Václav Štekl
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1929-09-23
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I'll Be Good, Old Man!
To the intolerant and bloody-minded Prague actor Bergner (Milos Kopecký) is the lead in Moliere's Misanthrope which he is studying now as...
release : 1979.07.27popularis : 3.269
The Ninth Heart
Martin, a poor student, volunteers to go on a quest to find a cure for the princess Adriana, who is stricken with a strange illness. Unknown to...
release : 1979.04.13popularis : 1.894
Čas pracuje pro vraha
Vera, wife of the plumber Simandl (Josef Somr), is found murdered in the cinema next to the IDOC (Information and Documentation) agency where she...
release : 1980.02.01popularis : 0.43
Fragile Relationships
A divorced single mother romances a young slaughterhouse worker, must to the chagrin of her ex-husband.
release : 1980.01.04popularis : 1.323
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...
release : 1980.05.23popularis : 2.935
Don't Look Back, There Is a Horse Behind Us
Postwoman Mrs Skorepa, her husband the ambulance driver Mr Skorepa and their eleven-year-old twins Petr and Pavel live in Prague in Malá...
release : 1981.01.02popularis : 1.084
Every Penny Counts
After inheriting a villa from his uncle, Emil Tuma meets its strange inhabitants, getting him in trouble.
release : 1961.09.29popularis : 1.89
Epizod Berlin West
The 1980s. Jan Bard, Polish intellectual and writer, leaves for West Berlin. He is working on another novel here. In Germany, he meets his old love...
release : 1986.10.21popularis : 1.196
Lady on the Tracks
Tram driver Marie has far too much to do after her shift is over. But she likes to do it all since she loves her husband Václav sincerely. One...
release : 1966.09.30popularis : 1.65
The Limping Devil
A baleful limping man walks through Prague. He is Asmodeus (Juraj Herz), the fiend of lustfulness, entertaining himself by putting together by magic...
release : 1968.09.13popularis : 1.87
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
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
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
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
Svatby pana Voka
Czech nobleman Petr Vok of Rozmberk (Milos Kopecký) is no longer so young, but his amatory adventures continue to arouse the envy of men and...
release : 1971.03.26popularis : 4.689
Visitors from the Galaxy
Robert is a SF writer, who realizes that he can make his thoughts material. Because of that, a group of aliens arrives to Earth. Their leader is...
release : 1982.07.02popularis : 2.867
Six Bears and a Clown
The owner of a circus decides to swap his trained bears for trained pigs, and fires clown Cibulka. The clown gets a job at a local school, bears...
release : 1972.12.29popularis : 3.609
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
A Star Is Falling Upwards
Švand, a room painter from Strakonice, begins a dizzying career as a pop music star, but he soon discovers that fame is not the most important...
release : 1975.08.29popularis : 1.763
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 Girl Fit to Be Killed
The waitress Gita from the hotel "Bobí vrch" approaches her lover who has not left his wife yet and gives him an ultimatum: if he does not do...
release : 1976.04.16popularis : 1.48
The Cremator
In 1930s Prague, a Czech cremator who firmly believes cremation relieves one from earthly suffering is drawn inexorably to Nazism.
release : 1969.03.14popularis : 19.316
The False Prince
The Sultan awaits the arrival of his son, Prince Omar, who has brought up in a distant land. The master tailor and his assistances are making clothes...
release : 1985.06.01popularis : 1.919
Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet
When famous detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in strange case of a missing dog and even stranger carnivorous plant. He becomes...
release : 1978.08.04popularis : 7.297
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
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
Oil Lamps
In 1900, Stepha, the vivacious 30 year old daughter of a wealthy couple, agrees to marry her cousin Paul, who has accumulated large debts as an...
release : 1971.11.05popularis : 1.086
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,...
release : 1972.01.01popularis : 0.599
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
Rambling Engelbert
Rambling Engelbert: 1973 Czechoslovakian T.V. movie musical
release : 1973.01.01popularis : 1.196
Burning Secret
While recuperating in a sanatorium in the mountains, a young boy becomes very close friends with an older baron. But the baron is only using the boy...
release : 1988.12.23popularis : 8.326
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...
release : 1968.12.31popularis : 1.137
Lemonade Joe
A satire of the Great American Way, with Lemonade Joe a "clean living" gunfighter who drinks only Kola-Loca Lemonade and convinces everyone else in...
release : 1964.10.16popularis : 5.09