František Kovářík

AKA: Франтишек Коваржик
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1886-10-01

Pilsen, Czech Republic

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {117}

old Mr. Mensík

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

1978-02-17 2

Vítězný lid

February 1948. The struggle of decisive social forces for the heart of Europe. ...
Genre :History

Driving teacher

1961-02-03 5

Ledoví muži

An official of a declining hockey club has a tip for a prodigy shooter: a young teacher Havranek is famous for his hits in a fairground shooting range, but he can't skate. Luckily, his daughter Alena ...
Genre :Comedy

Traveller

1961-10-13 7

The Day the Tree Blooms

Based on a novel by Maria Majerova, this well-photographed but routine romantic drama is directed and co-scripted by Vaclav Krska. Set in a more old-fashioned time, the story centers around Lenka (Suz ...
Genre :Drama

1978-03-26 2

Sázka pro dva

Genre :Comedy

Miller

1952-09-26 7.3

The Proud Princess

It's very human and nice story about lofty princess (her father is amiable but incapable - unforgettable performance of S. Neumann) and good, nice, kind and well-principled young king (prince) who tri ...
Genre :Family, Comedy

vyprávěč

1977-06-05 0

O Honzovi a Barušce

Genre :Fantasy, Family, Music, TV Movie

1962-06-01 0

Chicken on Travels

The story of a childhood dream come true. Schoolchildren discover an abandoned poultry farm with an artificial hatchery and agree to raise their own chicks. They devote all their energies to it and wa ...
Genre :Family

1970-01-01 0

God's Sin

Hrích boha (God's Sin) is Agnieszka Holland's poetic vision of the world as a trap, based on the novel by Isaak Babel. ...
Genre :Drama

(segment "Optimista")

1964-05-08 0

A Place in the Crowd

A film in five episodes, all based on an attempt to show the life of young people today, their feelings and relationships, their behaviour in public and private life. ...
Genre :Drama

(voice)

1963-03-01 0

Šroubkova dobrodružství

Genre :Animation, Family

1966-08-05 6

Poslední růže od Casanovy

The story takes place at the time when Giacomo Casanova, probably the most famous conqueror of women, held the position of librarian at the Valdštejn castle in Duchcov. He was then a rather bored and ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

1971-01-14 7.3

Kinoautomat

Kinoautomat was the world's first interactive movie, conceived by Radúz Činčera for the Czechoslovak Pavilion at Expo '67 in Montreal. At nine points during the film the action stops, and a moderator ...
Genre :Comedy

Jindřich Kebort, soustružník

1955-05-27 5.9

Hudba z Marsu

The employees of the furniture company MARS welcome a rare visitor with hired music. Their boast that they would put together an orchestra is taken seriously, so they receive a small gift - musical in ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Alderman Lisal

1935-03-01 5.8

Maryša

A village drama about the tragic culmination of a forced marriage. The film was financed by a Brno company, which required interventions in the generally known original. The reason for moving the loca ...
Genre :Drama

Old Man (voice)

1969-03-14 0

V tunelu

While walking along the tracks, a young man encounters a 96-year-old man who lives inside a tunnel and refuses to leave. ...
Genre :Comedy, Horror

Behzad

1957-08-09 0

Legend of Love

A spring is hidden in the Iron Mountain but the people of Arzen cannot get to it and they are suffering from thirst. ...
Genre :Fantasy, Family

1970-10-23 3

The Great Unknown

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

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

1973-12-31 0

Kufr čili Silvestrovské kousky Miloše Kopeckého a Františka Filipovského

Genre :Comedy

Pastýř ovcí

1962-04-20 6.9

The Devil's Trap

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 des ...
Genre :History, Drama, Mystery

vypravěč

1976-02-01 0

Hamernická povídačka

Genre :Fantasy, Family, TV Movie

Old man

1960-11-04 7.034

The White Dove

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 ...
Genre :Drama

1984-10-01 4.55

The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun

A bachelor named Faun with a Don Juan complex, seized with a hypochondriac's fear of the ineluctable approach of death, enters a race against time's passage. Faun's sexual love is imbued with the narc ...
Genre :Comedy

