Josef Somr
Birthday: 1934-04-15
Place of Birth: Vracov, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
Closely Watched Trains
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...
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Hele, on letí!
The eighteen-year-old young man will one day make a living as a shoemaker, but his greatest love is ...
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Kaviár jen pro přátele
A comedy about four "friendly" couples whose honesty, sincerity and also selfishness are put to an u...
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Já jsem Stěna smrti
An aging street stuntman plans new equipment to make his motorcycle stunts even more impressive, but...
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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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Radost až do rána
A psychological story about dissatisfied individuals who despise the stereotypes of others, but crea...
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Pytláci
Emigrants rarely do well abroad, which is why they often return to their homeland. At least, that's ...
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Brontosaurus
Tomás lives in a very small Czech town and is a nature lover and a birdwatcher. He struggles to keep...
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Začátek dlouhého podzimu
The film about curious children who discover a sunken statue of Masaryk in a disused well was interf...
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The Snowdrop Festival
This movie is based on texts of Bohumil Hrabal, world-known Czech prosaic. It's a story (in a form o...
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Čestné kolo
The theme is inspired by the real life stories of Czechoslovak cyclists Jan Vesely and Jan Kubro. It...
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The Three Veterans
It is a story of three veterans released from the army. During one night spent camping in the countr...
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Postavení mimo hru
The psychological story of a young top athlete - hockey player, showing the downside of the all-roun...
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Dva muži hlásí příchod
An only son, Jirí Valenta (Jaromír Hanzlík), has been drafted to the army. At the barracks he acquir...
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Angel
An angel who ruins everything he touches is sent to Earth to learn about love, forgiveness and selfl...
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Of Parents and Children
On a walk through Prague, a 40-year-old son's conversations with his septuagenarian father reveal co...
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How Poets Are Enjoying Their Lives
While Kendy returns to his hometown as an assistant director to film a thirteen-part series with a t...
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A Nice Plate of Spinach
The heroes of this absurd comedy, full of confusion and humor are Dzharda Zemanek and Frantisek Lisk...
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I'm All Good
This Hrebejk’s comedy is set in Prague, four years after the democratic “Velvet revolution” of 1989....
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Svatba na bitevním poli
In the small Moravian town of Zvěstov, all the men live for historical battles. They represent the F...
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Morgiana
Jealous of her vapidly "good" sister's popularity, poisonous Viktoria doses pretty Klara's tea with ...
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Něco je ve vzduchu
The urn supposedly containing the remains of Alice's grandfather falls out of the window and breaks....
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How Poets Are Losing Their Illusions
A story about a young medical school student and his adventures....
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Konec básníků v Čechách...
Dr. Štěpán, dismissed for his outspokenness, returns to his hometown determined not to bend his ethi...
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How the World Is Losing Poets
Inseparable friends Štěpán and Kendy are students in their final year of high school. When they are ...
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The Poets Never Lose Hope
After his mother's death, a man tries to sort out his declining relationship, live-in best friend, a...
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The Devil Knows Why
A good king rules this land, but still things are going from bad to worse. The point is that the gre...
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The Joke
In the 1950s, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow stu...
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Mature Wine
A loose sequel to the 1976 comedy Stormy Wine. The screenwriters and the director recreate on screen...
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Můžeš mi odpustit?
In the hall of the Central Station, by a coincidence of unpleasant circumstances, the couple meet. T...
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Velká sázka o malé pivo
The year is 1946 and the story takes us to a great bar among the characters of Prague's gallery. A p...
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The Last One Will Go to Hell
A historical film that takes place on the eve of the thirty year war combines aspects of fairy-tales...
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Oldies but Goldies
A bitter-sweet comedy about two people who wish to live life to the full despite their age. Ota is a...
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Angel in a Devil's Body
In a chateau near Prague there is a chantry and brothel Riviera, designed for the clientele from the...
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Attention, Rounds!
A story about an everyday life of an inflectional department of Prague hospital....
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Kinoautomat
Kinoautomat was the world's first interactive movie, conceived by Radúz Činčera for the Czechoslovak...
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A Man Who Rose in Price
Mr. Benda, a married father of two children, works for a company that liquidates old banknotes. Afte...
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Piknik
Pacific Island - 1945. Five American soldiers were sent to reconnoiter the Japanese rear. Surrounded...
