
Birthday:
03-16-1922
Deathday:
07-13-1983 (61 years)
Birthplace:
Smecno by Kladno, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
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Collision
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1948
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PSA promoting traffic control and caution of children in the street.
Lullaby
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1948 star_border 7
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The adventures of animated puppet Ku-Ku.
The Curious Letter
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1961 star_border 5.5
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An adventurous letter that wandered around the world instead of rushing to a summer camp to see its little recipient.
The Song of the Grey Pigeon
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1961 star_border 5.9
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An unusual children's film set during World War II in Czechoslovakia, this compelling drama unfolds five different segments that present the war through the eyes of three youngsters. The three have a series of adventures which include saving a soldier from being captured by the Germans, helping out the resistance fighters, and meeting up with a young Russian woman trained in guerrilla warfare. As they learn more about life and danger, various circumstances constantly recall the reality of war itself. The title comes from a wounded pigeon under the care of one of the youngsters.
Marketa Lazarová
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1967 star_border 7.9
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Mikolás and his brother Adam end up with a young German hostage of noble blood during a robbery. While their clan prepares for the wrath of the German king, Mikolás is sent to pressure his neighbor Lazar into a defense pact. Persuasion fails and he abducts Lazar's daughter Marketa on the eve of her initiation as a nun in an act of vengeance.
Death Is Called Engelchen
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1963 star_border 6
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Pavel is a Czech partisan fighter in the waning days of the war. Just as peace is declared, Pavel is shot in the spine and sent to the hospital emergency ward. As he fades in and out of consciousness, he recalls the events that led to his participation in the underground. Holding German occupation commander Engelchen responsible for all the horrors and deprivations heaped upon his comrades, Pavel is kept alive by the possibility of recovering and exacting vengeance upon the Nazi officer - no matter how long it takes.
Midnight Mass
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1962 star_border 7
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On Christmas Eve, 1944, in Nazi-occupied Slovakia, the Kubiš family grapples with survival amidst brutal reprisals. Marián collaborates as a fascist guard leader, while his sister Angela has an affair with their Nazi lodger, Major Brecker. The situation escalates when their younger son, Juraj, a former partisan fighter, returns home wounded. As Germans search homes for escapees, Juraj hides in the attic, while an unsettling Christmas dinner unfolds below with Major Brecker present.
Mr. Prokouk, The Office Clerk
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1947 star_border 5.6
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Cobbler Mr. Prokouk starts working in an office where there is a lot of paperwork too big for him.
What Is Missing?
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1947
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A stop-motion advertisement for shoe company Baťa. Depicts shoe repair as surgery.
King Lavra
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1951 star_border 6
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A king hides an embarrassing secret - and it causes him to execute every barber who cuts his hair.
Nine Chicks
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1952
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A fairy tale for children about correcting a selfish chick.
Defendant
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1964 star_border 6.6
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Managers at the construction of a big hydro plant are accused of having embezzled money.
Tales About Children
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event1965 star_border 5
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Three small short stories, each of which was created by one of the famous Czechoslovak filmmakers of children's films: Magdalena, Fraud and Karp.
The Treasure of Bird Island
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1953 star_border 6.8
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People living on an island finds a treasure, but it does not only do them good.
From Argentina to Mexico
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1954 star_border 6
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Travelers Hansel and Zikmund sail from Africa to South America. On their journey to film, they capture clouds of locusts on the plains of Argentina's Chaco, a snake farm in Butantane, skyscrapers in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro, a visit to lepers in Paraguay, waterfalls in Iguazu, a daring expedition to the jungles of the Marañon river basin to hunt skull hunters. an Indian settlement in Panama and the journey ends prematurely in Mexico amidst the ruins of ancient Indian temples and pyramid.
The Angel of Blissful Death
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1966
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Czechoslovak counter-espionage intercepts a coded message from the West German secret service ordering death for an unknown person on Czech territory.
And I'll Run to the Ends of the Earth
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1980 star_border 6.7
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Majka "Chatterbox" is a girl entering adolescence. She was born with a minor disability. While her mother keeps scolding her for the way she walks, her classmates mock her and call her a "duck". Along an innocent first love affair and a secret friendship, she receives little understanding from her parents and lots of malice from her schoolmates. Majka finds refuge with her grandmother and in her own fantasy world. Director Peter Solan made a sensitive portrait of a twelve year-old schoolgirl. The eloquent film language talks to child and adult audiences alike.