1955-03-25 5

Dog's Heads

The history of the rebellion of the brave Chody, led by Jan Sladký Kozina and Matěj Přibek, against the violent tyranny of the foreign nobleman Maximilian Lamminger of Albenreuth. Based on the novel o ...
Genre :History, Drama

Kolarik

1951-04-27 3

The Trap

The course of an organized strike by workers from North Moravian steelworks in 1931 to resist mass layoffs during the economic crisis. ...
Genre :Drama, History

Pavel

1933-02-03 5

Záhada modrého pokoje

Genre :Drama, Crime

prof. Hrbolek

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

Shepherd

1968-05-17 6.9

The Valley of the Bees

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 punishe ...
Genre :Drama, History

Juraj Čup

1947-09-19 7.4

Capek's Tales

Five crime stories connected by the narration of police superintendent Bartosek. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Komárek st.

1976-09-10 7.2

Secluded, Near Woods

The Lavicka's, a Czech family from the city, rents a house in the country with the option to buy. However, old Mr Komarek seems reluctant to sell the house as they agreed. ...
Genre :Comedy

lichvář Fidrmuc

1940-08-16 4

Artur and Leontyna

A wealthy playboy leads an irresponsible life until he meets an attractive and hard-working woman who leads him to transform his ways. ...
Genre :Comedy

sluha Cyril

1934-08-31 6

Pokušení paní Antonie

Genre :Comedy

spiritista Šoltys

1933-10-20 8

Dům na předměstí

The owner of a suburban house, Anna Faktorová, makes life miserable for the tenants. There is strict order in the house and the only one who gets along well with Mrs. Faktorová is the parasite and thi ...
Genre :Comedy

Trojan

1938-09-16 0

Stříbrná oblaka

Genre :Drama, Romance

bylinkář

1940-10-25 6.5

May Fairy Tale

Ríša, a student of law, neglects his studies in favour of parties and pranks. His angry father refuses to continue helping him out of his debts. Ríša, however, is not entirely beyond hope. He decides ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Zuska

1937-12-03 7

Hlídač č. 47

A young village shopkeeper, Ferda Zuska, wants to jump in front of a train because his girlfriend has married someone else. At the last moment, he is saved by the railway guard Douša and his wife Anna ...
Genre :Drama

Pírko

1940-01-05 6.7

We Study After School

The heroes of the Czech film comedy are the students of the Business Academy, who sleep in the school desks under the avalanche of a large amount of study material, without which they say they will no ...
Genre :Comedy

děda bylinkář

1942-10-16 4

Velká přehrada

Young engineer Petr Pavelec works on a dam plan on the Loučnica River. He meets Irena, the daughter of an unscrupulous construction entrepreneur Berka, and falls in love with her. When Petr's project ...
Genre :Drama

Zikmund

1941-12-25 7

Preludium

Theater props maker Karel Vajgant has a young wife, Magda, and two children, seven-year-old Pavlík and eleven-year-old Pepička. Magda is a caring mother, but she feels that her husband prioritizes wor ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

zloděj

1942-12-25 6.8

Přijdu hned

The stuffed animal dealer Václav Barvínek spent twenty-four hours in prison for a petty dispute. And that very day, his uncle's will was read, stating that the deceased had hidden a check for a millio ...
Genre :Comedy

1974-01-01 7

Vodník a Zuzana

Genre :Family, Fantasy, Drama, TV Movie

Antonín

1939-05-05 4

Její hřích

Lola Holm, a medical student, is studying for her final exams. She rejects the courtship of psychiatrist Associate Professor Linn. Bank cashier Goll lives extravagantly and his salary is not enough fo ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Hejda

1939-01-06 0

Soud boží

Genre :Drama

1937-03-05 0

Vzdušné torpédo 48

Genre :Drama, Adventure, Crime

František Fiala

1938-03-04 0

Naši furianti

The richest farmer and at the same time mayor Dubský and first councilman Bušek are constantly competing for supremacy. Their rivalry affects not only the fates of their families, but also the entire ...
Genre :Comedy

