Anny Ondra

Anny Ondra

Born: May 15, 1902
Died: February 28, 1987
in Tarnów, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Tarnów, Malopolskie, Poland]
Anny Ondra (May 15 1903 – February 28 1987) was a Czech film actress. She was born Anna Sophie Ondráková in Tarnów, Galicia, Austria–Hungary, now Poland. She began her career in 1920 and appeared in Czech, German, Austrian, French and English films. In 1933, she married German boxing champion Max Schmeling. She died in Hollenstedt near Harburg, Germany.

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The Zurich Engagement
Title: The Zurich Engagement
Character: Herself
Released: April 16, 1957
Type: Movie
Juliane Thomas is an ambitious but unemployed young writer. After breaking up with her lover she works at a dentist friend to make ends meet. One day she instantly falls in love with one of the patients (Jean Berner) and promptly writes a movie script about the encounter in which she projects her own fantasies about how things will turn out eventually. By coincidence this movie script is picked up by a film director who happens to be Berner's closest friend and from then on things become very complicated...
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Alice White (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Schön muß man sein
Title: Schön muß man sein
Character: Rode de Lila
Released: February 1, 1951
Type: Movie
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Title: Deutscher Filmpreis
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: TV
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Himmel, wir erben ein Schloß
Title: Himmel, wir erben ein Schloß
Released: April 16, 1943
Type: Movie
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Der Gasmann
Title: Der Gasmann
Character: Erika Knittel
Released: August 1, 1941
Type: Movie
A man comes into money unexpectatly. That's when the trouble starts.
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Narren im Schnee
Title: Narren im Schnee
Character: Dorothee Heinemann
Released: August 16, 1938
Type: Movie
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The Stars Shine
Title: The Stars Shine
Character: Gast
Released: March 17, 1938
Type: Movie
German all-star musical from 1938 that was a big commercial success.
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Der Unwiderstehliche
Title: Der Unwiderstehliche
Character: Claudette Renier
Released: October 13, 1937
Type: Movie
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Důvod k rozvodu
Title: Důvod k rozvodu
Character: Anny Plavcová
Released: August 20, 1937
Type: Movie
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Der Scheidungsgrund
Title: Der Scheidungsgrund
Character: Anny Storm
Released: August 16, 1937
Type: Movie
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Vor Liebe wird gewarnt
Title: Vor Liebe wird gewarnt
Character: Anny Palme
Released: February 23, 1937
Type: Movie
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Ein Mädel vom Ballett
Title: Ein Mädel vom Ballett
Character: Henriette Lange
Released: January 12, 1937
Type: Movie
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Flitterwochen
Title: Flitterwochen
Character: Ingeborg
Released: May 27, 1936
Type: Movie
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Donogoo Tonka
Title: Donogoo Tonka
Character: Josette
Released: January 24, 1936
Type: Movie
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Der junge Graf
Title: Der junge Graf
Character: Billy
Released: December 9, 1935
Type: Movie
A young woman poses as a boy to ingratiate herself better with her strict aristocratic grandfather and to get him to better accept the new freer ways of the younger generation.
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Großreinemachen
Title: Großreinemachen
Character: Bessie
Released: March 25, 1935
Type: Movie
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Knockout – Ein junges Mädchen, ein junger Mann
Title: Knockout – Ein junges Mädchen, ein junger Mann
Character: Marianne Plümke
Released: March 1, 1935
Type: Movie
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Polská krev
Title: Polská krev
Character: Helena Zarembová
Released: December 21, 1934
Type: Movie
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Polish Blood
Title: Polish Blood
Character: Helena Zaremba
Released: October 24, 1934
Type: Movie
The daughter of a landowner helps save an aristocratic neighbor from ruin, in this operetta adaptation.
