Vladimír Ptáček
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lovčice u Čáslavi, Československo
Adult: No
Birthday: October 29, 1926
Age: 98 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 05, 1985
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Hněv
Overview: Sunday in September 1977, a celebration of the Miners Day. The old Hepnar is sitting at the cemetery and is recalling events from ten years ago. That time the representative of the ministry Barvír announced at the miners meeting that mining in the mines would decrease. He reasoned this decision by the fact the deposits of coal are almost used up. The boss of the mine and most of the miners protested. Barvír did not take their critical objections into account. He announced at the communist district meeting the closure of the business as the mine according to new economic principles did not prosper.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-10-06
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Pasiáns
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1977-12-23
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Tichý Američan v Praze
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-01-20
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Vítězný lid
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Genres: History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-02-17
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Střepy pro Evu
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1979-05-18
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Vražedné pochybnosti
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1979-06-29
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Brontosaurus
Overview: Tomás lives in a very small Czech town and is a nature lover and a birdwatcher. He struggles to keep the forests he loves clean and constantly fights his "archenemy" whose sister and Tomás's classmate is secretly in love with him.
Genres: Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-08-22
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Čas pracuje pro vraha
Overview: Vera, wife of the plumber Simandl (Josef Somr), is found murdered in the cinema next to the IDOC (Information and Documentation) agency where she worked. Police captain Marha (Frantisek Nemec), who is leading the investigation, is informed by Simandl that on the day of the murder Vera promised to bring home fifty thousand crowns to buy a car. Marha's primary suspects are the three men working at the agency: deputy editor-in-chief Brandl (Jirí Pleskot) and editors Pernata (Eduard Cupák) and Remes (Ludek Munzar, and of course also Simandl.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-02-01
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Diagnóza smrti
Overview: Two seriously injured patients are brought to the hospital at almost the same time: truck driver Honza Linhart, who had an accident, and a young woman found unconscious in a forest by a man picking mushrooms. The woman is identified as Katerina Marková, the divorced mother of a young girl. Major Kalas (Rudolf Hrusínský) suspects that she is a victim of mugging since a bloodstained small ax has been found near the site of the crime and, according to witnesses, Ms Marková was missing her watch and a bracelet, from which a gemstone has also been discovered. Linhart has lost his only kidney in the accident; in order to live a normal life again, he will need a kidney transplant from the mugged woman if she dies.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1979-12-14
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Dostih
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1982-01-16
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Hodina života
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1981-06-05
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Konečná stanice
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Don't Call Me Major
Overview: A group of children is trying to solve a mystery related to the diamonds smuggling.
Genres: Crime Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1981-12-04
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Passing Through a Thick Forest
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1964-04-10
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Plaché příběhy
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1982-07-09
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Příště budeme chytřejší, staroušku!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1982-12-31
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Defendant
Overview: Managers at the construction of a big hydro plant are accused of having embezzled money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1964-02-25
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The Sheriff Behind Bars
Overview: A dramatic story from the setting of a youth de tention center. Youngster Jakub, out of delusory solidarity, gets convicted of theft and goes to prison in place ofthe "sheriff" of his gang. He naively hopes that the sheriff will appreciate his gesture and leaves the stolen goods in a safe hideaway to later divide them fairly among the gang members. This conviction gives Jakub the strength to endure the unbearable conditions in the center. But reality is often much harsher than naive ideals and hollow relations in the gang.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1966-03-04
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The Pipes
Overview: This three-part Austrian/Czech comedy stretches the boundaries of what is considered to be humorous. Part one finds a silent film actor upset because of a rival actor's attention to the former's wife. When he kills his rival, it is only when he is strapped to the electric chair that he realizes that this is his last live scene. The second episode has the wife of an elderly British nobleman having an affair with the young gamekeeper of their estate. Part three finds a peasant woman taking a lover when her husband goes off to fight the war.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1966-08-30
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Private Torment
Overview: A worker steals bits and pieces of building materials from work to construct a new home for himself and his girlfriend. When he discovers that she’s having an affair with his boss, he devises one elaborate plot after another to murder the rival, each time with pathetic results.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1967-12-22
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All My Good Countrymen
Overview: The lives of 7 friends in a small Czech town from 1945 to some time after 1958.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1969-07-04
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Carriage to Vienna
Overview: A WW2 story of a young Austrian soldier running from the Russian army and a woman whom he forces to come along in order to save his wounded mate.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1966-11-11
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Kateřina a její děti
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1975-09-19
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Lišáci – Myšáci a Šibeničák
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Genres: Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1970-10-30
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The Girl on the Broomstick
Overview: A teenage witch, Saxana (Petra Černocká), frozen in time as a punishment for 300 years, finds herself in a modern world.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1972-09-08
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Rodeo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1973-01-26
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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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How to Drown Dr. Mracek, the Lawyer
Overview: There are still water spirits among us. One group lives in Prague, led by Mr. Wassermann, who is using his wife's family as a servants. All they need is their old house near the river. But the house is to be demolished. They have to stop it. And the only way is to drown Dr. Mrácek, who is responsible for the demolition. But he falls in love with Wassermann's niece Jana. He changes to fish, is mistaken for water spirit from Germany, is drowned and revived again. The other problem is the flour with ears... and so on...
