Vladimír Šmeral

Vladimír Šmeral

Born: October 16, 1903
Died: March 15, 1982
in Drásov, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]

Movies for Vladimír Šmeral...

Larks on a String
Title: Larks on a String
Character: Minister
Released: February 1, 1990
Type: Movie
In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation. Among them is a young man who pines for a female convict.
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Goodbye, Medeo
Title: Goodbye, Medeo
Character: Senior director
Released: December 3, 1982
Type: Movie
The director and choreographer from Prague are preparing a show performance "Oriental Fairy Tale" - a ballet on ice with the participation of vocal and instrumental ensembles and pop singers. They are shooting their picture in Kazakhstan at the Medeo high-altitude skating rink.
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Příjemce platí v dolarech
Title: Příjemce platí v dolarech
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
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Děti zítřků
Title: Děti zítřků
Character: Uncle Kozubík
Released: December 5, 1980
Type: Movie
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Dark Sun
Title: Dark Sun
Character: Tomeš
Released: September 19, 1980
Type: Movie
A remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit.
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Smrt císaře a krále Karla IV.
Title: Smrt císaře a krále Karla IV.
Released: May 27, 1979
Type: Movie
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Skandál v Gri-Gri baru
Title: Skandál v Gri-Gri baru
Released: February 9, 1979
Type: Movie
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Vítězný lid
Title: Vítězný lid
Released: February 17, 1978
Type: Movie
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A Story of Love and Honor
Title: A Story of Love and Honor
Released: January 27, 1978
Type: Movie
A story of love and honor that takes place during the mid-nineteenth century during revolutions, as well as economic, political, and social hypocrisy. Two extraordinary but lonely artists share a passionate love, as evidenced by the preserved letters that they exchanged.
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Díky, pane Kříženecký
Title: Díky, pane Kříženecký
Character: Host
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
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All Against All
Title: All Against All
Released: November 11, 1977
Type: Movie
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The Liberation of Prague
Title: The Liberation of Prague
Character: Dr. Václav Vacek
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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Dalskabáty, hříšná ves aneb Zapomenutý čert
Title: Dalskabáty, hříšná ves aneb Zapomenutý čert
Character: kníže Belzebub
Released: February 5, 1977
Type: Movie
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Dům Na poříčí
Title: Dům Na poříčí
Released: February 4, 1977
Type: Movie
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Čas lásky a naděje
Title: Čas lásky a naděje
Released: September 17, 1976
Type: Movie
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Title: Muž na radnici
Released: September 12, 1976
Type: TV
Muž na radnici was a Czechoslovak television program which was broadcast in 1976. The program was directed by Evžen Sokolovský. In 2011, it was announced that the program, along with 17 others, would be released on DVD within three years.
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Poklad pod Černou hláskou
Title: Poklad pod Černou hláskou
Released: December 24, 1975
Type: Movie
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Title: My z konce světa
Released: December 22, 1975
Type: TV
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Poslední královna
Title: Poslední královna
Released: April 13, 1975
Type: Movie
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Title: Byl jednou jeden dům
Released: January 5, 1975
Type: TV
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Pavlínka
Title: Pavlínka
Released: October 11, 1974
Type: Movie
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Hliněný vozíček
Title: Hliněný vozíček
Released: December 29, 1973
Type: Movie
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Podezření
Title: Podezření
Released: December 28, 1973
Type: Movie
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Title: Německé pohádky
Character: král
Released: December 6, 1973
Type: TV
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Three Men Travelling
Title: Three Men Travelling
Character: akademik Tronícek
Released: November 30, 1973
Type: Movie
Three Men Travelling is billed as a loosely related sequel to Tri chlapi v chalupe (1963), sending our country protagonists set out from their family nests in the village of Ouplavice into the big wide world. Grandpa Potucek, (Lubomír Lipský) and his son Václav (Jan Skopecek) take part in the cooperative's excursion to spa town Karlovy Vary, a Pilsen brewery and some agricultural enterprises in western Bohemia. During the course of a series of misunderstandings and merrymaking, grandfather Potucek decides he will not let problems with sick calves unsettle him, and that he will persevere in his role as the leader of the cooperative.
