Josef Kemr
Birthday: 1922-06-20
Place of Birth: Praha - Československo
Biography: Josef Kemr se narodil 20. června 1922 v Praze do rodiny švadleny a ševce. Mladého Josefa vedl otec k umění a po něm zdědil nadání hraní na strunné nástroje. S bratrem vystupoval už v roce 1932 ve Vinohradském divadle a později i ve filmu. Vystudoval Obchodní školu v Praze v roce 1942 a ihned odešel k divadelní kočovné společnosti A. Budínské – Červíčkové (1942 – 1945). Poté prošel divadlem na Kladně (1945 – 1947), divadlem Akropolis (1947 – 1948), Divadlem S. K. Neumanna (1948 – 1950), Městskými divadly pražskými (1950 – 1965) a činoherním souborem pražského Národního divadla (1965 – 1995), kterého byl členem až do své smrti. Dnes je ve foyeru Národního divadla umístěna jeho busta.
Movies
The Little Shepherd Boy from the Valley
In 1947 by the Beskid mountains, the traces of war still linger, destroyed tanks dispersed throughou...
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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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Já jsem Stěna smrti
An aging street stuntman plans new equipment to make his motorcycle stunts even more impressive, but...
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Proč nevěřit na zázraky
Wartime events from a child's perspective were a popular theme during the previous regime - here it ...
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Marketa Lazarová
Mikolás and his brother Adam end up with a young German hostage of noble blood during a robbery. Whi...
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Miluji Tě
Tomorrow is Alice's sixteenth birthday and her classmate Aleš, in the words of his grandmother, "pre...
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How sun gave puppy its water back
The sun is shining bright today! The Puppy would like to drink some water to cool off, but his bowl ...
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The Emperor and the Golem
The Emperor's mismanagement of his country is provoking some in his court to plot to overthrow him. ...
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Angel in the Mountains
Mr. Angel goes winter sporting and at the same time investigates his son's fiancee....
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Witchhammer
In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confe...
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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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Agentura Pepa
Three pensioners, three Josephs, living on a housing estate, are bored. They have nothing to do, so ...
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Hasek’s Tales from the Old Monarchy
Four short stories by the greatest Czech satirist Jaroslav Hašek. "Soup for Poor Children" tells the...
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Green Gold
Working on the hops fields gathering hops for beer, Filip catches a glimpse of fellow worker/comrade...
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Jak se Franta naučil bát
A fairy tale story about how the enchanted mill was freed from ghosts and how the shepherd Franta kn...
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Probuzení
Delinquent youths wander aimlessly and commit mischief. Few, however, manage to break free from the ...
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Give the Devil His Due
Dorota, a bad woman married the miller, out of sheer greed drives him to death. She then took the mi...
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Marecek, Pass Me the Pen!
This comedy is about one average family. The father works as master in the factory and his son is st...
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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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Nenechte se rušit
Repairing the risers means dug-up bathrooms, toilets, kitchens – in short, a house without water. Te...
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U nás v Mechově
A rumour that a large holiday resort is supposedly being built on the banks of the local pond causes...
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Black Saturday
In this crime story, surprisingly, neither the all-powerful criminals nor the spies or saboteurs are...
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Valčík pro milión
A girl from a dance ensemble from Uherské Hradiště and an amateur jazz musician from Strakonice will...
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The King of Kings
During his work assignment in Tamani Kingdom, Czech worker Lojza saves a local man from dying in the...
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Opera ve vinici
The peculiar Fanoš Mikulecký is the originator of many well-known songs from Podluží, generally cons...
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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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Lucie
The leader of the fast-track workers' party is appointed worker director of the unprofitable Lucie m...
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Lov na mamuta
A young man tries to enter the building of the Mammoth Cybernetic Supermachines Research Institute a...
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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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School Is the Foundation of Life
Seventh form pupils at a grammar school in Přívlaky are preparing for a secondary school sports comp...
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There is a Dragon Behind Humny
In one royal forest, where coal miner Patočka lives and works, the friendly dragon Mrak settles down...
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Lucerna
A host of actors in the classic national fairy tale by A. Jirásek. Jirásek's "Lucerna" is the best-k...
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Paklíc
Successful writer Gabriel Anděl still loves his wife Lola very much, but he can't stand the way she ...
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How to Get Rid of Helenka
Radio announcer Petrícek reads the evening news in a studio. Viki, the female editor of a woman's pr...
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Jarní vody
Sanin, an aging Russian nobleman, recalls his unfulfilled love for a simple girl with whom he fell i...
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A Man Who Rose in Price
Mr. Benda, a married father of two children, works for a company that liquidates old banknotes. Afte...