Tomáš Fanfule

1952-01-11 5

Mikoláš Aleš

A biographical film about the famous Czech painter Mikoláš Aleš, portrayed as part of the vanguard of the working class and a spokesman for the oppressed, who asserts himself despite the opposing bour ...
Genre :Drama

1963-10-04 0

The Dynamite Watcher

Three separate short stories by Jan Drda from the collection The Dumb Barricade: The Dynamite Watchman, Hatred and Traces. ...
Genre :Drama

1931-11-27 0

The Robber

Mimi lives with her parents and the maid Fanka in a villa near the forest. One day, a gamekeeper comes to court Mimi when her parents are away. ...
Genre :Comedy

1961-10-01 5.8

Footprints

This early short by Jaromil Jireš anticipates the formal and stylistic experimentation that would characterize VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS. ...
Genre :Drama, History

1939-08-25 0

The White Yacht in Split

When the yacht of her former lover Mario Tudor arrives in Split, widowed Countess de Milesi, plagued by financial troubles, is hell-bent on selling him a fake copy of an expensive painting. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Míšo

1938-01-21 3

The Hordubals

Juraj Hordubal returns from America after eight years, where he has earned enough money to improve his farm. However, his daughter Hafia does not recognize him and his wife Polana does not show any jo ...
Genre :Drama

Self

1978-01-01 7

Díky, pane Kříženecký

Genre :Documentary, TV Movie

1913-10-12 0

Pan profesor, nepřítel žen

Genre :Comedy

Říha

1937-11-26 3.333

Blackmailer

Genre :Drama

Ptáček

1946-01-25 7.5

Magical River

Leopold Kohák married a rich widow a long time ago and now has nothing to do compared to his energetic wife. He's growing old and troubled by the fact that he betrayed his first love Emča and his belo ...
Genre :Comedy, Fantasy

1961-04-07 6

The Lupinek Case

In a wooden hut used as a canvassing center, members of a children's puppet-theatre group are rehearsing for a production about a journey to the Moon. The goings-on inside the hut and outside are bein ...
Genre :Family, Crime

Černý

1940-02-15 4

Směry života

Genre :Drama

František Borský

1937-04-27 0

Srdce na kolejích

Genre :Drama

1947-08-22 6.3

A Week in the Quiet House

A sometimes humorous, sometimes more serious look at the hustle and bustle of a house in Lesser Town with a diverse array of tenants living there, and often petty quarrels that break out between them. ...
Genre :Comedy

1923-02-08 0

Proč se nesměješ

Genre :Comedy, Drama

1921-03-04 0

Neznámé matky

Genre :Drama, Romance

1962-08-03 0

Don't Take Shelter From The Rain

A youthfully enthusiastic teacher tries to raise the standard of living of the residents of a declining border village... A sympathetic young man with a suspended sentence was Josef Abrham's first big ...
Genre :Drama

1953-07-03 6

The Magical Hat

Two poor students, Strnad and Křepelka, console themselves with the fact that Křepelka is to inherit, but it later turns out that the inheritance is only an old hat. The young man seeks help from his ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

Farár

1951-02-23 5

Vstanou noví bojovníci

The leader of the emerging organized labor movement in the 1880s, Ladislav Zápotocký-Budečský, is exiled to his native village, where he works as a tailor and continues to raise social awareness among ...
Genre :Drama, History

Správce hriste

1951-01-12 5

V trestném území

A detective drama set just before the unification of our physical education system. Criminal investigators investigate the murder of a football club official, bribery, and manipulation of match result ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Team Member