Katya and the Crocodile
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1966 star_border 6.5
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It is the summer holiday and little Mísa Horák has taken a few animals from the school's so-called "Corner of Living Nature" home to care for. But when he brings home two Angora rabbits, a starling, a little monkey, a tortoise and a small crocodile, his parents order him to take them away. He is helped by Káta, who offers to place the animals in the child's room of her family's apartment. Mísa leaves for her friend where the animals will hopefully be able to stay. Káta goes shopping. In the meantime, Káta's younger sister Minka wakes up and begins to play with the animals, who gradually run off in disarray.
Blue Apron
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1965
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Surrealistic short animation by Hermína Týrlová.
The Junk Shop
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1965 star_border 6.5
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Juraj Herz adapts Bohumil Hrabal's story about a man who works in a junk shop.
Crime at the Girls School
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1966 star_border 6.4
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Three short story omnibus. The main hero and connecting link is Lieutenant Boruvka, created by Lubomír Lipsky. He deals with the murder case between climbers, the death of the dancer in the music theater and the strange disappearance of the mathematics professor.
Mr. Prokouk, The Filmmaker
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1948 star_border 5.4
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Shortfilm from the Mr. Prokouk series. Mr. Prokouk wants to be a filmmaker, but the making of a film has more complications than he expected.
The Bells Toll for the Barefooted
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1965 star_border 6.4
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A dramatic story from the end of WW II and a remarkable contemplation of the value of true friendship, meaning and purpose oflife or the possibility to be humane even in inhuma ne conditions. In a frosty mountain setting a cruel struggle for life takes place. After a fight, two partisans return to their brigade carrying along a young German soldier as a captive. But suddenly, amidst the hopelessness of barren mountains. all protagonists find themselves in a liminal existential situation.
Inspiration
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1949 star_border 6.8
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A glass blower imagines that his creations come to life. A story of love contained within a single drop of rain. A voyage into ethereal beauty.
Mr. Prokouk, The Inventor
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1949 star_border 6
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After a hard day at work, Mr. Prokouk decides to invent a machine to ease his labor. But inventing is work too, and Mr. Prokouk spends more time dreaming about inventions than actually inventing anything. Can he find an easy solution?
Bricks
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1950
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A documentary film about the history of brick production and its production in a modern brick factory.
Mladí dobyvatelé vzduchu
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1950
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A film about the education of young aviators, which uses the natural interest of the youth in aviation and leads them through modeling circles and motorless flying to flying powered planes.
China in battle
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1950
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A documentary film about the history and present of the struggle of the communist troops led by Mao Zedong and Chu Tie in China.
Skořepiny
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1950
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Documentary film about the use of new methods in the construction of the shell roof of the tannery hall in Gottwaldov.
People From Caravans
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1966 star_border 10
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Story about the people around the circus and the unfortunate love of a young man an acrobat. Before the dispute escalates so much that, according to the old clown, Vincek ends up with a noose on his back and Lotyš in a bass, fate intervenes and the young acrobat is called up to the war, where he serves with the dragoons. After serving his time and being released into civilian life, he sets out to find the National with his beloved Nina. However, she has not been with the circus for almost a whole year. Her parents took her away and Vincek, to the chagrin of his friends and the principal, decides to go looking for her. After a long journey, he finds his beloved in the Russian Kuznecki circus, but she has changed a lot during the years of separation. A simple girl in love has turned into a calculating, ambitious woman who desires money above all. But Vincek doesn't have you.
The Copper Tower
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1970 star_border 6.3
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A dramatic story of three friends happily spending time on their own in a mountain cottage in the High Tatras. On the arrival of the wife of one of them their perfect friendship is put to a test.
The Fabulous World of Jules Verne
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1958 star_border 7.2
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As the world progresses into the industrial age, a professor studying the "nature of pure matter" is spirited away by a would-be dictator and connived into building a super-bomb, as a young reporter and a girl rescued from the sea attempt to warn him of their mutual kidnapper's intentions to dominate the world with a new and more-deadly-yet weapon.
Et cetera
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1967 star_border 5.8
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A small, animated figure learns how to use a whip, a pair of wings and a house.
