Jan Kanyza

AKA:
1.991

1947-10-25

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {102}

1976-12-24 2.667

Typicky ženská reakce

Genre :Comedy

1976-12-20 0

Vánoce u Matěnů

The central characters of this comedy with a criminal plot are the members of the seemingly normal Matěn family - we have dad Karel, a designer with a passion for filmmaking, mum Růženka, who wanted t ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

1978-04-07 0

Zlaté rybky

Police discover Eva Nejtková dead in her apartment and her husband Zdeněk unconscious from a shotgun wound. Captain Hora leads the investigation, noting that the killer struck Eva fatally and shattere ...
Genre :Crime

Olda Machácek

1978-06-09 5

Focusing on the Turquoise Mountain

It tells about the collaboration of Mongolian-Czech geologists who are discovering treasure deposits in Mongolia, and shows the events that happen to them in a humorous tone. ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy

Karel Vojta

1979-02-23 0

Trasa

Experiences of a Tatra factory driver during demanding load tests of Tatra 148 trucks in extremely harsh climatic conditions during the construction of the Nizhnevartovsk oil pipeline. ...
Genre :Drama

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

Ládin (voice)

1979-07-13 3.3

The Young Man and Moby Dick

Good-looking Edita Beningerová (Jana Brejchová) arrives at a chemical factory in the North Bohemian town of Ústí nad Labem together with her young assistant Nada (Zlata Adamovská). She is hoping that ...
Genre :Drama

1978-06-23 5.5

Nechci nic slyšet

An 11-year-old boy is the only survivor of a tragic car accident in which both parents are killed. It's not until he meets a travelling student theatre company that he is able to shake off the long-te ...
Genre :Drama

Hynek Berka z Dubé

2009-05-28 5.8

Jménem krále

In 13th-century Bohemia, King Přemysl Otakar II sends his Bezděz castle steward Oldřich of Chlum north to broker a peace-marriage between the feuding Dubé and Vartemberk houses, only for him and his m ...
Genre :Crime, History, Drama

1989-01-01 0

Úraz

A young woman named Alena discovers her fiancé Pavel's repeated infidelity. After meeting with her former married boyfriend, she loses control of her car and crashes. The result is tragic: severe inju ...
Genre :Drama

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

1985-05-01 0

Kouzelníkův návrat

Although the title would suggest it, this film has nothing to do with fairy tales at all: it takes place in the North Moravian border region just after the end of the Second War. It presents a fragmen ...
Genre :Drama

1972-10-06 4.5

Cesty mužů

Experienced StB investigators in the 1950s dismantle a terrorist action against the collectivisation of a village in the foothill village of Mezilesí. The screenwriter returned to the schemes that wer ...
Genre :Drama

1980-07-18 5

Rukojmí v Bella Vista

The film thematically follows the stories of the TV series "30 cases of Major Zeman". We can meet Major Zeman again with Lieutenant Colonel Zitny, Major Hradec and Lieutenant Gajdoš. The film is set i ...
Genre :Adventure

Terrorist Leader (voice)

1980-09-19 4.8

Dark Sun

A remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit. Engineer Prokop creates the devastating explosive “Krakatit” and soon confronts manipulative agents and imperialist conspiracies. Realizing his i ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Drama

1981-07-03 3

Zlatá slepice

This fairy tale tells of a magical hen who lays golden eggs. When an enterprising taxi driver (greedy, of course) learns of such a miracle, he immediately realizes that he could easily and effortlessl ...
Genre :Comedy

Benton

1979-03-10 4

Pracka v láhvi

An ambitious girl is hired by a group of thieves as a maid in the apartment of a famous actress. The thieves thus prepare the ground for a sophisticated robbery of rare furs and jewels. The girl is ty ...
Genre :Crime, TV Movie

1982-12-31 2

Románek za tři krejcary

Genre :Music, Comedy

1982-05-22 0

Čokoláda aneb Příběh psaný na vodu

Genre :Family

1983-06-12 0

Karel Hynek Mácha

Genre :Drama, History

1968-06-14 0

Malé letní blues

A holiday story about first tentative love, set in a romantic cottage village on the banks of a river. There, a 15-year-old girl feels lonely and confused, bitterly reliving her hopes and disappointme ...
Genre :Romance

1969-07-25 6

Young Bohácek's Sufferings

Tóna Bohácek has been a great worry to his mother, Mrs Bohácková. All his friends equal in age are already married and some of them even have children - only Tóna still has nothing. Mother Bohácková t ...
Genre :Comedy

