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Actors: Eniko Eszenyi
Synopsis: Reviewers found this somewhat surreal film so visually stunning as to be worth watching even when it was not clear to them what was going on. In the story, Jozef Schrevek is a man with unusual powers which he wishes to pass on to his son before his death, which is coming soon. Unfortunately, his Read More
Actors: Josef Abrhám, Marian Labuda
Synopsis: Unlike any other opera, the so-called Beggar's Opera is not just one composition, but a lineage of adapted compositions, beginning with the original hugely successful 1728 political satire written by Englishman John Gay. Composers and writers have penned variations on it ever since. The most Read More
Actors: Jan Triska, Zdenek Sverak, Libuse Safrankova, Daniela Kolarova
Synopsis: Ten-year-old Eda lives in Czechoslovakia. It is 1945, and he goes to school with some boys who are so mischievous that they have caused their previous teacher a nervous breakdown. She is replaced by a tough disciplinarian who administers frequent beatings. He also brags that he played an important Read More
Actors: Marian Labuda, Jaromir Hanzlik
Synopsis: This bedroom farce takes place at a large country estate in the period between the two world wars. It has been rented by Stoklasa (Marian Labuda) a somewhat uncouth but very wealthy businessman, who hopes to buy it. He and his family and staff have settled down comfortably when they are visited by Read More
Actors: Karel Hermanek, Marta Vancurova, Marcel Valter, Jan Jirasek, Jiri Krampol
Synopsis: Leo Popper (Karel Hermanek) is a successful traveling vacuum-cleaner salesman who provides for his wife and three children. The first part of the film deals with the comic circumstances encountered by Leo, an avid fisherman with an eye on his boss' pretty wife. When the Nazis invade, Leo quickly Read More
Actors: Janos Ban, Marian Labuda
Synopsis: Jiri Menzel of Closely Watched Trains fame directed the sweet little Czechoslovakian comedy/drama My Sweet Little Village. The life's blood of the titular community is a collective farm. Marian Labuda is the farm's truck driver, and also the partner-protector of Janos Ban, who is the village 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: Michal Docolomansky, Evelyna Steimarova, Vlastimil Brodský, Milos Kopecky, Rudolf Hrusínsky
Synopsis: In this parody of classic horror films set in 1897 (the year "Dracula" was published), the operatic tenor Count Felix Teleke (Michal Doclomanski) and the winsome Salsa Verde (Evelyna Steimarova) are in the forbidding castle of Baron Gore (Milos Kopecky), located close to Werewolfville. The Read More
Actors: Rudolf Hrusínsky, Jaromir Hanzlik, Jiri Schmitzer, Petr Cepek, Zdenka Hadrobolcova
Synopsis: Acclaimed Czech director Jiri Menzel has pulled off another successful collaboration with writer Bohumil Hrabal in this light, sometimes saucy farce about two warring hunting factions in a small village and how they end up in a rousing, comic showdown. The village community is made up of a broad Read More
Actors: Marian Labuda, Rudolf Hrusínsky
Synopsis: In this weak parody of gangster movies, Carmello Mushillo (Marian Labuda) is a low man in the hierarchy of Mafia dons, and when he angers the head honcho, he has to flee for his life to Prague with two companions. His flight through various locales and involvement with some petty criminals provide Read More
Actors: Jiri Schmitzer, Magda Vasaryova, Jaromir Hanzlik, Rudolf Hrusínsky
Synopsis: Short Cut is a comedy revealed more in the acting and witty dialogue than in the simple premise of the story itself: how the Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal was born. Actually, the story is, in many ways, the writer's conception. The setting is a small town where Hrabal's father Francine (Jiri Schmitzer Read More
Actors: Rudolf Hrusínsky, Magda Vasaryova
Synopsis: In this tale of espionage and greed, all the trouble is caused by the invention of a new source of energy, Krakatit, a small substance containing incredible power. A young scientist steals the Krakatit and is pursued by a scientist working for an avaricious American capitalist. In the climax, the Read More
Synopsis: A Czechoslovakian boy begins to recognizes the true meaning of freedom adapted from D. Pavel's novel. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Rudolf Hrusínsky, Jirí Menzel, Blazena Holisova, Vladimir Mensik
Synopsis: This 1978 film, set in 1907, is a tribute commemorating the 80th year of Czechoslovak filmmaking. Among the accomplishments of Czechoslovak filmmakers of the period are, the improvement on the Lumière camera and the creation of a commercially viable indigenous cinema years before Berlin. Read More
Actors: Michal Docolomansky, Rudolf Hrusínsky, Milos Kopecky, Ladislav Pesek, Nada Konvalinkova
Synopsis: This oddball satire, a favorite of cult film festivals, is set in Prague during 1900. There, pulp fiction hero Nick Carter looks into a series of murders. Eventually he finds the killer, a large carnivorous plant named Adele. The film was created in the style of a silent melodrama. ~ Sandra Read More