Punch and Judy
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1966 star_border 6.4
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Two puppets, Punch and Judy, do battle to the death over the custody of a live guinea pig.
The Unfortunate Bridegroom
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1967 star_border 8
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A comedy about two bumbling policemen investigating an alleged rape in a small Czech town. One of the alleged rapists is supposed to get married the day he's locked up.
The Valley of the Bees
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1968 star_border 7
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Cast out by his father, young Ondrej joins the Order of the Teutonic Knights, where he is raised by strict monk Armin. After years of hardship, Ondrej escapes from the Order when he is wrongly punished, and sets out for his former home. Arriving to discover his father to be dead, Ondrej now not only assumes control of his father's properties, but seeks to marry his former stepmother.
The Flight
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1967
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The kids were smoking secretly in a barn, set fire and fled. Feeling that the investigation closely, "sits on his tail" and soon will be declared to her parents, the protagonist escapes from home. The charred ruins of the barn, he meets a young man who is also why some carefully avoids meeting people, and tied him. According to the book Hoffmann Ota (Ota Hofman).
Historia Naturae (suita)
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1967 star_border 6.3
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An eight-part animated portrait of various species, accompanied by a different style of music. The various parts are: Aquatilia (foxtrot), Hexapoda (bolero), Pisces (blues), Reptilia (tarantella), Aves (tango), Mammalia (minuet), Simiae (polka) and Homo (waltz). Each animation mixes drawings, pictures, real animals and animated skeletons.
A Pact with the Devil
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1967 star_border 6.3
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A comedy about five students who are un-justly suspected of trying to lose their virginity before their graduation. The five girls first try to defend themselves, but when they find out that nobody believes them - neither the school principal nor even their own parents - they decide to accomplish what they have been falsely accused of. And although their clumsy attempts are mostly comic, at one point they almost cause a big tragedy.
Honor and Glory
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1969 star_border 6.8
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This historical film by Hynek Bočan touches upon the indecisiveness of the Czech nation, ready to bend the backbone in face of foreign rule. Situating the story at the close of the Thirty Year War enabled the depiction of the misery of the people that affects even an impoverished aristocratic milieu. Rudolf Hrušínský appears here in the role of an indecisive knight, persuaded for a long time and in vain to join the anti-Habsburg movement. The story does not only captivate through the depiction of manifold human characters, intrigues and sycophancy, but also through the circumstances ruling over the devastated farmstead, sunk in mud and crudeness. One of the best films with an updating tendency has come into being here, rightly being named along the such greats as Kladivo na čarodějnice (Witches' Hammer).
Maratón
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1968 star_border 5.4
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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.
Prague Nights
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1969 star_border 5.4
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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.
The Cremator
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1969 star_border 7.8
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In 1930s Prague, a Czech cremator who firmly believes cremation relieves one from earthly suffering is drawn inexorably to Nazism.
Nový dům
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1950
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Documentary film about new working methods in the construction industry. It introduces the viewer to new procedures and compares them with past times.
Nevýnosná linka
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1950
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Documentary film about the development of underdeveloped regions of the Czechoslovak Republic thanks to the expansion of the public transport network.
Adelheid
Music Arranger (1 ep.)
event1970 star_border 6.8
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In the aftermath of World War II, a soldier takes charge of a manor formerly owned by a German family and falls in love with the daughter, now a maid. Their relationship forces him to confront the tension between his love and his conscience.
Traktory jedou do lesa
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1950
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Documentary film about the use of tractors in Czechoslovak forestry. It shows a forest tractor felling trees, loading logs, hauling and grubbing.
A Gentle Spirit
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1967 star_border 6.5
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Krotká is a 1967 Slovak black-and-white produced by TV a psychological drama directed by Stanislav Barabas on based a short story A Gentle Creature by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
The Ballad of Seven Hanged Men
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1968 star_border 5.7
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Seven people waiting for their death. A group of assasins - three men and two women - and Gypsy thief spend their time in prison to be tucked up.
The Pig Shepard
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1957
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Puppet adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale.
Fruit of Paradise
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1970 star_border 6.4
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An experimental retelling of the story of Adam and Eve which then progresses into an allegorical depiction of the loss of innocence.
Aesop
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1970 star_border 7
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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.
