Karel Engel
Karel Engel was a Czech wrestler and actor who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics. He was an actor, known for Záhada hlavolamu (1993), Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970) and Lemonade Joe (1964). He died on 30 December 2018 in Prague, Czech Republic.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.3408 |
| Birthday | 1940-05-28 |
| Place of Birth | Praha, Protektorát Čechy a Morava |
| Also Known As | Karel Engl, |
1978
Settlement of Crows
7.25/4
First movie of the famous Czech adventure trilogy: Osada Havranů Na veliké rece Volání rodu, based on the works of Eduard Štorch and directed by Ja...
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Settlement of Crows
1979
House Call
8.5/2
Third movie of the famous Czech adventure trilogy: Osada Havranů Na veliké rece Volání rodu
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House Call
1978
Quiet American in Prague
8/2
In the era of normalization, even seemingly buried agent stories came back. This one takes place in the immediate post-war years and tells the story o...
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Quiet American in Prague
1978
Vítězný lid
5/2
February 1948. The struggle of decisive social forces for the heart of Europe.
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Vítězný lid
1979
Those Wonderful Movie Cranks
6.464/14
Returning home to Prague, the magician Pasparte, an owner of a circus caravan, meets his dying colleague who entrusts his beautiful daughter Aloisie t...
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Those Wonderful Movie Cranks
1979
Beauty and the Beast
7.544/90
Julie, the youngest daughter of a bankrupt merchant, sacrifices her life in order to save her father. She goes to an enchanted castle in the woods and...
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Beauty and the Beast
1978
Past na kachnu
2.3/3
Taxi driver Koukal (Miroslav Machácek) is stopped by the police for a routine traffic check. In the boot of his car the police find the body of a nake...
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Past na kachnu
1979
Píseň o stromu a růži
7.5/2
Soviet engineer Kuznecov is coming to Prague as an expert on work with the tunneling shield in construction of the metro. He is returning after more t...
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Píseň o stromu a růži
1979
Radost až do rána
7/1
A psychological story about dissatisfied individuals who despise the stereotypes of others, but create their own. Kazan, a vagabond through life, and...
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Radost až do rána
1979
Ball Lightning
7.273/22
A comedy about exchange of 12 apartments , which, its organizer, lawyer Radosta, rightly called Action Ball Lightning. To prepare, organize and execut...
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Ball Lightning
1979
The Secret of Steel City
5.868/19
The film is a metaphor for the Cold War. It depicts two neighbouring nations: peace loving Fortuna and the not so peaceful land of the Steel City.
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The Secret of Steel City
1978
Lvi salónů
6/3
A marquee stands on a sprawling Prague housing estate and is home to two young bricklayers, who have all sorts of life experiences waiting for them in...
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Lvi salónů
1979
The Young Man and Moby Dick
4.25/4
Good-looking Edita Beningerová (Jana Brejchová) arrives at a chemical factory in the North Bohemian town of Ústí nad Labem together with her young ass...
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The Young Man and Moby Dick
1980
Love Between the Raindrops
6.385/13
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 u...
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Love Between the Raindrops
1980
The Medal
7/8
The trenches of World War I provide for a captivating backdrop to the drama of Corporal Hoferik. In his devotion to the Habsburg Monarchy, he fanatica...
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The Medal
1980
Dark Sun
5.286/7
A remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit. Engineer Prokop creates the devastating explosive “Krakatit” and soon confronts manipulative ag...
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Dark Sun
1981
Run, Waiter, Run!
7.156/48
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 collec...
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Run, Waiter, Run!
1981
Bulldogs and Cherries
4.286/7
The dreaded Italian mafioso, Marian Labuda, will also be convinced. Mafioso Carmello was guilty of the principles of his organization when he tried to...
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Bulldogs and Cherries
1981
Visitors from the Galaxy
4.5/24
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 Andra...
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Visitors from the Galaxy
1981
That Instant, That While
5/5
Autumn 1944. A doctor is accused in the collaboration with the Nazis and found guilty...
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That Instant, That While
1982
La Chanson du mal-aimé
6.25/2
Biography of the life of Guillaume Apollinaire.
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La Chanson du mal-aimé
1982
Attention, Rounds!
6.778/9
A story about an everyday life of an inflectional department of Prague hospital.
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Attention, Rounds!
1963
Tarzanova smrt
5/4
In the era of the rise of Nazism in Germany, a strange man, exhibited in a circus for the amusement of the audience, is found to be the heir to a larg...
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Tarzanova smrt
1983
Salty Rose
6.8/5
The happiness that has passed away will never return - this is exactly what a young Polish man learns when, in the immediate post-war period, he recal...
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Salty Rose
1965
Courage for Every Day
6.231/13
A passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure of his peers to live up to his ideals.
