Vladimír Linka

Vladimír Linka

Born: October 18, 1917
Died: June 15, 1993

Movies for Vladimír Linka...

Levé křídlo
Title: Levé křídlo
Character: Soldier
Released: May 1, 1984
Type: Movie
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How to Dupe a Lawyer
Title: How to Dupe a Lawyer
Character: Montér
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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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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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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Vražedné pochybnosti
Title: Vražedné pochybnosti
Released: June 29, 1979
Type: Movie
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Silnější než strach
Title: Silnější než strach
Released: January 19, 1979
Type: Movie
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Muž s orlem a slepicí
Title: Muž s orlem a slepicí
Released: December 22, 1978
Type: Movie
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Náš dědek Josef
Title: Náš dědek Josef
Released: September 23, 1977
Type: Movie
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Smrt na černo
Title: Smrt na černo
Released: May 13, 1977
Type: Movie
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The Liberation of Prague
Title: The Liberation of Prague
Released: May 6, 1977
Type: Movie
On 20th of April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germany and Hitler decides to commit suicide. In Prague K.H. Frank (Nazi Secretary of State and Chief of police in the Protectorate of Bohemia a Moravia) discusses with his commanders how to transform the city into an impregnable fortress, but the Praguers do not intend to wait any longer. From the early hours of 4th of May people start assembling in the streets and tearing down German signs. On the next day, the 5th of May, the uprising begins.
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Dům Na poříčí
Title: Dům Na poříčí
Released: February 4, 1977
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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Zločin v Modré hvězdě
Title: Zločin v Modré hvězdě
Released: February 22, 1974
Type: Movie
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Podezření
Title: Podezření
Released: December 28, 1973
Type: Movie
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Pokus o vraždu
Title: Pokus o vraždu
Released: October 12, 1973
Type: Movie
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The Gambler
Title: The Gambler
Released: November 17, 1972
Type: Movie
This lavish Soviet/Czech co-production is based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's famous novel, The Gambler, which tells the story of a Russian living in Germany, in a gambling resort. This film is set at the turn of the century, and was filmed in Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad), Czechoslovakia. Played by Nikolai Burlyayev, the gambler succumbs completely to his addiction, using up every resource he has (human, spiritual and financial) in his wagering, finally becoming a rootless drifter.
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Murder in the Excelsior Hotel
Title: Murder in the Excelsior Hotel
Character: Musician
Released: October 8, 1971
Type: Movie
In Vražda v hotelu Excelsior, the interwar period homicide detective squad from Prague investigates the murder of a wealthy woman, Mrs Matoušová, which threatens the reputation of the eponymous luxury hotel popular with Prague’s elite. Even the retired police inspector Mrázek (František Filipovský), who works at the Excelsior as a hotel detective, is unable to help at first. Although the investigation inevitably uncovers the hotel staff’s scheming, Vacátko and his team unerringly follow the trail that leads them to the murderer…
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Women Offside
Title: Women Offside
Released: July 20, 1971
Type: Movie
Kastl is a hairdresser but his real passion is his second job as football referee. This job takes all his free time and makes his wife very nervous.
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You Are a Widow, Sir
Title: You Are a Widow, Sir
Released: January 15, 1971
Type: Movie
After a soldier cuts off the arm of king's cousin, king decides to deactivate the army. Of course, generals don't like it at all and they try to kill the king. The assassin should be artificial body in the shape of actress Evelina Keleti and with brain of psychotic serial killer Fany Stubová. They also manage to kill king's astrologer Stuart Hampl, who warns the king. Accidentally, Hampl's brain is implanted into assassin's body, actress Keleti is killed and chaos begins.
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A Ridiculous Gentleman
Title: A Ridiculous Gentleman
Released: November 28, 1969
Type: Movie
When a noted professor receives a new treatment for his heart ailment, his outlook on life changes. Despite doctor's orders, he is determined to live out his final days on his own terms and fulfill his fantasies. He saves the life of a young woman who tries to kill herself after his recovery from heart surgery in this symbolic story of a man trying to determine his own fate in his last days alive.
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Maratón
Title: Maratón
Released: December 31, 1968
Type: Movie
It is 5 May 1945 and the uprising against the hated German occupiers has broken out in Prague. The Czech guards open the gate of the Pankrác prison to allow the prisoners to escape en masse. Many of them are shot dead by the German guards but young Ruda (Jaromír Hanzlík) manages to run away. He is taken care of by one of the Prague fighters, concierge Kytka. Kytka hides him in the flat of the house's owner where only the young maid Karla (Jana Brejchová) is left, ordering her to take care of Ruda.