The Flat
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1968 star_border 7.4
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A man is trapped in a sinister flat, where nothing seems to obey the laws of nature.
A Ridiculous Gentleman
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1969
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When a noted professor receives a new treatment for his heart ailment, his outlook on life changes. Despite doctor's orders, he is determined to live out his final days on his own terms and fulfill his fantasies. He saves the life of a young woman who tries to kill herself after his recovery from heart surgery in this symbolic story of a man trying to determine his own fate in his last days alive.
The Bride with the Most Beautiful Eyes
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1976 star_border 7
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Exotic, yet lyrically aimed fairy tale about a young gypsy Pista in search of a beautiful, gentle and faithful bride. An old man told him where to find a girl with those qualities, so Pista sets out on a journey to find the girl of his dreams without knowing that she is special: an hour a day human and rest of the day a chicken...
The Knot in the Handkerchief
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1958
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A boy makes a knot in his handkerchief to remind himself to repair his leaky faucet. The handkerchief, however, is alive and kicking, and flees from its pocket to explore the outside world. The boy gets distracted by a game of soccer, forgetting the faucet. In the meantime, the handkerchief meets other pieces of fabric that come to life.
Jumping Over Puddles
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1971 star_border 6
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This Czechoslovakian children’s film takes place during the last days of the Austro-Hungarian empire. The young son of a horse trainer loves nothing more than riding his horse, until he is stricken by polio…
The Matches of a Beautiful Dragoon
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1971 star_border 5.2
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In a suburban villa, a woman of means is murdered. Police Superintendent Zdychynec from the Prague Liben neighborhood reports the case to Police Councilman Vacátko, upon whose order an investigation is launched immediately. Zdychynec begins to suspect the wooer of his own daughter, a handsome dragoon named Rudi, of the crime. In Rudi's absence, Zdychynec searches his rented room in the apartment of the elegant Mrs Dragicová. All his findings - among others, sand left on Rudi's jackboots and a decent amount of money in his bedside table - convince the superintendent that he is following the right lead, especially when Rudi refuses to say where he was at the time of the murder.
Burglar and Umbrella
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1971 star_border 3.6
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In the morning twilight of Prague, the dead body of the safe-breaker Toufar is found floating on the river Vltava with a knife in his back. Police inspectors visit Toufar's lover, the prostitute Anna Kulatá (Jirina Bohdalová), nicknamed Umbrella, and it is apparent that the moment before she opened the door of her flat, someone fled through the window. Umbrella is summoned for examination to the head of the criminal police - Police Councilman Vacátko Jaroslav Marvan, but although shocked by the photograph of the dead man, she does not confess to anything. Before Toufar, Umbrella lived with the safe-breaker Penicka (Radoslav Brzobohatý), who loved her very much and made her quit her street trade. But when he was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, Umbrella began to live with the brute Toufar, who chased her to street again. In the case of the murder, Penicka is therefore the prime suspect.
Waiting for the Rain
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1978 star_border 5
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It’s a hot holiday season in the city and Alena is pretty much left to her own little self, fantasizing and running her personal daily rituals, keeping most people at a safe distance, yet trying to get male attention.
The Ossuary
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1970 star_border 6.9
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A non-narrative voyage round Sedlec Ossuary, which has been constructed from over 50,000 human skeletons (victims of the Black Death).
Bitva na Červeném poli
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1968
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Journalist learns about battle in a small village.
The Secret of a Great Narrator
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1972 star_border 4.3
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The life of the famous French writer Alexander Dumas the Elder. Screenwriter Jaroslav Dietl did not hide his admiration for this literary giant, and in addition to the screenplay he also wrote a three-part TV play about Dumas (starring Vladimír Menšík). In Kachyn's film, Dumas played the father and son of the Štěpánková brothers, and it was a very difficult and difficult task for these young actors.
Murder in the Excelsior Hotel
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1971 star_border 5.8
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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…
Eagle Feather
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1972 star_border 5.8
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The film captures the new events in the lives of the main characters of the film "The Copper Tower". After two years spent in prison because of smuggling they return to the Stratená dolina valley and plan a revenge on police lieutenant Pardek.
The Heads
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1980
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An animated exploration of the human head
Ostrov pro 6.000 budíků
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1977
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The first professional animated film by Petr Sís, who later became the great children's author-illustrator Peter Sís after emigrating to America. Based on an odd satiric story by Miloš Macourek; purportedly banned in Czechoslovakia upon its release.
