Miroslav Macháček

Miroslav Macháček

Birthday: 1922-05-08

Place of Birth: Nymburk, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]

Biography: Miroslav Macháček was a Czech stage, film and television actor and director.

Movies

Proč nevěřit na zázraky
Proč nevěřit na zázraky

Wartime events from a child's perspective were a popular theme during the previous regime - here it ...

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Vražedné pochybnosti
Vražedné pochybnosti

A mentally ill man is running away from the people who care for him in search of freedom. He acciden...

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Love Between the Raindrops
Love Between the Raindrops

Set in Prague during the years leading up to World War II, this family saga tells the story of a cob...

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Tvář za sklem
Tvář za sklem

Alienation between the closest relatives is always a serious disorder of family judgment. Father and...

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TGM the Liberator
TGM the Liberator

The life of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the first elected President of Czechoslovakia following the fall...

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A Case for a Rookie Hangman
A Case for a Rookie Hangman

Lemuel Gulliver has had a car accident and continues his journey across the unknown countryside on f...

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Concert for the survivors
Concert for the survivors

A picture of generational confrontations between children and parents. A young and ambitious violin ...

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Wolf's Hole
Wolf's Hole

Eleven disparate adolescents, gathered for a skiing camp at an isolated winter resort, find themselv...

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Death Is Called Engelchen
Death Is Called Engelchen

Pavel is a Czech partisan fighter in the waning days of the war. Just as peace is declared, Pavel is...

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Twins at the Zoo
Twins at the Zoo

The parents decided to send two twins, Honza, and Martin, on vacation to their grandfather....

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Zelená vlna
Zelená vlna

A short film about Prague, Prague residents, and the beginning of the weekend....

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Místenka bez návratu
Místenka bez návratu

It is almost twenty years after the war. Wounds of the past that have never fully healed, but are st...

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Searching
Searching

Michal's father and his friends are stigmatized by their war experience and the post-war social defo...

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Prague – The Restless Heart of Europe
Prague – The Restless Heart of Europe

This distinctive documentary portrait of Prague extolls the beauty, significance and spirit of the a...

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Kinoautomat
Kinoautomat

Kinoautomat was the world's first interactive movie, conceived by Radúz Činčera for the Czechoslovak...

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Piknik
Piknik

Pacific Island - 1945. Five American soldiers were sent to reconnoiter the Japanese rear. Surrounded...

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Nespavost ve dvou
Nespavost ve dvou

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Revenge
Revenge

A dialogue between judge and convict, winner and loser, which offers the viewer a reflection on the ...

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The Great Movie Robbery
The Great Movie Robbery

The film is essentially a feature-length commercial for an exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary o...

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Defendant
Defendant

Managers at the construction of a big hydro plant are accused of having embezzled money....

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Přízrak
Přízrak

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Touha Sherlocka Holmese
Touha Sherlocka Holmese

Sherlock Holmes likes to play violin and expects a great career in music. He gets a place in a spa o...

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Podezření
Podezření

A crime story about Western diplomats in Prague....

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Scalpel, Please
Scalpel, Please

A psychological drama exploring the notion of the doctor as a moral authority, who within the framew...

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Sitting on a Branch, Enjoying Myself
Sitting on a Branch, Enjoying Myself

Pepe and Prengel, returning from war, meet Ester and both fall in love with the girl and live togeth...

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The Devil's Trap
The Devil's Trap

A small town is one day visited by a priest who is there on a secret mission. He is a member of the ...

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The Valley of the Bees
The Valley of the Bees

Cast out by his father, young Ondrej joins the Order of the Teutonic Knights, where he is raised by ...

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The Fifth Horseman Is Fear
The Fifth Horseman Is Fear

In Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, a doctor-turned-warehouse employee reluctantly agrees to treat a gr...

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Dirigent
Dirigent

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Záhady aneb S Karlem Čapkem v soudní síni
Záhady aneb S Karlem Čapkem v soudní síni

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The Balad of Mamelouk
The Balad of Mamelouk

Mamluk is an unassuming, handsome young peasant who happens to have come along just in time to save ...

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Vrak
Vrak

This naively filmed adventure story draws from Robert L. Stvenson's novel, but adapts it to its own ...

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Putování Jana Amose
Putování Jana Amose

The distressing fate of the Czech great Jan Amos Komenský, forced to leave his homeland after the Wh...

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Královský omyl
Královský omyl

The High Royal Chamberlain is accused of treason and imprisoned. Even if the suspicion proves to be ...

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Past na kachnu
Past na kachnu

Taxi driver Koukal (Miroslav Machácek) is stopped by the police for a routine traffic check. In the ...

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The Giants
The Giants

A blue dwarf and a red dwarf get into a vicious argument. Each ultimately calls upon a matching gian...

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Jen o rodinných záležitostech
Jen o rodinných záležitostech

Life in communist Czechoslovakia in the early 1950s and the punishments for going against the state....

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5 Million Witnesses
5 Million Witnesses

Now we see a naive reminder that television used to broadcast live productions, but in this case the...

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Shades of Fern
Shades of Fern

Based on the only extensive prose work by the surrealist painter Josef Capek, Shades of Fern most re...

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Transit Carlsbad
Transit Carlsbad

Even in the "enlightened" 60. years filmmakers like to play spies. In the grand-world environment, L...

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322
322

A story of a man threatened by a fatal illness evaluating his life (the number 322 in the film title...

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Malý Bobeš ve městě
Malý Bobeš ve městě

A loose sequel to the film Little Bobes, it catches up with the title child hero in the town where h...

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Merry Christmas Octopus
Merry Christmas Octopus

Eva and her younger brother Johnny own two sentient octopuses made out of strange matter. Will their...

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The Octopuses from the Second Floor
The Octopuses from the Second Floor

While on vacation with their bickering parents, young Eva and her little brother Johnny find in a po...

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Cesta kolem mé hlavy
Cesta kolem mé hlavy

A new patient enters the psychiatric sanatorium Sluneční dvůr. It is a high school Czech professor R...

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Sugar House
Sugar House

In the final days of the Second World War in 1945 Frantisek Pribyl is killed during a shoot-out with...

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Aesop
Aesop

This film brings us back to show us the life of the famous ancient sage Aesop, who helped people wit...

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White Cloud Carolin
White Cloud Carolin

It's no big secret that twelve-year-old Hannes is in love with his classmate Carolin, who he compare...

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Zrcadlo nenávisti
Zrcadlo nenávisti

Painter Horace visits his friend, a former criminalist, and is intrigued by two strange women who li...

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Ikarie XB 1
Ikarie XB 1

The year is 2163. Starship Ikaria XB 1 embarks on a mission deep into space in search of alien life....

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Měsíc s dýmkou
Měsíc s dýmkou

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Buřič Jejího Veličenstva
Buřič Jejího Veličenstva

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Vinobraní
Vinobraní

In a South Moravian wine-growing village in the early 1970s lives an old man who cannot accept the a...

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A Leap In The Dark
A Leap In The Dark

Spring 1943: A three-member group of resistance fighters flies from a Soviet military airport into t...

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Všude žijí lidé
Všude žijí lidé

Even if a person grumbles about difficulties, he should realize that he will find a place where he d...

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Pavučina
Pavučina

Zdeněk Zaoral began filming this film in semi-amateur conditions, but it was eventually completed in...

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Dobří holubi se vracejí
Dobří holubi se vracejí

The film is a concert of well-known actors from an alcohol rehab where a middle-aged man has taken r...

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The Country of St. Patrick
The Country of St. Patrick

A Czech documentary filmmaker's cinematic travelogue of Ireland....

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Casanova
Casanova

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