Acting
Jun 8, 1955
Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Jan Hrušínský
Acting
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Feature Films (98)
Wartime events from a child's perspective were a popular theme during the previous regime - here it is a twelve-year-old village boy who experiences dangerous situations with retreating Nazi troops in picturesque South Bohemia... Any attempt to achieve a more believable depiction is destroyed by the staging's grandeur, and in the end the result is an awkward piece, suitable at most for celebrating the relevant national holidays. A longer copy with a tragic ending is stored in the NFA. Milda is shot unnoticed by an SS major.
Proč nevěřit na zázraky
Student Eva is dashing up a steep slope to try to catch a bus, but she twists her ankle and the bus doesn't wait. There won't be another bus until the next day, and so Eva returns to her parents' cottage where she has been studying by herself for several days. She finds the door open, and inside a young man, Dusan, who behaves as if he were at home. Eva is a little scared and so she pretends to be a chance passerby who can't go any further because of her injured ankle. The boy offers her a bed for the night. He also fetches some plum brandy, they drink toasts to each other, and Eva starts to play Patience.
Pasiáns
A teenage witch escapes to the world of humans rather than endure a 300-year detention, and causes chaos in a small Czechoslovakian city.
The Girl on the Broomstick
A story set in a small village in Sudetenland between 1937 and 1945. "Habermann" is based on true events.
Habermann
The Slippers of Happiness is another film made by the Slovak Film Production in co-production with West German companies based on classic world fairy tales. After Slovak folk tales [The Greatest Peck in the World, Salt Over Gold] and the works of German fairy tale writers Wilhelm Hauff [The False Prince] and the Brothers Grimm [The Land of the Thrush's Beard, Perinbaba], screenwriter Alex Koenigsmark and director Juraj Herz were inspired by the famous fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. It tells the story of slippers that the Fairy of Fortune enchanted so that they would fulfill every human wish and thus bring people happiness. The filmmakers humorously transferred the plot from Copenhagen to old Prague.
The Galoshes of Happiness
In one town lived a bookseller named Bartoloměj. He loved his work and was content with his life, but there was one thing missing: a lovely wife. One day, a charming girl named Klárka entered his shop, and he fell in love with her at first sight. So when Klárka and her aunt, a confused witch, were driven out of their cottage by forest ghosts, Bartoloměj gladly took them in. But this did not please his servant Stanislav, who had planned to force his daughter on the bookseller as his wife. And so he conspired with the forest ghosts to commit a despicable betrayal...
Tajemná truhla
Bittersweet comedy about four teenage boys, their friends, parents, lovers - from the moment when they are 15 to moment when they are 18. Story is set in 1970s, when is Czechoslovakia occupied by Russians.
Identity Card
Television & Series (21)
Plechová kavalérie is a Czechoslovak/Czech TV series about combine operators filmed by Jaroslav Dudek.
Plechová kavalerie
Czech Century brings the key moments of the history of the Czech nation from 1918 to 1989.
The Czech Century
Three kings is Czech war series that was aired in 1998. It is loosely based on story of members of ressistance organization Obrana národa who were known Three Kings. This group consisted of Josef Balabán, Václav Morávek and Josef Mašín.
