Josef Vondráček

AKA:
0.1179

1932-10-05

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {44}

1960-05-06 4.7

Slingboy

A young Czech boy is freed from a concentration camp and now is working for the army against the Germans. ...
Genre :Drama, War

1978-04-21 0

Proč nevěřit na zázraky

Wartime events from a child's perspective were a popular theme during the previous regime - here it is a twelve-year-old village boy who experiences dangerous situations with retreating Nazi troops in ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1977-10-01 3.5

Shadow of a Flying Bird

It doesn't help to have an exacerbated situation like a family losing their only son - killed in a motorcycle accident. His parents, however, don't know the girl who survived, now being treated at a l ...
Genre :Drama

1990-01-01 0

Podivné přátelství herce Jesenia

Genre :Drama

1978-03-12 0

Nikola Šuhaj loupežník

The merging of reality with legend, the image of reality (Ruthenian Verkhovyna in the 1920s) and its reflection in people's minds - this is what characterizes the story of the modern Transcarpathian b ...
Genre :Drama

1978-10-13 5.8

Waiting for the Rain

It’s a hot holiday season in the city and Alena is pretty much left to her own little self, fantasizing and running her personal daily rituals, keeping most people at a safe distance, yet trying to ge ...
Genre :Drama

Frantisek

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

1979-03-10 7

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

1980-05-23 6.5

Love Between the Raindrops

Set in Prague during the years leading up to World War II, this family saga tells the story of a cobbler named Vincenc Bursik (Vladimir Mensik), who uproots his clan from the country to the city, only ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Drama

1982-01-29 5.5

Calamity

Funny banter about love, sex, social status, and other ideals, while a new railway employee is trained and sent on his first run as driver. ...
Genre :Comedy

1981-07-17 0

Concert

Rock concerts used to be suspicious. They were supposed to attract all sorts of strange individuals who meant no good. In this case, it's a pair of escaped convicts who want to hide in the heat of the ...
Genre :Music, Crime

1980-01-01 3.5

Kotva u přívozu

A few weeks in the life of the family of an attractive woman, the TV presenter Magda, her second husband and her teenage son. Magda is a lively, energetic woman, not for nothing is she called "the bos ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, TV Movie

1966-11-18 7.2

Closely Watched Trains

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to the war and the resistance that surrounds him, th ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, War

1982-04-23 6.8

Attention, Rounds!

A story about an everyday life of an inflectional department of Prague hospital. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

1964-01-17 6.4

The Hope

A group of outcasts, including a vagabond and a prostitute, gather at the outskirts of the industrial area of a large Czech city, one of the things that helps some of them survive is alcohol. ...
Genre :Drama

1983-08-01 1.5

Únos Moravanky

The popular Moravanka brass band performs at the fair. Vasek Pivoňka, the bandleader of the local brass band Kulatěnky, which broke up, decides to put the band back together. The village musicians are ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

1967-03-10 5.9

The Return of the Prodigal Son

Engineer Jan Sebek (Jan Kacer) is undergoing treatment in a mental home after his unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide. His therapist, via discussions both with the patient and with people who know ...
Genre :Drama

1967-02-24 4

Murder Czech Style

The protagonist (Rudolf Hrusinsky) is a dull, fat, shy government clerk indulging in voyuerism and ego fantasies. In love with another clerk (Kveta Fiolova), he is urged on in his pursuit by a commise ...
Genre :Comedy

1967-01-13 0

Never Strike A Woman... Even with A Flower

Shortish forty-year old Ludvík Podzimek, lute and flute player in a Prague orchestra, is far from being an attractive man. He is nevertheless generally considered a great 'Don Juan'. Women take up wit ...
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

1968-06-28 8

A Man Who Rose in Price

Mr. Benda, a married father of two children, works for a company that liquidates old banknotes. After one drunken party, he is visited by a painter who tattooed his back in drunkenness the previous ni ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

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1973-10-26 2

Maturita za školou

The short story film follows the fate of three young men who will soon have to decide what to do with their lives. The first "Poet", an aspiring author, publishes his first poem, while the sporting ca ...
Genre :Drama

1973-01-01 7

Bratranec Pons

Genre :Drama

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

1975-02-16 0

Vrtkavý král

The historical television play was written based on Vančura's Pictures from the History of the Czech Nation and takes place against the backdrop of the European situation at the beginning of the thirt ...
Genre :History, Drama

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

Old Fisherman

1976-11-12 6.8

The Little Mermaid

The little mermaid rescues a prince from drowning and falls in love with him. To be with him, she makes a deal with the evil sorceress: her beautiful voice against a life on land. It seems to work at ...
Genre :Fantasy, Romance

1984-03-01 6.3

Sestricky

A Czech psychological film about the school of life, its sorrows and beauties. The main character is a young aspiring nurse Marie Sahulová, who, after a trouble in the hospital - she secretly brought ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

1984-12-25 6

Žofka z Janovic

Genre :Drama

1985-08-01 7.3

My Sweet Little Village

The movie's main storyline follows the life of Otík, a young man, in a tight-knit village community. The sweet-tempered Otík works as an assistant truck driver with Mr. Pávek, his older colleague and ...
Genre :Comedy

Glov

1983-01-01 6.5

Hráči

A professional card player and swindler, Icharev, arrives in a small town with a plan to rip off some local jackdaw if possible. However, a trio of local, experienced swindlers have the same plan. The ...
Genre :Comedy

výčepní

1981-02-06 7.233

Cutting It Short

Francin, manager of a small-town brewery, has a charming wife whose abundant blonde locks are an adornment to the town. Maryska looks ethereal but loves meat and beer, while Francin is an ascetic. The ...
Genre :Comedy

1987-09-01 7.3

Forbidden Dreams

Leo Popper is a happy family man living in rural Bohemia in the years preceding the Nazi invasion. Out of economic necessity he moves with his family to the big city and becomes an enterprising vacuum ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1988-04-01 7.8

An Uncertain Season

The small group of actors have to face many problems while preparing a new performance. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Esquire

1990-02-01 8

Člověk proti zkáze

Biography of Karel Čapek. ...
Genre :Drama, History

1990-09-01 5.3

The Gentle Barbarian

A commemorative and essayistic meditative piece on the Prague quarter Libeň during the 1950s. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1990-05-01 6

Skřivánčí ticho

The hero of the story is a forty-something intellectual, a sensitive composer of classical music. His exclusive profession, his work, which is actually incomprehensible to those around him, and his de ...
Genre :Drama

1991-11-01 5.4

Vracenky

In the fifites the 10 year old boy Honza lives with his single mother in Prague. The mother is a dedicated communist in the beginning but she changes her mind when a show trial is held. She speaks abo ...
Genre :Drama

1990-06-01 6

Strange Creatures

A parable for the end of totalitarianism. Three protagonists - a high official, a secretary, and a border guard - representative of three generations (1948, 1968, 1988) are forced to confront their i ...
Genre :Drama

1988-12-23 0

Český pekáč

Genre :Comedy

1991-08-20 0

Muž, který neměl důvěru

Genre :Drama

1970-12-13 6.6

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

1975-05-15 0

Nejmladší z rodu Hamrů

Genre :Drama

1986-10-03 0

Třetí patro

Genre :Drama