Jan Váňa
Also Known As: Ján Váňa
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Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
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Gender: Male
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Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet
Overview: When famous detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in strange case of a missing dog and even stranger carnivorous plant. He becomes convinced that he is standing against his greatest enemy, the Gardener, who supposedly died years ago in a swamp...
Genres: Comedy Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-08-04
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Dark Sun
Overview: A remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-09-19
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Lady on the Tracks
Overview: Tram driver Marie has far too much to do after her shift is over. But she likes to do it all since she loves her husband Václav sincerely. One day she spots him on the Lesser Town Square in Prague, kissing an attractive blonde good-bye. It seems to Marie that her small comfortable world has collapsed and she walks out of the tram in tears. But her sadness does not last long. She wipes off the tears and begins to act. She withdraws all the money from their savings books and buys off all the latest models from the Fashion Works. The visit to the beauty salon then completes her transformation into a lady.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1966-09-30
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I, Justice
Overview: At the year 1946, the time of the Nuremberg Process. One of the main actors of the Second World War, who reportedly committed suicide, Adolf Hitler is, however, missing. The Czech doctor Herman (Karel Höger) is kidnapped from Prague and driven to the sanatorium of Professor Rolf Harting (Jirí Vrstála). The sanatorium is a disguised military stronghold, most probably occupied by a Nazi garrison, with prison cells and an execution chamber in the basement. At night, Herman is taken to a patient in whom he, to his horror, recognizes Hitler (Fritz Diez).
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1968-04-12
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Objížďka
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1968-07-05
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Burglar and Umbrella
Overview: In the morning twilight of Prague, the dead body of the safe-breaker Toufar is found floating on the river Vltava with a knife in his back. Police inspectors visit Toufar's lover, the prostitute Anna Kulatá (Jirina Bohdalová), nicknamed Umbrella, and it is apparent that the moment before she opened the door of her flat, someone fled through the window. Umbrella is summoned for examination to the head of the criminal police - Police Councilman Vacátko Jaroslav Marvan, but although shocked by the photograph of the dead man, she does not confess to anything. Before Toufar, Umbrella lived with the safe-breaker Penicka (Radoslav Brzobohatý), who loved her very much and made her quit her street trade. But when he was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, Umbrella began to live with the brute Toufar, who chased her to street again. In the case of the murder, Penicka is therefore the prime suspect.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1971-04-09
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Svět otevřený náhodám
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1972-04-14
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Kronika žhavého léta
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1973-08-31
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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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V každom počasí
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1975-05-16
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The Day That Shook the World
Overview: An historical depiction of the events preceding the political murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, would-be emperor of the Austro-Hungarian throne, in Sarajevo on June 28th, 1914.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1975-10-31
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Maratón
Overview: It is 5 May 1945 and the uprising against the hated German occupiers has broken out in Prague. The Czech guards open the gate of the Pankrác prison to allow the prisoners to escape en masse. Many of them are shot dead by the German guards but young Ruda (Jaromír Hanzlík) manages to run away. He is taken care of by one of the Prague fighters, concierge Kytka. Kytka hides him in the flat of the house's owner where only the young maid Karla (Jana Brejchová) is left, ordering her to take care of Ruda.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1968-12-31
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