Rudolf Hrušínský
Birthday: 1920-10-17
Place of Birth: Nová Vcelnice, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Biography: Rudolf Hrušínský was an acclaimed Czech actor during his country's era of communism. He was born in Nová Včelnice to Hermina Červičková and Rudolf Hrušinský (original name Rudolf Böhm, also took the stage name Otomar Otovalský). He was born, literally, back stage during a showing of the play Taneček panny Marinky. Initially he travelled from place to place, wherever his father could find a gig, but eventually his family settled in Prague. He dropped out of law school to pursue acting. Initially he starred in minor plays, but managed to escalate to famous film roles, many of which won him fame abroad
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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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Waterloo
In the tense dramatic situation of a June night in 1815, a few hours before a battle that seems lost...
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Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet
When famous detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in strange case of a missing do...
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Pasiáns
Student Eva is dashing up a steep slope to try to catch a bus, but she twists her ankle and the bus ...
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My Sweet Little Village
The movie's main storyline follows the life of Otík, a young man, in a tight-knit village community....
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Ledoví muži
An official of a declining hockey club has a tip for a prodigy shooter: a young teacher Havranek is ...
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Larks on a String
In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work...
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Tichý společník
A smaller town has its own newspaper. The editor, Stanek, works there and is concerned with status a...
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Sardinky, aneb Život jedné rodinky
College student Marta decides to seal her relationship with Zdeněk with a secret wedding. All that r...
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Paths of Death and Angels
Reviewers found this somewhat surreal film so visually stunning as to be worth watching even when it...
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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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Žalobníci
The young generation is not very at peace with the morality of their parents. In a story set in a Mo...
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Mapa zámořských objevů
A story about the problems of an aging high school history professor, Barchánek, and his teenage son...
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Ball Lightning
A comedy about exchange of 12 apartments , which, its organizer, lawyer Radosta, rightly called Acti...
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Začátek dlouhého podzimu
The film about curious children who discover a sunken statue of Masaryk in a disused well was interf...
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The Snowdrop Festival
This movie is based on texts of Bohumil Hrabal, world-known Czech prosaic. It's a story (in a form o...
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The Three Veterans
It is a story of three veterans released from the army. During one night spent camping in the countr...
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Capricious Summer
Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimmi...
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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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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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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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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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How Poets Are Enjoying Their Lives
While Kendy returns to his hometown as an assistant director to film a thirteen-part series with a t...
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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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Forbidden Dreams
Leo Popper is a happy family man living in rural Bohemia in the years preceding the Nazi invasion. O...
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Konec cesty
Josef Lachman, once a security officer, serves twelve years for aiding an SS fugitive’s escape. Upon...
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Smrt na Cukrovém ostrově
A Czech ship's doctor accidentally meets his fellow expatriates on a tropical island. Under his infl...
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Dissolved and Effused
A police inspector and inexperienced trainee search for a mysteriously disappeared manufacturer of o...
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Cutting It Short
Francin, manager of a small-town brewery, has a charming wife whose abundant blonde locks are an ado...
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About Dressy Sally
Sally, a dressy little girl, receives a lesson from a sorcerer about lying and happiness....
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The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians
In 1897, in a castle near the town of Werewolfville in the Carpithians, a slightly deranged Professo...
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90° in the Shade
In a Prague shop, an assistant has been carrying on an affair with the dishonest, married manager. A...
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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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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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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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The Hit
Mr Jiš managed to give his first script at Barrandov. Already in the preparatory phase, he discovers...
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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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I Dutifully Report
A comedy based on the novel of Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Svejk happens during the World War ...
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Muž v povětří
Mr. Čap is an inventor who disturbs the peace of the town of Krásnov with his experiments. During hi...
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Tichá bolest
A young man has led his whole life with his grandfather. When he was in school, he was the only one ...
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Darbujan and Pandrhola
A poor miner, Kuba Dařbuján, cares for his wife Markýtka and eleven children. When a newborn arrives...
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Higher Principle
During the Nazi occupation of a Czech city civilians are being rounded up on the slightest of pretex...
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Attention, Rounds!
A story about an everyday life of an inflectional department of Prague hospital....
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Meze Waltera Hortona
The fact that the man succumbed one morning to an irresistible urge to sit down at the piano and pla...
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The Gentle Barbarian
A commemorative and essayistic meditative piece on the Prague quarter Libeň during the 1950s....
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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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Murder Czech Style
The protagonist (Rudolf Hrusinsky) is a dull, fat, shy government clerk indulging in voyuerism and e...
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The Great Movie Robbery
The film is essentially a feature-length commercial for an exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary o...
