Josef Střecha

Josef Střecha

Born: November 3, 1907
Died: March 29, 1985
in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]

Movies for Josef Střecha...

Title: The Visitors
Released: November 5, 1983
Type: TV
It's the year 2484 and the Earth is threatened by a rogue comet which could fatally change its orbit. The solution is surprising - Adam Bernau, the greatest genius of 20th century developed 500 years ago an ingenious formula for easy transporting of continents and even worlds. Unfortunately, he made this discovery at the age of 11 and the exercise book containing it was destroyed in the fire. But this is not a challenge to Academic Filip who decides to send an expedition back in time to retrieve the precious exercise book from the fire. But everything is not so simple as it seems...
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Když rozvod, tak rozvod
Title: Když rozvod, tak rozvod
Released: April 1, 1983
Type: Movie
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Kouzelné dobrodružství
Title: Kouzelné dobrodružství
Released: February 1, 1983
Type: Movie
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Příště budeme chytřejší, staroušku!
Title: Příště budeme chytřejší, staroušku!
Released: December 31, 1982
Type: Movie
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Like Rabbits
Title: Like Rabbits
Released: September 24, 1982
Type: Movie
A story of two boys who during the summer at a recreation area become best friends despite being enemies at first.
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Opera ve vinici
Title: Opera ve vinici
Released: June 4, 1982
Type: Movie
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V podstatě jsme normální
Title: V podstatě jsme normální
Released: March 12, 1982
Type: Movie
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Serpent's Poison
Title: Serpent's Poison
Released: February 19, 1982
Type: Movie
Her mother dead, 18-year-old Vladka travels to a remote village in the dead of winter to find the father she has never met. The happiness of their initial meeting gives way to the daughter’s disappointment and concern over the hardworking man’s alcoholism.
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Víkend bez rodičů
Title: Víkend bez rodičů
Released: February 12, 1982
Type: Movie
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La Chanson du mal-aimé
Title: La Chanson du mal-aimé
Released: February 3, 1982
Type: Movie
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Konečná stanice
Title: Konečná stanice
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
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Don't Call Me Major
Title: Don't Call Me Major
Released: December 4, 1981
Type: Movie
A group of children is trying to solve a mystery related to the diamonds smuggling.
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Chain
Title: Chain
Released: November 20, 1981
Type: Movie
Carefree young nurse Marta learns upon her husband's death that he was involved in all manner of criminal activity, which puts her life in danger.
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Hodina života
Title: Hodina života
Released: June 5, 1981
Type: Movie
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Hra o královnu
Title: Hra o královnu
Released: March 13, 1981
Type: Movie
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The Hit
Title: The Hit
Released: March 13, 1981
Type: Movie
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Run, Waiter, Run!
Title: Run, Waiter, Run!
Character: Man with a Scarf
Released: January 9, 1981
Type: Movie
A comedy concerning a down on his luck bookshop owner with a penchant for women who decides to make some money by pretending to be a waiter and collecting cash from unsuspecting diners.
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Co je doma to se počítá, pánové...
Title: Co je doma to se počítá, pánové...
Released: December 26, 1980
Type: Movie
Czech comedy from the 70ties.
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V hlavní roli Oldřich Nový
Title: V hlavní roli Oldřich Nový
Character: Josef Střecha
Released: December 5, 1980
Type: Movie
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Svítalo celou noc
Title: Svítalo celou noc
Released: October 3, 1980
Type: Movie
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How to Dupe a Lawyer
Title: How to Dupe a Lawyer
Released: September 12, 1980
Type: Movie
Attorney Horic is a specialist for cases connected with motoring. He approaches to his work unconventionally, he does not hesitate to search for evidence right in the terrain and he is willing to take various risks.
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Hodinářova svatební cesta korálovým mořem
Title: Hodinářova svatební cesta korálovým mořem
Released: August 15, 1980
Type: Movie
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Paragraf 224
Title: Paragraf 224
Released: June 20, 1980
Type: Movie
Placek (Josef Kemr), the head of research in a chemical plant, appreciates the help of his younger colleague Bernát (Alois Svehlík) in the creation of a new synthetic material.
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Love Between the Raindrops
Title: Love Between the Raindrops
Released: May 23, 1980
Type: Movie
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.
