Josef Chvalina

AKA: Йозеф Хвалина
1.6733

1920-04-30

Prague, Czechoslovakia

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {104}

1977-03-17 0

Posel dobrých zpráv

Genre :Drama

1978-01-27 5

A Story of Love and Honor

A story of love and honor that takes place during the mid-nineteenth century during revolutions, as well as economic, political, and social hypocrisy. Two extraordinary but lonely artists share a pas ...
Genre :History, Drama

1979-01-01 0

Ježčí kůže

Genre :Family, Fantasy

docent Zajíc

1969-10-31 3.5

Six Black Girls

Detective Lieutenant Boruvka (Lubomír Lipský) is called to the State Scientific Library to investigate the loss of a precious manuscript, the Infernal Psalter of the Occult Sciences by Master Peregrin ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

1980-03-23 0

Poslední koncert

Genre :History, Drama

Vorlický

1980-12-28 0

Paní Marjánka, matka pluku aneb Ženské srdce

Genre :Drama, Music

1981-03-27 6

Romaneto

A frightening atmosphere, full of chilling dampness and darkness, follows the fate of a desperate searcher who tries in vain to unravel the supposed secret of the altarpiece... ...
Genre :History

1962-12-07 7

Malý Bobeš ve městě

A loose sequel to the film Little Bobes, it catches up with the title child hero in the town where he and his parents have moved. However, the expectations of a better existence are disrupted by the e ...
Genre :Family

1962-12-21 0

Fortress on the Rhine

During the Second World War, an old fortress is transformed into a detention camp for arrested allied generals who the Germans provide with every possible comfort. In the nearby garrison camp, however ...
Genre :Drama

1960-12-24 0

Český koncert

Genre :Drama

1963-08-03 0

Komedie o muži, který si vzal němou

Genre :Comedy

1982-06-25 4.25

Zelená vlna

A short film about Prague, Prague residents, and the beginning of the weekend. ...
Genre :Comedy

1964-01-01 0

Preclík

A satire about trying to please "those at the top". ...
Genre :Comedy

1967-07-21 5.7

Poklad byzantského kupce

A detective story revolving around an ancient treasure from the ninth century, believed to have been destroyed during World War II, takes place in an archaeological environment. Its main character is, ...
Genre :Crime, Comedy

1966-09-21 0

Lékař v rozpacích

Genre :Comedy

Dr. Bouček

1970-08-14 5.2

A Killer on the Tracks

An escort composed of three people transports a huge amount of new one-hundred crown banknotes in a special railway car. At the 196th kilometer, a village girl is waiting at the railway crossing and s ...
Genre :Crime

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

1968-07-26 4

„Rakev ve snu viděti...“

The Ronov castle has been changed into a hotel, offering stylish facilities to its guests: weddings in the torture chamber, a Black Lancer kidnapping brides, a night's lodging in a family tomb etc. Th ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

1969-03-06 0

Učitel a přítel zůstal veřejnosti neznám

Genre :Comedy

1968-07-05 0

Objížďka

The inhabitants of a picturesque village proud of its ancient linden tree will be disturbed by a disturbing event - a temporary road diversion is supposed to lead through the village. At first the pop ...
Genre :Comedy

1969-01-01 0

Hrozné děti

Genre :Music, Comedy

1970-09-04 4.6

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

1970-12-31 0

Kalifův prsten

Genre :Family, Fantasy

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

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

1972-05-05 0

Svatba bez prstýnku

At the end of the occupation, Vojta, a young worker, marries the daughter of a rich builder to protect her from being deployed to the German Reich. Vojta agrees because he secretly loves Alena. But wh ...
Genre :Drama

1971-12-10 3.25

Svědectví mrtvých očí

When former criminal Gaudl discovers the strange behaviour of his son-in-law Professor Horacek, he becomes worried about his daughter Hedwig and starts to gather evidence. When his suspicions seem jus ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Josef Záturecký

1966-02-04 5.75

Nobody Will Laugh

A successful art historian who has trouble telling people difficult truths, finds himself in an inescapable situation when a small lie quickly gets out of hand. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Fouché

1972-01-06 0

Madame Sans-Gène

Genre :Comedy, History

1973-03-16 7

Affairs of my Wife

Doctor Adéla Neradová, a medical doctor, has succumbed to the desire to uncover a criminal and become a kind of Sherlock Holmes in skirts. The thankless role of her Dr. Watson has fallen to her husban ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

1972-09-01 0

Návraty

A psychological film about the sense of self-fulfillment of a divorced couple over 30 who feel that life is slipping through their fingers. While she, a nurse by profession, is adapting better, he, un ...
Genre :Drama

1980-01-01 0

More v kvapke vody

Genre :Drama

1972-12-28 0

Záhada obrazu sv. Šebestiána

Genre :Family, Crime

1973-08-31 3

Kronika žhavého léta

A broadly drawn ideological epic set in the summer of 1947 in the borderlands of northern Bohemia: reactionary elements plot to undermine postwar social change while committed local communists struggl ...
Genre :Drama

