Jan Kotva

Jan Kotva

Born: April 28, 1943
Died: February 7, 1993

Movies for Jan Kotva...

Útěk do vězení
Title: Útěk do vězení
Released: October 22, 1991
Type: Movie
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Title: The Great Debureau
Character: šéfkulisák Fauve
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: TV
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Libeňský čaroděj
Title: Libeňský čaroděj
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
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Title: The Physician of a Dying Time
Released: February 20, 1984
Type: TV
Series about the life of Renaissance anatomist, scholar and politic Johannes Jessenius. Already legendary series today, was produced by Czechoslovak Television Bratislava, directed by Slovak director Miroslav Luther in the first half of 80's in Barrandov Studios in Prague. The story and screenplay of the series wrote Czech writer Vladimír Körner. Five-episodes epic historical narration is a biographical story of distinguished Renaissance scholar, anatomist and politic of Slovak origin, Johannes Jessenius (Ján Jesenský, 1566–1621). It displays his life from the first studies and successes. In 1594 he became professor of surgery and anatomy on Wittenberg University, which he had attended years before. From that moment, his life went through social and personal wins and losses, to the sad end on the Prague Old Town Square gallows, among 27 noblemen, knights and burgenses, after lose Bohemian Revolt in 1621. His destiny was coupled with key events of Czech history in the break of 16th and 17th century, when Renaissance and European humanism slowly fade out.
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Písně by neměly umírat
Title: Písně by neměly umírat
Released: February 1, 1984
Type: Movie
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Title: Malý pitaval z velkého města
Released: November 26, 1983
Type: TV
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Title: Dynastie Nováků
Released: October 23, 1982
Type: TV
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Propast
Title: Propast
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
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Man Overboard
Title: Man Overboard
Released: September 4, 1981
Type: Movie
Ten-year-old David joins a sailing club. He trains hard and helps repair the sailing boats, but people have to take turns actually sailing. The club chairman Vala wants David to sail with his son Olda. Olda's previous team mate Béda has grown too fast, but with little David Olda could win a place on the regatta to Finland. Olda is arrogant and accustomed to winning with little effort; he bullies David and calls him "Greenhorn". He makes David his servant and blames him when things go wrong.
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Zlatá slepice
Title: Zlatá slepice
Released: July 3, 1981
Type: Movie
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V hlavní roli Oldřich Nový
Title: V hlavní roli Oldřich Nový
Released: December 5, 1980
Type: Movie
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The Medal
Title: The Medal
Released: October 31, 1980
Type: Movie
The trenches of World War I provide for a captivating backdrop to the drama of Corporal Hoferik. In his devotion to the Habsburg Monarchy, he fanatically carries out his military orders, but he ultimately suffers the Empire's disfavor.
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Pan Vok odchází
Title: Pan Vok odchází
Released: August 1, 1980
Type: Movie
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Payment in Kind
Title: Payment in Kind
Character: prokurátor/Zuzanin přítel
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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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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Adele Hasn't Had Her Dinner Yet
Title: Adele Hasn't Had Her Dinner Yet
Released: August 4, 1978
Type: Movie
When famous detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in strange case of a missing dog and even stranger carnivorous plant. He becomes convinced that he is standing against his greatest enemy, the Gardener, who supposedly died years ago in a swamp...
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Adele Hasn't Had Her Dinner Yet
Title: Adele Hasn't Had Her Dinner Yet
Character: Kuřátko (voice)
Released: August 4, 1978
Type: Movie
When famous detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in strange case of a missing dog and even stranger carnivorous plant. He becomes convinced that he is standing against his greatest enemy, the Gardener, who supposedly died years ago in a swamp...
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Sázka na třináctku
Title: Sázka na třináctku
Released: May 26, 1978
Type: Movie
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Zlaté rybky
Title: Zlaté rybky
Released: April 7, 1978
Type: Movie
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O moravské zemi
Title: O moravské zemi
Released: February 24, 1978
Type: Movie
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Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea
Title: Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea
Character: Police Officer
Released: August 12, 1977
