Miloš Kopecký

biography:
Miloš Kopecký was a Czech actor, active mainly in the second half of the 20th century.  He was born into the family of craftsmen, Kopecký was involved with music and theater throughout his entire life.  Starting on stage in 1939, as a member of an amateur elocution group, Kopecký performed with numerous young artists during the German occupation of then Czechoslovakia.  Near the end of World War II, Kopecký’s mother was murdered at the Auschwitz concentration camp for her Jewish heritage, while Miloš was interned in the labor camp Bystřice u Benešova.  He would later credit these experiences as the cause for his struggle with Bipolar Disorder, then known as Manic-Depressive Disease.    Following the liberation, Kopecký began acting in the avant-garde studio Větrník in 1945, before joining the Vinohrady Theatre in 1965 at the behest of then-director František Pavlíček.  Kopecký  continued to make guest appearances at theaters throughout Prague, working with many notable actors of his era before appearing on film and television.  His first minor role was in the historic film Jan Roháč z Dubé (1947), but he quickly graduated to more important characters and gradually became one of the most popular actors in Czechoslovakia.   He may be best known today as Dr. Štrosmajer in the Czech television series Nemocnice na kraji města.  During his career he played mainly negative roles of traitors, lechers, and villain, which he famously depicted with elegance and esprit.

In the mid-1980s Kopecký acted in a politically biased documentary film about emigrants, and also presented very critical speech against current communist régimes in May, 1987, at the Fourth Congress of Dramatic Artists.  He was married five times, at one point to Czech actress Stella Zázvorková.

Bakaláři

original_name: Bakaláři

original_language: cs

Země úsměvů a snů

original_name: Země úsměvů a snů

Možná přijde i kouzelník

original_name: Možná přijde i kouzelník

Bejvávalo

original_name: Bejvávalo

Štipku soli

original_name: Štipku soli

original_language: sk

Hříšní lidé města pražského

original_name: Hříšní lidé města pražského

Vyhnanství

original_name: Vyhnanství

Kouzelný svět divadla a melodií

character: Host

original_name: Kouzelný svět divadla a melodií

Pan Tau

overview: Pan Tau always had a gentle expression and a friendly smile, he was elegantly dressed in a stroller, with an umbrella and a white carnation in the lapel. Foremost, he was famous for his magic bowler hat. By tapping on his hat, Pan Tau was able to change his appearance into a puppet, to conjure up miscellaneous objects or to do other magic. His most characteristically behavior is that he would help children who were experiencing some sort of difficulties in-between their dreams and reality, like finding a place for skiing, settling family problems on Christmas, and even give a boy a good time at a fair when he is supposed to have piano lessons. To adults, he usually remained invisible.

original_name: Pan Tau

original_language: de

Úsměvy světa

original_name: Úsměvy světa

Hup a Hop

character: Pepa Bepa (voice) (uncredited)

original_name: Hup a Hop

Příběhy slavných

character: Self (archive footage)

original_name: Příběhy slavných

Klapzubova jedenáctka

original_name: Klapzubova jedenáctka

Prášilové

original_name: Prášilové

Thirty Cases of Major Zema

overview:
Thirty Cases of Major Zeman is a Czechoslovak action-drama television show intended as a political propaganda to support the official attitude of the communist party. The series were filmed in the 1970s.

Each episode encompasses one year, and investigations are stylized to that year. Most are inspired by real cases. The series follows the life of police investigator Jan Zeman during his career from 1945 to 1975.

character: Kloc

original_name: 30 případů majora Zemana

Galasuperšou

original_name: Galasuperšou

Ctná paní Lucie

original_name: Ctná paní Lucie

GENUS

character: Self

original_name: GENUS

Nemocnice na kraji města

overview: Hospital at the End of the City is a popular television series first released in Czechoslovakia in 1977, it featured an ensemble cast and received much viewer praise in central Europe. The series ran from 1977 to 1981 for a total of twenty episodes. The success of the series inspired the German television series The Black Forest Clinic.

original_name: Nemocnice na kraji města

Ze staré drogerie

character: Narrator (voice)

original_name: Ze staré drogerie

Uctivá poklona, pane Kohn

character: Munk

original_name: Uctivá poklona, pane Kohn

Bambinot

character: Nikolas Mitropulos

original_name: Bambinot

Paragrafy na kolech

original_name: Paragrafy na kolech

Slavné historky zbojnické

character: Narrator

original_name: Slavné historky zbojnické

Honorární konzul

original_name: Honorární konzul

Šaráda

original_name: Šaráda

origin_country: XC CZ

Český

iso_639_1: cs

iso_3166_1: CZ

english_name: Czech

български език

iso_639_1: bg

iso_3166_1: BG

english_name: Bulgarian

also_known_as:
Milos Kopecký
Milos Kopecky

title: Tisíc pohledů za kulisy

overview: A television music band of so-called television songs, later referred to as clips. Their approaches were innovative on a global scale.

original_title: Tisíc pohledů za kulisy

title: Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet

overview: When famous detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in strange case of a missing dog and even stranger carnivorous plant. He becomes convinced that he is standing against his greatest enemy, the Gardener, who supposedly died years ago in a swamp...

character: baron Rupert von Kratzmar

original_title: Adéla ještě nevečeřela

title: Lemonade Joe

overview: A satire of the Great American Way, with Lemonade Joe a "clean living" gunfighter who drinks only Kola-Loca Lemonade and convinces everyone else in town (with his gun skills) that all "real men" drink ONLY lemonade!

character: Horác Badman alias "Hogofogo"

original_title: Limonádový Joe aneb Koňská opera

title: O Bumbrlíčkovi

original_title: O Bumbrlíčkovi

title: Devět kapitol ze starého dějepisu

original_title: Devět kapitol ze starého dějepisu

original_language: pt

title: The Fabulous Baron Munchausen

overview: A 20th century man lands on the Moon and discovers that Baron Munchausen has beaten him to it, accompanied by Cyrano de Bergerac and the characters from Jules Verne's novels about the conquest of the satellite.

character: baron Prášil

original_title: Baron Prášil

title: Revue pro banjo

overview: Songs about eternal love, American vagabonds, cowboys and desperadoes, with the romance of railways and trains speeding into the distance are recorded as film songs, and so, for example, in the well-known standard Franck and Johnny you will see M. Kopecký, J. Jirásková, J. Lír and others singing. In Chajda drnový, W. Matuška and K. Štědrý, K. Gott rides a horse or sails on a boat and R. Cortéz cries (off-screen) over the death of the famous robber Jesse James...

original_title: Revue pro banjo

title: The Proud Princess

overview: It's very human and nice story about lofty princess (her father is amiable but incapable - unforgettable performance of S. Neumann) and good, nice, kind and well-principled young king (prince) who tries to make tender her calm heart to get married with her. After being refused (she's very capricious), he conclude to make her better. He start to work as a gardener at her castle (in secret) and successively bring she to her senses...The story continues when already reformed princess and the young king (she learn about his real identity later) have to take refuge from troops, that princess father (old king) has sent (of course he took a bad and mean counsellors advice). They have to take shelter by several ordinary and poor families, which are always very friendly and give them a help... Of course the tale has happy end.

character: Kancléř

original_title: Pyšná princezna

title: Úplně beznadějný případ

title: Sny kominíka Sazivce

title: The Emperor and the Golem

overview: The Emperor's mismanagement of his country is provoking some in his court to plot to overthrow him.  He feels successful, at least, when he discovers the legendary Golem, which he believes can protect him and even cure his imaginary illnesses but, when he disappears while on a bender, his kindly baker, who looks just like him, is mistaken for him, and begins to put things in order.  However, the conspirators, not to be outdone, determine to bring the Golem back to life to do their bidding.

title: I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen

overview: 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 Einstein, with the hopeful result being that without the noted mathematician's research there will be no atomic bombs.

title: Potulné pohádkové divadlo

title: The Three Veterans

overview: It is a story of three veterans released from the army. During one night spent camping in the country they one by one wake up and meet three elvish brothers. Each of the veterans is given a magic item - one gets magic harp that provides him with servants by wish, other one endless pouch of gold and the last one owns magic hat that can create all the staff excluding money and people.

title: Svatby pana Voka

overview: Czech nobleman Petr Vok of Rozmberk (Milos Kopecký) is no longer so young, but his amatory adventures continue to arouse the envy of men and the indignation of respectable ladies. In his "female retinue" at the chateau in Bechyne he has twelve comely girls, but he still manages to seduce the miller's wife and the maid. Lord Vok is in great financial difficulties. His elder brother Vilém advises him to marry a rich woman. Petr surprises him by announcing his intention to marry the very young Katerina of Ludanice.

