Oldřich Velen

AKA: Олдржих Велен, Ольдржих Велен

0.1588

1921-09-15

Brno, Československo

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {226}

1958-08-22 0

Xantipa

Genre :Comedy, History

Lieutenant Jiri Florian

1961-07-28 0

Where an Alibi Is Not Everything

“A bored housewife, a husband who married her for show, and a stupid boy who is full of himself because he is dating a Swiss woman.” The words of Inspector Tůma sound like they’re from a European melo ...

Genre :Crime

Dealer (voice)

1978-09-15 6.9

Shadows of a Hot Summer

Ondrej lives on a farm outside a small town with his family. One day a group of men arrive at the family's house and the harmonious life they've led so far changes drastically for the worse. ...

Genre :Drama

1977-12-23 4

Pasiáns

Student Eva is dashing up a steep slope to try to catch a bus, but she twists her ankle and the bus doesn't wait. There won't be another bus until the next day, and so Eva returns to her parents' cott ...

Genre :Drama

1978-01-20 6

Quiet American in Prague

In the era of normalization, even seemingly buried agent stories came back. This one takes place in the immediate post-war years and tells the story of the discovery of a spy network that an American ...

Genre :Drama

1977-06-07 5

Zbabělec

Genre :Family, Drama

1979-07-27 5.667

I'll Be Good, Old Man!

To the intolerant and bloody-minded Prague actor Bergner (Milos Kopecký) is the lead in Moliere's Misanthrope which he is studying now as tailor-made. On top of that he is malicious and he advises to ...

Genre :Comedy

1979-05-25 4.75

Brother for All the Money

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 st ...

Genre :Comedy

1978-11-10 4

Čistá řeka

A film about a young sanitation worker who tries to prevent the pollution of a river, but pays the price... ...

Genre :Drama

1978-10-20 0

Stopař

Even a casual hitchhiker can get caught up in unexpected family troubles. The skilled title character fixes a broken-down car and is rewarded: he is invited to a luxurious cottage. However, its owner ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

1978-04-28 3.5

Zrcadlení

A 50-year-old foreign trade executive meets a 20-year-old student at a trade fair in Brno. The relationship triggers confrontational memories of his own youth and ideals... ...

Genre :Drama

1979-02-09 3

Skandál v Gri-Gri baru

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, whe ...

Genre :History, Drama

1978-12-31 0

Když kluci drží basu

A telephone mechanic secretly pursues his passion for hunting, deceiving his wife and enlisting friends to cover for him. After a successful hunt, he mistakenly climbs onto the wrong balcony and is ap ...

Genre :Comedy

1979-09-07 6.5

Indians from Vetrov

In the frontier village Vetrov boys from the children's home called Indians lead a bitter "war" with the local Símáks. Before a battle the Indians have a meeting in the sandpit with a smoke signaling. ...

Genre :Family

1980-01-04 2

Fragile Relationships

A divorced single mother romances a young slaughterhouse worker, must to the chagrin of her ex-husband. ...

Genre :Drama

1980-09-05 0

Na koho to slovo padne...

A political drama dealing with the issues of contemporary construction and highlighting the various relationships within the party apparatus. ...

Genre :Drama

1980-08-01 7

Pan Vok odchází

The former reputed lover and bon vivant Petr Vok from Rožmberk was widowed at the age of sixty-three. The loss of his much younger wife is hard to bear and it seems that nothing in his life will pleas ...

Genre :History, Comedy

1979-10-05 4.833

Death of Hitch-Hikers

Maniac, a driver, sits on the track women, which then rape and kill. For loved ones, he is an ordinary person who has a wife and child. When exposed, he does not stop before killing his wife and takes ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

1980-07-04 0

Tchán

The hard-working head of the farm machinery maintenance crew, Lawrence, is always in control. He knows how to keep everyone around him busy, and he loves to meddle in the affairs of other members of h ...

Genre :Comedy

1979-11-23 0

Tvář za sklem

Alienation between the closest relatives is always a serious disorder of family judgment. Father and son not only do not see each other, but one does not even recognize the other when they meet by cha ...

Genre :Drama

1972-12-25 0

Pohádka o drakovi

Genre :Fantasy, Family

1981-05-29 2.6

Blázni, vodníci a podvodníci

A crazy comedy, turning into a grotesque with a number of absurd elements, tells the tangled story of the over-the-top siblings Zuzana and Petr, recessionists who like to prepare harsh surprises for t ...

Genre :Comedy

1959-01-01 0

Jak se Franta naučil bát

A fairy tale story about how the enchanted mill was freed from ghosts and how the shepherd Franta knew fear when he had to confess his love to Verunka... ...

Genre :Comedy, Family

1980-12-26 6.4

Co je doma to se počítá, pánové...

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 N ...

Genre :Comedy

1960-01-15 7

Great Solitude

In southern Moravia, in the native village of Velka Samota, a ministry official returns from Prague to lift the declining JZD he helped establish. ...

Genre :Drama

1980-12-05 0

Děti zítřků

Genre :Drama

1981-03-13 3

Hra o královnu

A comedy about the love of the Czech nobleman Záviš of Falkenštejn for the Hungarian princess Kunhuta, who later married Přemysl Otakar II and became the Czech queen. ...

