Petr Čepek
Birthday: 1940-09-16
Place of Birth: Prague, Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia [now Czech Republic]
Biography: Petr Čepek was a Czech actor associated with The Drama Club in Prague. His final film was Faust, directed by Czech surrealist Jan Švankmajer. Cepek attended the Academy of Performing Arts (DAMU) along with many notable Czech actors of the time, before appearing in Ostrava’s first theater, DPB until 1965. After joining with fellow colleagues in Prague’s Činoherní Klub, where he contributed to the formation of numerous famous theatre productions such as Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and Gogo’s Revizor (The Government Inspector). Čepek turned to politics in the late 1980s, participating in political rallies and negotiations before returning to the Academy of Performing Arts (DAMU) to teach until his death in 1994. Čepek was honored posthumously for his double role in the Švankmajers film Faust.
Movies
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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Křížová vazba
Luděk Krejza, a tile-layer, returns from prison after serving time for manslaughter. In a retrospect...
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The Cat Prince
The castle custodian Král is moving to a new place of work with his wife, son Radek and a five - yea...
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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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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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Faust
A very free adaptation of Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus", Goethe's "Faust" and various other treatments ...
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The Fall of the House of Usher
In this animated version of Edgar Allan Poe's story, a traveller arrives at the Usher mansion to fin...
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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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Concert for the survivors
A picture of generational confrontations between children and parents. A young and ambitious violin ...
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Morgiana
Jealous of her vapidly "good" sister's popularity, poisonous Viktoria doses pretty Klara's tea with ...
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The Brave Blacksmith
Young blacksmith Mikeš sets out into the world for an adventure, accompanied by the miller's assista...
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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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Pracka v láhvi
An ambitious girl is hired by a group of thieves as a maid in the apartment of a famous actress. The...
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Hordubal
After five years of hard work in America Juraj Hordubal (Anatoliy Kuznetsov) returns back home. He i...
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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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Skřivánčí ticho
The hero of the story is a forty-something intellectual, a sensitive composer of classical music. Hi...
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Mystery of the Puzzle
A group of teenagers are trying to solve a mystery of a puzzle created and left to them by the dead ...
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Oil Lamps
In 1900, Stepha, the vivacious 30 year old daughter of a wealthy couple, agrees to marry her cousin ...
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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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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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Adelheid
In the aftermath of World War II, a soldier takes charge of a manor formerly owned by a German famil...
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Prince Bajaja
The hero of this popular fairy tale is a young prince who, after the death of his parents, goes out ...
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The Damned House of Hajn
Sonya is the heiress to the riches of a Czech noble family—the Hajns. Petr, a social climber marries...
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Návraty
A psychological film about the sense of self-fulfillment of a divorced couple over 30 who feel that ...
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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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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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Ferat Vampire
A doctor is shocked when his beloved colleague Mima signs a contract with foreign car manufacturer F...
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Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping
Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Ladislav Smoljak, about the fictional national hero Jára Cimrma...
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Night Riders
Two men of principle face each other. One is backed by a whole, however poor village, the other by t...
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Landscape with Furniture
The story of a music academy student Zdenek, who meets a charming girl, and without realizing also g...
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Cesta na jihozápad
Based on a Jack London story, this is another attempt at a Western spectacle - after the short story...
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Škaredá dědina
The economic crisis in the early 1930s also affected the inhabitants of the distinctive Moravian-Slo...
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Kdo se bojí, utíká
In a school somewhere in the border region, a young teacher is trying to integrate Romani children i...
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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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Putování Jana Amose
The distressing fate of the Czech great Jan Amos Komenský, forced to leave his homeland after the Wh...
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Mark of Cain
In 1866, as Austria faces war with Prussia, 19-year-old Ludvík Machl joins a secret Czech resistance...
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Muka obraznosti
The film tells the story of an enthusiastic young man who joins a textile factory in the late 1950s ...
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Looking Back
Young script-writer Frantisek (Petr Cepek) is hired to write a film script based on the successful n...
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Tři v tom
How to marry off two daughters and a maid, especially when the father has no idea that it's high tim...
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Past na kachnu
Taxi driver Koukal (Miroslav Machácek) is stopped by the police for a routine traffic check. In the ...
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The Motive for Murder
A short story film depicting the three different faces of crime. In the short story "The Weekend", K...
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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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The Secret of Steel City
The film is a metaphor for the Cold War. It depicts two neighbouring nations: peace loving Fortuna a...
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Zatmění všech sluncí
The TV play tells the story of a woman who committed financial fraud at work. But she did not approp...
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Nudity
Young prisoner Jan, nicknamed Roughboy (Petr Cepek), tries to commit suicide. He was imprisoned for ...
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Extended Time
The dramatic story of Karel Svozil, an aging professor of art history, tells of love and old age, il...
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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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Nikola Šuhaj loupežník
The merging of reality with legend, the image of reality (Ruthenian Verkhovyna in the 1920s) and its...
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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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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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Nightmares
Singer and actress Naďa Urbánková, against the background of vampires and ghostly realities....
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A Touch of a Butterfly
A romantic story of a young nobleman who sees a beautiful girl at the carnival who seems familiar to...
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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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Sluníčko na houpačce
Editor Julie and artist Vojta go to a children's home in Sumava to pick up a nine-year-old boy, Matě...
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Etudes for Piano Students
Films for children gradually fell into the grip of expressive and content sterility, succumbing to e...
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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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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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Svědek umírajícího času
At the beginning was the Slovak television series Lekár umierajúceho czasu (Doctor of Dying Time), d...
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Byli jsme to my?
The theatre director encounters the disinterest and irresponsibility of the acting troupe, whose mem...
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Ráno budeme moudřejší
Marie, an active modern woman at work, has resigned herself to everything after a disappointment in ...
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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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Ráno pod mesiacom
An intimate family story full of dramatic relationships and the desire for eternal values such as ...
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Život a dílo skladatele Foltýna
Against the petty, which places its own glory above honest work and honest human relationships. Čape...
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Nine Circles of Hell
As the Khmer Rouge carves a path of death throughout the land, a Czech doctor falls in love with a C...
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Thanks for Every New Morning
This film is about life of a family, which lived in Prague since since 1968 to 1980. Father of the f...
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Portrait
On their tenth wedding anniversary, painter František and his wife Jarmila return to their isolated ...
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