title: Vintage Car

overview: The history of motoring in Bohemia begins when Laurin and Klement founded a factory for the production of motorcycles. In 1904, the first motorcycle races were held in Dourdan, France, in which Czechs also participated. Czech mechanic František and Nanette, daughter of French mechanic Frontenac, met and fell in love there. Czech racer Vondřich finished second due to a breakdown. In 1905, the race was held again, Vondřich insured himself with a suitcase of spare parts and won. Nanette and František, who had been writing to each other all year, met again. After motorcycles, cars began to be produced everywhere, and in 1909 their first race was organized in Gaillon, France. The Czech racer Count Kolovrat won. His mechanic František married his beloved Nanette in the local church.

title: Grandle

title: Barrandovské nokturno aneb Jak film tančil a zpíval

overview: The 50th anniversary of the Barrandov studios was celebrated with a spectacular show: many directors and other important people gathered in the expensive decorations of the Variety Theatre auditorium (built for the Circus Humberto series). They smiled and showed well-deserved relaxation after a job well done in managing socialist cinema. Vladimir Sís interspersed this with excerpts from films, mainly his own and also a little of others who had worked on the "Hill of Dreams".

original_title: Barrandovské nokturno aneb Jak film tančil a zpíval

title: I'll Be Good, Old Man!

overview: To the intolerant and bloody-minded Prague actor Bergner (Milos Kopecký) is the lead in Moliere's Misanthrope which he is studying now as tailor-made. On top of that he is malicious and he advises to the new actress Helenka (Dagmar Havlová) in such a way that she upsets the theatre director. If Bergner accuses somebody of a mischief and he is wrong, he never apologizes. When he almost crashes an older elegant lady by his car on the zebra crossing, instead of an apology he calls her an old ballet dancer... But in Brno's TV he takes part in a discussion on manners and he gives himself as an example of good manners and grace. In the train he meets a magic old man (Ladislav Pesek) who warns him and admonishes him to change his behavior. After he arrives to Prague the old man's threat comes true.

title: Once Upon a Time, There Was a King...

overview: A selfish self-centered widowed ruler, barely tolerated by his subjects and called appropriately enough, 'King Myself, First' asks his three daughters to name the measure of their love for him. When one of them says, "more than salt", he banishes her from the kingdom. Not understanding what she meant the King assumes love can only be measured by precious metals or one's own talent, the 'correct' answers from his other two daughters. The arrogance of the King leads him to gather all the salt in the kingdom and destroy it. Of course, this backfires as he slowly learns the universal value of the substance, and of course, the essence of his daughter's reply. With the help of the wise and magical old 'herb woman', the King also learns what it means to be a true and wise ruler.

title: Straw Hat

overview: Slacker Maurice Fadinar wasted his whole inheritance and the only way out of this situation, as it seems, to marry Helen Nonankur - daughter of a wealthy farmer. At the last meeting with his mistress in a nearby forest Fadinar's horse eats straw hat which belongs to a married lady, spending time in the company of young and hot Lieutenant Emil. Emil literally puts a knife to Maurice throat - or the lady will get back the exact same hat immediately, or he will arrange such a scandal that no wedding will not happen ...

title: Sny na neděli

overview: In the pulmonary sanatorium, patients live out their small fates. But not everyone takes a responsible approach to their illness. For example, a young student falls in love, the lovers even take a secret flight, but the young man's condition deteriorates dramatically because of it.

title: Dokonalý muž, dokonalá žena aneb Návštěva mladé dámy

original_title: Dokonalý muž, dokonalá žena aneb Návštěva mladé dámy

title: A Night at Karlstein

overview: No Woman is allowed into Karlstejn Castle! Yet the enamoured Daniele Kolářová and the equally enamoured Jana Brejchová manage to spend one night in disguise in the Castle despite the strict royal ban.

title: Flám

overview: A comedy about a charismatic man who lacks the confidence of his surroundings. However, he was not completely satisfied with the original script and invited Jiří Mucha to adapt Otto Zelenka's script, which gave the film the final form of a bitter conversational comedy. It is also worth noting that the big beat band Olympic appeared in the film in its early days with the song "Dangerous Figure".

title: The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians

overview: In 1897, in a castle near the town of Werewolfville in the Carpithians, a slightly deranged Professor Orfanik experiments with his new inventions which include, even at this early date, television and a film camera. He is also an obsessed opera fan, keeps the body of his favorite diva preserved in a crypt in the castle. In order to keep away nosy visitors, the baron's mad-scientist assistant invents all sorts of spooky phenomena in order to give the castle a creepy reputation.

title: Mistr Kornelius

title: Už vám není dvacet, paní Bláhová

title: Španělská paradentóza

title: Zlepšovák

title: Konec draka Kusodrápa

title: Ceiling

overview: The young Marta has made a break in her medical education to fully invest in her career as a model. We follow her for a day in her life, almost completely without hearing her voice. It is seldom that Marta gets the space to speak, instead she is mostly subject to the voice of others.

title: V hlavní roli Oldřich Nový

title: Zakázaný výlet

overview: Based on a real event - the shooting of a group of working-class children on 20 April 1930 in Radotín. Thirteen-year-old Boženka‘s mother works as a laundress, and Boženka and her two younger siblings are not living on a bed of roses.

title: The Magic Book

overview: An evil witch is trying to steal a magic purse possessed by the local ruler. Thanks to Princess Blanka's love, Prince Petr wins out over the witch.

title: Vdova po dvou mužích

title: The Good Soldier Švejk

overview: Good-natured and garrulous, Schweik becomes the Austrian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of World War I -- although his bumbling attempts to get to the front serve only to prevent him from reaching it. Playing cards and getting drunk, he uses all his cunning and genial subterfuge to deal with the police, clergy, and officers who chivy him toward battle.

title: We'll Kick Up a Fuss Tomorrow, Darling...

overview: Mr. Novak tells a lie to his neighbor Mrs. Bartackova that her husband is unfaithful to her and that is how it all started.

title: Románek za tři krejcary

title: Příběh lásky plné

title: Lov na mamuta

overview: A young man tries to enter the building of the Mammoth Cybernetic Supermachines Research Institute again and again but each time the doorkeeper spots him and kicks him out. The youth finally arrives with all his friends and a huge live bear from the circus where he works as an accountant. He is finally allowed in where he explains to the members of the directorate that he wants to work at the Institute, since he graduated in cybernetics and, besides, he has invented a machine for forecasting time of death. When the conniving research manager learns that their director is going to die in two days, he hopes to rise to his position.

title: Aucassin a Nicoletta

title: Angel in a Devil's Body

overview: In a chateau near Prague there is a chantry and brothel Riviera, designed for the clientele from the higher circles. Mrs. Gábi Stolařová, called Madame, keeps a close eye on order, but otherwise she runs the place in a family spirit and makes sure that the customers are satisfied. A new employee, the beautiful Renata, disrupts the order of things and immediately draws the attention of all the guests to herself. But beneath her angelically innocent exterior, she hides a fierce ambition and a coldly calculating brain, which, to her own detriment...

title: Zkáza Jeruzaléma

overview: A grotesque story from the history of the film business. The owner of a second-rate rental company offers rural cinema operators a novelty - a biblical big screen film that he personally edited from old prints.

title: Bohoušův syn

overview: Konvalinka, a notorious betting man, has become the scourge of the establishment. He can turn anything into a bet. During one such bet, when he is not ashamed to take advantage of the manager to win, he is noticed by the owner's brother, Bohus, who is visiting a friend. After finding out who Konvalinka really is, he decides to shake the bettor down. Since he works as the manager of a small South Bohemian pub, he sets up a big operation to punish Konvalinka. He is seconded in this plan by his cougar father-in-law and Bohouš's St. Bernard son Pepa.

title: Napravení Jima Valentina

title: Zhasněte lampióny

title: Eine zauberhafte Erbschaft

overview: In 18th century Bohemia, the mercenary troops of a cruel duke roam the countryside. A cap maker who defends himself against injustice is thrown into prison. His ten-year-old son tries to free his father with the help of his friends of the same age and a magic cap, but the duke's henchmen are soon after the magic cap.

title: Martin Speaking

overview: The second installment of children's stories investigator Dr. Martin. The film has two stories:

title: The Pipes

overview: 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 that this is his last live scene. The second episode has the wife of an elderly British nobleman having an affair with the young gamekeeper of their estate. Part three finds a peasant woman taking a lover when her husband goes off to fight the war.

title: Never Strike A Woman... Even with A Flower

overview: Shortish forty-year old Ludvík Podzimek, lute and flute player in a Prague orchestra, is far from being an attractive man. He is nevertheless generally considered a great 'Don Juan'. Women take up with him out of a certain motherly compassion and Ludvík's tender heart does not allow him to split with any of them. His lovers thus accumulate and cause him numerous troubles.

title: Já truchlivý bůh

overview: The main character of this ironic, intimate story about unrequited love is an older man, Adolf, who tells the story of his greatest failure in love. He has fallen in love with a young opera student, Janička, who, however, only has eyes for men who have a good position in artistic circles. Adolf hatches an ill-fated prank to introduce the girl to his friend Apostolko, a Greek worker. He passes him off as an opera conductor, and Janička falls in love with him. Adolf thus becomes the driving force behind events that ultimately turn against him.

