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Jan Cmíral

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1924-07-13

Known For & Full Filmography88 Titles

#1Thirty Cases of Major Zema

Drama Series - 1976, 16 episodes as náměstek

7.4 / 10
DramaCrime

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.

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#2Pan Tau

Drama Series - 1970, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

7.1 / 10
Family

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.

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#3Arabela

Drama Series - 1980, 16 episodes as (uncredited)

8.3 / 10
Sci-Fi & FantasyComedyFamily

Arabela was a children's television series produced in Czechoslovakia which aired from 1979 to 1981. The series has 13 episodes and is in the Czech language.

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#4Sanitka

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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#5Malý pitaval z velkého města

Drama Series - 1983, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

7.4 / 10
Crime

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

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#6A Major Role for Rosmaryna

Movie - 1978, 2h 15m as Director

8.0 / 10
FamilyComedy

The director of films for kids called Bonzurka together with her loyal assistants Drahuska and Honza are looking for the actors for a new movie "The Knee". Children for this movie should not be afraid and shy and they must have talent for acting. Thus the scouting is quite difficult. The most difficult is to find an actress for a main character who lost her hair after a serious illness and now has to spent the whole holiday in the countryside with a bald head resembling a knee. Although the makeup artist does his best an artificial baldness does not solve anything. From the selected little girls only the self-assertive Rosemary has the guts to let her long hair to be cut and shave off her head.

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#7We All Are Required to Attend School

Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes as Lawyer

3.3 / 10
FamilyDrama

Stories from a daily life of children attending a regular school.

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#8Plechová kavalerie

Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

8.0 / 10
Drama

Plechová kavalérie is a Czechoslovak/Czech TV series about combine operators filmed by Jaroslav Dudek.

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#9Ball Lightning

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

7.3 / 10
Comedy

A comedy about exchange of 12 apartments , which, its organizer, lawyer Radosta, rightly called Action Ball Lightning. To prepare, organize and execute the exchange of twelve apartments is a work worthy champions. Radosta, who was excellently played by Rudolf Hrušínský, solved all sudden difficulties and complications on the fly and with grace. To be sure that the on the D-day everything goes well he prepares a little rehearsal, which reveals many minor issues caused for example by wedding ordered to inappropriate term or hesitation of some participants. Last but not least a night exercise announced by drunk psychologist Knotků, creates a lot of confusion that nearly sabotaged the whole operation.

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#10The Secret of the Wicker Basket

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

7.0 / 10
Family

Klárka lives with her younger brother and her grandmother in a village. She keeps a special diary of everything she and her friends experience...

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#11Ikarie XB 1

Movie - 1963, 2h 15m as Crewmember

6.8 / 10
Sci-Fi

The year is 2163. Starship Ikaria XB-1 embarks on a mission deep into space in search of alien life. During their perilous journey the crew confront the effects of a malignant dark star, the destructive legacy of the 20th century and, ultimately, the limits of their own sanity.

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#12Brother for All the Money

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.0 / 10
Comedy

Honza and Zuzana are very young husband and wife. They have a little daughter of whom willingly occasionally take care the grandparents and Honza's fifteen-year-old brother Martin. Zuzana continues studying and Honza devotes all weekends as an amateur competitor to the motor-cycles at the speedway. Zuzana is not interested in motor-cycles. Martin holds responsible for his brother's marriage and at the advice of his friend Magda, who is of the same age, invites her sister-in-law to the club of Hucul horses so that she does not feel bored. But by misfortunes and unexplained quarrels both young husband and wife start being jealous of one another.

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#13Three from the Sea

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.0 / 10
AdventureFamily

Stay on international pioneer camp in Bulgaria will take three children so much that he decides to still enjoy swimming - and missed the train. Two boys and a girl, then spend an exciting event when going home on their own. Usually educational overtones are attenuated this time, highlighted the contrary, courage and ability to help you in any situation.

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#14The Secret of Steel City

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.9 / 10
Sci-FiDrama

The film is a metaphor for the Cold War. It depicts two neighbouring nations: peace loving Fortuna and the not so peaceful land of the Steel City.