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Courage for Every Day
1965
Adventures with a Naked Boy
4/3
A man boards on a tram together with a naked boy. Somebody has stolen the boy's clothes when he was out bathing, leaving him with not even change for...
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Adventures with a Naked Boy
1995
Cesta peklem
6/2
A dramatic action film about stuntmen who perform the most dangerous stunts in the film world. One day, however, one of them is struck by a family tra...
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Cesta peklem
1965
The Finnish Knife
4.667/3
Two young men, thinking that they've killed someone, flee to Poland.
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The Finnish Knife
1966
Lady on the Tracks
6.8/5
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 day she...
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Lady on the Tracks
1968
Capricious Summer
6.412/34
Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimming and philosophizing. Then it starts to rain. It...
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Capricious Summer
1968
The Valley of the Bees
7.01/49
Cast out by his father, young Ondrej joins the Order of the Teutonic Knights, where he is raised by strict monk Armin. After years of hardship, Ondrej...
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The Valley of the Bees
1968
I, Justice
6.4/5
At the year 1946, the time of the Nuremberg Process. One of the main actors of the Second World War, who reportedly committed suicide, Adolf Hitler is...
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I, Justice
1971
Four Murders Are Enough, Darling
6.196/23
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 Ca...
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Four Murders Are Enough, Darling
1967
The End of Agent W4C
6.115/13
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 t...
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The End of Agent W4C
1969
Honor and Glory
6/7
In 1647, the impoverished noble Václav Rynda shelters an imperial commissioner-only to learn the visitors are French agents plotting a Bohemian revolt...
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Honor and Glory
1968
Crime in the Night Club
6.333/9
The theft of a pearl necklace and subsequent murder took place at the Tartaros cabaret. All this could compromise the minister, who is an admirer of t...
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Crime in the Night Club
1970
A Case for a Rookie Hangman
6.94/25
Lemuel Gulliver has had a car accident and continues his journey across the unknown countryside on foot. On the road he finds a dead rabbit dressed li...
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A Case for a Rookie Hangman
1968
Objížďka
7/1
The inhabitants of a picturesque village proud of its ancient linden tree will be disturbed by a disturbing event - a temporary road diversion is supp...
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Objížďka
1969
Flirt se slečnou Stříbrnou
8/2
At the centre of the story is Miss Lenka Stříbrná. An attractive, but a little strange young woman. The gym teacher Vasek is shy and very clumsy with...
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Flirt se slečnou Stříbrnou
1970
Witchhammer
7.557/70
In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imaginary witchery, and engages in brutal to...
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Witchhammer
1982
Sny o Zambezi
9/1
Two aspiring car racers have a big dream: they want to make a journey to the heart of Africa. But their value system is severely skewed, and one of th...
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Sny o Zambezi
1970
I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen
5.828/29
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...
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I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen
1975
Kateřina a její děti
8/1
A harsh and raw story about the difficult life of a village woman and the sad fate of her three daughters...
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Kateřina a její děti
1971
Lucie and the Miracles
4.6/5
The harsh reality of a home for abandoned children blends with episodes of youthful fantasy and slapstick comedy in this story of an orphan girl. Lucy...
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Lucie and the Miracles
1971
Svatby pana Voka
5.571/7
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 the indig...
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Svatby pana Voka
1972
And Give My Love to the Swallows
5.182/11
This film, chronicling the last days of Czech resistance fighter Maruska Kuderikova (played by Magda Vasaryova), is based on her diaries. Though she w...
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And Give My Love to the Swallows
1972
Six Bears and a Clown
6.917/18
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 escap...
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Six Bears and a Clown
1973
Death Chooses
8.25/2
Radek Simek, the driver of a postal car, is shot dead on his regular route. The Investigators give up initial suspicions of robbery, because he carrie...
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Death Chooses
1973
Miss Golem
4.25/8
It is the 1920's. The good-looking hostess Věra demonstrates household robots to visitors of the Futurum exhibition. Young inventor Petr comes to her...
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Miss Golem
1973
Kronika žhavého léta
6.5/2
A broadly drawn ideological epic set in the summer of 1947 in the borderlands of northern Bohemia: reactionary elements plot to undermine postwar soci...
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Kronika žhavého léta
1974
A Night at Karlstein
7.667/18
No Woman is allowed into Karlstejn Castle! Yet the enamoured Daniele Kolářová and the equally enamoured Jana Brejchová manage to spend one night in di...
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A Night at Karlstein
1977
Almost King
6.179/14
A fairy tale about how those who have a heart and are not stingy will not fail. The most popular hero of Czech fairy tales, besides the brave prince a...
