Jan Kačer
Birthday: 1936-10-03
Place of Birth: Holice, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Biography: Jan Kačer (3 October 1936 – 24 May 2024) was a Czech actor and theatrical director. He appeared in more than sixty films from 1960 onwards. Kačer studied theatrical directing at DAMU. He was an actor and a director in The Drama Club and later Theatre on the Balustrade. Kačer was a parliamentary representative in the Federal Assembly from 1990 to 1992. His wife was the actress Nina Divíšková. Kačer died on 24 May 2024, at the age of 87.
Movies
Psalm
A synagogue service in Bohemia, where the Torah scrolls are ceremoniously taken out and read, interc...
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Antonín Dvořák
A documentary about the composer who made Czech music famous all over the world....
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Město mé naděje
Jan Kačer became known primarily as an actor, but he also took up film directing several times - not...
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The End of Agent W4C
The invincible agent Cyril Juan Borguette alias W4C has been assigned a mission to go to a hotel in ...
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Probuzení
Delinquent youths wander aimlessly and commit mischief. Few, however, manage to break free from the ...
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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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Bolero
Based on real event, Bolero is an excellent story of progressive recovery of a crime. The story surp...
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Passing Through a Thick Forest
The story of two communist friends, one of whom leaves as secretary to the district committee of the...
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Wolf's Hole
Eleven disparate adolescents, gathered for a skiing camp at an isolated winter resort, find themselv...
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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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Milan Kundera: From the Joke to Insignificance
The brilliant Czech writer Milan Kundera has not given an interview in thirty years; nor does he app...
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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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Searching
Michal's father and his friends are stigmatized by their war experience and the post-war social defo...
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Reflection
A leading director of the Czech film renaissance provides a philosophical meditation on life and dea...
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Respice finem
"A refined film essay about the loneliness, wisdom and humility of old women. The film, most valued ...
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The Pipes
This three-part Austrian/Czech comedy stretches the boundaries of what is considered to be humorous....
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Courage for Every Day
A passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure of hi...
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Ohnivé jaro
The story of Sebastien, a seriously ill 25-year-old, and his mother, whose lives were also affected ...
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Death Is Called Engelchen
Pavel is a Czech partisan fighter in the waning days of the war. Just as peace is declared, Pavel is...
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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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Revenge
A dialogue between judge and convict, winner and loser, which offers the viewer a reflection on the ...
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Nobody Will Laugh
A successful art historian who has trouble telling people difficult truths, finds himself in an ines...
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Barcarole
Zdena, a young nurse, starts her first night shift at an old people’s home and immediately faces a d...
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Unexpected Encounters
An expedition arrives on planet Arkha, which appears desolate and uninhabited and yet suitable for a...
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Lekce
During World War II, a German university professor creates a spy ring that supplies the Allies with ...
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Krásno
Story follows two best friend on private investigation. They are going to their hometown to prove th...
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The Valley of the Bees
Cast out by his father, young Ondrej joins the Order of the Teutonic Knights, where he is raised by ...
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The Great Unknown
Three detective stories, three different views of life and death... Collection of three horror short...
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Power
A boy is accidentally killed at an informal hunt somewhere on the border of two European countries. ...
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Nothing Really Happened
An overprotective mother plagues her daughter out of guilt over unintentionally scarring her daughte...
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Cesta ženy
A chronicle of dramatic events capturing the fates of people living in a Slovak village just after W...
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Hranice stínu
Thirty-year-old Prokop Randa returns to his native village, where he seeks peace and reconciliation ...
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Zločin v Polné
An exciting drama from a detective history. In 1899 a dead girl - seamstress Anežka Hrůzová - was fo...
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Hlas pro římského krále
Czech Television's epic historical film draws on the breathtaking dramatic life of the great of Czec...
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Gump
A story told through the eyes of a stray dog called Gump . On a journey to find his way home to his ...
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Hoteliér
The film is not merely a record of rehearsals, but above all an intimate look at the relationships b...
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Hotel for Strangers
A gifted poet checks into a Gothic hotel in hopes of meeting the woman with whom he has long been en...
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Der sanfte Lauf
Bernhard works as a warehouse clerk in Munich. After being sentenced to probation for a physical alt...
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King Lear
A recording of the production from the courtyard of the Supreme Purkrab of Prague Castle starring Ja...
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Romanetto
A young woman from an old patrician family in Prague collapses and is institutionalized in a psychic...
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My Daughter's Operation
A car accident occurs and Dusan's teenage daughter Milena gets very seriously injured. To add insult...
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Chalet for sale
When nostalgia makes her rethink the sale of her family cottage, a woman cajoles her husband and lov...
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Flirt se slečnou Stříbrnou
At the centre of the story is Miss Lenka Stříbrná. An attractive, but a little strange young woman. ...
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Prague – The Restless Heart of Europe
This distinctive documentary portrait of Prague extolls the beauty, significance and spirit of the a...
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Sentiment
Sentiment is Tomáš Hejtmánek's intimate documentary portrait of the great Czech director František V...
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Kotva u přívozu
A few weeks in the life of the family of an attractive woman, the TV presenter Magda, her second hus...
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Cizinec a krásná paní
The beautiful lady, as the locals call the widow and owner of the apartment building, the aging Mrs....
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Mi(s)sing Dog
It's one bad day for Rudolf, a lonely 77-year old retired linguist, when he finds himself tailed by ...
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Súkromná vojna
Slovak psychological drama from the end of World War II. The plot of the film takes place in a short...
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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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The Seventh Day, the Eighth Night
An allegory set in an archetypal Czech village, it tells the story of what happens when a series of ...
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Sama v čase normálnosti
Every day, head nurse Marta's life is an exhausting merry-go-round of the most tedious duties. She r...
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Svědek umírajícího času
At the beginning was the Slovak television series Lekár umierajúceho czasu (Doctor of Dying Time), d...
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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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Bringing Up Girls in Bohemia
The film adaptation of the novel of the same by Michal Viewegh. The hero of the novel is a primary s...
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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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