About Show-White
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1972 star_border 8
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Sixth-grade pupil Katka daydreams during a math class about being Snow White and being freed by a prince who looks very much like Dzery from the eighth grade. Katka, her girl friends Lenka and Martina, and her fellow-pupils Franta, Joska and freckled Vrabcák, have spent five years going to the same little one-class school in their home mountain village of Pastvina. Their kind teacher Smetácek was very understanding about their games and fantasies, but he didn't teach them much about arithmetic. They are now laughed at for their ignorance by the strict Bidlo, their new teacher at the near-by little town. As he does every year, Smetácek is preparing a theatre performance with the local children. Katka suggests the fairytale about Snow White
Adam and Otka
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1974
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On the holidays, ten years old Adam and his little sister Otka, four years junior to him, travel from a village Vykán to their aunt to Prague. Their parents left for Hungary to the world championship in ploughing. The children have the address but they do not know the way to the Northern Town. They set out for a place on foot, across the historical parts of the town.
Days of Betrayal
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1973 star_border 5
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This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot), politicians and ordinary citizens, to save the independence and the territorial integrity of the state from the advance of Hitler's Germany. On the 29th of March 1938 the leader of the Sudeten Germans Henlein (Werner Ehrlicher) has a meeting with Hitler (Gunnar Möller). Hitler orders him to intensify pressure on the Czechoslovak government. On the 24th of April in Carlsbad, the Sudetendeutsche Partei (Sudeten German Party) decides upon eight demands that are unacceptable to the Czechoslovak President, since they would ultimately lead to the break-up of the Republic. Benes still shows a certain willingness to negotiate, and Henlein resents this. The Germans are determined to make further negotiations impossible through incidents and violence.
The Legend of the Silver Fir
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1973 star_border 6.7
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According to one Beskydy Mountains legend, if you do a good deed you will see silver trees. Little Ondra knows trees like that. In his family's cottage hangs a picture showing silver firs, a person falling from a height and a watch. In art lessons Ondra paints trees of the same kind. - One day Lojzek Hojgr, a man who climbs fir trees to gather the seeds, comes to see Ondra's parents. Long-ago Ondra's father has had such a job and Lojzek is his long-time friend. Hojgr moves into a half-ruined wood cabin. Ondra's father takes him on a visit to Lojzek and both demonstrate the beautiful but dangerous work of seed-gathering to the boy.
Love
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1973 star_border 5.7
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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.
Joachim, Put It in the Machine
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1974 star_border 7.2
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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.
The Man from London
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1974 star_border 2.5
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A British citizen by the name of George Reiner (Jirí Sovák) arrives at Prague airport. He was once a Czech safe-breaker, and has now returned home after thirty years to steal twenty-dollar gold coins still kept in the safe at a private villa in Pilsen whose owner fled to the West.
Sokolovo
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1975 star_border 4
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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.
When the Woman Butts In
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1960 star_border 6.5
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Kam Cert Nemuze by director Zdenek Podskalsky is a routine farce that slowly builds up steam to some rib-tickling slapstick episodes. (Miroslav Hornicek) is a deluded young man who is convinced he is Faust incarnate. This turn of mind leads to some ludicrous situations, such as when he believes a woman is really a cat. Before he can be rounded up and interned wherever they keep people with this type of a problem, love enters his life and the clouds that obscured his vision begin to dissipate.
Johannes Doktor Faust
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1959 star_border 5.5
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The Faust legend retold with marionettes.
The Choo-Choo Train
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1959
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A puppet fairy tale about a disobedient train that did not just want to carry coal and drove to return to his work after a sad experience.
The Lost Doll
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1959 star_border 5
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A lovely fairytale for all tells the story of a doll that is lost, and with the help of other toys is looking for a way to her friend
The Snowman
Music (1 ep.)
event1966 star_border 6.5
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A snowman comes to life in this charming and playful stop motion short. In danger of melting once spring rolls around, the snowman eventually departs for an icier climate, perhaps to return next winter.