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Almost King
1974
Zatykač na královnu
4.333/6
Captain Záruba investigates after an anonymous tip flags the seemingly extravagant lifestyle of Chemotex technician Dagmar Králová. Summoned to discus...
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Zatykač na královnu
1975
My Dear Aunt and Me
7.2/5
Two kind but foolish sisters live together in their villa in a small town in South Bohemia. Fany (Natasa Gollová) has never married and Andelka (Eva S...
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My Dear Aunt and Me
1975
Dvacátý devátý
6/2
In the era of normalisation, a number of (pseudo)historical films were made, even described as reconstructions, which glorified the world-building mis...
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Dvacátý devátý
1975
How to Drown Dr. Mracek, the Lawyer
6.6/35
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...
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How to Drown Dr. Mracek, the Lawyer
1975
Zbraně pro Prahu
6/2
In May 1945, Czech revolutionaries used several armoured trains in the fighting - partly captured, partly assembled from whatever the railway brought....
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Zbraně pro Prahu
1975
Sokolovo
4.25/8
The plot begins in the Soviet Union showing first efforts to establish the Czechoslovak legion in 1942. The film also shows the assassination of Heydr...
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Sokolovo
1975
The Day That Shook the World
6.063/8
An historical depiction of the events preceding the political murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, would-be emperor of the Austro-Hungarian throne, in...
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The Day That Shook the World
1976
Čas lásky a naděje
9/1
A colour-printed melodramatic selanca from the beginnings of the organised labour movement in Bohemia... Antonín Zápotocký, the second workers' presid...
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Čas lásky a naděje
1977
Dům Na poříčí
9/1
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 Prag...
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Dům Na poříčí
1977
The Liberation of Prague
5.333/3
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...
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The Liberation of Prague
1977
Our Gang
5.143/7
Energetic Dr. Alice Váňová becomes the pit doctor at Mír Mine and spearheads a silicosis prevention study requiring miners to drink milk regularly. Th...
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Our Gang
1976
The Little Mermaid
6.798/47
The little mermaid rescues a prince from drowning and falls in love with him. To be with him, she makes a deal with the evil sorceress: her beautiful...
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The Little Mermaid
1984
Vrak
10/1
This naively filmed adventure story draws from Robert L. Stvenson's novel, but adapts it to its own devices. It tells the story of a young Czech who w...
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Vrak
1983
Putování Jana Amose
5.5/2
The distressing fate of the Czech great Jan Amos Komenský, forced to leave his homeland after the White Mountain disaster. It depicts his encounters w...
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Putování Jana Amose
1984
Samorost
3.667/2
Even the best of resolutions can crumble, especially when late paternal feelings are echoed. Although the protagonist is a lecturer in ethics at the u...
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Samorost
1984
Sestricky
5.75/8
A Czech psychological film about the school of life, its sorrows and beauties. The main character is a young aspiring nurse Marie Sahulová, who, after...
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Sestricky
1970
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
6.959/304
Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the effects...
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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
1983
Celý svet nad hlavou
0/0
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Celý svet nad hlavou
1985
Barrandovské nokturno aneb Jak film tančil a zpíval
8/1
The 50th anniversary of the Barrandov studios was celebrated with a spectacular show: many directors and other important people gathered in the expens...
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Barrandovské nokturno aneb Jak film tančil a zpíval
1985
Hubert the Smart Boy
5.563/8
Hubert Hrabe, known as Smart Boy, is a Prague dandy who is always skirting the edge of the law. Like every likable rogue, he has a worthy adversary -...
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Hubert the Smart Boy
1984
Amadeus
8.023/4732
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Salzburg...
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Amadeus
1984
Komediant
6/2
Saxony, devastated by the Thirty Years' War, is led by the comedy troupe of the principal Fortunato. The student Vavrinec has fled Bohemia and greatly...
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Komediant
1985
Oldrich and Bozena
4.5/4
At the turn of the 10th and 11th centuries Boleslav's kingdom fell apart in the fratricidal war between the Přemyslovci and the other clans the main p...
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Oldrich and Bozena
1986
...nebo být zabit
7.5/2
March 1945. It is already quite obvious to the Nazis that they cannot win the war. So it is time to think about the future after the war and to cover...
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...nebo být zabit
1975
The Motive for Murder
4.25/4
A short story film depicting the three different faces of crime. In the short story "The Weekend", Karas kills a woman he raped some time ago in order...
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The Motive for Murder
1986
Tísňové volání
6/3
A dramatic patrol car weekend on the streets of Prague's city centre. Lieutenant Josef Kabát and his colleagues drive through the centre of Prague eve...
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Tísňové volání
1978
Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet
7.5/58
When famous detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in strange case of a missing dog and even stranger carnivorous plant. He becomes...
