Josef A. Stehlík

Acting
1909-01-22

Known For & Full Filmography36 Titles

#1Sanitka

Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

7.5 / 10
Drama

Sanitka was a Czech television, drama series, first broadcast in 1984 and eleven episodes were made. It starred Jaromír Hanzlík, Tomáš Juricka and Zlata Adamovská among others.

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#2Byli jednou dva písaři...

Drama Series - 1973, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

8.1 / 10
Comedy

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#3Okres na severu

Drama Series - 1981, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

8.0 / 10
Drama

Okres na severu is a Czechoslovak/Czech TV series filmed by Evžen Sokolovský in 1981.

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#4The Prague Executioner

Movie - 1927, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.0 / 10
Adventure

Rudolf Měšťák’s silent film The Prague Executioner, based on the novel of the same name by Josef Svátek, is a historical tale of love, betrayal and revenge.

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#5The Willow Tree

Movie - 1984, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

9.0 / 10
DramaTV Movie

An elderly man lives a solitary and rhythmic life by a dilapidated mill near a river. His days are spent almost entirely in silence, fishing under the shade of a massive, ancient willow tree that seems as old and weathered as he is. One Sunday, while fishing, he witnesses a murder.

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#6Svítalo celou noc

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

9.0 / 10
Drama

The Czech film Svítalo All Night was made to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the liberation of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Army and is dedicated to all those who fought and gave their lives in Prague in the May Uprising of 1945. Behind the historical events, the creators see mainly their simple, unassuming participants. Thus, we are presented with a number of apt portraits, whether it is the central hero Dr. Soukup and nurse Daniela on the side of the fighting Czechs, or a captain and a simple private in a Red Army unit coming to the aid of the fighting Prague, or an old, war-weary German major, who only realises the senselessness of the war at the sight of a fanatical, cynical lieutenant for whom Nazi ideology represents the meaning of life.

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#7Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.1 / 10
Comedy

Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Ladislav Smoljak, about the fictional national hero Jára Cimrman (universal genius, inventor, sportsman, criminalist, poet, writer and philosopher).

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#8Prince Bajaja

Movie - 1971, 2h 15m as Shepherd

6.2 / 10
FamilyFantasy

The hero of this popular fairy tale is a young prince who, after the death of his parents, goes out into the world. During his travels he meets a magical talking horse and falls in love with the beautiful princess Slavna. On the advice of his horse, he binds one eye and pretends to be dumb and enters into service as the castle gardener.

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#9Nobody Knows Anything

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.5 / 10
Comedy

Martin Plechatý and Petr Nový roam occupied Prague with their trams. Times are hard and sometimes survival is not easy - especially when, in an attempt to help a threatened (and charming) neighbor, you get involved with an SS man, hit him on the head and kill him. At least that's how the two friends explained the situation to each other when their opponent collapsed to the ground. What to do with the body now? An endless anabasis begins, in which even a baby stroller comes into play...

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#10The Seventh Day, the Eighth Night

Movie - 1990, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

4.8 / 10
DramaMystery

An allegory set in an archetypal Czech village, it tells the story of what happens when a series of mysterious events take place, including the disappearance of the station master. While everything has a rational explanation, collective paranoia takes over and everyone's worst instincts are unleashed. Interrogations, disenfranchisement, and the search for scapegoats ultimately lead to murder. The movie was completed in 1969, but it was banned and not released till 1990, Evald Schorm who died in 1988 never saw it completed.

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#11Dvacátý devátý

Movie - 1975, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.0 / 10
HistoryDrama

In the era of normalisation, a number of (pseudo)historical films were made, even described as reconstructions, which glorified the world-building mission of the Communist Party and attributed to it exclusively humanitarian intentions ("Days of Betrayal", "Sokolovo", "Liberation of Prague", "The Victorious People"). In 1929, when its fifth congress met, Klement Gottwald, who had taken the line of the Russian Bolsheviks, took over the leadership of the Communists...

