David Švehlík
Also Known As: David Svehlik, David Svehlík
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: April 06, 1972
Age: 53 years old
Gender: Male
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Unknown Hour
Overview: Hynek Michánek wants to study medicine but fails his entrance exams five times. He starts a job as an orderly in a district hospital where one of the doctors on the examining board works as well. He feels no-one takes him seriously and he loathes the doctors, who treat him with disdain. When an old man begs him to end his pain and suffering by helping him to die, Hynek gives him a "liberating" injection. But now he has done it once, he finds he can't stop. He continues killing other patients, even though he knows he can't get away with it for long.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2009-08-27
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Život pro samouky
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2023-05-11
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Wings of Steel
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Genres: TV Movie Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2018-11-04
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Angel
Overview: An angel who ruins everything he touches is sent to Earth to learn about love, forgiveness and selflessness -- and he has just one day to do it.
Genres: Family Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2005-11-03
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Rules of Lies
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Genres: Drama Action Thriller Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2006-11-29
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From Subway with Love
Overview: This romantic comedy presents a story of two women, twenty-year-old Laura, an editor at a woman’s weekly, and her widowed mother, a translator-interpreter named Jana. The two of them tirelessly seek Mr. Right. Having once lived through an intense relationship with a ‘typical’ Czech man, Jana intentionally avoids Czech men. She searches for her dream foreigner while long-sufferingly warding off the tragicomic advances of her good-natured neighbor Žemla. After several unsuccessful attempts, Laura falls in love with Oliver, a forty year old who works as an ad agency idea man. Little does she suspect that twenty years ago Oliver was Jana’s true love…
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2005-04-14
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Two Words as the Key
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2023-07-27
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The Greatest Czechs
Overview: Film crew on the road: Director (Jaroslav Plesl), his Producer (Simona Babcáková), and their Director of Photography (Jirí Vyorálek) and Sound Arist (Johana Svarcova). Starving artists who already have a number of films to their names, Czech Lion award-winning films, excellent reviews and have been screened at numerous festivals, but they don't have audiences. Their next collaborative effort - the Director's lifetime dream - is quickly becoming oblivion because he failed to win a grant, which means it won't be made. And so the frustrated Director and his colleagues await their chance among record-holders of curious disciplines such as crawling with a squash racket or collecting four-leaf clovers. How will the collision of these two worlds end? What will the Director's next film be about?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2010-08-26
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Operation Silver A
Overview: Based on actual events. Late 1941, Group Silver A are dropped into occupied Czechoslovakia on an SOE mission to set up a Radio communications centre for the resistance, and contact a German Army officer whom is forwarding information to the British.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2007-01-06
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Alois Nebel
Overview: A train dispatcher encounters a mute stranger who appears out of nowhere, and finds himself mysteriously involved with a murder in Poland. The end of the eighties in the twentieth century. Alois Nebel works as a dispatcher at the small railway station in Bílý Potok, a remote village on the Czech–Polish border. He's a loner, who prefers old timetables to people, and he finds the loneliness of the station tranquil – except when the fog rolls in. Then he hallucinates, sees trains from the last hundred years pass through the station. They bring ghosts and shadows from the dark past of Central Europe. Alois can’t get rid of these nightmares and eventually ends up in sanatorium. In the sanatorium, he gets to know The Mute, a man carrying an old photograph who was arrested by the police after crossing the border. No one knows why he came to Bílý Potok or who he’s looking for, but it is his past that propels Alois on his journey…
Genres: Animation Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2011-09-04
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The Secret of Krakonoš
Overview: The new owner Štěpán (Jakub Prachař) arrives at the castle at the foot of the Krkonoš Mountains with his fiancée, the beautiful countess Blanka (Dominika Morávková), and his younger brother Adam (Jan Nedbal). There is another new visitor in the mountain town, the ethnographer Jiráček (Ondřej Sokol), who collects local legends and is amazed that the local people still believe in Krakonoš. Štěpán's carriage knocks down a passing girl, whom Adam helps and she falls in love with him. Will Liduška's (Leona Skleničková) love for Adam come true? What mystery does the painting at Hůrka Castle hide and what terrible thing once happened in the mountains? Who will decipher the mysterious marks of the Italian book? And who is Krakonoš (David Švehlík) and what is his biggest secret?
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2022-12-25
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Comenius
Overview: Memories of events that affected Czech philosopher Comenius’ work come to light while fellow Amsterdam resident Rembrandt paints his portrait.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-12
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… a stoupej do slunce!