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Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet
1976
Circus in the Circus
5.1/10
To Moscow have arrived the participants of the international conference of the zoophilologists and also the international jury which is to elect for t...
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Circus in the Circus
1999
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
5.25/26
Indy finds that he must enlist the help of Hapsburg royalty when he embarks on a dangerous diplomatic mission through enemy-held Europe into the palac...
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
1993
Mystery of the Puzzle
5.9/5
A group of teenagers are trying to solve a mystery of a puzzle created and left to them by the dead boy.
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Mystery of the Puzzle
1984
Sun, Hay, Berries
6.803/33
A Czech agricultural student, Šimon Plánička, arrives at the small South Bohemian town of Hoštice, and joins the local JZD (agricultural co-op) with t...
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Sun, Hay, Berries
1987
Dva na koni, jeden na oslu
7.333/3
The musical version of the successful play of Oldřich Daněk was transferred to the screen by director Jiří Sequens in 1986. It takes place in the 14th...
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Dva na koni, jeden na oslu
1991
The Witches of the Suburbs
8/1
Two little girls get ahold of magic and hijinks ensue.
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The Witches of the Suburbs
1972
Bitva o Hedviku
10/1
In the early 1970s, the class struggle flared up in full force on the big screen - the hero of this film, set in the interwar period, is a staunch com...
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Bitva o Hedviku
1968
Marathon
5.625/8
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 prison to...
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Marathon
1986
Zátah
10/1
A pair of criminals, an escaped prisoner and a young thief, are about to make a joint, obviously illegal, escape across the border. They escape for a...
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Zátah
1964
The Jester's Tale
7.469/16
An anti-war black comedy set during the Thirty Years' War. It follows ploughman Petr, recruiter Matěj and country girl Lenka who get caught up in both...
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The Jester's Tale
1964
Lemonade Joe
7.146/72
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 to...
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Lemonade Joe
1978
Hrozba
7/1
The story takes place in a metallurgical plant where important technological changes are being made while the plant is in full operation. However, a m...
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Hrozba
1976
Tam kde hnízdí čápi
5.5/2
Despite the initial mistrust of others, former glass worker Štěoán Urban becomes the founder and first chairman of the local agricultural cooperative....
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Tam kde hnízdí čápi
1986
Zelená léta
8/1
Four short stories depicting the private life of Czechoslovak soldiers. In the short story "The Pheasant", the hardened corporal Kony takes revenge on...
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Zelená léta
1987
The Octopuses from the Second Floor
6.643/14
While on vacation with their bickering parents, young Eva and her little brother Johnny find in a polluted lake two strange friendly sentient octopuse...
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The Octopuses from the Second Floor
1987
Jsi falešný hráč
6.5/2
Even the best of friends can fall apart, often all it takes is a minor misunderstanding. That's exactly what happened to two village friends, children...
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Jsi falešný hráč
1987
Pavučina
7/3
Zdeněk Zaoral began filming this film in semi-amateur conditions, but it was eventually completed in a Zlín studio and released in cinemas. At its tim...
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Pavučina
1987
The Great Movie Robbery
6.8/5
The film is essentially a feature-length commercial for an exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of the nationalisation of the Czechoslovak film ind...
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The Great Movie Robbery
1988
Currency and Peace
6.526/19
Martin is an innocent lad from small-town Mlada Boleslav who comes to big-city Prague, hoping to exchange his krona for deutschemarks so that he can v...
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Currency and Peace
1988
Figurky ze šmantů
6/2
Three short stories about the people and folk around the shaft.
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Figurky ze šmantů
1987
On a Wayward Princess
6.2/5
Princess Julia doesn't want to marry an old prince Hubert so she runs away from home. She meets two old magicians and join the circus, where she meets...
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On a Wayward Princess
1987
Young Edisons
7/3
Children's film about a young boy who moves from the city to the country. At first he finds it difficult to make friends, until others discovers his g...
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Young Edisons
1989
Horká kaše
7/2
In the 1980s, a number of films were made about teenagers. At first they dealt with the confusing search for life orientation, the difficult entry int...
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Horká kaše
1988
Fools and a Girl
6.333/6
A coming of age drama about a young boy Jirka who lives in Prague.
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Fools and a Girl
1990
Člověk proti zkáze
9/2
Biography of Karel Čapek.
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Člověk proti zkáze
1991
Můj přítel d’Artagnan
7/1
Milda, a 13-year-old boy, loves to read adventure novels and imagines himself as a musketeer. He spends his summer vacation with his parents in a cott...
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Můj přítel d’Artagnan
1991
Byli jsme to my?
7.5/2
The theatre director encounters the disinterest and irresponsibility of the acting troupe, whose members are scheming and looking for side income. The...
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