Jana Brejchová

Jana Brejchová

Birthday: 1940-01-20

Place of Birth: Prague, Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia [now Czech Republic]

Biography: Jana Brejchová (born 20 January 1940) is a Czech film actress. She has appeared in more than 70 films since 1953, and is considered one of the Czech Republic's most popular and familiar starring actresses.

Movies

In the Dust of the Stars
In the Dust of the Stars

A radio signal attracts a team of astronauts to a mysterious planet. Once there, they are warmly wel...

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Labyrint srdce
Labyrint srdce

It is 1955 and the government in Czechoslovakia has declared an amnesty for post-war emigrants. Many...

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Nechci nic slyšet
Nechci nic slyšet

An 11-year-old boy is the only survivor of a tragic car accident in which both parents are killed. I...

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The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen

A 20th century man lands on the Moon and discovers that Baron Munchausen has beaten him to it, accom...

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I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen
I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen

This futuristic science fiction comedy features an atomic bomb blast that causes women to grow beard...

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Jehla
Jehla

In a veterinary research institute, its workers are trying to deal with the sudden appearance of rab...

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Luk královny Dorotky
Luk královny Dorotky

Set in a vagabond and petty bourgeois environment, the three stories deal with the pitfalls of love,...

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Aber Doktor
Aber Doktor

Dentist Dr. Franke's selfless willingness to help is much appreciated by neighbors and acquaintances...

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A Night at Karlstein
A Night at Karlstein

No Woman is allowed into Karlstejn Castle! Yet the enamoured Daniele Kolářová and the equally enamou...

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La Chanson du mal-aimé
La Chanson du mal-aimé

Biography of the life of Guillaume Apollinaire....

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The Return of the Prodigal Son
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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Beauty in Trouble
Beauty in Trouble

Marcela can't bear Jarda any longer, so she threatens divorce and takes the kids to her mom's, whose...

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Searching
Searching

Michal's father and his friends are stigmatized by their war experience and the post-war social defo...

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End of the Lonely Farm Berhof
End of the Lonely Farm Berhof

Drama set on an isolated farm on the Czech-Polish border immediately after the end of WWII....

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Higher Principle
Higher Principle

During the Nazi occupation of a Czech city civilians are being rounded up on the slightest of pretex...

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If a Thousand Clarinets
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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Gripsholm Castle
Gripsholm Castle

Young lovers Kurt and Lydia spend their first vacation together in Sweden at the picturesque Gripsho...

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Courage for Every Day
Courage for Every Day

A passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure of hi...

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Return to Paradise Lost
Return to Paradise Lost

A professor reunites with an old friend who inspires him to return to Czechoslovakia for the first t...

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Devilish Honeymoon
Devilish Honeymoon

Black comedy about a genius inventor and two young, smart and beautiful women. Both of them putting...

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Do We Match Each Other, Darling?
Do We Match Each Other, Darling?

Marta (Jana Brejchová) and Viktor (Vlastimil Brodský) celebrate the tenth anniversary of their weddi...

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Nespavost ve dvou
Nespavost ve dvou

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The Nun's Night
The Nun's Night

A dark fable set in an early 1950s Czech village, a time of Soviet-style socialism which saw the imp...

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The House in Karp Lane
The House in Karp Lane

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Lekce
Lekce

During World War II, a German university professor creates a spy ring that supplies the Allies with ...

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Every Day - Sunday
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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Inn At the Flying Dragon
Inn At the Flying Dragon

Joseph Sheridan le Fanu's tale, "Inn at the Flying Dragon," brings dark fantasy, ghostly apparitions...

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Jeden ze soubojů
Jeden ze soubojů

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The Galoshes of Happiness
The Galoshes of Happiness

The Slippers of Happiness is another film made by the Slovak Film Production in co-production with W...

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Shots in 3/4 Time
Shots in 3/4 Time

B 501, a newly developed controller for missiles, has disappeared despite the strict surveillance. P...

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The Death of Black King
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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The Dream of Captain Loy
The Dream of Captain Loy

An American military plane takes six people, who have taken part in a NATO maneuver, from Tripoli to...

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Scalpel, Please
Scalpel, Please

A psychological drama exploring the notion of the doctor as a moral authority, who within the framew...

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Pokus o vraždu
Pokus o vraždu

The main character of the story is Professor Trojan, the head of a Prague clinic, who is not experie...

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Nothing Really Happened
Nothing Really Happened

An overprotective mother plagues her daughter out of guilt over unintentionally scarring her daughte...

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Silent Joy
Silent Joy

This film is a psychological study of a woman who chooses solitude as an escape from the duplicity a...

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O malíři Adamovi
O malíři Adamovi

Young painter Adam longs to paint a masterpiece, so he sets off into the world to gain experience. H...

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Revenge
Revenge

A celebrated theatre director’s perfect life unravels when his wife’s secret lover exposes the hollo...

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Hrad z písku
Hrad z písku

Two women, one girl, and one man trapped by words....

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The Borrowed Face
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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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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Wolf Trap
Wolf Trap

The title of this highly-regarded Czech drama translates as Wolf Trap. Set in the 1920s, the story r...

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Anička s lískovými oříšky
Anička s lískovými oříšky

A romantic fairy tale about faithful love and how difficult it is to fulfill it. "I have never seen ...

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Modré z nebe
Modré z nebe

The fantastic world of little Thomas, who conjured up beauty and happiness....

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Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast

Julie, the youngest daughter of a bankrupt merchant, sacrifices her life in order to save her father...

