Ivan Franěk

Ivan Franěk

Born: June 17, 1964
in Plzeň, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Ivan Franěk (born June 17, 1964) is a Czech actor. After relocating from former Czechoslovakia to France in 1989, he has been active mainly in French and – particularly – Italian film & TV industry. His breakthrough role was lead Tobias Horvath in the Italian romance drama Brucio nel vento (2002), directed by Silvio Soldini and based on the novel Hier by Ágota Kristóf.

Movies for Ivan Franěk...

Animali Randagi
Title: Animali Randagi
Character: Emir
Released: March 22, 2024
Type: Movie
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Title: Noi siamo leggenda
Character: Jonas Bauer
Released: November 22, 2023
Type: TV
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Two Words as the Key
Title: Two Words as the Key
Released: July 27, 2023
Type: Movie
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Title: Vědma
Character: Filip Antonín
Released: June 16, 2023
Type: TV
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Smolu nosíš ty, láska
Title: Smolu nosíš ty, láska
Released: June 15, 2023
Type: Movie
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The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan
Title: The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan
Character: Ardanza
Released: April 5, 2023
Type: Movie
D'Artagnan, a spirited young Gascon, is left for dead after trying to save a noblewoman from being kidnapped. Once in Paris, he tries by all means to find his attackers, unaware that his quest will lead him to the very heart of a war where the future of France is at stake. Aided by King's Musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis, he faces the machinations of villainous Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter, while falling in love with Constance, the Queen's confidante.
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Title: Duch
Character: Goran
Released: February 5, 2022
Type: TV
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Title: Christian
Character: Padre Klaus
Released: January 28, 2022
Type: TV
Christian lives in a "city-palace" where he earns his living doing dirty work for LINO, the criminal boss of neighborhood. When stigmata appear on his hands, Christian finds physically impossible to carry out his work, but also discovers he has gained mysterious healing powers to fight against Lino. But MATTEO, a mysterious Vatican postulator in search of signs and confirmations, is tracking him down bringing too close to a truth that could upset his life and that of the whole world.
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OSS 117: From Africa with Love
Title: OSS 117: From Africa with Love
Character: Kazimir
Released: August 4, 2021
Type: Movie
1981. Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, aka OSS 117, is back. For this new mission - more delicate, more dangerous and more torrid than ever - he is forced to team up with a young new colleague, the promising OSS 1001.
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Mstitel
Title: Mstitel
Character: Ohnivák
Released: July 1, 2021
Type: Movie
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Title: La fuggitiva
Character: Kerim
Released: April 5, 2021
Type: TV
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Title: 6 x confiné.e.s
Character: Trifon
Released: March 15, 2021
Type: TV
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A New Perspective
Title: A New Perspective
Character: Girl's father
Released: November 26, 2020
Type: Movie
Early one morning, in an unspecified and seemingly far off time, a 12 year old boy, together with some friends, is searching a thick forest for objects of value. There is a lot of fog. The boy goes off by himself to another part of the wood and stands admiring an antique object he has found at the foot of a tree. His happy expression turns to one of curiosity as he is distracted by some high pitched cries which come and go intermittently.
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White Flowers
Title: White Flowers
Released: June 2, 2020
Type: Movie
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La banda dei tre
Title: La banda dei tre
Character: Igor Makarovitch
Released: February 12, 2020
Type: Movie
Take an irascible dwarf whose surname is Piccolo, with an easy trigger and an immoderate passion for Pupo and his songs. Then add an undercover policeman whose surname is Doll who doesn't even dare to declare himself to the woman he is in love with and plays tough disguised as a pseudo-criminal. Then you end up with Silvano, a former drug addict in perennial religious mystical crisis, who steals from apartments to survive, only to leave holy cards to be forgiven for the pain caused.