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Honor and Glory
This historical film by Hynek Bočan touches upon the indecisiveness of the Czech nation, ready to be...
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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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Hudba z Marsu
The employees of the furniture company MARS welcome a rare visitor with hired music. Their boast tha...
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The Ninth Heart
Martin, a poor student, volunteers to go on a quest to find a cure for the princess Adriana, who is ...
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Spravedlnost pro Selvina
The fate of the insignificant poet Leonard Undene is transposed into the media atmosphere of the lat...
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Divá Bára
This is a romantic story about a brave, self-made girl, despised daughter of a shepherd. She is not ...
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I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen
This futuristic science fiction comedy features an atomic bomb blast that causes women to grow beard...
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Six Black Girls
Detective Lieutenant Boruvka (Lubomír Lipský) is called to the State Scientific Library to investiga...
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Home
In the young man's imagination, the image of a mysterious house - a mystical building that symbolize...
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13th district
Inspector Cadek from the 13th police station should keep an eye on the released safe-cracker nicknam...
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Straw Hat
Slacker Maurice Fadinar wasted his whole inheritance and the only way out of this situation, as it s...
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Blázni, vodníci a podvodníci
A crazy comedy, turning into a grotesque with a number of absurd elements, tells the tangled story o...
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The Stolen Battle
In 1757, the second year of the Seven Years' War, Frederick II the Great stands at the gates of Prag...
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Valentin Dobrotivý
A very hardworking but also very naive insurance company clerk, Valentin Plavec, becomes the target ...
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Touha Sherlocka Holmese
Sherlock Holmes likes to play violin and expects a great career in music. He gets a place in a spa o...
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No Magic from Tomorrow
Mr. Tau, the quiet and kind magician with a bowler hat and an umbrella, shows up unexpectedly on the...
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Smích se lepí na paty
Sixty-year-old Joska Platejz, a peculiar jack of all trades, lives in a cottage in the Giant Mountai...
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Noční jízda
Stanek, a truck driver, is working on a large construction site far from Prague. He hasn't been home...
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The Windy Mountain
A group of temporary workers arrive at the Czech-German border to conduct geological exploration. Ho...
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Our Gang
Energetic Dr. Alice Váňová becomes the pit doctor at Mír Mine and spearheads a silicosis prevention ...
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Dream City
A married couple of artists move to a utopian town known for its absolute freedom, but behind the su...
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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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Pancho se žení
The foolish Pedro is supposed to marry the beautiful Rosita, who is also attracted to the adventurer...
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Almost King
A fairy tale about how those who have a heart and are not stingy will not fail. The most popular her...
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O ševci Matějovi
The princess wants to get married. She wants the groom to be no coward, he must be free from fear an...
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Zvony pana Mlácena
A certain Mr. Mlácen is brought to the asylum, wanting to sell two church bells. He first offers the...
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The Best Man of All
A Czech satirical comedy set around 1900. The inhabitants of the small town of Pětice are excited by...
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Kráska a zvíře
An impoverished merchant, decided to sell a precious painting of his deceased wife, wanders into a f...
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How a puppy wanted little puppies
The puppy wakes up at night due to strange unpleasant noises. The sounds don't stop, but eventually ...
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Prodaná nevěsta
Set in a South Bohemian village, this faithful film version of Smetana’s opera follows farmer Krušin...
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Flying Saucers Over Our Village
A model Communist village is visited by a flying saucer....
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Náš dědek Josef
Set in a 1950s Moravian wine village, an elderly Josef, guided by his quirky life philosophy and hum...
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Monkey's Playtime
The fisherman Fuksa fishes in the creek an old bottle and he sells it to innkeeper Merta. When Merta...
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Dveře
A tale of neighbourly teasing and how dangerous it is to leave a door off its hinges in the hallway....
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The Dear Departed
When Jan Werich wakes up as his seemingly deceased grandfather, he discovers that all the survivors ...
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Zaostřit prosím!
A Czech satirical comedy, filmed according to a script by the State Prize laureate Jiří Marek based ...
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Hledá se táta!
It all starts when two men arrive at the asylum. Mr. Houdek, who goes to see little Honzik Slavata, ...
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Poklad byzantského kupce
A detective story revolving around an ancient treasure from the ninth century, believed to have been...
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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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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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Four Murders Are Enough, Darling
Two criminal gangs are ruthlessly fighting for a 1-million dollar check that, purely by chance, got ...
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Among Us Thieves
The story of a trio of released criminals that even prison re-education did not reform. They intend ...
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Malostranské humoresky
The short story film based on the book of the same name by Karel Pecka depicts the atmosphere of the...
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Sen noci...
The film recording of the ballet performance of the State Theatre in Brno was expensively realized i...