title: My Pragues Understand Me

overview: A fictional story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's stay in Prague. The film, in no case, claims any historical facts. It only tries to evoke the spirit of that time by connecting Mozart's music with the architecture of Prague and by pointing up the changes in Prague during Mozart's two-hundred absence in the Czech metropolis.

title: Zločin a trik II.

title: Zločin a trik II.

title: Angelic Eyes

overview: Charming, witty and smart men represent a fictitious insurance company who soon fall for an innocent-looking young woman smarter than she seems.

title: Payment in Kind

overview: In an unusual, apolitical approach, director Jaromil Jires has fashioned a standard drama that features an older lawyer with failing health who goes to practice in the countryside. His series of odd court cases reveals more about the human condition than about law. In one of these litigations a wayward nephew has cheated his elderly aunt out of her savings. In court, the nephew insists the money was a gift, but his aunt explains she only gave him the money as a loan. Although the lawyer technically wins the case, everything of value seems lost in the meantime. His services are paid for in rabbits because the aunt has no currency, and in the end, the nephew cons his aunt into parting with her savings anyway. Other cases expose similar types of petty corruption.

title: Učitel a přítel zůstal veřejnosti neznám

original_title: Učitel a přítel zůstal veřejnosti neznám

title: Čirok

title: Křesadlo

title: Pražská romance

title: Silvery Wind

overview: Second half of the 19th century. In a small town in South Bohemia, fifth-former Jan Ratkin is living through the confusions of first love together with his classmates.

title: Legend of Love

overview: A spring is hidden in the Iron Mountain but the people of Arzen cannot get to it and they are suffering from thirst.

title: Trapasy

title: Trapasy II

title: Deštník

title: The Great Movie Robbery

overview: The film is essentially a feature-length commercial for an exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of the nationalisation of the Czechoslovak film industry, to be held at the Prague U Hybernu venue. The protagonists of the piece are comedians Oldrich Kaiser and Jirí Lábus, who are set to accept an award from Japanese television representatives at the exhibition. At the same time, five gangsters plot to seize a revolutionary invention devised by professor Suzuki - a super holograph, which enables any figure from television to be transported in the flesh into the real world, and vice-versa.

title: Hearty Greetings from the Globe

overview: Two aliens stir up trouble on Earth in order to study humans. Misunderstandings ensue.

title: Man in Outer Space

overview: An upholsterer who is preparing a rocket for takeoff accidentally jettisons himself into space and returns to Earth 500 years later with an alien companion who wishes to learn more about the human race.

title: Šest uprchlíků

overview: A revue grotesque full of humour and surprises, awarded three main prizes at the Montreux Festival.

title: Hokej je hra

title: Lásky Emanuela Přibyla

title: Noc labutí

title: Svět otevřený náhodám

overview: An unemployed young man in the second half of the 1930s, he tries various ways of making a living and, under the influence of a group of communist youth, eventually goes to Spain as an inter-brigadista...

title: Miláček

title: The Windy Mountain

overview: A group of temporary workers arrive at the Czech-German border to conduct geological exploration. However, not all people have pure intentions and a past, and so the group of geologists is threatened by saboteurs who want to blow up an abandoned mine and escape across the border...

title: Eva Eva

title: Silvestr na přání aneb Čí jsou hory Kavčí

original_title: Silvestr na přání aneb Čí jsou hory Kavčí

title: Silvestr 1978

overview: A New Year's Eve television variety show from late 1978.

title: Silvestr 79 aneb Hrajeme si jako děti

overview: A New Year's Eve television variety show from late 1979.

title: Silvestr na Silvestru

title: Báječné ženy na létajících strojích

title: Poslední leč Alfonse Karáska

overview: Alfons Karásek has an important task ahead of him – to introduce his young protégé, who is still very inexperienced in this field, to the art of seducing girls. The opportunity arises on a hunting trip…

title: Kufr čili Silvestrovské kousky Miloše Kopeckého a Františka Filipovského

original_title: Kufr čili Silvestrovské kousky Miloše Kopeckého a Františka Filipovského

title: Christening

overview: Deputy of cartography enterprise Mr. Ciruvka tries to seduce the colleague's assistant to destabilize his confident in a run for the director's chair. But things can go wrong.

title: The Best Man of All

overview: A Czech satirical comedy set around 1900. The inhabitants of the small town of Pětice are excited by a mysterious package that is to be delivered to the best person in the village. Of course, all members of the town council claim the title of best person. In the end, it turns out that it was a cleverly thought-out prank intended to reveal the true character of the "better people" of the town.

title: Bidýlko

title: Leporelo aneb Patero obrázků z pera Jaroslava Haška

original_title: Leporelo aneb Patero obrázků z pera Jaroslava Haška

title: Slasti Otce vlasti

overview: The young Prince Charles (Jaromír Hanzlík), the future King of his country Charles IV, is being educated at the French court in the company of his fiancée Blanche (Daniela Kolárová). One day he receives a summons from his father John of Luxembourg (Milos Kopecký) in Italy. He leaves for Italy accompanied by a deputation from Bohemia. On the way the prince's company fights a battle with armed Milanese against heavy odds. Thanks to Charles's perspicacity, the prince's almost naked soldiers win through. In Lucca in Italy Charles joins his father, and here he experiences an amorous adventure and escapes from the traps laid by the Italian rebels.

title: Six Bears and a Clown

overview: The owner of a circus decides to swap his trained bears for trained pigs, and fires clown Cibulka. The clown gets a job at a local school, bears escape and seek him out and a school inspector comes into town.

title: Murder in the Excelsior Hotel

overview: In Vražda v hotelu Excelsior, the interwar period homicide detective squad from Prague investigates the murder of a wealthy woman, Mrs Matoušová, which threatens the reputation of the eponymous luxury hotel popular with Prague’s elite. Even the retired police inspector Mrázek (František Filipovský), who works at the Excelsior as a hotel detective, is unable to help at first. Although the investigation inevitably uncovers the hotel staff’s scheming, Vacátko and his team unerringly follow the trail that leads them to the murderer…

title: Potulné pohádkové divadlo I.

title: Prague Nights

overview: A stuffy middle-aged foreigner, a businessman named Fabricius, lonely and looking for a night's diversion, finds it in the form of a mysterious blonde. In an abandoned cemetery, she tells him three tales involving black magic and erotic obsession. In "The Last Golem," a young rabbi struggles to fashion a massive, silent giant out of living clay — until he's distracted by a mute servant girl. In the second episode, "Bread Slippers," an 18th-century countess indulges her passion for sweet cakes, adulterous affairs, and secret kisses with pretty maids until a mysterious visitor whisks her away to an abandoned mansion, where Fate has a different kind of dance in store for her. And in the final story, "Poisoned Poisoner," a ravishing murderess in the Middle Ages dispatches lecherous merchants to the tune of upbeat '60s Czech pop songs.

title: Tři muži se žralokem

title: Svůdnice na šest

overview: A crazy comedy about what caused a passion for solving crossword puzzles. An insurance company representative writes a report with the Sluks about an accident that happened in their house. Mrs. Slavíková went shopping while her husband was filling a ten-liter pot with water that was on the stove. Mr. Kukačka stayed home, sick, and his wife went to visit relatives. But the husband used his illness to cover up his antics. Mrs. Sluková was doing a crossword puzzle and was looking for the word "seductress at six". She asked her husband to go borrow Mr. Slavík's crossword dictionary. Then Mr. Slavík's door slams shut, his pot of water overflows, and the gas goes out...

title: Štrnásty v rade

title: Cesta na Borneo

title: Náš dědek Josef

overview: Set in a 1950s Moravian wine village, an elderly Josef, guided by his quirky life philosophy and humor, recalls key moments from his past. Across nine seasonal vignettes filled with local folklore and customs, he and his fellow elders remain fully engaged in the joys and trials of village life.

title: The King of Kings

overview: During his work assignment in Tamani Kingdom, Czech worker Lojza saves a local man from dying in the desert. Two years later, it turns out the saved man was also the Taman king; and he has decided to name Lojza, a communist, his royal heir.

title: Fair Play

overview: Tereza lives and works in Prague. She meets a handsome man, Tommie, speaking in a language incomprehensible to her. It seems that he is the manager of the Finnish ice hockey team. A love story starts to blossom. When the coach of the Czech ice hockey team tries to use Tereza to retrieve information about the strategy of the Finnish team, Tommie leaves Tereza. Will Tereza be able to clear up this misunderstanding?

title: The Secret of an Old Attic

overview: During a summer holiday, two boys discover an anti-gravity cannon in an old attic.

title: Učitel tance

overview: A special story about love, dance, and immortality takes place in the late 1940s. A young man, dance master Mayer, arrives at a pulmonary sanatorium. His diagnosis is serious—tuberculosis. However, he does not give in to his illness and begins to actively fight it with dance and optimism. Gradually, he wins over other patients who had previously resigned themselves to their fate. Soon, however, his illness breaks out in full force and insidiousness. Facing death, he embodies human courage and a positive attitude towards life.

