Josef Elsner
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 04, 1914
Deathday: August 16, 1972
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Gender: Male
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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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Slasti Otce vlasti
Overview: The young Prince Charles (Jaromír Hanzlík), the future King of his country Charles IV, is being educated at the French court in the company of his fiancée Blanche (Daniela Kolárová). One day he receives a summons from his father John of Luxembourg (Milos Kopecký) in Italy. He leaves for Italy accompanied by a deputation from Bohemia. On the way the prince's company fights a battle with armed Milanese against heavy odds. Thanks to Charles's perspicacity, the prince's almost naked soldiers win through. In Lucca in Italy Charles joins his father, and here he experiences an amorous adventure and escapes from the traps laid by the Italian rebels.
Genres: History Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1969-07-08
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Колония Ланфиер
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-08-11
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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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The Nun's Night
Overview: A dark fable set in an early 1950s Czech village, a time of Soviet-style socialism which saw the implementation of collectivized agriculture and the mass closure of monasteries and convents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1967-12-15
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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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Kidnapped
Overview: Based on a true story
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1953-01-30
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Malý partyzán
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Genres: War
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1951-09-07
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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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