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Julek
Title: Julek
Released: May 9, 1980
Type: Movie
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Poprask na silnici E 4
Title: Poprask na silnici E 4
Released: April 18, 1980
Type: Movie
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Payment in Kind
Title: Payment in Kind
Released: February 26, 1980
Type: Movie
In an unusual, apolitical approach, director Jaromil Jires has fashioned a standard drama that features an older lawyer with failing health who goes to practice in the countryside. His series of odd court cases reveals more about the human condition than about law. In one of these litigations a wayward nephew has cheated his elderly aunt out of her savings. In court, the nephew insists the money was a gift, but his aunt explains she only gave him the money as a loan. Although the lawyer technically wins the case, everything of value seems lost in the meantime. His services are paid for in rabbits because the aunt has no currency, and in the end, the nephew cons his aunt into parting with her savings anyway. Other cases expose similar types of petty corruption.
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Concert at the End of Summer
Title: Concert at the End of Summer
Released: February 15, 1980
Type: Movie
A docudrama about four weeks in the life of famous Czech composer Antonin Dvorak. The drama - filled with many of Dvorak's compositions - begins when the composer suddenly decides to cut a concert in London and return home. While on the train, flashbacks reveal his relationship to his wife Anna and her sister Josefina. Both women gave him inspiration, yet Dvorak is clearly troubled in some way as musical excerpts come and go in his creative mind.
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Čas pracuje pro vraha
Title: Čas pracuje pro vraha
Released: February 1, 1980
Type: Movie
Vera, wife of the plumber Simandl (Josef Somr), is found murdered in the cinema next to the IDOC (Information and Documentation) agency where she worked. Police captain Marha (Frantisek Nemec), who is leading the investigation, is informed by Simandl that on the day of the murder Vera promised to bring home fifty thousand crowns to buy a car. Marha's primary suspects are the three men working at the agency: deputy editor-in-chief Brandl (Jirí Pleskot) and editors Pernata (Eduard Cupák) and Remes (Ludek Munzar, and of course also Simandl.
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Postavení mimo hru
Title: Postavení mimo hru
Released: December 28, 1979
Type: Movie
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The Divine Emma
Title: The Divine Emma
Character: ředitel Národního divadla
Released: December 21, 1979
Type: Movie
The opera lady singer Ema Destinnová is in all her splendor at the American stages. But in Europe there rages war and she decides to return home to Bohemia.
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Ball Lightning
Title: Ball Lightning
Released: August 10, 1979
Type: Movie
A comedy about exchange of 12 apartments , which, its organizer, lawyer Radosta, rightly called Action Ball Lightning. To prepare, organize and execute the exchange of twelve apartments is a work worthy champions. Radosta, who was excellently played by Rudolf Hrušínský, solved all sudden difficulties and complications on the fly and with grace. To be sure that the on the D-day everything goes well he prepares a little rehearsal, which reveals many minor issues caused for example by wedding ordered to inappropriate term or hesitation of some participants. Last but not least a night exercise announced by drunk psychologist Knotků, creates a lot of confusion that nearly sabotaged the whole operation.
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Those Wonderful Movie Cranks
Title: Those Wonderful Movie Cranks
Released: August 3, 1979
Type: Movie
Returning home to Prague, the magician Pasparte, an owner of a circus caravan, meets his dying colleague who entrusts his beautiful daughter Aloisie to his care. In Prague they all take up their lodgings at the house At Blue Fish in which they intend to arrange the programs. The firm is owned by widow Evzenie with whom Pasparte shares flat and bed. Evzenie is jealous of Aloisie therefore Pasparte sends Aloisie as a housewife to the single man Jakub Kolenatý who earns his living by photographing and wants to record the revived pictures of Prague. Pasparte wants to found in Prague the first permanent Czech movie theatre in which there would be projected also the original Czech films.
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I'll Be Good, Old Man!
Title: I'll Be Good, Old Man!
Released: July 27, 1979
Type: Movie
To the intolerant and bloody-minded Prague actor Bergner (Milos Kopecký) is the lead in Moliere's Misanthrope which he is studying now as tailor-made. On top of that he is malicious and he advises to the new actress Helenka (Dagmar Havlová) in such a way that she upsets the theatre director. If Bergner accuses somebody of a mischief and he is wrong, he never apologizes. When he almost crashes an older elegant lady by his car on the zebra crossing, instead of an apology he calls her an old ballet dancer... But in Brno's TV he takes part in a discussion on manners and he gives himself as an example of good manners and grace. In the train he meets a magic old man (Ladislav Pesek) who warns him and admonishes him to change his behavior. After he arrives to Prague the old man's threat comes true.
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The Young Man and Moby Dick
Title: The Young Man and Moby Dick
Released: July 13, 1979
Type: Movie
Good-looking Edita Beningerová (Jana Brejchová) arrives at a chemical factory in the North Bohemian town of Ústí nad Labem together with her young assistant Nada (Zlata Adamovská). She is hoping that her ex-husband, outstanding practical chemical engineer Vik Panc (Eduard Cupák), will help her conduct an experiment to validate her proposed theoretical method of isolating cholesterol from lanolin. The success of Edita's invention is crucial for her career at the Prague Institute of Chemistry. Vik's roommate from his hostel Bréta (Ivan Vyskocil) is thrilled. He will finally meet the mysterious and fascinating Edita about whom he has learned so much from Vik.
