Jaroslav Vlk
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
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Birthday: November 25, 1944
Age: 80 years old
Gender: Male
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Hněv
Overview: Sunday in September 1977, a celebration of the Miners Day. The old Hepnar is sitting at the cemetery and is recalling events from ten years ago. That time the representative of the ministry Barvír announced at the miners meeting that mining in the mines would decrease. He reasoned this decision by the fact the deposits of coal are almost used up. The boss of the mine and most of the miners protested. Barvír did not take their critical objections into account. He announced at the communist district meeting the closure of the business as the mine according to new economic principles did not prosper.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-10-06
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Monkey's Playtime
Overview: The fisherman Fuksa fishes in the creek an old bottle and he sells it to innkeeper Merta. When Merta opens it, a genie appears, who can fulfill all his wishes.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-02-10
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Píseň o stromu a růži
Overview: Soviet engineer Kuznecov is coming to Prague as an expert on work with the tunneling shield in construction of the metro. He is returning after more than thirty years. In May 1945 as a young soldier in the Red Army he was seriously injured in the liberation of Prague and while recovering experienced a great love with a young teacher called Vera.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1979-04-24
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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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The Medal
Overview: The trenches of World War I provide for a captivating backdrop to the drama of Corporal Hoferik. In his devotion to the Habsburg Monarchy, he fanatically carries out his military orders, but he ultimately suffers the Empire's disfavor.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-10-31
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That Instant, That While
Overview: Autumn 1944. A doctor is accused in the collaboration with the Nazis and found guilty...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1981-05-15
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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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Riders in the Sky
Overview: The story of Czech pilots in RAF service during the Battle of Britain, and the ongoing aerial battle in Northern Europe. It tells the story of the crews of the RAF’s No. 311 Squadron, which was mainly crewed by escaped Czech airmen, and their bombing raids during the Second World War.
Genres: War
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1968-12-20
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Almost King
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Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1977-07-15
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...nebo být zabit
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Genres: Drama War
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1986-02-01
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Long Live Ghosts!
Overview: A trespassing gang of boys encounter a ghost in the ruins of a castle. When they rescue the ghost who is caught in a trapset, they become allies in a fight to prevent ruins from being turned into mushroom farm by the city authorities.
Genres: Family Comedy Music Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1977-11-11
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Funeral Ceremony
Overview: Matylda (Jaroslava Ticha), who lives in the Czech countryside, is trying to arrange burial plans for her dying husband, Jan (Ludvik Kroner). While Matylda hopes to have a funeral for Jan in the small town where they once lived, there are complications. Years earlier, Jan spoke out against the Communist government and was consequently expelled from the town. When Matylda fails to convince a local politician to allow the ceremony, she uses her husband's funeral as a public show of dissent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Devilish Honeymoon
Overview: Black comedy about a genius inventor and two young, smart and beautiful women. Both of them putting all their effort into getting the one man. This will inevitable lead to all sorts of mischief, crime and even a murder. This murder-comedy, shot at the dawn of normalization has intentionally broke off from any connection to the reality of its time. The director Zdeněk Podskalský has focused on creating intriguing story lines, revolving around the two endeavouring female characters who are fighting for the same man. Two competing parties are not only ready to kill the other, but also (if necessary) the potential groom. This film has enabled the members of the cast, composed mainly of the brightest stars of the Czech acting scene of that time, to show an incredible acting range, from the lightest comedy to the darkest cynical morbidity.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1970-09-04
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Six Bears and a Clown
Overview: The owner of a circus decides to swap his trained bears for trained pigs, and fires clown Cibulka. The clown gets a job at a local school, bears escape and seek him out and a school inspector comes into town.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1972-12-29
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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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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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The Brave Blacksmith
Overview: Young blacksmith Mikeš sets out into the world for an adventure, accompanied by the miller's assistant Matěj and the boy Ondra. On their journey to rescue three enchanted princesses, the young men encounter a mischievous old hag, magic, and traps set by the Black King, but most importantly, they face their own temptations.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1984-09-01
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Putování Jana Amose
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Genres: History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1983-10-01
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The Snowdrop Festival
Overview: This movie is based on texts of Bohumil Hrabal, world-known Czech prosaic. It's a story (in a form of a mosaic of short episodes and pictures) about the sadness and happiness of inhabitants of Kersko (Kersko is a small woody area full of cottages and roods). These people are both simple and sensitive, they have their own pleasures (e.g. Leli is a collector of cheap, but inutile things) and the greatest delight of all of them is a hunting. Crude poetics of amateur hunting is screened by dreamy pictures of this area. Menzel mixes sentimental lyricism and rough (but not vulgar!) humor and the outcome is the never-ending landscape of continuous life in the proximate nearness of nature. The performances of actors are brilliant. Both Rudolf Hrusinsky as a Franz and Jaromír Hanzlik as a Leli have nonrecurring charm bottomed on a pain and inebriation. Only the music is not perfect: Jiri Sust usually assembled his film music from his older works and in this movie there is many quotations.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Shades of Fern
Overview: Based on the only extensive prose work by the surrealist painter Josef Capek, Shades of Fern most resembles the philosophical fairy tales and fables of Josef’s older brother, the legendary Czech novelist and playwright Karel Capek. Two young poachers, more boys than men, kill a gamekeeper when they are caught illegally hunting. Panicked, they retreat into a forest that grows steadily more forbidding and deadly as their fear for the future—and guilt over their action—mounts. Loosely based on hundreds of oral folk tales and legends that haunt the woods of Czechoslovakia, Vlácil’s contemporary updating artistically underscores the relationship between man and nature, crime and punishment, isolation and society, and guilt and memory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Všechno nebo nic
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1985-11-01
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Winning Quietly
Overview: Comedy about a group of village boys and in one selfless father who wants his players to do the real football.
Genres: Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1986-03-01
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Ants Bring Death
Overview: A crime movie directed by Zbynek Brynych.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1986-04-01
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The Octopuses from the Second Floor
Overview: While on vacation with their bickering parents, young Eva and her little brother Johnny find in a polluted lake two strange friendly sentient octopuses made of strange material that attracts electricity. They take them as pets.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1987-07-01
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The Great Movie Robbery
Overview: The film is essentially a feature-length commercial for an exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of the nationalisation of the Czechoslovak film industry, to be held at the Prague U Hybernu venue. The protagonists of the piece are comedians Oldrich Kaiser and Jirí Lábus, who are set to accept an award from Japanese television representatives at the exhibition. At the same time, five gangsters plot to seize a revolutionary invention devised by professor Suzuki - a super holograph, which enables any figure from television to be transported in the flesh into the real world, and vice-versa.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Piloti
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Genres: War
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1989-05-01
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Jestřábí moudrost
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Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1990-07-01
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