they must have talent for acting. Thus the scouting is quite difficult. The most difficult is to find an actress for a main character who lost her hair after a serious illness and now has to spent the whole holiday in the countryside with a bald head resembling a knee. Although the makeup artist does his best an artificial baldness does not solve anything. From the selected little girls only the self-assertive Rosemary has the guts to let her long hair to be cut and shave off her head.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-08-25
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Stín létajícího ptáčka
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1977-10-01
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Oddechový čas
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-04-14
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Tichý Američan v Praze
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-01-20
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Vítězný lid
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Genres: History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-02-17
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Miluška a její zvířátka
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Genres: Music Comedy Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-12-25
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I'll Be Good, Old Man!
Overview: To the intolerant and bloody-minded Prague actor Bergner (Milos Kopecký) is the lead in Moliere's Misanthrope which he is studying now as tailor-made. On top of that he is malicious and he advises to the new actress Helenka (Dagmar Havlová) in such a way that she upsets the theatre director. If Bergner accuses somebody of a mischief and he is wrong, he never apologizes. When he almost crashes an older elegant lady by his car on the zebra crossing, instead of an apology he calls her an old ballet dancer... But in Brno's TV he takes part in a discussion on manners and he gives himself as an example of good manners and grace. In the train he meets a magic old man (Ladislav Pesek) who warns him and admonishes him to change his behavior. After he arrives to Prague the old man's threat comes true.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1979-07-27
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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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Pumpaři od Zlaté podkovy
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1979-01-12
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Ball Lightning
Overview: A comedy about exchange of 12 apartments , which, its organizer, lawyer Radosta, rightly called Action Ball Lightning. To prepare, organize and execute the exchange of twelve apartments is a work worthy champions. Radosta, who was excellently played by Rudolf Hrušínský, solved all sudden difficulties and complications on the fly and with grace. To be sure that the on the D-day everything goes well he prepares a little rehearsal, which reveals many minor issues caused for example by wedding ordered to inappropriate term or hesitation of some participants. Last but not least a night exercise announced by drunk psychologist Knotků, creates a lot of confusion that nearly sabotaged the whole operation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1979-08-10
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Lvi salónů
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-12-01
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Vražedné pochybnosti
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1979-06-29
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Skandál v Gri-Gri baru
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1979-02-09
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The Young Man and Moby Dick
Overview: Good-looking Edita Beningerová (Jana Brejchová) arrives at a chemical factory in the North Bohemian town of Ústí nad Labem together with her young assistant Nada (Zlata Adamovská). She is hoping that her ex-husband, outstanding practical chemical engineer Vik Panc (Eduard Cupák), will help her conduct an experiment to validate her proposed theoretical method of isolating cholesterol from lanolin. The success of Edita's invention is crucial for her career at the Prague Institute of Chemistry. Vik's roommate from his hostel Bréta (Ivan Vyskocil) is thrilled. He will finally meet the mysterious and fascinating Edita about whom he has learned so much from Vik.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1979-07-13
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Payment in Kind
Overview: In an unusual, apolitical approach, director Jaromil Jires has fashioned a standard drama that features an older lawyer with failing health who goes to practice in the countryside. His series of odd court cases reveals more about the human condition than about law. In one of these litigations a wayward nephew has cheated his elderly aunt out of her savings. In court, the nephew insists the money was a gift, but his aunt explains she only gave him the money as a loan. Although the lawyer technically wins the case, everything of value seems lost in the meantime. His services are paid for in rabbits because the aunt has no currency, and in the end, the nephew cons his aunt into parting with her savings anyway. Other cases expose similar types of petty corruption.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-02-26
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Čas pracuje pro vraha
Overview: Vera, wife of the plumber Simandl (Josef Somr), is found murdered in the cinema next to the IDOC (Information and Documentation) agency where she worked. Police captain Marha (Frantisek Nemec), who is leading the investigation, is informed by Simandl that on the day of the murder Vera promised to bring home fifty thousand crowns to buy a car. Marha's primary suspects are the three men working at the agency: deputy editor-in-chief Brandl (Jirí Pleskot) and editors Pernata (Eduard Cupák) and Remes (Ludek Munzar, and of course also Simandl.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-02-01
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Hodinářova svatební cesta korálovým mořem
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-08-15