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„Rakev ve snu viděti...“
Title: „Rakev ve snu viděti...“
Released: July 26, 1968
Type: Movie
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.
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The Terribly Sad Princess
Title: The Terribly Sad Princess
Released: June 7, 1968
Type: Movie
Musical fairy tale tells the story of prince and princesses from neighbouring friendly countries who have to marry each other, as decided by their wise fathers with their advisors. However, the royal children want to decide their fate themselves. They meet in the royal garden, where princess pretends to be a maid and prince to be a herdsman. Prince under cover is imprisoned and helps princess with rebellion. She becomes sad all the time, because she does not want to marry anyone. Luckily, love finds way to their life . . .
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Title: Klapzubova jedenáctka
Released: January 6, 1968
Type: TV
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Jak se krade milión
Title: Jak se krade milión
Released: September 29, 1967
Type: Movie
The exemplary accountant Antonín Safránek lives his orderly life as a citizen of a small town. His wife Eliska brings up their three children and desperately tries to get by on her husband's low salary every month. At the same time, she sadly watches the luxurious life of their neighbor and other people like him who have no qualms about improving their standard of living by cheating. One day, the infallible Safránek makes a mistake in the cash clearance and there are nine one-hundred Crown bills left in the safe. An unexpected company control carried out the next day passes without problems and the account is closed. The temptation is too strong. The insufficient control enables Safránek to gradually steal one million Crowns.
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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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Grandpa, Kylian and I
Title: Grandpa, Kylian and I
Character: listonoš
Released: April 7, 1967
Type: Movie
The Karpísek married couple, both doctors, are leaving for London for two months on business. They entrust their five-year old son Jozánek to the care of their neighbor, Mrs Pokorná.
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When You Have a Holiday Dominique
Title: When You Have a Holiday Dominique
Released: April 4, 1967
Type: Movie
Eight-year old Dominique has a name-day. Her parents have a gift for her, but only give it to her in the evening, when everybody has come home from work. Then she darts out, where her girlfriends are already waiting for her.
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Romance for Bugle
Title: Romance for Bugle
Released: March 3, 1967
Type: Movie
A lyrical story about first love, death and disappointment, based on a poem of the same title.
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Murder Czech Style
Title: Murder Czech Style
Released: February 24, 1967
Type: Movie
The protagonist (Rudolf Hrusinsky) is a dull, fat, shy government clerk indulging in voyuerism and ego fantasies. In love with another clerk (Kveta Fiolova), he is urged on in his pursuit by a commiserate executive. The story is told in a flashback sequence as the cuckolded Hrusinsky attempts suicide by gassing himself in his bathtub. The "Murder" of the title is not a murder as such, rather the murder that Hrusinsky remembers planning upon discovering his wife's unfaithfulness with his supposed friend and advisor. Both plots failing in his mind, he loses himself in fantastic reveries of his funeral and of hypocritical mourners. ' Deciding (perhaps) that this is not the way out either, he gives up the attempt and imagines a life of reconciliation and eventual affluence.
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Never Strike A Woman... Even with A Flower
Title: Never Strike A Woman... Even with A Flower
Released: January 13, 1967
Type: Movie
Shortish forty-year old Ludvík Podzimek, lute and flute player in a Prague orchestra, is far from being an attractive man. He is nevertheless generally considered a great 'Don Juan'. Women take up with him out of a certain motherly compassion and Ludvík's tender heart does not allow him to split with any of them. His lovers thus accumulate and cause him numerous troubles.
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Nahá pastýřka
Title: Nahá pastýřka
Released: December 30, 1966
Type: Movie
At the Ronov castle, the archive-keeper professor Nykl (Milos Nedbal) is searching for the lost painting The Naked Shepherdess by the famous Fragonard. Nykl is just about to disassemble the mantelpiece in the knight's hall, convinced that the painting must be hidden somewhere inside. His efforts, however, meet the strong disapproval of the castle manager, Anna Juzová (Jirina Petrovická), who knows very well where The Naked Shepherdess is. She wants to get hold of the painting herself, to emigrate and smuggle it along. In fact, Anna deals with forgeries of the most distinguished old masters, selling them abroad. The copies are made for her by the painter and restorer Maudr (Martin Ruzek) and the certificates of authenticity are issued by Anna's companion - expert Laburda (Karel Höger). One day, Anna is found murdered in front of the castle's fireplace.
