Ivan Franěk

Ivan Franěk

Birthday: 1964-06-17

Place of Birth: Plzeň, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]

Biography: Ivan Franěk (born June 17, 1964) is a Czech actor. After relocating from former Czechoslovakia to France in 1989, he has been active mainly in French and – particularly – Italian film & TV industry. His breakthrough role was lead Tobias Horvath in the Italian romance drama Brucio nel vento (2002), directed by Silvio Soldini and based on the novel Hier by Ágota Kristóf.

Movies

Unknown Hour
Unknown Hour

Hynek Michánek wants to study medicine but fails his entrance exams five times. He starts a job as a...

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Brucio nel vento
Brucio nel vento

For ten years, immigrant Tobias has worked at a Swiss clock factory and, in the relentless ticking, ...

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36th Precinct
36th Precinct

In Paris, two cops are competing for the vacant job of chief of police, in the middle of the search ...

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L'Entente cordiale
L'Entente cordiale

The upper-class secret agent teaming up accidentally with an easily-corrupted, sly interpreter......

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La banda dei tre
La banda dei tre

Take an irascible dwarf whose surname is Piccolo, with an easy trigger and an immoderate passion for...

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Night Bus
Night Bus

Valerio Mastandrea is Franz, a night bus driver on the airport route who owes a lot of money from po...

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Anything for Her
Anything for Her

Lisa and Julien are married and lead a happy uneventful life with their son Oscar. But their life ra...

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One Life, Maybe Two
One Life, Maybe Two

You're 20 years old and life is full of endless possibilities. But, on a rainy evening, you bumps in...

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Provincia meccanica
Provincia meccanica

A mentally unstable woman loses her daughter's custody to her mother. Things get even more complicat...

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Little Girl Blue
Little Girl Blue

Julie is a woman who seemingly has everything. A handsome husband, teenage daughter and a thriving, ...

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Smolu nosíš ty, láska
Smolu nosíš ty, láska

Monika, a woman in her fifties, feels that she has reached all the important milestones in her life....

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Two Words as the Key
Two Words as the Key

Stories about parent-child relationships, fate, and the unknown forces that guide our steps unfold a...

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Caged
Caged

Somewhere in Eastern Europe. Carole is a young nurse with a humanitarian aid group that has reached ...

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Fuori dal coro
Fuori dal coro

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Il prossimo tuo
Il prossimo tuo

Rome, Paris and Helsinki right after the Madrid bombings. Three stories about people who, for differ...

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Darkness
Darkness

A man leaves his busy city life for the peace of the country home where he spent his early childhood...

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Islands
Islands

Ivan, a drifting immigrant in search of work and dignity, lands on an Italian island only to be met ...

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Il silenzio dell'allodola
Il silenzio dell'allodola

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L'amore non basta
L'amore non basta

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Four of Us
Four of Us

James prepares for his eighth grade oral exams while his family is going through different times....

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Ritual - A Psychomagic Story
Ritual - A Psychomagic Story

The fragile Lia suffers from a deep depression. Her relationship with her boyfriend Viktor is gettin...

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Cuore di donna
Cuore di donna

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Occamova břitva
Occamova břitva

A married couple unexpectedly find themselves witness to a murder. The perpetrators pay them to rema...

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Chaos
Chaos

A bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into t...

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OSS 117: From Africa with Love
OSS 117: From Africa with Love

1981. Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, aka OSS 117, is back. For this new mission – more delicate, more ...

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Deux femmes à Paris
Deux femmes à Paris

In Paris in 1935, a young Jewish woman married to an anti-fascist activist befriends her neighbor wh...

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Lost Seamen
Lost Seamen

Based on a novel by Jean-Claude Izzo, this melancholic movie focuses on three sailors being the last...

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Blood of My Blood
Blood of My Blood

In the Middle Ages, Federico, a soldier, visits the convent in Bobbio, where Sister Benedetta is fac...

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Chlorine
Chlorine

Seventeen-year-old Jenny dreams of becoming a synchronized swimmer. Family events turn her life upsi...

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The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan
The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan

D'Artagnan, a spirited young Gascon, is left for dead after trying to save a noblewoman from being k...

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Animali randagi
Animali randagi

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Bolgia totale
Bolgia totale

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Muddy Shoes
Muddy Shoes

An elderly Jewish woman, who was a teenager during the outset of the Holocaust and was forced to cho...

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Tulpa - Demon of Desire
Tulpa - Demon of Desire

Lisa Boeri is at the top of her corporate career. At night she frequents the notorious Club Tulpa, o...

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Ears
Ears

A man wakes up one morning with an annoying ringing sound in his ears. A note on the fridge says: "Y...

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Vodka Lemon
Vodka Lemon

In a remote, isolated Yazidi Kurdish village in post-Soviet Armenia, Hamo, a widower with a pitiful ...

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La Leggenda di Bob Wind
La Leggenda di Bob Wind

Anna, a French journalist at the peak of her career, drops everything to pursue a small story. A mad...

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The Furlough
The Furlough

The story of four inmates during their 48 hours furlough, of their reality and how it has brought th...

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L'Histoire d'une mère
L'Histoire d'une mère

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Upon My Skin
Upon My Skin

On My Skin (Italian: Sulla mia pelle, also known as Upon My Skin) is a 2003 Italian crime-drama film...

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The Young Karl Marx
The Young Karl Marx

26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets...

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We Believed
We Believed

1828. In the wake of the repression of revolutionary uprisings in the monarchist South, three young ...

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Agadah
Agadah

A hieratic Count sits in his elegant mansion finishing his writings - Alphonse, a young Waloon offic...

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Look Up
Look Up

During a break on a rooftop, Teco, a young baker, notices the intriguing fall of a strange bird. He ...

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The Invisible Boy: Second Generation
The Invisible Boy: Second Generation

Three years later Michele (The Invisible boy) meets his mother and his twin sister. Both have storie...

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In carne e ossa
In carne e ossa

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The Hole
The Hole

Ambulance-chasing lawyers takes on the case of a convicted murderer who, just being released after d...

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The Great Beauty
The Great Beauty

Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his ...

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Smiles of Sad Men
Smiles of Sad Men

A writer gets into a rehab where he meets a lot of successful men who destroyed their lives with alc...

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Codice Aurora
Codice Aurora

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Miserere
Miserere

Paris, December. A conductor of a choir is found mysteriously murdered, with burst eardrums. Lionel ...

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Anna
Anna

Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and ...

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White Flowers
White Flowers

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Mstitel
Mstitel

Anton is, or rather was, a famous theater actor, but cruel life began to put treacherous obstacles i...

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Army of Crime
Army of Crime

This gripping historical drama recounts the story of Armenian-born Missak Manouchian, a woodworker a...

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A New Perspective
A New Perspective

Early one morning, in an unspecified and seemingly far off time, a 12 year old boy, together with s...

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The War in Paris
The War in Paris

In Paris, in 1943, Jules, a 19-year-old Jew, lived without an ideal, tossed about by circumstances. ...

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Chiara e Francesco
Chiara e Francesco

Italy, XIII century. The story of friendship between two young people who dedicated their lives to G...

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L'ultima sfida
L'ultima sfida

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Waiting For Patrick
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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Kde končí láska
Kde končí láska

Love takes many forms, and Albert, Kateřina, and Gábina are not afraid to go to extremes in their pu...

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Dracula
Dracula

When a 15th-century prince denounces God after the devastating loss of his wife, he inherits an eter...

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Fichtelberg
Fichtelberg

In 1547, young knight Petr Pětipeský is sent to the remote village of Urbach to oversee the construc...

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Fortuna
Fortuna

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