Václav Wasserman

Václav Wasserman

Born: February 19, 1898
Died: January 28, 1967

Movies for Václav Wasserman...

The Prime of Life
Title: The Prime of Life
Released: October 13, 1967
Type: Movie
Juraj, a Slovak artist living in Prague, takes stock in his life, realizing that his days pass without purpose. He lives a carefree life. But now he has to choose between two women, between the city and the country, and between creative work and craftsmanship. He has a passion for art but he also has to make a living. Through his relationships with close people, he grows aware of his position and this knowledge helps him to live a more fulfilling and better life.
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The Stolen Airship
Title: The Stolen Airship
Released: April 28, 1967
Type: Movie
The Stolen Airship (Czech: Ukradená vzducholod) is a 1967 live-action/animated film by Czech filmmaker Karel Zeman. The story is based loosely on Jules Verne's novels Two Years' Vacation and The Mysterious Island. The film in Art Nouveau style consists of live-action scenes, generally shot in black and white, as well as hand-drawn, stop motion, and cutout animation. Various live-action and animated elements are often composited into the same scene.
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The Phantom of Morrisville
Title: The Phantom of Morrisville
Released: July 15, 1966
Type: Movie
Inspector Brumpby (Jaroslav Marvan) and the young crime reporter Allan Pinkerton (Vít Olmer) attend wedding of Sir Hannibal Morris (Oldrich Nový) with beautiful Clarence (Kveta Fialová). After the ceremony, Clarence's ex-husband, criminal Manuel Diaz (Waldemar Matuska), who was believed dead, shows up in her room. He wants to get his hands on Clarence and, most importantly, on the money she would inherit in the eventuality of her new husband's death. Diaz makes attempts on Hannibal's life. He knows his way about an underground labyrinth in the château and the traps he sets up for Hannibal seem to work, since Hannibal is apparently found dead after an explosion in the labyrinth, after which his body vanishes. The inspector tries to solve the countless mysteries. In this, he is joined by Allan, always ahead of the man of the law in his estimation and judgment of the situation.
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Dva tygři
Title: Dva tygři
Released: June 3, 1966
Type: Movie
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Katya and the Crocodile
Title: Katya and the Crocodile
Released: April 11, 1966
Type: Movie
It is the summer holiday and little Mísa Horák has taken a few animals from the school's so-called "Corner of Living Nature" home to care for. But when he brings home two Angora rabbits, a starling, a little monkey, a tortoise and a small crocodile, his parents order him to take them away. He is helped by Káta, who offers to place the animals in the child's room of her family's apartment. Mísa leaves for her friend where the animals will hopefully be able to stay. Káta goes shopping. In the meantime, Káta's younger sister Minka wakes up and begins to play with the animals, who gradually run off in disarray.
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Crime at the Girls School
Title: Crime at the Girls School
Character: English Teacher (segment "Zločin v dívčí škole")
Released: February 18, 1966
Type: Movie
Three short story omnibus. The main hero and connecting link is Lieutenant Boruvka, created by Lubomír Lipsky. He deals with the murder case between climbers, the death of the dancer in the music theater and the strange disappearance of the mathematics professor.
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Alibi on the Lake
Title: Alibi on the Lake
Released: January 21, 1966
Type: Movie
Miss Nováková reports to Major Tuma (Karel Höger) from the police about the disappearance of her roommate, the model Zuzana. Shortly afterwards, a film director named Konrád (Otomar Krejca) asks Tuma to cooperate on a new cinéma-vérité film describing the story of Zuzana's disappearance.
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The Borrowed Face
Title: The Borrowed Face
Character: komorník Albert
Released: December 24, 1965
Type: Movie
It is the 1930s. Physician Bartos devotedly attends poor patients in the city suburbs, at the same time researching the possibilities of regeneration of human tissues after transplantation. His former colleague Rosen, now working as an assistant at the private clinic of surgeon Kirchenbruch, considers the research a mere utopia. The disappointed Bartos, trying to verify his theories, therefore accepts the outrageous proposal of Marion, owner of a brothel - to surgically replace the face of her lover, the wanted thief Cutter, with the face of murdered Father Hopsasa. Bartos is well paid but his successful operation remains a secret.
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Třiatřicet stříbrných křepelek
Title: Třiatřicet stříbrných křepelek
Released: September 10, 1965
Type: Movie
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If a Thousand Clarinets
Title: If a Thousand Clarinets
Released: January 26, 1965
Type: Movie