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1975-03-01
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Zbraně pro Prahu
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Genres: War Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1975-05-02
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Dva muži hlásí příchod
Overview: An only son, Jirí Valenta (Jaromír Hanzlík), has been drafted to the army. At the barracks he acquires the nickname Seamstress because he sews rugs in his spare time. One day, his friend introduces him to Julka Vávrová (Jorga Kotrbová), a girl he is desperate to get rid of. The naive Jirí falls in love with the girl and accepts her invitation to spend Easter together in the country. There he learns that the girl is the single mother of the young boy Martínek, whose father is the married tractor driver.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1975-09-26
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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 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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Adam and Otka
Overview: On the holidays, ten years old Adam and his little sister Otka, four years junior to him, travel from a village Vykán to their aunt to Prague. Their parents left for Hungary to the world championship in ploughing. The children have the address but they do not know the way to the Northern Town. They set out for a place on foot, across the historical parts of the town.
Genres: Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1974-04-26
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Odysseus and the Stars
Overview: A group of children are investigating a chain of mysterious events during the seventies.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1976-09-03
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On the Trail of Blood
Overview: Major Kalas from the Prague criminal intelligence service has been sent to a small town of Dubá in North Bohemia to help with the investigation of the puzzling death of a child. A gypsy boy has been killed three weeks ago and his body found under a rock. As the investigation continues, another dead boy is found. The boy has bled to death after someone cut his artery with a handsaw. Both deaths are obviously the work of a murderer - a perverted pedophile, sadist who gets sexual satisfaction from the sight of a young boy's blood.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1970-03-27
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Larks on a String
Overview: In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation. Among them is a young man who pines for a female convict.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1990-02-01
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Výstřely v Mariánských Lázních
Overview: Film by Toman and Gajer.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1974-02-15
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Chance
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1971-06-11
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Dva tygři
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1966-06-03
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The Key
Overview: Jan Zika is the legendary hero of the communist resistance movement during World War II and leading functionary of the second underground Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1971-05-14
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Boys Will Be Boys
Overview: Three friends - Tomás, Hubert and Jozka - are boys growing up in a little town. Tomás lives with his aunt Apolena and uncle Václav. Tomás is a boy with lots of ideas that often end up getting him into trouble not only with his teachers and aunt, but with the other inhabitants of the town as well. He has a crush on his schoolmate Blanka and for her sake he decides to try to get the prize for the best pupil in the school.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1976-03-19
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Tvář pod maskou
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1971-01-08
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Hřiště
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1976-02-20
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The Seventh Day, the Eighth Night
Overview: An allegory set in an archetypal Czech village, it tells of what happens when a sequence of mysterious events take place, including the disappearance of the stationmaster. While everything has a rational explanation, collective paranoia takes hold and everyone’s worst instincts are released. Interrogations, the abolition of rights and the search for scapegoats ultimately lead to murder
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1990-06-01
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