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Konec jasnovidce
Private psychic Mathias Scibolini practices his profession properly and to the full satisfaction of ...
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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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A Great Road Ahead
About the great Czech satirist Jaroslav Hašek, who was captured by the Russians during the First Wor...
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Journey Into the Depth of the Student's Soul
Small stories from a grammar school.Děj je poskládán z celé řady epizod, které během jednoho školníh...
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Líza Soars to the Skies
The orphan Eliška Irovská, nicknamed Líza, arrives in her native village of Ptačice. As an orphan sh...
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V erbu lvice
The life story of Blessed Zdislava of Lemberk, about whom legends rather than sparse historical refe...
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Lízino štěstí
Zdenka Sulanová has grown from a leggy frog into an attractive young lady in the two years since the...
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Pohádka o lidské duši
In many fairy tales, a person has fallen in love with a supernatural being, but in few is the love s...
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I‘ll Marry Off My Wife
The film is about a slightly crazy botany professor Ducánek, who is so busy with his scientific expe...
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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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The Golden Fern
A handsome young shepherd stumbles across a magical golden fern in the forest. A stunning, enigmatic...
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Poznej svého muže
You can see for yourself that finding the right one is not easy in this Czech comedy film. The gulli...
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Rodinné trampoty oficiála Tříšky
The plump, punctual and slightly despotic Mr. Tříška worked as a housing officer, which completely d...
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Všichni musí být v pyžamu
The hero, rushing from one misfortune to another, is former accountant Řehoř Maršíček, who after a h...
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The Last Butterfly
Stage mime Antoine Moreau is compelled by the Gestapo to put on a performance for the children of Te...
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Story of Souls
The dramatization of the Old Prague short story by the writer Ignát Herrmann is an acting concert by...
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The Divine Emma
The opera lady singer Ema Destinnová is in all her splendor at the American stages. But in Europe th...
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Aesop
This film brings us back to show us the life of the famous ancient sage Aesop, who helped people wit...
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We Study After School
The heroes of the Czech film comedy are the students of the Business Academy, who sleep in the schoo...
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Rukavička
A lost lady's glove that connects several human destinies. The focus here is not on the lost part of...
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The Barnabáš Kos Case
Barnabáš Kos, a meek and modest triangle-player in a state orchestra finds himself unfathomably prom...
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The Circus Will Be
A few bus-loads of holidaymakers from the agricultural cooperative on a day trip arrive to see the s...
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Jak se ševcem šili čerti
Shoemaker Číč is a skilled craftsman, but a great mischievous and riddle-teller. Such that he tricks...
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Zvláštní případ
Lieutenant Vasátko is spending Christmas vacation in a mountain cabin where a diverse group of peopl...
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Páté kolo u vozu
Although the emancipated editor of a women's magazine proclaims that grandparents in particular shou...
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Hry a sny
Lyrical short story film about children's fantasy based on Ludvík Aškenázy's short stories Little Ch...
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Nevíte o bytě?
A comedy about the post-war housing crisis in Prague, which several young people are struggling with...
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Kasaři
A detective comedy about ex-cashiers who - except for one - have improved and lead a proper and peac...
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The Fortress
Set in the late 80s in a quiet, rural village headed by a suspicious, conspiring group of nasty lead...
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Paragraf 224
Placek (Josef Kemr), the head of research in a chemical plant, appreciates the help of his younger c...
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Rama Dama
Munich, World War II: The young Kati Zeiler runs a small barbershop. Her husband Felix is fighting...
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Those Wonderful Movie Cranks
Returning home to Prague, the magician Pasparte, an owner of a circus caravan, meets his dying colle...
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The Green Notebook
Businessman Karel Bočan is a swindler who writes down the debts of his victims in a green notebook. ...
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The Young Lady from the Riverside
The young worker Helena Pokorná and her widowed father are employed in the same factory. The father ...
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Dva ohně
A socialist drama from the time of the February coup. The owner of the brickyard will use several wo...
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Anna the Proletarian
The movie describes proletarian life in the Czech Lands after World War I....
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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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V trestném území
A detective drama set just before the unification of our physical education system. Criminal investi...
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The Secret of Blood
A biographical film about a Czech doctor, Dr. Jánský. The athletically inclined medic Jánský success...
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Frona
Frona Filípková, out of a desire for a better life, married Floriš Zobač on the land. However, the o...
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Přicházejí z tmy
In a South Bohemian village in 1951, the local rich organize acts of sabotage and try to stop the es...
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Kam slunce nechodí...
Sometimes a person faces a difficult decision. Morality is on one scale, money is on the other. A th...
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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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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 Golet in the Valley
In 1930s Ukraine, the desecration of a sacred bath disrupts the sex lives of Jewish villagers....