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#15Kdo přichází před půlnocí

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.0 / 10
Crime

The accountants at a agricultural cooperative near Prague have completed the calculation of wages. The driver with the cashier are leaving for a bank in Prague to withdraw the cash amounting to over one million crowns. On returning back, an oncoming heavy truck appears, crashing into their car. The injured men cannot defend themselves, and the whole cash is stolen from them.

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#16Stříbrná pila

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

10.0 / 10
Comedy

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

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#17The Krakonos and the Skiers

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m as Clen komise

4.8 / 10
ComedyFamily

Matej and Jenda, two of the eight children of the poor Pelc family in the Giant Mountains, help in a glass works where the oldest brother Francek works. They hide into a tub not to be seen by supervisors checking on the ban of children labor. They miss the Epiphany carol (songs and treats door-to-door) and all neighbor village boys again on them in all the neighbor houses. On their way home they are passed by a fast moving big man with a large backpack. The boys send the customs officers, who are pursuing the strange man, to the opposite direction. The man then thanks them and rewards them the next day. Based on fairy-tales and legends the boys think the man is Krakonos (the giant living and ruling in the Giant Mountains).

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#18The Terribly Sad Princess

Movie - 1968, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

7.4 / 10
MusicComedyFamily

Like a fairy tale, King Henry and King Good-thought decided long ago that their only children should marry and so prevent war arising between their kingdoms ever again. But the young prince is wary of marrying anyone he doesn’t know.

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#19Who Wants to Kill Jessie?

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

7.0 / 10
ComedySci-Fi

In this zany Czechoslovakian comedy, a scientist invents a machine that projects a sleeping person's dream on a screen; disaster soon follows when the machine malfunctions and the cartoon-like dream characters become very real!

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#20Jára 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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#21Where the Early Bird Catches the Worm

Movie - 1987, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.4 / 10
ComedyFamilySci-Fi

A clever but often teased boy, is able to clone himself thanks to a stolen formula from a scientist. Time to take revenge on those bullies.

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#22How to Drown Dr. Mracek, the Lawyer

Movie - 1975, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.5 / 10
ComedyFantasy

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...

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#23Ratili

Movie - 1984, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

7.0 / 10
DramaHistory

Dreaming of creating a Czech musical theater, not recognized in his homeland, Josef Navratil, under the pseudonym of Iosif Ratili, one day comes on tour to Georgia.

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#24Honor and Glory

Movie - 1969, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.0 / 10
HistoryDrama

In 1647, the impoverished noble Václav Rynda shelters an imperial commissioner-only to learn the visitors are French agents plotting a Bohemian revolt against the Habsburgs.

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#25The End of Agent W4C

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.1 / 10
Comedy

The invincible agent Cyril Juan Borguette alias W4C has been assigned a mission to go to a hotel in Prague, get hold of a saltcellar with a plan for the military exploitation of Venus hidden in it, and hand it over to the beautiful agent Alice. He will have to compete for the saltcellar with other agents working for the world's various greater and smaller powers. The head of the Prague counter-intelligence unit gets news of agent W4C's mission. Deficient in personnel, he nominates accountant Foustka as agent 13B. Mr Foustka takes his dog Pajda with him and the two head for the airport. Pajda helps him track down agent W4C in a classy hotel that becomes the battleground for the interests and plans of the secret agents from different countries, each trying to get hold of the precious saltcellar.

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#26Love 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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#27Love

Movie - 1973, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.1 / 10
Romance

Sixteen-year-old students of a grammar school are supposed to write essays on "Love". The class best student Andrea (Jaroslava Schallerová) writes about a patriotic love to a country as she has no experience with a partner love. She has been living alone with her divorced pretty mother Eva (Milena Dvorská), a dentist, for many years. Recently, however, Eva met her former school-days love at a graduates' party, nowadays a famous hockey goalkeeper Brukner (Frantisek Velecký). Also his marriage fell apart; he leaves the national team and decides to leave Prague for his home town and to share flat with Eva. He takes with him his son Petr (Oldrich Kaiser), in Andrea's age, who gets his last chance to finish a grammar school in the town.

