František Dibarbora
Birthday: 1916-11-19
Place of Birth: Preßburg, Austria-Hungary [now Bratislava, Slovakia]
Biography: Slovak actor of Italian origin (father Giacomo Di Barbora) was born on November 19, 1916 in Bratislava. František was a great athlete in his youth, he played football for Slovan Bratislava, he was an attacker, he played hockey in the winter - he was a goalkeeper (he represented SLOVAKIA). His father suggested that he not want to be an actor. František listened to him and enrolled at the Academy of Music and Drama in Bratislava. He graduated in 1938. He became a member of the SND at school. In this theater he was not only in drama but also in opera! (1940-42) He performed about 210 theater characters in the play. František Dibarbora also made a name for himself on Slovak radio. He was especially popular in comic scenes, sketches and I remember that as a little boy I listened to his PIRAMID every Sunday morning. František Dibarbora appears in the film as early as 1938 in the film UNBEATED ARMY. After the war, he played in the famous BULKED BORDER. M. Frič also cast him in the film WAR! The "beautiful" 50s came. He mainly "builds" in the films and Dibarbora plays in these films. But even here he shows that he is a comedian. His comedian will appear in films (DAM, FRIDAY 13, ŠTVORYLKA, JOŽKO PÚČIK AND HIS CAREER, ZEMIANSČŤ, HOLIDAY WITH AN ANGEL). They are all comedies and Dibarbora is probably the best Slovak comedian these years. His best comedy of those years is Lack's film ROCK IN THE OFFER. Dibarbora also showed his acting in the characters of German SS men. His role as "Herman Thiele" in the film WOLF HOLES earned him the NATIONAL FILM AWARD (1949). He played a similar character in the film WHILE KOHÚT DOES NOT SING (1969). In the late 1950s, when television began broadcasting, it automatically began to appear in this medium as well. You played many serious but also comic characters here. I will mention a two-part tel. the film THE SOLDIER IN THE FIELD (1964), Ostrich Party (1967), later it was the US TRAGEDY (1976), ESCAPE FROM THE GOLDEN LANDSCAPE (1977) or the series SAFARI (1986), where he got his last major role. Unforgettable and famous is his "pastor Evans" in the production MERRY LADIES FROM WINDSOR. This actor from the capital H, he also taught at the Academy of Performing Arts, was awarded the title of "deserved artist" in 1986. He died as a result of a serious car accident on September 4, 1987 in Bratislava.
Movies
The Devil Does Not Sleep
Episodic film consisting of three satirical shorts ('Smutný káder', 'Typický prípad' and 'Vel'korysá...
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Šťastie príde v nedeľu
Three friends, Emil, Vrabec and Mišo, spend every Sunday playing the lottery, each nursing a persona...
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Earthly Honor
Historical satire from the first half of the 19th century, which captures the decay and decline of t...
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The Terribly Sad Princess
Musical fairy tale tells the story of prince and princesses from neighbouring friendly countries who...
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Pozor, ide Jozefína...
A satirical story about a young teacher, Josefína, who resolutely embarks on a fight against a group...
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Pán si neželal nič
Mr. Ctibor once worked as a hotel valet, and although he is retired, he is still eager to prove that...
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Dvanásť nahnevaných mužov
Slovak remake of the 1957 Sidney Lumet movie, "12 Angry Men"....
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Oblomov
The dramatization of the novel depicts a period when the patriarchal way of life in Russia was comin...
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Pštrosí večierok
Television adaptation of Ivan Bukovčan's tragicomedy. The story of people who meet at a post-graduat...
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Timon Aténsky
A television adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy about the destructive power of wealth. Timon, a ric...
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Soccer Fans
Three soccer fans are determined to do literally anything to get to the soccer match between Czechos...
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Smrť šitá na mieru
Bratislava, 1930s. The owner of a luxury tailoring salon, Alfréd Blum, has always relied on a classy...
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Raz, dva, tri
A situational comedy from a world of unlimited possibilities, in which a poor taxi driver becomes a ...
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Pán a hvezdár
On this naive and awkwardly narrated fairy tale it is remarkable that it also established the tradit...
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Heloisa a Abelard
A classic story about the tragic, yet indestructible love of young Heloise for the heretical monk an...
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Slnko vychádza nad Prašivou
A television film from the period of World War II, whose hero is Ondrej, living alone in his widow's...
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The Song of the Grey Pigeon
An unusual children's film set during World War II in Czechoslovakia, this compelling drama unfolds ...
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Koniec a začiatok
Television adaptation of Roman Kaliský's play. Reconstruction of a trial with a journalist from the ...