Genre :History, Comedy

1975-01-01 0

Měsíční kámen

Genre :Fantasy, Family

1979-12-24 0

Hezký Štědrý večer

On the morning of Christmas Eve, Daddy was supposed to go to the cottage with his little son and stop on the way to pick up Mommy, who still had to go to work. But the crazy daddy, with all the packag ...

Genre :Comedy

1981-05-31 0

The Secret of the Devil's Pocket

How it will end? Let's just tell you that on one side of the mountain, the stream that had run before it dries up, and on the other side of the mountain, the creek starts to breathe. ...

Genre :Adventure, Family

1981-03-20 4.833

Half a House Without a Groom

The Francs with their daughters Olina and Jirina are building a villa in the village of Rezkovice. Father Franc (Vladimír Mensík) doesn't allow himself a minute's respire and restlessly forces to work ...

Genre :Comedy

předseda MNV

1988-07-01 6.333

Who's That Soldier?

In the Czech film comedy from 1988, you can see for yourself that the war was not easy, but otherwise it was great fun. Sergeant Kouba serving with the paratroopers has a soft spot for women. His supe ...

Genre :Comedy

1960-09-30 0

Tři tuny prachu

The Prague Research Institute of Air Engineering is to prepare a proposal to reduce dust in Ostrava, especially in the area where the new power plant is to be built. That is why engineers Vojtěch Spár ...

Genre :Drama

1961-11-10 0

Tažní ptáci

A bunch of old friends reunite for the start of the rail tunnel construction. The miner Vojta Balvín is a dedicated worker, but at the same time a stubborn man. It is only a work accident that clarifi ...

Genre :Drama

1980-10-17 6

Escape Home

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

Genre :Drama

1981-11-13 5

Blob to the Fairytale

Little Vendulka receives a birthday gift of a seemingly innocuous children's book. Little she knows that the book is actually a portal into the surreal world of nursery rhymes and Josef Lada's paintin ...

Genre :Family, Fantasy

1982-05-07 0

Každému jeho nebe

The life of cabaret and theater actress Xena Longenová. ...

Genre :History, Drama

1981-07-31 8.5

Mature Wine

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 a ...

Genre :Comedy

1982-02-26 2

Pytláci

Emigrants rarely do well abroad, which is why they often return to their homeland. At least, that's what the film The Poachers claims. But the long years of separation and different experiences create ...

Genre :Drama

1982-04-23 6.1

Attention, Rounds!

A story about an everyday life of an inflectional department of Prague hospital. ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

1962-12-21 0

Fortress on the Rhine

During the Second World War, an old fortress is transformed into a detention camp for arrested allied generals who the Germans provide with every possible comfort. In the nearby garrison camp, however ...

Genre :Drama

1963-01-01 0

Čas jeřabin

A poetic story about a man who returns to his mother's home village at Christmas. Stirred by his memories and his reunion with his mother, he tries to help a drunk he met by chance on the way... ...

Genre :Drama

1964-04-24 4

Deváté jméno

Ancient crimes are once again encroaching on a man who failed during the occupation. So he wants to cover his tracks with another murder... ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

1964-01-10 0

Lucie

The leader of the fast-track workers' party is appointed worker director of the unprofitable Lucie mine. The wrong decisions he makes to increase production at any cost and to fulfil an unrealistic pl ...

Genre :Drama

1963-09-06 6

Spanilá jízda

In the Hussite times, religious truth was sifted even on the tips of weapons. When in 1430 the Hussites set out on a raid to Nuremberg, the so-called Spanila Cavalry, to defend their doctrine, the you ...

Genre :Drama, History

1964-04-03 4.75

Fear

A car deliberately runs down a young man on a road by a small border town. The locals recognize the dead man as one of the students who were there on volunteer work some time before. The police detect ...

Genre :Crime

1983-07-01 2

Od vraždy jenom krok ke lži

The unlucky cultural officer of a spa facility gets involved in compromising situations against his will - and he was originally only after a recommendation to study at an art school. ...

Genre :Comedy

1982-07-23 4.2

The Last One Will Go to Hell

A historical film that takes place on the eve of the thirty year war combines aspects of fairy-tales with historical dramas, fencing with a child heroes who find themselves in great dangers. We are in ...

Genre :History, Adventure

1983-05-01 0

Příhody pana Příhody

The story of a man who bought a cannon during the anti-German mobilisation and then hid with it in a wine cellar for the whole war. ...

Genre :Comedy

1982-12-31 7

Příště budeme chytřejší, staroušku!

This satirical comedy depicts the fate of two con artists who constantly encounter sharper and more experienced rivals. In their quest for easy profits, they often change several jobs and come up with ...

Genre :Comedy

1983-04-01 5

The Death of a Talented Cobbler

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. B ...

Genre :Crime

1983-07-01 6.9

Hearty Greetings from the Globe

Two aliens stir up trouble on Earth in order to study humans. Misunderstandings ensue. ...

Genre :Comedy, Science Fiction

1982-12-31 5.7

Chief, It's Amazing

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

Genre :Comedy

1965-03-12 0

Bubny

An anthology in three jazz-infused tales: an idealistic student’s romance with a pragmatic trumpeter; a vibraphonist’s urgent journey ending in tragedy; and drummer Honza’s moral dilemma as he confron ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy, Horror

Officer in Court

1964-12-04 2

The Five Sinners

The short story explores the often tragic impact of prejudice or suspicion that relies on the appearance of the human face. Guests in a remote pub recount their own experiences of such cases, furtherm ...