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#12Ready for the Grave

Movie - 1990, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.2 / 10
Comedy

Vita Jamie already exceeded thirty, working as a poorly paid sociologist, husband, tired father of two children. In the sociological institute involved in research attitudes of secondary school students. To better understand the target group, issued to the student daily and sits in his high school benches. Suddenly, as if they came back in time, they feel young and carefree again, she saw a lot of promises. Real life is but a fool can not log on early for their rights and duties of ...

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#13Joachim, Put It in the Machine

Movie - 1974, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

7.3 / 10
Comedy

A sincere provincial young man, Frantisek Koudelka leaves to work in Prague. For the trip he buys a computer made horoscope with biorhythms charts, marked according to his date of birth, there are trappy, precarious, unsuccessful and even critical days and few successful days. The clumsy luckless person Frantisek has finally a guidance for his life.

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#14The Liberation of Prague

Movie - 1977, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.3 / 10
DramaWarHistory

On 20th of April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germany and Hitler decides to commit suicide. In Prague K.H. Frank (Nazi Secretary of State and Chief of police in the Protectorate of Bohemia a Moravia) discusses with his commanders how to transform the city into an impregnable fortress, but the Praguers do not intend to wait any longer. From the early hours of 4th of May people start assembling in the streets and tearing down German signs. On the next day, the 5th of May, the uprising begins.

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#15The Return of the Prodigal Son

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.9 / 10
Drama

Engineer Jan Sebek (Jan Kacer) is undergoing treatment in a mental home after his unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide. His therapist, via discussions both with the patient and with people who know him, tries to find out what made the young and seemingly satisfied man decide to end his own life. Jan's pretty wife Jana (Jana Brejchová) claims not to know about anything but she is conducting an affair with a family friend, almost publicly and with the blessing of her parents.

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#16Landscape with Furniture

Movie - 1987, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.5 / 10
Drama

The story of a music academy student Zdenek, who meets a charming girl, and without realizing also gets a son with her. Dealing with such a situation is not easy, especially when one day the child's mother disappears. Twenty year old Zdenek faces a serious decision. Although he is aware that a child may endanger his studies and perhaps even future career, he refuses to entrust him to the care of the state institution.

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#17Konečná stanice

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m as Josef Magierka

6.7 / 10
Drama

The story takes place in a retirement home and creates a mosaic of the lives of old people who are trying to find a relationship with themselves and with life in these specific conditions. Each of its residents has a distinctive approach to life and its basic values. The most interesting features of the title, which is marked by a visibly cold production approach, are the worthy performances of the actors of the older generation. Some of them appeared in front of the camera after many years and unfortunately for the last time.

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#18Experiment Eva

Movie - 1986, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.0 / 10
Drama

In the mid-eighties, screenwriter and director Jaroslav Balík tried to give voice to the problems of an ambitious young woman who decides to get back to work after a few years spent on maternity leave. NFA.CZ

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#19Kouzelné dobrodružství

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

4.7 / 10
Drama

The story of the friendship between František and Gustav, which fades over the years, as well as the memory of a magical, almost dreamlike experience...

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#20Vítězný lid

Movie - 1978, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.0 / 10
History

February 1948. The struggle of decisive social forces for the heart of Europe.

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#21Atomová katedrála

Movie - 1985, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.7 / 10
Drama

The construction of a gigantic facility such as the Dukovany nuclear power plant requires only the most capable experts. Such is the engineer Hlaváč, who has been involved in the project from the very beginning as a construction manager. He has to deal with many problems, especially the lack of manpower. He is unfairly demoted to a lower position due to the intrigues of his subordinates and the alibi of the management, but time proves him right and by the time the plant is inaugurated, he is once again the main manager. But the demanding job takes its toll, his heart cannot withstand the frantic pace of work...

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#22Mature Wine

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

7.8 / 10
Comedy

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.

