Jan Potměšil
Also Known As: Jan Potmesil, Honza Potměšil
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 31, 1966
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Currency and Peace
Overview: Martin is an innocent lad from small-town Mlada Boleslav who comes to big-city Prague, hoping to exchange his krona for deutschemarks so that he can visit Germany. A local spiv named Robert obliges Martin, but at an unfair exchange rate. When Martin finds out he was rooked, he plans revenge on Robert ... but then decides to join Robert's gang instead.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1988-07-01
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Princess Jasnenka and the Flying Shoemaker
Overview: Pohádka o mladém ševcovském tovaryšovi Jírovi, který si vyrobil z jemné kůže křídla, s jejichž pomocí vysvobodil z věže královského hradu princeznu Jasněnku, kam ji zavřel její otec v marné snaze zabránit věštbě zlé čarodějnice, a posléze ji vymanil i z moci samotné čarodějnice a její dcery Černavy. ( official text from distributor)
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1987-12-01
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The Secret of Steel City
Overview: The film is a metaphor for the Cold War. It depicts two neighbouring nations: peace loving Fortuna and the not so peaceful land of the Steel City.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1979-05-11
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Každý má svůj stín
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Bolero
Overview: Based on real event, Bolero is an excellent story of progressive recovery of a crime. The story surprises all the time, shows new connections, new possibilities, exposes new ideas and facts. It's possible to understand the film on more levels. It describes the position and all the feelings of victim's family, the police work as well as the impact of the crime on it's malefactors. It also touches the topic of moral decay of the descendants of rich, high-posted families. In addition to this, the power of the storyline is accentuated by the quality of the artistic treatment of the whole piece.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2004-03-11
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Why?
Overview: Why? (Czech: Proč?) is a 1987 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Karel Smyczek. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. The film deals with the hooliganism in Czechoslovakia, particularly with the fans of football club Sparta from Prague, whose supporters were the pioneers of the football fan riots in Czechoslovakia, starting with hooligan actions already in the 1960s, like breaking the trains in which they travelled when they went on Sparta's away games. The film deals with one of such episodes
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1987-10-01
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Bony a klid 2
Overview: Unemployed and in search of work, a young man gets roped into a series of shady schemes that unite a former band of money launderers.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2014-05-22
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Nothing Really Happened
Overview: An overprotective mother plagues her daughter out of guilt over unintentionally scarring her daughter's cheek.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1989-01-19
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Vincenz Priessnitz
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Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1999-10-03
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The Secret of the Devil's Pocket
Overview: How it will end? Let's just tell you that on one side of the mountain, the stream that had run before it dries up, and on the other side of the mountain, the creek starts to breathe.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1981-05-31
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Jacob
Overview: The 11-year old Jakub is living in a children's home, when he is picked up by his father. The father has been "away" for four years, the boys mother doesn't want the child. Jakub gradually finds out, that his father is hiding a secret from him. But they gradually manage to build a warm relationship and a promising new life in the city.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1977-03-11
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Věra 68
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2012-05-03
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The Call
Overview: A documentary film following several years in the life of Jan Potměšil who has become a very popular actor at an early age, representing the type of a young sporty intellectual. After a serious car crash in 1989, he ended up on a wheelchair. He was 23 years old at the time. After a year of rehabilitation, he returned to the stage. Excelling in “Flowers for Algernon”, he continuously acts in the production in front of sell-out crowds across the country. He also lives his personal life, experiencing new loves and breakups, is engaged in civic affairs and returns to the hospital now and then. The film aims to give a non-pathetic image of a life lived to the full despite adversity.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1999-11-16
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Don't Look Back, There Is a Horse Behind Us
Overview: Postwoman Mrs Skorepa, her husband the ambulance driver Mr Skorepa and their eleven-year-old twins Petr and Pavel live in Prague in Malá Strana (Lesser Town), one of the Prague's historical and oldest quarters. The boys are crazy about cars and everything linked to them. They don't share their father's love of classical music. On the other hand, they are crazy about the newly announced scrap yard competition for paper collection. The lottery tickets awarded for every ten kilograms of old paper collected could win them a go-kart.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1981-01-02
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Hrátky
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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V erbu lvice
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1995-04-11
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Putování po Blažených ostrovech
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Genres: TV Movie Fantasy Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1989-03-23
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Tři srdce
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Genres: TV Movie Family Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2007-12-25
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Code Name: Ruby
Overview: This controversial feature blends documentary, archival footage and fiction into an elliptical narrative in which two young people in Prague, an ancient seat for the practice of alchemy, follow the trail for the mystical philosopher's stone. History and future blend as brilliant montage sequences and fanciful leaps of the imagination work to posit questions about the legacy of the past and how it influences the individual's personal freedom and responsibility.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1996-12-05
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Daleko od stromu
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Genres: Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1983-05-14
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Poslední šance
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1985-08-04
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Jan Potměšil: Nikdy bych neměnil
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2019-11-19
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