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Love
Title: Love
Character: Professor
Released: September 21, 1973
Type: Movie
Sixteen-year-old students of a grammar school are supposed to write essays on "Love". The class best student Andrea (Jaroslava Schallerová) writes about a patriotic love to a country as she has no experience with a partner love. She has been living alone with her divorced pretty mother Eva (Milena Dvorská), a dentist, for many years. Recently, however, Eva met her former school-days love at a graduates' party, nowadays a famous hockey goalkeeper Brukner (Frantisek Velecký). Also his marriage fell apart; he leaves the national team and decides to leave Prague for his home town and to share flat with Eva. He takes with him his son Petr (Oldrich Kaiser), in Andrea's age, who gets his last chance to finish a grammar school in the town.
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Days of Betrayal
Title: Days of Betrayal
Released: April 27, 1973
Type: Movie
This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot), politicians and ordinary citizens, to save the independence and the territorial integrity of the state from the advance of Hitler's Germany. On the 29th of March 1938 the leader of the Sudeten Germans Henlein (Werner Ehrlicher) has a meeting with Hitler (Gunnar Möller). Hitler orders him to intensify pressure on the Czechoslovak government. On the 24th of April in Carlsbad, the Sudetendeutsche Partei (Sudeten German Party) decides upon eight demands that are unacceptable to the Czechoslovak President, since they would ultimately lead to the break-up of the Republic. Benes still shows a certain willingness to negotiate, and Henlein resents this. The Germans are determined to make further negotiations impossible through incidents and violence.
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Rodeo
Title: Rodeo
Released: January 26, 1973
Type: Movie
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Příští léto v Locarnu
Title: Příští léto v Locarnu
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
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Otcové a děti
Title: Otcové a děti
Released: July 9, 1972
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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Inn At the Flying Dragon
Title: Inn At the Flying Dragon
Released: April 19, 1972
Type: Movie
Joseph Sheridan le Fanu's tale, "Inn at the Flying Dragon," brings dark fantasy, ghostly apparitions, and mysteries to the TV screen. It's part of his well-known collection, "The Dark Mirror," published a century ago, yet still captivating readers today. Bohumila Zelenková drew inspiration from this novella, not just for its mysterious and romantic elements but also for the characters' intriguing portrayal of the post-Napoleon era—a time when many sought greatness, even if it meant embracing deception.
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Člověk není sám
Title: Člověk není sám
Released: February 25, 1972
Type: Movie
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Lekce
Title: Lekce
Released: January 14, 1972
Type: Movie
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Title: Princ a chuďas
Released: December 25, 1971
Type: TV
A prince meets a young man to whom he bears a striking resemblance. The two exchange places and learn to be better people in the process.
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Svědectví mrtvých očí
Title: Svědectví mrtvých očí
Released: December 10, 1971
Type: Movie
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Title: F. L. Věk
Released: September 12, 1971
Type: TV
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Exekuce
Title: Exekuce
Released: September 2, 1971
Type: Movie
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Jumping Over Puddles
Title: Jumping Over Puddles
Character: Ambrož
Released: May 7, 1971
Type: Movie
This Czechoslovakian children’s film takes place during the last days of the Austro-Hungarian empire. The young son of a horse trainer loves nothing more than riding his horse, until he is stricken by polio…
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Witchhammer
Title: Witchhammer
Character: Boblig
Released: January 23, 1970
Type: Movie
In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imaginary witchery, and engages in brutal torture and persecution of their subjects.
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Title: Rozsudek
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: TV
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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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The Most Beautiful Age
Title: The Most Beautiful Age
Character: Profesor
Released: February 14, 1969
Type: Movie
An artist's studio is descended upon by a group of retired men and a young mother who agree to model in the nude for money. Comedy ensues as the students and the local bureaucracy react to the models, all in need of extra money. Several running gags border on slapstick as the officials and the students don't know what to do with the nude models.