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Title: Come una madre
Character: Greco
Released: February 2, 2020
Type: TV
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Title: Vysoká hra
Released: January 26, 2020
Type: TV
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Title: Vysoká hra
Character: hacker Samir
Released: January 26, 2020
Type: TV
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Title: Fallout
Character: Elegán
Released: January 12, 2020
Type: TV
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Anna
Title: Anna
Character: Mossan
Released: June 19, 2019
Type: Movie
Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.
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Look Up
Title: Look Up
Character: Joe
Released: October 18, 2018
Type: Movie
During a break on a rooftop, Teco, a young baker, notices the intriguing fall of a strange bird. He decides to venture to the next roof to have a closer look. This is only the beginning of a most unbelievable journey on the labyrinthine rooftops of Roma.
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Smiles of Sad Men
Title: Smiles of Sad Men
Character: Tomáš
Released: July 12, 2018
Type: Movie
A writer gets into a rehab where he meets a lot of successful men who destroyed their lives with alcohol.
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The Invisible Boy: Second Generation
Title: The Invisible Boy: Second Generation
Character: Andreij
Released: January 4, 2018
Type: Movie
Three years later Michele (The Invisible boy) meets his mother and his twin sister. Both have stories and superpowers but their intentions may not be what Michele thinks.
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Agadah
Title: Agadah
Character: Thibaud
Released: November 16, 2017
Type: Movie
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The Furlough
Title: The Furlough
Character: Goran
Released: March 30, 2017
Type: Movie
The story of four inmates during their 48 hours furlough, of their reality and how it has brought them behind bars. The characters are described with realism, with their contradictions, their desperation, the temptation of an escape, but the cornerstone of the movie is the sincerity of the positive feelings of each and everyone of them: the love of a father for his son, the love for a woman, for friends, and most of all the pursuit of a lost (if ever had) personal dignity and pride. Four characters of different ages and extractions, three man and a woman: Luigi, Donato, Rossana and Angelo.
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The Young Karl Marx
Title: The Young Karl Marx
Character: Bakunin
Released: March 2, 2017
Type: Movie
26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son, who has been investigating the sordid birth of the British working class. Engels, the dandy, provides the last piece of the puzzle to the young Karl Marx’s new vision of the world. Together, between censorship and the police’s repression, riots and political upheavals, they will lead the labor movement during its development into a modern era.
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Title: The Red Door
Character: Emin Vesna
Released: February 22, 2017
Type: TV
Leonardo Cagliostro, a policeman, dies and decides to stay on Earth in order to find out more about the circumstances of his death and to save his wife, Anna, who's in danger.
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L'Histoire d'une mère
Title: L'Histoire d'une mère
Character: Piotr
Released: February 15, 2017
Type: Movie
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Ears
Title: Ears
Character: Nikolaj
Released: September 1, 2016
Type: Movie
A man wakes up one morning with an annoying ringing sound in his ears. A note on the fridge says: "Your friend Luigi has died. P.S. I took the car". The problem is that he does not even remember who this guy Luigi is. This is just the beginning of a tragicomic day during which he will be plunged into the folly of the world. One of those days that changes your life forever.
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Title: Il Sistema
Character: Azmil Ucan
Released: April 18, 2016
Type: TV
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Blood of My Blood
Title: Blood of My Blood
Character: Rikalkov
Released: September 9, 2015
Type: Movie
Northern Italy, 17th century. In a monastery, a nun accused of witchcraft tries to seduce a young confessor who refuses to yield to his searing temptation.
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Fuori dal coro
Title: Fuori dal coro
Character: Pancev
Released: June 4, 2015
Type: Movie
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Chlorine
Title: Chlorine
Character: Ivan
Released: January 24, 2015
Type: Movie
Seventeen-year-old Jenny dreams of becoming a synchronized swimmer. Family events turn her life upside down and she is forced move to a remote area to look after her ill father and younger brother. It won't be long before Jenny starts pursuing her dreams again.