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Chlap prezývaný Brumteles
Who would not remember the impressive robust acting of one of the most outstanding artists of the mi...
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Bačova žena
Television film based on the classic Slovak drama by Ivan Stodola. The theme of the play is the retu...
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Smrť prichádza v daždi
A Slovak detective story set in contemporary Bratislava and featuring ordinary people with their own...
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Jožko Púčik a jeho kariéra
The TV adaptation of Ivan Stodola's satirical theatre comedy tells the story of a shy charity offici...
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Trip on the Danube
A group of Slovak tourists travels to Budapest on a luxury liner with a trio of eternal fortune-tell...
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A Pact with the Devil
A comedy about five students who are un-justly suspected of trying to lose their virginity before th...
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Niet inej cesty
A biographical film about the Slovak nationalist Ľudovít Štúr. It captures the revolutionary events ...
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Albert
Story of an extraordinary musician, violinist, who was famous, but his alcoholism led him to poverty...
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Páni sa zabávajú
The story of a rural landowner and his struggle with "friends" who try to deprive him of his advanta...
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Beware!
A drama about Slovaks who emigrated before WW I. It is focused on the life of Ondrej Muranica. He em...
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Place of the World Istanbul
An alcoholic tries to rob an intellectual and suddenly recognises him as his childhood friend. They ...
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Veselé panie z Windsoru
Sir John Falstaff, a bon vivant and womanizer, courts Mrs. Ford one day and Mrs. Page the next. They...
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Master Executioner
A dramatic story about two friends - fisherman Richardus and municipal executioner Emil Targo takes ...
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Štvorylka
A comedy film taking an ironic view of the bourgeois period prior to the First World War....
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Nedokončená partia
An original TV adaptation of a play about human solidarity. The story of a man who, feeling guilty f...
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Horúčka
A psychological story of a young printing house leader and his subordinates and a "dangerous contrac...
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Šepkajúci fantóm
A dangerous maniac is on the loose in the city, targeting women... The last episode of the free Slov...
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The Last Witch
This dramatic story is situated in the town of Trnava of the 18th century. Painter Peter paints an a...
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Katka
Strong-willed peasant girl Katka disobeys her father and heads to the city to work in a factory, whe...
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Jánošík
This film is one of the most popular pictures of Slovak cinema and relates the story about the legen...
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Freckled Max and the Spooks
A parody of Frankensteinian stories. It is a story of a little boy, an orphan who arrives at the Cas...
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V piatok, trinásteho...
After his retirement, Jozef Rebro, a former chief state clerk, finds himself in a new situation. No ...
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Oko za oko
The story of two families – the county governor Gedeon and the deputy county governor Török, whose l...
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Until The Rooster Crows
Existentialist drama based on the play of the same name by the Slovak writer Ivan Bukovčan. The stor...
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Priehrada
The construction of a large dam in Slovakia is hindered by the influence of small farmers on the lan...
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Holiday with Angel
Strict and always dissatisfied grumbler Mr. Angel gets a voucher for summer recreation. He rejects i...
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The Coward
In a remote Slovak village in the closing days of World War II, a schoolteacher and his young wife f...
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Archimedov zákon
Contemporary satire denounces careerism, dictatorial ways, sycophancy and servility. An inconspicuou...
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Neporažená armáda
A young farmer, Jan Aleš, is drafted from his native Pošumaví to join the army. Since he likes his n...
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Predjarie
During the Slovak National Uprising, even ordinary people were determined to perform heroic deeds, e...
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Balada o vkladnej knižke
A drama of a family whose members pay the price for their desire for material well-being....
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Sign of the Anchor
The mysterious story of a young girl Pavla, who mysteriously disappeared from her mother five years ...
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White Darkness
A young doctor and a group of injured are hiding in an underground shelter and are liberated by Sovi...
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Wolves' Lairs
This drama from the times of Slovak National Uprising is situated in a small Slovak village. It is t...
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Čertova stena
Two roommates – Ivan Trnovský, a university student from a wealthy family, and Petr Gazdík, a young ...
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Tatranský pohár 1950
A documentary film about a large international competition organized in February 1950 in the Tatras,...
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Muž ktorý sa nevrátil
Police Lieutenant Vlado Hronec, together with the curious journalist Zvar, first search for the thie...
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Lazy sa pohly
The life on the poor Slovak hills, the lazy hills, where agriculture is at a primitive stage and whe...
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Bé rímska trojka lomeno šesť
The conflict of the play is built on the confrontation of two different life attitudes - the attitud...
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