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Title: České pohádky
Released: December 25, 1968
Type: TV
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A Man Who Rose in Price
Title: A Man Who Rose in Price
Released: June 28, 1968
Type: Movie
Mr. Benda, a married father of two children, works for a company that liquidates old banknotes. After one drunken party, he is visited by a painter who tattooed his back in drunkenness the previous night. The image tattooed on Benda’s back is considered the painter’s best work by the professionals.
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The End of Agent W4C
Title: The End of Agent W4C
Character: Agent's Chief (voice)
Released: October 6, 1967
Type: Movie
The invincible agent Cyril Juan Borguette alias W4C has been assigned a mission to go to a hotel in Prague, get hold of a saltcellar with a plan for the military exploitation of Venus hidden in it, and hand it over to the beautiful agent Alice. He will have to compete for the saltcellar with other agents working for the world's various greater and smaller powers. The head of the Prague counter-intelligence unit gets news of agent W4C's mission. Deficient in personnel, he nominates accountant Foustka as agent 13B. Mr Foustka takes his dog Pajda with him and the two head for the airport. Pajda helps him track down agent W4C in a classy hotel that becomes the battleground for the interests and plans of the secret agents from different countries, each trying to get hold of the precious saltcellar.
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Poklad byzantského kupce
Title: Poklad byzantského kupce
Released: July 21, 1967
Type: Movie
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Hotel for Strangers
Title: Hotel for Strangers
Character: Blech
Released: March 24, 1967
Type: Movie
A gifted poet checks into a Gothic hotel in hopes of meeting the woman with whom he has long been enamored. He is surrounded by a variety of offbeat characters like the hefty homosexual cook, shadowy clerks, snooty waiters, and valets prone to violence. He finally meets the woman of his dreams only to lose her and ultimately meet with tragedy.
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Noc bez úsvitu
Title: Noc bez úsvitu
Released: March 5, 1967
Type: Movie
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Evžen Oněgin
Title: Evžen Oněgin
Released: February 8, 1967
Type: Movie
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Princezna Pampeliška
Title: Princezna Pampeliška
Released: February 4, 1967
Type: Movie
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Cesta řeky k moři
Title: Cesta řeky k moři
Released: December 25, 1966
Type: Movie
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Sedm sestřiček
Title: Sedm sestřiček
Released: December 25, 1966
Type: Movie
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Hrdina má strach
Title: Hrdina má strach
Character: vysoký zmocněnec
Released: June 24, 1966
Type: Movie
Honza Vavrinec (Rudolf Hrusínský) works in the investment department of a large office. One day he gets involved in the case of an unjustly convicted worker who mistakenly considers him a parliamentary deputy. Honza as a "deputy" interferes in the case and helps the worker. Encouraged by the success and possibly also out of love for the beautiful secretary Svatava (Blanka Bohdanová), the then shy and fearful Honza stands up for the chief of the department, Hofmánek (Ladislav Pesek), who has been removed from his position.
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Křišťálová noc
Title: Křišťálová noc
Released: April 20, 1966
Type: Movie
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Searching
Title: Searching
Released: April 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Michal's father and his friends are stigmatized by their war experience and the post-war social deformations in which they took part either directly, or watched them cowardly and in silence. They are trying to repress their feelings of guilt and justify their behavior to the young generation with memories of their heroic war feats. Michal, however, does not want to have anything to do with their problems. He subconsciously perceives the unpleasant atmosphere in the family as well as his father's hypocrisy. After one of many quarrels with his father, he runs away from home, determined to go his own way.