title: The White Lady

overview: This castle has its own ghost - a mysterious White lady. She emerges from the painting on the wall when someone speaks out magic formula. White lady is good ghost, she can make someone's wishes true. Even if it is a new duct. But a miracle is not the thing that Communist leaders want in the town.

title: Vražda v ulici de Lourcine

title: Síť na bludičku

title: Viktor Veliký

title: Distant Journey

overview: Prague, during World War II. Hana Kaufmann, a Jewish ophthalmologist, marries Dr. Antonín Bureš, a Christian man. When her family is sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, their romance turns into a struggle for survival.

title: Kočár nejsvětější svátosti

overview: Jan Werich, as the Spanish viceroy in Lima, Peru, at the end of the eighteenth century, is not only afflicted with gout but also doubts about the fidelity of his mistress, an actress of the local theatre, with whom he intends to settle his scores very firmly...

title: Sedm žen Alfonse Karáska aneb Když holky berou, já nevím kterou

overview: Alfons Karásek says goodbye to his wife Růžena at the train station, who is going to the spa. He plans an erotically filled week, full of women and flings. One lover for each day. But right from the start, the intricately constructed itinerary goes awry. In the end, he finds himself in his apartment full of beautiful women, including, unfortunately, his returning wife...

original_title: Sedm žen Alfonse Karáska aneb Když holky berou, já nevím kterou

title: How to Dupe a Lawyer

overview: Attorney Horic is a specialist for cases connected with motoring. He approaches to his work unconventionally, he does not hesitate to search for evidence right in the terrain and he is willing to take various risks.

title: Na návštěvě u Horníčků

title: Labyrinth

overview: Film makes the creative process visible by letting its narrative flow in the mind of a foreign director who is researching a film about Franz Kafka in Prague. Based on the principle of dreams and free association, segments unfold that deal with the various points of view that Kafka's work, personality and fate offer. In the labyrinth of his mind, the fictional director projects himself into situations from the author's life, with Kafka himself as his guide. At the same time, he delves into the history of the persecution of the Jews and glimpses the monstrosity of the bureaucratic apparatus that Kafka anticipated but could not have foreseen the monstrous size and function it would grow to a few years after his death in the institutionalized genocide and overall machinery of Nazism.

title: Bergman a Bergman, detektivní kancelář

overview: The story of father and son detectives takes place mostly in the dignified surroundings of a concert hall. Who prepared the assassination, timed exactly according to the score of a piece by Joseph Haydn, what fate will befall the famous conductor Castellani, what surprising methods will the pair of detectives use?

title: I, Mournful God

overview: Adolf, the irresistible seducer of women, is fond of Janicka, a novice opera singer. The girl, however, prefers famous men and Adolf thus does not have a single chance with her. One day in a hospital, he meets a Greek partisan named Apostolek who impresses him with his spontaneity and ease in solving all problems, especially those with women. Adolf has an idea for a revenge. He makes Apostolek familiar with social manners, dresses him after the latest fashion and introduces him to Janicka as a Greek conductor. Janicka instantly falls in love with the made-up composer and Apostolek does no better.

title: Jindřich IV.

title: When You Have a Holiday Dominique

overview: Eight-year old Dominique has a name-day. Her parents have a gift for her, but only give it to her in the evening, when everybody has come home from work. Then she darts out, where her girlfriends are already waiting for her.

title: Mature Wine

overview: A loose sequel to the 1976 comedy Stormy Wine. The screenwriters and the director recreate on screen a number of characters from the South Moravian town of Pálavice, characterised by their different attitudes and approaches to work and private life. A number of serious issues touching on the times emerge around the story of the con man. The fundamental dispute between the vice-chairman Janák and the chairman of the merged cooperatives ing. Urban, as well as the satirical theme of illegal machinations and bribes, are undoubtedly of general validity.

title: Růžový Hubert

overview: Eerie things are happening at Chelford Castle at night: Since the murder of Abbot Hubert some 400 years ago, his ghost is said to haunt the abbey on dark nights. Devilish howls can be heard as he wanders through clouds of fog. Sergeant Putler, Scotland Yard's most intrepid and successful detective, is hired by Richard Chelford to investigate the case. His older brother, Lord Henry, is much more interested in the legendary treasure of gold that is said to have been hidden somewhere on the grounds since Hubert's death. The situation escalates when Henry's secretary, Mary Brown, disappears without a trace one night, and a man in a monk's habit with a knife appears in Richard Chelford's bedroom, intent on killing him. Meanwhile, Sergeant Putler chases the mysterious monk's terrifying screams through the foggy and eerie night...

title: Escape Home

overview: A twelve-year-old is looking for his biological parents after discovering the fact that he was adopted.

title: Konec cesty

overview: Josef Lachman, once a security officer, serves twelve years for aiding an SS fugitive’s escape. Upon release, he works as a driver on a dam project, hunting buried English pounds Meyer told him about. With miner Rokos’s help, he retrieves the cash and hides it with his daughter Eva, but she spends some at Tuzex, Rokos blackmails him, and they discover the notes are WWII forgeries.

title: Přihlašte své televizory

overview: A defaulter avoids paying his fees, so he tries to install a TV antenna in his room. The rest of his family helps him, but in the end the man loses more than just the TV... And what about you, do you pay your TV fees?

title: Žárlivost

title: Konec jasnovidce

overview: Private psychic Mathias Scibolini practices his profession properly and to the full satisfaction of his clients. When the integration of the clairvoyants into the municipal enterprise occurs, he continues to divine under his civil name Mathias Scibolini. The administration is broken up, the fortune-telling services are sloppy and client satisfaction declines. After hours, however, it is possible to go to the clairvoyant's apartment, where everything is as it used to be.

title: Panenka

overview: Five-year-old Anne Sachs was playing with her Treperenda doll in her room when she heard a scream from the next room. Someone had hurt her mother. Unbeknownst to the girl, she had become a witness to a murder. Detective Steve Carella is on the trail of the perpetrator, but at a crucial moment he falls into a trap. Mayer and his rebellious assistant Bert Kling take over the investigation. Both must explain Carella's disappearance and find out who killed Karin Sachs and why. Her ex-husband Denis, little Anne's father, is scrupulously keeping the couple's troubled past a secret.

title: Dům na nebesích

title: Extended Time

overview: The dramatic story of Karel Svozil, an aging professor of art history, tells of love and old age, illness, death and the worries of everyday life with a humorous touch. A diagnosis of a cancerous tumour unexpectedly interferes with the life of the wise and sophisticated man and his love affair with the much younger Alena, leading him to contemplate suicide. However, the gloomy thoughts are soon replaced by feverish activity, with which Professor Svozil tries to make the most of his remaining time. He finishes his book, marries his mistress, and openly speaks out against his superior. However, an accident radically changes the whole situation.

title: Caterwauling

overview: In a rare instance of literary adaptation, Chytilová was inspired by Franz Kafka’s writings. Mr. K stashes stolen jewelry away at home and seldom allows his wife to wear it. A nosy neighbour, Mr. B, drops in. A cat observes it all.

title: To byla svatba, strýčku

overview: Alfons is invited by his brother-in-law to his niece's wedding. The uncle arrives in his luxury car. However, the wedding guests ignore his anxious worries about the car and send him here for beer, there for cement. The uncle objects, but the energetic bridesmaid acts. The car suffers, and so does the uncle. When the wedding guests finally decide to go to the town hall, the car is almost impassable. However, the confusion is far from over...

title: How to Drown Dr. Mracek, the Lawyer

overview: There are still water spirits among us. One group lives in Prague, led by Mr. Wassermann, who is using his wife's family as a servants. All they need is their old house near the river. But the house is to be demolished. They have to stop it. And the only way is to drown Dr. Mrácek, who is responsible for the demolition. But he falls in love with Wassermann's niece Jana. He changes to fish, is mistaken for water spirit from Germany, is drowned and revived again. The other problem is the flour with ears... and so on...

original_title: Jak utopit dr. Mráčka aneb Konec vodníků v Čechách

title: Of Things Supernatural

overview: An anthology of three absurd, ironic tales inspired by Čapek’s “Tales from One Pocket” and “Fables and Side Stories,” each showing uncanny forces disrupting ordinary lives: in Krejčík’s “Glorie,” a gentle clerk is haunted by a sudden halo; the other two segments by Mach and Makovec similarly blend everyday routines with ironic, supernatural twists.

character: (segment "Tajemství písma") / (segment "Právní případ")

title: You Are a Widow, Sir

overview: After a soldier cuts off the arm of king's cousin, king decides to deactivate the army. Of course, generals don't like it at all and they try to kill the king. The assassin should be artificial body in the shape of actress Evelina Keleti and with brain of psychotic serial killer Fany Stubová. They also manage to kill king's astrologer Stuart Hampl, who warns the king. Accidentally, Hampl's brain is implanted into assassin's body, actress Keleti is killed and chaos begins.