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Bolgia totale
Title: Bolgia totale
Character: Felix
Released: October 9, 2014
Type: Movie
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The Hole
Title: The Hole
Character: Tito
Released: September 25, 2014
Type: Movie
Ambulance-chasing lawyers takes on the case of a convicted murderer who, just being released after doing 27 years in jail, claims he was innocent.
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Four of Us
Title: Four of Us
Character: Milos Weiss
Released: March 20, 2014
Type: Movie
James prepares for his eighth grade oral exams while his family is going through different times.
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Miserere
Title: Miserere
Character: Vargos
Released: June 26, 2013
Type: Movie
Paris, December. A conductor of a choir is found mysteriously murdered, with burst eardrums. Lionel Kasdan, a police inspertor the verge of retirement, and Frank Salek, an official of Interpol, embark together on a hunt for the killer, and also to a secret organization specializing in kidnapping children.
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The Great Beauty
Title: The Great Beauty
Character: Ron Sweet
Released: May 21, 2013
Type: Movie
Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
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Ritual - A Psychomagic Story
Title: Ritual - A Psychomagic Story
Character: Viktor
Released: April 20, 2013
Type: Movie
The fragile Lia suffers from a deep depression. Her relationship with her boyfriend Viktor is getting worse and worse and in the last desperate attempt to cure herself, Lia goes to visit her old aunt Agata in her creepy 18th century villa.
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Occamova břitva
Title: Occamova břitva
Character: Ing. Jan Zeman, hoteliér
Released: January 12, 2013
Type: Movie
A married couple unexpectedly find themselves witness to a murder. The perpetrators pay them to remain silent, but also turn them into the main suspects of the crime. The more the two try to distance themselves from the case, the more entangled they become, and so does their relationship
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Tulpa - Demon of Desire
Title: Tulpa - Demon of Desire
Character: Stefan
Released: August 25, 2012
Type: Movie
Lisa Boeri is at the top of her corporate career. At night she frequents the notorious Club Tulpa, owned by a mysterious Tibetan guru. Unshackled from repression and guilt, Lisa will do anything with any stranger to attain a higher consciousness. However, when her lovers start getting murdered in shocking ways, Lisa can’t go to the police because the scandal would impact her day job. Foolishly she tries to unmask the assassin herself, with truly nightmarish consequences.
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Islands
Title: Islands
Character: Ivan
Released: May 10, 2011
Type: Movie
Ivan is an undocumented immigrant from Eastern Europe who is in Italy looking for work to support himself and his father, who has a gambling addiction. When Ivan hears of work on a nearby island, he makes the trip only to be cheated and beaten by unscrupulous thugs. When all seems bleak, Ivan is befriended by Martina, an eccentric woman who never speaks and lives with Father Enzo, a compassionate priest who takes in misfits and transients. Despite his warm heart, Enzo has a harsh personality which has only gotten worse since he's been bedridden by a stroke. Enzo's sister helps look after him, but he's certain she only wants to gain control of land he owns but uses only to keep bees, which are cared for by Martina. As Ivan becomes part of the priest's household, he helps make Enzo's life more harmonious and bonds with the normally shy Martina, but not everyone in the community takes so kindly to the stranger who is clearly not Italian.
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We Believed
Title: We Believed
Character: Dr. Simon Bernard
Released: November 12, 2010
Type: Movie
1828. In the wake of the repression of revolutionary movements in Southern Italy, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's republican and unificationist cause. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable disillusionment as they grow apart over the decades.
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In carne e ossa
Title: In carne e ossa
Character: Francois
Released: November 5, 2010
Type: Movie
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Caged
Title: Caged
Character: Ferrailleur 1
Released: October 6, 2010
Type: Movie
Somewhere in Eastern Europe. Carole is a young nurse with a humanitarian aid group that has reached the end of its mission. But just then, the young woman and her two colleagues are kidnapped by strangers for mysterious reasons. Held captive, cared for and kept alive in an oppressive and sinister setting, the three prisoners soon discover with horror what their kidnappers truly have in store for them.