Genre :Drama

(segment "Kapr")

1965-02-28 5

Tales About Children

Three small short stories, each of which was created by one of the famous Czechoslovak filmmakers of children's films: Magdalena, Fraud and Karp. ...

Genre :Family

1960-05-17 0

Když tančí růže

Genre :

1961-04-23 0

Velký Bobby

Genre :

1961-10-27 0

Zákon zimního tábora

Genre :

1966-01-21 4

Alibi on the Lake

Miss Nováková reports to Major Tuma (Karel Höger) from the police about the disappearance of her roommate, the model Zuzana. Shortly afterwards, a film director named Konrád (Otomar Krejca) asks Tuma ...

Genre :Crime

1965-10-01 5.6

90° in the Shade

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 discrepanci ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Police Officer (segment "Smrt na Jehle")

1966-02-18 5.667

Crime at the Girls School

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 thea ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

1966-12-30 6.5

Nahá pastýřka

At the Ronov castle, the archive-keeper professor Nykl (Milos Nedbal) is searching for the lost painting The Naked Shepherdess by the famous Fragonard. Nykl is just about to disassemble the mantelpiec ...

Genre :Crime

Pathologist (voice)

1966-10-28 5.444

The Murderer Hides His Face

In the forest near the village of Drahovice, a nurse from the local health center is found murdered. Three months ago, another young woman died nearby and a sexual motive was proved in the case of her ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

1971-01-31 0

Zakletý hrad Yverdon

Genre :Fantasy, Family, TV Movie

1966-08-30 5

The Pipes

This three-part Austrian/Czech comedy stretches the boundaries of what is considered to be humorous. Part one finds a silent film actor upset because of a rival actor's attention to the former's wife. ...

Genre :Comedy

1966-08-26 7.012

Who Wants to Kill Jessie?

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 c ...

Genre :Comedy, Science Fiction

1966-12-23 10

People From Caravans

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 b ...

Genre :Drama

Trojan

1970-08-14 5.2

A Killer on the Tracks

An escort composed of three people transports a huge amount of new one-hundred crown banknotes in a special railway car. At the 196th kilometer, a village girl is waiting at the railway crossing and s ...

Genre :Crime

1968-09-20 6.5

The Wishing Machine

Two young boys, play hooky from school in order to explore an ultramodern world's fair. They take in the many marvelous scientific and industrial exhibits, obtain literature, eat food, and generally r ...

Genre :Adventure, Family, Science Fiction

1968-02-02 0

Čtyři v kruhu

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 cl ...

Genre :Crime

1967-09-29 4.5

Jak se krade milión

The exemplary accountant Antonín Safránek lives his orderly life as a citizen of a small town. His wife Eliska brings up their three children and desperately tries to get by on her husband's low salar ...

Genre :Crime, Comedy

1968-03-06 3.5

Klec pro dva

A simple print worker selflessly cares for his sick mother. He spends all his free time with her and the only hobby he indulges in from time to time is model railways. But the arrival of a beautiful g ...

Genre :Romance, Drama

Pastyříkův komplic

1980-02-26 5.3

Payment in Kind

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 c ...

Genre :Comedy

Factory Manager

1977-09-09 6.135

A Nice Plate of Spinach

The heroes of this absurd comedy, full of confusion and humor are Dzharda Zemanek and Frantisek Liska. ...

Genre :Comedy

1967-10-06 5.9

The End of Agent W4C

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, an ...

Genre :Comedy

1968-07-26 4

„Rakev ve snu viděti...“

The Ronov castle has been changed into a hotel, offering stylish facilities to its guests: weddings in the torture chamber, a Black Lancer kidnapping brides, a night's lodging in a family tomb etc. Th ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

1968-11-01 0

Červená kůlna

A little boy, who has no time for his busy parents, solves his loneliness by befriending a dashing old man whose shed holds many surprising secrets and unseen things. ...

Genre :Family

1970-06-28 0

O statečném Petrovi

Genre :Fantasy, Family

1970-01-16 9

Panenství a kriminál

An attractive and challenging 16-year-old girl has no shortage of admirers, but she becomes the cause of a small-town problem when she accuses her charming uncle of rape after trying in vain to seduce ...

Genre :Comedy

1968-07-05 0

Objížďka

The inhabitants of a picturesque village proud of its ancient linden tree will be disturbed by a disturbing event - a temporary road diversion is supposed to lead through the village. At first the pop ...

Genre :Comedy

Resnitzek

1980-10-31 6.7

The Medal

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 ultima ...

Genre :Drama, War

1970-02-27 5.8

I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen

This futuristic science fiction comedy features an atomic bomb blast that causes women to grow beards and lose the ability to have children. A summit meeting is held at the United Nations, with the pr ...

Genre :Science Fiction, Comedy

1971-01-10 0

O Sedmikrásce

Genre :Fantasy, Family

Willy (voice)

1971-07-16 6.023

Four Murders Are Enough, Darling

Two criminal gangs are ruthlessly fighting for a 1-million dollar check that, purely by chance, got into the flat of shy high school teacher George Camel. As the number of victims sharply increases, C ...

Genre :Crime, Comedy

1975-09-19 0

Kateřina a její děti

A harsh and raw story about the difficult life of a village woman and the sad fate of her three daughters... ...

