Václav Švec
Birthday: 1903-05-25
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Movies
The Proud Princess
It's very human and nice story about lofty princess (her father is amiable but incapable - unforgett...
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The Emperor and the Golem
The Emperor's mismanagement of his country is provoking some in his court to plot to overthrow him. ...
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Darbujan and Pandrhola
A poor miner, Kuba Dařbuján, cares for his wife Markýtka and eleven children. When a newborn arrives...
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Probuzení
Delinquent youths wander aimlessly and commit mischief. Few, however, manage to break free from the ...
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Black Saturday
In this crime story, surprisingly, neither the all-powerful criminals nor the spies or saboteurs are...
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Kohout plaší smrt
A group of saboteurs search for a weapons cache hidden by the Nazi army. Beskydy in the summer of 19...
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Every Day - Sunday
Jirka is a composer, his wife, Jana, a pianist. Jana would like to have an own concert, but so far s...
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Einstein kontra Babinský
A satire about small and large crooks who thrive in a planned economy. They made great use of all it...
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Higher Principle
During the Nazi occupation of a Czech city civilians are being rounded up on the slightest of pretex...
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Romance for Bugle
A lyrical story about first love, death and disappointment, based on a poem of the same title....
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Dívka s třemi velbloudy
The fates of the women are repeated: the 16-year-old daughter of a 32-year-old mother is also pregna...
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Panenství a kriminál
An attractive and challenging 16-year-old girl has no shortage of admirers, but she becomes the caus...
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Straw Hat
Slacker Maurice Fadinar wasted his whole inheritance and the only way out of this situation, as it s...
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Světáci
Two families live in a weaver's cottage - the Menecs and the Hroms. The women are pretty from the st...
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Chalk and Cheese
Rudolf Bartoš, the owner of a farm, quarry and factory, is extremely rich, however, he is unapproach...
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Úplně vyřízený chlap
Ostrava - Kunčice , 1953: on the same day as the manifestation funeral for J. V. Stalin, the funeral...
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Svatá hříšnice
In the Prague Old Town and the adjoining streets there is always plenty of life. Housewives shop, be...
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Chance
The actress, who is starring in a successful theatre production, is offered a big film role by an It...
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The Young Lady from the Riverside
The young worker Helena Pokorná and her widowed father are employed in the same factory. The father ...
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The Hordubals
Juraj Hordubal returns from America after eight years, where he has earned enough money to improve h...
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The Key
Jan Zika is the legendary hero of the communist resistance movement during World War II and leading ...
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A Week in the Quiet House
A sometimes humorous, sometimes more serious look at the hustle and bustle of a house in Lesser Town...
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Three Wishes
The sad hero of the story, Petr, an ordinary lawyer in a construction company, is crowded into a sma...
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Year of the Revolution 1848
The Czech revival movement is divided at the end of the first half of the 19th century. While the ol...
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The Magical Hat
Two poor students, Strnad and Křepelka, console themselves with the fact that Křepelka is to inherit...
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Hasek’s Tales from the Old Monarchy
Four short stories by the greatest Czech satirist Jaroslav Hašek. "Soup for Poor Children" tells the...
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Comedians
The story of a traveling comedy family that ends up in court, where young Fricek is charged with att...
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Shoesmachine
The happenings in a shoe factory serve as a not very thinly veiled examination of the pros and cons ...
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Zlatý pavouk
A man was killed while trying to leave Czechoslovakia. One and a half kilograms of gold was found on...
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Zaostřit prosím!
A Czech satirical comedy, filmed according to a script by the State Prize laureate Jiří Marek based ...
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The Jester's Tale
An anti-war black comedy set during the Thirty Years' War. It follows ploughman Petr, recruiter Matě...
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The Stolen Airship
A live-action/animated film based loosely on Jules Verne's novels Two Years' Vacation and The Myster...
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Against All
After the battle of Sudoměř the Hussite teaching spreads through the whole country and people start ...
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Holka nebo kluk?
Landlord Orlický has had three failed marriages. This experience has made him a sworn enemy of all w...
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V horách duní
A war drama about the anti-Nazi resistance in the early spring of the last year of the war. German v...
