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Jiří Kraus

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1955-06-28
Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]

Known For & Full Filmography35 Titles

#1Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

Movie - 2011, 2h 15m as Control Room Guard

7.1 / 10
ActionThrillerAdventure

Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks, who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt to stop him ends in an explosion causing severe destruction to the Kremlin and the IMF to be implicated in the bombing, forcing the President to disavow them. No longer being aided by the government, Ethan and his team chase Hendricks around the globe, although they might still be too late to stop a disaster.

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#2White Bird

Movie - 2023, 2h 15m as Farm Truck Driver

7.8 / 10
DramaWar

After being expelled from Beecher Prep for his treatment of a classmate with a facial deformity, Julian has struggled to fit in at his new school. To transform his life, Julian's grandmother finally reveals her own story of courage of her youth in Nazi-occupied France, where a classmate shelters her from mortal danger.

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#3Missing

Drama Series - 2012, 16 episodes as Unit Commander

6.2 / 10
MysteryAction & AdventureDrama

Becca Winstone learns that her son, Michael, disappears while studying abroad, and it's a race against time when she travels to Europe to track him down. A surprising turn of events reveals just how far one mother will go to protect her family. Exotic locations and thrilling twists will keep you riveted in "Missing."

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#4Polda

Drama Series - 2016, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

6.3 / 10
CrimeComedy

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

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#5Dungeons & Dragons

Movie - 2000, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

4.4 / 10
DramaAdventureFantasy

The Empire of Izmer is a divided land: elite magicians called “mages” rule while lowly commoners are powerless. When Empress Savina vows to bring equality and prosperity to her land, the evil mage Profion plots to depose her.

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#6The Shooter

Movie - 1995, 2h 15m as Cab Driver

4.8 / 10
ActionThriller

A CIA agent gets caught up in political intrigue after he gets brought in to solve the murder of a Cuban ambassador.

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#7Píseň o stromu a růži

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

7.5 / 10
Drama

Soviet engineer Kuznecov is coming to Prague as an expert on work with the tunneling shield in construction of the metro. He is returning after more than thirty years. In May 1945 as a young soldier in the Red Army he was seriously injured in the liberation of Prague and while recovering experienced a great love with a young teacher called Vera.

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#8Sokolovo

Movie - 1975, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

4.3 / 10
WarHistoryDrama

The plot begins in the Soviet Union showing first efforts to establish the Czechoslovak legion in 1942. The film also shows the assassination of Heydrich and the subsequent annihilation of Lidice. The main topis of the film is battles with German troops for Sokolovo.

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#9Love Between the Raindrops

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.4 / 10
RomanceComedyDrama

Set in Prague during the years leading up to World War II, this family saga tells the story of a cobbler named Vincenc Bursik (Vladimir Mensik), who uproots his clan from the country to the city, only to suffer the loss of his wife and the failure of his shoe business within months. When his daughter moves away to go live with a wealthy businessman as his mistress, Vincenc is left to take care of his two sons, who spend their days in a secret garden vying for the affections of a teenage girl.

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#10Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet

Movie - 1978, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

7.5 / 10
ComedyCrimeSci-Fi

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...

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#11The Great Movie Robbery

Movie - 1987, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.8 / 10
Sci-FiComedy

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.

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#12The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Masks of Evil

Movie - 1999, 2h 15m as French General

5.3 / 10
AdventureHorrorAction

A top secret mission for French Intelligence brings Indy to Istanbul during the first world war. Exploring the city's dark and dangerous streets, he is thrust into a web of betrayal and murder when he discovers a vile Turkish plot to assassinate French espionage agents. Evil of a more enduring kind awaits him in Transylvania where he engages in a mortal combat with bloodthirsty Vlad the Impaler and his horrific army of the living dead. With his life at stake, Indy must garner all his strength and wits in order to defeat the fiend and save mankind.

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#13Dark Sun

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m as Passenger / Protester

5.3 / 10
Sci-FiDrama

A remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit. Engineer Prokop creates the devastating explosive “Krakatit” and soon confronts manipulative agents and imperialist conspiracies. Realizing his invention’s threat, he fights to prevent its misuse, risking everything to stop those who seek to exploit his epochal discovery.

