Jindřiška Gabriela Preissová
Also Known As: Jindřiška Žoudlíková, Jindřiška Preissová, Jindřiška Hübschová, Gabriela Preissová
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
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Birthday: August 06, 1926
Age: 98 years old
Gender: Female
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Focusing on the Turquoise Mountain
Overview: It tells about the collaboration of Mongolian-Czech geologists who are discovering treasure deposits in Mongolia, and shows the events that happen to them in a humorous tone.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-06-09
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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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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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Případ Daniela
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Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1965-05-07
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Case for a Rookie Hangman
Overview: Lemuel Gulliver (Lubomír Kostelka) has had a car accident and continues his journey across the unknown countryside on foot. On the road he finds a dead rabbit dressed like a man and takes a watch from its waistcoat breast pocket. The half-ruined house that he enters reminds Lemuel of his childhood and brings up a painful memory of a dearly loved girl Markéta who was drowned years ago. Gulliver finds himself in Balnibarbi, a country where he doesn't understand the laws and habits and so continually offends against public decency. It is a day when people are ordered to keep their mouths shut and they force their visitor to follow suit. He faces harsh interrogation and finds it difficult to explain that he is not the rabbit Oscar whose watch has been found in his possession.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1970-07-03
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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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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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A Ridiculous Gentleman
Overview: When a noted professor receives a new treatment for his heart ailment, his outlook on life changes. Despite doctor's orders, he is determined to live out his final days on his own terms and fulfill his fantasies. He saves the life of a young woman who tries to kill herself after his recovery from heart surgery in this symbolic story of a man trying to determine his own fate in his last days alive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1969-11-28
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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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Murdering the Devil
Overview: Comedy with fairy-tale touches, about Kate, who wants to marry, and Mr. Devil, who is not interested in the heart or soul of this passionate and aging lady, but is interested in her good cooking – for Mr. Devil is a glutton.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1970-09-18
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Straw Hat
Overview: Slacker Maurice Fadinar wasted his whole inheritance and the only way out of this situation, as it seems, to marry Helen Nonankur - daughter of a wealthy farmer. At the last meeting with his mistress in a nearby forest Fadinar's horse eats straw hat which belongs to a married lady, spending time in the company of young and hot Lieutenant Emil. Emil literally puts a knife to Maurice throat - or the lady will get back the exact same hat immediately, or he will arrange such a scandal that no wedding will not happen ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1972-03-24
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Návraty
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1972-09-01
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Rodeo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1973-01-26
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Družina černého pera
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Genres: Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1974-04-19
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Dvacátý devátý
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1975-04-25
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Morgiana
Overview: Jealous of her vapidly "good" sister's popularity, poisonous Viktoria doses pretty Klara's tea with a slow-acting fatal substance. As the latter grows hysterically weak, the former finds success increasingly compromised by guilt, blackmail, and the pesky need to kill others lest she be exposed.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1972-09-15
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The Secret of a Great Narrator
Overview: The life of the famous French writer Alexander Dumas the Elder. Screenwriter Jaroslav Dietl did not hide his admiration for this literary giant, and in addition to the screenplay he also wrote a three-part TV play about Dumas (starring Vladimír Menšík). In Kachyn's film, Dumas played the father and son of the Štěpánková brothers, and it was a very difficult and difficult task for these young actors.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1972-04-28
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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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Hra, kterou nikdo nepískal
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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