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Klein-Dorrit
Title: Klein-Dorrit
Character: Amy
Released: August 20, 1934
Type: Movie
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L'amour en cage
Title: L'amour en cage
Released: June 29, 1934
Type: Movie
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Die vertauschte Braut
Title: Die vertauschte Braut
Character: Virginia Vanderloo / Colly
Released: April 16, 1934
Type: Movie
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Das verliebte Hotel
Title: Das verliebte Hotel
Character: Hanne Boll
Released: December 19, 1933
Type: Movie
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Fräulein Hoffmanns Erzählungen
Title: Fräulein Hoffmanns Erzählungen
Character: Anita Limann
Released: August 24, 1933
Type: Movie
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Die Tochter des Regiments
Title: Die Tochter des Regiments
Character: Mary Dreizehn
Released: March 30, 1933
Type: Movie
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kiki
Title: kiki
Released: January 20, 1933
Type: Movie
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Baby
Title: Baby
Character: Baby
Released: January 13, 1933
Type: Movie
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Baby
Title: Baby
Character: Baby
Released: December 19, 1932
Type: Movie
The daughter of the Parisian countess Lafitte, named "Baby", is supposed to go to an English boarding school, but she's much more interested in variety shows. Nevertheless, she travels with her friend Susette to London, who also wants to make a career for herself as a showgirl. During the journey, Baby is mistakenly considered to be a showgirl and she does nothing to dissuade two young English lords from believing so. The girls continue to live under false pretenses even when they arrive in England, with Baby being a soloist with the group "Babies" and Suzette passing herself off as the Contessa Lafitte for school exams. At the end -- a double marriage.
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Kiki
Title: Kiki
Character: Kiki
Released: September 26, 1932
Type: Movie
Kiki who has a walk-on part in a show, is in love with her director, who doesn't notice her at all. She settles into his home and causes him to break up with his lover, the star of the show; and finally manages to make him love her.
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The Ideal Schoolmaster
Title: The Ideal Schoolmaster
Character: Věra Matysová
Released: September 23, 1932
Type: Movie
This light-hearted comedy operetta tells the story of a newly appointed high school professor who becomes an ideal target for pranks and jokes.
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The Cruel Girlfriend
Title: The Cruel Girlfriend
Character: Welgunda Bock
Released: July 12, 1932
Type: Movie
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Should We Wed Them?
Title: Should We Wed Them?
Character: Anny
Released: June 1, 1932
Type: Movie
Professor Bock is to inaugurate the museum, the construction of which was donated by a generous patron who remains anonymous. He learns that it is his brother's wife, a former dancer, and whom he hates. But her daughter falls in love with Jim, the son of the ex-dancer, and everything will work out.
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Une nuit au paradis
Title: Une nuit au paradis
Character: Monique Béchue
Released: May 6, 1932
Type: Movie
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The bat
Title: The bat
Released: March 25, 1932
Type: Movie
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A Night in Paradise
Title: A Night in Paradise
Character: Monika Böhnicke
Released: March 5, 1932
Type: Movie
One of the popular Weimar-era musical comedies not released in the US until after the Nazi takeover, this one has a Cinderella-type plot.
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The bat
Title: The bat
Released: December 25, 1931
Type: Movie
Film by Karel Lamac.
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Mamsell Nitouche
Title: Mamsell Nitouche
Character: Mamselle Nitouche
Released: August 26, 1931
Type: Movie
A convent organist escorts a young lady who has been boarding there,home to be married, but various romantic complications ensue.
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Him and His Sister
Title: Him and His Sister
Character: Anna Brabcová
Released: April 3, 1931
Type: Movie
Postman Brabec is a welcome guest of the revue theatre for his sense of humor, and he brings his director Holt letters from female admirers every day. Holt's fans include Brabec's sister Anny. The girl would like to join the theatre, but for the time being works as a maid for the actress Velden. A new revue is being rehearsed, the name of the author is secret. Veldenová will return the role just before the premiere because she doesn't like it. The quick-witted Brabec introduces the director to his sister, who knows all the parts by heart.
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Meet the Sister
Title: Meet the Sister
Character: Anny Spatz
Released: March 20, 1931
Type: Movie
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Eine Freundin so goldig wie Du
Title: Eine Freundin so goldig wie Du
Character: Anny
Released: December 15, 1930
Type: Movie
The lively Anny meets the nice Dr. Jack Braun and throws everything in his life into disarray. As Jack is in the middle of divorce proceedings against his wife Renate, his lawyer and best friend Richard doesn't like the idea of a female being in his vicinity. Then Jack's heiress Frieda comes to visit, and when she finds Anny in Jack's house, she mistakes her for his wife - and finds her extremely charming. When the aunt's parrot dies, the relatives believe that the aunt has died and rush to claim the inheritance. Anny emerges victorious from all this.
