Václav Štekl
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: September 23, 1929
Age: 95 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 05, 1994
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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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The Ninth Heart
Overview: Martin, a poor student, volunteers to go on a quest to find a cure for the princess Adriana, who is stricken with a strange illness. Unknown to Martin or anyone else, the princess is actually under the spell of the powerful magician Andlobrandini, who is preparing a rejuvenating elixir made from the blood of nine men's hearts.
Genres: Fantasy Family Horror
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1979-04-13
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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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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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Fragile Relationships
Overview: A divorced single mother romances a young slaughterhouse worker, must to the chagrin of her ex-husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-01-04
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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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Don't Look Back, There Is a Horse Behind Us
Overview: Postwoman Mrs Skorepa, her husband the ambulance driver Mr Skorepa and their eleven-year-old twins Petr and Pavel live in Prague in Malá Strana (Lesser Town), one of the Prague's historical and oldest quarters. The boys are crazy about cars and everything linked to them. They don't share their father's love of classical music. On the other hand, they are crazy about the newly announced scrap yard competition for paper collection. The lottery tickets awarded for every ten kilograms of old paper collected could win them a go-kart.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1981-01-02
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Pan Vok odchází
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Genres: History Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-08-01
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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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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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Every Penny Counts
Overview: After inheriting a villa from his uncle, Emil Tuma meets its strange inhabitants, getting him in trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1961-09-29
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Epizod Berlin West
Overview: The 1980s. Jan Bard, Polish intellectual and writer, leaves for West Berlin. He is working on another novel here. In Germany, he meets his old love Iza. He revives the feeling that once connected them. The woman is the ex-wife of the publisher of Bard's novels. The situation gets complicated soon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-10-21
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Zlatá slepice
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1981-07-03
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Každému jeho nebe
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1982-05-07
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Láska na druhý pohled
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1982-08-06
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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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Víkend bez rodičů
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1982-02-12
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Velká sázka o malé pivo
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1982-01-09
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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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Trio Angelos
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1964-02-07
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Zuzana je zase sama doma
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Genres: Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1961-11-25
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Příhody pana Příhody
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1983-05-01
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Napravení Jima Valentina
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1964-09-30
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Lady on the Tracks
Overview: Tram driver Marie has far too much to do after her shift is over. But she likes to do it all since she loves her husband Václav sincerely. One day she spots him on the Lesser Town Square in Prague, kissing an attractive blonde good-bye. It seems to Marie that her small comfortable world has collapsed and she walks out of the tram in tears. But her sadness does not last long. She wipes off the tears and begins to act. She withdraws all the money from their savings books and buys off all the latest models from the Fashion Works. The visit to the beauty salon then completes her transformation into a lady.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1966-09-30
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The Limping Devil
Overview: A baleful limping man walks through Prague. He is Asmodeus (Juraj Herz), the fiend of lustfulness, entertaining himself by putting together by magic couples of lovers. He only fails at the swimming pool. Zuzana (Jana Sulcová), the good-looking blonde, ignores the men whom the devil foists off onto her. She loves Honza (Václav Neckár) and the boy shares her feelings. The fiend is annoyed by the couple and tries to provoke a row. He sends heavy rain to force them into a hotel and then warns Zuzana's father by phone, but the young lovers manage to get out in time. Then the obstinate Asmodeus takes Honza in his sleep to the Institute for Emotional Disorders, where he shows him the ugly sides of love - hysteria, voyeurism, fetishism, suicide attempts...
