Jan Tříska
Birthday: 1936-11-04
Place of Birth: Praha, Československo
Biography: Jan Triska or Jan Tříska (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjan ˈtr̝̊iːska]; 4 November 1936) is a Czech actor, most notable for portraying Captain Henry Wirz in the American television film Andersonville.
Movies
Lunacy
A man takes up residence with a mysterious marquis and is soon persuaded to enter into an asylum for...
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The Amateur
A researcher for the CIA who convinces his superiors to send him to the eastern bloc in order to ave...
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Ronin
A briefcase with undisclosed contents – sought by Irish terrorists and the Russian mob – makes its w...
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Loose Cannons
Mac, the two-fisted, savvy cop finds that he's being saddled with a new partner, a known burnout, to...
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Piknik
A weekend trip for nine friends to places where they once spent many years of their lives. A contemp...
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Sen noci svatojánské
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a charming comedy by W. Shakespeare, well-known from its numerous stage...
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Uncommon Valor
A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner b...
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The Omega Code
An ancient prophecy is about to be fulfilled as a secret code brings the world to the edge of apocal...
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On the Comet
When a comet passes the Earth very closely, it pulls a small part of North Africa, and a small swath...
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Up and Down
Milan and Goran are two criminals who smuggle illegal immigrants. One night after they complete a sm...
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A Thousand and One Nights
Five different exploits of Sinbad the sailor where he gets mixed up with the pretty daughters of exo...
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The Elementary School
The time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside Prague. In...
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Black Eagle
One of the US Air Force's most modern tactical aircrafts, an F-100 with a new laser guidance system,...
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Pět z milionu
Five short stories: The Master and the Twentieth Disciple; Every Week is Sunday; It's Boniface's Fau...
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Edgemen
A businessman unspools a web of espionage and corruption when his bid for a major construction proje...
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Policejní hodina
The story of a poor, disintegrating family of a mother Fišerová and her three children. It is set in...
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August Sunday
This lyrical comedy story takes place in two hot days in the small South Bohemian village. On the sh...
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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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Kohout plaší smrt
A group of saboteurs search for a weapons cache hidden by the Nazi army. Beskydy in the summer of 19...
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Nothing Lasts Forever
An artist fails a test and is required to direct traffic in New York City's Holland Tunnel. He winds...
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Unfaithfully Yours
A composer—who suspects his wife of cheating—plots to kill her and frame it on her lover, but things...
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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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Začít znova
Young Jan Stehlík signs up for a job to build a new mine. On the train he meets the pretty Alena, wh...
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The Golden Fern
Wandering through the forest, a woodcutter finds a golden fern whose seed turns into a beautiful wom...
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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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A Place in the Crowd
A film in five episodes, all based on an attempt to show the life of young people today, their feeli...
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Bastardi III
Teacher Tomáš Majer, who joined a former special school in 2010, has disappeared. He arrived at the ...
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Martin a červené sklíčko
Children's detective stories were very successful in the 1960s, and the stories of Martin the crimin...
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Čtyři v kruhu
This drama with a criminal plot is a study of the intricately intertwined relationships of four peop...
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Malice in Wonderland
Struggling actress Hedda Hopper can't get a break in Hollywood, even though an acquaintence of hers ...
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The Limping Devil
A baleful limping man walks through Prague. He is Asmodeus (Juraj Herz), the fiend of lustfulness, e...
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Lost Souls
A young woman becomes aware of a conspiracy to enable the Devil to walk the Earth in human form. To ...
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Vyloženě rodinná historie
The story of an ordinary family, which leaves no doubt that it is moving from the private sphere to ...
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Žabí muzikál
Once upon a time, there was a kingdom where a spoiled and conceited princess lived. She didn't like ...
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Známost sestry Aleny
A psychological drama about a nurse and a seriously ill car racer and factory driver......
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A znovu Žebrácká opera
Two different productions of Václav Havel's Beggar's Opera reveal the political dynamics of Czechosl...
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Horolezci
The true story of a Czechoslovak mountaineering expedition that set out in 1969 to conquer one of th...
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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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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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Cinderella
During the day, Cinderella's face is covered in soot, but at night she transforms into a fairy-tale ...
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Bůh ví…
About one faulty circuit breaker and about a man who only found out after death that he had not live...
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Apt Pupil
One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumb...
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Flying Saucers Over Our Village
A model Communist village is visited by a flying saucer....
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Miss Golem
It is the 1920's. The good-looking hostess Věra demonstrates household robots to visitors of the Fut...
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Lucie and the Miracles
The harsh reality of a home for abandoned children blends with episodes of youthful fantasy and slap...
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Život na úteku
In Slovakia, they often and gladly honored those soldiers who refused to serve the fascist regime an...
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Zelary
A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they a...
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One Hand Can't Clap
When Standa is released from jail, he feels a brighter future is about to take hold. Instead, his ba...
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The Karate Kid Part III
Despondent over the closing of his karate school, Cobra Kai teacher John Kreese joins a ruthless bus...
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How Do You Feed A Donkey?
