Alois Vachek

Alois Vachek

Birthday: 1903-04-28

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Movies

Closely Watched Trains
Closely Watched Trains

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...

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Dveře
Dveře

A tale of neighbourly teasing and how dangerous it is to leave a door off its hinges in the hallway....

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Hodina pravdy
Hodina pravdy

Jarmila Slezáková, a young woman convalesces badly at home after the results of a heart attack which...

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Those Wonderful Movie Cranks
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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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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Capricious Summer
Capricious Summer

Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimmi...

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Pearls of the Deep
Pearls of the Deep

A quintet of vignettes based on short stories by Bohumil Hrabal: an eventful trip to the motorcycle ...

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Crime at the Girls School
Crime at the Girls School

Three short story omnibus. The main hero and connecting link is Lieutenant Boruvka, created by Lubom...

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The Unfortunate Bridegroom
The Unfortunate Bridegroom

A comedy about two bumbling policemen investigating an alleged rape in a small Czech town. One of th...

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How to Get Rid of Helenka
How to Get Rid of Helenka

Radio announcer Petrícek reads the evening news in a studio. Viki, the female editor of a woman's pr...

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A Nice Plate of Spinach
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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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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Larks on a String
Larks on a String

In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work...

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Witchhammer
Witchhammer

In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confe...

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Návraty
Návraty

A psychological film about the sense of self-fulfillment of a divorced couple over 30 who feel that ...

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Miss Golem
Miss Golem

It is the 1920's. The good-looking hostess Věra demonstrates household robots to visitors of the Fut...

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Dvacátý devátý
Dvacátý devátý

In the era of normalisation, a number of (pseudo)historical films were made, even described as recon...

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Who Looks for Gold?
Who Looks for Gold?

When he returns to Prague from a stint in the Army, Lada does not seem to fit in anywhere, and he ca...

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Profesoři za školou
Profesoři za školou

Three stories from the school environment, mostly from the perspective of teachers. In the first sto...

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Boty plné vody
Boty plné vody

Three short stories ("Zelenáči 1945", "Silvestr 1948" and "Zimní vítr 1951") about members of the SN...

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Secluded, Near Woods
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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Crime in the Night Club
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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The Secret of a Great Narrator
The Secret of a Great Narrator

The life of the famous French writer Alexander Dumas the Elder. Screenwriter Jaroslav Dietl did not ...

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