A military base. An awkward soldier. A statue of Bach. And suddenly all guns in the area change into music instruments. Great mystery is immediately found by TV station. And soon the military base becomes a stage for huge TV show.
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Bez svatozáře
Title: Bez svatozáře
Released: July 3, 1964
Type: Movie
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Einstein kontra Babinský
Title: Einstein kontra Babinský
Released: June 5, 1964
Type: Movie
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The King of Kings
Title: The King of Kings
Character: Man in the Library
Released: July 12, 1963
Type: Movie
During his work assignment in Tamani Kingdom, Czech worker Lojza saves a local man from dying in the desert. Two years later, it turns out the saved man was also the Taman king; and he has decided to name Lojza, a communist, his royal heir.
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Dva z onoho světa
Title: Dva z onoho světa
Released: December 28, 1962
Type: Movie
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Kotrmelec
Title: Kotrmelec
Released: March 9, 1962
Type: Movie
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Where an Alibi Is Not Everything
Title: Where an Alibi Is Not Everything
Character: Guest at the hotel
Released: July 28, 1961
Type: Movie
“A bored housewife, a husband who married her for show, and a stupid boy who is full of himself because he is dating a Swiss woman.” The words of Inspector Tůma sound like they’re from a European melodrama, but in fact they come from a Czechoslovak crime story. A pair of detectives, counterfeit medicine, the high-society setting of a Karlovy Vary hotel, and Oldřich Nový as the aging hotel manager Kraus.
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The Lupinek Case
Title: The Lupinek Case
Released: April 7, 1961
Type: Movie
In a wooden hut used as a canvassing center, members of a children's puppet-theatre group are rehearsing for a production about a journey to the Moon. The goings-on inside the hut and outside are being closely followed by amateur detective Pepik Barnabás. He, however, is the first to be under suspicion when a trunk containing puppets goes missing. The children follow him but, when they catch up with him, they discover he hasn't got it. Pepík offers to help them in their search.
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Valčík pro milión
Title: Valčík pro milión
Released: March 10, 1961
Type: Movie
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Taková láska
Title: Taková láska
Character: Spectator
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: Movie
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Pět z milionu
Title: Pět z milionu
Released: August 7, 1959
Type: Movie
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První a poslední
Title: První a poslední
Released: July 24, 1959
Type: Movie
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Hlavní výhra
Title: Hlavní výhra
Released: May 15, 1959
Type: Movie
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Mezi nebem a zemí
Title: Mezi nebem a zemí
Released: October 24, 1958
Type: Movie
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The Good Soldier Švejk
Title: The Good Soldier Švejk
Released: August 23, 1957
Type: Movie
Good-natured and garrulous, Schweik becomes the Austrian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of World War I -- although his bumbling attempts to get to the front serve only to prevent him from reaching it. Playing cards and getting drunk, he uses all his cunning and genial subterfuge to deal with the police, clergy, and officers who chivy him toward battle.
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Vintage Car
Title: Vintage Car
Released: March 29, 1957
Type: Movie
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Duchacek Will Fix It
Title: Duchacek Will Fix It
Character: Self – Writer
Released: June 3, 1938
Type: Movie
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The Good Soldier Schweik
Title: The Good Soldier Schweik
Released: June 11, 1931
Type: Movie
A 1931 Czechoslovak black-and-white comedy film based on Jaroslav Hašek's novel The Good Soldier Švejk.
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The Organist at St. Vitus' Cathedral
Title: The Organist at St. Vitus' Cathedral
Character: New Organist
Released: August 30, 1929
Type: Movie
The most important silent film by director Martin Frič. Poet Vitezslav Nezval did scenographic modifications to the original story by Václav Wasserman. Film producer Jaroslav Stransky didn’t witness premier; because of fear of financial collapse, he killed himself.
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Father Vojtech
Title: Father Vojtech
Character: Novice
Released: March 1, 1929
Type: Movie
Father Vojtech (Czech: Páter Vojtěch) is a 1929 silent Czech romance film directed by Martin Frič.
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Pohorská vesnice
Title: Pohorská vesnice
Released: November 2, 1928
Type: Movie
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Příběh jednoho dne
Title: Příběh jednoho dne
Released: April 16, 1926
Type: Movie
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Ty petřínské stráně
Title: Ty petřínské stráně
Released: August 28, 1925
Type: Movie