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Concert at the End of Summer
Overview: A docudrama about four weeks in the life of famous Czech composer Antonin Dvorak. The drama - filled with many of Dvorak's compositions - begins when the composer suddenly decides to cut a concert in London and return home. While on the train, flashbacks reveal his relationship to his wife Anna and her sister Josefina. Both women gave him inspiration, yet Dvorak is clearly troubled in some way as musical excerpts come and go in his creative mind.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-02-15
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Love Between the Raindrops
Overview: Set in Prague during the years leading up to World War II, this family saga tells the story of a cobbler named Vincenc Bursik (Vladimir Mensik), who uproots his clan from the country to the city, only to suffer the loss of his wife and the failure of his shoe business within months. When his daughter moves away to go live with a wealthy businessman as his mistress, Vincenc is left to take care of his two sons, who spend their days in a secret garden vying for the affections of a teenage girl.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-05-23
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Julek
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-05-09
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Paragraf 224
Overview: Placek (Josef Kemr), the head of research in a chemical plant, appreciates the help of his younger colleague Bernát (Alois Svehlík) in the creation of a new synthetic material.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-06-20
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Poprask na silnici E 4
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-04-18
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Postavení mimo hru
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1979-12-28
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Co je doma to se počítá, pánové...
Overview: For the Novák and Bartáček families, money is king, and they'll do just about anything to get it. While René Novák pitches his parents a lucrative scheme to swindle as many people with the last name Novák in the country as possible, the Bartáček clan decides to pretend to be much poorer than they really are in order to siphon some dollars from an American relative. And it doesn't take long before these separate scams start to intertwine.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-12-26
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Hra o královnu
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Genres: History Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1981-03-13
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Svítalo celou noc
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-10-03
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The Hit
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1981-03-13
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V hlavní roli Oldřich Nový
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-12-05
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Run, Waiter, Run!
Overview: A comedy concerning a down on his luck bookshop owner with a penchant for women who decides to make some money by pretending to be a waiter and collecting cash from unsuspecting diners.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1981-01-09
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Serpent's Poison
Overview: Her mother dead, 18-year-old Vladka travels to a remote village in the dead of winter to find the father she has never met. The happiness of their initial meeting gives way to the daughter’s disappointment and concern over the hardworking man’s alcoholism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1982-02-19
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Hodina života
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1981-06-05
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Like Rabbits
Overview: A story of two boys who during the summer at a recreation area become best friends despite being enemies at first.
Genres: Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1982-09-24
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Konečná stanice
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Basically Normal
Overview: The film follows Karel Novák, who is appointed as the head of a research institute's new department. His ambitious wife, Eva, sees this as an opportunity for social advancement. She quits her job, turns their apartment into a hair salon, and begins networking with influential people. However, her efforts entangle Karel in a web of shady business dealings, including a dubious connection with a foreign company, Djungarden. As misunderstandings and comedic mishaps unfold, Karel finds himself in trouble with the police, while Eva struggles to maintain control over their chaotic rise in society.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1982-03-12
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Don't Call Me Major
Overview: A group of children is trying to solve a mystery related to the diamonds smuggling.
Genres: Crime Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1981-12-04
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Opera ve vinici
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1982-06-04
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Víkend bez rodičů
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1982-02-12
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La Chanson du mal-aimé
Overview: Biography of the life of Guillaume Apollinaire.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-02-03
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Chain
Overview: Carefree young nurse Marta learns upon her husband's death that he was involved in all manner of criminal activity, which puts her life in danger.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1981-11-20
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Když rozvod, tak rozvod
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1983-04-01
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Příště budeme chytřejší, staroušku!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1982-12-31
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'Okay, Boss...!'
