Karel Hovorka
Birthday: 1924-06-23
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Movies
Shadows of a Hot Summer
Ondrej lives on a farm outside a small town with his family. One day a group of men arrive at the fa...
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House Call
Third movie of the famous Czech adventure trilogy: Osada Havranů Na veliké rece Volání rodu...
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Flying Saucers Over Our Village
A model Communist village is visited by a flying saucer....
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Ráno budeme moudřejší
Marie, an active modern woman at work, has resigned herself to everything after a disappointment in ...
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Brother for All the Money
Honza and Zuzana are very young husband and wife. They have a little daughter of whom willingly occa...
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Past na kachnu
Taxi driver Koukal (Miroslav Machácek) is stopped by the police for a routine traffic check. In the ...
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Střepy pro Evu
This documentary-style story tells the story of an aspiring documentary filmmaker who is preparing a...
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The Young Man and Moby Dick
Good-looking Edita Beningerová (Jana Brejchová) arrives at a chemical factory in the North Bohemian ...
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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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Žena pro tři muže
At the beginning is a suicide attempt by sculptor Jiří Malek, which is foiled by a thief hidden in h...
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Moderní byt
Tenants are moving into new apartments in the housing estate, including a young couple. One of the n...
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Dům na Ořechovce
The growing conflict between the unruly owner of the villa and his lodger ends up in court. The coha...
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Konec cesty
Josef Lachman, once a security officer, serves twelve years for aiding an SS fugitive’s escape. Upon...
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Hra o královnu
A comedy about the love of the Czech nobleman Záviš of Falkenštejn for the Hungarian princess Kunhut...
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The Medal
The trenches of World War I provide for a captivating backdrop to the drama of Corporal Hoferik. In ...
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Svítalo celou noc
The Czech film Svítalo All Night was made to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the liberation of C...
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Ledové moře volá
A group of children from 1930s Prague follow the news about the polar expedition of the Chelyuskin, ...
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The Night Guest
When a man stops at a motel one evening in 1961, his tormenting behavior drives one of the people pr...
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Pohled do očí
Olga Valentová, whose father was a communist resistance fighter and died during the occupation, work...
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Tereza
Ing. Bernard announces that his wife has not returned from visiting relatives in Berlin. Lieutenant ...
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Escape Home
A twelve-year-old is looking for his biological parents after discovering the fact that he was adopt...
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Dva z onoho světa
A musical comedy about two indistinguishably similar siblings who love music, but each of them is co...
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The Black Dynasty
The family is connected with Prague's "Kolbenka", the ČKD locomotive factory. Grandfather Antonín, a...
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Hodina života
It is 1883 and Josef Hibes, a social democrat, is organising a strike of textile workers. The main d...
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Víkend bez rodičů
Even great love does not necessarily overcome a difference of morals - although the young hero is ve...
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Chicken on Travels
The story of a childhood dream come true. Schoolchildren discover an abandoned poultry farm with an ...
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Passing Through a Thick Forest
The story of two communist friends, one of whom leaves as secretary to the district committee of the...
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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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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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Tři chlapi v chalupě
The three Potůčks live in a house in Ouplavice: a widower grandfather, a son whose wife has run away...
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Příště budeme chytřejší, staroušku!
This satirical comedy depicts the fate of two con artists who constantly encounter sharper and more ...
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Čintamani & podvodník
Two short stories by Karel Čintamani a ptáci An avid collector of carpets, MUDr. Vitásek discovers a...
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The Five Sinners
The short story explores the often tragic impact of prejudice or suspicion that relies on the appear...
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Táto sežeň štěně
The holiday story revolves around the children of editor Hlavsa and their desire to get a dog. Dad b...
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Dva kluci v palbě
In the spring of 1945, the last war clashes took place on the Czech-Moravian border. However, amidst...
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Do We Match Each Other, Darling?
Marta (Jana Brejchová) and Viktor (Vlastimil Brodský) celebrate the tenth anniversary of their weddi...
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Pension pro svobodné pány
A young man living in a strictly run boarding house secretly brings a girl of loose morals into his ...
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Terrible Woman
A doctor of social sciences - a specialist in failing marriages - becomes jealous. He imagines his s...
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If a Thousand Clarinets
A military base. An awkward soldier. A statue of Bach. And suddenly all guns in the area change into...
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The Return of the Prodigal Son
Engineer Jan Sebek (Jan Kacer) is undergoing treatment in a mental home after his unsuccessful attem...
