Stella Zázvorková
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1922-04-14
Locus Natus: Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Et ut: Stela Zázvorková
Kolya
After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly take responsibility for her son. However, it’s...
release : 1996.05.15popularis : 9.801
The Terribly Sad Princess
Musical fairy tale tells the story of prince and princesses from neighbouring friendly countries who have to marry each other, as decided by their...
release : 1968.06.07popularis : 2.32
How to Pull Out a Whale's Tooth
Vasek, 8 years old boy is desperate to find a new "father" for his mother.
release : 1977.12.24popularis : 4.782
How to Drown Dr. Mracek, the Lawyer
There are still water spirits among us. One group lives in Prague, led by Mr. Wassermann, who is using his wife's family as a servants. All they need...
release : 1975.03.01popularis : 3.632
About the Thick Fog
Short film made by Bretislav Pojar
release : 1976.04.08popularis : 1.443
Angel in the Mountains
Mr. Angel goes winter sporting and at the same time investigates his son's fiancee.
release : 1955.11.25popularis : 2.912
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...
release : 1970.02.27popularis : 3.19
Cosy Dens
Two families, Sebkovi and Krausovi, are celebrating Christmas, but not everyone is in a good mood. The teenage kids think that their fathers are...
release : 1999.04.08popularis : 11.851
Autumn Spring
A bittersweet comedy starring the great Vlastimil Brodský as Fanda, an old man who refuses to grow up. Despite pleas from his exasperated wife...
release : 2001.09.27popularis : 2.325
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...
release : 1975.09.26popularis : 1.511
A Nice Plate of Spinach
The heroes of this absurd comedy, full of confusion and humor are Dzharda Zemanek and Frantisek Liska.
release : 1977.09.09popularis : 2.639
Straw Hat
Slacker Maurice Fadinar wasted his whole inheritance and the only way out of this situation, as it seems, to marry Helen Nonankur - daughter of a...
release : 1972.03.24popularis : 4.531
Happy End
A dark comedy about a murder and its consequences presented in a backwards manner, where death is actually a rebirth. The film starts with an...
release : 1967.09.01popularis : 4.668
Young Bohácek's Sufferings
Tóna Bohácek (Pavel Landovský) has been a great worry to his mother, Mrs Bohácková (Stella...
release : 1969.07.25popularis : 1.095
We'll Kick Up a Fuss Tomorrow, Darling...
Mr. Novak tells a lie to his neighbor Mrs. Bartackova that her husband is unfaithful to her and that is how it all started.
release : 1976.11.19popularis : 3.508
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...
release : 1975.07.04popularis : 1.975
90° in the Shade
A woman attempts to cover up the thefts committed by the manager at the shop she works at.
release : 1965.10.01popularis : 2.931
Crooked Mirror
A satirical military "Fashion Show" instructing Czechoslovak soldiers how and how not to dress.
release : 1956.01.01popularis : 1.282
Don't Take the Sweater Off
A young Czech couple are terrorized by their funny family.
release : 1981.08.21popularis : 0.981
Four Murders Are Enough, Darling
Two criminal gangs are ruthlessly fighting for a 1-million dollar check that, purely by chance, got into the flat of shy high school teacher George...
release : 1971.07.16popularis : 7.209
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...
release : 1990.02.01popularis : 7.107
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...
release : 1986.01.01popularis : 3.324
The Girl on the Broomstick
A teenage witch, Saxana (Petra Černocká), frozen in time as a punishment for 300 years, finds herself in a modern world.
release : 1972.09.08popularis : 7.43
From Subway with Love
This romantic comedy presents a story of two women, twenty-year-old Laura, an editor at a woman’s weekly, and her widowed mother, a...
release : 2005.04.14popularis : 1.829
A Night at Karlstein
No Woman is allowed into Karlstejn Castle! Yet the enamoured Daniele Kolářová and the equally enamoured Jana Brejchová...
release : 1974.07.12popularis : 2.792
Max, Sally and the Magic Phone
Max and Sally, the heroes of popular Czech animated series are leaving the TV in order to become a regular boy and girl.
release : 2001.10.10popularis : 3.161
Wedding Under Supervision
A comedy about two bumbling policemen investigating an alleged rape in a small Czech town. One of the alleged rapists is supposed to get married the...