Actors: Rudolf Hrusínsky, Vera Galatikova, Alois Svehlik, Jana Ditetova, Vitezslav Jandak
Synopsis: Years of practice in a big-city medical clinic have burned Dr. Meluzin (Rudolf Hursinsky) out, and he longs for quieter waters. He takes a job as the head of a country clinic and meets with approval from the local nurse, who sees that he treats each patient as an individual and a human being, even Read More
Synopsis: Attempting to escape from the desert to join the Allies, a French Foreign Legion unit in North Africa is strafed by a German plane, which they then shoot down. The plane's survivors also have a goal: to return to German lines. The two groups fight the war in microcosm as each attempts to rally and Read More
Actors: Rudolf Hrusínsky, Vaclav Neckar, Vlastimil Brodský, Leos Sucharipa, Jitka Zelenohorska
Synopsis: It is little wonder that this film was withheld from release by the communist government of Czechoslovakia from 1969 to its release in 1990 at the Berlin Film Festival. What's amazing is that it was made at all and that, having been made, it survived to be shown. The story concerns the Read More
Actors: Rudolf Hrusínsky, Blanka Bohdanova, Iva Janzurová, Josef Kemr
Synopsis: A medieval nobleman stays away from the fighting that has plagued his country for 30 years. Content to stay with his servant in his crumbling castle, he offers protection for the peasants outside the castle walls. A fellow nobleman comes to visit and talks his friend into taking up his sword for Read More
Actors: Rudolf Hrusínsky, Vlasta Chramostova, Ilja Prachar
Synopsis: A man in Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia works as a cremator of dead bodies. He believes he is doing the souls of the dead a favor because of his beliefs in Tibetan religion. A Nazi convinces the man he has German blood in him and that his wife and children are Jewish. By now the man has been Read More
Actors: Rudolf Hrusínsky, Jana Stepankova, Martin Rusek, Vlastimil Hasek, Slavka Budinova
Synopsis: The Death of Tarzan is a Czechoslovakian black comedy which casts a jaundiced eye on the mythos of Edgar Rice Burrough's "Lord of the Apes." Orphaned in the wilds of Africa, a Czech baron (Rudolf Hrusinsky) grows up to be Tarzan. He is discovered by relatives and returned to Civilization -- if one Read More
Actors: Rudolf Hrusínsky, Vlastimil Brodský, Frantisek Rehak, Jana Drchalova
Synopsis: The Czechoslovakian Capricious Summer is based on a novel by Jan Libora. The plot focuses on three middle-aged vacationers at a summer resort. The tourist's plans for rest and relaxation are messed up when a circus tightrope walker and his toothsome daughter arrive on the scene. Director Jiri Menzel Read More
Actors: Rudolf Hrusínsky, Kveta Fialova, Vaclav Voska, Vladimir Mensik
Synopsis: This gentle parody of romantic melodramas centers on the romantic exploits of a portly middle-aged office clerk who marries a beautiful woman from another town. It took a lot of courage for the shy, awkward fellow to propose to her, and she accepted but insisted on remaining in Prague. She also Read More
Actors: Anne Heywood, James Booth, Rudolf Hrusínsky, Ann Todd, Donald Wolfit
Synopsis: The Anglo-Czech coproduction 90 Degrees in the Shade stars British actress Anne Heywood as a grocery clerk embroiled in an affair with manager James Booth. Though she knows that Booth is good for nothing, she remains with him because of the intensity of their physical relationship. Company Read More
Actors: Jaroslav Marvan, Josef Abrhám, Inna Gulaya, Rudolf Hrusínsky, Yuri Yakovlev
Synopsis: This story is based on the actual experiences of Czech writer Jaroslav Hasek during World War I and the Russian Revolution that followed. They later also served as the basis for The Adventures Of The Brave Soldier Svejk, his most well known work. The story starts with Hasek as a soldier in the Read More
Actors: Rudolf Hrusínsky, Frantisek Peterka, Otto Simanek Jr., Vaclav Neuzil
Synopsis: Working as a carpenter, Lucin (Rudolf Hrusinsky) endulges in alcoholism, losing his self respect as well as respect from those around him. Only Magdalena (Hana Hegorova) concerns herself with helping Lucin find some meaning and direction in his life, though she herself hasn't had a perfect past. Read More
Actors: Jana Hlavacova, Rudolf Hrusínsky, Martin Ruzek
Synopsis: This standard Czechoslovakian drama by Otakar Vavra has allusions to a greater problem and takes place at a roadside pub where a West German of Czech origins arrives with a Czech woman. He has come to visit his roots and is taking a break in his journey. As he and the woman sit down, the German 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: Rudolf Hrusínsky
Synopsis: A combined effort of Czechoslovakian and Yugoslavian talents, this respectable musical features the excellent and popular Czech orchestra of Karel Vlach, performing lively and toe-tapping arrangements and doing it well. Along with the musical numbers are several well-timed jokes and a generally Read More
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