Vlasta Burian
Also Known As: Власта Буриан
Biography: Vlasta Burian, vlastním jménem Josef Vlastimil Burian (9. dubna 1891 Liberec — 31. ledna 1962 Praha), známý jakoKrál komiků, byl český divadelní herec, režisér, zpěvák, divadelní ředitel, sportovec, podnikatel, filmový herec,spisovatel, mim a imitátor, který se díky své nespoutané živelnosti a potřebě být všude první vypracoval mezi skutečné hvězdy českého filmu a divadla. Byl jedním z nejpopulárnějších herců za první republiky, po válce byl však neprávem nařčen z kolaborace. I přesto jeho obliba trvá dodnes, o čemž svědčí vítězství v anketě o „Krále komiků“ a časté televizní reprízy jeho filmů.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Liberec
Birthday: April 09, 1891
Deathday: January 31, 1962
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Two Little Frosts
Overview: Two mischievous frost spirits make things chilly for a pair of travelers in this wintry comic folktale.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1955-04-22
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Station Master
Overview: Vlasta Burian jako černý pasažér rozvrátí disciplinovaný chod jednoho nádraží. Pan Ťopka působí dojmem gentlemana trochu chaplinovského typu. Živí se příležitostnou prací, za níž jezdí výhradně jako černý pasažér vlakem. Při jedné jízdě se setká s obávaným generálním inspektorem drah Kokrhelem. Na jedné malé stanici se mu podaří vystoupit a převléknout se do uniformy přednosty stanice. Setkání s inspektorem Kokrhelem se však nevyhne... (oficiální text distributora)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1941-04-12
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Once Upon a Time, There Was a King...
Overview: A selfish self-centered widowed ruler, barely tolerated by his subjects and called appropriately enough, 'King Myself, First' asks his three daughters to name the measure of their love for him. When one of them says, "more than salt", he banishes her from the kingdom. Not understanding what she meant the King assumes love can only be measured by precious metals or one's own talent, the 'correct' answers from his other two daughters. The arrogance of the King leads him to gather all the salt in the kingdom and destroy it. Of course, this backfires as he slowly learns the universal value of the substance, and of course, the essence of his daughter's reply. With the help of the wise and magical old 'herb woman', the King also learns what it means to be a true and wise ruler.
Genres: Family Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1955-02-11
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Ryba na suchu
Overview: Majitel půjčovny lodiček a převozník Ryba sídlí celý život v domku u řeky, která se často stává osudnou pro plavce i sebevrahy. Protože jsou však Rybovou zásluhou mnozí tonoucí zachráněni, stává se Ryba velmi populární osobností celého kraje.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1942-09-11
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Imperial and Royal Field Marshal
Overview: Comedy film directed by Karel Lamač.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1930-10-24
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Král komiků
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1963-12-25
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Zaostřit prosím!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1956-12-25
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Muž v povětří
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1956-01-20
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Duchacek Will Fix It
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1938-06-03
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The Catacombs
Overview: The title refers to the office of records in the basement of a large company... sort of the place where a troublesome employee may be dumped in a dead end job. If fact, the story is a simple romantic comedy, with Burian as the kindly old stick-in-the-mud who helps the young man to sort out his romance with the daughter of the company's owner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1940-02-23
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Lelíček in the Services of Sherlock Holmes
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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The Best Man
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1954-12-25
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He Stood at the Till
Overview: U pokladny stál... is a Czech comedy film. It was released in 1939.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1939-02-10
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Burian the Liar
Overview: Fifty years old Baron von Fibberg lives at The Fibberg Castle with his wife Olga and daughter Charley. Besides the delight in hunting, Baron is very enthusiastic about truth. Although he can't withstand any falsehood of others, he keeps his own intimate secrets from his wife. Charley seems to be an innocent girl at first glance, but she has a little secret too. She fell in love with a young fop Ernest Benda and married him in secret. Her only concern is the way, how to let her strict father know about the marriage. Together with her husband they prepare a plan how to do it, but it turns out to be a catastrophe for the whole family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1940-09-13
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The Loves of Kačenka Strnadová
Overview: The film depicts the adventures of Kacenka (Zdena Kavková) and Vincek (Vlasta Burian), two innocent country bumpkins who live in a Czech small town, and the various jobs that Kacenka has once she moves to Prague, that beautiful capital city. Our heroine will have to bear difficult working conditions and to make things worse, she falls in love with a fake aristocrat. Fortunately her companion, Vincek who is also in Prague, has an unrequited love for her. Though he is the cause of many Kacenka's problems, Vincek finally will help and resolve her loves troubles. And of course there is a happy ending that brings the Czech couple together.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1926-12-25
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Business in Distress