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Spravedlnost pro Selvina
The fate of the insignificant poet Leonard Undene is transposed into the media atmosphere of the lat...
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Prague Nights
A stuffy middle-aged foreigner, a businessman named Fabricius, lonely and looking for a night's dive...
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Královský slib
Our story begins years later. A grand engagement is being planned in the kingdom. The prince has com...
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Skřivánčí ticho
The hero of the story is a forty-something intellectual, a sensitive composer of classical music. Hi...
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Adelheid
In the aftermath of World War II, a soldier takes charge of a manor formerly owned by a German famil...
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Waiting for the Rain
It’s a hot holiday season in the city and Alena is pretty much left to her own little self, fantasiz...
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Svědkyně
Mrs Hrabětová is exactly the type of person who is called a "woman of the people". A bit of a housek...
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Halt, Or I'll Miss!
It is April 1945, spring begins and ends the war. German transport heading away from Bohemia....
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Oil Lamps
In 1900, Stepha, the vivacious 30 year old daughter of a wealthy couple, agrees to marry her cousin ...
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The Death of Black King
Prague in the 1930s. A young, pretty girl gets on a crowded tram. She immediately catches the attent...
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Blázni, vodníci a podvodníci
A crazy comedy, turning into a grotesque with a number of absurd elements, tells the tangled story o...
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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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A Star Is Falling Upwards
Švand, a room painter from Strakonice, begins a dizzying career as a pop music star, but he soon dis...
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Lucky Loser
Young Filip is cursed with terrible luck ever since his father dared to outwit Lady Fortune herself,...
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The Blacksmith from Woodham
The story takes place in the small town of Podlesie, which was once invaded by the Turks. The good f...
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The Great Unknown
Three detective stories, three different views of life and death... Collection of three horror short...
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Návraty
A psychological film about the sense of self-fulfillment of a divorced couple over 30 who feel that ...
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Půlnoční kolona
A group of soldiers is supposed to ensure the smooth nighttime passage of the military convoy throug...
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Vodník a Karolínka
When Jonáš, a water sprite, and Karolínka, the miller's daughter, fall in love, they don't have it e...
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Days of Betrayal
This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslov...
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The Liberation of Prague
On 20th of April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germa...
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Love Your Enemies
The story of a Swiss woman and a Czech man, who changed hundreds of lives....
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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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Smoke on the Potato Fields
In this character study by Czech director Frantisek Vlacil, a stout middle-aged physician whose marr...
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Kačenka a zase ta strašidla
This time, the eight-year-old girl must fight to keep her parents from turning the House of Horrors,...
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Poslední ples na rožnovské plovárně
This story from the time of the occupation tells how the students of the teachers' institute decided...
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Boys Will Be Boys
Three friends - Tomás, Hubert and Jozka - are boys growing up in a little town. Tomás lives with his...
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Half a House Without a Groom
The Francs with their daughters Olina and Jirina are building a villa in the village of Rezkovice. F...
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Murder in the Excelsior Hotel
In Vražda v hotelu Excelsior, the interwar period homicide detective squad from Prague investigates ...
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Hamlet
The production of Shakespeare's Hamlet with František Němec in the title role (premiered at the Smet...
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Akáty bílé
Two itinerant performers in a timeless, unnamed land rescue an abandoned infant. As they care for th...
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Na konci světa
In the 1950s, selected basic soldiers in a small border unit guard the western border with devotion,...
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Plavení hříbat
The holidays of Vince Adamek, a student of the agricultural school in his native village in South Mo...
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Miss Golem
It is the 1920's. The good-looking hostess Věra demonstrates household robots to visitors of the Fut...
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Pomerančový kluk
A quarrel between divorced waitress Mája and her fifteen-year-old son Petr ends with the boy physica...
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Max, Sally and the Magic Phone
Max and Sally, the heroes of popular Czech animated series are leaving the TV in order to become a r...
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Sebechlebskí hudci
Two Sebechleby musicians, Peter and Jakub, and their guardian Klimo set out in the mid-17th century ...
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Ghosts of the Dormers
A tale about a young girl whose grandfather has built a garden of horrors....
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The End of Old Times
Czechoslovakia 1918. The newly formed National Assembly has made Stoklasa the administrator of the K...
