Petr Čepek
Petr Čepek was a Czech actor associated with The Drama Club in Prague. His final film was Faust, directed by Czech surrealist Jan Švankmajer. Cepek attended the Academy of Performing Arts (DAMU) along with many notable Czech actors of the time, before appearing in Ostrava’s first theater, DPB until 1965. After joining with fellow colleagues in Prague’s Činoherní Klub, where he contributed to the formation of numerous famous theatre productions such as Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and Gogo’s Revizor (The Government Inspector). Čepek turned to politics in the late 1980s, participating in political rallies and negotiations before returning to the Academy of Performing Arts (DAMU) to teach until his death in 1994. Čepek was honored posthumously for his double role in the Švankmajers film Faust.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.7072 |
| Birthday | 1940-09-16 |
| Place of Birth | Prague, Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia [now Czech Republic] |
| Also Known As | Petr Cepek, P. Cepek, Peter Čepek, |
1976
Akce Býčí oko
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Akce Býčí oko
1985
My Sweet Little Village
7.417/84
The movie's main storyline follows the life of Otík, a young man, in a tight-knit village community. The sweet-tempered Otík works as an assistant tru...
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My Sweet Little Village
1977
Jak zničit vlastní mužstvo
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Jak zničit vlastní mužstvo
1990
Křížová vazba
3.25/4
Luděk Krejza, a tile-layer, returns from prison after serving time for manslaughter. In a retrospective, the viewer is introduced to his story. It is...
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Křížová vazba
1979
The Cat Prince
6.8/5
The castle custodian Král is moving to a new place of work with his wife, son Radek and a five - years old daughter Terezka. Radek takes his cat Líza...
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The Cat Prince
1978
Slečna Rajka
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Slečna Rajka
1979
Pohádka o ebenovém koni
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Pohádka o ebenovém koni
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
1984
The Snowdrop Festival
6.629/31
An episodic film about the inhabitants of Kersko, their hardships and their joys, most prominently hunting. A lyrical and humorous adaptation of writi...
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The Snowdrop Festival
1984
The Three Veterans
7.775/40
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 br...
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The Three Veterans
1994
Faust
7.4/78
A very free adaptation of Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus", Goethe's "Faust" and various other treatments of the old legend of the man who sold his soul to...
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Faust
1982
The Fall of the House of Usher
5.84/25
In this animated version of Edgar Allan Poe's story, a traveller arrives at the Usher mansion to find that the sibling inhabitants are living under a...
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The Fall of the House of Usher
1985
Dissolved and Effused
6.875/16
A police inspector and inexperienced trainee search for a mysteriously disappeared manufacturer of ointments for hair growth.
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Dissolved and Effused
1981
Cutting It Short
7.049/51
Francin, manager of a small-town brewery, has a charming wife whose abundant blonde locks are an adornment to the town. Maryska looks ethereal but lov...
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Cutting It Short
1977
Concert for the Survivors
7/1
A picture of generational confrontations between children and parents. A young and ambitious violin virtuoso, Peter, lives in long-lasting conflicts w...
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Concert for the Survivors
1982
Kamenný orchestr
2/2
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Kamenný orchestr
1972
Morgiana
7.3/64
Jealous of her vapidly "good" sister's popularity, poisonous Viktoria doses pretty Klara's tea with a slow-acting fatal substance. As the latter grows...
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Morgiana
1984
The Brave Blacksmith
6.571/14
Young blacksmith Mikeš sets out into the world for an adventure, accompanied by the miller's assistant Matěj and the boy Ondra. On their journey to re...
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The Brave Blacksmith
1977
Poslední zkouška
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Poslední zkouška
1981
The Hit
7.222/9
Mr Jiš managed to give his first script at Barrandov. Already in the preparatory phase, he discovers with horror that the filmmakers have completely b...
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The Hit
1979
Pracka v láhvi
4/4
An ambitious girl is hired by a group of thieves as a maid in the apartment of a famous actress. The thieves thus prepare the ground for a sophisticat...
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Pracka v láhvi
1963
Pušky paní Carrarové
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Pušky paní Carrarové
1963
Milenci z kiosku
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Milenci z kiosku
1963
Není doba pro zupáky aneb Patálie seržanta Kinga
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Není doba pro zupáky aneb Patálie seržanta Kinga
1980
Hordubal
2.5/4
After five years of hard work in America Juraj Hordubal (Anatoliy Kuznetsov) returns back home. He is looking forward to his wife Polana (Libuse Geprt...
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Hordubal
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
1990
Skřivánčí ticho
8/2
The hero of the story is a forty-something intellectual, a sensitive composer of classical music. His exclusive profession, his work, which is actuall...
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Skřivánčí ticho
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
1971
Oil Lamps
6/12
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 Austri...
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Oil Lamps
1967
Hotel for Strangers
6.188/8
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 c...