1987-01-01 6

The Great Movie Robbery

The film is essentially a feature-length commercial for an exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of the nationalisation of the Czechoslovak film industry, to be held at the Prague U Hybernu venue. T ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Comedy

Self

2023-10-14 0

Lásky Petra Štěpánka

Genre :Documentary

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

Flamingo Band Drummer (voice)

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

1973-11-15 5.917

Dream City

A married couple of artists move to a utopian town known for its absolute freedom, but behind the surface perversion and violence are spreading. ...
Genre :Adventure

1973-05-11 0

Počkám, až zabiješ

During World War II, dogs were trained in special centres for guard duty in concentration camps. However, one of the prisoners domesticates a female German Shepherd, which saves his life during his es ...
Genre :Drama

1981-12-27 7.5

Let the Princess Stay with Us

Modern version of Snowhite fairytale. Girl Katka is frustrated and restless. She escapes from home and find herself in the orphanage. Seven orphan boys hide her and call her "Princess". But Katka is s ...
Genre :Music, Family

1973-01-01 0

Horolezci

The true story of a Czechoslovak mountaineering expedition that set out in 1969 to conquer one of the most challenging peaks in the Himalayas. In a semi-documentary manner, it depicts the men's harrow ...
Genre :Drama, Adventure

1974-01-17 0

Čekání

Genre :Drama

1975-05-09 3.9

Sokolovo

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 ...
Genre :War, History, Drama

Maxmilián

1991-01-01 0

Usmívat se, prosím

Genre :Family, Comedy, Fantasy

1988-01-01 0

Černovláska

Genre :Fantasy, Romance, Family

1997-12-26 0

Bronzová koruna

During a royal hunt, the young prince is injured under strange circumstances, and his father, the king, falls from a high cliff and dies. The young princess Klára cleverly but persistently questions P ...
Genre :Fantasy, Family, TV Movie

1979-01-01 0

Vynes na horu svoj hrob

The Himalayan mountain Makalu, located in Nepal, is the fifth highest mountain in the world. In 1973, a Czechoslovak expedition also attempted to climb it via the challenging route, the so-called Sout ...
Genre :Drama, Adventure, TV Movie

1976-04-02 0

Město nic neví

Three detective stories from industrial Ostrava. Police search in vain for a missing 16-year-old girl, but succeed in finding a mentally disturbed infant kidnapper. In a case of robbery, at the cost o ...
Genre :Crime

Michael Allan Jones

1981-10-16 5.3

Kam zmizel kurýr

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 ...
Genre :Science Fiction

1982-03-21 0

Horí

Genre :Comedy, Music

Láďa Kořínek

1984-05-01 6

Hot autumn with the smell of mango

A tragic event in the life of a film director searching on two continents for the traces of Jawaharlal Nehru. ...
Genre :Drama

1977-05-13 0

Smrt na černo

Webs of Prague's post-war underworld. ...
Genre :Crime

1977-05-27 3

Noc klavíristy

The problematic protagonist is the head designer of a housing association who wants to make a profit at any cost. His unwitting opponent is a bar pianist who accidentally witnesses the murder of a you ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1984-09-01 6

Radical Cut

Detective Weiner probes the death of Tomáš Ruml, found in a ruined house. Son of the architect behind a planned gypsy-quarter demolition, Tomáš seems a revenge victim, until Weiner meets Naha and unco ...
Genre :Crime

Aristotel Holm

1984-10-18 5.417

The Secret of an Old Attic

During a summer holiday, two boys discover an anti-gravity cannon in an old attic. ...
Genre :Family, Adventure, Science Fiction

1984-09-22 8

Ohnivé ženy

When he didn't want her, a stick or a charmer was used, in more serious cases the love stone helped. When he wanted her too much, an extract of wormwood, comfrey and anise, slightly sharpened with bra ...
Genre :Comedy, Fantasy

1983-05-05 0

Růžový ostrov

Genre :Drama

Lochman (voice)

1985-02-01 6

The Halftime of Happiness

Fifty-year-old Ondřej Bozděch delivers coal around Prague's Žižkov district and he loves it more than anything. He has spent his whole life here and knows all the cellars. He lives his ordinary life a ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Michal