title: O nejchytřejší princezně

overview: The princess had been proclaiming herself to be the smartest of them all for so long that the people in the castle had to believe it. Only the prince who came to court her was able to openly show her that he was not interested in such an uneducated and conceited princess. It was this brave prince who had fallen in love with the princess, and she did not want to let him insult her. The cute witch Okulárová certainly had some credit for how everything turned out in the end, but also the princess herself, who was in love.

title: There Was a Miller on a River

overview: A picture based on an old folk song tells us a horrifying story about a soldier returning home after twenty years. His parents do not recognize him, they rob and kill him.

title: Alfons Karásek v lázních

title: Utopím si ho sám

overview: The difference in personalities and lifestyles is the core of Zdeněk Svěrák's hilarious comedy. The story of two elderly gentlemen begins in a hospital, where they are both hospitalized. Former tram driver Havlík discovers that his new acquaintance Chouň does not have an apartment and offers him that he can temporarily live with him. The latter happily accepts the offer and soon changes Havlík's proper and honorable life as a widower. The old conductor realizes that he can also live differently: cheerfully and carefree. The idyll is ruined when Chouň robs Havlík...

title: Egyptologové

overview: Comedy, 1974 (Czech Republic) : The movie takes place in England. A group of married middle-aged gentlemen have founded a pretense amateur Egyptology society to maintain some degree of freedom from their wives. The elaborate trick gradually escalates into more and more tangled web of lies and tricks, until they have no option but to disband the society for good.

title: Úřad

title: Pučálkovic Amina

title: The Divine Emma

overview: The opera lady singer Ema Destinnová is in all her splendor at the American stages. But in Europe there rages war and she decides to return home to Bohemia.

title: Warriors of Faith

overview: After the Battle of Lipany, the remnants of the Hussite troops concentrated under the leadership of Jan Roháč of Dubé at Sion Castle. However, he had no prospects of victory against the soldiers of the Lordship. Sion was conquered, Roháč of Dubé was captured and executed as a pest in Prague on September 9, 1437.

title: Green Street

overview: A look at an over-loaded freight train departing from Prague.

title: Lakomec

overview: In 1972, Czechoslovak Television recorded a performance by the Vinohrady Theatre, which was very well received. Moliere's comedy The Miser was staged on a turntable, but in period costumes and scenery, without any hint of updating, in a traditional translation. However, it was modern and contemporary mainly thanks to the stage direction of Jaroslav Dudek and the excellent acting performances of the main actors, led by Miloš Kopecký in the role of Harpagon. His civil speech, which was not devoid of majesty, anger, imperiousness, dislike and lack of feeling towards those closest to him, was supported by the equally precise performance of Jaromír Hanzlík and Daniela Kolářová in the roles of his children, Jiřina Bohdalová as the matchmaker, and the other actors. The comedy in their performance is timeless and will delight lovers of classical theatre even today.

title: Prague – The Restless Heart of Europe

overview: This distinctive documentary portrait of Prague extolls the beauty, significance and spirit of the ancient city adopting modern way of life. The form and content of the film share a common underlining principle. The author doesn't simply list out the sequence of events, but rather approaches them in a broader context of their historic implications and circumstances. The content of the film covers a large period from the pagan times to these days. The facts are grouped under several general headings (paganry, the spread of Christianity, renaissance, baroq and modern times) with allusions to the modern life of Prague and Praguers that has its roots in those times.

title: Námluvy komtesy Gladioly aneb Přistání ve skleníku

overview: A parody of operetta costumes, personas, old familiar situations with old familiar sandboxes and a happy ending.

original_title: Námluvy komtesy Gladioly aneb Přistání ve skleníku

title: The Circus Will Be

overview: A few bus-loads of holidaymakers from the agricultural cooperative on a day trip arrive to see the show at the Slavia Circus. But, they have bad luck. It is Monday, the day on which the employees have their extra day off.

title: Dva z onoho světa

overview: A musical comedy about two indistinguishably similar siblings who love music, but each of them is completely different. Pavel Fořt is a professor of classical music at a pedagogical institute, his brother is a jazz musician and plays music in America. When the twin brother suddenly appears in Prague, they switch roles.

title: Velké dobrodružství

overview: A biographical film about the traveler Emil Holub, conceived as an illustrative story of an exceptional man, who, however, encounters the disinterest and rejection of the domestic Czech bourgeoisie. To this is added an international perspective - Holub encounters British expansionism in Africa and indignantly rejects colonial methods, trying to help black people.

title: Every Penny Counts

overview: After inheriting a villa from his uncle, Emil Tuma meets its strange inhabitants, getting him in trouble.

title: Mikoláš Aleš

overview: A biographical film about the famous Czech painter Mikoláš Aleš, portrayed as part of the vanguard of the working class and a spokesman for the oppressed, who asserts himself despite the opposing bourgeoisie and reactionaries of all kinds. The film focuses on the period when Mikoláš Aleš participated in the competition to decorate the National Theatre.

title: A Star Travels South

overview: The Prague Grand Orchestra travels by train to a music festival in Yugoslavia. Only the singer Sona Klánová missed the departure. In the meantime, she managed to buy a ticket to Belgrade at the air-terminal from Mrs Navrátilová, who couldn't make the trip. In the meantime, the orchestra conductor is beside himself with despair. He phoned to Prague from the border, and when he realized that Sona had left her house in a taxi, he thought that she would catch up with them by the road. The orchestra delayed the train's departure with an improvised concert for the custom officers and the passengers.

title: Nevíte o bytě?

overview: A comedy about the post-war housing crisis in Prague, which several young people are struggling with. The young puppeteer Josef lives in a sublet with the singer Šimůnek, who is currently missing. After returning from a trip, Josef discovers that a demobilized member of the foreign army, a Slovak woman named Elena, has been given a decree for the apartment. And she does not want a sublet. The couple starts looking for a new sublet, but is unsuccessful due to the housing crisis. However, since the two young people have fallen in love in the meantime, the solution seems obvious...

title: La valle di pietra

overview: In the 18th Century, in Bohemia, a government surveyor meet a priest during a lunch and remained intrigued by him.  Years later, in a stony valley, the two men meet again and form a deep friendship.

title: The Canary Connection

overview: An interesting attempt at a postmodern crazy comedy with elements of parody. The plot turns on the search for the recipe of a liqueur made by the film’s financial backer.

title: Hry lásky šálivé

overview: Two historical stories about love. In the story "The Arabian Horse", the scheming townsman Messer Francesco Vergellesi is so firmly convinced of his wife's virtue that he does not hesitate to bet her against a rare stallion he has a crush on... The story "The Earrings" shows how a poor girl can help herself to a rare jewel and what intrigues are needed for an elderly noble couple to finally have an heir...

title: Jak se dělá divadlo

title: Rambling Engelbert

overview: Rambling Engelbert: 1973 Czechoslovakian T.V. movie musical

title: Kavárna na hlavní třídě

overview: On his first day in a new place, waiter Josef Kučera stands up for his old servant Bartoš and bellhop Svát. His actions earn him the distrust of the café owner Stýbl, the admiration of the maid Jindřiška, and the hatred of her suitor, the waiter Vacek. One evening, Kučera overhears a strange conversation between two guests and confides in the editor of Rudý právo Rokos. When a scandal breaks out about the bank robbery of the minister's son-in-law Zakhar, Rokos deduces from the conversation that it was a fake robbery...

title: Psíčci lorda Carltona

title: Year of the Revolution 1848

overview: The Czech revival movement is divided at the end of the first half of the 19th century. While the older generation, such as František Palacký, urges restraint, students lean towards radical positions. A report on the revolutionary events in Paris prompts Czech Prague residents to write down the demands of the Czech nation for self-determination and the proclamation of a constitution. Tensions peak during the All-Slavic Congress in Prague's Žofín. Vienna rejects the Czech demands and the congress is brutally dispersed by the Austrian police. Prague begins to build barricades...

title: Anna the Proletarian

overview: The movie describes proletarian life in the Czech Lands after World War I.

title: Kidnapped

overview: American agents hijack a plane on the Ostrava-Prague route to launch a campaign against the People's Democratic Czechoslovakia. The plane lands in West Germany, but the Americans have an unexpected problem convincing the hijackers to stay in the West. Based on a true story.

title: The Secret of Blood

overview: A biographical film about a Czech doctor, Dr. Jánský. The athletically inclined medic Jánský successfully completes his studies. He wants to become a surgeon, but finds himself in Professor Kuffner's psychiatric clinic, where, together with his colleague Kozdera, he tries to uncover the connection between blood clotting and mental illness. They make the surprising discovery that human blood can be divided into four groups and thus prevent it from clotting during transfusions. However, Jánský's discovery is met with misunderstanding by the Czech medical community...

