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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 24, 1893
Deathday: August 01, 1964
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Gender: Male
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Overview: The Portorican prime minister asks British detective Sherlock Holmes to find a twin for King Fernando XXIII, a weak and frightened man who fears anarchists and does not want to show himself in public. Holmes finds in the Czech newspapers a photo of the perfect double, František Lelíček, a daring bon vivant drowned in debt, so when Holmes offers him money, Lelíček decides to travel to Portorico and play the role.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1932-03-25
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Overview: Postman Brabec is a welcome guest of the revue theatre for his sense of humor, and he brings his director Holt letters from female admirers every day. Holt's fans include Brabec's sister Anny. The girl would like to join the theatre, but for the time being works as a maid for the actress Velden. A new revue is being rehearsed, the name of the author is secret. Veldenová will return the role just before the premiere because she doesn't like it. The quick-witted Brabec introduces the director to his sister, who knows all the parts by heart.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1931-04-03
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Overview: Woman concert star seeks to connect with her adult daughter, by her former marriage to a staid industrialist who has kept the two apart since the girl was very small, and receives inadvertent help from the industrialist's just-fired employee who has fallen in love with the girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1934-08-17
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1931-12-31
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Overview: Young music composer Viktor Honzl in vain looks for work. He is prevented from committing suicide by a technician of the gasworks who shortly beforehand has disconnected his gas due to past due bills. In the disguise of an older, serious, musical scholar Viktor obtains work in a music publishing house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1933-12-01
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1934-08-24
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1939-10-27
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1934-04-06
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1932-02-19
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Overview: Mimi lives with her parents and the maid Fanka in a villa near the forest. One day, a gamekeeper comes to court Mimi when her parents are away.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1931-11-27
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Overview: When the yacht of her former lover Mario Tudor arrives in Split, widowed Countess de Milesi, plagued by financial troubles, is hell-bent on selling him a fake copy of an expensive painting.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1939-08-25
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1934-09-28
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Overview: Venice Film Festival 1938
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1938-01-21
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1921-02-05
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1921-12-30
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Overview: Professor Grant signs a contract with Dr. Selin for the sale of his invention of cold light with the plans for his invention being kept in Grant's apartment. The negotiations are secretly heard by the illusionist Durk, who wants to seize the invention. A few days later Selín is found dead, killed by a light bulb filled with poisonous gas. Durk performs at the birthday party of Grant's daughter Anna and seizes the plans for the invention.
Genres: Crime Adventure
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1921-10-21
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1923-12-31
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1925-06-12
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1926-03-05
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Overview: Joint montage of the first three silent films about Švejk: Good Soldier Švejk (1926, director: Karel Lamač), Švejk on the Front (1926, director Karel Lamač) and Švejk in Russian Captivity (1926, director: Svatopluk Innemann, model Karel Vaněk). The lead role was played by Karel Noll, who was very popular at the time. The last silent sequel Švejk v civilu (1927) exists independently, but the copy of the film is badly damaged.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1930-06-11
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1931-08-31
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Genres: Drama War
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1931-12-25
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1931-09-25
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Overview: Lieutenant Lukáš was transferred to the marching battalion in České Budějovice together with Švejko. On the way, Švejk makes Lukáš uncomfortable with a bald superior, a passenger in civilian clothes, and then because of pulling the handbrake, he is removed from the train and brought to the station master. The fine for Švejk will be paid by one lucky man, for whom Švejk's stopping of the train catapulted his beloved woman directly into his arms. Švejk goes to Budějovice on foot. His journey is full of humorous incidents. After arriving at the barracks, the regiment with Švejk and Lukáš is soon sent to Hungary, where Lukáš has an adventure with Mrs. Kakonyová. Eventually, the unit including Švejk arrives all the way to the Russian front. (According to the period label.)
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1926-10-15
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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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Overview: Vlasta Burian appears in a town of Czarist Russia impersonating an Inspector General, and he is entertained lavishly by the local political-hacks and peasants seeking his favor for whatever they are advocating or need fixed. Burain is involved in a series of comical situations as he takes everything he can gets his hands on while the peasants, who must plead for the betterment of their conditions, are left on the outside-looking-in. He makes his escape just as the real Inspector General is set to appear, but those-in-need will be no better off when the real McCoy shows up then they were with Burian.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1933-09-29
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1934-10-19
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Overview: A Milk-Cannery baron, Jakub Simonides, is broken by the Canned Milk-Trust and, in his wanderings with a worker, Filip Kornet, he discovers he still owns a half-finished apartment-house. They rally the workers and complete the building for use as a collectivist dairy. The cooperative flourishes and after a chase/pursuit with the police, pratfalls, slapstick and various crashes, the workers buy out the Milk-Trust.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1934-10-26
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Overview: Venice Film Festival 1939
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1939-09-01
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1939-03-10
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1921-06-03
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1921-09-01
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1921-11-11
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Overview: During a pogrom against Jews in a village, an innkeeper is killed, his daughter is put in a convent after being crucified, and her illegitimate child, who later grows up to be a student, is placed in the care of a guardian.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1921-09-16
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1922-03-10
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1922-01-01
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1922-11-03
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1920-06-18
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1923-01-25
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Overview: After a young man is arrested for a crime he didn't commit, the daughter of the local tavern owners must spring to the rescue.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1924-08-01
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1919-08-24
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1919-10-03
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1920-02-05
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1919-10-03
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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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Genres: Drama War
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1930-02-14
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Overview: In "Fidlovacka", the name of a Czechoslovakian festival, the proprietress of a cheese factory picks a fiancé for her orphaned niece in her desire to bring aristocratic blood into the family. THe niece has also picked the man she wants to marry and isn't the the rich aristocrat.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1930-12-18
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1928-09-11
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1932-09-02
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1934-06-08
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Overview: Wealthy and ill Petr Kornel (Karel Hasler) is not pleased with the carousing lifestyle of his nephew. He stops supporting him financially and demands that he change his name. Out of gratitude Kornel bequeaths a substantial sum of money to his nurse Alice (Adina Mandlová) with the condition that she marries. Petr Suk (Hugo Haas), as the nephew is now named, visits the doctor. In the waiting room his X-ray is mistakenly switched with one of another patient's. On the basis of this he presently learns that he is seriously ill and has only one day of life left to him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1935-02-08
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1939-05-26
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Overview: A painting of a girl from another time comes to life for it's buyer in this costume comedy.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1940-01-26
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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Overview: Alois Novák (Oldrich Nový), a minor clerk in a travel agency and the husband of a dowdy housewife Marenka (Natasa Gollová), lives a run-of-the-mill, dull life. In his soul, however, there resides an inextinguishable desire for adventure. And so once a month he poses as a playboy. As the mysterious and wealthy Mr. Kristian he goes to the exclusive Orient Bar where he does not skimp on generous tips and where he platonic-ally seduces beautiful and elegant women. In the salon he speaks of love and the magnificence of exotic lands, which he has supposedly come to know on his wanderings abroad. In reality he has read all of this in the travel agency's brochures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1939-09-08
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