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Julián odpadlík
In 363, somewhere in Mesopotamia, on a campaign against the Persians, the emperor Julian, who had su...
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Lítost
The popular folk singer Jaro Zárubecký, a former waiter, follows the motto "A man is not what he is,...
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Dark Sun
A remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit. Engineer Prokop creates the devastating explo...
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The Night Guest
When a man stops at a motel one evening in 1961, his tormenting behavior drives one of the people pr...
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Island for 6,000 Alarm Clocks
The first professional animated film by Petr Sís, who later became the great children's author-illus...
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Fear
A car deliberately runs down a young man on a road by a small border town. The locals recognize the ...
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Swap
This grotesque, micro-realistic film is set in a small village at the end of the seventies. A TV-sta...
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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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Pancho se žení
The foolish Pedro is supposed to marry the beautiful Rosita, who is also attracted to the adventurer...
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Faust's House
A film story based on the old Prague legends. It tells about a poor student lured by wealth, which h...
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Hostinec „U kamenného stolu“
An innkeeper is grieving because his wife left him for a second-rate actor. His two nephews, who are...
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When the Woman Butts In
Miroslav Hornicek is a deluded young man who is convinced he is Faust incarnate. This turn of mind l...
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Smoke on the Potato Fields
In this character study by Czech director Frantisek Vlacil, a stout middle-aged physician whose marr...
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Shoesmachine
The happenings in a shoe factory serve as a not very thinly veiled examination of the pros and cons ...
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Humoreska
Dvořák's well-known composition reappears again and again in the serious moments of the lives of the...
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The Secret of the Devil's Pocket
How it will end? Let's just tell you that on one side of the mountain, the stream that had run befor...
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School for Fathers
A new teacher with high standards and a strong sense of duty replaces an easy grader. Once bad grad...
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On the Trail of Blood
Major Kalas from the Prague criminal intelligence service has been sent to a small town of Dubá in N...
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Diagnóza smrti
Two seriously injured patients are brought to the hospital at almost the same time: truck driver Hon...
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The Murderer Hides His Face
In the forest near the village of Drahovice, a nurse from the local health center is found murdered....
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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 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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The Dear Departed
When Jan Werich wakes up as his seemingly deceased grandfather, he discovers that all the survivors ...
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Evropa tančila valčík
Otakar Vávra dedicated his latest film to events accompanying the devastation of the first World War...
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One Moment
Poetic, affectionate, lyrical, and elegy for actor Rudolf Hrusinsky composed of a wordless montage o...
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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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Ves v pohraničí
The family of Prague greengrocer Pavlas was among the first immigrants to settle in the border villa...
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The Hope
A group of outcasts, including a vagabond and a prostitute, gather at the outskirts of the industria...
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Ghosts of the Dormers
A tale about a young girl whose grandfather has built a garden of horrors....
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Bulldogs and Cherries
The dreaded Italian mafioso, Marian Labuda, will also be convinced. Mafioso Carmello was guilty of t...
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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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Love Between the Raindrops
Set in Prague during the years leading up to World War II, this family saga tells the story of a cob...
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Golden Eels
A little boy, named Prdelka, traveled with his father from Prague to the country during the Second W...
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The End of Old Times
Czechoslovakia 1918. The newly formed National Assembly has made Stoklasa the administrator of the K...
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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 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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Caught by Night
A communist journalist from Prague is sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp....
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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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Oasis
The year is 1943. The war is raging between the Germans and the Allies in North Africa. A truck with...
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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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The Beggar's Opera
Unlike any other opera, the so-called Beggar's Opera is not just one composition, but a lineage of a...
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Crime in the Night Club
The theft of a pearl necklace and subsequent murder took place at the Tartaros cabaret. All this cou...
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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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Strach má velké oči
Three intrepid young men set off into an enchanted forest to free a captive girl. We can't reveal ho...
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Magician
A narration of episodes from the life of the famous Czech poet, Karel Hynek Mácha. Throughout the fi...
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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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Zikmund řečený Šelma ryšavá
In December 1437, Emperor Sigismund, King of Bohemia and Hungary, returns from Prague to Hungary. Du...
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Jak se krade milión
The exemplary accountant Antonín Safránek lives his orderly life as a citizen of a small town. His w...
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Mist on the Moors
Mist on the Moors examines fates of just about a few people. Their stories are outlined in a short s...
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Podezření
The story of four men who were arrested in a random raid on a small-town hotel during the Nazi occup...
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Pasiáns
The story of six men and one woman who, while exploring the underground part of an old palace, disco...
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Sázka na třináctku
A mail truck is robbed near the small town of Kostelec, during which the perpetrators steal CZK 2.5 ...