Genre :Drama

1971-03-26 4.833

Svatby pana Voka

Czech nobleman Petr Vok of Rozmberk (Milos Kopecký) is no longer so young, but his amatory adventures continue to arouse the envy of men and the indignation of respectable ladies. In his "female retin ...

Genre :History, Comedy

1972-01-14 0

Lekce

During World War II, a German university professor creates a spy ring that supplies the Allies with information about Nazi plans... ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller

1971-12-24 4

Five Men and One Heart

In modern hospitals are carried out intensive cardiac surgery. Daily operations individually comments attendant Cajthaml ... Stylized ,, dream "scene are combined with documentary footage of actual op ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

1972-05-05 0

Svatba bez prstýnku

At the end of the occupation, Vojta, a young worker, marries the daughter of a rich builder to protect her from being deployed to the German Reich. Vojta agrees because he secretly loves Alena. But wh ...

Genre :Drama

1972-03-03 4

Touha Sherlocka Holmese

Sherlock Holmes likes to play violin and expects a great career in music. He gets a place in a spa orchestra, but he is again and again distracted by criminal cases. Therefore he is the only one who d ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

Psychiatrist (voice)

1972-01-21 3.75

Vím, že jsi vrah...

Dana Martinová, a young woman of loose morals, dies at the hands of a mentally unstable young man, Pavel Zach. In a fit of jealousy, he could not restrain himself and killed the girl with a blow to th ...

Genre :Crime

1971-08-15 2.667

Hlavní přelíčení

Genre :Drama

1973-03-16 7

Affairs of my Wife

Doctor Adéla Neradová, a medical doctor, has succumbed to the desire to uncover a criminal and become a kind of Sherlock Holmes in skirts. The thankless role of her Dr. Watson has fallen to her husban ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

1973-03-09 1

Legenda, the Robber

It is 1905. The police director gets Jindrich Legenda (Eduard Cupák) shadowed as, yet Legenda had served his sentence for a burglary, the jewels have not been found. Russian revolution encouraged also ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

1973-02-23 5

Dvě věci pro život

After returning home from the army, Vasek (Ladislav Potmesil) has married Bozka (Eva Trejtnarová) and the couple now live at her parents' house. Vasek is unhappy both with his work and with sharing th ...

Genre :Drama

Egon (voice)

1973-01-26 0

Rodeo

Genre :Drama

1973-03-30 3.7

Miss Golem

It is the 1920's. The good-looking hostess Věra demonstrates household robots to visitors of the Futurum exhibition. Young inventor Petr comes to her rescue when she tries to flee from two men wanting ...

Genre :Science Fiction, Comedy

1972-04-14 0

Svět otevřený náhodám

An unemployed young man in the second half of the 1930s, he tries various ways of making a living and, under the influence of a group of communist youth, eventually goes to Spain as an inter-brigadist ...

Genre :Drama

Vinemann

1972-01-01 0

The Harder They Fall

A Czech TV film adaptation of Budd Schulberg's novel The Harder They Fall, which had previously been made as the 1956 US movie of the same name starring Humphrey Bogart and Rod Steiger. ...

Genre :Drama

1973-04-27 5.2

Days of Betrayal

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 independenc ...

Genre :History, Drama

1955-10-05 6

Tank Brigade

The fate of a tank crew on the most difficult part of the First Czechoslovak Independent Brigade's combat path during World War II. We also follow the fate of its commander, Sergeant Juraj Klimka. Dur ...

Genre :War

Old Man in Cellar (voice)

1973-10-12 6

Pokus o vraždu

The main character of the story is Professor Trojan, the head of a Prague clinic, who is not experiencing the happiest of times. His cat has been poisoned with cyanide, he has a falling out with his s ...

Genre :Drama

1974-07-12 7.4

A Night at Karlstein

No Woman is allowed into Karlstejn Castle! Yet the enamoured Daniele Kolářová and the equally enamoured Jana Brejchová manage to spend one night in disguise in the Castle despite the strict royal ban. ...

Genre :Comedy, History, Music

Peterka

1965-09-03 0

The Pearl Necklace

For nine-year-old Saša, the end of the Second World War is an adventure in which he and young neighbour friend Mařenka compete over who will spot the first Soviet soldier. But the boy causes problems ...

Genre :War, Drama

Physician (voice)

1974-05-31 0

A Valley of Beautiful Frogs

A fifteen years old Jana escapes summer camp wearing nothing but bikini... ...

Genre :Family, Romance

1977-07-15 6.038

Almost King

A fairy tale about how those who have a heart and are not stingy will not fail. The most popular hero of Czech fairy tales, besides the brave prince and the beautiful princess, is undoubtedly Honza, w ...

Genre :Fantasy, Family

1975-03-01 6.6

How to Drown Dr. Mracek, the Lawyer

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 i ...

Genre :Comedy, Fantasy

1974-06-14 1.5

Quails and King

Police find a girl with a bleeding face in a small town park at night. First the girl, a textile factory worker Jana, refuses to talk, and then she decides to tell the truth. After her father's death ...

Genre :Drama

Voice in Broadcast (voice)

1975-02-14 0

Poslední ples na rožnovské plovárně

This story from the time of the occupation tells how the students of the teachers' institute decided to hold a traditional ball despite the ban. However, they had to cope with conditions more than thr ...