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Kdo se bojí, utíká
In a school somewhere in the border region, a young teacher is trying to integrate Romani children i...
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Modré z nebe
The fantastic world of little Thomas, who conjured up beauty and happiness....
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Smrt mouchy
Seventeen-year-old student Milan wants to get rid of his morbid fear of flies, which originated some...
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Summer with a Cowboy
The main characters are a young psychologist Doubravka and a village youth, Honza Macháček. He is a ...
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Monkey's Playtime
The fisherman Fuksa fishes in the creek an old bottle and he sells it to innkeeper Merta. When Merta...
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Helimadoe
A lyrical story from the beginning of 20th century, with the atmosphere of a small-town environment,...
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Zázračné meče
The third and final installment of the fairy-tale fencing comedies Crossed Swords and Ringing Swords...
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Zvonící meče
This loose sequel to the fairy tale Crossed Swords reunites you with the clever and brave Princess A...
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Zkřížené meče
A fairy tale full of intrigue, duels, and love. The very title of this fairy tale suggests that ther...
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Paper Sleeve
The title character of this somewhat bitter comedy is Klára Zárubecká, a saleswoman at a train stati...
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Evropa tančila valčík
Otakar Vávra dedicated his latest film to events accompanying the devastation of the first World War...
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Hřbitov pro cizince
A tragicomic story from a tragicomic time - this is how one could characterize Jiří Hubac's play, wh...
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Indians from Vetrov
In the frontier village Vetrov boys from the children's home called Indians lead a bitter "war" with...
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Windstorm
A worker steals bits and pieces of building materials from work to construct a new home for himself ...
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One of Them Is the Murderer
Marek (Jirí Holý), formerly a driver of a long-distance lorry, has served his term for smuggling art...
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Hubert the Smart Boy
Hubert Hrabe, known as Smart Boy, is a Prague dandy who is always skirting the edge of the law. Like...
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Funeral Ceremony
Matylda, who lives in the Czech countryside, is trying to arrange burial plans for her dying husband...
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The Oddsockeaters
Oddsockeaters are small invisible creatures, responsible for socks that go missing when we only have...
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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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Konecná stanica
A Slovak film adaptation of the eponymous play Radošina Naive Theatre. Time stood still at a small a...
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The Motive for Murder
A short story film depicting the three different faces of crime. In the short story "The Weekend", K...
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Zelňačka
Czech TV adaptation of the french novel "La Soupe aux choux", previously adapted for the cinema in F...
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Young Wine
Third wine session, this time with a computer. The film was made in direct relation to the audience ...
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Hotel for Strangers
A gifted poet checks into a Gothic hotel in hopes of meeting the woman with whom he has long been en...
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The Secret of Steel City
The film is a metaphor for the Cold War. It depicts two neighbouring nations: peace loving Fortuna a...
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Black Barons
Life of Czechoslovak soldiers in a military unit for the so called "politically unreliable" - the Te...
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My Sweet Little Village
The movie's main storyline follows the life of Otík, a young man, in a tight-knit village community....
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Vrtkavý král
The historical television play was written based on Vančura's Pictures from the History of the Czech...
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Bankrot
A black comedy about suicides. Good old England, 1937—a spooky night scene on the moors, silhouettes...
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Little Witch on a Broomstick
Three hundred years after she fled the Witch Academy for love, Saxána has settled into a comfortable...
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Spravedlivý Bohumil
A childless royal couple begs God in vain for a child. The impatient king then asks the devil himsel...
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The Ninth Heart
Martin, a poor student, volunteers to go on a quest to find a cure for the princess Adriana, who is ...
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Nikola Šuhaj loupežník
The merging of reality with legend, the image of reality (Ruthenian Verkhovyna in the 1920s) and its...
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Tažní ptáci
The sequel to the film Icarus focuses on the further fates of pianist Kára, who decided to fight the...
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Povodeň
It was a fateful August, and devastating floods ravaged Bohemia. Mrs. Gabriela lived alone in a spac...
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The Divine Emma
The opera lady singer Ema Destinnová is in all her splendor at the American stages. But in Europe th...
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30 Maidens and Pythagoras
A musical starring Jiří Menzel (whose part is sung by Achilles Michailidis) as a math and physics te...
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Silvestr svobodného pána
How will the irresistible darling of women, the seducer and the eternal philanderer cope when severa...