Overview: Láda Pitras (Ludek Sobota) and Oto Vacák (Petr Nározný) founded in the company Pragokov a Research department of recruitment of labor. For recruitment of workers in professions sought after both recruiters worked out an effective, often almost illegal methods. They followed secretly for instance the welder Niederle and managed to record his lovesick courting to his colleague Anicka. The fear of his jealous wife made him to join Pragokov.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-01-06
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Červená kůlna
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Genres: Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1968-11-01
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Lovers in the Year One
Overview: It is the summer of 1945. A party of young people are enjoying the beginning of a new life to the full. For them this is the year one. One of them, law student Pavel, is more attracted to film than to law. With his eight-millimeter camera, he films everything that catches his attention. One day he captures an interesting face on film, a girl with an air of mystery. Pavel visits the girl, whose name is Helena, and meets hers and her elder energetic sister Olga. From Olga, he learns that the girls have spent the years of German occupation in a concentration camp and cannot forget the horrors they have lived through.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1974-03-15
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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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The Day That Shook the World
Overview: An historical depiction of the events preceding the political murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, would-be emperor of the Austro-Hungarian throne, in Sarajevo on June 28th, 1914.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1975-10-31
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Marecek, Pass Me the Pen!
Overview: This comedy is about one average family. The father works as master in the factory and his son is studying on high school. One day father must start to visit the evening school. It's the same school as his son visiting. The lives both students are connecting together. The son must teach the math and physics his own father. The father getting to know, that the life of the students is not simple as he supposed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1976-10-08
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Wine Working
Overview: It is the summer of 1968 and also in South Moravian Pálavice appear political clashes. The so far peacefully farming Unified farmers' cooperative starts splitting. Some of the farmers have found the cooperative called Vidrupa and want to deal with wine in private trade. Michal Janák, chairman of the farmers' cooperative is a deliberate man and refuses the latent return to the capitalism. As an excellent farmer he continues preparing planting out new vineyards. His adversaries do not agree - the returns will come many years later. Jozka Hrdlicka, an émigré, notices on the Austrian TV the interview with the representatives of Vidrupa and decides to visit his native village. The new suit and the hired car transform the bankrupt and criminal to the successful businessman with wine.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1976-04-30
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Smrt na černo
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1977-05-13
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We'll Kick Up a Fuss Tomorrow, Darling...
Overview: Mr. Novak tells a lie to his neighbor Mrs. Bartackova that her husband is unfaithful to her and that is how it all started.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1976-11-19
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Odysseus and the Stars
Overview: A group of children are investigating a chain of mysterious events during the seventies.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1976-09-03
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Dům Na poříčí
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1977-02-04
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Our Gang
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1977-07-29
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The Case of Dead Schoolmates
Overview: A West German businessman Friedrich Schmidt is arriving to Czechoslovakia with private mission and mission for Intelligence service. He wants to settle the old event from the time of the Second World War when he as a student of the Czech grammar school in the town of Kostelec took part at the denunciation of his schoolmate Pavel Richter. Pavel was during the period of Nazi terror following the assassination of Acting Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia Heydrich executed. Schmidt has also to enter into relations with persons suitable for cooperation with the West Intelligence service. Schmidt - earlier, before the German occupation Smíd - meets the schoolmates and endeavors to avert suspicion that arose already at the time of the tragic event.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1977-02-18
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Smoke on the Potato Fields
Overview: In this character study by Czech director Frantisek Vlacil, a stout middle-aged physician whose marriage has come apart establishes a practice in a small town. Gradually he's drawn into the lives of his patients—a childless couple, a pregnant girl with a stern mother, the son of a duck farmer—and each relationship reveals a bit more about him and the idyllic but insular community.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1977-04-15
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Akce v Istanbulu
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1975-12-19
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The Divine Emma
Overview: The opera lady singer Ema Destinnová is in all her splendor at the American stages. But in Europe there rages war and she decides to return home to Bohemia.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1979-12-21
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Díky, pane Kříženecký
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Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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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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This Is How Love Begins...
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1975-10-31
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Kouzelné dobrodružství
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1983-02-01
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People from the Subway
Overview: Three short stories. Prague finally sees the approval of the subway construction. Thousands of individuals took part in preparing, course and finalizing construction of subway and their lives crossed at certain points of this construction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1974-05-17
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Naše XI.
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1936-10-09
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How to Dupe a Lawyer
Overview: Attorney Horic is a specialist for cases connected with motoring. He approaches to his work unconventionally, he does not hesitate to search for evidence right in the terrain and he is willing to take various risks.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-09-12
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All Against All
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1977-11-11
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Hřiště
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1976-02-20
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Silnější než strach
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1979-01-19
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