Zdeněk Štěpánek
Also Known As: Zdenek Stepánek, Zdenek Stepanek, Зденек Штепанек
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tvorsovice, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
Birthday: September 22, 1896
Deathday: June 20, 1968
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Known For:
Lucerna
Overview:
Genres: Fantasy Family Comedy History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1960-12-21
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Waterloo
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1967-06-18
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Pouta
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1961-09-22
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The Emperor and the Golem
Overview: The Emperor's mismanagement of his country is provoking some in his court to plot to overthrow him. He feels successful, at least, when he discovers the legendary Golem, which he believes can protect him and even cure his imaginary illnesses but, when he disappears while on a bender, his kindly baker, who looks just like him, is mistaken for him, and begins to put things in order. However, the conspirators, not to be outdone, determine to bring the Golem back to life to do their bidding.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Horror
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1952-01-04
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Smrt na Cukrovém ostrově
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Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1962-07-20
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A Face in the Window
Overview: A movie built up of three stories about life in a small Slovak town. The Prosecutor: the district attorney is a jazz orchestra soloist at the same time and that is much disliked by the local provincial society. The Defender: is about a young doctor's relation to his patient, who is open about his reactionary opinions. The Judge: it is only after long years that the old judge realizes that his own marriage is in jeopardy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1963-12-25
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Národní umělec Zdeněk Štěpánek
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1960-12-16
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Transport from Paradise
Overview: Czechoslovakian Zbynek Brynych directs this psychological drama set in World War II Terezin ghetto. A dark, visual portrayal of the trials and tribulations the Theresienstadt people faced on a daily basis presented in a series of memorable stories. Their hopes and dreams unfold against the perpetual threat of deportation (or worse) by the Nazis. Based on the novel "Night and Hope" by Arnost Lustig.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1963-03-15
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Bez svatozáře
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1964-07-03
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Ikarie XB 1
Overview: The year is 2163. Starship Ikaria XB 1 embarks on a mission deep into space in search of alien life. During their perilous journey the crew confront the effects of a malignant dark star, the destructive legacy of the 20th century and, ultimately, the limits of their own sanity.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1963-07-26
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Magdalena Dobromila Rettigová
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Genres: Drama Comedy History Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1961-04-02
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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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Lucerna
Overview:
Genres: Fantasy History Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1967-12-24
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Lékař v rozpacích
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1966-09-21
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Noc bez úsvitu
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1967-03-05
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Pentos a Iola
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Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1967-10-01
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Princezna Pampeliška
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Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1967-02-04
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Na zapřenou
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1967-11-18
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Marketa Lazarová
Overview: Mikolás and his brother Adam end up with a young German hostage of noble blood during a robbery. While their clan prepares for the wrath of the German king, Mikolás is sent to pressure his neighbor Lazar into a defense pact. Persuasion fails and he abducts Lazar's daughter Marketa on the eve of her initiation as a nun in an act of vengeance.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1967-11-24
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Jegor Bulyčov
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1968-02-21
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Hrdinové okamžiku
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Virginity
Overview: The doomed love of a city girl caught in the vise of poverty is detailed in Vavra’s fluid, romantic work, one of the most elegant creations of the Czech Modernist era... The film lingers over its characters’ habitats and haunts, finding psychological truths in what each owns or desires, and countering every Hollywood-ready scene of gleaming restaurants and dazzling penthouses with realist moments of employment lines and crammed flats. Vavra’s classical camerawork and aura of romantic defeatism give Virginity a force comparable to the master of this genre, Hollywood’s Frank Borzage. (BAM/PFA)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1937-11-04
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Rozina the Love Child
Overview: Prague, the beginning of the 17th century. Rozina falls in love with Italian glass worker Nikolo, but after returning home, she gets a message that will never come to Prague. She falls for the promise of an older man to marry her, but when Nikolo does return, the tragic fate of Rozina is sealed.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1945-12-14
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The Magic House
Overview: When Vilem appears in the road with an unconscious young woman, it disturbs the peaceful life of three generations of the Balvínova family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1939-11-21
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Josef Kajetán Tyl
Overview: A biographical story about significant Czech dramatist, writer and actor Josef Kajetán Tyl.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1926-01-29
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The Adventurous Bachelor
Overview: Shown in Cannes 1946.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1946-09-06
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Jan Žižka
Overview: The second part of the revolutionary Hussite trilogy takes place in the years 1419-1420.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1956-02-05
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Dog's Heads
Overview: Dog's Heads (Czech: Psohlavci) is a 1955 Czech drama film directed by Martin Frič, based on the novel of the same name by Alois Jirásek. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1955-03-25
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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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Old Czech Legends
Overview: A monumental piece of art bringing the heroes of the ancient Czech myths back to life. The picture consists of seven parts: Cech the Forefather, Bivoj, Libuse, Premysl, Girls War, Horymir, Lucka War.