title: Severní přístav

overview: A spy film about how saboteurs obtain important data about the activities of a key company, while also trying to thwart the plan and undermine work morale. But vigilant security agencies intervene in time and stop their heinous raids.

title: Písničky Na zábradlí

title: Blázinec v 1. poschodí

overview: The servant Josef enters the seemingly peaceful household of the psychiatrist Jaroslav and his wife Žofie, a great lover of the theatre. He is supposed to serve the purpose of increasing the prestige of the family, but he is the true source of confusion and senseless actions. The household becomes a real madhouse. Friend Arthur advises how to get rid of the servant. He will have to be persuaded that Madame Sophie is a psychiatric case. But as we watch this mess, the question gradually arises - who is the madman here?

title: Vdovcovy intimní večery

title: Historie blechatého psa

title: Stařeček vavříny vídeňské slávy ověnčený aneb Zpronevěra

original_title: Stařeček vavříny vídeňské slávy ověnčený aneb Zpronevěra

title: Jaroslav Hasek's Exemplary Cinematograph

overview: Jaroslav Hašek screens four film stories in the fairground shed around 1900. After period advertising slides and a "newspaper", we see "the first part of a sensational, exemplary, parfuss, salon program - a film from the life of school-age children, shot under very difficult circumstances". The plot of this film takes place partly in a school classroom and partly in a gymnasium toilet, where the primate Chocholka took refuge from a Latin composition. "Exemplary Family Happiness" is the second film that takes the viewer into the family of the municipal official Honzátek, in which many stormy scenes occurred when the hamster, provided by Honzátek Jr., moved into the sofa - a wedding gift from Sister Ema. Equally surprising are two other stories, one of which tells about the "father of the poor", the owner of a company with unrecoverable cash flow and a famous patron, and the other about the fateful consequences of a joint trip between the old bachelor Mr. Hanzlíček and his neighbors.

title: Puppies

overview: Explores young adults' fears of being conscripted by the communist government into working outside of Prague, a relative oasis of creativity and freedom of thought. From an early script by Milos Forman.

title: Občan Brych

overview: František Brych, a principled lawyer, refuses to back the new Communist regime at his factory and grows increasingly alienated, even as his former love Irena, unhappily married to factory owner Ondřej Ráž, seeks his understanding.  When he helps plan an escape over the Šumava border, the group’s panic and violence lead to murder, prompting Brych to abandon the scheme and return home with Irena.

title: Jan Hus

overview: The first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", completed with Jan Žižka (1955) and Proti všem (Against All Odds, 1957). The film captures the period from May 1412 to the summer of 1415, a turbulent time in the Czech Kingdom, during which there were protests in Prague against the sale of "omnipotent indulgences" whose sale throughout the kingdom was announced by Pope John XXIII. The ideological leader of this movement is the preacher Master Jan Hus, whose words, calling for the elimination of church abuses, are listened to in the Bethlehem Chapel by thousands of ordinary Praguers, Czech lords and Queen Sophie, wife of the Czech King Wenceslas IV.

title: Jan Žižka

overview: The second part of the revolutionary Hussite trilogy takes place in the years 1419-1420.

title: Bill, Please

overview: The director of the company Restaurants and Canteens arrives to attend a screening of a film made in various restaurants. A group of villagers come in to one of the restaurants for their lunch. The two waiters carry on chatting and ignore their customers. The head waiter finally brings them a crumpled menu, but whatever they order, he crosses off the menu and urges them to order something they do not want. In another restaurant a customer complains he has found a button in his sauce. The waiter promises to get him another portion but, once out of sight, he simply takes the button out of the food and brings back the same plate on which he has carelessly rearranged the food. Other customers are trying to pay but the staff point to the waiter with the wallet; he, however, is absorbed in watching a chess game and is neglecting his duties.

title: Jak se dělá televizní soutěž

title: Sedm koní a vavříny

title: Klobouk, měšec a láska

title: Zbohom, sladké driemoty

overview: A psychological film depicting the professional beginnings of a young architect. As the head of a design studio, his uncompromising attitude arouses hostility and hatred from colleagues and subordinates accustomed to an easy life through patronage and bribery.

title: Silvestrovský trapas

title: About The People Around The Table

overview: Miloš Kopecký comments on himself in the roles of restaurant guests who suffer from various social ills. This satirical parade of grotesque human characters, such as the angry man, the alcoholic, the womanizer, and the thief, reminds us to be kind to restaurant staff, as they truly have much to endure.

title: Odsouzený z Pinktownu

title: Svatební cesta aneb Ještě ne, Evžene!

overview: After a night of partying together, the groom-to-be and his friend wake up to find that the wedding is taking place today. The movers are already bringing in new furniture, and on the way to get the bouquet, the groom, who is still slightly drunk, suffers an accident. The friend leaves to calm the bride down and is almost married himself. After various obstacles, the wedding finally takes place.

title: Přehlídka dobré pohody

title: Trik aneb Jak dámu okouzlit aneb Jak manžela oblafnout

original_title: Trik aneb Jak dámu okouzlit aneb Jak manžela oblafnout

title: Až se vrátíš...

overview: In an unsightly tenement house, the walls of which are as peeling as the souls of the tenants, an old woman waits for her son to return from prison. However, her neighbors believe that she is hiding a large fortune in her tattered suitcase, which she protects like the apple of her eye, and they want to get hold of it at any cost.

title: Red Lizard

overview: Grammar school teacher Bláha hurts himself in pursuit of a red lizard, and is lying unconscious in the lonely house of Santrucek family. The postman, who found Bláha's coat and hat in the water, announces to everyone in town that the professor has drowned. But, the venerable citizens are at that moment more interested in the theatre group with the beautiful guest actress Eva Gazdová. They demand a change of repertoire and manage to persuade the theatre manager to have the group play the musical comedy The Red Lizard instead of an established play.

title: Lost in the Suburbs

overview: Czechoslovak drama film about soldiers returning from World War II

title: Zrcadlo

title: Ta naše písnička česká

overview: The Haszler songs of Prague, so popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, have not aged. They are still sung in pubs and on construction sites, in short, everywhere. They also have their place in the love stories from old Prague, so beautifully told by Miss Veronika. Their heroine is Miss Stázi, who at first had no luck in love with the student Tadeáš. But then she fell in love with three gentlemen at once. The shy Mr. Alois, the cheerful Mr. France and Mr. Johannes, who seduced her behind the Horse Gate. But in the end she preferred the old but rich landlord. Three abandoned gentlemen nearly took their own lives under the Stone Bridge. But grief overcame them and the gentlemen settled down to marriages richly blessed with adorable children. And Miss Stasi? She ran away from the old man and returned to Mr. Franco when he came home from the army.

title: Ztracená revue

overview: The music and dance revue about the clown and the girl from the poster takes place in the streets of Prague, in the quiet corners of the Old Town, Lesser Town and Hradčany with the famous motifs of the Gothic gargoyles of St. Vitus Cathedral at Prague Castle, but also on the keyboard of a mechanical typewriter and in the dramaturgical meetings of the then Czechoslovak Television.

title: Posel úsvitu

overview: A biographical film about a Czech mechanic and designer who was the first in the Czech lands to construct a steam car.

title: Love Without Words

overview:
1. A taxi driver barely finishes his coffee before a young woman asks for a ride to impress her boyfriend, only to reveal her beau’s ramshackle “plan” beside his sleek car. He then smooths over a quarreling couple, helps a frustrated engineer solve his machine’s fault in a dream, and delivers a masked father’s gifts for his estranged daughter.
 2. Mr. Kalina, an airport employee, fulfills a flight attendant’s plea by taking in an orphaned African girl for the night. He ensures her safe transfer to a children’s home the next day.
 3. Zaza, a coquettish milliner’s assistant, juggles the attentions of a shy tailor and her stern salon manager. After a humiliating fall on the runway, the tailor comforts her and stages a private reprise, revealing where her heart truly belongs.

title: Klíč

overview: A silent slapstick with a band of absurd gags.

title: Kam s ním?

overview: Based on Jan Neruda's column of the same name, which depicts the troubles of an old straw man. The film is introduced by poet Jaroslav Seifert with a speech about Jan Neruda and his work.

title: Přísně tajné premiéry

overview: A crime writer is accused of being too imaginative and his ideas unworkable, but everything changes when an international criminal demands his professional cooperation. The somewhat freaked out and disbelieving hero is also surprised to discover that his own wife has unsuspected criminal tendencies...

title: Dog's Heads

overview: The history of the rebellion of the brave Chody, led by Jan Sladký Kozina and Matěj Přibek, against the violent tyranny of the foreign nobleman Maximilian Lamminger of Albenreuth. Based on the novel of the same name by Alois Jirásek.

title: Olověný chléb

title: Stará čínská opera

title: Trojí setkání

title: Sen

title: O lidech před pultem a za ním I.

title: O lidech před pultem a za ním II.