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Hotel for Strangers
1968
The Valley of the Bees
7/50
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
1987
Bitva na kopci
5/1
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Bitva na kopci
1970
Adelheid
6.864/22
In the aftermath of World War II, a soldier takes charge of a manor formerly owned by a German family and falls in love with the daughter, now a maid....
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Adelheid
1971
Prince Bajaja
6.2/6
The hero of this popular fairy tale is a young prince who, after the death of his parents, goes out into the world. During his travels he meets a magi...
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Prince Bajaja
1989
The Damned House of Hajn
5.846/13
Sonya is the heiress to the riches of a Czech noble family—the Hajns. Petr, a social climber marries her, ignoring some shady goings-on—in particular,...
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The Damned House of Hajn
1972
Návraty
10/1
A psychological film about the sense of self-fulfillment of a divorced couple over 30 who feel that life is slipping through their fingers. While she,...
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Návraty
1987
Smích se lepí na paty
6.667/3
Sixty-year-old Joska Platejz, a peculiar jack of all trades, lives in a cottage in the Giant Mountains. He cooks wonderfully for a group of woodcutter...
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Smích se lepí na paty
1972
The Death of Black King
5.222/9
Prague in the 1930s. A young, pretty girl gets on a crowded tram. She immediately catches the attention of a young man who not only appreciates the gi...
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The Death of Black King
1981
Najatý klaun
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Najatý klaun
1982
Ferat Vampire
5.421/38
A doctor is shocked when his beloved colleague Mima signs a contract with foreign car manufacturer Ferat, in order to work for them as a rally-driver....
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Ferat Vampire
1983
Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping
8.105/19
Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Ladislav Smoljak, about the fictional national hero Jára Cimrman (universal genius, inventor, sportsman, criminal...
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Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping
1974
Jak přijít o život
6/1
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Jak přijít o život
1981
Night Riders
6.583/6
Two men of principle face each other. One is backed by a whole, however poor village, the other by the law. It is a conflict that reaches it's climax...
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Night Riders
1987
Landscape with Furniture
5.5/5
The story of a music academy student Zdenek, who meets a charming girl, and without realizing also gets a son with her. Dealing with such a situation...
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Landscape with Furniture
1989
Cesta na jihozápad
10/1
Based on a Jack London story, this is another attempt at a Western spectacle - after the short story triptych The Canyon of Gold - about a teenage boy...
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Cesta na jihozápad
1975
Škaredá dědina
7/1
The economic crisis in the early 1930s also affected the inhabitants of the distinctive Moravian-Slovak countryside. The protagonist and his family re...
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Škaredá dědina
1972
Cestující se připraví k odletu
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Cestující se připraví k odletu
1987
Kdo se bojí, utíká
7.5/2
In a school somewhere in the border region, a young teacher is trying to integrate Romani children into the classroom. But their families remain suspi...
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Kdo se bojí, utíká
1979
Diagnóza smrti
5.214/7
Two seriously injured patients are brought to the hospital at almost the same time: truck driver Honza Linhart, who had an accident, and a young woman...
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Diagnóza smrti
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
1983
Společnost s ručením omezeným
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Společnost s ručením omezeným
1989
Mark of Cain
10/1
In 1866, as Austria faces war with Prussia, 19-year-old Ludvík Machl joins a secret Czech resistance group. When he is caught with stolen funds and a...
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Mark of Cain
1990
Muka obraznosti
4.4/5
The film tells the story of an enthusiastic young man who joins a textile factory in the late 1950s and assumes that a promising career awaits him - t...
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Muka obraznosti
1969
Looking Back
8/2
Young script-writer Frantisek (Petr Cepek) is hired to write a film script based on the successful novel Looking Back. He meets with the novel's femal...
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Looking Back
1981
Tři v tom
0/0
How to marry off two daughters and a maid, especially when the father has no idea that it's high time? Father Ubaldo has worries; his two daughters ar...
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Tři v tom
1978
Past na kachnu
2.333/3
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
1971
Revizor
9/1
A recording of a theatre production directed by Jan Kačer from 1967.
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Revizor
1984
Polka viva
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Polka viva
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
1991
The Elementary School
7.331/65
The time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside Prague. In school, their class is so wild and indisciplined...
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The Elementary School
1971
Granny
7.5/4
A tale based on novel by Czech writer Bozena Nemcova.
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Granny
1979
The Secret of Steel City
5.9/19
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
1987
Zatmění všech sluncí
0/0
The TV play tells the story of a woman who committed financial fraud at work. But she did not appropriate the money for herself; she was lured into th...
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Zatmění všech sluncí
1990
Nudity
4.5/6
Young prisoner Jan, nicknamed Roughboy (Petr Cepek), tries to commit suicide. He was imprisoned for a fight in which he injured a functionary of the N...
