
Stella Zázvorková
Actor · 1922 – 2005 · Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Stella Zázvorková (14 April 1922 – 18 May 2005) was a Czech actress from Prague. Zázvorková, an alumnus of Prague's theatre school of E.F. Burian, appeared in more than a hundred films and series. She was married to the actor Miloš Kopecký. She became known abroad through series including Arabela, The Territory of White Deer, and Hospital at the End of the City, and also through her role in the Oscar-winning movie Kolya by Jan Svěrák.
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Movie5.6ComedySlacker Maurice Fadinar wasted his whole inheritance and the only way out of this situation, as it seems, to marry Helen Nonankur - daughter of a wealthy farmer. At the last meeting with his mistress in a nearby forest Fadinar's horse eats straw hat which belongs to a married lady, spending time in the company of young and hot Lieutenant Emil. Emil literally puts a knife to Maurice throat - or the lady will get back the exact same hat immediately, or he will arrange such a scandal that no wedding will not happen ...
Movie7.4DramaComedyAfter a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly take responsibility for her son. However, it’s not long before the communication barrier is broken between the two new family members.
Movie8.0ComedyDramaTwo families, Sebkovi and Krausovi, are celebrating Christmas, but not everyone is in a good mood. The teenage kids think that their fathers are totally stupid, and the fathers are sure that their children are nothing more than rebels, hating anything they say.
Movie6.9DramaRomanceIn post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation. Among them is a young man who pines for a female convict.
Movie6.4ComedyThe heroes of this absurd comedy, full of confusion and humor are Dzharda Zemanek and Frantisek Liska.
Movie7.5ComedyWarGood-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 -- although his bumbling attempts to get to the front serve only to prevent him from reaching it. Playing cards and getting drunk, he uses all his cunning and genial subterfuge to deal with the police, clergy, and officers who chivy him toward battle.
Movie7.0ComedyFantasyWhile 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 town.
Movie8.0ComedyAn only son, Jirí Valenta (Jaromír Hanzlík), has been drafted to the army. At the barracks he acquires the nickname Seamstress because he sews rugs in his spare time. One day, his friend introduces him to Julka Vávrová (Jorga Kotrbová), a girl he is desperate to get rid of. The naive Jirí falls in love with the girl and accepts her invitation to spend Easter together in the country. There he learns that the girl is the single mother of the young boy Martínek, whose father is the married tractor driver.
Dva muži hlásí příchod
1975 · 3 votes
Movie8.3DramaConcert master Karel Mašek is a drunk, as well as engineer Danda and other regular guests of the pub U Kroců. Mašek returns from the pub in the morning and promises the woman that he will stop drinking. But he failed again, and the orchestra players refuse to play with him. Danda returns home without a bag and goes to Krocs again in the morning, even though he has an important job at work. He has been degraded to subordinate job position, but he refused to admit it at home.
Movie5.7CrimeDramaIn a Prague shop, an assistant has been carrying on an affair with the dishonest, married manager. An emotionally repressed auditor with domestic problems of his own uncovers serious stock discrepancies. A test of loyalties and a questioning of values concludes in tragedy.
Movie6.6ComedyFantasyThere 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 is their old house near the river. But the house is to be demolished. They have to stop it. And the only way is to drown Dr. Mrácek, who is responsible for the demolition. But he falls in love with Wassermann's niece Jana. He changes to fish, is mistaken for water spirit from Germany, is drowned and revived again. The other problem is the flour with ears... and so on...
Jak utopit dr. Mráčka aneb Konec vodníků v Čechách
How to Drown Dr. Mracek, the Lawyer
1975 · 37 votes
Movie7.6ComedyFamilyVasek, 8 years old boy is desperate to find a new "father" for his mother.
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A VB officer regulates the arrival of fans at Sparta. He'd like to go too, but there are more fans in their ranks and they have to rotate duty. So he just asks for the scores of everyone he knows in the street and elsewhere. He visits a pub, chats with the barmaid and invites her to watch the end of the game right on the pitch, by then he'll be off duty. But on his next errand, he is stopped by a frantic father whose wife has just given birth...
Fanda
1977
Movie7.0ComedyFamilyA teenage witch, frozen in time as a punishment for 300 years, finds herself in a modern world.
Movie6.4FantasyFamilyAt long last, King Dalimil and Queen Eliška have produced an heir, Princess Růženka. Consumed with envy, Eliška’s sister Melánie casts a curse: On the day Růženka turns seventeen, she will prick her finger and fall into a deep sleep together with the entire kingdom.
Movie6.8Science FictionComedyAfter 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 the king. The assassin should be artificial body in the shape of actress Evelina Keleti and with brain of psychotic serial killer Fany Stubová. They also manage to kill king's astrologer Stuart Hampl, who warns the king. Accidentally, Hampl's brain is implanted into assassin's body, actress Keleti is killed and chaos begins.
Movie5.9FamilyFantasyAn 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.
Movie6.2ComedyTóna Bohácek has been a great worry to his mother, Mrs Bohácková. All his friends equal in age are already married and some of them even have children - only Tóna still has nothing. Mother Bohácková thus publishes an ad in the Lonely Hearts column on behalf of her son. From among the girls who responded, she picks out Janicka, a girl from the neighboring village, and then forces Tóna to go to have a look at her and bring her home. The date of the two young people, however, does not turn out well due to the embarrassment on both sides, and Tóna returns home drowning in the feeling of ridiculousness. On the way, he picks up hitchhiker Kveta from Prague. Only then, he realizes that the mother with her festive dinner is waiting for him and Janicka at home and thus asks Kveta to substitute for the girl from the ad.