Due to his profession, Fred, an easy-going and charming long-haul truck-driver, sees a lot of the wo...
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The Crazy Smell of Fresh Hay
Signs and wonders are said to be happening in Trutzlaff, a small village in Mecklenburg. The party s...
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Where an Alibi Is Not Everything
“A bored housewife, a husband who married her for show, and a stupid boy who is full of himself beca...
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A Game Without Rules
A robbery in a Prague jeweler's shop results in the shop manager Kubát and his deputy Litera being s...
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Řád
Set in 1776, this historical film by Petr Hvizd concerns an army deserter who takes refuge within th...
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2010
While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American s...
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The Hiding of Black Bill
The story of how Bill Black after a train robbery outwits his pursuers and the sheriff....
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5 Million Witnesses
Now we see a naive reminder that television used to broadcast live productions, but in this case the...
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The Osterman Weekend
The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a ...
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Barefoot
Story of a small boy is forced to move out of Prague during World War 2 to a small village of Slavon...
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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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Radúz and Mahulena
While hunting, Prince Radúz of Maguria wanders into the rival kingdom of the Tatra King, Stojmír. He...
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Královský gambit
Wenceslas II, who already has adult children Eliška and Václav, refuses to marry the young Alžběta R...
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People From Caravans
Story about the people around the circus and the unfortunate love of a young man an acrobat. Before ...
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May
After success of Kytice, which is based on the famous collection of poems of K.J.Erben, one of the m...
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The People vs. Larry Flynt
Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The fil...
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Because Mommy Works
Since her divorce nurse Abbey lives alone with her 6 years old son Willie. Her ex-husband Ted may ha...
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Maiden's War
The three daughters of the Dessau merchant Sellmann move with their father to Prague in 1936, where ...
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Two Brothers
A love story in which two brothers - naive officer Yuri and demonic lover Alexander - compete for th...
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Reds
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his...
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My Antonia
After the death of his parents, Jimmy uproots his life to live with his grandparents in Black Hawk, ...
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Blizzard
A young girl's aunt tells her the tale of a young ice skater and an enchanted reindeer....
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Dva z onoho světa
A musical comedy about two indistinguishably similar siblings who love music, but each of them is co...
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Komedie s Klikou
On the train to Prague, the bride-to-be Zuzana Vítová accidentally meets the clerk Dr. Karel Jánský....
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A Star Named Wormwood
At the end of May 1918, released prisoners return to the Rumburk garrison from Russian captivity, ho...
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Andersonville
This lengthy docudrama records the harrowing conditions at the Confederacy's most notorious prisoner...
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Klec
A successful scientist dares to openly and forcefully criticize the unproductive activities of the i...
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Heart of Darkness
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers t...
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The Fantastic World of D.C. Collins
Gary Coleman plays the son of a U.S. diplomat who imagines himself in fantastic situations....
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The Stolen Airship
A live-action/animated film based loosely on Jules Verne's novels Two Years' Vacation and The Myster...
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Váhavý střelec
The hesitant shooter becomes a timid young man who only the war will make a real man....
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Setkání v Praze, s vraždou
After many years, Anka Lomnická, a former countess and emigrant, arrives in Prague. By chance, she f...
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Undercover Blues
When fun-loving American agents Jeff and Jane Blue are called back from maternity leave for a specia...
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Princess Goldilocks
A princess was so beautiful and had such golden hair that she was known as Pretty Goldilocks. A neig...
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První parta
The unfortunate 1930s also befell the student Standa Půlpán. For existential reasons, he had to aban...
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The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory
Against orders and with no help of relief Texas patriots led by William Travis, Jim Bowie, and Davy ...
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Cahoots
Two men who were "best friends" while growing up together and into their 20's, reconnect after years...
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Do posledného dychu
The myth of the anti-fascist resistance in Slovakia was one of the important themes of normalization...
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Romance štědrovečerní
Television lighting engineer Honza borrows an apartment from successful architect Zdeněk so that he ...
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Tarzanova smrt
In the era of the rise of Nazism in Germany, a strange man, exhibited in a circus for the amusement ...
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Růže a prsten
Once upon a time, a capricious witch conjured a rose and a ring and endowed them with magical proper...
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Všude žijí lidé
Even if a person grumbles about difficulties, he should realize that he will find a place where he d...
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Kruh
The mother is trying to prevent the break-up of a marriage of many years. She knows about her husban...
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Drobínek
The young shoemaker Drobínek knows how to repair shoes well and loves Mančinka. But because he lacks...
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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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Drawn from Memory
Fierlinger concentrates his considerable talents as an animator to recount through fragmented memori...
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Dosť dobrí chlapi
A group of drivers paid according to their performance are struggling with hard work in a large quar...
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Pochodně
Prague in the 1870s. Work in Smolík's sulphur factory is hard and dangerous to health. The poorly pa...
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Ragtime
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the ra...
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The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair
When THRUSH steals a nuclear weapon and demands a ransom delivered by Napoleon Solo, UNCLE recalls h...
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