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Actors: Anna Geislerová, Roman Luknar, Emilia Vasaryova, Jana Brejchova, Jiri Schmitzer
Synopsis: Pupendo and Up and Down director Jan Hrebejk thoughtfully ponders the effect of contemporary events on traditional Czech culture with this engrossing tale of the unlikely romance shared between a desperate young mother and a kindly, but much older, Czech expatriate. Effectively rendered destitute Read More
Actors: Vladimir Pucholt, Ingrid Timkova, Adam Davidson, Jakub Laurych, Emilia Vasaryova
Synopsis: Jan Poutnik (Vladimir Pucholt) was born in Czechoslovakia but has emigrated to the United States, where he teaches film courses at a New York college. Pampeliska (Ingrid Timkova), a young widow from Jan's home town of Bystre, has come to America to visit, and has brought with her a pocket watch Read More
Synopsis: A middle aged divorced man goes through male menopause in this Czech melodrama. Karl is the man and the lovely Klara is his daughter. She is attracted to her father and demonstrates this trying to begin an affair with a fatherly-looking college professor. He rejects her and the despondent girl Read More
Actors: Jana Brejchova, Jan Kacer, Tereza Brodska, Jan Potmesil, Marek Vasut
Synopsis: Moviemaker Evald Schorm, once described as "the conscience of the Czech New Wave," had been inactive for several years before completing his valedictory film Vlastne se Nic Nestalo. The title translates to Killing with Kindness, which pretty much says it all. The protagonist is a young woman Read More
Actors: Jana Brejchova, Andrea Bogusovska, Jana Paulova, Jana Svobodova
Synopsis: The life and slow death of Communist journalist and Prague City Council member Jozka Jaburkova in the Ravensbruck concentration camp is the focus of this wartime drama starring Jana Rihakova as the tragic Jaburkova. Suffering almost from the beginning as an illegitimate child burdened with extreme Read More
Actors: Miroslav Machacek, Jana Brejchova, Radoslav Brzobohaty, Frantisek Rehak
Synopsis: In a slick ER melodrama from director Jiri Svobada, life's trials and tribulations wend their way through the examination room of a neurosurgeon (Miroslav Machacek in the form of diverse patients with ailments that range from the casual to the fatal. A friend of the doctor's is diagnosed with a Read More
Actors: Jana Brejchova, Ladislav Krivacek, Evelyna Steimarova, Milan Knazko, Marek Probosz
Synopsis: Based on a novel by Vladimir Korner, Zanik Samoty Berhof takes place just as World War II has ended, and the Germans who live in Sudentenland now find themselves citizens of Czechoslovakia. Hitler annexed that area during the war, and it was simply given back after the war. Rather than peacefully Read More
Actors: Jana Brejchova, Jan Kanyza, Evald Schorm, Milos Kopecky
Synopsis: In this warm human-interest story, a 12-year-old boy discovers by accident that he is adopted, and sets out on a quest to find his identity through his biological parents - but first he must find the children's home that signed him over to his present mother. His mother is married to a man younger Read More
Actors: Eduard Cupak, Ivan Vyskocil, Jana Brejchova, Zlata Adamovska
Synopsis: The "Young Man" of the title works in a chemical factory, and is very fond of the novel Moby Dick by Herman Melville. His roommate also works at the factory as a chemical engineer. The lad has been told many stories about the older man's former mistress, an ambitious and selfish woman by all Read More
Actors: Vlastimil Brodský, Jana Brejchova
Synopsis: After his parents are killed in an automobile accident, the young boy in this picture won't speak. He is given into the care of a woman psychologist who boards the grief-stricken lad in a room with her son, trusting that when his feelings allow it, he will speak again. When a children's theater Read More
Actors: Zdena Studenkova, Vlastimil Harapes, Jana Brejchova, Zuzana Kocurikova
Synopsis: In this Czechoslovak retelling of the classic tale about a prince cursed to bear a bestial countenance and live in a predatory manner until he can attain the love of a woman, the Beast (Vlastimil Harapes) is a particularly gruesome and chilling figure. One day, while out hunting, he encounters Read More
Actors: Jiri Sovak, Jana Brejchova, Lubomir Lipsky, Iva Janzurová, Petr Cepek
Synopsis: This futuristic science fiction comedy features an atomic bomb blast that causes women to grow beards and lose the ability to have children. A summit meeting is held at the United Nations, with the proposed solution of building a time machine. The decision is made to travel back in time and murder Read More
Actors: Jan Libicek, Zdena Skvorecka, Jana Brejchova, Vladimir Valenta
