Josef Vondráček
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: October 05, 1932
Age: 92 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 23, 1991
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Slingboy
Overview: A young Czech boy is freed from a concentration camp and now is working for the army against the Germans.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1960-05-06
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Proč nevěřit na zázraky
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-04-21
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Stín létajícího ptáčka
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1977-10-01
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Podivné přátelství herce Jesenia
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Nikola Šuhaj loupežník
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-03-12
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Waiting for the Rain
Overview: It’s a hot holiday season in the city and Alena is pretty much left to her own little self, fantasizing and running her personal daily rituals, keeping most people at a safe distance, yet trying to get male attention.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-10-13
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The Day the Tree Blooms
Overview: Based on a novel by Maria Majerova, this well-photographed but routine romantic drama is directed and co-scripted by Vaclav Krska. Set in a more old-fashioned time, the story centers around Lenka (Suzana Fisarskova), a young woman with a domineering, psychologically abusive father. When Lenka falls in love she suffers the ultimate injustice when her father and her family forbid her to marry the man. They see no advantage in such a union and want her to marry a wealthy local landowner instead, for obvious reasons. But Lenka is not as submissive as they think and she runs away to the city to look for the man she loves -- only to find a serious problem, though a surmountable one, is waiting for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1961-10-13
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Pracka v láhvi
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Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1979-03-10
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Love Between the Raindrops
Overview: Set in Prague during the years leading up to World War II, this family saga tells the story of a cobbler named Vincenc Bursik (Vladimir Mensik), who uproots his clan from the country to the city, only to suffer the loss of his wife and the failure of his shoe business within months. When his daughter moves away to go live with a wealthy businessman as his mistress, Vincenc is left to take care of his two sons, who spend their days in a secret garden vying for the affections of a teenage girl.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-05-23
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Calamity
Overview: Funny banter about love, sex, social status, and other ideals, while a new railway employee is trained and sent on his first run as driver.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1982-01-29
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Concert
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Genres: Music Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1981-07-17
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Kotva u přívozu
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Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Closely Watched Trains
Overview: At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to the war and the resistance that surrounds him, this young man embarks on a journey of sexual awakening and self-discovery, encountering a universe of frustration, eroticism, and adventure within his sleepy backwater depot.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1966-11-18
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Attention, Rounds!
Overview: A story about an everyday life of an inflectional department of Prague hospital.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1982-04-23
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The Hope
Overview: A group of outcasts, including a vagabond and a prostitute, gather at the outskirts of the industrial area of a large Czech city, one of the things that helps some of them survive is alcohol.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1964-01-17
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Únos Moravanky
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1983-08-01
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The Return of the Prodigal Son
Overview: Engineer Jan Sebek (Jan Kacer) is undergoing treatment in a mental home after his unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide. His therapist, via discussions both with the patient and with people who know him, tries to find out what made the young and seemingly satisfied man decide to end his own life. Jan's pretty wife Jana (Jana Brejchová) claims not to know about anything but she is conducting an affair with a family friend, almost publicly and with the blessing of her parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1967-03-10
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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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Never Strike A Woman... Even with A Flower
Overview: Shortish forty-year old Ludvík Podzimek, lute and flute player in a Prague orchestra, is far from being an attractive man. He is nevertheless generally considered a great 'Don Juan'. Women take up with him out of a certain motherly compassion and Ludvík's tender heart does not allow him to split with any of them. His lovers thus accumulate and cause him numerous troubles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1967-01-13
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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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A Man Who Rose in Price
Overview: Mr. Benda, a married father of two children, works for a company that liquidates old banknotes. After one drunken party, he is visited by a painter who tattooed his back in drunkenness the previous night. The image tattooed on Benda’s back is considered the painter’s best work by the professionals.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1968-06-28
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Maturita za školou
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1973-10-26
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Bratranec Pons
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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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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Vrtkavý král
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1975-02-16
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Králův kalich
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1975-07-06
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The Little Mermaid
Overview: The little mermaid rescues a prince from drowning and falls in love with him. To be with him, she makes a deal with the evil sorceress: her beautiful voice against a life on land. It seems to work at first, the prince is enchanted with her lovely appearance. But the memory of a foreign princess still haunts him: The one who found him on the beach where the mermaid had left him, and whom he (of course) believes to be his saviour. To resolve this mistake is too much for the mute little mermaid, and not even her father, king of all seas, can help her in the impending catastrophe.
Genres: Fantasy Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1976-11-12
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Sestricky
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1984-03-01
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Žofka z Janovic
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1984-12-25
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My Sweet Little Village
Overview: The movie's main storyline follows the life of Otík, a young man, in a tight-knit village community. The sweet-tempered Otík works as an assistant truck driver with Mr. Pávek, his older colleague and practical-minded neighbor. Pávek's family takes care of Otík, whose parents are dead. However, the two coworkers become at odds over Otík's inability to perform even the simplest tasks. Pávek demands that Otík be transferred to assist another driver, who happens to be a choleric and suspicious man named Turek (Turk in Czech). Rather than work with Turek, Otík decides to accept an offer of employment in Prague, but finds he does not fit in to the city life. After discovering that the transfer of Otík to Prague was a trick by a crooked politician to get a deal on Otík's large inherited house, Pávek agrees to give Otík a second chance and retrieves him from the city to resume their work together.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1985-08-01
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Hráči
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Cutting It Short
Overview: Francin, manager of a small-town brewery, has a charming wife whose abundant blonde locks are an adornment to the town. Maryska looks ethereal but loves meat and beer, while Francin is an ascetic. The strict members of the brewery board of directors come to audit the accounts, but are diverted from concentrating on Francin's detailed reports by Maryska, who has organized a pig-killing feast and is ably assisting the butcher. When she invites the old curmudgeons on the board to enjoy the fresh pork, they are too happy to agree. Francin doesn't know whether he is going to get a permanent contract. To make things worse his brother Pepin - eccentric, noisy and garrulous - turns up on an indefinite visit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1981-02-06
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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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An Uncertain Season
Overview: The small group of actors have to face many problems while preparing a new performance.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1988-04-01
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Člověk proti zkáze
Overview: Biography of Karel Čapek.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1990-02-01
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The Gentle Barbarian
Overview: A commemorative and essayistic meditative piece on the Prague quarter Libeň during the 1950s.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1990-09-01
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Skřivánčí ticho
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1990-05-01
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Vracenky
Overview: In the fifites the 10 year old boy Honza lives with his single mother in Prague. The mother is a dedicated communist in the beginning but she changes her mind when a show trial is held. She speaks about her dissatisfaction with the government and is immediately arrested. Honza is given to another family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1991-11-01
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Strange Creatures
Overview: A parable for the end of totalitarianism. Three protagonists - a high official, a secretary, and a border guard - representative of three generations (1948, 1968, 1988) are forced to confront their ideals and places in society through the events of one strange night.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1990-06-01
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