Genre :Drama

1975-11-14 0

Poštovský panáček

Genre :Family

1974-08-30 7.143

Joachim, Put It in the Machine

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 tra ...

Genre :Comedy

1975-01-31 3

Sedmého dne večer

A former aircraft mechanic wants to start a new life in a small border village after a stint in prison and working in the mines. But things don't work out as he would have liked and bad luck follows h ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Bušek z Velhartic

1969-07-08 6

Slasti Otce vlasti

The young Prince Charles (Jaromír Hanzlík), the future King of his country Charles IV, is being educated at the French court in the company of his fiancée Blanche (Daniela Kolárová). One day he receiv ...

Genre :History, Comedy

1974-12-25 0

Princ Chocholouš

Genre :Family, Fantasy

1974-09-27 0

Televize v Bublicích aneb Bublice v televizi

The news that the television is going to make a film about the cooperative's leisure activities leads the locals to extraordinary social and sporting activity, but the only result is a chain of endles ...

Genre :Comedy

1984-08-01 2

Katapult

Adaptation of Vladimir Paral's comic novel, which criticizes consumerism as an attitude of life. ...

Genre :Comedy

1975-10-03 2

Za volantem nepřítel

Summer 1968: The crisis is reaching its peak. The director of the Prague taxi service, Mudroch, rejects the drivers' absurd demands for a pay increase. The taxi drivers decide to go on strike and seek ...

Genre :Drama

1976-12-31 0

O Terezce a paní Madam

Princess Terezka was a girl like a pod until the moment when Mrs. Madam took over her upbringing. The princess even cries from her etiquette. Famous doctors and their potions do not help. However, whe ...

Genre :Fantasy, Family, TV Movie

Noble Otto

1983-10-01 6.8

There is a Dragon Behind Humny

In one royal forest, where coal miner Patočka lives and works, the friendly dragon Mrak settles down. The king's lackeys come across him while hunting and, terrified, go to sell the news to the king. ...

Genre :Family, Fantasy, Comedy

1975-12-19 0

Akce v Istanbulu

A communist agent, who has successfully caught on with the stupidly gullible American secret services, does not have it easy - he is threatened with exposal, but he still rescues a Czech scientist who ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

1975-09-26 8

Dva muži hlásí příchod

An only son, Jirí Valenta (Jaromír Hanzlík), has been drafted to the army. At the barracks he acquires the nickname Seamstress because he sews rugs in his spare time. One day, his friend introduces hi ...

Genre :Comedy

1975-11-27 7.4

Hotel Pacific

Set in the early 1930s, a young man finds a job as a dishwasher in a hotel and quickly works his way up the ladder. Loosely based on the novel by Henryk Worcell. ...

Genre :Drama, History

1976-01-01 0

O třech vandrovnících

Genre :Fantasy, Family, TV Movie

1976-10-08 7.7

Marecek, Pass Me the Pen!

This comedy is about one average family. The father works as master in the factory and his son is studying on high school. One day father must start to visit the evening school. It's the same school a ...

Genre :Comedy

1976-04-30 7

Wine Working

It is the summer of 1968 and also in South Moravian Pálavice appear political clashes. The so far peacefully farming Unified farmers' cooperative starts splitting. Some of the farmers have found the c ...

Genre :Comedy

1984-09-01 6.5

The Brave Blacksmith

Young blacksmith Mikeš sets out into the world for an adventure, accompanied by the miller's assistant Matěj and the boy Ondra. On their journey to rescue three enchanted princesses, the young men enc ...

Genre :Family, Fantasy

Police Councillor

1989-11-27 0

Mark of Cain

In 1866, as Austria faces war with Prussia, 19-year-old Ludvík Machl joins a secret Czech resistance group. When he is caught with stolen funds and a weapon, the police commissioner spares him from pr ...

Genre :Drama, History, Action

Self - Audience Member

1985-02-01 0

Barrandovské nokturno aneb Jak film tančil a zpíval

The 50th anniversary of the Barrandov studios was celebrated with a spectacular show: many directors and other important people gathered in the expensive decorations of the Variety Theatre auditorium ...

Genre :Documentary, Music

1985-06-01 2

Kariéra

The story of a young man who found the meaning of love and a place in life at the cost of a loss. ...

Genre :Drama

1963-02-08 7

Vertigo

Psychological study of country girl Jitka and her blossoming love for an older man afraid of her youth and spontaneity. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

1980-09-12 3.667

How to Dupe a Lawyer

Attorney Horic is a specialist for cases connected with motoring. He approaches to his work unconventionally, he does not hesitate to search for evidence right in the terrain and he is willing to take ...

Genre :Crime, Comedy

1984-01-01 0

Prodavač humoru

The honest and a bit naive director of a variety agency, Jožin Petránek, sits on the qualification committee that judges entertainers and performers of all kinds. The man firmly rejects any favouritis ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

1984-12-24 6.7

Rumburak

In this fairy-tale comedy, a clumsy second-rate wizard, Rumburak, gets stuck in the world of humans. He has forgotten the spell that allows him to return to his home fairyland. His only joy is watchin ...

Genre :Family, Fantasy

1986-03-01 6.5

Winning Quietly

Comedy about a group of village boys and in one selfless father who wants his players to do the real football. ...

Genre :Family

1990-01-06 5.5

Chief, There Is a Horse in the Backyard

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

Genre :Comedy

1974-09-13 3.5

Vysoká modrá zeď

Even in the 1970s, films were made in this country that emphasized not only the necessity to defend the impermeability of the Western borders by all means, but mainly rehabilitated the Stalinist era. ...