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#28Hubert 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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#29Mature 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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#30Bulldogs and Cherries

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

4.3 / 10
Comedy

The dreaded Italian mafioso, Marian Labuda, will also be convinced. Mafioso Carmello was guilty of the principles of his organization when he tried to fool the boss and earned a death sentence. The convict runs away from the killer through Vienna to Prague, which his Austrian colleague in crime recommended as a safe hiding place. None of them knows that the Czechs learned so much tricks under real socialism that a seasoned Italian professional is not enough to watch.

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#31Hněv

Movie - 1978, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.5 / 10
Drama

Sunday in September 1977, a celebration of the Miners Day. The old Hepnar is sitting at the cemetery and is recalling events from ten years ago. That time the representative of the ministry Barvír announced at the miners meeting that mining in the mines would decrease. He reasoned this decision by the fact the deposits of coal are almost used up. The boss of the mine and most of the miners protested. Barvír did not take their critical objections into account. He announced at the communist district meeting the closure of the business as the mine according to new economic principles did not prosper.

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#32The Ninth Heart

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m as Lackey

6.5 / 10
FantasyHorror

Martin, a poor student, volunteers to go on a quest to find a cure for the princess Adriana, who is stricken with a strange illness. Unknown to Martin or anyone else, the princess is actually under the spell of the powerful magician Andlobrandini, who is preparing a rejuvenating elixir made from the blood of nine men's hearts.

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#33A Game Without Rules

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.3 / 10
Crime

A robbery in a Prague jeweler's shop results in the shop manager Kubát and his deputy Litera being shot and wounded. The culprits take the jewelery away in a stolen car and that very night hide the loot tens of kilometers outside Prague in a forest. Then the three robbers part with each other. One of them, Burian, leaves in the same car, the other two, Duda and Hovorka, take to flight in another car, which soon ends up in a car crash. Hovorka dies in the accident, but Duda survives and hides in an abandoned cottage. Burian is arrested, Duda is traced out by a police dog. Duda confesses to the robbery to the criminologist Málek, but refuses to say where is the jewelery. The robber then begins to shoot and Málek kills him in self-defense. The court fails to prove Litera's involvement in the robbery and the only one convicted is Burian. The disappointed Málek leaves the police and begins to work as a cab driver.

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#34Caught by Night

Movie - 1986, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.2 / 10
DramaHistory

A communist journalist from Prague is sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp.

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#35You Are a Widow, Sir

Movie - 1971, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.8 / 10
Sci-FiComedy

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.

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#36Chased and Suspected

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

10.0 / 10
DramaCrime

Late at night Eva Trojanová returns home to an agitated husband; three days later, her body is found with bruises on her neck. Her spouse, missing after a business trip, becomes the prime suspect and flees to northern Bohemia. When investigators learn he is innocent, Captain Hart continues pursuing him, not as a criminal but as a desperate man whose plight may endanger himself or draw him into conflict with the law.

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#37Co je doma to se počítá, pánové...

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.6 / 10
Comedy

For the Novák and Bartáček families, money is king, and they'll do just about anything to get it. While René Novák pitches his parents a lucrative scheme to swindle as many people with the last name Novák in the country as possible, the Bartáček clan decides to pretend to be much poorer than they really are in order to siphon some dollars from an American relative. And it doesn't take long before these separate scams start to intertwine.

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#38A Star Is Falling Upwards

Movie - 1975, 2h 15m as D'Argenti

6.0 / 10
Music

Švand, a room painter from Strakonice, begins a dizzying career as a pop music star, but he soon discovers that fame is not the most important thing in life or what he is looking for and what he longs for in life.

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#39Vítězný 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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#40Páté oddělení

Movie - 1961, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.0 / 10
CrimeDrama

An American spy agency located in West Germany is interested in information concerning Czechoslovak commercial activities in the Middle East. Agent Rudolf Karlik creates a network of associates in Prague...

