Josef Skrčený
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
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Birthday: June 12, 1911
Age: 113 years old
Gender: Male
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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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Deváté jméno
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1964-04-24
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On the Tightrope
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1963-10-25
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A Leap In The Dark
Overview: Spring 1943: A three-member group of resistance fighters flies from a Soviet military airport into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to establish contacts with an illegal communist center in the occupied territory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1964-08-28
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Five Girls Around the Neck
Overview: Five Girls Around the Neck, in 1967, set out to explore that critical age of adolescence when a person's character is formed for good or evil. Schorm examined a girl's problems of being giving too much. She tries to buy the goodwill of her less fortunate friends; her intentions are pure, but in the difficulty of communicating she learns envy and deceit, and must decide if she will submit to double dealing or steel her life against self-deception and mediocrity. In addition to the relationship between the girl and her friends, Schorm introduces a teenage romance and the broader relationship between the girl's parents - neatly tied together with segments of Weber's opera "Der Freischütz". He reveals himself as a skilled psychological director with a wide range of knowledge about people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1967-10-27
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Lucie and the Miracles
Overview: The harsh reality of a home for abandoned children blends with episodes of youthful fantasy and slapstick comedy in this story of an orphan girl. Lucy's fondest wish is to find new parents and leave an orphanage. She befriends a man who can create doors from paint. He gives her a stuffed dog that magically comes alive when placed on the ground, and he and his wife end up adopting the little girl. After finding parents of her own, Lucy sets out through fantasy to find parents for her orphan friends. All of the people Lucy meet during her remarkable make believe wanderings end up taking children home.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1971-06-18
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Oil Lamps
Overview: In 1900, Stepha, the vivacious 30 year old daughter of a wealthy couple, agrees to marry her cousin Paul, who has accumulated large debts as an Austrian army officer. Paul refuses to work or to consummate the marriage, and then his health steadily declines.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1971-11-05
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The Death of Black King
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1972-03-31
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And Give My Love to the Swallows
Overview: This film, chronicling the last days of Czech resistance fighter Maruska Kuderikova (played by Magda Vasaryova), is based on her diaries. Though she was tortured and eventually executed by the Nazis, her diaries indicate that she was optimistic for the humanity of her captors and did not by any means hate them. Told with simple dignity, this film makes clear why Maruska became a national hero.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1972-05-26
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Legenda, the Robber
Overview: It is 1905. The police director gets Jindrich Legenda (Eduard Cupák) shadowed as, yet Legenda had served his sentence for a burglary, the jewels have not been found. Russian revolution encouraged also Czech workers to fight for their rights. Radical anarchists are followed by Legenda's friend Karel Wohryzek (Vladimír Mensík) who was forced to collaborate with the police as he was convicted of pornography distribution.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1973-03-09
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The Man from London
Overview: A British citizen by the name of George Reiner (Jirí Sovák) arrives at Prague airport. He was once a Czech safe-breaker, and has now returned home after thirty years to steal twenty-dollar gold coins still kept in the safe at a private villa in Pilsen whose owner fled to the West.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1974-06-07
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Joachim, Put It in the Machine
Overview: A sincere provincial young man, Frantisek Koudelka leaves to work in Prague. For the trip he buys a computer made horoscope with biorhythms charts, marked according to his date of birth, there are trappy, precarious, unsuccessful and even critical days and few successful days. The clumsy luckless person Frantisek has finally a guidance for his life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1974-08-30
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V trestném území
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1951-01-12
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Bitva o Hedviku
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1972-11-03
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Výstraha
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1954-06-04
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The Princess with the Golden Star
Overview: A Czech fairy tale about a princess named Lada who runs away from home in a mouse fur disguise in order to escape an unwanted and forced marriage.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1959-12-18
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Svatba s podmínkou
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1965-12-03
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Silvestrovské kousky Františka Housky
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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A Suburban Romance
Overview: A young, unmarried woman finds herself a "little bit pregnant" and she tries to hide this fact from her mother but it isn't long before the truth is obvious.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1958-05-09
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