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#14Hubert the Smart Boy

Movie - 1985, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.6 / 10
Comedy

Hubert Hrabe, known as Smart Boy, is a Prague dandy who is always skirting the edge of the law. Like every likable rogue, he has a worthy adversary - Police Inspector Mourek, who has long been trying in vain to put him behind bars. However, this defender of justice, who is constantly trying to outsmart his "own" criminal, ends up becoming the victim of his own zeal while hunting forgers that are as good as any in Europe, as Hubert the Smart Boy, sets a trap for Mourek

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#15Dead Fire

Movie - 1997, 2h 15m as Trent

4.3 / 10
Sci-FiActionThriller

A convict and his gang seize a space station in 2064, with plans to annihilate Earth's population in order to start anew with an entirely new society.

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#16Putování Jana Amose

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m as Guard

5.5 / 10
History

The distressing fate of the Czech great Jan Amos Komenský, forced to leave his homeland after the White Mountain disaster. It depicts his encounters with various European personalities of the 17th century - the Queen of Sweden, artists and scientists. It emphasises the hero's nobility, but also his inner resilience, which allowed him to overcome many personal and professional tragedies. The parable of The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart becomes part of the story. However, Comenius's concept is sculpturally lifeless and, in particular, the religious dimension is "erased" from it. The simplistic biography therefore does not avoid schoolboyish dryness.

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#17Give the Devil His Due

Movie - 1985, 2h 15m as Young Lackey

7.7 / 10
FamilyFantasy

Dorota, a bad woman married the miller, out of sheer greed drives him to death. She then took the mill away from his son Peter and threw him out of the hime. Lucifer, who is known to rule in hell, sends out the devil Janek. He is supposed to fetch Dorota because the measure of her earthly sins is overflowing. But the devil himself can not handle this evil woman and flees to the military. There he meets Peter. By joining forces, they finally succeed in transporting the wicked Dorota to hell. Since then hell is hell. But for Peter, who is suddenly in possession of a magic mantle, begins a nice time, because strangely, the prince shows great interest in him.

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#18Ants Bring Death

Movie - 1986, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.5 / 10
Crime

The biggest threat to a successful crackdown on drug traffickers and consumers is the international hitman Barták, sent to the Czech Republic to eliminate all his collaborators...

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#19How to Wake a Princess

Movie - 1978, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.4 / 10
FantasyFamily

At long last, King Dalimil and Queen Eliška have produced an heir, Princess Růženka. Consumed with envy, Eliška’s sister Melánie casts a curse: On the day Růženka turns seventeen, she will prick her finger and fall into a deep sleep together with the entire kingdom.

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#20Love from the Passage

Movie - 1985, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

4.5 / 10
Crime

Nineteen-year-old Pavel Kříž spends all his free time in Prague's arcades, bistros and discos with a group of thieves called Roby. Pavel has a high school diploma, but works as a window cleaner, and a large part of his income comes from the scams, scams and thefts of Roby's crew, to whom he supplies guaranteed tips. So he's not too happy when the cleaning manager assigns him a young temp, Jana Hálková. Although the girl makes no secret of her distaste for Pavel's way of life, a fragile emotional bond develops between them. But this cannot last in the environment in which Pavel moves. The young man gets into more and more trouble - part of Roby's party is caught by the police and he cannot find the money to pay back the debt. The situation escalates when a group of thieves kidnap Jana...

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#21Rytmus 1934

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

4.0 / 10
Drama

Twenty-year-old Karel is expelled from Bata's school of work and has no choice but to make his way in his uncle Kubát's publishing business at any cost. A very drastic adaptation of the draft has fundamentally changed the whole story, which is also set in a completely different historical context. The result was a schematic and tepidly propagandistic poster.

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#22Sleeping Dogs

Movie - 1997, 2h 15m as Lead Thug

4.6 / 10
Sci-FiAction

A master jewel thief in 21st century Los Angeles targets the illegal emerald smuggling operations of a highly-connected crime syndicate. During what he believes to be a routine heist, cat burglar Harry Maxwell discovers that his target, notorious criminal Sanchez Boon is also the target of a police raid. In attempting to evade both the law and Boon's well-armed men, Harry meets Pandora Grimes, one of dozens of young women Boon kidnapped to work in his factory. When Boon sets a group of social deviants free and hijacks a space transport ship and its crew, only Harry and Pandora's cunning can save the hundreds of innocent people aboard.

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#23Tichá bolest

Movie - 1991, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.6 / 10
Drama

A young man has led his whole life with his grandfather. When he was in school, he was the only one who was refused to join the Youth Brigade, since his father was sentenced to death for spying. When it is time for him to do the compulsory military service, he has to do it in a platoon for "unreliable" persons.