release : 1967.06.30popularis : 2.191
The Matches of a Beautiful Dragoon
In a suburban villa, a woman of means is murdered. Police Superintendent Zdychynec from the Prague Liben neighborhood reports the case to Police...
release : 1971.08.06popularis : 3.188
The End of Old Times
Czechoslovakia 1918. The newly formed National Assembly has made Stoklasa the administrator of the Kratochvile Castle. Although with no aristocratic...
release : 1989.01.01popularis : 3.409
Fair Play
Tereza lives and works in Prague. She meets a handsome man, Tommie, speaking in a language incomprehensible to her. It seems that he is the manager...
release : 1986.01.01popularis : 1.788
Every Man for Yourself
Georges Flavier, once renowned Parisian hairdresser, lives alone since the death of his son and the departure of his wife. One night, he saves a...
release : 1994.01.24popularis : 1.494
The Lost Photography
A young boy from Prague is trying to find a Soviet soldier from the old 1945 picture.
release : 1960.05.12popularis : 1.627
When the Cat Comes
While old Oliva tells a group of children about his life as a sailor and how he met Diana and her cat with sunglasses, a strange circus arrives in...
release : 1963.09.20popularis : 6.693
Women Offside
Kastl is a hairdresser but his real passion is his second job as football referee. This job takes all his free time and makes his wife very nervous.
release : 1971.07.20popularis : 2.843
School for Fathers
A new teacher with high standards and a strong sense of duty replaces an easy grader. Once bad grades begin to pile up, a product of his...
release : 1957.11.08popularis : 0.963
The Good Soldier Švejk
Good-natured and garrulous, Schweik becomes the Austrian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of World War I --...
release : 1957.08.23popularis : 4.569
How to Wake a Princess
At long last, King Dalimil and Queen Eliška have produced an heir, Princess Růženka. Consumed with envy, Eliška’s...
release : 1978.03.24popularis : 3.237
The Magic Book
An evil witch is trying to steal a magic purse possessed by the local ruler. Thanks to Princess Blanka's love, Prince Petr wins out over the witch.
release : 1996.02.22popularis : 1.556
You Are a Widow, Sir
After a soldier cuts off the arm of king's cousin, king decides to deactivate the army. Of course, generals don't like it at all and they try to kill...
release : 1971.01.15popularis : 3.173
Bill, Please
The director of the company Restaurants and Canteens arrives to attend a screening of a film made in various restaurants. A group of villagers come...
release : 1956.01.01popularis : 0.935
Wild Flowers
Seven seemingly unconnected fairy tales - glued together only by folklore, mood, color and light - make up this Czech collection of visual poetry....
release : 2000.12.06popularis : 3.885
Helluva Good Luck
Dora, a lazy and evil woman, is in love with her servant, Hannes. Hannes, however, loves her sister-in-law, Margareta. When Dora learns about this,...
release : 1999.03.04popularis : 0.885
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...
release : 1973.11.30popularis : 0.673
A Star Travels South
The Prague Grand Orchestra travels by train to a music festival in Yugoslavia. Only the singer Sona Klánová missed the departure. In...
release : 1964.05.15popularis : 1.817
A Pact with the Devil
A comedy about five students who are un-justly suspected of trying to lose their virginity before their graduation. The five girls first try to...
release : 1967.12.28popularis : 2.752
Příliš mnoho něhy
An animated lecture that totally overthrows the idea of the tender character of women and violent character of men. It proves that the reality is...
release : 1968.01.01popularis : 1.141
Today for the Last Time
Concert master Karel Mašek is a drunk, as well as engineer Danda and other regular guests of the pub U Kroců. Mašek returns from...
release : 1958.12.13popularis : 0.993
The Pilgrimage to the Holy Virgin
Farmers get away from their arguments by embarking on a religious pilgrimage, enjoy a picnic en route, and on their return decide to form a...
release : 1961.05.19popularis : 2.632
At the Terminus
Several bittersweet stories set in a Prague apartment building.
release : 1957.12.20popularis : 0.776
Domek u lesa
Every one of us has certainly been in a situation for which he or she is not prepared and is not able to orient him or herself immediately and...
release : 1985.01.01popularis : 0.001