Jan Potměšil

Jan Potměšil

Born: March 31, 1966

Movies for Jan Potměšil...

Title: Kabinet Dr. Honzáka
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 2020
Type: TV
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Title: Život a doba soudce A. K.
Character: Beránek
Released: September 1, 2014
Type: TV
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Bony a klid 2
Title: Bony a klid 2
Character: Martin
Released: May 22, 2014
Type: Movie
Unemployed and in search of work, a young man gets roped into a series of shady schemes that unite a former band of money launderers.
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Věra 68
Title: Věra 68
Character: Himself
Released: May 3, 2012
Type: Movie
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Title: Kde bydlely princezny
Character: Himself
Released: October 23, 2010
Type: TV
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Tři srdce
Title: Tři srdce
Released: December 25, 2007
Type: Movie
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Title: Eden
Released: October 2, 2005
Type: TV
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Bolero
Title: Bolero
Character: kpt. Nečas
Released: March 11, 2004
Type: Movie
Based on real event, Bolero is an excellent story of progressive recovery of a crime. The story surprises all the time, shows new connections, new possibilities, exposes new ideas and facts. It's possible to understand the film on more levels. It describes the position and all the feelings of victim's family, the police work as well as the impact of the crime on it's malefactors. It also touches the topic of moral decay of the descendants of rich, high-posted families. In addition to this, the power of the storyline is accentuated by the quality of the artistic treatment of the whole piece.
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The Call
Title: The Call
Character: Self
Released: November 16, 1999
Type: Movie
A documentary film following several years in the life of Jan Potměšil who has become a very popular actor at an early age, representing the type of a young sporty intellectual. After a serious car crash in 1989, he ended up on a wheelchair. He was 23 years old at the time. After a year of rehabilitation, he returned to the stage. Excelling in “Flowers for Algernon”, he continuously acts in the production in front of sell-out crowds across the country. He also lives his personal life, experiencing new loves and breakups, is engaged in civic affairs and returns to the hospital now and then. The film aims to give a non-pathetic image of a life lived to the full despite adversity.
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Vincenz Priessnitz
Title: Vincenz Priessnitz
Released: October 3, 1999
Type: Movie
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Code Name: Ruby
Title: Code Name: Ruby
Character: Michal
Released: December 5, 1996
Type: Movie
This controversial feature blends documentary, archival footage and fiction into an elliptical narrative in which two young people in Prague, an ancient seat for the practice of alchemy, follow the trail for the mystical philosopher's stone. History and future blend as brilliant montage sequences and fanciful leaps of the imagination work to posit questions about the legacy of the past and how it influences the individual's personal freedom and responsibility.
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V erbu lvice
Title: V erbu lvice
Character: rytíř
Released: April 11, 1995
Type: Movie
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Title: Druhý dech
Released: October 1, 1989
Type: TV
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Putování po Blažených ostrovech
Title: Putování po Blažených ostrovech
Released: March 23, 1989
Type: Movie
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Nothing Really Happened
Title: Nothing Really Happened
Character: Vojta
Released: January 19, 1989
Type: Movie
An overprotective mother plagues her daughter out of guilt over unintentionally scarring her daughter's cheek.
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Currency and Peace
Title: Currency and Peace
Character: Martin
Released: July 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Martin is an innocent lad from small-town Mlada Boleslav who comes to big-city Prague, hoping to exchange his krona for deutschemarks so that he can visit Germany. A local spiv named Robert obliges Martin, but at an unfair exchange rate. When Martin finds out he was rooked, he plans revenge on Robert ... but then decides to join Robert's gang instead.
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Princess Jasnenka and the Flying Shoemaker
Title: Princess Jasnenka and the Flying Shoemaker
Character: tovaryš Jíra
Released: December 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Pohádka o mladém ševcovském tovaryšovi Jírovi, který si vyrobil z jemné kůže křídla, s jejichž pomocí vysvobodil z věže královského hradu princeznu Jasněnku, kam ji zavřel její otec v marné snaze zabránit věštbě zlé čarodějnice, a posléze ji vymanil i z moci samotné čarodějnice a její dcery Černavy. ( official text from distributor)
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Why?
Title: Why?
Character: Milan
Released: October 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Why? (Czech: Proč?) is a 1987 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Karel Smyczek. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. The film deals with the hooliganism in Czechoslovakia, particularly with the fans of football club Sparta from Prague, whose supporters were the pioneers of the football fan riots in Czechoslovakia, starting with hooligan actions already in the 1960s, like breaking the trains in which they travelled when they went on Sparta's away games. The film deals with one of such episodes
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Title: Strom pohádek
Character: Jakub
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: TV
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Title: Třetí patro
Character: Vojta Král
Released: October 3, 1986
Type: TV
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Daleko od stromu
Title: Daleko od stromu
Released: May 14, 1983
Type: Movie
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Hrátky
Title: Hrátky
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
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The Secret of the Devil's Pocket
Title: The Secret of the Devil's Pocket
Character: Tomás
Released: May 31, 1981
Type: Movie
How it will end? Let's just tell you that on one side of the mountain, the stream that had run before it dries up, and on the other side of the mountain, the creek starts to breathe.
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Don't Look Back, There Is a Horse Behind Us
Title: Don't Look Back, There Is a Horse Behind Us
Released: January 2, 1981
Type: Movie
Postwoman Mrs Skorepa, her husband the ambulance driver Mr Skorepa and their eleven-year-old twins Petr and Pavel live in Prague in Malá Strana (Lesser Town), one of the Prague's historical and oldest quarters. The boys are crazy about cars and everything linked to them. They don't share their father's love of classical music. On the other hand, they are crazy about the newly announced scrap yard competition for paper collection. The lottery tickets awarded for every ten kilograms of old paper collected could win them a go-kart.
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Každý má svůj stín
Title: Každý má svůj stín
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
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The Secret of Steel City
Title: The Secret of Steel City
Character: Viktor
Released: May 11, 1979
Type: Movie
The film is a metaphor for the Cold War. It depicts two neighbouring nations: peace loving Fortuna and the not so peaceful land of the Steel City.
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Title: Žena za pultem
Released: December 10, 1977
Type: TV
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Jacob
Title: Jacob
Released: March 11, 1977
Type: Movie
The 11-year old Jakub is living in a children's home, when he is picked up by his father. The father has been "away" for four years, the boys mother doesn't want the child. Jakub gradually finds out, that his father is hiding a secret from him. But they gradually manage to build a warm relationship and a promising new life in the city.
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Title: Bakaláři
Released: February 19, 1972
Type: TV