
Birthday:
09-15-1921
Deathday:
01-27-2006 (84 years)
Birthplace:
Not available
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Incorrectly Drawn Hen
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event1963 star_border 6.7
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At school the dunce draws a Picasso style chicken on the black board. The chicken comes to life, runs away, and finds itself in the teacher's garden. The teacher thinks he has discovered a new species and christens it with his own name.
Lesy pro nás, my pro lesy
Original Music Composer
event1950
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Cartoon leaflet to support the collection of waste paper.
Nemocné navštěvovati
Original Music Composer
event1950
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A short film about the harmfulness of visiting the sick in hospitals.
Začalo to v době kamenné
Original Music Composer
event1950
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A short film promoting contemporary cosmetic products against the backdrop of an entertaining history of cosmetics.
Hrnečku, vař!
Original Music Composer
event1953 star_border 6
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While all the inhabitants of a small rural village are working hard to survive the harsh daily routine, the mayor and his wife are gorging themselves to death. Without generosity, they even refuse alms to a penniless old lady. Among the hard workers trying to subsist, a little girl works courageously to help her exhausted mother. One day, during her lunch break, she goes into the forest to fill her cup of water in a river. There, a poor old lady asks for alms from the young lady, having nothing but her little piece of bread, willingly offers it to her. It is then that the old lady, as a reward, enchants the cup of the little girl ...
Seven Days in a Week
Original Music Composer
event1965
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Seven days, or rather evenings and nights, in the life of Jenka (Stanislava Bartosová), a young good-looking nurse. Jenka is attractive to men and enjoys their company, but there is a limit beyond which she won't go, since she is faithful to her Filip, who is doing his military service. On Sunday the girl awaits Filip to arrive on a short period of leave, but instead his friend Míla (Frantisek Nemec) turns up and apologizes for Filip, who has to stay in the barracks.
Lov na mamuta
Original Music Composer
event1965
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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.
The Devil and Kate
Original Music Composer
event1956 star_border 7
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Adaption of the Antonin Dvorak opera Čert a Káča (The Devil and Kate), Op. 112, B.201, based on a farce by Josef Kajetán Tyl.
Baton Out of the Bag
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event1956 star_border 6.6
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A poor musician with a good heart, as a reward for sharing even the last piece of bread despite being hungry himself, is rewarded with a miraculous napkin on which the best delicacies appear. However, a greedy innkeeper steals it from him along with a miraculous donkey from which ducats are pouring...
Puppies
Original Music Composer
event1958 star_border 6
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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.
Man Under Water
Music
event1961 star_border 6
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After the flying machines of "How Man Learned to Fly," this next popular science installment by Jiří Brdečka focuses on the history of submarines and deep sea exploration, denouncing the arms industry along the way, as the politics of the day required.
Why Do You Smile, Mona Lisa?
Music
event1966
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This tongue-in-cheek variation on the popular theme of the mysterious smile on Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting narrates the Maestro's difficulties in trying to make his apathetic bourgeois model smile. In the end, the handsome youth Andrea comes to the rescue.
The Power of Destiny
Music
event1968 star_border 4.8
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An ironic anecdote about a fortune-teller perplexed by her customer who laughs at her reading of his palm. According to her, the man is to become a helpless servant. The surprise ending reveals the reason why the customer laughed.
Laterna magika II
Music
event1960
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A film of the Czech multimedia theatre production, Magician's Lantern
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