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Closely Watched Trains
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...
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Sign of the Cancer
When Dr. Hahn is found murdered in the hospital’s inspection room, investigators question several su...
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Never Strike A Woman... Even with A Flower
Shortish forty-year old Ludvík Podzimek, lute and flute player in a Prague orchestra, is far from be...
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The Phantom of Morrisville
Inspector Brumpby (Jaroslav Marvan) and the young crime reporter Allan Pinkerton (Vít Olmer) attend ...
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Who Wants to Kill Jessie?
In this zany Czechoslovakian comedy, a scientist invents a machine that projects a sleeping person's...
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Meze Waltera Hortona
The fact that the man succumbed one morning to an irresistible urge to sit down at the piano and pla...
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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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A Game Without Rules
A robbery in a Prague jeweler's shop results in the shop manager Kubát and his deputy Litera being s...
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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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The End of Agent W4C
The invincible agent Cyril Juan Borguette alias W4C has been assigned a mission to go to a hotel in ...
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Bedtime Story
Comedy based on short Sean O'Casey play. John Jo Mulligan finds himself in a situation with which hi...
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The End of a Priest
A verger, who likes to dress as a priest, is invited, by one of the villagers, to be the pastor at a...
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A Matter of Days
Françoise, a French sociology student, moves to Czechoslovakia to write her thesis. She falls in lov...
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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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Slasti Otce vlasti
The young Prince Charles (Jaromír Hanzlík), the future King of his country Charles IV, is being educ...
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Larks on a String
In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work...
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The Cremator
In 1930s Prague, a Czech cremator who firmly believes cremation relieves one from earthly suffering ...
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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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Devilish Honeymoon
Black comedy about a genius inventor and two young, smart and beautiful women. Both of them putting...
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Luk královny Dorotky
Set in a vagabond and petty bourgeois environment, the three stories deal with the pitfalls of love,...
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Nevěsta
The female employees of the poultry-processing factory find relief from their monotonous work in cha...
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Five Men and One Heart
In modern hospitals are carried out intensive cardiac surgery. Daily operations individually comment...
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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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Miss Golem
It is the 1920's. The good-looking hostess Věra demonstrates household robots to visitors of the Fut...
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A Night at Karlstein
No Woman is allowed into Karlstejn Castle! Yet the enamoured Daniele Kolářová and the equally enamou...
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How to Drown Dr. Mracek, the Lawyer
There are still water spirits among us. One group lives in Prague, led by Mr. Wassermann, who is usi...
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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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Televize v Bublicích aneb Bublice v televizi
The news that the television is going to make a film about the cooperative's leisure activities lead...
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Great Sorrow
Jana is forced to live in a foster home and always dreams about family reunion....
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The Bride with the Most Beautiful Eyes
Exotic, yet lyrically aimed fairy tale about a young gypsy Pista in search of a beautiful, gentle an...
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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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The Day That Shook the World
An historical depiction of the events preceding the political murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, wo...
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Levé křídlo
The war will also affect children's games. The children hide a French boy who has managed to escape ...
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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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Oči pro pláč
A comedy about the unhinged owner of a lavish Art Nouveau villa. However, she is not entirely seriou...
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Jako kníže Rohan
Vladimír Menšík in a dramatic story of a suddenly rich peasant. The play tells the story of the trag...
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Láska s vůní pryskyřice
The forest worker František Hrubý, a poor, hard-working man, lives with his granddaughter in a lonel...
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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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Ohnivé ženy se vracejí
A loose continuation of the production of The Fiery Women. The souls of the witches Marta and Magdal...
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Prodavač humoru
The honest and a bit naive director of a variety agency, Jožin Petránek, sits on the qualification c...
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It's Not Me
The two heroes of the film's story - the decent but dry engineer Zárub and the marriage swindler Maj...
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Podivná přátelství herce Jesenia
Dramatic fates of people hidden behind a theatrical mask....
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Dopis psaný španělsky
Zbyněk and Kateřina have become husband and wife, and Alenka is a beautiful young lady. Mothers and ...
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Zikmund řečený Šelma ryšavá
In December 1437, Emperor Sigismund, King of Bohemia and Hungary, returns from Prague to Hungary. Du...
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Women Offside
Kastl is a hairdresser but his real passion is his second job as football referee. This job takes al...
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Capricious Summer
Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimmi...
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Circus in the Circus
To Moscow have arrived the participants of the international conference of the zoophilologists and a...