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

dr. Petr Gabriel

1985-09-01 3

Příliš velká šance

A dedicated biologist, Dr. Petr Gabriel accidentally kills a child in a hit-and-run and, fearing the ruin of his career, hides the body and shifts blame onto two intruders. His new acquaintance Olga a ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

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

Fritz Farber

1981-03-14 6

Panenka

Five-year-old Anne Sachs was playing with her Treperenda doll in her room when she heard a scream from the next room. Someone had hurt her mother. Unbeknownst to the girl, she had become a witness to ...
Genre :Crime

1975-07-06 7

Králův kalich

A section of the life of George of Poděbrady from his coronation to his death (1458–1471), creating a portrait of a remarkable monarch whose name shone as a symbol of Czech statehood, as a symbol of a ...
Genre :History, Drama

Záviš z Falkenštejna

1984-07-04 0

Záviš a Kunhuta

Genre :History, Drama

1975-04-13 0

Poslední královna

The play about the life of Eliška, the last of the Přemyslid dynasty, follows ten years of her life journey from the moment of her marriage to John of Luxembourg to her rejection by the king in 1320. ...
Genre :History, Drama

1974-01-01 0

Královský gambit

Wenceslas II, who already has adult children Eliška and Václav, refuses to marry the young Alžběta Rejčka. In the end, he succumbs to the insistence of Abbot Konrád. The queen brings him Poland as a d ...
Genre :History, Drama, TV Movie

1992-01-01 0

Princezna Duše

Greek mythology has always inspired creators of various artistic genres. No wonder, for Greek myths offer countless dramatic tales of strength, courage and bravery, of fear and hatred, but also of lov ...
Genre :Family, Fantasy, TV Movie

1991-06-01 0

Zachýsek, zvaný Rumělka

The fairy from the Beautiful Rose gave Zachýsek an unusual gift. Who knows why he was gifted with the talent to appropriate the abilities and merits of other people and thus gain undeserved honors and ...
Genre :Family, Fantasy, TV Movie

Bevan

1994-01-01 2.8

Nexus 2.431

This international co-production, shot at Barrandov Studios with international cast including Czech actors is an attempt to create a sci-fi fantasy in the tradition of Star Wars and Star Trek. Sometim ...
Genre :Science Fiction

major Bohuslav

2005-02-20 0

Všichni musí zemřít

In this episode of the crime miniseries, Jan Kanyza, playing Major Bohuslav, investigates three murders that initially appear to be unrelated... Captain Mazancová rejoins the investigation team. The d ...
Genre :

major Bohuslav

2004-01-25 0

Vražda kočky domácí

The loose series of detective stories featuring Jan Kanyza as Major Bohuslav continues with another story. As the title suggests, it is once again about murder, but not of an ordinary domestic animal, ...
Genre :

Malina

1990-01-27 5.5

V tomhle zámku straší, šéfe!

Genre :Comedy

asistent Pierre

1987-07-01 6.7

The Octopuses from the Second Floor

While on vacation with their bickering parents, young Eva and her little brother Johnny find in a polluted lake two strange friendly sentient octopuses made of strange material that attracts electrici ...
Genre :Comedy, Science Fiction, Family

2019-11-28 6

Voda čo ma drží nad vodou

Genre :Drama, Music, Documentary

1971-01-01 6

Comrades

Chytilová was not allowed to direct films between 1969 and 1976. The sole exception was the made-for-TV film Kamarádi, now virtually unknown. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie, Family

major Bohuslav

2002-03-17 7

Muž, který vycházel z hrobu

Several retired women have been attacked in their apartments by an unknown man. None of them have been raped or killed yet, but the perpetrator's brutality is increasing with each case. The attacks al ...
Genre :Crime, TV Movie

1972-04-28 3.5

The Secret of a Great Narrator

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 ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, History

1980-01-25 2

Blue Planet

A young engineer, Štěpán Pavlík, dreams of becoming a cosmonaut. ...
Genre :Comedy

1979-11-16 4

Kam nikdo nesmí

Lucie Rýdlová is found dead at a destroyed car after a night accident. The seat position shows that she cannot have been driving, and the dissection proves that she had died about four hours after the ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Karel

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

1979-12-29 0

Jak se naučit švédsky

The protagonist is supposed to go to a graduation reunion and, because she is ashamed to reveal that she is still lonely and unmarried, she makes up a story that her husband was a Swede who came to th ...
Genre :Comedy