title: O lidech před pultem a za ním III.

title: Zpívající pudřenka

overview: A children's adventure spy film from a time when the radio telephone was science fiction.

title: Píseň o silnici

title: Hoří

title: Mezi nebem a zemí

overview: Working in the city office is a bitter clerk who believes he has only 14 days to live and so he bravely stands up to his bureaucratic director.

title: Jak se tančí brumbambule

title: Když vy jste taková jiná...

title: Medvěd

title: Herci a písničky

title: An Angel Seduces the Devil

overview: Once again, you can take a look behind the scenes of the Riviera Chateau on the Prague periphery, where a brothel for the socialites is hidden under the guise of an exclusive nightclub. The story takes place in 1930 and although several years have passed since the events of the first volume, the passions unleashed by the intrigues of the time have not cooled down. Once again you meet Renata, called Angel, formerly a prostitute, now the wife of the banker Justice and owner of the Riviera. The elegant Madame, who owned the business before and now works there as a mere manager, is plotting new schemes to get back everything she has...

title: Prstýnek bez kamínku

title: Mistr Pleticha a pastýř Jehňátko

title: To se ti povedlo, tatínku!

title: Císařovy nové šaty

title: Co medvědi nevědí

title: Matka

title: Radostný život posmrtný

title: Directive

overview: An early comic short film by Václav Vorlíček.

title: Přišel na večeři

title: Sirka

title: Ať se lidi mají rádi... aspoň dnes

title: Herecké Vánoce

title: Melouch

title: Muž s puškou

place_of_birth: Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]

title: Tisíc pohledů za kulisy

title: Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet

title: Lemonade Joe

title: O Bumbrlíčkovi

title: Devět kapitol ze starého dějepisu

title: The Fabulous Baron Munchausen

title: Revue pro banjo

title: The Proud Princess

title: Úplně beznadějný případ

title: Sny kominíka Sazivce

title: The Emperor and the Golem

title: I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen

title: Potulné pohádkové divadlo

title: The Three Veterans

title: Svatby pana Voka

title: Vintage Car

title: Grandle

title: I'll Be Good, Old Man!

title: Once Upon a Time, There Was a King...

title: Straw Hat

title: Sny na neděli

title: A Night at Karlstein

title: Flám

title: Mistr Kornelius

title: Už vám není dvacet, paní Bláhová

title: Španělská paradentóza

title: Zlepšovák

title: Konec draka Kusodrápa

title: Ceiling

title: V hlavní roli Oldřich Nový

title: Zakázaný výlet

title: The Magic Book

title: Vdova po dvou mužích

title: The Good Soldier Švejk

title: Románek za tři krejcary

title: Příběh lásky plné

title: Lov na mamuta

title: Aucassin a Nicoletta

title: Angel in a Devil's Body

title: Zkáza Jeruzaléma

title: Bohoušův syn

title: Napravení Jima Valentina

title: Zhasněte lampióny

title: Eine zauberhafte Erbschaft

title: Martin Speaking

title: The Pipes

title: Já truchlivý bůh

title: My Pragues Understand Me

title: Zločin a trik II.

title: Zločin a trik II.

title: Angelic Eyes

title: Payment in Kind

title: Čirok

title: Křesadlo

title: Pražská romance

title: Silvery Wind

title: Legend of Love

title: Trapasy

title: Trapasy II

title: Deštník

title: The Great Movie Robbery

title: Hearty Greetings from the Globe

title: Man in Outer Space

title: Šest uprchlíků

title: Hokej je hra

title: Lásky Emanuela Přibyla

title: Noc labutí

title: Svět otevřený náhodám

title: Miláček

title: The Windy Mountain

title: Eva Eva

title: Silvestr 1978

title: Silvestr 79 aneb Hrajeme si jako děti

title: Silvestr na Silvestru

title: Báječné ženy na létajících strojích

title: Poslední leč Alfonse Karáska

title: Christening

title: The Best Man of All

title: Bidýlko

title: Slasti Otce vlasti

title: Six Bears and a Clown

title: Murder in the Excelsior Hotel

title: Potulné pohádkové divadlo I.

title: Prague Nights

title: Tři muži se žralokem

title: Svůdnice na šest

title: Štrnásty v rade

title: Cesta na Borneo

title: Náš dědek Josef

title: The King of Kings

title: Fair Play

title: The Secret of an Old Attic

title: Učitel tance

title: The White Lady

title: Vražda v ulici de Lourcine

title: Síť na bludičku

title: Viktor Veliký

title: Distant Journey

title: Kočár nejsvětější svátosti

title: How to Dupe a Lawyer

title: Na návštěvě u Horníčků

title: Labyrinth

title: Bergman a Bergman, detektivní kancelář

title: I, Mournful God

title: Jindřich IV.

title: When You Have a Holiday Dominique

title: Mature Wine

title: Růžový Hubert

title: Escape Home

title: Konec cesty

title: Přihlašte své televizory

title: Žárlivost

title: Konec jasnovidce

title: Panenka

title: Dům na nebesích

title: Extended Time

title: Caterwauling

title: To byla svatba, strýčku

title: How to Drown Dr. Mracek, the Lawyer

title: Of Things Supernatural

title: You Are a Widow, Sir

title: O nejchytřejší princezně

title: There Was a Miller on a River

title: Alfons Karásek v lázních

title: Utopím si ho sám

title: Egyptologové

title: Úřad

title: Pučálkovic Amina

title: The Divine Emma

title: Warriors of Faith

title: Green Street

title: Lakomec

title: Prague – The Restless Heart of Europe

title: The Circus Will Be

title: Dva z onoho světa

title: Velké dobrodružství

title: Every Penny Counts

title: Mikoláš Aleš

title: A Star Travels South

title: Nevíte o bytě?

title: La valle di pietra

title: The Canary Connection

title: Hry lásky šálivé

title: Jak se dělá divadlo

title: Rambling Engelbert

title: Kavárna na hlavní třídě

title: Psíčci lorda Carltona

title: Year of the Revolution 1848

title: Anna the Proletarian

title: Kidnapped

title: The Secret of Blood

title: Severní přístav

title: Písničky Na zábradlí

title: Blázinec v 1. poschodí

title: Vdovcovy intimní večery

title: Historie blechatého psa

title: Puppies

title: Občan Brych

title: Jan Hus

title: Jan Žižka

title: Bill, Please

title: Jak se dělá televizní soutěž

title: Sedm koní a vavříny

title: Klobouk, měšec a láska

title: Zbohom, sladké driemoty

title: Silvestrovský trapas

title: About The People Around The Table

title: Odsouzený z Pinktownu

title: Svatební cesta aneb Ještě ne, Evžene!

title: Přehlídka dobré pohody

title: Až se vrátíš...

title: Red Lizard

title: Lost in the Suburbs

title: Zrcadlo

title: Ta naše písnička česká

title: Ztracená revue

title: Posel úsvitu

title: Love Without Words

title: Klíč

title: Kam s ním?

title: Přísně tajné premiéry

title: Dog's Heads

title: Olověný chléb

title: Stará čínská opera

title: Trojí setkání

title: Sen

title: O lidech před pultem a za ním I.

title: O lidech před pultem a za ním II.

title: O lidech před pultem a za ním III.

title: Zpívající pudřenka

title: Píseň o silnici

title: Hoří

title: Mezi nebem a zemí

title: Jak se tančí brumbambule

title: Když vy jste taková jiná...

title: Medvěd

title: Herci a písničky

title: An Angel Seduces the Devil

title: Prstýnek bez kamínku

title: Mistr Pleticha a pastýř Jehňátko

title: To se ti povedlo, tatínku!

title: Císařovy nové šaty

title: Co medvědi nevědí

title: Matka

title: Radostný život posmrtný

title: Directive

title: Přišel na večeři

title: Sirka

title: Ať se lidi mají rádi... aspoň dnes

title: Herecké Vánoce

title: Melouch

title: Muž s puškou


Suzy Kendall

biography:
Suzy Kendall (born Frieda Harrison 1 January 1937) is a British actress best known for her film roles in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Her blonde attractive looks got her leading roles in some fairly prestigious productions. She later appeared in increasingly lower-profile films, including several giallo thrillers made in Italy and several TV series in the 1970s before retiring to spend more time with her family.

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The Persuaders!

overview: An English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime.

character: Kay Hunter

original_name: The Persuaders!

original_language: en

Van der Valk

overview: Van der Valk is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television for the ITV network. It starred Barry Foster in the title role as Dutch detective Commissaris "Piet" van der Valk. Based on the characters and atmosphere of the novels of Nicolas Freeling, the first series was shown in 1972.

character: Marijka

original_name: Van der Valk

The Spies

overview: A spin-off/rebranding of the previous 1965 series The Mask of Janus, The Spies is a more conventional espionage thriller than its predecessor, being explicitly concerned with the actual operations of British secret service agents stationed in the fictional European country of Amalia.

character: Polly Katt

original_name: The Spies

English

iso_639_1: en

iso_3166_1: US

english_name: English

Deutsch

biography:
Suzy Kendall, geboren als Frieda Harrison, ist eine britische Schauspielerin.