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#41Fandy ó Fandy

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

4.6 / 10
Comedy

Little kids, little worries, big kids, big worries, sighs many a parent often. This is no different for the mother of eighteen-year-old Frantisek, who has just graduated from high school without much glory and is about to start his first job. Fandy is still full of boyish dreams, yearns for a career as a rowing representative, competes with a friend for the favor of an admiring girl and is generally stubbornly opposed to taking life seriously.

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#42Tři nevinní

Movie - 1974, 2h 15m as Vacek

7.0 / 10
ComedyCrime

The car thief Halama, the shy groom Poupě, the divorcing jealous Pic and the mustachioed cinema projectionist Vlk are suspected of robbing the cinema box office. They are so similar, however, that the sharp-witted Public Security investigator Doll doesn't know them at all...

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#43Currency and Peace

Movie - 1988, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.5 / 10
DramaCrime

Martin is an innocent lad from small-town Mlada Boleslav who comes to big-city Prague, hoping to exchange his krona for deutschemarks so that he can visit Germany. A local spiv named Robert obliges Martin, but at an unfair exchange rate. When Martin finds out he was rooked, he plans revenge on Robert ... but then decides to join Robert's gang instead.

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#44Sestricky

Movie - 1984, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.8 / 10
DramaComedy

A Czech psychological film about the school of life, its sorrows and beauties. The main character is a young aspiring nurse Marie Sahulová, who, after a trouble in the hospital - she secretly brought a boy to her boarding school - is transferred to a rural health centre, where together with an old doctor and a peculiar nurse she has to travel around twenty-five villages and a number of solitudes in the harsh environment of the neglected villages of the 1950s. The nurse, a wise and experienced woman whom no one calls anything other than "babi", becomes her guide, who introduces her to the practice and the pitfalls of private life in a distinctive way. In the mosaic of everyday worries and more or less serious medical interventions, Marie matures and finds the meaning of her work and life.

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#45Little Bobesh

Movie - 1962, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

7.0 / 10
FamilyAdventure

A story of a young boy called Bobesh and his funny adventures.

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#46Marathon

Movie - 1968, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.6 / 10
ComedyDramaWar

It is 5 May 1945 and the uprising against the hated German occupiers has broken out in Prague. The Czech guards open the gate of the Pankrác prison to allow the prisoners to escape en masse. Many of them are shot dead by the German guards but young Ruda (Jaromír Hanzlík) manages to run away. He is taken care of by one of the Prague fighters, concierge Kytka. Kytka hides him in the flat of the house's owner where only the young maid Karla (Jana Brejchová) is left, ordering her to take care of Ruda.

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#47Hodinářova svatební cesta korálovým mořem

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.0 / 10
ComedyMusic

This wacky musical comedy builds on absurd ideas, parodic humour and many variously subverted references to famous...

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#48The End of a Priest

Movie - 1969, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.2 / 10
ComedyDrama

A verger, who likes to dress as a priest, is invited, by one of the villagers, to be the pastor at a vacant church. The atheist teacher resents the pastor, and tries to embarrass him in various ways, including being caught with the local girl, Majka.

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#49Murder Czech Style

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

4.3 / 10
Comedy

The protagonist (Rudolf Hrusinsky) is a dull, fat, shy government clerk indulging in voyuerism and ego fantasies. In love with another clerk (Kveta Fiolova), he is urged on in his pursuit by a commiserate executive. The story is told in a flashback sequence as the cuckolded Hrusinsky attempts suicide by gassing himself in his bathtub. The "Murder" of the title is not a murder as such, rather the murder that Hrusinsky remembers planning upon discovering his wife's unfaithfulness with his supposed friend and advisor. Both plots failing in his mind, he loses himself in fantastic reveries of his funeral and of hypocritical mourners. ' Deciding (perhaps) that this is not the way out either, he gives up the attempt and imagines a life of reconciliation and eventual affluence.

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#50Christening

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.1 / 10
Comedy

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.

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#51Každému jeho nebe

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.5 / 10
HistoryDrama

The life of cabaret and theater actress Xena Longenová.

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#52Where, Gentlemen, Where Are You Going?