1954-09-26 5

Frona

Frona Filípková, out of a desire for a better life, married Floriš Zobač on the land. However, the ownership of the land has affected both her husband and her father-in-law, who, out of hatred, intrig ...
Genre :Drama

village teacher

1955-10-28 5

From My Life

The film, in individual episodes, captures the fate of Bedřich Smetana from 1856 until the end of his life, from his young years until the moment when, exhausted by human and artistic hardship, he see ...
Genre :Drama, History

director schools

1948-03-25 7.5

Conscience

Karel Doležal, insurance clerk and exemplary father of a family, leaves for a business trip with his secretary Vlasta. After spending the night together, they both return home. However, thanks to a sm ...
Genre :Drama

1927-04-15 0

Bludné duše

Genre :Drama

1930-04-04 5.5

St. Wenceslas

St. Wenceslas (Czech: Svatý Václav) is a 1930 Czechoslovak historical film about Saint Wenceslas.[2] It was the most expensive Czech film to date,[3] with the largest set constructed in Europe to acco ...
Genre :Drama, History

1993-01-01 1

Prípad na vidieku

Today‘s eastern Slovakia. The historian Rimko returns here after many years with his young lover to search for answers to the difficult questions of his own life attitudes, mistakes and moral debts in ...
Genre :Drama

Jester

1964-12-18 7.5

The Jester's Tale

An anti-war black comedy set during the Thirty Years' War. It follows ploughman Petr, recruiter Matěj and country girl Lenka who get caught up in both sides of the war and experience many adventures b ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy, History

1934-10-26 6.6

Heave-Ho!

A Milk-Cannery baron, Jakub Simonides, is broken by the Canned Milk-Trust and, in his wanderings with a worker, Filip Kornet, he discovers he still owns a half-finished apartment-house. They rally the ...
Genre :Comedy

1947-02-28 5

Nikola Shuhai

At the end of the First World War, Nikola Shuhai and his friend from the army desert. On the way home, to the village of Kolochava, they both find refuge with baby Jaga. Jaga mixes them a drink to pro ...
Genre :Drama

Hukal

1934-10-26 7

Za ranních červánků

Genre :Drama, History

venkovský stařík

1955-04-29 6.2

Jan Hus

The first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", completed with Jan Žižka (1955) and Proti všem (Against All Odds, 1957). The film captures the period from May 1412 to the summer of 1415, a turb ...
Genre :Drama, History

Vassal

1956-02-05 6.6

Jan Žižka

The second part of the revolutionary Hussite trilogy takes place in the years 1419-1420. ...
Genre :Drama, History, War

1922-12-08 0

The Gold Key

Young Matula has succumbed to gambling and he steals money from his parents to finance his passion. His father catches him red-handed and throws him out of the house. Matula roams the world and meets ...
Genre :Family, Fantasy

1925-08-03 0

Okovy

Genre :Drama

1926-10-22 0

Modche a Rézi

Genre :Comedy

1927-04-15 0

Román hloupého Honzy

Genre :Drama

1932-09-09 0

Before Graduation

The story of high school students, talented Jan and Karel, who has a problem with math. Their life affects pedantic professor of mathematics Klec, that goes with them on a school trip, which escalates ...
Genre :Drama

(uncredited)

1965-01-01 8

Polka jede do světa

Genre :Comedy, Music

1951-01-19 4

Zvony z rákosu

The North Bohemian town of Chudoplesy in the middle of the 19th century: the only local industry is the domestic production of reed goods. The poor reeders organize a revolt against the exploitative f ...
Genre :Drama

1940-09-27 0

Minulost Jany Kosinové

Genre :Drama, Romance

1940-01-05 0

Srdce v celofánu

Genre :Romance, Drama

1948-03-26 5

O ševci Matoušovi

The revolutionary year of 1848 brought great hopes among the hitherto silent classes, awakening social and national hopes. The response also penetrated the remote countryside, even as far as the Podkr ...
Genre :Drama, History

1945-12-14 7

Rozina the Love Child

Prague, the beginning of the 17th century. Rozina falls in love with Italian glass worker Nikolo, but after returning home, she gets a message that will never come to Prague. She falls for the promi ...
Genre :History, Drama

