Jiří Prýmek
Also Known As: Jiri Prymek, J. Prýmek
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: April 22, 1933
Age: 92 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 06, 1983
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Flying Saucers Over Our Village
Overview: A model Communist village is visited by a flying saucer.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1977-11-25
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Calamity
Overview: Funny banter about love, sex, social status, and other ideals, while a new railway employee is trained and sent on his first run as driver.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1982-01-29
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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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Sny o Zambezi
Overview: Drama directed by Stanislav Strnad.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1982-12-17
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The Death of Mr Goluza
Overview: Traveling salesman in a small town before WW2 makes a solemn promise to kill himself. Later he finds that the local people took him very seriously.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1982-03-22
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And Give My Love to the Swallows
Overview: This film, chronicling the last days of Czech resistance fighter Maruska Kuderikova (played by Magda Vasaryova), is based on her diaries. Though she was tortured and eventually executed by the Nazis, her diaries indicate that she was optimistic for the humanity of her captors and did not by any means hate them. Told with simple dignity, this film makes clear why Maruska became a national hero.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1972-05-26
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The Liberation of Prague
Overview: On 20th of April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germany and Hitler decides to commit suicide. In Prague K.H. Frank (Nazi Secretary of State and Chief of police in the Protectorate of Bohemia a Moravia) discusses with his commanders how to transform the city into an impregnable fortress, but the Praguers do not intend to wait any longer. From the early hours of 4th of May people start assembling in the streets and tearing down German signs. On the next day, the 5th of May, the uprising begins.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1977-05-06
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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Overview: Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the effects she experiences when she puts on a pair of magic earrings. Now seeing the world around her in a different light, Valerie must endure her sexual awakening while attempting to discern reality from fantasy as she encounters lecherous priest Gracian, a vampire-like stranger and otherworldly carnival folk.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1970-10-16
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Blinker-Ciko
Overview: Roman Hlava grew up with his diplomat parents in Latin America where he had been home-schooled by his over doting mother. The over indulgence of affection and praise has given the boy an over confidence. This is quickly squashed by his new peers when the family returns to the Czech Republic. This leads to neurotic tics and the nickname Mrkácek the 'Blinker.' A stay at a children's camp provides new friends, acceptance, an appreciation of nature, a new outlook on life, and loss of the tics.
Genres: Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1983-06-01
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The Tailor from Ulm
Overview: The true story of the Bavarian Tailor Albrecht Berblinger who, after a strange encounter with a balloon starts building a flying machine. Although not an engineer by profession, he never gives up. No matter how many obstacles are put in his way nor how many failures he endures, his ardour is never dampened. He continues with his dream to fly like a bird.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-12-19
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Good-for-Nothing
Overview: A young man seeks freedom and eventually gets conformed. To escape society, he wanders south. After some adventures he returns to his lover, where he expects a civil career.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-01-27
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Sugar House
Overview: In the final days of the Second World War in 1945 Frantisek Pribyl is killed during a shoot-out with the Germans. After the funeral, the widow (Jana Svandová) and her two young sons Martin and Ondra move to her deceased husband's native village at the foot of the Kralický Snezník mountains. Life in the borderlands is far from easy for the lonely woman. The village is almost deserted, food supplies are delayed; the Werwolf (Nazi guerrilla squads) are hiding in the mountains, and shooting is heard from time to time. The elder son Ondra (Michal Dlouhý) is helping out his mother and at the same time absorbing intense new experiences. He meets an old Czech resident Skurek (Lubomír Kostelka), German women working in the forest, soldiers from the engineering units removing the mines, and a young first lieutenant. At night he dreams about his dead father whom he loved very much. This is why he runs away from home when he finds out that the lieutenant is courting his mother.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1981-05-22
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The Krakonos and the Skiers
Overview: Matej and Jenda, two of the eight children of the poor Pelc family in the Giant Mountains, help in a glass works where the oldest brother Francek works. They hide into a tub not to be seen by supervisors checking on the ban of children labor. They miss the Epiphany carol (songs and treats door-to-door) and all neighbor village boys again on them in all the neighbor houses. On their way home they are passed by a fast moving big man with a large backpack. The boys send the customs officers, who are pursuing the strange man, to the opposite direction. The man then thanks them and rewards them the next day. Based on fairy-tales and legends the boys think the man is Krakonos (the giant living and ruling in the Giant Mountains).
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1981-01-23
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Svědek umírajícího času
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1991-02-01
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