Synopsis: The Czechoslovakian End of a Priest was released in its country of origin as Fararuv Konec. Vlastimil Brodsky stars as a church bell-ringer with a predilection for dressing up as a priest. A couple of local atheists try to expose Brodsky by setting him up with a prostitute. The phony priest gets Read More
Actors: Jan Kacer, Jana Brejchova, Jirí Menzel
Synopsis: The mind of a man whose life is apparently running smoothly but who attempts suicide is delved into in this sincere movie. The story catches up with him during his treatment at a mental health clinic which grants him short passes away, but to which he must return. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Read More
Actors: Jana Brejchova, Gustav Valach, Josef Kemr
Synopsis: A nun who goes up against the communist officials and the local priest is cast out in the snow to die in this somber anti-Stalinist drama. She risks all by calling for a forbidden midnight mass on Christmas Eve and forces the priest to give up the communal chalice. When a farm official tells the Read More
Actors: Jiri Pleskot, Jirina Jiraskova, Jana Brejchova
Synopsis: When a wealthy man loses his job and starts to cavort with younger women, his teenage son becomes disillusioned. The father is tied to a tree by Czech beatniks when he tries to seduce one of their girlfriends. The film underscores the fact that problems between generations are universal and Read More
Actors: Walter Giller, Gitte Haenning, Jana Brejchova, Richard Münch, Vivi Bach
Synopsis: This three-part Austrian/Czech comedy stretches the boundaries of what is considered to be humorous. Part one finds a silent film actor upset because of a rival actor's attention to the former's wife. When he kills his rival, it is only when he is strapped to the electric chair that he realizes Read More
Actors: Jana Brejchova, Edith Schultze-Westrum, Frantisek Filipovsky, Wolfgang Kieling
Synopsis: When the Nazis invade Prague, they sweep though the Jewish quarter to round up the "undesirables" in this compelling World War Il drama. Bozena (Jana Brejchova) is a young Czech girl who joins the resistance movement after witnessing Nazi atrocities. Soon she falls in love, but the Gestapo is on Read More
Actors: Pierre Brice, Heinz Drache, Daliah Lavi, Jana Brejchova, Mario Girotti
Synopsis: Tissot (Pierre Brice) is French secret agent No. 11011 in this James Bond-style spy thriller. He is sent on a mission to retrieve stolen plans for a newly developed steering mechanism for rockets. The typical genre mix of comedy, sex, and fight scenes overcomes a sometimes confusing storyline. Read More
Actors: Walter Giller, Hanns Lothar, Nadja Tiller, Agnes Windeck
Synopsis: Co-produced and directed by Kurt Hoffmann, one of Germany's most prolific post-war directors, this drama was based on a popular novel by Kurt Tucholsky. Lydia and Kurt, a young couple from Hamburg, travel to Sweden for the holidays and stay at the well-known Gripshom Castle. There they are joined Read More
Actors: Vaclav Lohnisky, Jana Brejchova
Synopsis: Yet another routine drama set in an Eastern European collective, this story by director and co-writer Ivo Novak adds nothing new to the genre. Ondrej (Petr Kostka) is an agricultural specialist who visits a collective farm in the line of duty. While there, he makes several friends but the old Read More
Actors: Milos Kopecky, Jana Brejchova, Rudolf Jelinek, Rudolf Hrusínsky
Synopsis: The Fabulous Baron Munchausen was Czechoslovakian special-effect master Karel Zeman's follow-up to The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (60). Using Gustav Dore paintings as backdrops, Zeman (by way of 18th century satirist Rudolf Raspe) recounts the many mendacious adventures of the boastful Baron (Milos Kopecky Read More
Actors: Frantisek Smolik, Jana Brejchova, Ivan Mistrik
Synopsis: Set in Czechoslovakia during the German Occupation, this drama of morality and politics centers around the slow awakening of an elderly professor to the truth about Nazism. The second German to rule over Czechoslovakia, Reinhard Heydrich was put into his position in 1941. He was in full accord Read More
Actors: Vaclav Babka, Jana Brejchova, Vera Tichankova
Synopsis: A poignant overview of how short life can be, this interesting drama from Czech director Vojetch Jasny is divided into four separate segments. In the first skit, a young child's impressions are observed as his newborn baby sister becomes a part of the family. In the second, a young woman falls in Read More
Actors: Jana Brejchova, Jirina Sejbalova
Synopsis: The title of this highly-regarded Czech drama translates as Wolf Trap. Set in the 1920s, the story revolves around an ambitious young provincial politician (Miroslav Dolozai) who enters into a marriage of convenience with a smotheringly possessive -- and much older -- woman (Jirina Sejbavola). Read More
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