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Flám
Title: Flám
Released: December 9, 1966
Type: Movie
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Lady on the Tracks
Title: Lady on the Tracks
Released: September 30, 1966
Type: Movie
Tram driver Marie has far too much to do after her shift is over. But she likes to do it all since she loves her husband Václav sincerely. One day she spots him on the Lesser Town Square in Prague, kissing an attractive blonde good-bye. It seems to Marie that her small comfortable world has collapsed and she walks out of the tram in tears. But her sadness does not last long. She wipes off the tears and begins to act. She withdraws all the money from their savings books and buys off all the latest models from the Fashion Works. The visit to the beauty salon then completes her transformation into a lady.
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Poslední růže od Casanovy
Title: Poslední růže od Casanovy
Released: August 5, 1966
Type: Movie
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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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Slečny přijdou později
Title: Slečny přijdou později
Released: May 20, 1966
Type: Movie
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The Angel of Blissful Death
Title: The Angel of Blissful Death
Released: March 4, 1966
Type: Movie
Czechoslovak counter-espionage intercepts a coded message from the West German secret service ordering death for an unknown person on Czech territory.
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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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Škola hříšníků
Title: Škola hříšníků
Released: January 14, 1966
Type: Movie
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The White Lady
Title: The White Lady
Character: hostinský
Released: September 24, 1965
Type: Movie
This castle has its own ghost - a mysterious White lady. She emerges from the painting on the wall when someone speaks out magic formula. White lady is good ghost, she can make someone's wishes true. Even if it is a new duct. But a miracle is not the thing that Communist leaders want in the town.
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Délka polibku devadesát
Title: Délka polibku devadesát
Released: July 9, 1965
Type: Movie
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Čintamani & podvodník
Title: Čintamani & podvodník
Character: tajný
Released: June 4, 1965
Type: Movie
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A Star Named Wormwood
Title: A Star Named Wormwood
Released: February 26, 1965
Type: Movie
At the end of May 1918, released prisoners return to the Rumburk garrison from Russian captivity, hoping that the war is over for them. The only thing they want is to get their withheld ...
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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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The Jester's Tale
Title: The Jester's Tale
Released: December 18, 1964
Type: Movie
An anti-war black comedy set during the Thirty Years' War. It follows ploughman Petr, recruiter Matěj and country girl Lenka who get caught up in both sides of the war and experience many adventures before they find happiness. The film combines live action with animation to suggest the artistic style of the engraver Matthäus Merian.
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Green Gold
Title: Green Gold
Released: September 18, 1964
Type: Movie
Working on the hops fields gathering hops for beer, Filip catches a glimpse of fellow worker/comrade Hanka and falls for her. Trying to keep their love secret from the field owners,fellow worker Honza becomes jealous of Filip having a romance with Hanka, which leads to Honza deciding that he will feed the hop field owners Hanka and Filip's secret romantic hops.
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Začít znova
Title: Začít znova
Released: March 13, 1964
Type: Movie
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Prague Blues
Title: Prague Blues
Released: November 15, 1963
Type: Movie
African student Omar would like to return home to Angola, but he is enrolled in a three-year postgraduate research fellowship at a clinic in Prague. One day while seeing off a friend at the airport, he and a girl named Mariama are brought together by chance as he offers to accompany her in an unfamiliar city toward the International Student Club, where she plays bass in a jazz orchestra.
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On the Tightrope
Title: On the Tightrope
Released: October 25, 1963
Type: Movie
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Spanilá jízda
Title: Spanilá jízda
Released: September 6, 1963
Type: Movie
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The King of Kings
Title: The King of Kings
Character: Cabman
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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Transport from Paradise
Title: Transport from Paradise
Released: March 15, 1963
Type: Movie
Czechoslovakian Zbynek Brynych directs this psychological drama set in World War II Terezin ghetto. A dark, visual portrayal of the trials and tribulations the Theresienstadt people faced on a daily basis presented in a series of memorable stories. Their hopes and dreams unfold against the perpetual threat of deportation (or worse) by the Nazis. Based on the novel "Night and Hope" by Arnost Lustig.
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Man in Outer Space
Title: Man in Outer Space
Released: March 23, 1962
Type: Movie
An upholsterer who is preparing a rocket for takeoff accidentally jettisons himself into space and returns to Earth 500 years later with an alien companion who wishes to learn more about the human race.
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Sedmý kontinent
Title: Sedmý kontinent
Released: March 17, 1961
Type: Movie
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The Black Battalion
Title: The Black Battalion
Character: legionary
Released: June 13, 1958
Type: Movie
A fictionalized account of Czech soldiers who fought for the French Foreign Legion in Vietnam.
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The Windy Mountain
Title: The Windy Mountain
Released: February 3, 1956
Type: Movie
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Hudba z Marsu
Title: Hudba z Marsu
Character: Harmonikář
Released: May 27, 1955
Type: Movie