Movie - 1987, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.6 / 10
ComedyDrama

A story of Jan Kolvara, forty years old architect, who is a little bit too obsessed with women in his life.

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#53Kdoví, kdy začne svítat...?

Movie - 1988, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.8 / 10
Drama

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

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#54Náš 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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#55Crime in the Night Club

Movie - 1968, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.3 / 10
MusicComedy

The theft of a pearl necklace and subsequent murder took place at the Tartaros cabaret. All this could compromise the minister, who is an admirer of the singer Clara. The real culprits must be found as soon as possible...

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#56As Good as Poison

Movie - 1986, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

7.2 / 10
DramaComedy

Engineer Pavel Hnyk is successful at work, but not very happy in his private life. He is approaching his fiftieth birthday and he can't shake the feeling that life is slipping away from him. The most effective medicine for such woes is amorous adventures, and Pavel indulges in them. His wife Alice is a lawyer by profession, so she knows about such cases, and because she is a wise woman, she passes them over in silence. One day, however, a new colleague appears at Pavel's workplace - the charming Slovakian Julie. A friendly relationship soon turns into a love affair, and over time it grows into a headless, destructive passion that cares for nothing and no one...

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#57Dissolved and Effused

Movie - 1985, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.9 / 10
ComedyCrime

A police inspector and inexperienced trainee search for a mysteriously disappeared manufacturer of ointments for hair growth.

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#5890° in the Shade

Movie - 1965, 2h 15m as Soused

5.7 / 10
CrimeDrama

In a Prague shop, an assistant has been carrying on an affair with the dishonest, married manager. An emotionally repressed auditor with domestic problems of his own uncovers serious stock discrepancies. A test of loyalties and a questioning of values concludes in tragedy.

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#59The Great Unknown

Movie - 1970, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.0 / 10
Horror

Three detective stories, three different views of life and death... Collection of three horror short stories.

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#60Aesop

Movie - 1970, 2h 15m as Delphi Officer

7.5 / 10
Drama

This film brings us back to show us the life of the famous ancient sage Aesop, who helped people with his wisdom in their struggle for freedom and happiness.

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#61Láska 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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#62Ants 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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#63Windstorm

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.0 / 10
Comedy

A worker steals bits and pieces of building materials from work to construct a new home for himself and his girlfriend. When he discovers that she’s having an affair with his boss, he devises one elaborate plot after another to murder the rival, each time with pathetic results.

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#64La Chanson du mal-aimé

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m as Empereo Guillaume II

6.2 / 10
DramaHistory

Biography of the life of Guillaume Apollinaire.

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#65Čtyři v kruhu

Movie - 1968, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

9.0 / 10
Crime

This drama with a criminal plot is a study of the intricately intertwined relationships of four people whose lives have been interrupted by the violent death of a loved one. The story begins almost classically: when a visitor rings the doorbell of a prominent scientist's villa, there is an explosion. The owner is found poisoned by gas in the demolished room. Everything suggests that he committed suicide. But then a major twist comes and the seemingly obvious suicide becomes a well thought out and carefully prepared crime...

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#66Sázka na třináctku

Movie - 1978, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

9.0 / 10
CrimeDrama

A mail truck is robbed near the small town of Kostelec, during which the perpetrators steal CZK 2.5 million. The local police fail to solve the case. After some time, a young and capable lieutenant Charvát arrives from the Prague CID. While he is getting acquainted with the circumstances of the case and the evidence found, he makes friends with the handsome Květa, the daughter of the hostel manager Weisse. The complicated relationship that develops between the two lovers is in no way comparable to the complexity of the criminal case that brought Charvat to Kostelec. Things get even more complicated when someone murders Malásek, a local brawler and drunkard, with a shotgun. He is actually Květa's husband. And his death, according to Charvat, is connected to the mail robbery...