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2004-09-04
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O pokladech
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Genres: Fantasy Adventure Family TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2012-12-30
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The Modrý Case
Overview: Bohumil Modrý, the best hockey goalie in the world, who significantly contributed to the first international successes of Czechoslovak hockey after World War II. In 1948, he was offered a job in the NHL, but his stellar sports career and happy family life were destroyed by a trumped-up political trial in 1950. He died prematurely in 1963 at the age of 46 from the effects of imprisonment and radiation.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2023-10-03
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Fentasy
Overview: The path of wo young individuals hungry for quick wealth takes a treacherous turn as they venture into the world of illegal fentanyl production – a dangerous drug with far-reaching consequences.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 2024-03-14
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Wingless
Overview: A man who believes his days are numbered is saddled with more bad luck than he expects in this metaphorical comedy-drama from director Ivo Trajkov. Ever since he was a boy, Josef (David Svehlik) was been convinced he's destined to die at the age of 29, so he's understandably nervous as his 28th year is drawing to a close. Fate doesn't appear to be on Josef's side when his wife asks for a divorce and moves out, taking their young son with her, and he's next fired from his job fixing scales. Josef is in an unsettled state of mind, and his new friendship with free-spirited Gabriel (Karel Zima) doesn't help much, but Josef begins to wonder if luck is on his side again when he meets a lovely and warmed hearted woman, Olivia (Verica Nedeska).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2009-01-22
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Birthday Wishes
Overview: Líba has only one birthday wish every year. She insists that the whole family come together for her celebration, which they all always do. That is, until this year's birthday. Her son Petr has other plans for this year, so he pretends to be sick in front of the family. This year, for the first time, he wants to spend his birthday with his friend Karl, who has a birthday on the same day. And Karel is Peter's long-hidden secret for the rest of the family. However, Líba is not going to give up her celebration so easily. She decides to surprise Peter and move in with the whole family. An unexpected visit forces Peter to quickly improvise. In front of your family, turning your friend Karel into a colleague from work and his sister Veronika into your girlfriend is basically a piece of cake. But Petr doesn't know yet that this is just the beginning and today will be one big rollercoaster ride.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2023-01-19
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King Lear
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2003-05-27
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O Šípkové Růžence
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Genres: TV Movie Family Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2006-12-25
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Ruth to vidí jinak
Overview: Ruth and Magda have been inseparable friends since childhood. They both went to college and both fell in love with the same guy. Ruth has won the fight for love, and has put Magda before the tough decision: to give up Adam and maintain friendship with Ruth, or give preference to his heart? When Adam gets a dream internship abroad and leaves for Austria, Ruth takes his fresh pregnancies and refuses to go with him. But in time, Ruth convinces Magda to start behind Adam and try to get him back. However, Magda exploits the situation, acquires Adam for herself and marries him abroad. After years, Magda returns home and the old injustices come to life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2005-11-06
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Zakázaný člověk
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2009-12-07
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In the Shadow
Overview: In the former Czechoslovakia, 1950s, police captain Hakl investigates a jewelry robbery. An opened safe deposit leads to a known burglar. What seems an easy case soon starts to tangle. When he is called off the case, he continues on his own. The investigation leads him onto thin ice. Can he beat a stronger enemy and save his family and his own life?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2012-09-13
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Smiles of Sad Men
Overview: A writer gets into a rehab where he meets a lot of successful men who destroyed their lives with alcohol.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2018-07-12
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On the Roof
Overview: Situated in Prague, a 20-year-old Vietnamese named Song, hoped for a better future in Europe. But now in a Vietnamese district in Prague, he is trapped in a marijuana grow house and has life of a modern slave. Police rounds up the place. Song runs away on the rooftop of a condo building in a nearby district where he breaks down. Mr. Rypar (78) lives alone. He is fond of the old times, living in a strong opposition to modern world. Rypar goes up on the roof and meets Song standing on the very edge of the roof crying and the story begins.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2019-02-07
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The Cage
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Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2019-05-19
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Bet on Friendship
Overview: Four old friends decide to shake up their unhappy, monotonous lives with a friendly bet and set off a series of unexpected events.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2021-07-29
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Santini’s Enigma
Overview: During his routine work, Martin Urmann, employee of an advertising agency, discovers a series of cryptic messages inscribed by the architect into his structures, and sets out to decipher them. His way is lined with mysterious murders which are obviously connected with his search. The fascinating power of the world into which he is gradually descending makes it impossible for him to give up his intention. He has to reach the end, where he anticipates a revelation which will totally change his entrenched view of the world.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2011-12-04
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Jako letní sníh – Život J. A. Komenského
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2021-01-04
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Mucha: The Story of an Artist Who Created a Style
Overview: Czech painter and illustrator Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) ranks among the pioneers of the Art Nouveau movement at the end of the 19th century. Virtually overnight, he becomes famous in Paris thanks to the posters that he designs to announce actress Sarah Bernhardt’s plays. But at the height of his fame, Mucha decides to leave Paris to realize his lifetime project.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2020-10-01
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Lifeline
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Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2021-09-23
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Aplaus
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2012-05-27
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