Jana Brejchová

AKA: Jana Brechová, Яна Брейхова
8.1693

1940-01-20

Prague, Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia [now Czech Republic]

Biography

Jana Brejchová (born 20 January 1940) is a Czech film actress. She has appeared in more than 70 films since 1953, and is considered one of the Czech Republic's most popular and familiar starring actresses.

Crew Roles

Devilish Honeymoon
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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {106}

Akala

1976-07-01 4.7

In the Dust of the Stars

A radio signal attracts a team of astronauts to a mysterious planet. Once there, they are warmly welcomed by an alien race, but are soon suspicious of what is really occurring on this strange land. ...
Genre :Science Fiction

Teacher Jana Vávrová

1961-11-21 0

Labyrint srdce

It is 1955 and the government in Czechoslovakia has declared an amnesty for post-war emigrants. Many of them returned to their families, only young Pavel Kocián's single mother waits in vain for him. ...
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

princezna Bianca di Castelo Negro

1962-07-01 7.4

The Fabulous Baron Munchausen

A 20th century man lands on the Moon and discovers that Baron Munchausen has beaten him to it, accompanied by Cyrano de Bergerac and the characters from Jules Verne's novels about the conquest of the ...
Genre :Fantasy, Adventure, Animation, Comedy

Gwen Williamsová

1970-02-27 5.926

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

1982-09-12 2

Jehla

In a veterinary research institute, its workers are trying to deal with the sudden appearance of rabies. However, the work problem grows into a personal issue for each of them, especially for MVDr. Ev ...
Genre :Drama

1971-02-26 0

Luk královny Dorotky

Set in a vagabond and petty bourgeois environment, the three stories deal with the pitfalls of love, the petty and insidious betrayals of trust. ...
Genre :Drama, History

Biggi Koch

1980-01-05 4.3

Aber Doktor

Dentist Dr. Franke's selfless willingness to help is much appreciated by neighbors and acquaintances in the GDR. There is only one exception: Biggi, the beautiful coach of the ice hockey team that Dr. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, TV Movie

Eliška Pomořanská

1974-07-12 7.8

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

Mrs. Milhau

1982-02-03 5.5

La Chanson du mal-aimé

Biography of the life of Guillaume Apollinaire. ...
Genre :Drama, History

Jana

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

Zdena Hrstka

2006-09-06 6.5

Beauty in Trouble

Marcela can't bear Jarda any longer, so she threatens divorce and takes the kids to her mom's, whose husband is a creep. While Marcela is there, Jarda is jailed, because he is part of a gang steeling ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1966-04-01 5.1

Searching

Michal's father and his friends are stigmatized by their war experience and the post-war social deformations in which they took part either directly, or watched them cowardly and in silence. They are ...
Genre :Drama

1985-03-01 5.8

End of the Lonely Farm Berhof

Drama set on an isolated farm on the Czech-Polish border immediately after the end of WWII. ...
Genre :Drama

Jana Skálová

1960-11-23 8.2

Higher Principle

During the Nazi occupation of a Czech city civilians are being rounded up on the slightest of pretexts and shot. One day three high school boys who crack jokes about a recently deceased "hero of the R ...
Genre :Drama

Tereza

1965-01-26 7.3

If a Thousand Clarinets

A military base. An awkward soldier. A statue of Bach. And suddenly all guns in the area change into music instruments. Great mystery is immediately found by TV station. And soon the military base bec ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, Fantasy

Prinzessin Lydia

1963-10-04 5.5

Gripsholm Castle

Young lovers Kurt and Lydia spend their first vacation together in Sweden at the picturesque Gripsholm Castle. They enjoy their happy days outdoors and in the nature far away from all everyday trouble ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Vera

1965-01-15 5.9

Courage for Every Day

A passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure of his peers to live up to his ideals. ...
Genre :Drama

Dana

1999-05-27 4.5

Return to Paradise Lost

A professor reunites with an old friend who inspires him to return to Czechoslovakia for the first time since he emigrated years ago. ...
Genre :Drama

1970-09-04 4.3

Devilish Honeymoon

Black comedy about a genius inventor and two young, smart and beautiful women. Both of them putting all their effort into getting the one man. This will inevitable lead to all sorts of mischief, crim ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

1975-07-04 4.7

Do We Match Each Other, Darling?