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Capek's Tales
Five crime stories connected by the narration of police superintendent Bartosek....
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Veselý souboj
A young company doctor will awaken interest in active and regular sports activities among employees ...
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Mikoláš Aleš
A biographical film about the famous Czech painter Mikoláš Aleš, portrayed as part of the vanguard o...
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May Fairy Tale
Ríša, a student of law, neglects his studies in favour of parties and pranks. His angry father refus...
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To byl český muzikant
Teacher František Kmoch is suspended because he plays at dances or composes at night. He forms a ban...
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The Station Master
Vlasta Burian, as a stowaway, disrupts the disciplined operation of a railway station. Mr. Ťopka giv...
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Jan Hus
The first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", completed with Jan Žižka (1955) and Proti vše...
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Jan Žižka
The second part of the revolutionary Hussite trilogy takes place in the years 1419-1420....
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The Princess with the Golden Star
A Czech fairy tale about a princess named Lada who runs away from home in a mouse fur disguise in or...
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První parta
The unfortunate 1930s also befell the student Standa Půlpán. For existential reasons, he had to aban...
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Madla zpívá Evropě
Folk song collector Dr. Šerk arrives in the remote village of Lesov. He is enchanted by the singing ...
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Přítelkyně pana ministra
The main character of the funny story is an ordinary typist Julinka Svobodová, who works for the est...
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Veselá bída
Two young composers offer their operetta in vain - it is rejected before anyone reads it. By a coinc...
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Prosím, nebudit
If a girl has such an uninteresting occupation that she sells flowers, she likes to indulge in daydr...
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The Hard Life of an Adventurer
A writer of pulp crime novels is drawn into a series of real crimes. This film was one of the first ...
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O ševci Matoušovi
The revolutionary year of 1848 brought great hopes among the hitherto silent classes, awakening soci...
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Parohy
Oldřich Nový was and will forever remain the embodiment of charm, elegance and personal charm for Cz...
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Nobody Knows Anything
Martin Plechatý and Petr Nový roam occupied Prague with their trams. Times are hard and sometimes su...
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Rozina the Love Child
Prague, the beginning of the 17th century. Rozina falls in love with Italian glass worker Nikolo, b...
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Bláhový sen
Hairdresser Žofka Stárková desires fame perhaps more than other girls. The petty plans of her fiancé...
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13th district
Inspector Cadek from the 13th police station should keep an eye on the released safe-cracker nicknam...
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The Avalanche
An ambitious and selfish lawyer confesses to the murder of his first wife. Some of the scenes were f...
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A Dead Man among the Living
Human bravery can take many forms, just as ideas about it can. Small-town public opinion begins to d...
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Velký případ
Shortly before the end of World War II, a small town is home to a portly miller who bears an uncanny...
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Pancho se žení
The foolish Pedro is supposed to marry the beautiful Rosita, who is also attracted to the adventurer...
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Alena
Master armourer Tomás has young wife Alena, of whom he is very jealous. One day the ruler of town se...
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Veliká příležitost
An optimistic collective drama from the life of the workers on the construction site of the Youth Tr...
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Posel úsvitu
A biographical film about a Czech mechanic and designer who was the first in the Czech lands to cons...
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The Hen and the Sexton
Cooperative members are harvesting crops, trying to get new water piping installed and preparing to ...
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Milujeme
The story of young boys who have proven their loyalty to the republic unfolds in the setting of a bo...
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When the Woman Butts In
Miroslav Hornicek is a deluded young man who is convinced he is Faust incarnate. This turn of mind l...
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The Good Soldier Švejk
Good-natured and garrulous, Schweik becomes the Austrian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he is ...
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School for Fathers
A new teacher with high standards and a strong sense of duty replaces an easy grader. Once bad grad...
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Pochodně
Prague in the 1870s. Work in Smolík's sulphur factory is hard and dangerous to health. The poorly pa...
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Páté oddělení
An American spy agency located in West Germany is interested in information concerning Czechoslovak ...
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Of Things Supernatural
An anthology of three absurd, ironic tales inspired by Čapek’s “Tales from One Pocket” and “Fables a...
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