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Vražedné pochybnosti
Title: Vražedné pochybnosti
Released: June 29, 1979
Type: Movie
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Skandál v Gri-Gri baru
Title: Skandál v Gri-Gri baru
Released: February 9, 1979
Type: Movie
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Silnější než strach
Title: Silnější než strach
Released: January 19, 1979
Type: Movie
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Pumpaři od Zlaté podkovy
Title: Pumpaři od Zlaté podkovy
Released: January 12, 1979
Type: Movie
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Past na kachnu
Title: Past na kachnu
Released: December 29, 1978
Type: Movie
Taxi driver Koukal (Miroslav Machácek) is stopped by the police for a routine traffic check. In the boot of his car the police find the body of a naked man. Koukal is arrested even though he claims he knows nothing about it. The case is assigned to Major Mlynár (Milan Sandhaus). The police identify the corpse as that of an Austrian citizen called Mitrik. Koukal has been regularly driving people interested in gambling to a secret gaming den. The police are put onto the gambling den by another taxi driver, who admits that he drove Mitrik there. Mlynár and officer cadet Pecka (Ivan Vyskocil) feign interest in gambling and visit the gaming den incognito.
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Miluška a její zvířátka
Title: Miluška a její zvířátka
Released: December 25, 1978
Type: Movie
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Lvi salónů
Title: Lvi salónů
Released: December 1, 1978
Type: Movie
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A Major Role for Rosmaryna
Title: A Major Role for Rosmaryna
Character: Camera Operator
Released: August 25, 1978
Type: Movie
The director of films for kids called Bonzurka together with her loyal assistants Drahuska and Honza are looking for the actors for a new movie "The Knee". Children for this movie should not be afraid and shy and they must have talent for acting. Thus the scouting is quite difficult. The most difficult is to find an actress for a main character who lost her hair after a serious illness and now has to spent the whole holiday in the countryside with a bald head resembling a knee. Although the makeup artist does his best an artificial baldness does not solve anything. From the selected little girls only the self-assertive Rosemary has the guts to let her long hair to be cut and shave off her head.
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Oddechový čas
Title: Oddechový čas
Released: April 14, 1978
Type: Movie
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How to Wake a Princess
Title: How to Wake a Princess
Released: March 24, 1978
Type: Movie
At long last, King Dalimil and Queen Eliška have produced an heir, Princess Růženka. Consumed with envy, Eliška’s sister Melánie casts a curse: On the day Růženka turns seventeen, she will prick her finger and fall into a deep sleep together with the entire kingdom.
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Vítězný lid
Title: Vítězný lid
Released: February 17, 1978
Type: Movie
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Monkey's Playtime
Title: Monkey's Playtime
Released: February 10, 1978
Type: Movie
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.
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Tichý Američan v Praze
Title: Tichý Američan v Praze
Released: January 20, 1978
Type: Movie
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'Okay, Boss...!'
Title: 'Okay, Boss...!'
Released: January 6, 1978
Type: Movie
Láda Pitras (Ludek Sobota) and Oto Vacák (Petr Nározný) founded in the company Pragokov a Research department of recruitment of labor. For recruitment of workers in professions sought after both recruiters worked out an effective, often almost illegal methods. They followed secretly for instance the welder Niederle and managed to record his lovesick courting to his colleague Anicka. The fear of his jealous wife made him to join Pragokov.
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Díky, pane Kříženecký
Title: Díky, pane Kříženecký
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
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Hodina pravdy
Title: Hodina pravdy
Released: December 16, 1977
Type: Movie
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All Against All
Title: All Against All
Released: November 11, 1977
Type: Movie
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Stín létajícího ptáčka
Title: Stín létajícího ptáčka
Released: October 1, 1977
Type: Movie
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A Nice Plate of Spinach
Title: A Nice Plate of Spinach
Released: September 9, 1977
Type: Movie
The heroes of this absurd comedy, full of confusion and humor are Dzharda Zemanek and Frantisek Liska.
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Our Gang
Title: Our Gang
Released: July 29, 1977
Type: Movie
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Smrt na černo
Title: Smrt na černo
Released: May 13, 1977
Type: Movie
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Smoke on the Potato Fields
Title: Smoke on the Potato Fields
Released: April 15, 1977
Type: Movie
In this character study by Czech director Frantisek Vlacil, a stout middle-aged physician whose marriage has come apart establishes a practice in a small town. Gradually he's drawn into the lives of his patients—a childless couple, a pregnant girl with a stern mother, the son of a duck farmer—and each relationship reveals a bit more about him and the idyllic but insular community.
