Vladimír Ptáček

AKA:
0.1455

1926-10-29

Lovčice u Čáslavi, Československo

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {44}

1978-10-06 2

Hněv

Sunday in September 1977, a celebration of the Miners Day. The old Hepnar is sitting at the cemetery and is recalling events from ten years ago. That time the representative of the ministry Barvír ann ...
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

1978-02-17 2

Vítězný lid

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

1979-05-18 0

Střepy pro Evu

This documentary-style story tells the story of an aspiring documentary filmmaker who is preparing a film about the history of glassmaking. He is honestly gathering information, slowly getting closer ...
Genre :Drama

1979-06-29 0

Vražedné pochybnosti

A mentally ill man is running away from the people who care for him in search of freedom. He accidentally stumbles into a hotel where a ten-year-old girl has been found murdered. Is he really the perp ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1980-08-22 5.8

Brontosaurus

Tomás lives in a very small Czech town and is a nature lover and a birdwatcher. He struggles to keep the forests he loves clean and constantly fights his "archenemy" whose sister and Tomás's classmate ...
Genre :Family

1980-02-01 4.2

Čas pracuje pro vraha

Vera, wife of the plumber Simandl (Josef Somr), is found murdered in the cinema next to the IDOC (Information and Documentation) agency where she worked. Police captain Marha (Frantisek Nemec), who is ...
Genre :Crime

1979-12-14 4.5

Diagnóza smrti

Two seriously injured patients are brought to the hospital at almost the same time: truck driver Honza Linhart, who had an accident, and a young woman found unconscious in a forest by a man picking mu ...
Genre :Crime

1982-01-16 0

Dostih

The film is set in the environment of the internationally renowned Pardubice Steeplechase, with the main roles being devoted to equestrian sport outside of filming. ...
Genre :Drama

1981-06-05 0

Hodina života

It is 1883 and Josef Hibes, a social democrat, is organising a strike of textile workers. The main demand is a reduction in working hours... ...
Genre :Drama, History

1982-01-01 5.5

Konečná stanice

The story takes place in a retirement home and creates a mosaic of the lives of old people who are trying to find a relationship with themselves and with life in these specific conditions. Each of its ...
Genre :Drama

Mojdl

1981-12-04 0

Don't Call Me Major

A group of children is trying to solve a mystery related to the diamonds smuggling. ...
Genre :Crime, Family

1964-04-10 8.5

Passing Through a Thick Forest

The story of two communist friends, one of whom leaves as secretary to the district committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and the other remains in the village as a party agitator. ...
Genre :Drama

(segment "Rekord")

1982-07-09 0

Plaché příběhy

Genre :Crime

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

1964-02-25 6.6

Defendant

Managers at the construction of a big hydro plant are accused of having embezzled money. ...
Genre :Drama

Investigator

1966-03-04 4

The Sheriff Behind Bars

A dramatic story from the setting of a youth de tention center. Youngster Jakub, out of delusory solidarity, gets convicted of theft and goes to prison in place ofthe "sheriff" of his gang. He naively ...
Genre :Drama

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

1967-12-22 3

Windstorm

A worker steals bits and pieces of building materials from work to construct a new home for himself and his girlfriend. When he discovers that she’s having an affair with his boss, he devises one elab ...
Genre :Comedy

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

Guerilla

1966-11-11 7.2

Carriage to Vienna

A WW2 story of a young Austrian soldier running from the Russian army and a woman whom he forces to come along in order to save his wounded mate. ...
Genre :War, Drama, Thriller

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

1970-10-30 6.5

Lišáci – Myšáci a Šibeničák

Sliding, skiing, snow forts, snowball fights, in short, winter is the right season for the children from the village under the Šibeničák hill to have fun. Their leader has always been Zrzek, the son o ...
Genre :Family

taxikář

1972-09-08 6.7

The Girl on the Broomstick

A teenage witch, Saxana (Petra Černocká), frozen in time as a punishment for 300 years, finds herself in a modern world. ...
Genre :Comedy, Family, Fantasy

1973-01-26 0

Rodeo

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

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

1975-05-02 4

Zbraně pro Prahu

In May 1945, Czech revolutionaries used several armoured trains in the fighting - partly captured, partly assembled from whatever the railway brought. One of them was commanded by the shunter Jan Chýň ...
Genre :War, Drama

Maj. Havlasa

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

(segment "Zimní vítr 1951")

1976-12-17 7.5

Boty plné vody

Three short stories ("Zelenáči 1945", "Silvestr 1948" and "Zimní vítr 1951") about members of the SNB units guarding the Šumava border in the post-war years. Ivo Toman had artistic supervision over th ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama

1977-05-06 3

The Liberation of Prague

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 ...
Genre :Drama, War, History

1974-04-26 0

Adam and Otka

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 ...
Genre :Family

Svatebcan

1976-09-03 6

Odysseus and the Stars

A group of children are investigating a chain of mysterious events during the seventies. ...
Genre :Adventure, Science Fiction, Family

poručík VB Vlach

1970-03-27 4.643

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

Mlíkar

1969-02-01 6.8

Larks on a String

In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation. Among them is a young man who pines for a female convict. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, Comedy

1974-02-15 6

Gunshots in Mariánské Lázně

In May 1945, a woman in Marienbad reports a murder - committed in 1933 against the German emigrant Professor Lessing. She also names the murderer. Against the wishes of his superior, who does not feel ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, History

1971-06-11 3.333

Chance

The actress, who is starring in a successful theatre production, is offered a big film role by an Italian director. She decides to leave her current certainties behind and throw herself into the whirl ...
Genre :Drama

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

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

Peasant

1976-03-19 6.5

Boys Will Be Boys

Three friends - Tomás, Hubert and Jozka - are boys growing up in a little town. Tomás lives with his aunt Apolena and uncle Václav. Tomás is a boy with lots of ideas that often end up getting him into ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy, Family

1971-01-08 0

Tvář pod maskou

The photographer and his wife, a former beauty queen, make a living casting death masks. But their obsession goes so far that they decide to cast the face of a living person. ...
Genre :Drama

1976-02-20 2

Hřiště

Civil engineer Luděk Turna accepts an attractive offer from a Prague design office. He tries to get ahead even at the cost of deception, but he recovers in time and voluntarily leaves to build a motor ...
Genre :Drama

1990-06-01 4

The Seventh Day, the Eighth Night

An allegory set in an archetypal Czech village, it tells the story of what happens when a series of mysterious events take place, including the disappearance of the station master. While everything ha ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery