Vladimír Šmeral

AKA: Владимир Шмерал, Vladimír Šmejral
1.0538

1903-10-16

Drásov, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {103}

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

1978-02-17 2

Vítězný lid

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

Minister

1990-02-01 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

1981-01-01 2

Příjemce platí v dolarech

Genre :Drama, Adventure

1979-02-09 3

Skandál v Gri-Gri baru

Two young returnees from the First World War face a difficult future because they cannot find work. One eventually finds a job as an electrician, the other breaks into the Social Democratic press, whe ...
Genre :History, Drama

1979-05-27 0

Smrt císaře a krále Karla IV.

Genre :Drama, History

1967-02-08 0

Evžen Oněgin

Genre :Drama

Boblig

1970-01-23 7.5

Witchhammer

In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imaginary witchery, and engages in brutal torture and persecution of their subjects. ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

Uncle Kozubík

1980-12-05 0

Děti zítřků

Genre :Drama

Farár

1962-08-24 7

Midnight Mass

On Christmas Eve, 1944, in Nazi-occupied Slovakia, the Kubiš family grapples with survival amidst brutal reprisals. Marián collaborates as a fascist guard leader, while his sister Angela has an affair ...
Genre :Drama, War

1964-01-10 0

Lucie

The leader of the fast-track workers' party is appointed worker director of the unprofitable Lucie mine. The wrong decisions he makes to increase production at any cost and to fulfil an unrealistic pl ...
Genre :Drama

1960-12-24 0

Bajaja

Genre :Family, Fantasy

1960-10-12 0

Neprovdaná paní Rosita

Genre :Drama

1960-11-23 0

Talenty a ctitelé

Genre :Drama, Comedy

1962-01-01 0

Pozdní láska

Genre :Drama

1965-03-12 0

Bubny

An anthology in three jazz-infused tales: an idealistic student’s romance with a pragmatic trumpeter; a vibraphonist’s urgent journey ending in tragedy; and drummer Honza’s moral dilemma as he confron ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Horror

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

1965-10-31 0

Den končí ráno

Genre :Crime

Commentary (voice)

1938-01-01 0

In a New Life

A documentary produced for the Czechoslovak army depicting a military project in which troops moved a Slovak mountain village to make room for a military training camp. ...
Genre :Documentary

1966-04-20 6

Křišťálová noc

Genre :Drama

1967-03-05 0

Noc bez úsvitu

Genre :Drama, History

1966-12-25 0

Sedm sestřiček

Genre :Family, Fantasy

1967-02-04 0

Princezna Pampeliška

The king is broke, so he welcomes when a rich Spanish king asks about his daughter, Dandelion. But Dandelion does not love the king and prefers to run away from home. On the run, she meets the son of ...
Genre :Family, Fantasy

Agent's Chief (voice)

1967-10-06 5.9

The End of Agent W4C

The invincible agent Cyril Juan Borguette alias W4C has been assigned a mission to go to a hotel in Prague, get hold of a saltcellar with a plan for the military exploitation of Venus hidden in it, an ...
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

Kroupa

1949-05-06 7

Silent Barricade

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

1969-11-28 0

A Ridiculous Gentleman

When a noted professor receives a new treatment for his heart ailment, his outlook on life changes. Despite doctor's orders, he is determined to live out his final days on his own terms and fulfill hi ...
Genre :Drama

Professor

1973-09-21 5.7

Love

Sixteen-year-old students of a grammar school are supposed to write essays on "Love". The class best student Andrea (Jaroslava Schallerová) writes about a patriotic love to a country as she has no exp ...
Genre :Romance

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

1972-02-25 4

Člověk není sám

A dedicated chairwoman of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in cooperation with a StB major clears a politically immature researcher of the charge of aiding subversives... ...
Genre :Drama

Ambrož

1971-05-07 6

Jumping Over Puddles

This Czechoslovakian children’s film takes place during the last days of the Austro-Hungarian empire. The young son of a horse trainer loves nothing more than riding his horse, until he is stricken by ...
Genre :Drama, Family

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

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

1972-07-09 0

Otcové a děti

Genre :Drama

1973-12-28 0

Podezření

A crime story about Western diplomats in Prague. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1973-12-29 0

Hliněný vozíček

Genre :Romance

1973-01-26 0

Rodeo

Genre :Drama

Dr. Václav Vacek

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

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

sběratel MUDr. Vitásek

1965-06-04 7.7

Čintamani & podvodník

Two short stories by Karel Čintamani a ptáci An avid collector of carpets, MUDr. Vitásek discovers a unique piece in Mrs. Severýnová's junk shop - a Persian carpet with a pattern of birds. As a connoi ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

1973-01-01 0

Příští léto v Locarnu

Genre :Drama

1974-10-11 0

Pavlínka

Albrechtice near Jablonec. Sixteen-year-old Pavlínka Linková lives with her grandmother Barbara, a local midwife who raised her after the death of the girl's parents. The charming girl experiences her ...
Genre :Drama

1962-01-01 0

Měšťáci

Genre :Comedy

Tomeš

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

Senior director

1982-12-03 8

Goodbye, Medeo

The director and choreographer from Prague are preparing a show performance "Oriental Fairy Tale" - a ballet on ice with the participation of vocal and instrumental ensembles and pop singers. They are ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

1975-12-24 0

Poklad pod Černou hláskou

Genre :Family, Fantasy

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

1977-02-04 0

Dům Na poříčí

The film was based on the novel "Milión" by Karel Štorkán. The book and the film depict the events surrounding the great construction disaster in Prague in 1928, in which 46 construction workers died. ...
Genre :Drama

kníže Belzebub

1977-02-05 9

Dalskabáty, hříšná ves aneb Zapomenutý čert

The cheeky, energetic Plajznerka, whose body is filled with the desire for a thick slice of happiness, tames and whips the forgotten devil to make him a "hardworking and honest musketeer", who would b ...
Genre :Family, TV Movie, 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

1st Assistant

1937-12-21 6.714

The White Disease

In a country whose people have just been successfully persuaded of their superiority and the justification for military expansion by the fiery speeches of a dictator, the bacillus of a highly destruct ...
Genre :Drama, Science Fiction

Old Man

1967-08-20 0

Prager Legende

Genre :TV Movie, Drama

Painter Roman

1948-01-09 6.5

The Portrait

People are afraid of the usurer Chazaj and are convinced that he is the bearer of evil. One day Chazaj pays a visit to the poor artist Simon Jordán and asks him to paint his portrait. Simon agrees but ...
Genre :Fantasy, Horror

Blech

1967-03-24 5.8

Hotel for Strangers

A gifted poet checks into a Gothic hotel in hopes of meeting the woman with whom he has long been enamored. He is surrounded by a variety of offbeat characters like the hefty homosexual cook, shadowy ...
Genre :Comedy, 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

Ferdinand Kugler

1947-09-19 7.4

Capek's Tales

Five crime stories connected by the narration of police superintendent Bartosek. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Josef Forman alias Lionel

1937-07-30 6.8

The World Belongs to Us

One of the few European films of the 30s to criticize the Nazis, even if they couldn't be directly named due to censorship: Gangsters with gray hats stir up trouble in what is obviously the Sudetenlan ...
Genre :Comedy

Dvořáček

1939-12-22 5

Man from the Unknown

While in Bohemia, an American industrialist named Craigs goes missing. In Prague, the police have arrested a man without identification, who bears a striking resemblance to Craigs. The doctor, the sec ...
Genre :Drama

Bártík

1941-11-21 8

Jan Cimbura

Two good friends return from long-term military service: Jan Cimbura from Semic and Josef Piksa from Putim. Piksa farms on his own, Cimbura accepts service with the Hradiště farmer and mayor of Kovand ...
Genre :Drama

Morousek

1939-01-07 0

Vzhůru nohama

Genre :Comedy

Emil

1939-02-03 6

In Temptation

When the handsome parish priest takes on a single mother with a child, he has no idea what kind of malicious gossip he will be exposed to. But he is determined to take care of his brother's girlfriend ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Karel Novák

1941-01-31 0

Pro kamaráda

Genre :Drama, Romance

Antonín Bárta

1939-01-06 0

Soud boží

Genre :Drama

Standa

1944-03-17 6

Skalní plemeno

Genre :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

akademik Tronícek

1973-11-30 0

Three Men Travelling

Three Men Travelling is billed as a loosely related sequel to Tri chlapi v chalupe (1963), sending our country protagonists set out from their family nests in the village of Ouplavice into the big wid ...
Genre :Comedy

Profesor

1969-02-14 5.4

The Most Beautiful Age

An artist's studio is descended upon by a group of retired men and a young mother who agree to model in the nude for money. Comedy ensues as the students and the local bureaucracy react to the models, ...
Genre :Comedy

Jeník Kalina

1939-01-06 5

Zborov

In the Škoda factory, where they are feverishly rearming in 1914, works the foreman Kalina, the father of the young men Pavel and Jan. Pavel is a supporter of the monarchy, while Jan, on the contrary, ...
Genre :Drama, War