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Nudity
1985
Extended Time
7.333/3
The dramatic story of Karel Svozil, an aging professor of art history, tells of love and old age, illness, death and the worries of everyday life with...
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Extended Time
1992
Šťastlivec Sulla
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Šťastlivec Sulla
1988
Magician
5.714/7
A narration of episodes from the life of the famous Czech poet, Karel Hynek Mácha. Throughout the film, we witness a deep analysis of Mácha's complex...
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Magician
1978
Nikola Šuhaj loupežník
0/0
The merging of reality with legend, the image of reality (Ruthenian Verkhovyna in the 1920s) and its reflection in people's minds - this is what chara...
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Nikola Šuhaj loupežník
1985
Všichni musí být v pyžamu
9/1
The hero, rushing from one misfortune to another, is former accountant Řehoř Maršíček, who after a heart attack, out of fear of death, decides to live...
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Všichni musí být v pyžamu
1971
Mandragora
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Mandragora
1970
Aesop
7.5/2
This film brings us back to show us the life of the famous ancient sage Aesop, who helped people with his wisdom in their struggle for freedom and hap...
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Aesop
1970
Naďa Urbánková's Nightmares
7/1
Singer and actress Naďa Urbánková, against the background of vampires and ghostly realities.
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Naďa Urbánková's Nightmares
1972
A Touch of a Butterfly
7.333/3
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, w...
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A Touch of a Butterfly
1988
Zrcadlo nenávisti
0/0
Painter Horace visits his friend, a former criminalist, and is intrigued by two strange women who live in the house opposite. The old sisters have liv...
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Zrcadlo nenávisti
1973
Rambling Engelbert
7/1
Rambling Engelbert: 1973 Czechoslovakian T.V. movie musical
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Rambling Engelbert
1981
Sluníčko na houpačce
5/1
Editor Julie and artist Vojta go to a children's home in Sumava to pick up a nine-year-old boy, Matěj Stibor, and bring him to Prague to receive the m...
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Sluníčko na houpačce
1987
Etudes for Piano Students
0/0
Films for children gradually fell into the grip of expressive and content sterility, succumbing to exhortative, educational tendencies. This is also t...
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Etudes for Piano Students
1981
Loupežnická pohádka
6.5/2
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Loupežnická pohádka
1989
Dobří holubi se vracejí
8/4
The film is a concert of well-known actors from an alcohol rehab where a middle-aged man has taken refuge to get rid of his addiction. In the rehab, c...
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Dobří holubi se vracejí
1978
Súkromná vojna
8/1
Slovak psychological drama from the end of World War II. The plot of the film takes place in a short period of time just before the outbreak of the up...
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Súkromná vojna
1991
Svědek umírajícího času
5.75/4
At the beginning was the Slovak television series Lekár umierajúceho czasu (Doctor of Dying Time), dedicated to the Rudolphine-era scientist Jan Jesen...
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Svědek umírajícího času
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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Byli jsme to my?
1977
Ráno budeme moudřejší
0/0
Marie, an active modern woman at work, has resigned herself to everything after a disappointment in life and allows herself to be completely used by h...
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Ráno budeme moudřejší
1981
Jasnovidec
0/0
The story of the chief prosecutor Dr. Klapka - a self-confident, cold-blooded, calculating man who lives in the comfort befitting his position - and h...
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Jasnovidec
1979
Ráno pod mesiacom
0/0
An intimate family story full of dramatic relationships and the desire for eternal values such as love and understanding. A confrontation of two wor...
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Ráno pod mesiacom
1986
Křídlovka pro Majoránka
0/0
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Křídlovka pro Majoránka
1987
Fanynka
0/0
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Fanynka
1986
Mít někoho do deště
5/1
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Mít někoho do deště
1985
Revue za šest korun
0/0
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Revue za šest korun
1985
Věčný Faust
0/0
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Věčný Faust
1993
Život a dílo skladatele Foltýna
0/0
Against the petty, which places its own glory above honest work and honest human relationships. Čapek's Foltýn is from the family of eternally recurri...
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Život a dílo skladatele Foltýna
1988
Nine Circles of Hell
5.833/6
As the Khmer Rouge carves a path of death throughout the land, a Czech doctor falls in love with a Cambodian woman. Their relationship, though sorely...
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Nine Circles of Hell
1986
Tulakóna
0/0
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Tulakóna
1994
Thanks for Every New Morning
8/4
This film is about life of a family, which lived in Prague since since 1968 to 1980. Father of the family comes from Ukraine and so every year someone...
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Thanks for Every New Morning
1989
Ohňostroj v Aspern
0/0
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Ohňostroj v Aspern
1991
Lhát se nemá, princezno!
0/0
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Lhát se nemá, princezno!
1991
Sokratův podzim
0/0
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Sokratův podzim
1982
Portrait
0/0
On their tenth wedding anniversary, painter František and his wife Jarmila return to their isolated home. While František is content with a quiet, una...
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