Ivan Pokorný
Birthday: 1952-12-12
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Biography: Ivan Pokorný (born in 1952 in the Czech Republic) is an actor. He graduated in Acting from the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Fine Arts and in 1976-1983 and worked as an actor in various Czech theatres. He also had several roles in film and on television. In 1983 he emigrated to Austria, worked as a lecturer at the Vienna Conservatory and in 1984-1998 as a director in Austrian and German theatres. In 1995 he decided to return to the Czech Republic and has been working mainly as a director of TV-films since then. He also makes documentaries and is particularly interested in themes connected with the cultural history of his country. In some projects he takes part as a producer or co-producer.
Movies
The Medal
The trenches of World War I provide for a captivating backdrop to the drama of Corporal Hoferik. In ...
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Concert
Rock concerts used to be suspicious. They were supposed to attract all sorts of strange individuals ...
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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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Bulldogs and Cherries
The dreaded Italian mafioso, Marian Labuda, will also be convinced. Mafioso Carmello was guilty of t...
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Konečná stanice
The story takes place in a retirement home and creates a mosaic of the lives of old people who are t...
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God's Sin
Hrích boha (God's Sin) is Agnieszka Holland's poetic vision of the world as a trap, based on the nov...
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A Valley of Beautiful Frogs
A fifteen years old Jana escapes summer camp wearing nothing but bikini......
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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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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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Hotel Pacific
Set in the early 1930s, a young man finds a job as a dishwasher in a hotel and quickly works his way...
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Amadeus
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
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Sugar House
In the final days of the Second World War in 1945 Frantisek Pribyl is killed during a shoot-out with...
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Cold Sunday
A seemingly harmless fit of jealousy between two lovers brings about an increasingly sinister entang...
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Únos domů
Libor is a teenager who, in a matter of minutes, finds himself transported from the exclusive world ...
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Lost in Paradise
Evžen lives a bohemian life in Prague. An unexpected trip back to his homeland Switzerland confronts...
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