Ladislav Smoljak
Birthday: 1931-12-09
Place of Birth: Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ladislav Smoljak (9 December 1931 – 6 June 2010) was a Czech film and theater director, actor and screenwriter. He was born in Prague. Smoljak tried to study at an art academy but failed the admission process. He went on to study physics and mathematics, and later worked as journalist and scriptwriter. Together with Zdeněk Svěrák he founded the Theater of Jára Cimrman (Divadlo Járy Cimrmana, DJC) in Prague, named after a fictitious genius. Smoljak wrote scripts and directed several films; these became very successful in the Czech Republic. He died of cancer on 6 June 2010 in Kladno.
Movies
Ball Lightning
A comedy about exchange of 12 apartments , which, its organizer, lawyer Radosta, rightly called Acti...
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Investigation of the Loss of a Class Book
The impetus for writing the play was a real event - the investigation of the loss of the class regis...
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Lijavec
When late in life was presenting Cimrman his artistic activity, came arresting knowledge: none of th...
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Marecek, Pass Me the Pen!
This comedy is about one average family. The father works as master in the factory and his son is st...
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An Uncertain Season
The small group of actors have to face many problems while preparing a new performance....
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Secluded, Near Woods
The Lavicka's, a Czech family from the city, rents a house in the country with the option to buy. Ho...
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The Hit
Mr Jiš managed to give his first script at Barrandov. Already in the preparatory phase, he discovers...
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Posel z Liptákova
Two passenger cars went to the team in Prague Cimrmanologists Liptáková in Jizera mountains to explo...
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Posel z Liptákova
Two passenger cars went to the team in Prague Cimrmanologists Liptáková in Jizera mountains to explo...
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Joseph Kilian
The story is about Harold, an isolated figure in an overwhelming world of totalitarian bureaucracy. ...
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Dumb Bobes, or Czech Tarzan
The result of a clash between two intellectual forces: the artist's irrepressible creative instinct ...
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Pub in the Glade
On the occasion of the opening of the famous Vienna "Riesenrad," a competition was held for the best...
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The Nude
This traditional seminar will introduce you to the most basic facts about Jára Cimrman. The ensuing ...
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Blaník
Cimrman sees the reason for the popularity of the Blanik legend in Bohemia mainly in the geographica...
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Joachim, Put It in the Machine
A sincere provincial young man, Frantisek Koudelka leaves to work in Prague. For the trip he buys a ...
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40 let Divadla Járy Cimrmana aneb Ze hry do hry
Jára Cimrman in the whirlwind of the past forty years, as discovered, recorded, and brought to life ...
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What's Up Doc?
Bohouš Burda, a forty-year-old idealist disillusioned with city life and his failing marriage, aband...
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Daddy
This film is a documentary-style look at the life of the beloved Czech actor, Zdeněk Svěrák....
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The Puppet, a Friend of Man
Anecdotes about the relationship between puppets and mankind....
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A znovu Žebrácká opera
Two different productions of Václav Havel's Beggar's Opera reveal the political dynamics of Czechosl...
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Bridal Tour to Jilji
A scientist meets a nice girl and they start dating. He decides the only way to find out for sure if...
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Kolya
After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly tak...
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Dissolved and Effused
A police inspector and inexperienced trainee search for a mysteriously disappeared manufacturer of o...
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To byla svatba, strýčku
Alfons is invited by his brother-in-law to his niece's wedding. The uncle arrives in his luxury car....
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Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping
Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Ladislav Smoljak, about the fictional national hero Jára Cimrma...
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Crime in the Night Club
The theft of a pearl necklace and subsequent murder took place at the Tartaros cabaret. All this cou...
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You Are a Widow, Sir
After a soldier cuts off the arm of king's cousin, king decides to deactivate the army. Of course, g...
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Run, Waiter, Run!
A comedy concerning a down on his luck bookshop owner with a penchant for women who decides to make ...
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Homolka and Pocketbook
The husband and wife Ludva and Hedus Homolkas with their twins Péta and Máta and Ludva's parents - t...
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The Immortal Woman
The filmed fairy-tale is a comedy based on the classical story about Reason and Happiness. This ench...
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Accumulator 1
In this movie, TV sets are full of life. If a person is in TV (e.g. because it was filmed on the str...
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