Marta (Jana Brejchová) and Viktor (Vlastimil Brodský) celebrate the tenth anniversary of their wedding half-heartedly. They both think they don't suit together. While visiting Marta's friend Alena (Iv ...
Genre :Comedy, Science Fiction

1969-01-01 0

Nespavost ve dvou

Genre :Drama

Jeptiska zvaná Slecna

1967-12-15 7.2

The Nun's Night

A dark fable set in an early 1950s Czech village, a time of Soviet-style socialism which saw the implementation of collectivized agriculture and the mass closure of monasteries and convents. ...
Genre :Drama

Bozena

1965-03-12 7

The House in Karp Lane

Genre :Drama

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

Jana Landová

1962-08-12 0

Every day - Sunday

Jirka is a composer, his wife, Jana, a pianist. Jana would like to have an own concert, but so far she has only been selected to accompany Valenta during his concerts in Budapest. After some resentmen ...
Genre :Drama

1972-04-19 6

Inn At the Flying Dragon

Joseph Sheridan le Fanu's tale, "Inn at the Flying Dragon," brings dark fantasy, ghostly apparitions, and mysteries to the TV screen. It's part of his well-known collection, "The Dark Mirror," publish ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime, TV Movie, Horror

1972-01-19 3.5

Jeden ze soubojů

Genre :Drama

Glücksfee/Sorgenfee

1987-04-01 6.5

The Galoshes of Happiness

The Slippers of Happiness is another film made by the Slovak Film Production in co-production with West German companies based on classic world fairy tales. After Slovak folk tales [The Greatest Peck ...
Genre :Family, Fantasy

Violetta

1965-04-08 8.5

Shots in 3/4 Time

B 501, a newly developed controller for missiles, has disappeared despite the strict surveillance. Phillippe Tissout is sent by his boss to Paris to take over the case. ...
Genre :Action

Magda Králová

1972-03-31 5

The Death of Black King

Prague in the 1930s. A young, pretty girl gets on a crowded tram. She immediately catches the attention of a young man who not only appreciates the girl's charm, but also tries to steal her handbag di ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Patricia Binchy

1961-08-23 0

The Dream of Captain Loy

An American military plane takes six people, who have taken part in a NATO maneuver, from Tripoli to Oslo. Among them are the British Captain Loy and the United States Air Force Corporal Doris Graves. ...
Genre :Drama

1986-03-01 7.3

Scalpel, Please

A psychological drama exploring the notion of the doctor as a moral authority, who within the framework of their everyday work must face questions of life and death. The film is adapted from a novel b ...
Genre :Drama

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

Blanka

1989-01-19 3

Nothing Really Happened

An overprotective mother plagues her daughter out of guilt over unintentionally scarring her daughter's cheek. ...
Genre :Drama

Dr. Galová

1986-03-01 7

Silent Joy

This film is a psychological study of a woman who chooses solitude as an escape from the duplicity and emotional barrenness of the men around her. ...
Genre :Drama

chůva

2006-12-25 0

O malíři Adamovi

Young painter Adam longs to paint a masterpiece, so he sets off into the world to gain experience. He hopes that Princess Almína, whose beauty he has heard about, could be the subject of his painting. ...
Genre :Fantasy, Family, TV Movie

1995-04-20 2

Revenge

A celebrated theatre director’s perfect life unravels when his wife’s secret lover exposes the hollowness beneath his success, leading to a calm divorce and his isolation in a luxurious but empty vill ...
Genre :Drama

1994-10-20 0

Hrad z písku

Two women, one girl, and one man trapped by words. ...
Genre :Romance

Narcisa Kirchenbruchová

1965-12-24 5.5

The Borrowed Face

It is the 1930s. Physician Bartos devotedly attends poor patients in the city suburbs, at the same time researching the possibilities of regeneration of human tissues after transplantation. His former ...
Genre :Comedy, Science Fiction

Vera / Miss Golem

1973-03-30 4.6

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

1958-05-23 5.2

Wolf Trap

The title of this highly-regarded Czech drama translates as Wolf Trap. Set in the 1920s, the story revolves around an ambitious young provincial politician (Miroslav Dolozai) who enters into a marriag ...
Genre :Drama

macecha

1993-01-01 6.5

Anička s lískovými oříšky

A romantic fairy tale about faithful love and how difficult it is to fulfill it. "I have never seen two sisters who love each other so much," sighs King Stephen when he discovers his one true love, th ...
Genre :Fantasy, Romance, Family

1984-02-01 0

Modré z nebe

The fantastic world of little Thomas, who conjured up beauty and happiness. ...
Genre :Family, Fantasy

Gábinka

1979-03-02 7.5

Beauty and the Beast

Julie, the youngest daughter of a bankrupt merchant, sacrifices her life in order to save her father. She goes to an enchanted castle in the woods and meets Netvor, a bird-like monster. As Netvor begi ...
Genre :Drama, Fantasy, Horror