Genres: Animation History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1953-09-11
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The Secret of Blood
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1953-12-25
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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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Man from the Unknown
Overview: Venice Film Festival 1940
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1939-12-22
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Měsíc nad řekou
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1953-08-28
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Mlha
Overview: The work of actors on a stage makes a dreamlike parallelism between artistic immagination and the concreteness of everyday life. Tribute to Prague's Divadlo na zàbradlì, theater that has been a point of reference for Theater of the Absurd in Czechoslovakia in Sixties
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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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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Mist on the Moors
Overview: Mist on the Moors examines fates of just about a few people. Their stories are outlined in a short space of time and are a symbolic representation of the drama of life, struggle for justice, human cognizance and the healing power of love. One of the most important components of the film is the nature, which ceases to be a mere stage for its plot—it serves almost as an autonomous plot agent. The movie landscape is a precisely defined and localized one. Only the South Bohemian ponds can serve as the right environment for development of such earthy and typically human stories as we encounter in the Mist on the Moors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1944-01-14
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Lost in the Suburbs
Overview: Czechoslovak drama film about soldiers returning from World War II
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1949-01-28
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St. Wenceslas
Overview: St. Wenceslas (Czech: Svatý Václav) is a 1930 Czechoslovak historical film about Saint Wenceslas.[2] It was the most expensive Czech film to date,[3] with the largest set constructed in Europe to accommodate an all-star cast of over a hundred, together with 1,000 extras for the lavish battle scenes.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1930-03-04
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The World Belongs to Us
Overview: One of the few European films of the 30s to criticize the Nazis, even if they couldn't be directly named due to censorship: Gangsters with gray hats stir up trouble in what is obviously the Sudetenland.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1937-07-30
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Ulička v ráji
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Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1936-09-25
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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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Hände hoch oder ich schieße
Overview: Small town policeman Holms suffers from a rather unusual problem: Because of the low crime rate, there is simply not enough to do for him. Deadly bored, he sinks into the depths of depression and requests the help of a psychiatrist. But his imagination is far more effective: In his dreams, he chases gangsters in London. Finally, some small-time crooks find a way to help "their" policeman out of his emotional misery: They steal a memorial from the market square and thus help Holms to a spectacular case.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-02-01
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Žena na rozcestí
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1937-07-02
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Preludium
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1941-12-25
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Tři zlaté vlasy děda Vševěda
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Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1963-11-22
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Její hřích
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1939-05-05
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Jan Výrava
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1938-01-28
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Today for the Last Time
Overview: Concert master Karel Mašek is a drunk, as well as engineer Danda and other regular guests of the pub U Kroců. Mašek returns from the pub in the morning and promises the woman that he will stop drinking. But he failed again, and the orchestra players refuse to play with him. Danda returns home without a bag and goes to Krocs again in the morning, even though he has an important job at work. He has been degraded to subordinate job position, but he refused to admit it at home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1958-12-13
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Druhá směna
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1940-12-20
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Conversion of Ferdys Pistora
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1932-01-11
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Reportáž psaná na oprátce
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1962-01-05
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Vojnarka
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1936-12-04
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Experiment
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1943-09-03
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The Incendiary's Daughter
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1941-03-21
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Bomba
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Mikoláš Aleš
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1952-01-11
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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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A Star Named Wormwood
Overview: At the end of May 1918, released prisoners return to the Rumburk garrison from Russian captivity, hoping that the war is over for them. The only thing they want is to get their withheld ...