The Devil's Trap
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1962 star_border 6.9
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A small town is one day visited by a priest who is there on a secret mission. He is a member of the Inquisition sent to investigate the activities of a local miller. The miller and his son are the descendants of an old family whose ancestral home burned down a century ago, but was rebuilt from scratch. The miller inherited much of his knowledge about the land, water, and a building's stability from generations of family experience. His reputation for finding water and predicting when a structure might collapse have come to the attention of the Inquisition -surely he must be in league with the Devil.
Higher Principle
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1960 star_border 8.2
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During the Nazi occupation of a Czech city civilians are being rounded up on the slightest of pretexts and shot. One day three high school boys who crack jokes about a recently deceased "hero of the Reich" are pulled out of school by the Gestapo.
A Story of Love and Honor
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1978 star_border 5
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A story of love and honor that takes place during the mid-nineteenth century during revolutions, as well as economic, political, and social hypocrisy. Two extraordinary but lonely artists share a passionate love, as evidenced by the preserved letters that they exchanged.
The Medal
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1980 star_border 6.7
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The trenches of World War I provide for a captivating backdrop to the drama of Corporal Hoferik. In his devotion to the Habsburg Monarchy, he fanatically carries out his military orders, but he ultimately suffers the Empire's disfavor.
Leonardo's Diary
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1972 star_border 6.5
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Animated drawings inspired by Leonardo da Vinci are intercut with seemingly unrelated (but in fact strangely similar) live-action scenes.
Jabberwocky
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1971 star_border 6.5
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In stop-motion animation, a wardrobe moves through the countryside. It arrives in a house, a child's voice recites Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky," and various objects, such as toys and dolls, move about, disintegrate, and play out archetypal scenes. Like Carroll's verse, the images are at once familiar and unfamiliar. A child's play suit, hanging in the wardrobe, becomes the adventure's protagonist.
Don Juan
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1969 star_border 6.9
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The age-old story of Don Juan, played by giant puppets.
Castle of Otranto
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1977 star_border 6.6
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An adaptation of the 1764 work of the same name, the first Gothic novel. In this mockumentary, the amateur archaeologist Dr. Vozáb has set to prove that the supernatural ghost love story takes place not in Italy, but in Otranto Castle near Náchod in Czechoslovakia.
Birds, Orphans and Fools
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1969 star_border 7.1
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In the aftermath of war, two men and a woman begin acting more like children than adults, leading to tragedy.
Celebration in the Botanical Garden
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1969 star_border 6
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One of the lead characters is Maria, an inn keeper; always a bride but never a wife. She meets the newcomer Pierre, who disturbs the peace of the small village and teaches the locals how to enjoy life. The film is full of fireworks of lovely colours, and a warm feeling. It is like a carousel of humour and human situations that carry us away, from the very first frame to the unexpected ending, making the viewer laugh gaily. Using a mosaic approach to the traditional narrative line, the film director creates a picture of fairly anarchic glee. “Celebration in the Botanical Garden” is a world of fantasy, full of summer fun, good humour and delight. E. Havetta´s debut was inspired by naïve art, French impressionism, and silent slap-stick as well as Western Slovakian folk traditions.
The Little Mermaid
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1976 star_border 6.8
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The little mermaid rescues a prince from drowning and falls in love with him. To be with him, she makes a deal with the evil sorceress: her beautiful voice against a life on land. It seems to work at first, the prince is enchanted with her lovely appearance. But the memory of a foreign princess still haunts him: The one who found him on the beach where the mermaid had left him, and whom he (of course) believes to be his saviour. To resolve this mistake is too much for the mute little mermaid, and not even her father, king of all seas, can help her in the impending catastrophe.
Smoke on the Potato Fields
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1977 star_border 6.6
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In this character study by Czech director Frantisek Vlacil, a stout middle-aged physician whose marriage has come apart establishes a practice in a small town. Gradually he's drawn into the lives of his patients—a childless couple, a pregnant girl with a stern mother, the son of a duck farmer—and each relationship reveals a bit more about him and the idyllic but insular community.
Robinson Girl
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1974 star_border 5.2
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Blazenka likes to imagine she is on a desolate island and has to find a way how to survive. After the death of her mother she stays together with her baby brother and has to take care of the family. In this difficult situation, she plays this role-game that helps her to deal with the sudden loss of her mother.
Murder Czech Style
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1967 star_border 4
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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.
Odysseus and the Stars
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1976 star_border 6
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A group of children are investigating a chain of mysterious events during the seventies.