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#67Past na kachnu

Movie - 1978, 2h 15m as German Client

2.3 / 10
DramaCrime

Taxi driver Koukal (Miroslav Machácek) is stopped by the police for a routine traffic check. In the boot of his car the police find the body of a naked man. Koukal is arrested even though he claims he knows nothing about it. The case is assigned to Major Mlynár (Milan Sandhaus). The police identify the corpse as that of an Austrian citizen called Mitrik. Koukal has been regularly driving people interested in gambling to a secret gaming den. The police are put onto the gambling den by another taxi driver, who admits that he drove Mitrik there. Mlynár and officer cadet Pecka (Ivan Vyskocil) feign interest in gambling and visit the gaming den incognito.

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#68Escape Home

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.0 / 10
Drama

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

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#69Julek

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.8 / 10
DramaHistory

The future communist journalist Julius Fučík had a stimulating childhood and youth in a working-class environment, when his moral maturity was already showing. The authors of the film recall that the young Julek was a star of the suburban operetta scene, and in three episodes they depict him both in his early childhood and already at the gymnasium, when the outbreak of the World War shaped his determination.

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#70On a Wayward Princess

Movie - 1987, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.8 / 10
FamilyFantasy

Princess Julia doesn't want to marry an old prince Hubert so she runs away from home. She meets two old magicians and join the circus, where she meets lovely Franta Kuldan and evil devil performer.

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#71Courage for Every Day

Movie - 1965, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.2 / 10
Drama

A passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure of his peers to live up to his ideals.

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#72Concert 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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#73Skandál v Gri-Gri baru

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.5 / 10
HistoryDrama

Two young returnees from the First World War face a difficult future because they cannot find work. One eventually finds a job as an electrician, the other breaks into the Social Democratic press, where he gets the chance to watch up close how the Social Democratic leadership deceives its members and enters the service of the ruling classes. And a newly-trained journalist solves the problem of whether he should also adapt to the corrupt environment...

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#74Florenc 13,30

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m as driver František

5.9 / 10
Comedy

The plot of the film follows a bus ride on the Prague - Karlovy Vary route and the actions of the people on it. A diverse group of people with various interests, professions and personalities gathered on the bus. Their encounter in the close environment of the bus gave the opportunity to create a whole series of good humorous situations. The ride on the express bus is a symbolic example of the contemporary life of our society, in which, just like when riding a bus, it is necessary to suppress many private interests and selfish qualities in order to successfully reach the destination.

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#75Nobody Will Laugh

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.8 / 10
DramaComedy

A successful art historian who has trouble telling people difficult truths, finds himself in an inescapable situation when a small lie quickly gets out of hand.

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#76The Death of a Talented Cobbler

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m as Gatekeeper (voice)

5.5 / 10
Crime

Captain Exner solves another detective mystery - this time while he's on vacation. The most elegant of Czech crime novelists has chosen a quiet town called Opolná as his place of well-deserved rest. But just as he arrives, the local shoemaker Rambousek, a famous (and wealthy) naive painter, is murdered.

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#77Levé křídlo

Movie - 1984, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

4.0 / 10
FamilyDrama

The war will also affect children's games. The children hide a French boy who has managed to escape from a prison transport. Language differences certainly don't matter when sporting talent is on display. The refugee becomes a welcome addition to the schoolboy football team, which is about to play against the German soldiers.

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#78Něco je ve vzduchu

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.0 / 10
Sci-FiComedy

The urn supposedly containing the remains of Alice's grandfather falls out of the window and breaks. To Alice's great surprise, the urn is empty and the girl learns that the grandfather didn't die but disappeared under mysterious circumstances on the 2nd September 1946 in the town of Telc. Her grandmother claims that a mysterious young man with dark glasses was implicated in her husband disappearance. Alice is determined to solve the mystery. Grandmother's story leads Alice to a shoemaker who hands her Professor Jeník's - her grandfather's - invention, called the Force-fields Accelerator. Alice tells her boyfriend Petr about the device and the young man creates a time machine following the professor's instructions. The young couple then travel back to 1946 and there they indeed meet Alice's grandfather, and his daughter Blanka, who will later be Alice's mother.