Type: Movie
Former Nazi Klaus Abard survives to the 1990s by taking anti-ageing pills. He plans to use a time travel trip to return to Germany in 1944 and present Hitler with a hydrogen bomb, so that he can win the war. Unfortunately the pilot, woman-chasing Karel Bures, dies on the morning of the trip and his earnest twin brother Jan impersonates him, without knowing about the plot. The plot goes wrong when they lose the bomb and land near Hitler's bunker in 1941, at a time that the Nazis sense victory. Bures, with two of the plotters, escape capture by the Nazis and make it back to the time machine. Bures programs the machine to return one day before they left, because he figures he can then save his brother and foil the plot.
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Title: Chalupáři
Released: November 23, 1975
Type: TV
Chalupáři is a Czechoslovak comedy TV series filmed in 1974 and 1975 by František Filip.
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Na startu je delfín
Title: Na startu je delfín
Character: Trainer
Released: June 6, 1975
Type: Movie
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Title: Nejmladší z rodu Hamrů
Released: May 15, 1975
Type: TV
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Dvacátý devátý
Title: Dvacátý devátý
Released: April 25, 1975
Type: Movie
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Skokan
Title: Skokan
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
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Půlnoční kolona
Title: Půlnoční kolona
Released: May 25, 1973
Type: Movie
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The Secret of a Great Narrator
Title: The Secret of a Great Narrator
Released: April 28, 1972
Type: Movie
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.
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Oil Lamps
Title: Oil Lamps
Released: November 5, 1971
Type: Movie
In 1900, Stepha, the vivacious 30 year old daughter of a wealthy couple, agrees to marry her cousin Paul, who has accumulated large debts as an Austrian army officer. Paul refuses to work or to consummate the marriage, and then his health steadily declines.
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Six Black Girls
Title: Six Black Girls
Released: October 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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.
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Toni, You're Crazy
Title: Toni, You're Crazy
Released: April 18, 1969
Type: Movie
In the village cemetery, the funeral of a married couple - victims of a car crash - is ending. The relatives unscrupulously take away the facilities of the dead people's little cottage, totally ignorant of the fate of eight-year old Ruda, whom the childless couple took from a children's home and adopted. Fortunately, an elderly lonesome uncle named Tony remains in the empty cottage and decides to take care of the boy, nicknamed Münchie after Baron Münchhausen for his wild imagination.
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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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Christmas with Elisabeth
Title: Christmas with Elisabeth
Character: Dásnicka - warehouseman
Released: November 22, 1968
Type: Movie
Surly solitary truck driver is given an assistant for his daily rounds: a young woman with a fondness for mini-skirts and boys, fresh out of prison.
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Jarní vody
Title: Jarní vody
Released: August 30, 1968
Type: Movie
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Dům ztracených duší
Title: Dům ztracených duší
Released: October 20, 1967
Type: Movie
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Jak se krade milión
Title: Jak se krade milión
Character: Eva's lover
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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Dívka s třemi velbloudy
Title: Dívka s třemi velbloudy
Released: September 8, 1967
Type: Movie
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Martin a červené sklíčko
Title: Martin a červené sklíčko
Released: March 31, 1967
Type: Movie
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Sign of the Virgin
Title: Sign of the Virgin
Character: Samek
Released: October 14, 1966
Type: Movie
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Every Young Man
Title: Every Young Man
Character: Pvt. Balonek
Released: May 13, 1966
Type: Movie
Jurácek's feature debut is shot in two parts. In the first, a corporal accompanies a new recruit with a sore Achilles tendon for his physical, and all the girls or young women they see are played by the same actress (Ruzickova). In the longer second segment, shot with the help of the Czechoslovakia army, the soldiers pass the time during basic training and maneuvers by talking about girls.
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The Finnish Knife
Title: The Finnish Knife
Released: July 23, 1965
Type: Movie
Two young men, thinking that they've killed someone, flee to Poland.
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Okurkový hrdina
Title: Okurkový hrdina
Released: October 11, 1963
Type: Movie
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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