The Liberation of Prague
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1977 star_border 2
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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.
Ferda The Ant In The Foreign Service
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1979
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Everyone knows Ferda the Ant, who knows how to work with everyone and selflessly helps all small animals from the beetle empire. Everything with him is fun, but he can also punish stupidity and injustice.
Shadows of a Hot Summer
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1978 star_border 6.4
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The story of 1947, when Bender's band, after a beating of the Nazis, tried to fight their way through Czechoslovakia to Austria. They come out of the forest to occupy the family's rural estate, kidnap doctors to help heal one of their wounded.
Flying Saucers Over Our Village
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1977 star_border 4.5
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A model Communist village is visited by a flying saucer.
On the Great River
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1978 star_border 7
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Second movie of the famous Czech adventure trilogy: Osada Havranů Na veliké rece Volání rodu
Settlement of Crows
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1978 star_border 6.3
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First movie of the famous Czech adventure trilogy: Osada Havranů Na veliké rece Volání rodu
House Call
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1979 star_border 8
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Third movie of the famous Czech adventure trilogy: Osada Havranů Na veliké rece Volání rodu
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1962 star_border 7.4
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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.
At the Terminus
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1957 star_border 6.5
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Several bittersweet stories set in a Prague apartment building.
The White Dove
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1960 star_border 7.2
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A poetic film about a dove getting lost on its way to Prague getting shot down by a paralyzed boy. An artist who finds the dove becomes friends with the boy. Together they take care of it bringing it back to recovery.
Sirius
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1975 star_border 6.4
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In SIRIUS, a young boy whose most cherished companion is his loyal German shepherd devises his own form of resistance when the Nazis arrest his father, then order the confiscation of local canines, including his pet, to be retrained as attack dogs against the rebellious populace.
Man in Outer Space
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1962 star_border 5.4
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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.
The Shop on Main Street
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1965 star_border 7.2
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In a small town in Nazi-occupied Slovakia during World War II, decent but timid carpenter Tono is named "Aryan comptroller" of a button store owned by an old Jewish widow, Rozalie. Since the post comes with a salary and standing in the town's corrupt hierarchy, Tono wrestles with greed and guilt as he and Rozalie gradually befriend each other. When the authorities order all Jews in town to be rounded up, Tono faces a moral dilemma unlike any he's known before.
Adrift
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1971 star_border 4.7
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A fisherman saves Anada, a woman adrift, from drowning. He takes her to his home, and protects her. Eventually, she occupies a larger place than was to be expected. He commits adultery with her, but his own wife seems to be in love with the strange young woman.
Field Lilies
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1973 star_border 8.3
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Two repatriated soldiers search for stability and love when they return home after the First World War.
Meeting in July
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1978 star_border 5.2
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A romantic story about Jakub, a student in the summer camp, and his teacher Klara.
The Divine Emma
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1979 star_border 6.3
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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.
The Angel Levine
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1970 star_border 5.7
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Morris Mishkin is a elderly religious Jew in New York. His wife Fanny is very ill. He's a tailor, but he can't work because his back has given out. He doesn't even have enough money for Fanny's medicine. Finally, a black fellow appears from nowhere in the Mishkin kitchen. He says he's an angel from God, sent to help Mishkin. The black angel is even Jewish, named Alex Levine? But will Morris believe in the angel? And can the angel perform the miracle that he promises?
The Miner's Rose
Music (1 ep.)
event1974
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Adapting a 1930s song, Brdečka presents a ballad of true love between a miner and his sweetheart in a tale that ends in tragedy.
Inferno
Music (1 ep.)
event1973 star_border 6
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August Strindberg in Paris divorced from his wife, children and friends. In the company of Parisian artists and writers, including Paul Gauguin and Edvard Munch, but often he feel they ridicule and persecute him. Isolated Strindberg venture successfully in alchemical experiments.
Metamorpheus
Music (1 ep.)
event1969
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Orpheus reconsidered, starting from animations of mosaic images. Eventually, there is lava.
Accordion Song
Music (1 ep.)
event1974
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This story of a Soviet soldier who was killed during the liberation of Prague in May 1945 combines Zdenek Seydl's animated drawings with documentary footage by war correspondents.