1975-03-13 0

„Psáno na pranýř“

Genre :History

Fenda

1952-02-22 4.5

Action B

Film shows the struggle of the Czechoslovak armed forces against groups of Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) under command Burlak, who tried to pass through the territory of Slovakia. ...
Genre :Drama, Adventure

1975-12-19 0

Akce v Istanbulu

A communist agent, who has successfully caught on with the stupidly gullible American secret services, does not have it easy - he is threatened with exposal, but he still rescues a Czech scientist who ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

učitel

1981-09-25 4.125

Daisies for the Lady of the Manor

Fifteen-year-old Kateřina will once again spend the holidays at the Castle Krabonoš, where her parents are both wardens. She finds it dull because she's got to sit at the castle's ticket office and se ...
Genre :Comedy

Narrator (voice)

1976-09-17 0

Čas lásky a naděje

A colour-printed melodramatic selanca from the beginnings of the organised labour movement in Bohemia... Antonín Zápotocký, the second workers' president, is the author of the literary novel Rozbřesk ...
Genre :Drama, History

1983-10-01 4

Putování Jana Amose

The distressing fate of the Czech great Jan Amos Komenský, forced to leave his homeland after the White Mountain disaster. It depicts his encounters with various European personalities of the 17th cen ...
Genre :History

Joska Nejtr

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

Starek

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

1974-09-13 3.5

Vysoká modrá zeď

Even in the 1970s, films were made in this country that emphasized not only the necessity to defend the impermeability of the Western borders by all means, but mainly rehabilitated the Stalinist era. ...
Genre :Drama

Pepa Bureš

1949-06-03 6.778

Distant Journey

Prague, during World War II. Hana Kaufmann, a Jewish ophthalmologist, marries Dr. Antonín Bureš, a Christian man. When her family is sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, their romance turns ...
Genre :Drama

1966-01-01 7

Mlha

The work of actors on a stage makes a dreamlike parallelism between artistic immagination and the concreteness of everyday life. Tribute to Prague's Divadlo na zàbradlì, theater that has been a point ...
Genre :Documentary

1953-04-24 4.5

Plavecký mariáš

In the past, most of the wood from the mountain forests was transported to the sawmills by river. The rafters were gradually replaced by trucks and railways, but they still remember the days of their ...
Genre :Comedy

Percy

1949-09-23 7.1

Hostinec „U kamenného stolu“

An innkeeper is grieving because his wife left him for a second-rate actor. His two nephews, who are not on speaking terms, have to take over the running of the establishment... ...
Genre :Comedy

1967-05-05 4

Sign of the Cancer

When Dr. Hahn is found murdered in the hospital’s inspection room, investigators question several suspects: his colleague and longtime lover Dr. Marie Nováková (whom he cheated on with nurse Jiřina), ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

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

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

Voice (voice)

1966-03-23 0

Konec velké epochy

Genre :Science Fiction, TV Movie

1971-10-22 2

Hry lásky šálivé

Two historical stories about love. In the story "The Arabian Horse", the scheming townsman Messer Francesco Vergellesi is so firmly convinced of his wife's virtue that he does not hesitate to bet her ...
Genre :History, Comedy, Romance

Jelínek

1949-01-07 5

The Green Notebook

Businessman Karel Bočan is a swindler who writes down the debts of his victims in a green notebook. He is stopped by an observant boy who reveals the fraudster and dealer in stolen goods in it. ...
Genre :Drama

Franta Kadlec

1951-06-01 4

It was in May

Worker Šebesta does not rejoice with the others in the May Day parade, as his boots are weighing him down. The following working day does not bring him a good mood either. At a plant-wide meeting, he ...
Genre :Comedy

Standa

1950-04-14 3

Veliká příležitost

An optimistic collective drama from the life of the workers on the construction site of the Youth Track. An amnestied prisoner wants to atone for his wrongdoing with an honest strike and reveals the v ...
Genre :Drama

Doktor

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

1948-10-22 5

Kariéra

Karel Kubat, the successful director of the Globus printing house, learns on his fiftieth birthday that he has a serious heart condition. The bad news forces him to take stock of his life. In his mind ...
Genre :Drama

Arnošt Bervida

1950-03-24 4.5

Žízeň

The catastrophically dry weather of 1947 causes immense problems in the countryside. In the small village Klícov, only farmers Hánek and Bervida and the old Hromádka have water. The others must queue ...
Genre :Drama

Standa

1950-02-17 3.5

Dva ohně

A socialist drama from the time of the February coup. The owner of the brickyard will use several workers before February in order to subvert worker solidarity and continue to do his black business. H ...
Genre :Drama

Cucumber trader

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

Soldier

1953-02-20 2

Anna the Proletarian

The movie describes proletarian life in the Czech Lands after World War I. ...
Genre :Drama

Melichar, CEO of AC Olympia

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

employee informant

1954-09-24 0

Shoesmachine

The happenings in a shoe factory serve as a not very thinly veiled examination of the pros and cons of both socialism and democracy. ...
Genre :Drama

chief geologist

1956-02-03 5

The Windy Mountain

A group of temporary workers arrive at the Czech-German border to conduct geological exploration. However, not all people have pure intentions and a past, and so the group of geologists is threatened ...
Genre :Adventure

employee on a construction site

1956-12-25 7

Zaostřit prosím!

