Gustav Opočenský
Also Known As: Gustav Opocenský, G. Opocenský, Gustav Opocensky
Biography: Gustav Opočenský was the son of Bohemian poet and journalist Gustav Roger of Opočenský (1881-1949). Originally, he began to study law, but after closing Nazi colleges in 1939 he headed for the theater, close to art, thanks to his father. He did not undergo any professional training, but after the war he gained his first permanent engagement in the Realistic Theater in Prague (1945-1946). Due to his unbridled inheritance, his father in the mid-1950s came into conflict with the Communist power, he had to go to the theater in Cologne from Pardubice and eventually in 1956 he banned the ban on artistic activity. Then he worked as a miner, later a worker in Stalin's races in Záluží near Most, but at the beginning of the following decade he managed to return to the theater. Subsequent banning of activity silenced Opočenský for twelve years, he reappeared in the film MARATÓN (1968). We can also remind him of his comedic role as an old Nazi in the movie ZÍTRA VSTANU AND I WILL BE TEA (1977). Gustav Opočensky's wife was actress Eva Strupplová (* 1926). Bohemian and artistic family genes also accompany the lives of their two sons, the artist and musician Petr Opočenský (* 1950) and sculptor Pavel Opočensky (* 1954).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Prague, Czechoslovakia
Adult: No
Birthday: December 07, 1920
Age: 104 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 17, 1992
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Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea
Overview: Former Nazi Klaus Abard survives to the 1990s by taking anti-ageing pills. He plans to use a time travel trip to return to Germany in 1944 and present Hitler with a hydrogen bomb, so that he can win the war. Unfortunately the pilot, woman-chasing Karel Bures, dies on the morning of the trip and his earnest twin brother Jan impersonates him, without knowing about the plot.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1977-08-12
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Ballad for a Bandit
Overview: The film version of the theatre musical production by the "Divadlo na provazku" in Brno tells the tale of legendary bandit Nikola Šuhaj from Koločava.
Genres: Music History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1979-06-15
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Concert at the End of Summer
Overview: A docudrama about four weeks in the life of famous Czech composer Antonin Dvorak. The drama - filled with many of Dvorak's compositions - begins when the composer suddenly decides to cut a concert in London and return home. While on the train, flashbacks reveal his relationship to his wife Anna and her sister Josefina. Both women gave him inspiration, yet Dvorak is clearly troubled in some way as musical excerpts come and go in his creative mind.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-02-15
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Luk královny Dorotky
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1971-02-26
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Romaneto
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Genres: History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1981-03-27
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Salty Rose
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Rudin
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1987-08-02
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Just Because You're Grown-Up
Overview: Eleven-year old Mísa has the temperament of a proper boy and endless problems with the grown-ups. It is no wonder that he longs to become an adult without further delay. Mísa keeps house together with his father and has various duties. After a failed attempt at dish-washing he goes off to the research institute where his father is working on an important invention. He is trying to produce a substance that would make poultry and other animals bigger and thus help the struggle against famine in the world, but so far he has only managed to produce a shrinking substance. After his father leaves the laboratory, Mísa mixes up different ingredients and makes the growth substance. He drinks it and instantly becomes an adult. His father, conversely, turns into a toddler after drinking the shrinking substance with his beer by mistake.
Genres: Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1970-04-03
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Home
Overview: In the young man's imagination, the image of a mysterious house - a mystical building that symbolizes the spiritual world of an unknown faith - persistently returns.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1991-10-05
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Prince Bajaja
Overview: The hero of this popular fairy tale is a young prince who, after the death of his parents, goes out into the world. During his travels he meets a magical talking horse and falls in love with the beautiful princess Slavna. On the advice of his horse, he binds one eye and pretends to be dumb and enters into service as the castle gardener.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1971-12-17
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Days of Betrayal
Overview: This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot), politicians and ordinary citizens, to save the independence and the territorial integrity of the state from the advance of Hitler's Germany. On the 29th of March 1938 the leader of the Sudeten Germans Henlein (Werner Ehrlicher) has a meeting with Hitler (Gunnar Möller). Hitler orders him to intensify pressure on the Czechoslovak government. On the 24th of April in Carlsbad, the Sudetendeutsche Partei (Sudeten German Party) decides upon eight demands that are unacceptable to the Czechoslovak President, since they would ultimately lead to the break-up of the Republic. Benes still shows a certain willingness to negotiate, and Henlein resents this. The Germans are determined to make further negotiations impossible through incidents and violence.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1973-04-27
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Za volantem nepřítel
Overview: 1974 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Karel Steklý.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1975-10-03
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Záchvěv strachu
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1984-04-01
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Na konci světa
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1975-12-26
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Boty plné vody
Overview: Three short stories ("Zelenáči 1945", "Silvestr 1948" and "Zimní vítr 1951") about members of the SNB units guarding the Šumava border in the post-war years. Ivo Toman had artistic supervision over the debutants. The theme of the third short story was made in 1959 for the film "Entry Forbidden" by František Vláčil, who was also starting at the time.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1976-12-17
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The Ear