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1968-09-13
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Sedm žen Alfonse Karáska aneb Když holky berou, já nevím kterou
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1967-12-31
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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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I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen
Overview: This futuristic science fiction comedy features an atomic bomb blast that causes women to grow beards and lose the ability to have children. A summit meeting is held at the United Nations, with the proposed solution of building a time machine. The decision is made to travel back in time and murder Einstein, with the hopeful result being that without the noted mathematician's research there will be no atomic bombs.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1970-02-27
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Trapasy
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1970-05-21
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Trapasy II
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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The Great Movie Robbery
Overview: The film is essentially a feature-length commercial for an exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of the nationalisation of the Czechoslovak film industry, to be held at the Prague U Hybernu venue. The protagonists of the piece are comedians Oldrich Kaiser and Jirí Lábus, who are set to accept an award from Japanese television representatives at the exhibition. At the same time, five gangsters plot to seize a revolutionary invention devised by professor Suzuki - a super holograph, which enables any figure from television to be transported in the flesh into the real world, and vice-versa.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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You Are a Widow, Sir
Overview: After a soldier cuts off the arm of king's cousin, king decides to deactivate the army. Of course, generals don't like it at all and they try to kill the king. The assassin should be artificial body in the shape of actress Evelina Keleti and with brain of psychotic serial killer Fany Stubová. They also manage to kill king's astrologer Stuart Hampl, who warns the king. Accidentally, Hampl's brain is implanted into assassin's body, actress Keleti is killed and chaos begins.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1971-01-15
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Svatby pana Voka
Overview: Czech nobleman Petr Vok of Rozmberk (Milos Kopecký) is no longer so young, but his amatory adventures continue to arouse the envy of men and the indignation of respectable ladies. In his "female retinue" at the chateau in Bechyne he has twelve comely girls, but he still manages to seduce the miller's wife and the maid. Lord Vok is in great financial difficulties. His elder brother Vilém advises him to marry a rich woman. Petr surprises him by announcing his intention to marry the very young Katerina of Ludanice.
Genres: History Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1971-03-26
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Visitors from the Galaxy
Overview: Robert is a SF writer, who realizes that he can make his thoughts material. Because of that, a group of aliens arrives to Earth. Their leader is Andra, who shows affection for Robert, which does not please his girlfriend, Biba. A monster, Mumu, has arrived together with the visitors from space.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Horror
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1982-07-02
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Jak se státi gentlemanem
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Six Bears and a Clown
Overview: The owner of a circus decides to swap his trained bears for trained pigs, and fires clown Cibulka. The clown gets a job at a local school, bears escape and seek him out and a school inspector comes into town.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1972-12-29
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Svět otevřený náhodám
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1972-04-14
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Druhý příběh mého přítele štvance
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2023-12-21
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Můj přítel štvanec
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2023-12-21
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Silvestr je za dveřmi
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1974-12-31
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Z nových pověstí českých
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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A Night at Karlstein
Overview: No Woman is allowed into Karlstejn Castle! Yet the enamoured Daniele Kolářová and the equally enamoured Jana Brejchová manage to spend one night in disguise in the Castle despite the strict royal ban.
Genres: Comedy History Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1974-07-12
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Známost sestry Aleny
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1973-10-05
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Tři nevinní
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1974-03-01
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Kufr čili Silvestrovské kousky Miloše Kopeckého a Františka Filipovského
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1973-12-31
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A Star Is Falling Upwards
Overview: Švand, a room painter from Strakonice, begins a dizzying career as a pop music star, but he soon discovers that fame is not the most important thing in life or what he is looking for and what he longs for in life.
Genres: Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1975-08-29
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Skokan
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Dva muži hlásí příchod
Overview: An only son, Jirí Valenta (Jaromír Hanzlík), has been drafted to the army. At the barracks he acquires the nickname Seamstress because he sews rugs in his spare time. One day, his friend introduces him to Julka Vávrová (Jorga Kotrbová), a girl he is desperate to get rid of. The naive Jirí falls in love with the girl and accepts her invitation to spend Easter together in the country. There he learns that the girl is the single mother of the young boy Martínek, whose father is the married tractor driver.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1975-09-26
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A Girl Fit to Be Killed
Overview: The waitress Gita from the hotel "Bobí vrch" approaches her lover who has not left his wife yet and gives him an ultimatum: if he does not do all according to her wish, she will announce to the police his machinations with foreign currency.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1976-04-16
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The Cremator
Overview: In 1930s Prague, a Czech cremator who firmly believes cremation relieves one from earthly suffering is drawn inexorably to Nazism.