Jílek

1974-04-05 3.6

Zatykač na královnu

Captain Záruba investigates after an anonymous tip flags the seemingly extravagant lifestyle of Chemotex technician Dagmar Králová. Summoned to discuss the matter, Králová’s quarrel with engineer Vaně ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Garázmistr

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

1981-03-06 2

Nevěsta k zulíbání

A love story of a couple of mature people of completely different characters, who lived and worked side by side for years only as colleagues, but whose accidental trip to Slovakia to attend the weddin ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1994-01-01 0

Patnácté léto

Anna has been married to Karel for fifteen years and has a teenage daughter with him. Karel is growing distant from Anna, whose daily life consists of taking care of the family. Anna's life balance is ...
Genre :Comedy

1999-03-28 0

Stín

The young poet Frederik confides in his shadow about his love for Princess Claudia. After all, who could be a more loyal and discreet friend? Frederik trusts his shadow implicitly, so one day he asks ...
Genre :Family, Fantasy

2001-01-24 0

Znásilnění

A career woman's struggle and fight against a male dominated society. ...
Genre :Drama

1985-09-12 0

Pusu, pusu, pusu!

Genre :Comedy, Music

Zdeněk Vojtěch Popel z Lobkovic

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

Pierre

1987-11-01 6.625

Merry Christmas Octopus

Eva and her younger brother Johnny own two sentient octopuses made out of strange matter. Will their parents divorce and ruin Christmas? Will a scientist find a way to use their pets as fuel? Live act ...
Genre :Comedy, Family, Science Fiction

1986-08-24 1

Čtvrtá strana trojúhelníku

Genre :Crime

Pošmurný

1986-12-25 0

Monika a hříbě s hvězdičkou

Genre :Family

1986-12-31 0

Sardinky, aneb Život jedné rodinky

College student Marta decides to seal her relationship with Zdeněk with a secret wedding. All that remains is to announce this fact to both parents. The bride's parents are a very interesting couple - ...
Genre :Comedy

Michal

1990-03-22 0

Čarodějův učeň

Genre :Drama

Kulhánek

1999-05-13 2

Nebát se a nakrást

The inventor and owner of the company "Neprasklo" (Unbreakable), Ing. Sýkora, wants to launch a revolutionary new product – unbreakable glass. However, his two greedy deputies have other plans – they ...
Genre :Comedy

1990-05-08 0

Právě volal Tvůj milenec

Genre :Comedy

1991-04-07 0

Elektro, má lásko

Genre :Drama

1993-09-30 1

Pozvání na večeři

Genre :Comedy

1994-01-01 0

Televize

Genre :Comedy

1970-02-21 0

Bližní na tapetě

Genre :Comedy

1972-02-19 7

Bakaláři

Genre :Comedy

Pierre

1986-12-21 7

The Octopuses from the Second Floor

While on vacation with their bickering parents in Portugal, Eva and her little brother Johnny find two strange clots of clay on a polluted beach, who can speak and move on their own. They create two o ...
Genre :Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Family

1995-01-01 0

Sins for Detective Show Viewers

Genre :Drama, Comedy, Crime

JUDr. Vladimír Zatloukal - advokát

1996-06-30 7

Hospoda

Hospoda is a Czech television comedy series which premiered on TV Nova. From 1996 to 1997, 52 episodes were aired. ...
Genre :Comedy

Josef Barkl

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

Bajer

1991-01-01 6

Territory of the White Kings

The story centers around a group of children, led by Leontinka and Olda. Father of Leontinka manages the local Deer Park with an invaluable breed of white deer. A series of mysterious events unfolds, ...
Genre :Family, Crime

1984-10-14 6.2

The Flying Cestmir

Young boy Cestmir finds a magic rock which allows him to bring the seeds of the flowers which allow flying from Blue Planet... ...
Genre :Family, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Dewsburry

1988-05-30 7

Gagman

Genre :Comedy

Zdeněk Popel z Lobkovic

1984-02-20 8

The Physician of a Dying Time

Series about the life of Renaissance anatomist, scholar and politic Johannes Jessenius. Already legendary series today, was produced by Czechoslovak Television Bratislava, directed by Slovak director ...
Genre :Drama

1986-01-01 0

Svetlá nad prístavom

Genre :Drama

1992-01-01 8

Hříchy pro pátera Knoxe

Genre :Crime, Comedy, Drama

Bradáček

2016-10-23 6.333

Polda

Genre :Crime, Comedy