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Konec velké epochy
Title: Konec velké epochy
Character: Professor
Released: March 23, 1966
Type: Movie
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Den končí ráno
Title: Den končí ráno
Released: October 31, 1965
Type: Movie
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Čintamani & podvodník
Title: Čintamani & podvodník
Character: sběratel MUDr. Vitásek
Released: June 4, 1965
Type: Movie
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Bubny
Title: Bubny
Released: March 12, 1965
Type: Movie
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Lucie
Title: Lucie
Released: January 10, 1964
Type: Movie
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Midnight Mass
Title: Midnight Mass
Character: Farár
Released: August 24, 1962
Type: Movie
On Christmas Eve, 1944, in Nazi-occupied Slovakia, the Kubiš family grapples with survival amidst brutal reprisals. Marián collaborates as a fascist guard leader, while his sister Angela has an affair with their Nazi lodger, Major Brecker. The situation escalates when their younger son, Juraj, a former partisan fighter, returns home wounded. As Germans search homes for escapees, Juraj hides in the attic, while an unsettling Christmas dinner unfolds below with Major Brecker present.
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Měšťáci
Title: Měšťáci
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
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Pozdní láska
Title: Pozdní láska
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
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Bajaja
Title: Bajaja
Released: December 24, 1960
Type: Movie
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Talenty a ctitelé
Title: Talenty a ctitelé
Released: November 23, 1960
Type: Movie
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Neprovdaná paní Rosita
Title: Neprovdaná paní Rosita
Released: October 12, 1960
Type: Movie
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Výstraha
Title: Výstraha
Released: June 4, 1954
Type: Movie
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Rychloraziči z Tisové
Title: Rychloraziči z Tisové
Character: Commentary (voice)
Released: January 1, 1954
Type: Movie
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Dvaasedmdesátka
Title: Dvaasedmdesátka
Released: October 9, 1953
Type: Movie
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Divadlo československé armády
Title: Divadlo československé armády
Character: Commentary (voice)
Released: January 1, 1953
Type: Movie
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Mordová rokle
Title: Mordová rokle
Released: May 23, 1952
Type: Movie
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Rok stalinské epochy
Title: Rok stalinské epochy
Character: Commentary (voice)
Released: October 26, 1951
Type: Movie
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Veliká příležitost
Title: Veliká příležitost
Character: Zdeněk Kružný
Released: April 14, 1950
Type: Movie
An optimistic collective drama from the life of the workers on the construction site of the Youth Track. An amnestied prisoner wants to atone for his wrongdoing with an honest strike and reveals the vandal who was going to poison the drinking water cistern.
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China in battle
Title: China in battle
Character: Commentary (voice)
Released: March 31, 1950
Type: Movie
A documentary film about the history and present of the struggle of the communist troops led by Mao Zedong and Chu Tie in China.
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Láska
Title: Láska
Character: Commentary (voice)
Released: December 31, 1949
Type: Movie
Montage of documentary footage from the liberation and building of the republic as a tribute to JV Stalin on his seventieth birthday.
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Dnes o půl jedenácté
Title: Dnes o půl jedenácté
Released: November 25, 1949
Type: Movie
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Silent Barricade
Title: Silent Barricade
Character: Kroupa
Released: May 6, 1949
Type: Movie
A fiction piece centered around the Czech resistance to the Nazis.
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The Portrait
Title: The Portrait
Character: Painter Roman
Released: January 9, 1948
Type: Movie
People are afraid of the usurer Chazaj and are convinced that he is the bearer of evil. One day Chazaj pays a visit to the poor artist Simon Jordán and asks him to paint his portrait. Simon agrees but as he progresses with the work his mind conjures up terrible thoughts and in the end he commits suicide. The portrait looks lifelike and Chazaj is content with the results. After Chazaj's death the picture changes hands and brings misfortune to all who own it. The last victim is the young painter Roman who buys Chazaj's portrait in a bazaar. He finds a treasure in the frame and begins to live well off it. The comfortable life suits him so well that he rejects his original artistic aims and becomes a painter of fashionable kitsch.
