Vlastimil Harapes
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Biography: Vlastimil Harapes (July 24, 1946 – May 15, 2024) was a Czech dancer, choreographer, and actor. He was a soloist at the National Theatre Ballet in Prague and later became its artistic director. Harapes was widely recognized for his contributions to ballet and his performances in films such as Marketa Lazarová (1967) and Jak vytrhnout velrybě stoličku (1977). Born in Chomutov, Czechoslovakia, he trained at the Prague Dance Conservatory and studied ballet in Saint Petersburg, Russia. His career spanned decades, during which he performed internationally and took on roles in theater and television. He was also involved in political activism, running as an independent candidate in the 2016 Czech Senate election. Harapes was married to Hana Zagorová from 1986 to 1992 and had a long-term relationship with Josef Topol, which remained private until 2013. He passed away from lung cancer at the age of 77.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chomutov
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Birthday: July 24, 1946
Age: 78 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 15, 2024
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Paganini
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Genres: Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Marketa Lazarová
Overview: Mikolás and his brother Adam end up with a young German hostage of noble blood during a robbery. While their clan prepares for the wrath of the German king, Mikolás is sent to pressure his neighbor Lazar into a defense pact. Persuasion fails and he abducts Lazar's daughter Marketa on the eve of her initiation as a nun in an act of vengeance.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1967-11-24
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How to Get Daddy to Change
Overview: Adventures of the "How to Rip Whale Tooth" (1977) heroes continue...
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-12-24
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Melodie bílého klavíru
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Genres: Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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How to Pull Out a Whale's Tooth
Overview: Vasek, 8 years old boy is desperate to find a new "father" for his mother.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1977-12-24
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Green Gold
Overview: Working on the hops fields gathering hops for beer, Filip catches a glimpse of fellow worker/comrade Hanka and falls for her. Trying to keep their love secret from the field owners,fellow worker Honza becomes jealous of Filip having a romance with Hanka, which leads to Honza deciding that he will feed the hop field owners Hanka and Filip's secret romantic hops.
Genres: Romance Music Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1964-09-18
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Odcházeti s podzimem
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Cesta ke štěstí
Overview: Bonus DVD contains: - Discography by Hana Zagorova and Biography
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Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2004-11-01
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Taming Crocodiles
Overview: Lubos, an Alpine rescue worker, surprises his delighted daughter Amálka with an early return to Prague. Her joy leads her to skip school, prompting Lubos to join her class on a Tatra mountains trip. Amidst family chaos and comedic mishaps, their reunion hangs in the balance.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2006-01-11
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Beauty and the Beast
Overview: Julie, the youngest daughter of a bankrupt merchant, sacrifices her life in order to save her father. She goes to an enchanted castle in the woods and meets Netvor, a bird-like monster. As Netvor begins to fall in love with Julie, he must suppress his beastly urge to kill her.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1979-03-02
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Il Divino Boemo
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Genres: Documentary Music TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun
Overview: A bachelor named Faun with a Don Juan complex, seized with a hypochondriac's fear of the ineluctable approach of death, enters a race against time's passage. Faun's sexual love is imbued with the narcissistic vanity of a self-satisfied bacchant who even towards old age can't manage to forgo his lifelong pose as an irresistable seducer of women. He desperately searches for meaning in superficial, fleeting sex.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1984-10-01
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Konečně si rozumíme
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1977-02-11
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Day for My Love
Overview: The sore and tender hearts of a young couple with a toddler are explored in this drama. The little girl, four years old, is not aware that she is doing anything distressing while she ambles about the house on the day after a post-examination celebration by her father, a university student. Even though hung over, he tries hard to be patient with her. The beginning of the story follows her on her little adventures. The girl comes down with a fever, which kills her before anything can be done, and the student and his photographer wife mourn and comfort one another. Little encounters with children cause the mother pain she is seldom free of, until she gives birth to their next child, a son.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1977-06-03
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Královský omyl
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1968-12-27
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Polka viva
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Genres: Music History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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My Daughter's Operation
Overview: A car accident occurs and Dusan's teenage daughter Milena gets very seriously injured. To add insult to injury, Dusan is unable to donate a kidney when he finds out he is not Milena's biological father. Dusan is left to cope with his wife's infidelity, as well as the life of his ailing daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1987-02-01
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Anynka a čert
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Genres: Family TV Movie Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1984-12-24
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Kostýmy: Irena Greifová
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2020-04-22
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Dary hadího krále
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Genres: Family Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-12-25
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The Inheritance or You Shouldn't Say That
Overview: The aging Bohus buries his wife Vlastička and after seven years of abstinence starts drinking again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2014-02-06
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