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#79The Moravian Land

Movie - 1978, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

7.0 / 10
Drama

The reason for making this film is clear: it was to cover up Vojtěch Jasný's famous chronicle "All the Good Natives", an account of the tragic consequences of forced collectivisation. The pro-regime director Antonín Kachlík also focuses on the socialisation of the Moravian village, accompanied by mistakes and coercion, but in his optimistic view he emphasises the hopeful prospects leading to a happy future. Although the united village lands were born in pain, they will serve for the benefit of all the working people... As with Jasný, Radek Brzobohatý embodies the stubborn peasant, who is only slowly acknowledging the benefits of communal farming. However, unlike the poetic exuberance and pithiness of Jasný's chronicle, here we encounter a vicious posturing.

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#80How a Man Gives Birth

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m as (segment "Hádanka")

7.5 / 10
Drama

The hero of the opening story, the Postman Puppet (directed by Zdeněk Troška), works as a postman in the mountains. When his wife is taken to the maternity ward, he goes on his usual hike through the solitudes. Little Libor goes after the father of two girls (Petr Pospíchal), who longs for a son. Meanwhile, the weather on the ridges worsens sharply. An experienced mountaineer and his little friend spend the night in a makeshift shelter... The second episode of Hádanka (directed by Jan Ekl) has a criminal plot. A new father (Vlastimil Hašek) gets drunk with friends in a wine bar and the next day becomes a suspect in a murder. He doesn't remember the critical moments, but his testimony leads to the capture of the real perpetrator... The main character of the final short story True Love (directed by Vladimír Drha) is a frat boy (Pavel Zedníček) who spends whole days in pubs. He gets a harsh lesson from his wife, who refuses to let him see the baby...

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#81Death Chooses

Movie - 1973, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

7.5 / 10
Crime

Radek Simek, the driver of a postal car, is shot dead on his regular route. The Investigators give up initial suspicions of robbery, because he carried no greater amount of money. Even questioning Honza Marek, another mail car driver, brings no result. When the circumstances are becoming more and more suspicious. Marek decides to track down the killer on his own.

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#82Friday Is No Holiday

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.0 / 10
Comedy

A Czech film comedy about the ordinary days of an ordinary Novák family, about the confusion of finding and the winding road to wisdom...

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#83Bylo nás deset

Movie - 1963, 2h 15m as Lieutenant Kozlok

3.7 / 10
ComedyMusic

At the beginning, the newly arrived soldiers form a musical theatre troupe to escape the humiliation of the older ones. They vow that they will be good to the next recruits. But it turns out that nothing can be done without strictness and that greed is not some kind of deviant perversion. In this comedy you will find not only great musical numbers, but also a lot of gags from the military environment. It is also the first film in which the famous semaphore duo Suchý and Šlitr appeared.

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#84Blue Planet

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

3.7 / 10
Comedy

A young engineer, Štěpán Pavlík, dreams of becoming a cosmonaut.

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#85The Halftime of Happiness

Movie - 1985, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.3 / 10
ComedyDrama

Fifty-year-old Ondřej Bozděch delivers coal around Prague's Žižkov district and he loves it more than anything. He has spent his whole life here and knows all the cellars. He lives his ordinary life among the Žižkov tenement houses, enjoying the joys and sorrows of his teenage daughter Markéta and his restless son Ondra. His best friend is his driver Karel, a former mathematician who once had to leave his job at a research institute for political reasons. Although Karel is an engineer and a completely different person than the straightforward Ondrej, he has become almost a member of the Bozděch family over time. But times are changing. The old houses of Žižkov disappear one by one, Markéta has to get married and Karel is offered to return to his original profession. Ondřej has to stop and think about what kind of life he is living...

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#86Chief, There Is a Horse in the Backyard

Movie - 1990, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.5 / 10
Comedy

Criminal comedy, a fourth movie from the "Chief" series.

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#87Postavení mimo hru

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.0 / 10
Drama

The psychological story of a young top athlete - hockey player, showing the downside of the all-round care that top athletes enjoy. On the one hand, there are the exceptionally favourable living conditions, but on the other, human envy, the fickleness of the public's favour, gossip, bribery and other vices that can negatively affect a less solid character...

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#88Payment in Kind

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m as předseda soudu

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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