Overview: Upon returning home from an official party, a Czech government official and his wife discover it bugged and surveilled by mysterious figures, driving them to paranoia and intensifying their discontents with one another.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Putování Jana Amose
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Genres: History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1983-10-01
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Evropa tančila valčík
Overview: Otakar Vávra dedicated his latest film to events accompanying the devastation of the first World War. It takes place in representative centers of power, in the courts of Vienna, Berlin and Moscow. In parallel, it develops the fate of the Czech archivist, who will take part in the Serbian anti-Austrian branch.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1989-10-01
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Funeral Ceremony
Overview: Matylda (Jaroslava Ticha), who lives in the Czech countryside, is trying to arrange burial plans for her dying husband, Jan (Ludvik Kroner). While Matylda hopes to have a funeral for Jan in the small town where they once lived, there are complications. Years earlier, Jan spoke out against the Communist government and was consequently expelled from the town. When Matylda fails to convince a local politician to allow the ceremony, she uses her husband's funeral as a public show of dissent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Oldrich and Bozena
Overview: At the turn of the 10th and 11th centuries Boleslav's kingdom fell apart in the fratricidal war between the Přemyslovci and the other clans the main profiteer of this being the German emperor. At that time it seemed as if the Czech state and the lineage of its princes was awaiting its end..." It is with these words that the tale of this film begins, whose narrative is based upon the the play by František Hrubín of the same name.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1985-08-01
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Build a House, Plant a Tree
Overview: Juraj Jakubisko's first feature film after a forced nine-year-long break is a story about an unconventional man, Jozef Matúš. He arrives to a small village in eastern Slovakia to settle down and start a family. He is ready to subordinate everything to his goal. It all starts with stealing building material and ends with him disregarding those close to him to a point where his ambitions are turning against him. Build a House, Plant a Tree is a viewer-friendly film with a plot resembling a western, including several attractive action sequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1980-01-04
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Chief, There Is a Horse in the Backyard
Overview: Criminal comedy, a fourth movie from the "Chief" series.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1989-09-30
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Nedosněné sny
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Shadows of a Hot Summer
Overview: The story of 1947, when Bender's band, after a beating of the Nazis, tried to fight their way through Czechoslovakia to Austria. They come out of the forest to occupy the family's rural estate, kidnap doctors to help heal one of their wounded.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-09-15
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Witchhammer
Overview: In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imaginary witchery, and engages in brutal torture and persecution of their subjects.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1970-01-23
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On a Wayward Princess
Overview: Princess Julia doesn't want to marry an old prince Hubert so she runs away from home. She meets two old magicians and join the circus, where she meets lovely Franta Kuldan and evil devil performer.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1987-12-01
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Uloupené dětství
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1988-03-15
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Hry lásky šálivé
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Genres: History Comedy Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1971-10-22
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The Secret of the Gold Buddha
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1973-06-01
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Maratón
Overview: It is 5 May 1945 and the uprising against the hated German occupiers has broken out in Prague. The Czech guards open the gate of the Pankrác prison to allow the prisoners to escape en masse. Many of them are shot dead by the German guards but young Ruda (Jaromír Hanzlík) manages to run away. He is taken care of by one of the Prague fighters, concierge Kytka. Kytka hides him in the flat of the house's owner where only the young maid Karla (Jana Brejchová) is left, ordering her to take care of Ruda.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1968-12-31
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Against All
Overview: After the battle of Sudoměř the Hussite teaching spreads through the whole country and people start leaving their homes to help build the fortification of Tábor. Prague citizens request help against the army of Zikmund. The Hussite army with Jan Žižka in the lead make their way towards Prague. They fortify themselves on the mountain Vítkov and engage in a bloody battle with Zikmund’s huge army.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1957-10-04
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Jan Žižka
Overview: The second part of the revolutionary Hussite trilogy takes place in the years 1419-1420.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1956-02-05
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Jan Hus
Overview: Jan Hus is a 1954 Czechoslovak film directed by Otakar Vávra. It is the first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", one of the most famous works of the Czechoslovak director, completed with Jan Žižka (1955) and Proti všem (Against All Odds, 1957).
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1955-04-29
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Třírohý klobouk
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1971-08-25
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Pot, lesk a potlesk
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Mlčení mužů
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Genres: Family Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1969-11-14
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Tam kde hnízdí čápi
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1976-03-26
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Flotila
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1987-05-17
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Cesta na jihozápad
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Genres: Western
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1989-11-01
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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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