Kam zmizel kurýr
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1981 star_border 5.3
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A mysterious man named Michael Allan Jones arrives in Prague to search for his ancestors. Specifically, he is interested in the year 1611, when a meteorite allegedly crashed near Dobruška. The search for him is helped by nice writer Marcela, who writes a short story about this topic. He thinks it wasn't a meteorite, but a UFO. With her, Michael visits several Czech locations with a mysterious past.
Laterna magika II
Music (1 ep.)
event1960
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A film of the Czech multimedia theatre production, Magician's Lantern
Mr. Prokouk, Detective
Music (1 ep.)
event1957 star_border 5
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Story of Mr. Prokouk, who having read too many detective stories sees criminals everywhere.
Miracle
Music (1 ep.)
event1975
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This student film by the award-winning Helena Třeštíková bears many of the hallmarks of her later work. Made as a graduation piece when she was at the FAMU Film and TV Academy in Prague, we see the director developing the distinctive observational style of filmmaking that she has used so effectively throughout her career. Over the course of several months, she follows a young pregnant woman as she becomes slowly acquainted with the joys and responsibilities of motherhood.
The Royal Chase
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1969
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Two friends, who go hunting meet a woman who questions their practice.
Africa - Part I - From Morocco to Kilimanjaro
Music (1 ep.)
event1952 star_border 8
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The feature-length film by engineers J. Hanzelka and M. Zikmund captures how the two travelers prepared for their first trip around the world and in documentary footage describes their experiences from the first half of the trip through Africa. You will see for yourself what obstacles they had to overcome on the ravaged roads of Abyssinia and in what danger the fate of the expedition was during the daring passage through the Nubian desert. The film culminates with an ascent to the highest mountain in Africa, the extinct volcano Kilimanjaro, whose peak is covered in ice all year round.
Africa II – From the Equator to Table Mountain
Music (1 ep.)
event1953
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The second part of the film begins with a journey in the equatorial region, where the travelers managed to capture the most typical images of the original Africa. The journey continues to the forests of the Belgian Congo, where they filmed the smallest people in the world, black dwarfs. From Central Africa, they head south through Victoria Falls and the mysterious ruins of a medieval settlement in Zimbabwe. In Johannesburg, they witness a celebration of black gold diggers. Their journey ends at the southernmost tip of Africa under Table Mountain in Cape Town. The end of the film depicts the birth of a volcano shot from close range.
Ikarie XB 1
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1963 star_border 6.8
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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.
Little Girl Or Little Boy?
Music (1 ep.)
event1966
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A flock of storks drop off newborns to families made out of yarn.
Journey to the Beginning of Time
Sound Director (1 ep.)
event1955 star_border 7.3
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Four schoolboys go on an awe-inspiring expedition back through time, where they behold landscapes and creatures that have long since vanished from the earth.
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer
Music (1 ep.)
event1984 star_border 6.8
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In Prague, a professorial puppet, with metal pincers for hands and an open book for a hat, takes a boy as a pupil. First, the professor empties fluff and toys from the child's head, leaving him without the top of his head for most of the film. The professor then teaches the lad about illusions and perspectives, the pursuit of an object through exploring a bank of drawers, divining an object, and the migration of forms. The child then brings out a box with a tarantula in it: the professor puts his "hands" into the box and describes what he feels. The boy receives a final lesson about animation and film making; then the professor gives him a brain and his own open-book hat.
Thirty Cases of Major Zema
Original Music Composer (30 ep.)
event1976 star_border 7.3
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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.
Muž na radnici
Original Music Composer (11 ep.)
event1976
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Muž na radnici was a Czechoslovak television program which was broadcast in 1976. The program was directed by Evžen Sokolovský. In 2011, it was announced that the program, along with 17 others, would be released on DVD within three years.
Red Wine
Original Music Composer (3 ep.)
event1972
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An epic saga of the Habdza family of vineyard keepers set in western Slovakian countryside at the beginning of the 20th century. Director Andrej Lettrich's novel adaptation talks of plotting, forbidden love. family discord, and struggle for heritage and power. The story is engaging thanks to the impressive performances of popular actors, dramatic situations, and sensitive music. Red Wine is not so much inventive in terms of auteurship as it is a work of excellent craftsmanship. The resulting picture is a costume production neatly adapted to the character of Slovak rural life in the past.
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