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The Great Longing
Title: The Great Longing
Character: Herself
Released: August 24, 1930
Type: Movie
During lunch break at the movie studio, the extras rush to the canteen Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Maria Paudler and Luis Trenker are chatting. Eva von Loe a beautiful young extra rushes past; she is looking for her fiancé, Paul Wessel, who is also an extra. She has to return to the set where the famous director Regisseur Hall is shooting a scen. He is dissatisfied with his star, Carla Marventa, who is wrong for the scene he must photograph. Hall notices Eva, but laughs at her desire to replace Marventa. At that moment Conrad Veidt comes on the scene and assumes that Eva is the star.
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Those of the Sideshow
Title: Those of the Sideshow
Character: Anny Flock
Released: August 13, 1930
Type: Movie
Young Anny returns from school to her circus family, which runs a little venue at the town fair. When Anny suddenly has to fill in for one of the artists, her piano-playing not only enthrals the audience, but also theatre agent Hobbes. He casts the whole family for the Apollo theatre in Berlin, where Anny quickly raises to stardom and is offered an engagement from the US.
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The girl from USA
Title: The girl from USA
Character: Anny
Released: April 4, 1930
Type: Movie
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The Virgin of Paris
Title: The Virgin of Paris
Character: Annemarie
Released: December 26, 1929
Type: Movie
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Das Mädel mit der Peitsche
Title: Das Mädel mit der Peitsche
Character: Anny Nebenkrug
Released: November 28, 1929
Type: Movie
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Blackmail
Title: Blackmail
Character: Alice White
Released: July 28, 1929
Type: Movie
London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to go out with an elegant and well-mannered artist who invites her to visit his fancy apartment.
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Sündig und süß
Title: Sündig und süß
Character: Musette
Released: July 1, 1929
Type: Movie
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The Manxman
Title: The Manxman
Character: Kate Cregeen
Released: January 21, 1929
Type: Movie
A fisherman and a rising lawyer who grew up together as brothers fall in love with the same woman.
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Sound Test for Blackmail
Title: Sound Test for Blackmail
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1929
Type: Movie
The short sequence, photographed by Jack E Cox, has Hitchcock trying his best to embarrass the film's Czech lead Anny Ondra, who ends up giggling and turning her back to the camera...
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Suzy Saxophone
Title: Suzy Saxophone
Character: Anni von Aspen
Released: November 1, 1928
Type: Movie
Silent version of a story later remade in French and German as Baby: A count's daughter wants a stage career, her show girl friend wants an education, so they change places.
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Der erste Kuß
Title: Der erste Kuß
Released: September 25, 1928
Type: Movie
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Daughters of Eve
Title: Daughters of Eve
Character: Anny de Lavais
Released: April 3, 1928
Type: Movie
An unmarried showgirl takes a handsome companion with her on a vacation, to the distress of others.
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The Lovers of an Old Criminal
Title: The Lovers of an Old Criminal
Released: October 7, 1927
Type: Movie
Factory owner Pardon, meets Olga, daughter of clairvoyant Stefanie Lesczynska at a ball. Their brief acquaintance is interrupted when Olga and her mother have to leave. Fifi Hrazánková has her sights set on the elligible Pardon. Pardon asks his Uncle Cyril Ponděliček if the girl could take over his position at work so that she may be dissuaded of her amorous intentions. Fifi seduces Pondělíček. In the meantime, Pardon meets Olga and Stefanie again by chance and offers them a place to stay at Ponděliček’s while Pondělíček passes himself off as Pardon.
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Květ ze Šumavy
Title: Květ ze Šumavy
Released: September 9, 1927
Type: Movie
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Aničko, vrať se!
Title: Aničko, vrať se!
Released: February 11, 1927
Type: Movie
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Seine Hoheit, der Eintänzer
Title: Seine Hoheit, der Eintänzer
Released: January 15, 1927
Type: Movie
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The Old Man Bezousek
Title: The Old Man Bezousek
Character: Melanka
Released: January 14, 1927
Type: Movie
A Carl Lamac directed movie based on a novel by Karel Václav Rais.
