Emil Iserle
Also Known As: Jan Pech
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
Adult: No
Birthday: March 09, 1901
Age: 124 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 05, 1975
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Closely Watched Trains
Overview: At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to the war and the resistance that surrounds him, this young man embarks on a journey of sexual awakening and self-discovery, encountering a universe of frustration, eroticism, and adventure within his sleepy backwater depot.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1966-11-18
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Pearls of the Deep
Overview: A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave, this five-part anthology shows off the breadth of expression and the versatility of the movement’s directors. Based on stories by the legendary writer Bohumil Hrabal, the shorts range from the surreally chilling to the caustically observant to the casually romantic, but all have a cutting, wily view of the world.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1966-01-07
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Dívka s třemi velbloudy
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1967-09-08
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How to Get Rid of Helenka
Overview: Radio announcer Petrícek reads the evening news in a studio. Viki, the female editor of a woman's program, is annoyed by the stereotypical information he provides as well as by the speaker's melodious voice and his heart-felt performance. Then she gets an idea for a prank. She calls the speaker from the neighboring room on the phone and pretends to be an unhappily married woman who draws all her strength to live from Petrícek's voice.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1968-01-12
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A Man Who Rose in Price
Overview: Mr. Benda, a married father of two children, works for a company that liquidates old banknotes. After one drunken party, he is visited by a painter who tattooed his back in drunkenness the previous night. The image tattooed on Benda’s back is considered the painter’s best work by the professionals.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1968-06-28
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Crime in the Night Club
Overview: A black comedy set in a Prague cabaret.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1968-12-20
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Case for a Rookie Hangman
Overview: Lemuel Gulliver (Lubomír Kostelka) has had a car accident and continues his journey across the unknown countryside on foot. On the road he finds a dead rabbit dressed like a man and takes a watch from its waistcoat breast pocket. The half-ruined house that he enters reminds Lemuel of his childhood and brings up a painful memory of a dearly loved girl Markéta who was drowned years ago. Gulliver finds himself in Balnibarbi, a country where he doesn't understand the laws and habits and so continually offends against public decency. It is a day when people are ordered to keep their mouths shut and they force their visitor to follow suit. He faces harsh interrogation and finds it difficult to explain that he is not the rabbit Oscar whose watch has been found in his possession.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1970-07-03
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Nudity
Overview: Young prisoner Jan, nicknamed Roughboy (Petr Cepek), tries to commit suicide. He was imprisoned for a fight in which he injured a functionary of the National Committee and for stealing material but actually by the blame for this crime was pinned on him by the road-builders in whose group he worked. The prison doctor knows that Jan is an emotionally deprived person who never knew his parents and spent all his childhood - except one year with foster-parents - in orphanages, homes for youth and reform schools. He arranges a five-day holiday for Jan, who wants to find his mother's grave.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1990-12-01
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Návraty
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1972-09-01
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Dream City
Overview: A married couple of artists move to a utopian town known for its absolute freedom, but behind the surface perversion and violence are spreading.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-11-15
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The Secret of a Great Narrator
Overview: The life of the famous French writer Alexander Dumas the Elder. Screenwriter Jaroslav Dietl did not hide his admiration for this literary giant, and in addition to the screenplay he also wrote a three-part TV play about Dumas (starring Vladimír Menšík). In Kachyn's film, Dumas played the father and son of the Štěpánková brothers, and it was a very difficult and difficult task for these young actors.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1972-04-28
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