Alois Švehlík
Also Known As: Alois Svehlík, Aloiz Shveglik
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Pardubice, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Birthday: July 30, 1939
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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Obtíže rovin
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1976-12-16
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Všechno nebo nic
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1985-11-01
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Melodie bílého klavíru
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Genres: Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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The Man Who Stood In the Way
Overview: A drama that tells the story of the physician and politician MUDr. František Kriegel, the hero of the Prague Spring of 1968, who was arrested and kidnapped to Moscow on the night of August 21st together with five leaders of the party and the state (Dubček, Černík, Smrkovský, Špaček and Šimon). He was the only Czechoslovak politician who managed to stand up to Brezhnev in Moscow captivity, even under the threat of liquidation, and not to sign the Moscow Protovol which meant agreeing to the occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2023-05-25
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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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Black Barons
Overview: Life of Czechoslovak soldiers in a military unit for the so called "politically unreliable" - the Technical auxiliary battalions, aka "the black barons". Although it might seem like a political satire and it's mostly funny, it shows the reality and the absurdity of military service under the communist regime. Based on a novel by Miloslav Svandrlik.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1992-06-04
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The Watermill Princess
Overview: In a South Bohemian village in the middle of silver ponds and dark forests lives Jindřich (Radek Valenta), who one day goes out into the world with a firm decision to free the cursed princess. On the way, he reaches a haunted mill, where the beautiful Eliška (Andrea Černá) lives with her father. Eliška likes the young man, so she tells him that the cursed princess is in the pond and Jindřich remains in the mill as a helper. However, the devil and the waterman, who like Eliška, don't like that. With the help of various intrigues and incantations, they try to expel Jindřich from the mill, but soon a third groom appears there - an old rich man. However, since Eliška rejects all the suitors, the miller's father gets angry and gives her an ultimatum: either she chooses a suitor herself by the full moon, or the one who asks for her hand first gets her. So a fight ensues between the grooms...
Genres: Family Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1994-06-01
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The Watermill Princess 2
Overview: Happily ever after has a bumpy start for a young couple in a magical land when the husband is sent off to battle by a jealous prince.
Genres: Family Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2000-02-03
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Romaneto
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Genres: History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1981-03-27
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Víkend bez rodičů
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1982-02-12
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Až já budu velká
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1981-06-28
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Čtverec mizení
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1982-10-09
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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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Tři dary lásky
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Genres: Fantasy Family TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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The Devil's Mistress
Overview: Salzburg, Germany, 2000. The elderly Czech actress Lída Baarová tells a journalist the tumultuous story of her rise to fame in 1930s Berlin and her passionate relationship with the sinister Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda of the Third Reich.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2016-01-21
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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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Médeia
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2022-06-13
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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 těch Martinových dudách
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Genres: Fantasy Family TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1991-04-13
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Pohádka o prolhaném království
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Genres: Fantasy Family TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Kukačky
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1974-11-14
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Smoke on the Potato Fields
Overview: In this character study by Czech director Frantisek Vlacil, a stout middle-aged physician whose marriage has come apart establishes a practice in a small town. Gradually he's drawn into the lives of his patients—a childless couple, a pregnant girl with a stern mother, the son of a duck farmer—and each relationship reveals a bit more about him and the idyllic but insular community.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1977-04-15
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Klient
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1974-09-26
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Sokolovo
Overview: The plot begins in the Soviet Union showing first efforts to establish the Czechoslovak legion in 1942. The film also shows the assassination of Heydrich and the subsequent annihilation of Lidice. The main topis of the film is battles with German troops for Sokolovo.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1975-05-09
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O nebojácné Bětce
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Genres: Fantasy Family TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Město nic neví
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1976-04-02
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Genij vlasti
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1998-10-28
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Profesoři za školou
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1976-08-06
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Píšťalka pro dva
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Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1975-04-27
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Noc klavíristy
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1977-05-27
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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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Putování Jana Amose
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Genres: History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1983-10-01
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Setníkův štít
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Stříbrný smrček
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1984-01-26
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Falešné obvinění
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Kariéra
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1985-06-01
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Čas zrání
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1984-07-01
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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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Man Overboard
Overview: Ten-year-old David joins a sailing club. He trains hard and helps repair the sailing boats, but people have to take turns actually sailing. The club chairman Vala wants David to sail with his son Olda. Olda's previous team mate Béda has grown too fast, but with little David Olda could win a place on the regatta to Finland. Olda is arrogant and accustomed to winning with little effort; he bullies David and calls him "Greenhorn". He makes David his servant and blames him when things go wrong.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1981-09-04