1976-12-26 0

Pani Heléne

Genre :Drama

1988-05-01 0

Citlivá místa

The relationship between a teenage daughter and her mother is not an easy time in the life of either of them. But for Jana Burešová and her Simona, it means digging deep into their consciences and sea ...
Genre :Drama

královna

1997-05-04 0

Čarodějné námluvy

A cheerful fairy tale about a prince whose parents wanted to cure him with a magic potion. The king and queen are very unhappy with their son's irresponsibility, as they would like to marry him off an ...
Genre :Comedy, Family, Fantasy

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

Lady Mary

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

Jarmila Straková, Vaskova maminka

1979-11-09 6.8

On the Poachers Trail

Second part of the trilogy. Vasek is expected to go to Bulgaria for a holiday with his parents during the summer vacation, but the boy finds the prospect of spending the summer with his gamekeeper gra ...
Genre :Adventure, Family

Self - Actor

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

Mela

1958-09-19 7

Morálka paní Dulské

The suffocating conditions in a bourgeois family were depicted in several films in the second half of the 1950s - this one is one of the lesser known, although it achieves great emotional impact, free ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Jarmila Straková, Vaskova maminka

1981-10-02 6.8

Behind the Sloe-Bush

Third part of the trilogy. Vaska again is visiting his grandfather living in Bohemian Forest and understands the importance of guarding nature. ...
Genre :Family, Adventure

Jarmila Straková, Vaskova maminka

1978-12-08 6.6

Under the Badgers Rock

The gamekeeper Straka lives by himself in the Bohemian forest hill. He has quarreled with his only son. He cannot come to terms with the fact that his son has abandoned his beloved forests and settled ...
Genre :Family

Niko

1981-11-08 0

Die zweite Haut

A divorced woman tries to restart her life. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Babicka

1995-01-01 0

What Hedwig Didn't Tell Us

A sad story about a young girl who is forced to move from one foster home to another. ...
Genre :Family, Drama

Marie Tumová

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

Olina (segment "Kapsář")

1975-04-04 3.5

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

Majka

1969-01-10 6.1

The End of a Priest

A verger, who likes to dress as a priest, is invited, by one of the villagers, to be the pastor at a vacant church. The atheist teacher resents the pastor, and tries to embarrass him in various ways, ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Kateřina Parr

1967-12-30 8

King and Women

A married couple in which he is the older and powerful one and she is young and charming. Their mutual teasing, fussing and bickering filled a royal morning in the bedroom. The mighty King Henry VIII ...
Genre :Comedy, History

Lenka (segment "Lidé na zemi a hvezdy na nebi")

1958-12-25 6

Desire

A poignant overview of how short life can be, this interesting drama from Czech director Vojetch Jasny is divided into four separate segments. In the first skit, a young child's impressions are observ ...
Genre :Drama

1974-06-09 0

Půlpenny

Genre :Drama, Crime

Jožka's Mother

1986-05-01 5.5

Caught by Night

A communist journalist from Prague is sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp. ...
Genre :Drama, History

1970-01-01 0

Romanetto

A young woman from an old patrician family in Prague collapses and is institutionalized in a psychic ward. The non-linear narration unveils here fortunes one by one. The prose of Jakub Arbes is the ba ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1981-12-24 0

V zámku a podzámčí

The story of an unhappy, childless princess, her loving husband and the poor villagers threatened by a terrible disease, who finally received help from above. ...
Genre :Drama

Bara Melichar

1964-01-17 0

Der Andere neben dir

Two doctors, a German and a Czech brain surgeon, meet in a Berlin hospital, unaware of how fatefully they are linked by events from a dark past. A trip to a congress in Prague and an encounter with th ...
Genre :Drama

1991-01-01 0

Šťastlivec Sulla

Genre :

Kamila

1990-01-01 4

Pasiáns

The story of six men and one woman who, while exploring the underground part of an old palace, discover that they are trapped here and that there is no return. One can survive here, but is mere surviv ...
Genre :Drama

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

kněžna Věra Lygorská

1974-10-19 6

Two Brothers

A love story in which two brothers - naive officer Yuri and demonic lover Alexander - compete for the young married princess Vera. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Marie Marková

1958-03-21 6

Puppies

Explores young adults' fears of being conscripted by the communist government into working outside of Prague, a relative oasis of creativity and freedom of thought. From an early script by Milos Forma ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Slechticna

1972-01-01 7

A Touch of a Butterfly

A romantic story of a young nobleman who sees a beautiful girl at the carnival who seems familiar to him. He feels that he saw her in an old castle, where only the old countess and sister live. It is ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, TV Movie

2000-01-27 2

The Conception of My Younger Brother

Director's memoirs of his childhood in a lively tenement house, in particular one hot summer day in 1949 when all tenants gathered to celebrate the wedding of the landlord's daughter. Small details sl ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Jitka Andrášová

1960-02-12 4.5

Probuzení

Delinquent youths wander aimlessly and commit mischief. Few, however, manage to break free from the influence of such a gang. One of the lucky ones is a girl who grew up in an orphanage - already refo ...
Genre :Drama