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One Life, Maybe Two
Title: One Life, Maybe Two
Character: Ivan Janacek
Released: May 7, 2010
Type: Movie
You're 20 years old and life is full of endless possibilities. But, on a rainy evening, you bumps into another car and life hasn't been the same anymore. Even though you have everything something keeps on eating you up.
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Army of Crime
Title: Army of Crime
Character: Narek Tavkorian
Released: September 16, 2009
Type: Movie
This gripping historical drama recounts the story of Armenian-born Missak Manouchian, a woodworker and political activist who led an immigrant laborer division of the Parisian Resistance on 30 operations against the Nazis in 1943. The Nazis branded the group an Army of Crime, an anti-immigrant propaganda stunt that backfired as the team's members became martyrs for the Resistance.
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Unknown Hour
Title: Unknown Hour
Character: MUDr. Valencik
Released: August 27, 2009
Type: Movie
Hynek Michánek wants to study medicine but fails his entrance exams five times. He starts a job as an orderly in a district hospital where one of the doctors on the examining board works as well. He feels no-one takes him seriously and he loathes the doctors, who treat him with disdain. When an old man begs him to end his pain and suffering by helping him to die, Hynek gives him a "liberating" injection. But now he has done it once, he finds he can't stop. He continues killing other patients, even though he knows he can't get away with it for long.
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Darkness
Title: Darkness
Character: Marek
Released: July 7, 2009
Type: Movie
A man leaves his busy city life for the peace of the country home where he spent his early childhood. His new life is soon disturbed by strange events.
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Il prossimo tuo
Title: Il prossimo tuo
Character: Elena's father
Released: June 19, 2009
Type: Movie
Rome, Paris and Helsinki right after the Madrid bombings. Three stories about people who, for different reasons, are afraid of others – the eponymous "thy neighbor." A humanity full of differences, but at the same time, with very similar feelings. So similar that their stories appear almost parallel and complementary.
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Title: La scelta di Laura
Character: Jonas Janecek
Released: June 17, 2009
Type: TV
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Anything for Her
Title: Anything for Her
Character: Dragan
Released: December 3, 2008
Type: Movie
Lisa and Julien are married and lead a happy uneventful life with their son Oscar. But their life radically changes one morning, when the police comes to arrest Lisa on murder charges. She's sentenced to 20 years of prison. Convinced of his wife's innocence, Julien decides to act. How far will he be willing to go for her?
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Codice Aurora
Title: Codice Aurora
Character: Yuri Petrovic
Released: October 10, 2008
Type: Movie
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L'amore non basta
Title: L'amore non basta
Character: Cesare
Released: April 18, 2008
Type: Movie
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Little Girl Blue
Title: Little Girl Blue
Character: Karel
Released: May 17, 2007
Type: Movie
Julie is a woman who seemingly has everything. A handsome husband, teenage daughter and a thriving, undemanding job as a translator and now even a new dream house ... But she also has a secret that is slowly changing her idyllic life...
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Night Bus
Title: Night Bus
Character: Andrea
Released: May 11, 2007
Type: Movie
Valerio Mastandrea is Franz, a night bus driver on the airport route who owes a lot of money from poker debts. He's stumbled upon by the variously named Leila, a thief who has accidentally become wrapped up in a secretive blackmail deal involving the President. As the film unfolds, a secret war between factions of the Security Services, a series of confusions among the various criminal fraternities whose activites have been touched upon by the deal, and Leila's past all complicate the situation.
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Title: Crimini
Character: Vitas
Released: December 6, 2006
Type: TV
Anthology crime series penned by some of the foremost contemporary Italian noir writers (Camilleri, Faletti, De Cataldo, Carofiglio, Lucarelli, Fois...)