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#23Proč nevěřit na zázraky

Movie - 1978, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

7.0 / 10
ComedyDrama

Wartime events from a child's perspective were a popular theme during the previous regime - here it is a twelve-year-old village boy who experiences dangerous situations with retreating Nazi troops in picturesque South Bohemia... Any attempt to achieve a more believable depiction is destroyed by the staging's grandeur, and in the end the result is an awkward piece, suitable at most for celebrating the relevant national holidays. A longer copy with a tragic ending is stored in the NFA. Milda is shot unnoticed by an SS major.

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#24Náš dědek Josef

Movie - 1977, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.5 / 10
Comedy

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.

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#25Mystery of the Puzzle

Movie - 1993, 2h 15m as Sacrist

5.9 / 10
FamilyAdventure

A group of teenagers are trying to solve a mystery of a puzzle created and left to them by the dead boy.

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#26Payment in Kind

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.3 / 10
Comedy

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.

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#27We, the Lost Girls

Movie - 1972, 2h 15m as Potužník

9.0 / 10
DramaFamily

Zofie and Dominika, two girls of very different temperaments, become friends during hop-picking volunteer work in the summer. Zofie (Jaroslava Schallerová) is serious to the point of reticence and she is delighted with her friendship with Dominika. For the self-assured and superficial Dominika (Irena Svárová) the whole thing is just a momentary whim. When she leaves the work camp before everybody else, she doesn't even say goodbye to Zofie. The two girls meet again after the holidays as first-year students at medical school, and become close again during the nursing techniques class.

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#28Concert at the End of Summer

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.2 / 10
DramaHistory

A docudrama about four weeks in the life of famous Czech composer Antonin Dvorak. The drama - filled with many of Dvorak's compositions - begins when the composer suddenly decides to cut a concert in London and return home. While on the train, flashbacks reveal his relationship to his wife Anna and her sister Josefina. Both women gave him inspiration, yet Dvorak is clearly troubled in some way as musical excerpts come and go in his creative mind.

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#29Jezdec formule risk

Movie - 1973, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

10.0 / 10
Drama

The story of a juvenile delinquent who, despite society's efforts to reform him, irrevocably ruined his life.

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#30Město mé naděje

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.0 / 10
Drama

Jan Kačer became known primarily as an actor, but he also took up film directing several times - not very successfully. Based on someone else's script, he made a committed, building story: it tells the story of an experienced engineer who is commissioned to assemble a team of specialists for engineering the peaceful use of atomic energy. However, the explanation of human dilemmas is too flat and proclamatory, as is the image of Ostrava's industrial environment; the heroes are thinking about one thing: the proper completion of the assigned task...

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#31Zelená vlna

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.3 / 10
Comedy

A short film about Prague, Prague residents, and the beginning of the weekend.

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#32Na startu je delfín

Movie - 1975, 2h 15m as Security Guard

5.0 / 10
Drama

The teenage hero tries his best to meet the nomination limit for important races, but his coach's insensitive approach causes him to temporarily lose motivation and even give up on sports...

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#33Šílený kankán

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m as Hortensie's Father

4.0 / 10
DramaHistoryCrime

During the First World War, the crooks Scholef and Krumka sell weapons on the black market. After the collapse of the monarchy they try their hand at speculation on a grand scale.

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#34Sólo pro starou dámu

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

9.0 / 10
Drama

After many decades in Germany, Marie Hahn will come to Prague to meet her relatives and friends. She learns unflattering information about her husband's behaviour during the German occupation, she suffers health problems, but even her daughter is not interested in helping her mother...

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#35Jsem nebe

Movie - 1971, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.0 / 10
Drama

The story of a first love disappointment. Sensitive Lenka finds it very difficult to overcome the unsuccessful course of her meeting with a boy for whom she felt more than sympathy...

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#36Etudes for Piano Students

Movie - 1987, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.8 / 10
Drama

Films for children gradually fell into the grip of expressive and content sterility, succumbing to exhortative, educational tendencies. This is also the case in the story of a 14-year-old girl who has been accepted to the conservatory, but a sudden accident, a broken arm, makes her rethink her priorities - she learns that it is possible to engage in other activities than the tedious practice of piano etudes.

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