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Comrades
Chytilová was not allowed to direct films between 1969 and 1976. The sole exception was the made-for...
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Švédská zápalka
The aging police commissioner, who has a twenty-five-year-old fiancée, Olga, is disturbed at his six...
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Dům U Zlatého úsvitu
Magic and spells in the peaceful town of Jack-o'-lantern, which you will not find on any map. A funn...
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Probuzená skála
A poor girl named Sanchika longs to find a mysterious treasure hidden in the rocks. In the end, she ...
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Čas pracuje pro vraha
Vera, wife of the plumber Simandl (Josef Somr), is found murdered in the cinema next to the IDOC (In...
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Velký případ
Based on the novel by French writer Jean Labord, who was a long-time court reporter for the Paris ne...
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Zvláštní případ
Lieutenant Vasátko is spending Christmas vacation in a mountain cabin where a diverse group of peopl...
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Those Wonderful Movie Cranks
Returning home to Prague, the magician Pasparte, an owner of a circus caravan, meets his dying colle...
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Kam nikdo nesmí
Lucie Rýdlová is found dead at a destroyed car after a night accident. The seat position shows that ...
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Dilino a čert
"Why is my son stupid?" laments the poor Roma coal miner. His son Dilino is a nice boy, but he still...
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Dvě z policejní brašny
Two short stories in which novice detective Sergeant Zahrádka is tasked with carrying out trivial or...
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Defendant
Managers at the construction of a big hydro plant are accused of having embezzled money....
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Na zámku
Olga, a young and sensitive governess, comes to an impoverished aristocratic family full of ideals a...
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Eugene among Us
Young Eugene from the provinces travels to Prague in search of fame. Once there he gets an offer to ...
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Long White Yard
The relationship between a mother and daughter living in a village, the confrontation of two lives -...
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Fruit of Paradise
An experimental retelling of the story of Adam and Eve which then progresses into an allegorical dep...
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Pamětnice
Former classmates meet after sixty years at a school reunion, undoubtedly their last, face to face w...
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Povídka Malostranská
A young man studying law finds a place to stay with a young conductor, thinking that he will find an...
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Maharal – Tajemství talismanu
The thrilling and fantastic story of three Prague children, Alena, David, Ondra, and the charismatic...
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Travis
A horror film cut almost in the British style, with the very English František Němec, the grumpy coa...
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O chytrém Honzovi
A fairy tale about Hansel, who liked to lie on the stove for days, but in the end, with the help of ...
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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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Zatykač na královnu
Captain Záruba investigates after an anonymous tip flags the seemingly extravagant lifestyle of Chem...
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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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Zálety koňského handlíře
Boccaccio's famous Decameron brings ten beautiful stories that were told to pass the time by those w...
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Jasnovidec
The story of the chief prosecutor Dr. Klapka - a self-confident, cold-blooded, calculating man who l...
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Krásná paní ševcová
The cheerful farce tells the story of the charming wife of an Andalusian shoemaker, a charming beaut...
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Zdivočelá země
After World War II, fighter pilot Antonín Maděra returns from England to his native village in the O...
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Malvína
The fairy queen banished the young fairy from her court forever. A young lieutenant finds her abando...
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Lesní panna
The innkeeper Barnabáš and the teacher Isidor Slovíčko succumb to the lure of old Moreles, to whom t...
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Rainbow Kulick
Little boy Milan is going to visit his grandfather in the countryside - for a first time....
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Čas jeřabin
Life in a rural retirement home is peaceful, with long-standing friendships and rivalries. One day, ...
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Where the Early Bird Catches the Worm
A clever but often teased boy, is able to clone himself thanks to a stolen formula from a scientist....
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An Angel Seduces the Devil
Once again, you can take a look behind the scenes of the Riviera Chateau on the Prague periphery, wh...
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Kačenka a strašidla
Jindrich Polák's modern fairy tale comedy tells the story of a girl who unexpectedly inherits a fair...
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Jak se Matěj učil čarodějem
The robber Voděra had a son named Matěj, whom he sent to learn from his grandfather Dobroděd. He wan...
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Třetí táta
A holiday story about how little Jakub found the right man for his mother. An advertisement in which...
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Carps for Wehrmacht
Based on Ota Pavel’s collection, the film is set in Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia. In a small village...
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