Josef Chvalina
Also Known As: Йозеф Хвалина
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Prague, Czechoslovakia
Adult: No
Birthday: April 30, 1920
Age: 105 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 19, 1982
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Posel dobrých zpráv
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1977-03-17
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A Story of Love and Honor
Overview: A story of love and honor that takes place during the mid-nineteenth century during revolutions, as well as economic, political, and social hypocrisy. Two extraordinary but lonely artists share a passionate love, as evidenced by the preserved letters that they exchanged.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-01-27
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Ježčí kůže
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Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Six Black Girls
Overview: Detective Lieutenant Boruvka (Lubomír Lipský) is called to the State Scientific Library to investigate the loss of a precious manuscript, the Infernal Psalter of the Occult Sciences by Master Peregrinus from the eleventh century, written in a secret script which has only recently been deciphered by senior lecturer Zajíc (Josef Chvalina). Chaos is reigning in the labyrinth of passages and halls of the former monastery where the library is housed. In order to save space the director of the library has introduced a peculiar system. The books are arranged in the bookcases according to height and six girls dressed in black, the library assistants, are quite happy to cut volumes down to size in case of need. Boruvka refuses the case, since he is specialist in murders. He has to return to the investigation, however, when senior lecturer Zajíc disappears.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1969-10-31
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Poslední koncert
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-03-23
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Paní Marjánka, matka pluku aneb Ženské srdce
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Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-12-28
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Romaneto
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Genres: History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1981-03-27
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Malý Bobeš ve městě
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Genres: Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1962-12-07
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Fortress on the Rhine
Overview: During the Second World War, an old fortress is transformed into a detention camp for arrested allied generals who the Germans provide with every possible comfort. In the nearby garrison camp, however, hundreds of captured private soldiers try to survive hunger and cold.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1962-12-21
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Český koncert
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1960-12-24
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Komedie o muži, který si vzal němou
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1963-08-03
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Zelená vlna
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1982-06-25
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Preclík
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Poklad byzantského kupce
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Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1967-07-21
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Lékař v rozpacích
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1966-09-21
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A Killer on the Tracks
Overview: An escort composed of three people transports a huge amount of new one-hundred crown banknotes in a special railway car. At the 196th kilometer, a village girl is waiting at the railway crossing and spots two men removing some packages from the track. The scene is immediately followed by the report of a gun and the unwanted witness is shot dead. Soon afterwards, on the 201st kilometer, the train explodes. Only one of the escorts Lenk (Radoslav Brzobohatý) survives the explosion, taken to hospital with serious injuries. Criminologist Major Kalas (Jirí Sovák) and the very young Second Lieutenant Karlícek (Jaromír Hanzlík) patiently gather facts, leads and testimonies.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1970-08-14
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A Man Who Rose in Price
Overview: Mr. Benda, a married father of two children, works for a company that liquidates old banknotes. After one drunken party, he is visited by a painter who tattooed his back in drunkenness the previous night. The image tattooed on Benda’s back is considered the painter’s best work by the professionals.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1968-06-28
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„Rakev ve snu viděti...“
Overview: The Ronov castle has been changed into a hotel, offering stylish facilities to its guests: weddings in the torture chamber, a Black Lancer kidnapping brides, a night's lodging in a family tomb etc. The reformed petty swindler Felix Pacínek (Bohumil Smída) runs the hotel. The business is far from thriving; the place is half-empty, and the jazz band Skeleton, together with their singer Zuzanka (Jaroslava Obermaierová), decide to leave. Nobody in the hotel has any idea that the band is in fact a gang of thieves who have just robbed the Prague State Bank, taking two million crowns from its vaults.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1968-07-26
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Učitel a přítel zůstal veřejnosti neznám
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1969-03-06
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Objížďka
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1968-07-05
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Hrozné děti
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Genres: Music Comedy
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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Kalifův prsten
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Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1970-12-31
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The Great Unknown
Overview: Three detective stories, three different views of life and death... Collection of three horror short stories.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1970-10-23
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Lekce
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Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1972-01-14
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Svatba bez prstýnku
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1972-05-05
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Svědectví mrtvých očí
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1971-12-10
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Nobody Will Laugh
Overview: A successful art historian who has trouble telling people difficult truths, finds himself in an inescapable situation when a small lie quickly gets out of hand.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1966-02-04
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Madame Sans-Gène
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Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1972-01-06
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Affairs of my Wife
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1973-03-16
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Návraty
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1972-09-01
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More v kvapke vody
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Záhada obrazu sv. Šebestiána
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Genres: Family Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1972-12-28
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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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„Psáno na pranýř“
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Genres: History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1975-03-13
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Action B
Overview: Film shows the struggle of the Czechoslovak armed forces against groups of Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) under command Burlak, who tried to pass through the territory of Slovakia.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1952-02-22
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Akce v Istanbulu
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1975-12-19
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Daisies for the Lady of the Manor
Overview: Fifteen-year-old Kateřina will once again spend the holidays at the Castle Krabonoš, where her parents are both wardens. She finds it dull because she's got to sit at the castle's ticket office and sell tickets. That is, until the arrival of the new tour guide, Petr, a young history student. She falls in love at first sight. But for Petr she's just a young crazy girl. Katka tries to get Petr's attention in various ways, but all in vain. She makes a last ditch effort by pretending to steal some rare castle steins from the castle's collection. It's only after some detectives arrive that Katka realizes that she may have overdone it, but she finally manages to get Petr to notice her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1981-09-25
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Čas lásky a naděje
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1976-09-17
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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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Private Torment
Overview: A worker steals bits and pieces of building materials from work to construct a new home for himself and his girlfriend. When he discovers that she’s having an affair with his boss, he devises one elaborate plot after another to murder the rival, each time with pathetic results.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1967-12-22
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The Trap