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Great Solitude
In southern Moravia, in the native village of Velka Samota, a ministry official returns from Prague ...
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Barbora Hlavsová
The generally respected director of a small-town savings bank, Hlavsa, commits embezzlement because ...
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Florián
A mobile chapel of St. Florian is moved every week between the villages of Zbořov and Spáňovice. The...
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Nocturnal Butterfly
Marta Dekasová works as a governess in a garrison town. The beautiful girl is the center of attentio...
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Anička jde do školy
Six-year-old Anička Čejková has moved with her parents from the village to a new housing estate in P...
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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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Presentiment
A daughter of a celebrity family experiences a holiday adventure with a mysterious young man. Though...
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Neviděli jste Bobíka?
An elderly rich lady, Hyacinta Horáková, is leaving for a spa. She entrusts her terrier Bobík to her...
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Švédská zápalka
The aging police commissioner, who has a twenty-five-year-old fiancée, Olga, is disturbed at his six...
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Turbina
The imperial councilor Ullik decides to modernize his old mills by installing a new turbine. His ecc...
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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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Reportáž psaná na oprátce
Screen adaptation of Julius Fucik's story about communist fighters....
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Zrcadlo nenávisti
Painter Horace visits his friend, a former criminalist, and is intrigued by two strange women who li...
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A Star Travels South
The Prague Grand Orchestra travels by train to a music festival in Yugoslavia. Only the singer Sona ...
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La valle di pietra
In the 18th Century, in Bohemia, a government surveyor meet a priest during a lunch and remained int...
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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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Věra Lukášová
Vera is eleven years old and after the death of her parents she lives with her grandmother. She does...
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The Invisible
A young and ambitious engineer named Švajcar arrives at the family of a businessman as the fiancé of...
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Kidnapped
American agents hijack a plane on the Ostrava-Prague route to launch a campaign against the People's...
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Comedians
The story of a traveling comedy family that ends up in court, where young Fricek is charged with att...
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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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Strakonický dudák
The story of the piper Švanda, who went abroad for money and fame, but whose love for his homeland u...
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Long White Yard
The relationship between a mother and daughter living in a village, the confrontation of two lives -...
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Bratři Kipové
The ship's first officer, Karel Kip, and his brother, engineer Petr Kip, are convicted as mutineers ...
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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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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 Hero Is Afraid
Honza Vavrinec (Rudolf Hrusínský) works in the investment department of a large office. One day he g...
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Dobří holubi se vracejí
The film is a concert of well-known actors from an alcohol rehab where a middle-aged man has taken r...
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Zborov
In the Škoda factory, where they are feverishly rearming in 1914, works the foreman Kalina, the fath...
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The Hard Life of an Adventurer
A writer of pulp crime novels is drawn into a series of real crimes. This film was one of the first ...
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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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Velká přehrada
Young engineer Petr Pavelec works on a dam plan on the Loučnica River. He meets Irena, the daughter ...
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Výhra admirála Kotrby
Former sailor Kotrba, nicknamed the Admiral, has one dream, to take his own ship to sea. He's been b...
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Blbec z Xeenemünde
A tragicomedy set in wartime Germany. The protagonist is 16-year-old Bruno, who is considered by eve...
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The Last of the Mohicans
Antique dealer Kohout is not a bad person. However, he has an ideal: to be the unlimited master at h...
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Šach mat
A live, semi-documentary TV broadcast investigates why former prisoner Dr. Benet collapsed after def...
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Jasnovidec
The story of the chief prosecutor Dr. Klapka - a self-confident, cold-blooded, calculating man who l...
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Na konci města
Captain Jirák of the SNB is searching for the perpetrator of the murder of the former owner of an ap...
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Silnější než strach
A short story film in which the first story takes place at the end of the German occupation, when a ...
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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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Svědek umírajícího času
At the beginning was the Slovak television series Lekár umierajúceho czasu (Doctor of Dying Time), d...
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Narozeniny režiséra Z. K.
A directors autobiography about his debut during the rise of socialism....
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Zuřivý reportér
Josef Laufer portrays Egon Erwin Kisch in two daring journalistic adventures: in “Zuřivý reportér,” ...
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Lovec senzací
Journalist E. E. Kisch tells crime stories from old Prague, which he himself experienced in the year...
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Vážení přátelé, ano
During the change of functions in the Fortuna medical ceramics company, Bohouš Fisher, an independen...
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Noc rozhodnutí
This dramatic story concerns the fateful night of March 14-15, 1939, when President Dr. Emil Hácha w...
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Me, brother and the name Hrušínský
According to family legend, the name Hrušínský was born after Rudolf and Jan Hrušínský's grandfather...
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