Genres: Comedy Horror Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1969-03-14
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Člověk z půdy
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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The False Prince
Overview: The Sultan awaits the arrival of his son, Prince Omar, who has brought up in a distant land. The master tailor and his assistances are making clothes for the prince. Labakan, the most gifted of his assistances, craves to be a Sovereign's heir so he steals the princely garments snd poses as the Sultan's son.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1985-06-01
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Podivná přátelství herce Jesenia
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1986-06-01
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Všichni musí být v pyžamu
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1985-09-01
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Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet
Overview: When famous detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in strange case of a missing dog and even stranger carnivorous plant. He becomes convinced that he is standing against his greatest enemy, the Gardener, who supposedly died years ago in a swamp...
Genres: Comedy Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-08-04
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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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Hra o královnu
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Genres: History Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1981-03-13
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Women Offside
Overview: Kastl is a hairdresser but his real passion is his second job as football referee. This job takes all his free time and makes his wife very nervous.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1971-07-20
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Nebožtíci na bále
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-09-27
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Oil Lamps
Overview: In 1900, Stepha, the vivacious 30 year old daughter of a wealthy couple, agrees to marry her cousin Paul, who has accumulated large debts as an Austrian army officer. Paul refuses to work or to consummate the marriage, and then his health steadily declines.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1971-11-05
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A Touch of a Butterfly
Overview: A romantic story of a young nobleman who sees a beautiful girl at the carnival who seems familiar to him. He feels that he saw her in an old castle, where only the old countess and sister live. It is precisely in their salon in the city that she meets the girl again and learns her history
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Happy End
Overview: A dark comedy about a murder and its consequences presented in a backwards manner, where death is actually a rebirth. The film starts with an "execution" of the main protagonist and goes back to explore his previous actions and motivations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1967-09-01
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Rambling Engelbert
Overview: Rambling Engelbert: 1973 Czechoslovakian T.V. movie musical
Genres: Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Propast
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Burning Secret
Overview: While recuperating in a sanatorium in the mountains, a young boy becomes very close friends with an older baron. But the baron is only using the boy to get to know his mother, the wife of an older diplomat. When the boy realises the baron’s intentions, he becomes jealous, moody and depressed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-23
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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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Lemonade Joe
Overview: A satire of the Great American Way, with Lemonade Joe a "clean living" gunfighter who drinks only Kola-Loca Lemonade and convinces everyone else in town (with his gun skills) that all "real men" drink ONLY lemonade!
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1964-10-16
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Láďo, ty jsi princezna!
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Genres: Family Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Výhra admirála Kotrby
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1981-12-05
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Svatební cesta aneb Ještě ne, Evžene!
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1966-12-31
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Ta naše písnička česká
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Genres: Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1967-08-11
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Ztracená revue
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Genres: Music Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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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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Věštec
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Dobrý večer
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Berete se dobrovolně?
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1985-01-26
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Revue za šest korun
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1985-12-14
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The Octopuses from the Second Floor
Overview: While on vacation with their bickering parents, young Eva and her little brother Johnny find in a polluted lake two strange friendly sentient octopuses made of strange material that attracts electricity. They take them as pets.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1987-07-01
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The Last Butterfly
Overview: Stage mime Antoine Moreau is compelled by the Gestapo to put on a performance for the children of Terezin, a "model" concentration camp, to convince the Red Cross observers that the camp is truly what it seems. Reluctant at first, Moreau slowly learns the true nature of the camp, including the meaning of the "transports" on which people leave. With a world-class orchestra (made up of people interned in the camp) and a cast of children, Moreau stages a show to end all shows.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Kačenka a strašidla
Overview: Jindrich Polák's modern fairy tale comedy tells the story of a girl who unexpectedly inherits a fairground amusement - a haunted house from Vienna's Prater fun park. With the help of a magic timepiece she is able to bring three of the ghosts to life.
Genres: Family Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1993-03-18
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