Overview: Czech drama film.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1951-04-27
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Vysoká modrá zeď
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1974-09-13
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Distant Journey
Overview: Prague, during World War II. Hana Kaufmann, a Jewish ophthalmologist, marries Dr. Antonín Bureš, a Christian man. When her family is sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, their romance turns into a struggle for survival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1949-06-03
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Mlha
Overview: The work of actors on a stage makes a dreamlike parallelism between artistic immagination and the concreteness of everyday life. Tribute to Prague's Divadlo na zàbradlì, theater that has been a point of reference for Theater of the Absurd in Czechoslovakia in Sixties
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Plavecký mariáš
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1953-04-24
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Hostinec „U kamenného stolu“
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1949-09-23
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Sign of the Cancer
Overview: A murder in a hospital run by incompetents.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1967-05-05
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The Secret of a Great Narrator
Overview: The life of the famous French writer Alexander Dumas the Elder. Screenwriter Jaroslav Dietl did not hide his admiration for this literary giant, and in addition to the screenplay he also wrote a three-part TV play about Dumas (starring Vladimír Menšík). In Kachyn's film, Dumas played the father and son of the Štěpánková brothers, and it was a very difficult and difficult task for these young actors.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1972-04-28
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We Study After School
Overview: The heroes of the Czech film comedy are the students of the Business Academy, who sleep in the school desks under the avalanche of a large amount of study material, without which they say they will not be able to do without in their future profession. One of the least popular teachers is the strict and unyielding Professor Wolf, proud of his textbook. Nevertheless, student life is relatively calm, but only until the holidays come and the students go directly to the field for their holiday practice. The film follows how unhappy the first encounter with business reality turned out for three of them, for Karel Zeman, Ivan Javorský and Vašek Pelíšek...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1940-01-05
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Konec velké epochy
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Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1966-03-23
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Hry lásky šálivé
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Genres: History Comedy Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1971-10-22
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The Green Notebook
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1949-01-07
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It was in May
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1951-06-01
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Veliká příležitost
Overview: An optimistic collective drama from the life of the workers on the construction site of the Youth Track. An amnestied prisoner wants to atone for his wrongdoing with an honest strike and reveals the vandal who was going to poison the drinking water cistern.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1950-04-14
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The Key
Overview: Jan Zika is the legendary hero of the communist resistance movement during World War II and leading functionary of the second underground Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1971-05-14
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Kariéra
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1948-10-22
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Žízeň
Overview: The catastrophically dry weather of 1947 causes immense problems in the countryside. In the small village Klícov, only farmers Hánek and Bervida and the old Hromádka have water. The others must queue every day for a drop for themselves and their cattle. All the villagers lament over their previous decision to turn down the cooperative chairman Kouba's proposal to built a new village water-supply system.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1950-03-24
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Dva ohně
Overview: A socialist drama from the time of the February coup. The owner of the brickyard will use several workers before February in order to subvert worker solidarity and continue to do his black business. However, the vigilance of a young, aware worker prevents him from doing so.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1950-02-17
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Vstanou noví bojovníci
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1951-02-23
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Anna the Proletarian
Overview: The movie describes proletarian life in the Czech Lands after World War I.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1953-02-20
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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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Shoesmachine
Overview: The happenings in a shoe factory serve as a not very thinly veiled examination of the pros and cons of both socialism and democracy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1954-09-24
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The Windy Mountain
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1956-02-03
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Zaostřit prosím!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1956-12-25
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Přehlídce velím já!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1969-06-20
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Nikola Shuhai
Overview: At the end of the First World War, Nikola Shuhai and his friend from the army desert. On the way home, to the village of Kolochava, they both find refuge with baby Jaga. Jaga mixes them a drink to protect them from the deadly bullets. The bachelors must promise to marry her daughters in exchange for a drink, or they will be punished. Nikola finds his home village in poverty. He stands against the powerful and the rich, and they turn the gendarmes against him. Nikola hides from them in the woods, where he will remain even after the end of the war, because nothing has changed for the villagers. Out of poverty and hopelessness, other men join Nikola and together they raid the wealthy. Nikola distributes the obtained booty to the poor and needy, who see him as their protector and hero.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1947-02-28
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Konec strašidel
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Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1953-08-14
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Výstraha
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1954-06-04
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Nechte to na mně
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1955-12-23
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Ta slepička kropenatá
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1971-02-03
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Poslední mohykán
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1947-09-05
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Bláhový sen
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1943-12-03
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A Dead Man among the Living
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1947-02-14
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Premiera
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1947-01-01
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Silent Barricade
Overview: A fiction piece centered around the Czech resistance to the Nazis.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1949-05-06
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Poesie pouti
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1948-01-01
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Případ Z-8
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1949-02-26
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Poesie pouti
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1948-01-01
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Pára nad hrncem
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1950-10-20
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Přiznání
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1951-06-15
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Mordová rokle
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1952-05-23
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Velká kapela
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1966-11-16
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Na konci města
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1955-03-11
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Kosmas a paní Božetěcha
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Olověný chléb
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1954-04-30
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New Czechoslovakia
Overview: Documentary about life in post-war socialist Czechoslovakia
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1950-02-25
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Nejlepší tip
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Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1951-12-28
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Chinese Spring
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1954-02-18
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Proč lže...
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Tchyně
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1963-12-25
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