A Czech satirical comedy, filmed according to a script by the State Prize laureate Jiří Marek based on several of his satirical short stories. The film contains three stories, the first of which mocks ...
Genre :Comedy

Brajnštetr

1969-06-20 0

Přehlídce velím já!

A cunning plan to deprive an "illegal millionaire" of his ill-gotten wealth. But the catch is that someone else has an even more subtle plan... ...
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

1953-08-14 0

Konec strašidel

The story of a group of little boys from a border town in Western Bohemia who help catch marauders. ...
Genre :Adventure, Family

1954-06-04 3

Výstraha

In the last days of the war, American planes bomb a synthetic gasoline plant in the Sudetenland. The workers are then faced with the enormous task of building a new plant on the site of the ruins and ...
Genre :Drama

1955-12-23 4

Nechte to na mně

A hardworking employee at a printing plant takes on all sorts of roles until he nearly collapses under their weight. He learns that those who try to do everything end up doing nothing. ...
Genre :Comedy

1971-02-03 0

Ta slepička kropenatá

Genre :Comedy

1947-09-05 7

The Last of the Mohicans

Antique dealer Kohout is not a bad person. However, he has an ideal: to be the unlimited master at home. Therefore, he does not see his wife's wishes, nor the fact that his daughter Helena has found a ...
Genre :Comedy

1943-12-03 4

Bláhový sen

Hairdresser Žofka Stárková desires fame perhaps more than other girls. The petty plans of her fiancé František do not satisfy her wild imagination. Žofka suddenly gains popularity when, while on her w ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1947-02-14 7

A Dead Man among the Living

Human bravery can take many forms, just as ideas about it can. Small-town public opinion begins to despise a postal clerk because he gave cash to robbers who didn't hesitate to shoot. The result is a ...
Genre :Drama

Commentary (voice)

1947-01-01 0

Premiera

A short grotesque by Josef Váchala (it had 4 screenwriters), which had the working title "The World in Reverse". Film amateur František invites a lot of friends to a screening of his film "Svagrovo od ...
Genre :Comedy

1949-05-06 7

Silent Barricade

A fiction piece centered around the Czech resistance to the Nazis. ...
Genre :War, Drama

1948-01-01 0

Poesie pouti

Genre :

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

Commentary (voice)

1948-01-01 0

Poesie pouti

Genre :

1950-10-20 7

Pára nad hrncem

Genre :Comedy

1951-06-15 7

Přiznání

Genre :Drama

1952-05-23 5

Mordová rokle

A new owner of the estate, Konrád Ritter von Schiess, arrives in the Czech village of Sluky. On his orders, the inhabitants of the village are to be evicted and only 30 families are allowed to remain, ...
Genre :Drama

1966-11-16 0

Velká kapela

Genre :Comedy

1955-03-11 4

Na konci města

Captain Jirák of the SNB is searching for the perpetrator of the murder of the former owner of an apartment building on the outskirts of town, which took place more than twenty years ago. ...
Genre :Crime

1974-01-01 0

Kosmas a paní Božetěcha

Genre :Drama, History

1954-04-30 5

Olověný chléb

Genre :Drama

Commentary (voice)

1950-02-25 5

New Czechoslovakia

Documentary about life in post-war socialist Czechoslovakia ...
Genre :Documentary

(voice)

1951-12-28 0

Nejlepší tip

Genre :Documentary, Comedy

Commentary (voice)

1954-02-18 6

Chinese Spring

Genre :Documentary

Father

1958-01-01 0

Proč lže...

Genre :Comedy

1963-12-25 0

Tchyně

This satirical micro-comedy condemns the petty bourgeois mentality, especially bragging. The ridiculous protagonists are two elderly neighbours who are constantly exaggerating the wealth and status of ...
Genre :Comedy

1970-01-28 0

Drama na lovu

Genre :Drama, Crime

1981-03-27 4.5

Přišel na večeři

Genre :Comedy

1966-12-25 0

Dobrodružství Huckleberryho Finna - Král a vévoda

Genre :Adventure, Family

Old Man

1966-12-25 8

Dobrodružství Huckleberryho Finna

Genre :Action & Adventure, Family

1979-09-09 0

Zákony pohybu

Genre :Drama

Jan Nepomuk Štěpánek

1981-07-12 0

Had z ráje

Genre :Drama

1980-05-11 0

Dnes v jednom domě

Genre :Drama, Comedy

1981-05-15 0

Okres na severu

Okres na severu is a Czechoslovak/Czech TV series filmed by Evžen Sokolovský in 1981. ...
Genre :Drama

Košelkov (segment "Umělecký výtvor")

1969-05-24 0

Úsměvy světa

Genre :Comedy

1969-05-24 0

Úsměvy světa

Genre :Comedy

Kazda

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

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

Gröber

1979-05-14 0

Theodor Chindler - Die Geschichte einer deutschen Familie

The series describes the time of the First World War in 8 episodes based on the novel by Bernard von Brentano from the perspective of the family of a Hessian Reichstag member, an independent man of th ...
Genre :Drama, War & Politics