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Pani Heléne
Pani Heléne

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Citlivá místa
Citlivá místa

The relationship between a teenage daughter and her mother is not an easy time in the life of either...

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Čarodějné námluvy
Čarodějné námluvy

A cheerful fairy tale about a prince whose parents wanted to cure him with a magic potion. The king ...

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Ohnivé ženy
Ohnivé ženy

When he didn't want her, a stick or a charmer was used, in more serious cases the love stone helped....

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The Pipes
The Pipes

This three-part Austrian/Czech comedy stretches the boundaries of what is considered to be humorous....

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On the Poachers Trail
On the Poachers Trail

Second part of the trilogy. Vasek is expected to go to Bulgaria for a holiday with his parents durin...

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Barrandovské nokturno aneb Jak film tančil a zpíval
Barrandovské nokturno aneb Jak film tančil a zpíval

The 50th anniversary of the Barrandov studios was celebrated with a spectacular show: many directors...

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Morálka paní Dulské
Morálka paní Dulské

The suffocating conditions in a bourgeois family were depicted in several films in the second half o...

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Behind the Sloe-Bush
Behind the Sloe-Bush

Third part of the trilogy. Vaska again is visiting his grandfather living in Bohemian Forest and und...

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Under the Badgers Rock
Under the Badgers Rock

The gamekeeper Straka lives by himself in the Bohemian forest hill. He has quarreled with his only s...

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Die zweite Haut
Die zweite Haut

A divorced woman tries to restart her life....

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What Hedwig Didn't Tell Us
What Hedwig Didn't Tell Us

A sad story about a young girl who is forced to move from one foster home to another....

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Escape Home
Escape Home

A twelve-year-old is looking for his biological parents after discovering the fact that he was adopt...

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The Motive for Murder
The Motive for Murder

A short story film depicting the three different faces of crime. In the short story "The Weekend", K...

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The End of a Priest
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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King and Women
King and Women

A married couple in which he is the older and powerful one and she is young and charming. Their mutu...

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Desire
Desire

A poignant overview of how short life can be, this interesting drama from Czech director Vojetch Jas...

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Půlpenny
Půlpenny

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Caught by Night
Caught by Night

A communist journalist from Prague is sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp....

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Romanetto
Romanetto

A young woman from an old patrician family in Prague collapses and is institutionalized in a psychic...

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V zámku a podzámčí
V zámku a podzámčí

The story of an unhappy, childless princess, her loving husband and the poor villagers threatened by...

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Der Andere neben dir
Der Andere neben dir

Two doctors, a German and a Czech brain surgeon, meet in a Berlin hospital, unaware of how fatefully...

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Šťastlivec Sulla
Šťastlivec Sulla

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Pasiáns
Pasiáns

The story of six men and one woman who, while exploring the underground part of an old palace, disco...

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Never Strike A Woman... Even with A Flower
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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Two Brothers
Two Brothers

A love story in which two brothers - naive officer Yuri and demonic lover Alexander - compete for th...

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Puppies
Puppies

Explores young adults' fears of being conscripted by the communist government into working outside o...

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A Touch of a Butterfly
A Touch of a Butterfly

A romantic story of a young nobleman who sees a beautiful girl at the carnival who seems familiar to...

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The Conception of My Younger Brother
The Conception of My Younger Brother

Director's memoirs of his childhood in a lively tenement house, in particular one hot summer day in ...

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Probuzení
Probuzení

Delinquent youths wander aimlessly and commit mischief. Few, however, manage to break free from the ...

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May Stars
May Stars

May 1945. On the outskirts of Prague, ordinary people meet Soviet soldiers-liberators with tears of ...

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Angolský deník lékařky
Angolský deník lékařky

The true story of a group of Czechoslovak citizens who are building a paper industry in Alto Catumbe...

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The White Lady
The White Lady

This castle has its own ghost - a mysterious White lady. She emerges from the painting on the wall w...

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Jak se dělá divadlo
Jak se dělá divadlo

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Zlatý pavouk
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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Marathon
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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Vina Vladimíra Olmera
Vina Vladimíra Olmera

Vladimír Olmer is a student at the Faculty of Medicine. His father, a famous Prague surgeon, is righ...

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The Young Man and Moby Dick
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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Zamilovaná
Zamilovaná

A young and sympathetic teacher joins the music school. He leads the school orchestra and also teach...

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Zelené obzory
Zelené obzory

A young agricultural expert fails as the manager of a cattle farm on a state farm in the borderlands...

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Arachné
Arachné

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Můj nezdolný lev
Můj nezdolný lev

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Ztracená revue
Ztracená revue

The music and dance revue about the clown and the girl from the poster takes place in the streets of...

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Schůzka se stíny
Schůzka se stíny

Two people scarred by a wartime past meet again years later during an archaeological dig. But the si...

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Love Without Words
Love Without Words

1. A taxi driver barely finishes his coffee before a young woman asks for a ride to impress her boyf...

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Muž s orlem a slepicí
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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Olověný chléb
Olověný chléb

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Roztržka
Roztržka

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A Suburban Romance
A Suburban Romance

A young, unmarried woman finds herself a "little bit pregnant" and she tries to hide this fact from ...

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Poutníci
Poutníci

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Karlovy Vary Promenades
Karlovy Vary Promenades

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Strange Airlines
Strange Airlines

A woman discovers a conspiracy while searching for her missing travel companion....

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„Na krásné vyhlídce“
„Na krásné vyhlídce“

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