In der deutschen Produktion Bis zur bitteren Neige, einer Johannes-Mario-Simmel-Verfilmung, war Kendall in der Rolle der Mutter der von Susanne Uhlen gespielten Shirley Jordan besetzt. In den 70er Jahren wirkte Kendall zudem in zahlreichen Fernsehproduktionen mit.

iso_639_1: de

iso_3166_1: DE

english_name: German

日本語

iso_639_1: ja

iso_3166_1: JP

english_name: Japanese

普通话

iso_639_1: zh

iso_3166_1: CN

english_name: Mandarin

iso_3166_1: HK

title: The Bird with the Crystal Plumage

overview: An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city and conducts his own investigation, despite him and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer.

character: Julia

original_title: L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo

original_language: it

title: Torso

overview: A masked serial killer with psychosexual issues strangles female coeds with scarves before dismembering them. When a wealthy student identifies one of the scarves and thinks she has a lead on a suspect, she becomes the killer's next target, retreating to her family's remote cliffside villa with three of her girlfriends.

character: Jane

original_title: I corpi presentano tracce di violenza carnale

title: Fear Is the Key

overview: A deep-sea salvage expert enacts an elaborate plan to infiltrate and take revenge on a criminal organization that dealt him a foul misdeed.

character: Sarah Ruthven

original_title: Fear Is the Key

title: To Sir, with Love

overview: A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his uninterested and delinquent pupils are in desperate need of attention and care.

character: Gillian Blanchard

original_title: To Sir, with Love

title: Tales That Witness Madness

overview: Enigmatic asylum owner Dr Tremayne houses four very special cases. Visited by his colleague Nicholas, Tremayne explains his amazing and controversial theories as to why each patient went mad, be they a ritualistic 'luau', a time-travelling bicycle, a toy tiger, and a tree stump.

character: Ann / Beatrice (segment "Penny Farthing")

original_title: Tales That Witness Madness

title: Circus of Fear

overview: A circus becomes the location for stolen loot and murder.

character: Natasha

original_title: Circus of Fear

title: Darker Than Amber

overview: Professional beach bum and 'knight errant' Travis McGee goes up against psychotic body-builder Terry Bartell. McGee pulls out all the stops when he joins a Caribbean cruise to bring the killer to justice.

character: Vangie / Merrimay

original_title: Darker Than Amber

title: Up the Junction

overview: A young woman trades her upper-class existence for a new life in an economically depressed suburb of London.

character: Polly

original_title: Up the Junction

title: The Penthouse

overview: A married man and his young mistress  suffer sadistic torture when Tom, Dick and Harry invade their penthouse.

character: Barbara Willason

original_title: The Penthouse

title: Spasmo

overview: While walking along the beach, Christian and his girlfriend discover a mysterious woman washed ashore. The following day, Christian meets the woman again at a yacht party and soon finds himself entangled in a web of lust, intrigue and murder.

character: Barbara

original_title: Spasmo

title: The Betrayal

overview: A seductive and ruthless spy in the service of Germany steals state secrets- including the formula for poison gas-from England and France during World War I. British intelligence, in turn, tries to hunt her down.

character: Fräulein Doktor

original_title: Fräulein Doktor

title: Adventures of a Private Eye

overview: While a private detective is away on vacation, his not particularly bright assistant takes it upon himself to "solve" a case that comes in. Complications ensue.

character: Laura Sutton

original_title: Adventures of a Private Eye

title: Craze

overview: A demented art dealer and antique shop owner performs nightly rituals in honour of the African god Chuku, whom he believes will reward him with unimaginable wealth and power if he merely offers human sacrifice.

character: Sally

original_title: Craze

title: Assault

overview: After a schoolgirl is raped while taking a short cut through the local woods, and another murdered a few days later, the police are baffled. With the help of a reporter, and against the wishes of a local psychologist, a young schoolteacher uses herself as bait to lure the perpetrator out.

character: Julie West

original_title: Assault

title: Story of a Cloistered Nun

overview: Refusing an arranged marriage, young aristocrat Carmela is sent to a convent. Her arrival intensifies the power struggle between the debauched nun Elizabeth and the stern Mother Superior, as both are smitten by Carmela's beauty.

character: Mother Superior

original_title: Storia di una monaca di clausura

title: The Last Appointment!

overview: Two jet-setting playboys, Brett Sinclair and Danny Wilde, investigate crimes.  Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie.

original_title: The Last Appointment!

title: Berberian Sound Studio

overview: In the 1970s, a British sound technician is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film. His nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche, driving him to confront his own past.

character: Special Scream Performance

original_title: Berberian Sound Studio

title: A Hundred-Odd Years from Now

overview: An advertising film with a difference: Into a strange computerised future where women “run things” by controlling huge colourful computers that go bleep booble bob bob ping etc, comes Yockoo, the boy from the bush, with his satchel of dried fruits. Slowly the women overcome their cold, futuristic ways in light of Yockoo’s size, shape and overall manliness. Eventually they unearth their deep feminine sexuality and cook Yockoo a feast of dried fruit dishes using cooking utensils from their local museum.

original_title: A Hundred-Odd Years from Now

title: To the Bitter End

overview: 15 years ago Paul Jordan was a star in Hollywood musicals. But then he retired from showbiz and married the rich Joan. Now, after being dependent on his wife's money for many years, he's sick of it and wants to work again. A romantic affair with his stepdaughter, Shirley, gives him the guts to ask for a role. His former agent gets him one but it's with a small company in Vienna, Austria. The stress worsens his alcoholism; the tablets he takes to hide the effects lead him to hallucinations. When his wife and girlfriend appear at the same time, he's no longer capable of handling the situation.

character: Joan Jordan

original_title: Bis zur bitteren Neige

title: 30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia!

overview: A 29-year old aspiring composer—still single and without any romantic prospects—vows to both marry and write a hit musical before he turns 30. Director Joseph McGrath's 1968 British comedy stars Dudley Moore, Suzy Kendall, Eddie Foy Jr. and Patricia Routledge.

character: Louise Hammond

original_title: 30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia!

title: Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: The Garden of Eden

overview: "In the beginning, God created the Heaven and the Earth..."  With those words, the biblical story of creation beginsGod creates all the living creatures on land and water, and then creates man in His own image.  Now, with this beautiful animated film, your family can experience the true power of this extraordinary story. Adam is alone, but eventually God decides to give him a companion and creates Eve.  For a time, it seems that they will live indefinitely in Paradise, until the story takes a tragic turn. Tempted by a serpent, Eve eats fruit from the Tree of Knowledge - the one food forbidden in all of Paradise - and convinces Adam to join her.  When God discovers what has happened, He banishes Adam and Eve from the Garden, and they must struggle for survival. They experience much heartbreak, but never give up hope, and that is what this story is about. It reflects our own struggle to survive - and our hope that someday we will rejoin God in Paradise.

character: All Animals (voice)

title: Up Jumped a Swagman

overview: A dreamy Australian singer comes to London to seek his fortune and falls for a down-to-earth lass and a high-strung debutante at the same time.

character: Melissa Smythe-Fury

original_title: Up Jumped a Swagman

title: The Liquidator

overview: Lighthearted spy drama about Boysie Oakes, who takes a nice job with the British Secret Service, enjoys all the perks, and signs all the forms before learning that his job depends on murdering people, and not romancing all the beautiful civilian staff in Whitehall.

character: Judith

original_title: The Liquidator

title: The Gamblers

overview: Card cheats travel by cruise ship to the Adriatic coast to fleece a wealthy aristocrat.

character: Candace

original_title: The Gamblers

title: The Sandwich Man

overview: A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.

character: Sue

original_title: The Sandwich Man

title: Thunderball

overview: A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they will use the weapons. The secret service sends James Bond to the Bahamas to once again save the world.

character: Prue (uncredited)

original_title: Thunderball

title: The Best of the Adventures

overview: A feature-length compilation of the funniest and naughtiest bits from the legendary 1970s’ Adventures of series!

character: Laura Sutton (archive footage) (uncredited)

original_title: The Best of the Adventures

title: The Bird with the Crystal Plumage

title: Torso

title: Fear Is the Key

title: To Sir, with Love

title: Tales That Witness Madness

title: Circus of Fear

title: Darker Than Amber

title: Up the Junction

title: The Penthouse

title: Spasmo

title: The Betrayal

title: Adventures of a Private Eye

title: Craze

title: Assault

title: Story of a Cloistered Nun

title: The Last Appointment!

title: Berberian Sound Studio

title: A Hundred-Odd Years from Now

title: To the Bitter End

title: 30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia!

title: Up Jumped a Swagman

title: The Liquidator

title: The Gamblers

title: Thunderball

title: The Sandwich Man

title: The Best of the Adventures