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The Borrowed Face
It is the 1930s. Physician Bartos devotedly attends poor patients in the city suburbs, at the same t...
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Mary
For a long time, Marie cannot admit to the break-up of her long marriage and believes that her husba...
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Neporažení
As Nazi troops prepare to occupy the already truncated Czechoslovak Republic, a small military garri...
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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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Hroch
The bank officer Bedrich Hroch is sent by the bank director to the zoo, which asked an allocation of...
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This Is How Love Begins...
Two hilarious short stories set in the milieu of apprentice youth, depicting the amorous travails of...
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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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Zítra se bude tančit všude
A group of union members, impressed by the First World Festival of Democratic Youth, held in Prague ...
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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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Jestřáb kontra Hrdlička
A story about the conditions in Bohemia in the second half of the nineteenth century, when small-tow...
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Rudá záře nad Kladnem
The year is 1918. Toník returns home from the front. In Kladno, where he arrives, things are seethin...
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People from the Subway
Three short stories. Prague finally sees the approval of the subway construction. Thousands of indiv...
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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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Everything Ends Tonight
The adventurous story of a young soldier, lance corporal Milan Pazdera, who falls in love with a bea...
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Marathon
It is 5 May 1945 and the uprising against the hated German occupiers has broken out in Prague. The C...
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Expres z Norimberka
An adventure film about the struggle of the Czechoslovak security authorities against Western agents...
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Bratři Kipové
The ship's first officer, Karel Kip, and his brother, engineer Petr Kip, are convicted as mutineers ...
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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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Výstraha
In the last days of the war, American planes bomb a synthetic gasoline plant in the Sudetenland. The...
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Kudy kam?
Spouses Vojta and Růžena Koskub are an ideal couple: they both love each other and are both doing we...
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Today for the Last Time
Concert master Karel Mašek is a drunk, as well as engineer Danda and other regular guests of the pub...
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Ještě svatba nebyla...
At the annual festival in Strážnice, long-time rivals - cooperative members from the neighboring mun...
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How to Dupe a Lawyer
Attorney Horic is a specialist for cases connected with motoring. He approaches to his work unconven...
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Případ dr. Kováře
An ideologically-oriented film set in a prestigious medical sanatorium - a young doctor sympathizes ...
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Karhanova parta
A construction comedy about the labor struggle of two groups of workers in a Prague factory. The old...
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Racek Is Late
Baker Jan Racek (Vladimír Repa) is a very hard-working and sensible man. His great passion is pigeon...
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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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Life for Jan Kaspar
The bridegroom Jan Kaspar is an officer in the Klement Gottwald's Nová Hut rolling-mill. After biddi...
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Way Leading to Happiness
Despite her father's protests, Vlasta Tomešová wants to become a tractor driver. However, before her...
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Once Upon a Time, There Was a King...
A selfish self-centered widowed ruler, barely tolerated by his subjects and called appropriately eno...
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Velké dobrodružství
A biographical film about the traveler Emil Holub, conceived as an illustrative story of an exceptio...
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Na konci města
Captain Jirák of the SNB is searching for the perpetrator of the murder of the former owner of an ap...
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Muž s orlem a slepicí
The young dude, who can't even make responsible decisions in life, doesn't get along with the group ...
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Kavárna na hlavní třídě
On his first day in a new place, waiter Josef Kučera stands up for his old servant Bartoš and bellho...
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Chlap jako hora
We learn that the greatest virtue of socialist competition is collective cooperation. This is what t...
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Tank Brigade
The fate of a tank crew on the most difficult part of the First Czechoslovak Independent Brigade's c...
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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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To byla noc
On his first business trip in a new place, driver Rudo has an accident. A drunken truck driver dente...
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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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The Seventh Day, the Eighth Night
An allegory set in an archetypal Czech village, it tells the story of what happens when a series of ...
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Lion with a White Mane
The film tells the exciting life of the great Czech composer Leos Janácek (1854-1928), also known by...
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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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Waiting For Patrick
Helenka, a textile industrial student, invents an ideal man who is the envy of all her friends. The ...
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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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Zvířata ve městě
The juxtaposition of animals locked in cages in a zoo and people shackled by the confinement of the ...
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Ten zázračný dotek lásky
Václav, a successful man in his fifties, falls in love with his charming young secretary Miluška and...
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Utopím si ho sám
The difference in personalities and lifestyles is the core of Zdeněk Svěrák's hilarious comedy. The ...
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