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The Case of Dead Schoolmates
Title: The Case of Dead Schoolmates
Released: February 18, 1977
Type: Movie
A West German businessman Friedrich Schmidt is arriving to Czechoslovakia with private mission and mission for Intelligence service. He wants to settle the old event from the time of the Second World War when he as a student of the Czech grammar school in the town of Kostelec took part at the denunciation of his schoolmate Pavel Richter. Pavel was during the period of Nazi terror following the assassination of Acting Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia Heydrich executed. Schmidt has also to enter into relations with persons suitable for cooperation with the West Intelligence service. Schmidt - earlier, before the German occupation Smíd - meets the schoolmates and endeavors to avert suspicion that arose already at the time of the tragic event.
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Dům Na poříčí
Title: Dům Na poříčí
Released: February 4, 1977
Type: Movie
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We'll Kick Up a Fuss Tomorrow, Darling...
Title: We'll Kick Up a Fuss Tomorrow, Darling...
Released: November 19, 1976
Type: Movie
Mr. Novak tells a lie to his neighbor Mrs. Bartackova that her husband is unfaithful to her and that is how it all started.
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Marecek, Pass Me the Pen!
Title: Marecek, Pass Me the Pen!
Released: October 8, 1976
Type: Movie
This comedy is about one average family. The father works as master in the factory and his son is studying on high school. One day father must start to visit the evening school. It's the same school as his son visiting. The lives both students are connecting together. The son must teach the math and physics his own father. The father getting to know, that the life of the students is not simple as he supposed.
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Odysseus and the Stars
Title: Odysseus and the Stars
Released: September 3, 1976
Type: Movie
A group of children are investigating a chain of mysterious events during the seventies.
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Wine Working
Title: Wine Working
Released: April 30, 1976
Type: Movie
It is the summer of 1968 and also in South Moravian Pálavice appear political clashes. The so far peacefully farming Unified farmers' cooperative starts splitting. Some of the farmers have found the cooperative called Vidrupa and want to deal with wine in private trade. Michal Janák, chairman of the farmers' cooperative is a deliberate man and refuses the latent return to the capitalism. As an excellent farmer he continues preparing planting out new vineyards. His adversaries do not agree - the returns will come many years later. Jozka Hrdlicka, an émigré, notices on the Austrian TV the interview with the representatives of Vidrupa and decides to visit his native village. The new suit and the hired car transform the bankrupt and criminal to the successful businessman with wine.
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Hřiště
Title: Hřiště
Released: February 20, 1976
Type: Movie
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Title: Thirty Cases of Major Zema
Released: January 11, 1976
Type: TV
Thirty Cases of Major Zeman is a Czechoslovak action-drama television show intended as a political propaganda to support the official attitude of the communist party. The series were filmed in the 1970s. Each episode encompasses one year, and investigations are stylized to that year. Most are inspired by real cases. The series follows the life of police investigator Jan Zeman during his career from 1945 to 1975.
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Akce v Istanbulu
Title: Akce v Istanbulu
Released: December 19, 1975
Type: Movie
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This Is How Love Begins...
Title: This Is How Love Begins...
Released: October 31, 1975
Type: Movie
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The Day That Shook the World
Title: The Day That Shook the World
Released: October 31, 1975
Type: Movie
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.
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Dvacátý devátý
Title: Dvacátý devátý
Released: April 25, 1975
Type: Movie
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People from the Subway
Title: People from the Subway
Released: May 17, 1974
Type: Movie
Three short stories. Prague finally sees the approval of the subway construction. Thousands of individuals took part in preparing, course and finalizing construction of subway and their lives crossed at certain points of this construction.
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Lovers in the Year One
Title: Lovers in the Year One
Character: Camera Operator
Released: March 15, 1974
Type: Movie
It is the summer of 1945. A party of young people are enjoying the beginning of a new life to the full. For them this is the year one. One of them, law student Pavel, is more attracted to film than to law. With his eight-millimeter camera, he films everything that catches his attention. One day he captures an interesting face on film, a girl with an air of mystery. Pavel visits the girl, whose name is Helena, and meets hers and her elder energetic sister Olga. From Olga, he learns that the girls have spent the years of German occupation in a concentration camp and cannot forget the horrors they have lived through.
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Červená kůlna
Title: Červená kůlna
Released: November 1, 1968
Type: Movie
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Naše XI.
Title: Naše XI.
Released: October 9, 1936
Type: Movie