Movie5.9Science FictionComedyThis futuristic science fiction comedy features an atomic bomb blast that causes women to grow beards and lose the ability to have children. A summit meeting is held at the United Nations, with the proposed solution of building a time machine. The decision is made to travel back in time and murder Einstein, with the hopeful result being that without the noted mathematician's research there will be no atomic bombs.
Movie6.7ComedyTwo gentlemen, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, have a brilliant plan! To spice up their quiet country life and bring some excitement into it, they invent a person they absolutely must travel to. Jack creates an imaginary brother, Philip, who he uses as an excuse to travel to London to see the lovely Gwendoline. Algernon, on the other hand, has an imaginary friend, Banbury, who is constantly ill and must urgently visit him at his hospital bed. Everything starts to fall apart when Moncrieff starts calling himself Philip after visiting Worthing's young protégé, Cecilia, at her country estate. When the two gentlemen find themselves under the same roof together - it's time to discover how important it is to have Philip!
Jak je důležité míti Filipa
1979 · 3 votes
Movie6.3ComedyCzechoslovakia 1918. The newly formed National Assembly has made Stoklasa the administrator of the Kratochvile Castle. Although with no aristocratic background, he is a man of fortune and is trying to buy the castle. To impress his neighbors and the local politicians he invites them to a great hunting party. Uninvited comes a man who claims to be Duke Alexej. Stoklasa believes him to be a hustler. This hustler, however, manages to charm all the women before he leaves.
Movie6.9ComedyMr. Angel goes winter sporting and at the same time investigates his son's fiancee.
Movie7.0FamilyComedyA bittersweet comedy starring the great Vlastimil Brodský as Fanda, an old man who refuses to grow up. Despite pleas from his exasperated wife who wants him to make serious decisions about the future, Fanda ignores the nagging and spends his days seeking amusement and adventure.
Movie7.5ComedyA dark comedy about a murder and its consequences presented in a backwards manner, where death is actually a rebirth. The film starts with an "execution" of the main protagonist and goes back to explore his previous actions and motivations.
Happy End
1967 · 56 votes
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TV6.5ComedyThe misadventures of the Nováci family.
Nováci
1995 · 2 votes
TV8.6CrimeDobrodružství kriminalistiky
1989 · 7 votes
TV7.0ComedyBakaláři
1972 · 2 votes
TV7.3DramaCrimeThirty Cases of Major Zeman is a Czechoslovak action-drama television show intended as a political propaganda to support the official attitude of the communist party. The series were filmed in the 1970s. Each episode encompasses one year, and investigations are stylized to that year. Most are inspired by real cases. The series follows the life of police investigator Jan Zeman during his career from 1945 to 1975.
TV8.0ComedyChalupáři is a Czechoslovak comedy TV series filmed in 1974 and 1975 by František Filip.
Chalupáři
1975 · 14 votes
TV8.2Sci-Fi & FantasyComedyArabela was a children's television series produced in Czechoslovakia which aired from 1979 to 1981. The series has 13 episodes and is in the Czech language.
Arabela
1980 · 48 votes
TV6.6FamilyComedyYoung boy Cestmir finds a magic rock which allows him to bring the seeds of the flowers which allow flying from Blue Planet...
TV6.9Sci-Fi & FantasyKidsA lot has happened since the magic bell last rang. Arabela and Petr have been together for 10 years and are still waiting in vain for a child. Honzík and Mařenka have become university students, studying folklore, i.e. fairy tales. The realm of fairy tales is seriously threatened. The giant Balibul is banished from the land of giants for being a vegetarian and settles near the kingdom to learn how to eat people. Every day he demands a new victim. Bystrozraký escapes from prison to avoid becoming his victim and seizes the magic cloak. He flies into the world of humans.
Arabela se vrací aneb Rumburak králem Říše pohádek
1993 · 15 votes
TV6.7DramaHospital at the End of the City is a popular television series first released in Czechoslovakia in 1977, it featured an ensemble cast and received much viewer praise in central Europe. The series ran from 1977 to 1981 for a total of twenty episodes. The success of the series inspired the German television series The Black Forest Clinic.
Nemocnice na kraji města
1978 · 13 votes
TV6.0ComedyPíseň pro Rudolfa III.
1967 · 2 votes
TV7.3CrimeMalý pitaval z velkého města
1983 · 6 votes
TV8.0DramaSynové a dcery Jakuba skláře
1986 · 1 votes
TV8.0CrimeHříšní lidé města pražského
1969 · 13 votes
- TVDocumentary
GENUS
1995
TV6.5DramaŽena za pultem
1977 · 7 votes
TV3.3FamilyDramaStories from a daily life of children attending a regular school.
TV7.0DramaF. L. Věk
1971 · 5 votes
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Dnes v jednom domě
1980 · 1 votes
TV5.5ComedyRozpaky kuchaře Svatopluka
1985 · 2 votes
TV10.0ComedyStříbrná pila
1978 · 1 votes
TV7.0ComedyFamilyKlapzubova jedenáctka
1968 · 1 votes
TV5.3DramaVe znamení Merkura
1979 · 2 votes
TV6.0AnimationKidsMatylda
2000 · 1 votes
TV5.1DramaFamilyŽivot na zámku
1995 · 8 votes