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Die Pratermizzi
Title: Die Pratermizzi
Character: Pratermizzi
Released: January 7, 1927
Type: Movie
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Velbloud uchem jehly
Title: Velbloud uchem jehly
Character: Zuzka Pestová / Lili Weberová
Released: November 12, 1926
Type: Movie
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Hraběnka z Podskalí
Title: Hraběnka z Podskalí
Released: March 5, 1926
Type: Movie
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Do panského stavu
Title: Do panského stavu
Released: December 25, 1925
Type: Movie
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Lucerna
Title: Lucerna
Character: Hanicka
Released: November 27, 1925
Type: Movie
A Czechoslovakian comedy directed by Carl Lamac and starring himself Theodor Pistek & Anny Ondra.
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Šest mušketýrů
Title: Šest mušketýrů
Released: October 23, 1925
Type: Movie
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Karel Havlíček Borovský
Title: Karel Havlíček Borovský
Released: August 21, 1925
Type: Movie
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Vdavky Nanynky Kulichovy
Title: Vdavky Nanynky Kulichovy
Released: June 12, 1925
Type: Movie
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Ich liebe dich
Title: Ich liebe dich
Character: Helen Adelström
Released: January 30, 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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Moderne Ehen
Title: Moderne Ehen
Released: December 10, 1924
Type: Movie
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White Paradise
Title: White Paradise
Character: Nina (as Anny Ondráková)
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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The Kidnapping of Fux the Banker
Title: The Kidnapping of Fux the Banker
Character: Daisy
Released: December 31, 1923
Type: Movie
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Muž bez srdce
Title: Muž bez srdce
Character: Mrs. Vandergold
Released: October 26, 1923
Type: Movie
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Tu ten kámen
Title: Tu ten kámen
Released: September 7, 1923
Type: Movie
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Dr. Jenkins Miracle Cure
Title: Dr. Jenkins Miracle Cure
Character: Annie Mosovsková
Released: March 23, 1923
Type: Movie
A brave young woman falls in love with a mysterious stranger.
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Hütet eure Töchter
Title: Hütet eure Töchter
Released: April 14, 1922
Type: Movie
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Poisoned Light
Title: Poisoned Light
Character: Anny Grant
Released: October 21, 1921
Type: Movie
Professor Grant signs a contract with Dr. Selin for the sale of his invention of cold light with the plans for his invention being kept in Grant's apartment. The negotiations are secretly heard by the illusionist Durk, who wants to seize the invention. A few days later Selín is found dead, killed by a light bulb filled with poisonous gas. Durk performs at the birthday party of Grant's daughter Anna and seizes the plans for the invention.
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Arrival from the Darkness
Title: Arrival from the Darkness
Character: Dagmar / Alena
Released: October 14, 1921
Type: Movie
Shot in the early 1920s, this classic film about the elixir of life and the secret of the Black Tower has finally been restored to its original version.
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Setřelé písmo
Title: Setřelé písmo
Released: February 25, 1921
Type: Movie
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Zpěv zlata
Title: Zpěv zlata
Released: January 21, 1921
Type: Movie
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There in the Mountains
Title: There in the Mountains
Character: Jarmilla
Released: December 31, 1920
Type: Movie
“And I say unto you, ask and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you”. This quote from the Gospel of Luke is read out loud by one of the characters in Tam na horách. It will manifest itself in the destinies of the two protagonists, in the story of an unmarried mother from a mountain village, who becomes a great opera singer and toast of the city salons, and in the story of her seducer, a successful painter. The fate of the two lovers offers a double perspective. One of the advertising slogans for Tam na horách was “The first Czech film of international production”, which helped to rise the audience’s expectations.
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Gilly poprvé v Praze
Title: Gilly poprvé v Praze
Released: May 5, 1920
Type: Movie
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Dáma s malou nožkou
Title: Dáma s malou nožkou
Released: February 5, 1920
Type: Movie
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Niky's Magnificent Adventure
Title: Niky's Magnificent Adventure
Released: January 1, 1920
Type: Movie
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Dráteníček
Title: Dráteníček
Released: January 1, 1920
Type: Movie
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Palimpsest
Title: Palimpsest
Released: October 10, 1919
Type: Movie