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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: Vladimir Mensik, Lukas Vaculik, Jan Hrusínský, Tereza Pokorna, Zlata Adamovska
Synopsis: Popeye the Sailor might have given whole-hearted endorsement to the Czech comedy What Would You Say to Some Spinach? (Coz Takhle Dat Si Spenat). A genial crazy scientist invents a rejuvenating machine, which is promptly stolen by the owner of a beauty salon. While the machine is successful in Read More
Actors: Vladimir Mensik, Bozidara Turzonovova, Zdenek Kryzanek
Synopsis: In this ironic film, in 1968 an expatriate Czech sets up a dummy corporation for importing wine from Czechoslovakia and persuades all but one person in a wine-making commune to give him a commission for selling their wine. They give him their money, and he runs off with it. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Read More
Actors: Libuse Safrankova, Jan Hrusínský, Slavka Budinova
Synopsis: When a 13-year-old boy blithely decides to organize his brother's life after the older brother has a quarrel with his girlfriend, situations don't turn out exactly as planned. For one thing, there's the pregnancy of his brother's girlfriend to deal with. Fortunately for the lad, he has the Read More
Actors: Jirina Bohdalova, Vladimir Mensik, Helena Ruzickova
Synopsis: This comedic battle of the sexes finds a woman (Jirina Bohdalova) inviting a man to dinner at her home. She doesn't realize the man is in fact the Devil (Vladimir Mensik). He shows up for her fabulous culinary artistry, but she soon suspects he is less than human when he gnaws on the table legs Read More
Actors: Vladimir Mensik, Bohus Zahorsky, Stella Zázvorková, Helena Ruzickova
Synopsis: In this extremely strange Czech film, the grim story is told in reverse. The film literally runs backwards at the beginning as it depicts Mensik's severed head rolling back onto his body during a beheading. The protagonist is then seen walking back into a prison and out the front door. He then Read More
Actors: Vladimir Mensik, Vlastimil Brodský, Vaclav Babka
Synopsis: The comparatively unknown Czech director Vojtech Jasny managed to earn a few industry award nominations for his nostalgic 1968 film All My Good Countrymen. The film is set in a small Moravian village in the immediate postwar years. The "countrymen" of the title look forward to freedom after nearly Read More
Actors: Magda Vasaryova, Frantisek Velecky, Josef Kemr
Synopsis: Vladislav Vancura's novel Marketa Lazarova was based on a centuries-old Czechoslovakian legend. The film version concerns itself with a group of pillaging feudal lords. Though they regard themselves as noble knights, these lords are a raping, robbing lot, slaves to the many superstitions that grip 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: Olga Schoberova, Kveta Fialova, Rudolf Deyl
Synopsis: Lemonade Joe is a sweet-natured Czechoslovakian spoof of Hollywood westerns. Hero Lemonade Joe (Carl Fiala) is so named because he refuses to drink the "hard stuff" when he saunters into the local saloon. The plot exaggerates all the supposedly standard cowboy cliches, including dance hall girls 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: Hana Brejchova, Vladimir Pucholt, Vladimir Mensik, Antonin Blazejovsky, Jiri Hruby
Synopsis: Out in the Czech countryside, a shoe factory owner petitions the People's Army to station a division of soldiers in his town, where the women outnumber the men sixteen to one. The arrival of the troops is greeted with great excitement, but the girls in the town are disappointed to see that the men Read More
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