Genre :Drama

Pláteník

1965-12-31 6

5 Million Witnesses

Now we see a naive reminder that television used to broadcast live productions, but in this case the live broadcast has taken on a surprisingly criminal dimension. One of the actors was killed during ...

Genre :Crime

Man in Train (segment "Kapsář")

1975-04-04 2.667

The Motive for Murder

A short story film depicting the three different faces of crime. In the short story "The Weekend", Karas kills a woman he raped some time ago in order to silence her. However, he accidentally kills an ...

Genre :Crime

1986-08-01 4.333

It's Not Me

The two heroes of the film's story - the decent but dry engineer Zárub and the marriage swindler Majer - are granted this wish by the mysterious forces of the moon. The two men change their appearance ...

Genre :Comedy, Fantasy

1986-04-01 5

Ants Bring Death

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... ...

Genre :Crime

1986-06-01 0

Podivná přátelství herce Jesenia

Dramatic fates of people hidden behind a theatrical mask. ...

Genre :History, Drama

Police Officer

1986-01-01 4.6

Shades of Fern

Based on the only extensive prose work by the surrealist painter Josef Capek, Shades of Fern most resembles the philosophical fairy tales and fables of Josef’s older brother, the legendary Czech novel ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Policista

1969-07-04 7.8

All My Good Countrymen

The lives of 7 friends in a small Czech town from 1945 to some time after 1958. ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Norwegian Juror

1976-02-13 4.8

Circus in the Circus

To Moscow have arrived the participants of the international conference of the zoophilologists and also the international jury which is to elect for the world festival the best performance of the prog ...

Genre :Family, Comedy

King Vendelín

1978-03-24 6.357

How to Wake a Princess

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

Genre :Fantasy, Family

krčmář

1981-10-02 6

The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians

In 1897, in a castle near the town of Werewolfville in the Carpithians, a slightly deranged Professor Orfanik experiments with his new inventions which include, even at this early date, television and ...

Genre :Comedy, Science Fiction

rybář

1983-07-01 5.8

The Third Prince

Brave sons of the king, twin brothers Jaroslav and Jaromír love and help each other. It was they and another brother - Jindrich, who once saw the portrait of Princess of Diamond Mountains, fell in lov ...

Genre :Family, Fantasy, Romance

generál letectva

1971-01-15 6.75

You Are a Widow, Sir

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 i ...

Genre :Science Fiction, Comedy

2002-03-24 0

Ta třetí

The inner drama of Jiří Mánka, a forty-year-old cashier at Živnostenská banka, who has artistic talent, both musical and painterly. After his experiences on the battlefields of World War I, he chose a ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

1978-12-24 0

Hejkal

Fairy tales are full of fairies who would like to become humans. There probably won't be that many Hejkals who want to turn into humans. We only know of one from "The Doctor's Fairy Tale" who was push ...

Genre :Fantasy, Family, TV Movie

prosektor

1970-03-27 4.5

On the Trail of Blood

Major Kalas from the Prague criminal intelligence service has been sent to a small town of Dubá in North Bohemia to help with the investigation of the puzzling death of a child. A gypsy boy has been k ...

Genre :Crime

1974-04-15 0

O Emínce a Havlíčkovi

Genre :Family, Fantasy, TV Movie

král / car

1990-03-17 6

Král Ubu

A television recording of a theatrical production of Alfred Jarry's absurd drama about the gluttonous, gluttonous, compulsive and unscrupulous Father Ubo, who, with the generous advice of his ambitiou ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Lekár

1967-09-01 7.481

Happy End

A dark comedy about a murder and its consequences presented in a backwards manner, where death is actually a rebirth. The film starts with an "execution" of the main protagonist and goes back to explo ...

Genre :Comedy

1965-05-21 10

Úplně vyřízený chlap

Ostrava - Kunčice , 1953: on the same day as the manifestation funeral for J. V. Stalin, the funeral of Brigadier Bédi Nevěřil, a tragic victim of the bureaucratic cadre machine... The story unfolds i ...

Genre :Drama

1970-12-25 0

Svatá hříšnice

In the Prague Old Town and the adjoining streets there is always plenty of life. Housewives shop, beggars arouse sympathy, the Salvation Army tries to put the godless on the road to salvation by hymns ...

Genre :Comedy, Music

1972-02-04 0

Black Wolf

In the thick woods at the edge of the Bohemian Forest, two border guards are keeping watch - rifleman Kucera (Rudolf Jelínek) and dog handler Stencl (Josef Hajducík), whose sluggishness and clumsiness ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

1973-03-29 3

Hroch

The bank officer Bedrich Hroch is sent by the bank director to the zoo, which asked an allocation of one and half kg of gold for a gold tooth for a hippo. During the check up of the hippo's teeth Bedr ...

Genre :Comedy, Fantasy

1966-06-03 0

Dva tygři

When a volunteer police helper is too proactive, he causes more confusion than good. The unfortunate man has no idea what the testimony of an unreliable witness can do... ...

Genre :Comedy

1986-09-01 0

An Accident

In the 1980s, the building themes were transformed into bipolar moral dilemmas involving overly ambitious individuals who wanted to excel at any cost. The hero is the head of a demolition crew that de ...