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Good Day, Town
Overview: The town is waking up. The bus driver Josef Král is saying goodbye to his wife Vera who is in a state of advanced pregnancy. At the rolling mill, the master craftsman Mares is preparing for retirement, which is now only two days away. Elderly Simon who grows and sells vegetables at the market has problems with his wife. Their little home has to give way to a new development but the wife Simonka refuses to move out. The chairman of the workers' council has troubles with the miner Adam, who has started drinking. He doesn't know that Adam is getting divorced and fears he may lose his young son to his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1976-12-31
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Výjimečná situace
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1986-02-01
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Oběti: Hadí tanec
Overview: Film deals with domestic violence in the family..from psychological coercion to physical abuse. The story is not unique. Olga (Ivana Chýlková) graduated from college and started a successful career. But at the age of twenty-seven she married a twenty-year-old Vladimir (Alois Švehlík), a man with a much lower education than she . Instead of continuing a career , she stayed at home, taking care of the household and raising three children (at the time of our story, Olga and Vladimir have been living for 15 years). She became a mere maid, from which obedience and 100% household care is expected without any recognition or gratitude.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2005-01-30
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Alma
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2011-06-12
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Bankrot
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2003-12-26
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Swingtime
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2007-02-25
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Ošklivá princezna
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1999-10-17
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Zikmund, řečený šelma ryšavá
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1986-04-14
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Kryštof a Kristina
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Fair Wind
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Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1973-07-04
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Jörg Ratgeb, Painter
Overview: On the eve of the German Peasants' Revolt, painter Joerg Ratgeb is occupied by a crisis of his own: finding a model for a Christ figure. He sets off on a journey to consult with his artistic role model, Albrecht Dürer. Although Ratgeb has always tried to stay out of the political conflict, his journey brings him face-to-face with peasant revolutionaries and the brutality and violence of their daily lives.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-05-24
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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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Vyvraždění rodiny Greenů
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Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2002-09-22
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Pán hradu
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Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1999-12-26
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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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Sen noci Svatojánské
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1986-05-25
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Tři životy
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Genres: Fantasy Family TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2007-12-24
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The Judge over the Czech Way
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Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2019-10-28
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Paragraf 224
Overview: Placek (Josef Kemr), the head of research in a chemical plant, appreciates the help of his younger colleague Bernát (Alois Svehlík) in the creation of a new synthetic material.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-06-20
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Poslední útěk Jeronýma Pražského
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Genres: Documentary Drama TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2018-05-29
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Černá karta
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Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2005-09-25
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The Girl and The Dragon
Overview: Earth shakes from the anger of the Zmei. Raven must find a new cook for his master. On Earth he finds Veselinov - a musician and an artist, father of Nadia.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1979-07-27
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The Young Man and Moby Dick
Overview: Good-looking Edita Beningerová (Jana Brejchová) arrives at a chemical factory in the North Bohemian town of Ústí nad Labem together with her young assistant Nada (Zlata Adamovská). She is hoping that her ex-husband, outstanding practical chemical engineer Vik Panc (Eduard Cupák), will help her conduct an experiment to validate her proposed theoretical method of isolating cholesterol from lanolin. The success of Edita's invention is crucial for her career at the Prague Institute of Chemistry. Vik's roommate from his hostel Bréta (Ivan Vyskocil) is thrilled. He will finally meet the mysterious and fascinating Edita about whom he has learned so much from Vik.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1979-07-13
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Outsider
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Genres: Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1987-08-01
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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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Smuteční hudba za padlé hrdiny
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Genres: History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1977-07-24
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Patnácté léto
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Listonošky
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1998-05-27
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Ještě než zmizí
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2021-04-13
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Hrozba
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-11-17
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Santa Lucia
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1985-02-07
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Emergency Situation
Overview: When a train unexpectedly changes directions, a group of eccentric passengers must work together to reach their destination safely.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2022-02-03
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Poslední šance
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1985-08-04
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Stínu neutečeš
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2009-12-10
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Forbidden Dreams
Overview: Leo Popper is a happy family man living in rural Bohemia in the years preceding the Nazi invasion. Out of economic necessity he moves with his family to the big city and becomes an enterprising vacuum cleaner salesman. There he embarks on a series of adulterous adventures, has encounters with boxing pros and famous portrait artists, and schemes to purchase the perfect pond to fulfill his passion for fishing. When the Nazis gain control, the comedy turns sour - he loses his lake, his job, and finally, his family.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1987-09-01
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