Jaroslav Seník
Also Known As: Ярослав Сеник
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Praha, Cechy, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
Birthday: July 21, 1897
Deathday: October 10, 1957
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Proud Princess
Overview: It's very human and nice story about lofty princess (her father is amiable but incapable - unforgettable performance of S. Neumann) and good, nice, kind and well-principled young king (prince) who tries to make tender her calm heart to get married with her. After being refused (she's very capricious), he conclude to make her better. He start to work as a gardener at her castle (in secret) and successively bring she to her senses...The story continues when already reformed princess and the young king (she learn about his real identity later) have to take refuge from troops, that princess father (old king) has sent (of course he took a bad and mean counsellors advice). They have to take shelter by several ordinary and poor families, which are always very friendly and give them a help... Of course the tale has happy end.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1952-09-26
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Men Without Wings
Overview: After an attack against the guard of the Third Reich, Nazi repression intensifies, and the Czechoslovakian resistance's organized sabotage in an aircraft factory leads to Gestapo shootings.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1946-10-25
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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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Muž v povětří
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1956-01-20
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Warriors of Faith
Overview: Czech history movie.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1947-03-28
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Mikoláš Aleš
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1952-01-11
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Na dobré stopě
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1949-01-07
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Red Lizard
Overview: Grammar school teacher Bláha hurts himself in pursuit of a red lizard, and is lying unconscious in the lonely house of Santrucek family. The postman, who found Bláha's coat and hat in the water, announces to everyone in town that the professor has drowned. But, the venerable citizens are at that moment more interested in the theatre group with the beautiful guest actress Eva Gazdová. They demand a change of repertoire and manage to persuade the theatre manager to have the group play the musical comedy The Red Lizard instead of an established play.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1949-02-11
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Vzbouření na vsi
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1949-04-16
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Revoluční rok 1848
Overview: Year of the Revolution 1848
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1949-12-23
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Hasek’s Tales from the Old Monarchy
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1952-12-25
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Comedians
Overview: Komedianti is a 1954 Czech film directed by Vladimír Vlcek. It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1954-04-16
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Vina Vladimíra Olmera
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1956-10-26
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Průlom
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1946-06-04
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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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Jurášek
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Genres: War
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1957-05-03
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Jan Hus
Overview: Jan Hus is a 1954 Czechoslovak film directed by Otakar Vávra. It is the first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", one of the most famous works of the Czechoslovak director, completed with Jan Žižka (1955) and Proti všem (Against All Odds, 1957).
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1955-04-29
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Ještě svatba nebyla...
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1954-08-27
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Čekanky
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1940-04-05
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Nobody Knows Anything
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1947-11-28
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Poslední mohykán
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1947-09-05
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Rozina the Love Child
Overview: Prague, the beginning of the 17th century. Rozina falls in love with Italian glass worker Nikolo, but after returning home, she gets a message that will never come to Prague. She falls for the promise of an older man to marry her, but when Nikolo does return, the tragic fate of Rozina is sealed.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1945-12-14
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Prstýnek
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Genres: Comedy Romance History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1945-02-16
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Skalní plemeno
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1944-03-17
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The Avalanche
Overview: An ambitious and selfish lawyer confesses to the murder of his first wife. Some of the scenes were filmed in the last weeks of the war.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1946-07-05
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Nadlidé
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1946-11-29
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Pancho se žení
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1946-09-27
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Dravci
Overview: Wild Beasts
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1948-04-30
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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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Přiznání
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1951-06-15
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Pan Novák
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1949-06-10
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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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Early Days
Overview: Early Days follows the early life of famous Czech writer Alois Jirásek. Jirásek had already developed his own view of the history of the Czech nation while he was at grammar school in Broumov. When he becomes the supply teach in Litomyšl, he has already written his first book and a number of poems. The local dignitaries await the arrival of the young writer in excited anticipation. Jirásek, however, is sickened by the empty patriotism from the depths of his soul and soon becomes disagreeable to the notables. The district sheriff tries to remove Jirásek from the school and drive him out of town. Unable to do this, the sheriff appoints a pro-Austrian headmaster who attempts to sabotage Jirásek. The students stand behind Jirásek , however, and discontent is not only felt in Litomyšl but throughout Bohemia.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1953-02-27
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Way Leading to Happiness
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1951-10-19
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Velké dobrodružství
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1952-11-21
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Olověný chléb
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1954-04-30
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