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1965-02-26
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Jana
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1935-10-11
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The Way of the Cross
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1938-04-15
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The Invisible
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1965-09-01
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Revoluční rok 1848
Overview: Year of the Revolution 1848
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1949-12-23
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The Illusion Factory
Overview: In this reportage, film professionals offer the viewers a peek behind the scenes at the Barrandov studios. We see how sets are constructed and we find out what sorts of things are stored in the prop department. The friendly commentary describes the journey from camera negatives to a film on the big screen. We learn about film technology and take a glance into film laboratories and editing rooms. The film also presents unique footage from the filming of The White Disease, namely the dramatic scene with five hundred extras in which the Marshal announces his declaration of war.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1938-03-11
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Third Company
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Genres: Drama War
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1931-12-25
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Ikarie XB 1
Overview: The year is 2163. Starship Ikaria XB 1 embarks on a mission deep into space in search of alien life. During their perilous journey the crew confront the effects of a malignant dark star, the destructive legacy of the 20th century and, ultimately, the limits of their own sanity.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1963-07-26
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Maratón
Overview: It is 5 May 1945 and the uprising against the hated German occupiers has broken out in Prague. The Czech guards open the gate of the Pankrác prison to allow the prisoners to escape en masse. Many of them are shot dead by the German guards but young Ruda (Jaromír Hanzlík) manages to run away. He is taken care of by one of the Prague fighters, concierge Kytka. Kytka hides him in the flat of the house's owner where only the young maid Karla (Jana Brejchová) is left, ordering her to take care of Ruda.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1968-12-31
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Nástup
Overview: "The Rally" is based on a communist writer Vaclav Řezáč's well-written novel of the same name
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1953-05-01
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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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Občan Brych
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1959-02-20
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The Gold Key
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Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1922-12-08
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Román hloupého Honzy
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1927-04-15
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Jízdní hlídka
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Genres: War Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1936-09-04
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Neporažená armáda
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1938-10-28
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Horoucí srdce
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1963-03-08
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Všude žijí lidé
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1960-12-16
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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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Sign of the Anchor
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1947-10-31
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Bitter Love
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1958-10-10
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Early Days
Overview: Early Days follows the early life of famous Czech writer Alois Jirásek. Jirásek had already developed his own view of the history of the Czech nation while he was at grammar school in Broumov. When he becomes the supply teach in Litomyšl, he has already written his first book and a number of poems. The local dignitaries await the arrival of the young writer in excited anticipation. Jirásek, however, is sickened by the empty patriotism from the depths of his soul and soon becomes disagreeable to the notables. The district sheriff tries to remove Jirásek from the school and drive him out of town. Unable to do this, the sheriff appoints a pro-Austrian headmaster who attempts to sabotage Jirásek. The students stand behind Jirásek , however, and discontent is not only felt in Litomyšl but throughout Bohemia.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1953-02-27
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Krejčovská povídka
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1954-06-18
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X. slet všesokolský
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1945-07-20
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Legend of Love
Overview: A spring is hidden in the Iron Mountain but the people of Arzen cannot get to it and they are suffering from thirst.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1957-08-09
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Rok stalinské epochy
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1951-10-26
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Zkouška pokračuje
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1960-09-02
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Kutná Hora
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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Jenský kodex
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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Povodeň
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1958-07-11
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