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L'Entente cordiale
Title: L'Entente cordiale
Character: Victor Zilenko
Released: June 21, 2006
Type: Movie
The upper-class secret agent teaming up accidentally with an easily-corrupted, sly interpreter...
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Il silenzio dell'allodola
Title: Il silenzio dell'allodola
Character: Bobby Sands
Released: June 10, 2005
Type: Movie
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Provincia meccanica
Title: Provincia meccanica
Character: Rosso
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
A mentally unstable woman loses her daughter's custody to her mother. Things get even more complicated when her husband has a car accident and befriends a Czech mechanic, bringing the man into their dysfunctional home.
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36th Precinct
Title: 36th Precinct
Character: Bruno Winterstein
Released: November 24, 2004
Type: Movie
The film takes place in Paris, where two cops are competing for the vacant seat of chief of police while in the middle of a search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is directed by Olivier Marchal, a former police officer who spent 12 years with the French police before creating this story, which is taken in part from real facts that happened during the 1980s in France.
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Vodka Lemon
Title: Vodka Lemon
Character: Dilovan
Released: November 21, 2003
Type: Movie
In a remote, isolated Yazidi Kurdish village in post-Soviet Armenia, Hamo, a widower with a pitiful pension and three worthless sons, travels daily to his wife's grave. There he meets the lovely Nina, who is communing with her late husband. The two are penniless--she works in a local bar that is about to close down, while he has been forced to start selling his meager possessions. All seems hopelessly bleak, yet when Hamo begins to court Nina, their unexpected love revitalizes them.
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Lost Seamen
Title: Lost Seamen
Character: Le Marocain
Released: November 12, 2003
Type: Movie
Based on a novel by Jean-Claude Izzo, this melancholic movie focuses on three sailors being the last remaining crew members on their ship which is aground in the harbor of Marseille. After the owner has sold the "Aldébaran", only the Lebanese captain Aziz, the Greek Diamantis and the Turk Nelim are stuck on the boat for a lack of prospects. Aziz doesn't want to return to his wife, Diamantis tries to find a girl he left at the age of 20 and Nelim, young and foolish, just wants to have fun...
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Upon My Skin
Title: Upon My Skin
Character: Tony
Released: November 2, 2003
Type: Movie
On My Skin (Italian: Sulla mia pelle, also known as Upon My Skin) is a 2003 Italian crime-drama film written and directed by Valerio Jalongo. It was screened in competition at the 2003 Turin Film Festival.
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Cuore di donna
Title: Cuore di donna
Character: Thomas
Released: October 31, 2002
Type: Movie
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The War in Paris
Title: The War in Paris
Character: Léon
Released: May 22, 2002
Type: Movie
In Paris, in 1943, Jules, a 19-year-old Jew, lived without an ideal, tossed about by circumstances. He becomes in turn a traitor then a hero. Thomas, his fifteen-year-old brother, wants to act and fight in resistance.
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Brucio nel vento
Title: Brucio nel vento
Character: Tobias Horvath
Released: January 18, 2002
Type: Movie
For ten years, immigrant Tobias has worked at a Swiss clock factory and, in the relentless ticking, he saw life go by without much expectation. One day, he sees Caroline, a former schoolmate from back in Eastern Europe, and falls in love with her, but she's married and has a daughter.
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Chaos
Title: Chaos
Character: Touki
Released: October 3, 2001
Type: Movie
A bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into their lives. Hounded down, beaten up, threatened, she will continue to struggle, with the help of a well off lady, first for her survival-her resurrection-then for her dignity and freedom. Stormy encounters for everyone involved.
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Deux femmes à Paris
Title: Deux femmes à Paris
Character: Lesa Zimmermann
Released: November 27, 2000
Type: Movie
In Paris in 1935, a young Jewish woman married to an anti-fascist activist befriends her neighbor who is dating a far-right supporter.
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Title: Maigret
Character: Vladimír
Released: December 1, 1991
Type: TV
The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.