Jana

1959-05-05 2.8

May Stars

May 1945. On the outskirts of Prague, ordinary people meet Soviet soldiers-liberators with tears of joy in their eyes. In the early days of the lull, someone sadly recalls a pre-war life; someone unex ...
Genre :Drama

Doktorka

1985-05-19 2

Angolský deník lékařky

The true story of a group of Czechoslovak citizens who are building a paper industry in Alto Catumbela, Angola, as part of economic development aid. Based on a true story, the film describes the raid ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Woman with sausage (uncredited)

1965-09-24 5.3

The White Lady

This castle has its own ghost - a mysterious White lady. She emerges from the painting on the wall when someone speaks out magic formula. White lady is good ghost, she can make someone's wishes true. ...
Genre :Comedy, Fantasy

1970-05-31 8

Jak se dělá divadlo

Genre :Comedy, TV Movie

Marie, Hrušek's wife

1957-02-22 4

Zlatý pavouk

A man was killed while trying to leave Czechoslovakia. One and a half kilograms of gold was found on him - not in coins, not in jewelry, not in bars - but in the form of plates used to make teeth... ...
Genre :Drama

1968-12-31 6

Maratón

It is 5 May 1945 and the uprising against the hated German occupiers has broken out in Prague. The Czech guards open the gate of the Pankrác prison to allow the prisoners to escape en masse. Many of t ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, War

Waitress Kamila

1956-10-26 6

Vina Vladimíra Olmera

Vladimír Olmer is a student at the Faculty of Medicine. His father, a famous Prague surgeon, is rightly proud of him. One day, Vladimír accidentally meets his former classmate Emil Prokeš. He introduc ...
Genre :Drama

Edita Beningerová

1979-07-13 4

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

Matka

1992-01-01 6

Zamilovaná

A young and sympathetic teacher joins the music school. He leads the school orchestra and also teaches twelve-year-old Anezka to play the cello. The girl falls in love with him and only her grandmothe ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, Family, Music

1962-09-07 6

Zelené obzory

A young agricultural expert fails as the manager of a cattle farm on a state farm in the borderlands... The attempt at a realistic view of the problems of nationalised agriculture did not exceed the a ...
Genre :Drama

1992-01-01 0

Arachné

Genre :Fantasy, Family

1980-12-13 0

Můj nezdolný lev

Genre :Drama

1961-01-01 0

Ztracená revue

The music and dance revue about the clown and the girl from the poster takes place in the streets of Prague, in the quiet corners of the Old Town, Lesser Town and Hradčany with the famous motifs of th ...
Genre :Music, Comedy, TV Movie

1983-09-01 0

Schůzka se stíny

Two people scarred by a wartime past meet again years later during an archaeological dig. But the silent, inaccessible man in particular is reluctant to admit to anyone his harrowing experiences in a ...
Genre :Drama

Perucík's girl

1962-05-18 4.8

Love Without Words

1. A taxi driver barely finishes his coffee before a young woman asks for a ride to impress her boyfriend, only to reveal her beau’s ramshackle “plan” beside his sleek car. He then smooths over a quar ...
Genre :Comedy

1978-12-22 0

Muž s orlem a slepicí

The young dude, who can't even make responsible decisions in life, doesn't get along with the group of experienced workers where he started working for a long time. He resents being ridiculed for his ...
Genre :Drama

1954-04-30 5

Olověný chléb

Genre :Drama

1957-02-15 0

Roztržka

Genre :Drama

Jana

1958-05-09 5.7

A Suburban Romance

A young, unmarried woman finds herself a "little bit pregnant" and she tries to hide this fact from her mother but it isn't long before the truth is obvious. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Jana Brejchová

1989-04-01 0

Poutníci

Genre :Drama

Queen

1993-12-24 6.9

Arabela se vrací aneb Rumburak králem Říše pohádek

Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Kids

Dr. Zelncova

1972-02-09 0

Ein Chirurg erinnert sich

Genre :Drama

Queen

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

Ludmila Strnadová

2007-01-02 1.2

Velmi křehké vztahy

Genre :Drama, Family, Soap

1978-05-15 0

Sedem krátkych rokov inžiniera Hagaru

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

1971-09-12 6.8

F. L. Věk

Genre :Drama

Self

1951-01-01 6

Deutscher Filmpreis

Genre :Reality

Epicharis

1994-01-01 7

Z hříček o královnách

Genre :Drama

Terezka Javorková

1984-04-22 1

We All Are Required to Attend School

Stories from a daily life of children attending a regular school. ...
Genre :Family, Drama

Laura

1984-10-06 5

Bambinot

Genre :Comedy, Family