Martin Frič

Martin Frič

Born: March 29, 1902
Died: August 26, 1968
in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]

Movies for Martin Frič...

Title: Tři strážníci
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: TV
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Title: Klapzubova jedenáctka
Released: January 6, 1968
Type: TV
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Cigareta Maca Friče
Title: Cigareta Maca Friče
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
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School Is the Foundation of Life
Title: School Is the Foundation of Life
Character: Broadcast Voice (voice)
Released: November 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Seventh form pupils at a grammar school in Přívlaky are preparing for a secondary school sports competition. Class creep Krhounek gives the class teacher Lejsal a copy of the seventh form’s magazine Roar. Most of the teachers insist on severe punishing the culprit. The author does not own up and consequently the whole class is punished by being banned from taking part in the schools competition. The most gifted pupil, Benetka, rather sharply criticises the school in a homework essay on a subject of his choice. The strict Czech language teacher is convinced Benetka is the author of the school magazine. Benetka denies the charge but his expulsion from school is proposed anyway on account the views he expounded in his essay. Eventually, Boukal, the author of the school magazine comes forward and admits to writing it. The pupils are allowed to take part in the contest and thanks to Benetka they win. In the meantime however the teachers vote to expell him.
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The Illusion Factory
Title: The Illusion Factory
Character: Commentary (voice)
Released: March 11, 1938
Type: Movie
In this reportage, film professionals offer the viewers a peek behind the scenes at the Barrandov studios. We see how sets are constructed and we find out what sorts of things are stored in the prop department. The friendly commentary describes the journey from camera negatives to a film on the big screen. We learn about film technology and take a glance into film laboratories and editing rooms. The film also presents unique footage from the filming of The White Disease, namely the dramatic scene with five hundred extras in which the Marshal announces his declaration of war.
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The Illusion Factory
Title: The Illusion Factory
Character: Self
Released: March 11, 1938
Type: Movie
In this reportage, film professionals offer the viewers a peek behind the scenes at the Barrandov studios. We see how sets are constructed and we find out what sorts of things are stored in the prop department. The friendly commentary describes the journey from camera negatives to a film on the big screen. We learn about film technology and take a glance into film laboratories and editing rooms. The film also presents unique footage from the filming of The White Disease, namely the dramatic scene with five hundred extras in which the Marshal announces his declaration of war.
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The World Belongs to Us
Title: The World Belongs to Us
Released: July 30, 1937
Type: Movie
One of the few European films of the 30s to criticize the Nazis, even if they couldn't be directly named due to censorship: Gangsters with gray hats stir up trouble in what is obviously the Sudetenland.
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Long Live with Dearly Departed
Title: Long Live with Dearly Departed
Character: Janitor (voice)
Released: February 8, 1935
Type: Movie
Wealthy and ill Petr Kornel (Karel Hasler) is not pleased with the carousing lifestyle of his nephew. He stops supporting him financially and demands that he change his name. Out of gratitude Kornel bequeaths a substantial sum of money to his nurse Alice (Adina Mandlová) with the condition that she marries. Petr Suk (Hugo Haas), as the nephew is now named, visits the doctor. In the waiting room his X-ray is mistakenly switched with one of another patient's. On the basis of this he presently learns that he is seriously ill and has only one day of life left to him.
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The Twelve Chairs
Title: The Twelve Chairs
Character: Customer (voice)
Released: September 22, 1933
Type: Movie
The first movie adaptation of the Russian novel "The Twelve Chairs" by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeniy Petrov. The basic idea from this movie, in which a barber and an antique salesman were searching for money hidden in one of of twelve chairs, was later reused for other official and unofficial adaptions of the book
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The King's Double
Title: The King's Double
Character: Sherlock Holmes
Released: December 23, 1932
Type: Movie
The king of Puerto-Nero is so cowardly that he instructs Berlock Sholmes to find him a look-alike capable of assuming power. Leducq, a Parisian hawker, thus becomes king of Chimeria and the lover of the queen whom he also believes to be a double.
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The Undertaker
Title: The Undertaker
Character: kancelista na inspektorátu drah
Released: June 10, 1932
Type: Movie
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Lelíček in the Services of Sherlock Holmes
Title: Lelíček in the Services of Sherlock Holmes
Character: Sherlock Holmes
Released: March 25, 1932
Type: Movie
The Portorican prime minister asks British detective Sherlock Holmes to find a twin for King Fernando XXIII, a weak and frightened man who fears anarchists and does not want to show himself in public. Holmes finds in the Czech newspapers a photo of the perfect double, František Lelíček, a daring bon vivant drowned in debt, so when Holmes offers him money, Lelíček decides to travel to Portorico and play the role.
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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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Dům ztraceného štěstí
Title: Dům ztraceného štěstí
Released: February 3, 1928
Type: Movie
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Dobrý voják Švejk
Title: Dobrý voják Švejk
Released: February 12, 1926
Type: Movie
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Okovy
Title: Okovy
Released: August 3, 1925
Type: Movie
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Chyťte ho!
Title: Chyťte ho!
Released: January 1, 1925
Type: Movie
Painter Johnny Miller bets his friends he can find his house blindfolded. But he stumbles into a bandits' camp, and being mistaken for one of them, is sent to rob the villa of Frank Sellins, a banker, and his niece Lilly.
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White Paradise
Title: White Paradise
Released: August 1, 1924
Type: Movie
After a young man is arrested for a crime he didn't commit, the daughter of the local tavern owners must spring to the rescue.
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Tu ten kámen
Title: Tu ten kámen
Released: September 7, 1923
Type: Movie
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Proč se nesměješ
Title: Proč se nesměješ
Released: February 8, 1923
Type: Movie
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Venoušek a Stázička
Title: Venoušek a Stázička
Released: January 1, 1922
Type: Movie