Genre :Drama

1971-10-22 2

Hry lásky šálivé

Two historical stories about love. In the story "The Arabian Horse", the scheming townsman Messer Francesco Vergellesi is so firmly convinced of his wife's virtue that he does not hesitate to bet her ...

Genre :History, Comedy, Romance

obsluha čerpací stanice

1974-06-23 6

Kdo je kdo

Two young men, indistinguishably alike, decide to swap. But with one a popular singer and the other a car mechanic, fitting into their new "life roles" is not easy. They experience more than one humor ...

Genre :Comedy, TV Movie

1982-01-01 0

Propast

It's New Year's Eve afternoon and Honza, Jana and Zdeněk decide to go out into the karst area. Despite the express ban, one of them goes down into an unknown underground tunnel. When he doesn't return ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Josef Preisler

1971-05-14 5.3

The Key

Jan Zika is the legendary hero of the communist resistance movement during World War II and leading functionary of the second underground Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. ...

Genre :Drama, History

Dr. Houra

1953-02-20 2

Anna the Proletarian

The movie describes proletarian life in the Czech Lands after World War I. ...

Genre :Drama

1973-06-01 0

The Secret of the Gold Buddha

A crime story set in the second half of the 19th century. Krasl, a Prague schoolteacher, is searching for a statue of the Golden Buddha, which is supposed to contain compromising materials on the fact ...

Genre :Crime

1973-03-23 6.5

Death Chooses

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 Hon ...

Genre :Crime

Innkeeper

1982-08-15 6

Spor dramaturga Stroupežnického

Genre :Drama, History

1986-01-01 0

Zátah

A pair of criminals, an escaped prisoner and a young thief, are about to make a joint, obviously illegal, escape across the border. They escape for a long time, even managing to infiltrate Polish terr ...

Genre :Crime

1970-10-09 6.033

On the Comet

When a comet passes the Earth very closely, it pulls a small part of North Africa, and a small swathe of humanity, along with it. ...

Genre :Adventure, Science Fiction, Comedy

zaměstnanec módního závodu

1969-06-20 0

Přehlídce velím já!

A cunning plan to deprive an "illegal millionaire" of his ill-gotten wealth. But the catch is that someone else has an even more subtle plan... ...

Genre :Comedy

1981-04-23 3.333

Zločin na poště

A report of embezzlement is made against Helenka, a popular clerk at the village post office. The investigation reveals that she is 200 crowns short and the girl commits suicide. Her protector and fri ...

Genre :Crime, TV Movie

gestapák Sleicher

1965-08-20 7.375

Assassination

In autumn 1941, Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich’s brutal rule in occupied Bohemia and Moravia fuels Czech resistance. In spring 1942, the government-in-exile sends trained paratroopers led by Lt. Kr ...

Genre :War, Drama, History

1951-08-24 5

Temno

The Counter-Reformation period: Myslivec Machovec is forced by representatives of the Jesuit order to flee his home for his religious beliefs. His teenage children Helenka and Tomáš do not give up the ...

Genre :Drama, History

1983-05-01 1

Šílený kankán

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

Genre :Drama, History, Crime

1954-08-27 4

Ještě svatba nebyla...

At the annual festival in Strážnice, long-time rivals - cooperative members from the neighboring municipalities of Dubnice and Bojanova - met. This time, the people of Dubnice are leading both in sell ...

Genre :Comedy

1964-03-20 0

Mykoin PH 510

An occupation drama about a group of Czech scientists who, in a remote factory, investigate how to produce the vital penicillin as easily as possible - but for a long time they have been unable to fin ...

Genre :Drama

1964-01-01 6

The Mysterious Mr. Hyde

The television adaptation of Stevenson's well-known short story enriched the story with a new motif, because the good and evil in a person change not only under the influence of drugs, but also under ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie, Horror

Journalist

1960-10-28 5

Rychlík do Ostravy

A significant event in the life of the Ostrava assemblers. Private matters take a backseat as preparations are being made to fit the high-rise chimney with an extension for burning kycht gases. The ch ...

Genre :Drama

1979-01-19 0

Silnější než strach

A short story film in which the first story takes place at the end of the German occupation, when a resistance fighter is arrested while transporting leaflets. The second story takes place in the 1950 ...

Genre :Drama

1978-11-17 0

Hrozba

The story takes place in a metallurgical plant where important technological changes are being made while the plant is in full operation. However, a mistake in the project puts the entire plant at ris ...

Genre :Drama

Sculptor (voice)

1969-04-25 6

The Thirteenth Chamber

Twelve-year old Kosta, a little boy of an overactive imagination, makes friends with equally sensitive eleven-year old Blanka. Fantasy leads the two children to the forgotten attic in the house of Bla ...

Genre :Drama

1976-03-26 3

Tam kde hnízdí čápi

Despite the initial mistrust of others, former glass worker Štěoán Urban becomes the founder and first chairman of the local agricultural cooperative. However, 1968 arrives and with it comes previousl ...

Genre :Drama

worker Broz

1961-03-10 5

Pochodně

Prague in the 1870s. Work in Smolík's sulphur factory is hard and dangerous to health. The poorly paid workers resemble torches because their clothes are soaked with poisonous phosphorus. Young Josef ...