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Národ sobě
Title: Národ sobě
Character: Commentary (voice)
Released: January 1, 1948
Type: Movie
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Capek's Tales
Title: Capek's Tales
Character: Ferdinand Kugler
Released: September 19, 1947
Type: Movie
Five crime stories connected by the narration of police superintendent Bartosek.
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Nikola Shuhai
Title: Nikola Shuhai
Released: February 28, 1947
Type: Movie
At the end of the First World War, Nikola Shuhai and his friend from the army desert. On the way home, to the village of Kolochava, they both find refuge with baby Jaga. Jaga mixes them a drink to protect them from the deadly bullets. The bachelors must promise to marry her daughters in exchange for a drink, or they will be punished. Nikola finds his home village in poverty. He stands against the powerful and the rich, and they turn the gendarmes against him. Nikola hides from them in the woods, where he will remain even after the end of the war, because nothing has changed for the villagers. Out of poverty and hopelessness, other men join Nikola and together they raid the wealthy. Nikola distributes the obtained booty to the poor and needy, who see him as their protector and hero.
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Hrdinové mlčí
Title: Hrdinové mlčí
Released: October 4, 1946
Type: Movie
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Průlom
Title: Průlom
Released: June 4, 1946
Type: Movie
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Rozina the Love Child
Title: Rozina the Love Child
Released: December 14, 1945
Type: Movie
Prague, the beginning of the 17th century. Rozina falls in love with Italian glass worker Nikolo, but after returning home, she gets a message that will never come to Prague. She falls for the promise of an older man to marry her, but when Nikolo does return, the tragic fate of Rozina is sealed.
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Skalní plemeno
Title: Skalní plemeno
Character: Standa
Released: March 17, 1944
Type: Movie
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Mist on the Moors
Title: Mist on the Moors
Released: January 14, 1944
Type: Movie
Mist on the Moors examines fates of just about a few people. Their stories are outlined in a short space of time and are a symbolic representation of the drama of life, struggle for justice, human cognizance and the healing power of love. One of the most important components of the film is the nature, which ceases to be a mere stage for its plot—it serves almost as an autonomous plot agent. The movie landscape is a precisely defined and localized one. Only the South Bohemian ponds can serve as the right environment for development of such earthy and typically human stories as we encounter in the Mist on the Moors.
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Karel a já
Title: Karel a já
Released: December 4, 1942
Type: Movie
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Jan Cimbura
Title: Jan Cimbura
Character: Bártík
Released: November 21, 1941
Type: Movie
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Pro kamaráda
Title: Pro kamaráda
Character: Karel Novák
Released: January 31, 1941
Type: Movie
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České sklo
Title: České sklo
Character: Commentary (voice)
Released: January 1, 1940
Type: Movie
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Man from the Unknown
Title: Man from the Unknown
Character: Dvořáček
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
Venice Film Festival 1940
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V pokušení
Title: V pokušení
Character: Emil
Released: February 3, 1939
Type: Movie
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Vzhůru nohama
Title: Vzhůru nohama
Character: Morousek
Released: January 7, 1939
Type: Movie
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Zborov
Title: Zborov
Character: Jeník Kalina
Released: January 6, 1939
Type: Movie
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Soud boží
Title: Soud boží
Character: Antonín Bárta
Released: January 6, 1939
Type: Movie
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Vandiny trampoty
Title: Vandiny trampoty
Released: September 2, 1938
Type: Movie
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The Way of the Cross
Title: The Way of the Cross
Character: Ondřej
Released: April 15, 1938
Type: Movie
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In a New Life
Title: In a New Life
Character: Commentary (voice)
Released: January 1, 1938
Type: Movie
A documentary produced for the Czechoslovak army depicting a military project in which troops moved a Slovak mountain village to make room for a military training camp.
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The White Disease
Title: The White Disease
Character: First Assistant
Released: December 21, 1937
Type: Movie
The White Plague, a leprosy-like disease, ravages the world during a war. Based on a play by Karel Čapek.
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The World Belongs to Us
Title: The World Belongs to Us
Character: Josef Forman alias Lionel
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.