Overview: Finnicky efficiency expert is sent to straighten out business management problems at a jazz club, and finds self being drawn into the swingin' scene.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1931-10-16
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Skill of Gold
Overview: A village shop owner is convinced by his children to move to Prague, where they say he'll be able to enjoy a fine retirement in a modern furnished apartment. Bored by life in Prague with nothing to do, the old man takes to helping a young widow in her stationery shop.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1943-02-07
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Anton Spelec, Sharp-Shooter
Overview: Anton Špelec (Vlasta Burin) is a producer of musical instruments by trade but a sharp-shooter at heart. He expects to be awarded a medal at a large parade in town where veteran sharp-shooters will be honored. When the town council is one medal short, Anton must wait another year for his prized possession. He drowns his disappointment in drink at the local pub and becomes so drunk that he insults the emperor who sentences him to jail. Instead of fulfilling the emperor’s orders himself, Anton sends his employee in his stead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1932-12-16
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The Inspector-General
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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Don't Make Grandpa Angry
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1934-12-21
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The Twelve Chairs
Overview: The first movie adaptation of the Russian novel "The Twelve Chairs" by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeniy Petrov. The basic idea from this movie, in which a barber and an antique salesman were searching for money hidden in one of of twelve chairs, was later reused for other official and unofficial adaptions of the book
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1933-09-22
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Hrdinný kapitán Korkorán
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1934-08-24
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The Undertaker
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1932-06-10
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Three Eggs in a Glass
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1937-09-24
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Eaten Out of House and Home
Overview: The gullible buyer Žemla Martin (Francis Smolik) finally opened his dream shop. After a while, you get a lot of friends. Especially the former captain Kyllijána (Vlasta Burian), who come to him to drink brandy debt and sit on a bag of peas, where he talks nonsense. Its debt is starting to grow nicely. Later dupe marry an evil Pavlina Šustrová (Ela Poznerová). It can also bring their calculating mother, widow Catherine Šustrová (Antonie Nedošínská). These two together with a bun Kyllijánem use, but outside him are friendly. Later, when Žemla catches his wife cheating when he has become the father of a foreign child, and when he discovers that the shop is broke and completely vyjedený, poisoning. A best friend Žemlův captain Kylliján happily drunk debt for plum deleted.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1933-11-01
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Provdám svou ženu
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1941-08-08
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Ulice zpívá
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1939-09-22
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Hrdina jedné noci
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1935-04-19
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The wrong field marshal
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-12-09
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Pobočník Jeho Výsosti
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1933-04-14
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Him and His Sister
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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Held einer Nacht
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-05-01
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The Fake Sweetheart
Overview: The film depicts the troubles of Herr Verner ( Herr Karel Hasler ), a middle-aged bachelor dentist who wants to marry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1926-09-24
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The Lovers of an Old Criminal
Overview: Factory owner Pardon, meets Olga, daughter of clairvoyant Stefanie Lesczynska at a ball. Their brief acquaintance is interrupted when Olga and her mother have to leave. Fifi Hrazánková has her sights set on the elligible Pardon. Pardon asks his Uncle Cyril Ponděliček if the girl could take over his position at work so that she may be dissuaded of her amorous intentions. Fifi seduces Pondělíček. In the meantime, Pardon meets Olga and Stefanie again by chance and offers them a place to stay at Ponděliček’s while Pondělíček passes himself off as Pardon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1927-10-07
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Portrét krále komiků
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1987-11-27
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The Hen and the Sexton
Overview: Cooperative members are harvesting crops, trying to get new water piping installed and preparing to plough away the field boundaries in autumn. Local kulak Voznica (Vladimír Repa) doesn't like any of this so he forces sexton Kodýtek (Vlasta Burian) to help him sabotage their efforts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1951-04-06
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Meet the Sister
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Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-03-20
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Tu ten kámen
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1923-09-07
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