Host

1978-01-01 7

Díky, pane Kříženecký

Genre :Documentary, TV Movie

Ondřej

1938-04-15 10

The Way of the Cross

In a small village in the Chodsko region, people live with daily worries about making a living. Many are dependent on work on the estate. Only the priest Jiří is able to stand up against the undignifi ...
Genre :Drama

Professor

1966-03-23 0

Konec velké epochy

Genre :Science Fiction, TV Movie

Zdeněk Kružný

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

Commentary (voice)

1940-02-01 0

Czech Glass

A popular film about the skills of Czech glassmakers. ...
Genre :Documentary

1938-09-02 0

Vandiny trampoty

The likeable and charming Vanda Karhanová has problems in every job because of her appearance. So when she is about to start a new job, she decides to decisively prevent similar problems. She adjusts ...
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

1946-06-07 5

Průlom

A small Czech town in the 1860s. The townspeople once made a fortune from the proceeds of gold mines that are now flooded. However, they do not want to invest in draining them, as they are convinced t ...
Genre :Drama

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

vysoký zmocněnec

1966-06-24 0

The Hero Is Afraid

Honza Vavrinec (Rudolf Hrusínský) works in the investment department of a large office. One day he gets involved in the case of an unjustly convicted worker who mistakenly considers him a parliamentar ...
Genre :Comedy

1966-12-25 0

Cesta řeky k moři

Genre :Drama

1942-12-04 6

Karel a já

The factory owner's son Oldřich missed his own wedding. He overdid his bachelor party and spent the night before the wedding in Mr. Šourek's carriage, who asked him in vain for his address. In the mor ...
Genre :Comedy

1945-12-14 7

Rozina the Love Child

Prague, the beginning of the 17th century. Rozina falls in love with Italian glass worker Nikolo, but after returning home, she gets a message that will never come to Prague. She falls for the promi ...
Genre :History, Drama

1944-01-14 7

Mist on the Moors

Mist on the Moors examines fates of just about a few people. Their stories are outlined in a short space of time and are a symbolic representation of the drama of life, struggle for justice, human cog ...
Genre :Drama

1946-10-04 6.5

Hrdinové mlčí

The younger brother of a brave paratrooper killed by the Nazis joins a partisan unit to avenge his death. The story is still naive in many ways, but the foundations of resistance myths are already bei ...
Genre :Drama

1953-10-09 0

Dvaasedmdesátka

Genre :Drama

1971-09-02 0

Exekuce

Genre :Comedy

1949-11-25 5

Dnes o půl jedenácté

Genre :Drama, Crime

Commentary (voice)

1949-12-31 0

Láska

Montage of documentary footage from the liberation and building of the republic as a tribute to JV Stalin on his seventieth birthday. ...
Genre :Documentary

1977-11-11 0

All Against All

The story of an old gentleman who had spent his life restoring antiques. As an art connoisseur, he planned to surround himself with old paintings, which he collected deliberately. But his passion for ...
Genre :Comedy

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

Commentary (voice)

1948-01-01 0

Národ sobě

Genre :

Commentary (voice)

1950-03-31 0

China in battle

A documentary film about the history and present of the struggle of the communist troops led by Mao Zedong and Chu Tie in China. ...
Genre :Documentary

Commentary (voice)

1951-10-26 0

Rok stalinské epochy

Genre :Documentary

Commentary (voice)

1953-01-01 0

Divadlo československé armády

Genre :Documentary

Commentary (voice)

1954-01-01 0

Rychloraziči z Tisové

Genre :Documentary

Commentary (voice)

1937-01-01 6.7

Song of Ruthenia

A B&W film poem of the Czech countryside and Weiss’s personal favorite of his early shorts. Mythical images of mountains and streams and rural farmers tilling the land make this a precursor to the mys ...
Genre :Documentary

1971-02-16 0

Rozsudek

Genre :Drama, Crime

1971-09-12 6.8

F. L. Věk

Genre :Drama

1968-12-25 0

České pohádky

Genre :Kids, Family

1971-12-25 0

Princ a chuďas

A prince meets a young man to whom he bears a striking resemblance. The two exchange places and learn to be better people in the process. ...
Genre :Drama

1975-01-05 8.2

Byl jednou jeden dům

Genre :Drama, War & Politics

král

1973-12-06 0

Německé pohádky

Genre :Kids

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

1975-12-22 0

My z konce světa

Genre :Family