Genre :Drama, History

1971-10-10 0

Ententýny

Genre :Family

1963-12-25 0

Tchyně

This satirical micro-comedy condemns the petty bourgeois mentality, especially bragging. The ridiculous protagonists are two elderly neighbours who are constantly exaggerating the wealth and status of ...

Genre :Comedy

1986-05-09 0

Viola

Genre :Drama

1987-12-01 5

Lion with a White Mane

The film tells the exciting life of the great Czech composer Leos Janácek (1854-1928), also known by the thick silver hair that crowned his head and his strong character, which could overcome the adve ...

Genre :Drama, History

1988-01-01 2

Figurky ze šmantů

Three short stories about the people and folk around the shaft. ...

Genre :Drama

1988-02-01 0

Náhodou je príma!

Even ideology permeated the children's stories: the beginnings of forced collectivisation in the village are seen through the eyes of a young boy. As the son of an honest and deliberate communist offi ...

Genre :Family

1988-03-01 1

Narozeniny režiséra Z. K.

A directors autobiography about his debut during the rise of socialism. ...

Genre :History

1987-12-01 5.8

On a Wayward Princess

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. ...

Genre :Family, Fantasy

1988-08-01 0

Pravidla kruhu

In the second half of the 1980s, so-called critical films began to emerge, but they were afraid to make a sharper statement, moving on the basis of an engaged morality that wanted to improve the exist ...

Genre :Drama

1988-12-01 0

Sedmé nebe

Student Slávka Čermáková has to take her final exams on a make-up date. Her naively admiring relationship with a reckless poet who supported her literary attempts did not remain without consequences, ...

Genre :Comedy

1989-11-01 0

Cesta na jihozápad

Based on a Jack London story, this is another attempt at a Western spectacle - after the short story triptych The Canyon of Gold - about a teenage boy who, after his father's death, lives in a gold-mi ...

Genre :Western

1989-10-01 4

Evropa tančila valčík

Otakar Vávra dedicated his latest film to events accompanying the devastation of the first World War. It takes place in representative centers of power, in the courts of Vienna, Berlin and Moscow. In ...

Genre :History, Drama

1991-03-01 6

Byli jsme to my?

The theatre director encounters the disinterest and irresponsibility of the acting troupe, whose members are scheming and looking for side income. The tired and sick artist wants to finish his work at ...

Genre :Drama

1991-02-01 4.667

Svědek umírajícího času

At the beginning was the Slovak television series Lekár umierajúceho czasu (Doctor of Dying Time), dedicated to the Rudolphine-era scientist Jan Jesenius. He ended up on the scaffold along with other ...

Genre :Drama, History

Patient

1993-03-18 5.667

Kačenka a strašidla

Jindrich Polák's modern fairy tale comedy tells the story of a girl who unexpectedly inherits a fairground amusement - a haunted house from Vienna's Prater fun park. With the help of a magic timepiece ...

Genre :Family, Comedy, Fantasy

1994-11-24 8

Řád

Set in 1776, this historical film by Petr Hvizd concerns an army deserter who takes refuge within the walls of the Convent of St. Claire. The investigation to find him soon becomes a question of moral ...

Genre :Drama, History

1998-02-26 5.8

Queen of the Lake

Prince Victor looks in vain for a swan which was wounded by one of his servants. Instead he discovers a beautiful girl with golden hair who has an arrow in her shoulder. She is dumb and can't explain ...

Genre :Fantasy, Family

1990-12-24 4.5

O Janovi a podivuhodném příteli

H. Ch. Andersen's story was the basis for the narrative film 'Of John and the Wonderful Friend', in which the 'magic wand' plays an important plot-forming role. With its help, Jan overcomes the magici ...

Genre :Fantasy, Family, Adventure

1987-09-26 0

Safari

Genre :Family, Comedy

1988-04-02 7.8

A Prague Underworld

Genre :Crime

King's Counsellor

1980-12-25 8.3

Arabela

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. ...

Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Comedy, Family

(uncredited)

1980-12-25 8.3

Arabela

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. ...

Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Comedy, Family

1982-10-23 8.8

Dynastie Nováků

Genre :Comedy, Family

1983-11-26 6.8

Malý pitaval z velkého města

Genre :Crime

1969-09-27 8.3

Hříšní lidé města pražského

Genre :Crime

1980-01-12 0

Jedno malé sídlisko

Genre :Family

1979-01-20 8.222

She Came Out of the Blue Sky

Spadla z oblakov is a Slovak language sci-fi TV series for children created in year 1978. The series became very popular in Czechoslovakia and several other countries. The series was based on 1967 ch ...

Genre :Comedy, Kids, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

1969-01-01 0

Norské pohádky

Genre :Family

1970-01-01 0

Francouzské pohádky

Genre :Kids

1973-08-23 0

Hnízdo

Genre :Drama

1971-01-01 0

Pohádky z tisíce a jedné noci

Genre :Kids, Family

1968-01-06 7

Klapzubova jedenáctka

Genre :Comedy, Family

Jury Klások

1976-11-24 8.3

Slovácko sa nesúdí

Genre :Comedy

Hurych

1976-01-11 7.2

Thirty Cases of Major Zema

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 197 ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

1978-01-05 0

Muž, který nesmí zemřít

Genre :Drama, Crime

1985-05-16 0

Stopy zločinu

Genre :Crime

Doctor

1994-01-01 0

Laskavý divák promine

Genre :Drama

1984-11-25 7.4

Sanitka

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. ...