1944-01-14 7

Mist on the Moors

Mist on the Moors examines fates of just about a few people. Their stories are outlined in a short space of time and are a symbolic representation of the drama of life, struggle for justice, human cog ...
Genre :Drama

1944-11-17 6

Jarní píseň

Genre :Romance, Drama

1946-10-04 6.5

Hrdinové mlčí

The younger brother of a brave paratrooper killed by the Nazis joins a partisan unit to avenge his death. The story is still naive in many ways, but the foundations of resistance myths are already bei ...
Genre :Drama

1946-09-27 6

Pancho se žení

The foolish Pedro is supposed to marry the beautiful Rosita, who is also attracted to the adventurer Pancho - during his journey to see her, Pancho finds himself in prison, where he is tricked by a cu ...
Genre :Comedy

Zábranský

1948-05-21 5

The Musician

Genre :Drama

1971-12-24 8

Krkonošské hromování

Pretty Aninka is terribly lazy, she just wants to sleep, her mother tries in vain to get her to do any work. Even Toník, her boyfriend, cannot convince her that she cannot just lie in her blankets all ...
Genre :Fantasy, Family

1948-08-27 4.5

White Darkness

A young doctor and a group of injured are hiding in an underground shelter and are liberated by Soviet soldiers. ...
Genre :Drama, War

1949-02-26 5

Případ Z-8

The workers at the ironworks are working to fulfill a two-year plan. The spy group takes advantage of the bitterness of a disrespected innovator and tries to extract information from him about a new t ...
Genre :Drama

1971-01-01 8

Drobínek

The young shoemaker Drobínek knows how to repair shoes well and loves Mančinka. But because he lacks self-confidence, he cannot confess his love to her, and he cannot defend himself against the tricks ...
Genre :Fantasy, Family

1951-09-28 6

Posel úsvitu

A biographical film about a Czech mechanic and designer who was the first in the Czech lands to construct a steam car. ...
Genre :Drama

1951-06-15 7

Přiznání

Genre :Drama

1952-09-12 6.5

Milujeme

The story of young boys who have proven their loyalty to the republic unfolds in the setting of a boarding school for miners' apprentices. A tunnel is dug from the Engels mine to the Ludvik mine, so t ...
Genre :Drama

1953-03-27 5

Nad námi svítá

Genre :Drama

1957-04-12 5

Labakan

Labakan is a lazy tailor's journeyman dreaming of a life of luxury and dresses himself in fancy clothes for the rich emir, and when he sees how respectfully people greet him in the marketplace, he sei ...
Genre :Fantasy, Family

Old Teacher

1990-12-01 6

The Borstal

A young teacher is sent to a rural reform school, where he is faced with brutality of the inmates. ...
Genre :Drama

Leopold Zajac

1953-09-23 0

Nositelé řádů

Genre :Comedy

1969-01-01 0

The Borstal

The story takes place during the 1960s. A young teacher takes on the role of a tutor in a Prague youth protection institution. Filming was stopped in 1968 and the final editing of the footage was not ...
Genre :Drama

1970-02-21 0

Bližní na tapetě

Genre :Comedy

1972-02-19 7

Bakaláři

Genre :Comedy

(uncredited)

1971-10-10 6.333

Kamarádi

Genre :Family

1971-10-10 6.333

Kamarádi

Genre :Family

1970-09-03 6

Dobrodružství šesti trampů

Genre :Comedy

1970-12-13 6.8

Pan Tau

Pan Tau always had a gentle expression and a friendly smile, he was elegantly dressed in a stroller, with an umbrella and a white carnation in the lapel. Foremost, he was famous for his magic bowler h ...
Genre :Family

1971-09-12 6.8

F. L. Věk

Genre :Drama

1968-01-06 7

Klapzubova jedenáctka

Genre :Comedy, Family

1975-01-05 8.2

Byl jednou jeden dům

Genre :Drama, War & Politics

1976-09-12 0

Muž na radnici

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 ...
Genre :Drama

1978-01-07 6

The Secret of the Wicker Basket

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