Jiří Hálek
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1930-09-10
Locus Natus: Praha, Československo
Et ut: Jirí Hálek, Jiri Halek
Monkey's Playtime
The fisherman Fuksa fishes in the creek an old bottle and he sells it to innkeeper Merta. When Merta opens it, a genie appears, who can fulfill all...
release : 1978.02.10popularis : 1.946
Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea
Former Nazi Klaus Abard survives to the 1990s by taking anti-ageing pills. He plans to use a time travel trip to return to Germany in 1944 and...
release : 1977.08.12popularis : 3.258
Kdo přichází před půlnocí
The accountants at a agricultural cooperative near Prague have completed the calculation of wages. The driver with the cashier are leaving for a bank...
release : 1980.05.30popularis : 0.856
The Garden
Frank visits his friend Josef, who introduces him to his pedigree rabbits and his wife Mary. Frank is more interested in the slightly unsettling fact...
release : 1968.12.06popularis : 1.087
Case for a Rookie Hangman
Lemuel Gulliver (Lubomír Kostelka) has had a car accident and continues his journey across the unknown countryside on foot. On the road he...
release : 1970.07.03popularis : 1.839
Krvavý román
The television adaptation of Jaroslav Hašek's satirical short story.
release : 1969.01.01popularis : 0.215
Divoký koník Ryn
Several of the works of writer Bohumil Říha have been filmed. This novel by the pro-regime writer also inspired a children’s film,...
release : 1982.03.26popularis : 0.339
Like Rabbits
A story of two boys who during the summer at a recreation area become best friends despite being enemies at first.
release : 1982.09.24popularis : 1.355
How the World Is Losing Poets
Inseparable friends Štěpán and Kendy are students in their final year of high school. When they are in the principal's office...
release : 1982.11.12popularis : 1.673
Hearty Greetings from the Globe
Two aliens stir up trouble on Earth in order to study humans. Misunderstandings ensue.
release : 1983.07.01popularis : 1.214
Closely Watched Trains
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity....
release : 1966.11.18popularis : 10.242
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 : 3.086
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 : 0.728
The Gentle Barbarian
A commemorative and essayistic meditative piece on the Prague quarter Libeň during the 1950s.
release : 1990.09.01popularis : 1.302
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...
release : 1968.06.28popularis : 1.238
Bedtime Story
Comedy based on short Sean O'Casey play. John Jo Mulligan finds himself in a situation with which his pious conscience cannot cope. He has spent a...
release : 1968.04.26popularis : 2.311
Crime in the Night Club
A black comedy set in a Prague cabaret.
release : 1968.12.20popularis : 0.873
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 : 2.492
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 : 1.426
Touha Sherlocka Holmese
Sherlock Holmes likes to play violin and expects a great career in music. He gets a place in a spa orchestra, but he is again and again distracted by...
release : 1972.03.03popularis : 0.911
The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun
A bachelor named Faun with a Don Juan complex, seized with a hypochondriac's fear of the ineluctable approach of death, enters a race against time's...
release : 1984.10.01popularis : 0.994
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 : 0.928
About Show-White
Sixth-grade pupil Katka daydreams during a math class about being Snow White and being freed by a prince who looks very much like Dzery from the...
release : 1972.05.19popularis : 0.489
The Legend of the Silver Fir
According to one Beskydy Mountains legend, if you do a good deed you will see silver trees. Little Ondra knows trees like that. In his family's...
release : 1973.12.28popularis : 0.398
The Three Veterans
It is a story of three veterans released from the army. During one night spent camping in the country they one by one wake up and meet three elvish...
release : 1984.07.01popularis : 2.199
Katapult
Adaptation of Vladimir Paral's comic novel, which criticizes consumerism as an attitude of life.
release : 1984.08.01popularis : 1.749
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 : 1.575
Flying Saucers Over Our Village
A model Communist village is visited by a flying saucer.
release : 1977.11.25popularis : 1.112
Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping
Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Ladislav Smoljak, about the fictional national hero Jára Cimrman (universal genius, inventor, sportsman,...
release : 1983.10.01popularis : 4.431
The Explosion Will Be at Five
This tale is about young Ludvik (Robert Nespor) an erstwhile, budding scientist whose practical sense leads him to experiment before his common sense...
release : 1985.06.01popularis : 2.029
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 : 7.62
The Seventh Day, the Eighth Night
An allegory set in an archetypal Czech village, it tells of what happens when a sequence of mysterious events take place, including the disappearance...
release : 1990.06.01popularis : 1.19
Marecek, Pass Me the Pen!
This comedy is about one average family. The father works as master in the factory and his son is studying on high school. One day father must start...
release : 1976.10.08popularis : 2.808
Carlsbad Ponies
Angelika, a ten years old daughter of a spa visitor Bachmann is terribly bored in Karlovy Vary spa. Her father enjoys different spa procedures,...
release : 1971.09.10popularis : 1.17
Princess Goldilocks
A princess was so beautiful and had such golden hair that she was known as Pretty Goldilocks. A neighboring king fell in love with her from her...
release : 1973.12.24popularis : 0.72
Run, Waiter, Run!
A comedy concerning a down on his luck bookshop owner with a penchant for women who decides to make some money by pretending to be a waiter and...
release : 1981.01.09popularis : 3.154
Hogo Fogo Homolka
The Homolka family celebrates a great occasion: they were finally able to buy a car. They immediately begin to drive for small trips to Hradcany, to...
release : 1971.03.05popularis : 1.533
Chief, It's Amazing
Criminal comedy, a first movie from the "Chief" series.
release : 1982.12.31popularis : 1.679
Comrades
Chytilová was not allowed to direct films between 1969 and 1976. The sole exception was the made-for-TV film Kamarádi, now virtually...
release : 1971.01.01popularis : 0.373
The Case of Dead Schoolmates
A West German businessman Friedrich Schmidt is arriving to Czechoslovakia with private mission and mission for Intelligence service. He wants to...
release : 1977.02.18popularis : 0.627
The Uninvited Guest
A run-of-the-mill family is terrorized by strangers dressed in military garb who invade their private realm.
release : 1991.09.05popularis : 0.529
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...
release : 1969.02.14popularis : 4.64
People from the Subway
Three short stories. Prague finally sees the approval of the subway construction. Thousands of individuals took part in preparing, course and...
release : 1974.05.17popularis : 0.99
Wie füttert man einen Esel
Due to his profession, Fred, an easy-going and charming long-haul truck-driver, sees a lot of the world. Along his routes he enjoys the company of a...
release : 1974.07.04popularis : 0.827
Znásilnění
A career woman's struggle and fight against a male dominated society.
release : 2001.01.24popularis : 0.645