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Klabzuba‘s Eleven
The football team consists of eleven players. And the owner of the car repair shop, Kryštof Klapzuba...
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The White Yacht in Split
When the yacht of her former lover Mario Tudor arrives in Split, widowed Countess de Milesi, plagued...
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Tulák Macoun
A series of unfortunate events led the protagonist astray: even taking other people's money did not ...
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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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Jaroslav Hasek's Exemplary Cinematograph
Jaroslav Hašek screens four film stories in the fairground shed around 1900. After period advertisin...
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To byl český muzikant
Teacher František Kmoch is suspended because he plays at dances or composes at night. He forms a ban...
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Povídka Malostranská
A young man studying law finds a place to stay with a young conductor, thinking that he will find an...
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Občan Brych
František Brych, a principled lawyer, refuses to back the new Communist regime at his factory and gr...
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Jan Hus
The first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", completed with Jan Žižka (1955) and Proti vše...
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Jan Žižka
The second part of the revolutionary Hussite trilogy takes place in the years 1419-1420....
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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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Jarka a Věra
Student Jarek Pšenička worries teachers and parents in this Czech comedy. He is in his second year o...
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Escape from the Shadows
This exemplary "psychological drama" depicts the difficulties with which a new socialist mindset is ...
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Tragic Monday
Three nine-year-old boys are ridden with guilt after chasing their classmate into a busy street, cau...
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Vinobraní
In a South Moravian wine-growing village in the early 1970s lives an old man who cannot accept the a...
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Pantáta Bezoušek
Country man Josef Bezoušek has gone to Prague for an extended visit to his lawyer son's family. His ...
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Barbora Hlavsová
The generally respected director of a small-town savings bank, Hlavsa, commits embezzlement because ...
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Městečko na dlani
Tragicomic events in the idyllic town of Rukapán reveal both the prejudices of the local residents a...
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O ševci Matoušovi
The revolutionary year of 1848 brought great hopes among the hitherto silent classes, awakening soci...
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Nobody Knows Anything
Martin Plechatý and Petr Nový roam occupied Prague with their trams. Times are hard and sometimes su...
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The Pilgrimage to the Holy Virgin
Farmers get away from their arguments by embarking on a religious pilgrimage, enjoy a picnic en rout...
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Tvář pod maskou
The photographer and his wife, a former beauty queen, make a living casting death masks. But their o...
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Rozina the Love Child
Prague, the beginning of the 17th century. Rozina falls in love with Italian glass worker Nikolo, b...
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Bláhový sen
Hairdresser Žofka Stárková desires fame perhaps more than other girls. The petty plans of her fiancé...
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Alena
Master armourer Tomás has young wife Alena, of whom he is very jealous. One day the ruler of town se...
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Three Pals
Young men Štěpán, Ludvík and Karel became friends abroad, where they fought during World War II. Now...
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Red Lizard
Grammar school teacher Bláha hurts himself in pursuit of a red lizard, and is lying unconscious in t...
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Lost in the Suburbs
Czechoslovak drama film about soldiers returning from World War II...
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Královská ozvěna
Who would have thought that when the border mountain in King Florinda's kingdom was razed to the gro...
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The End of Summer
A summer picture of a small village and its inhabitants, where several love relationships intertwine...
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Jezevec
It's a weekend morning and the grandfather is preparing a fried dish from freshly picked mushrooms. ...
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Štika v rybníce
Young bricklayers Franta Doubrav and his friend Béla meet two girls, Mařka and Vlasta, on their way ...
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Odvážná slečna
JUDr. Kroupa will take over as President of the Civil Court from his colleague who is retiring. His ...
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Zpívající pudřenka
A children's adventure spy film from a time when the radio telephone was science fiction....
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Zkouška pokračuje
As a young actor František Lukávec and his teacher Vladimir Tuma became enemies. František insisted ...
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Of Things Supernatural
An anthology of three absurd, ironic tales inspired by Čapek’s “Tales from One Pocket” and “Fables a...
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Pohádka o staré tramvaji
Frantík arrives in Prague for the holidays and discovers an abandoned tram named Terezka. With local...
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Instruction
A woman wearing hair rollers shuffles around a messy flat listening to the radio. The host advises w...
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Horror Story
The distinctive artist, typographer, and writer Josef Váchal is known to the public primarily for hi...
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O Janovi a podivuhodném příteli
H. Ch. Andersen's story was the basis for the narrative film 'Of John and the Wonderful Friend', in ...
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Mistr Kampanus
A TV adaptation of the famous novel in which writer Zikmund Winter depicts the life story of Prague ...
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The Rebellion
The disabled ex-soldier Andreas Pum lost a leg for emperor and father land. After leaving the army h...
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