Alex Jandouš
Also Known As: Alexander Jandouš
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: November 11, 1922
Deathday: November 17, 2010
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Gender: Male
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Death Is Called Engelchen
Overview: Pavel is a Czech partisan fighter in the waning days of the war. Just as peace is declared, Pavel is shot in the spine and sent to the hospital emergency ward. As he fades in and out of consciousness, he recalls the events that led to his participation in the underground. Holding German occupation commander Engelchen responsible for all the horrors and deprivations heaped upon his comrades, Pavel is kept alive by the possibility of recovering and exacting vengeance upon the Nazi officer - no matter how long it takes.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1963-05-03
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The Golden Fern
Overview: Wandering through the forest, a woodcutter finds a golden fern whose seed turns into a beautiful woman - they fall in love. After getting drunk in a village feast, he gets to sign up to the army. The fairy gives him a shirt to wear and asks him to swear he will never abandon it. At the war front, he falls in love with the the colonel's daughter and will have to perform various feats to get her attention.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1963-08-29
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The Five Sinners
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1964-12-04
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90° in the Shade
Overview: In a Prague shop, an assistant has been carrying on an affair with the dishonest, married manager. An emotionally repressed auditor with domestic problems of his own uncovers serious stock discrepancies. A test of loyalties and a questioning of values concludes in tragedy.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1965-10-01
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Murder Czech Style
Overview: The protagonist (Rudolf Hrusinsky) is a dull, fat, shy government clerk indulging in voyuerism and ego fantasies. In love with another clerk (Kveta Fiolova), he is urged on in his pursuit by a commiserate executive. The story is told in a flashback sequence as the cuckolded Hrusinsky attempts suicide by gassing himself in his bathtub. The "Murder" of the title is not a murder as such, rather the murder that Hrusinsky remembers planning upon discovering his wife's unfaithfulness with his supposed friend and advisor. Both plots failing in his mind, he loses himself in fantastic reveries of his funeral and of hypocritical mourners. ' Deciding (perhaps) that this is not the way out either, he gives up the attempt and imagines a life of reconciliation and eventual affluence.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1967-02-24
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Mys Dobré naděje
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1976-05-14
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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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Dva tygři
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1966-06-03
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Long Live the Republic
Overview: Oldrich is the runt of his village, beaten by his father, bullied by the other boys. But he has imagination on his side, and a wiry toughness they can’t defeat. The village is in turmoil, because the Nazi occupiers have just retreated and the Red Army is advancing. Oldrich dodges amid the mayhem and panic, taking his share of blows but always managing to stay one step ahead. Beautifully shot and darkly ironic, Karel Kachyna’s forgotten masterpiece jumbles reality, memory and fantasy to capture the intensity and confusion of childhood in a war zone.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1965-11-05
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Assassination
Overview: The assassination of Heydrich in Prague during WWII.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1965-08-20
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The Coward
Overview: In a remote Slovak village in the closing days of World War II, a schoolteacher and his young wife find a wounded Russian parachutist in their front yard just as the Germans are coming in to occupy their village. As his wife readily becomes involved with anti-Nazi partisans, the schoolteacher collaborates with the Germans in fear.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1962-04-13
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