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#24Horror Story

Movie - 1993, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.2 / 10
ComedyHorror

The distinctive artist, typographer, and writer Josef Váchal is known to the public primarily for his Blood Novel. The surrealistic exuberance of this defense of 19th-century pulp fiction caught the attention of Jaroslav Brabec and his colleagues, who found a corresponding image of 20th-century "trash." The authors' interest focuses primarily on the silent film era, with a journey through the history of cinema continuing through the advent of sound film to the present day (auteur cinema of the 1960s, modern horror), formally employing techniques such as tinted film. The versatile parody intertwines a colorful plot with the story of the author (Váchal/Paseky), who comments on and creates his book, and is further split in the plot into the characters of Fragonard and the Master. As with Váchal, reality increasingly enters the fiction, so that the only "happy ending" turns out to be the artist's finished work.

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#25Láska na druhý pohled

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

9.0 / 10
Comedy

Even under socialism, which proclaimed the equality of all people, there were status differences. A young bricklayer, who has fallen in love with a college girl from a "better" family, feels this first-hand - the girl's petty bourgeois parents are fundamentally opposed to an unequal relationship from their point of view. In protest, the young lovers decide to live in a tent for the time being and go straight to the park. The surprisingly clueless director Ladislav Rychman has tried to merge disco songs with a tame satire on modern-day rich people.

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#26Jsi falešný hráč

Movie - 1987, 2h 15m as Brawler

6.5 / 10
Family

Even the best of friends can fall apart, often all it takes is a minor misunderstanding. That's exactly what happened to two village friends, children finishing elementary school, between whom hostility and suspicion suddenly set in. The mosaic-like plot contains a number of humorous observations, but overall it distances itself from any ambition to deeply affect the mentality of adolescents, much less the countryside.

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#27Člověk proti zkáze

Movie - 1990, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

9.0 / 10
DramaHistory

Biography of Karel Čapek.

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#28Basically Normal

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

4.8 / 10
Comedy

The film follows Karel Novák, who is appointed as the head of a research institute's new department. His ambitious wife, Eva, sees this as an opportunity for social advancement. She quits her job, turns their apartment into a hair salon, and begins networking with influential people. However, her efforts entangle Karel in a web of shady business dealings, including a dubious connection with a foreign company, Djungarden. As misunderstandings and comedic mishaps unfold, Karel finds himself in trouble with the police, while Eva struggles to maintain control over their chaotic rise in society.

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#29Žiletky

Movie - 1994, 2h 15m as Firefighter

4.8 / 10
Drama

A Czech-French existential tragicomedy. Its (anti)hero is a young man named Andrej (played by Filip Topol, leader of the Czech underground band Psí vojáci). The story turns on his fateful love for the powerfully attractive though superficial Kristyna (Markéta Hrubesová).

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#30Die Todeswelle - Eine Stadt in Angst

Movie - 2000, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

4.5 / 10

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

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#31O perlové panně

Movie - 1997, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.7 / 10
FamilyFantasy

A fairy tale full of mystery, love, and heroic battles. A story about the love of Knight Cornelius and comedian Vendelin for a mysterious beauty, about whom legend says that when she cries, real pearls roll down her cheeks.

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#32Hordubal

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

2.5 / 10
Drama

After five years of hard work in America Juraj Hordubal (Anatoliy Kuznetsov) returns back home. He is looking forward to his wife Polana (Libuse Geprtová) and his little daughter Hafie. The family and the village welcome him with hesitation. Everybody believed that Juraj died in America because Polana stopped receiving money from him already two years ago. Polana's farm was prospering first of all thanks to the young stable boy Stepán (Sándor Oszter). Men in the pub first indicate and then say to Juraj directly that Polana has been unfaithful to him with Stepán.

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#33La Chanson du mal-aimé

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.2 / 10
DramaHistory

Biography of the life of Guillaume Apollinaire.

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#34That Instant, That While

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.0 / 10
Drama

Autumn 1944. A doctor is accused in the collaboration with the Nazis and found guilty...

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#35Jestřábí moudrost

Movie - 1990, 2h 15m as Guard

7.0 / 10
FamilyFantasy

A gloomy tale about a king whose pride robbed him of love, friends and power. A cruel curse is at the beginning of the story of this fairy tale based on an old Irish legend. Until the king's newly born son raises his sword against his father, there will be no spring in the Hawk Kingdom. Although the king orders the counselor Ordon to kill the child, the nurse saves him and entrusts the child to the care of a bird. He names him Christopher and raises him together with his son Janko. Twenty years later, the king succumbs to Ordon's urging to war with the neighbouring King Ubald. It is in this war that the curse is fulfilled and the tragic fate of the new king, who cannot listen to the right mouth, begins to unfold.

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