Rudolf Široký
Actor · b. 1904
Movies18
Movie7.0WarDramaA fiction piece centered around the Czech resistance to the Nazis.
Movie5.6HistoryDramaThis feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot), politicians and ordinary citizens, to save the independence and the territorial integrity of the state from the advance of Hitler's Germany. On the 29th of March 1938 the leader of the Sudeten Germans Henlein (Werner Ehrlicher) has a meeting with Hitler (Gunnar Möller). Hitler orders him to intensify pressure on the Czechoslovak government. On the 24th of April in Carlsbad, the Sudetendeutsche Partei (Sudeten German Party) decides upon eight demands that are unacceptable to the Czechoslovak President, since they would ultimately lead to the break-up of the Republic. Benes still shows a certain willingness to negotiate, and Henlein resents this. The Germans are determined to make further negotiations impossible through incidents and violence.
Movie4.4CrimeComedyA detective comedy about ex-cashiers who - except for one - have improved and lead a proper and peaceful life and mostly desperately resist the slightest reminder of their past. However, one of them, Josef Fiala, formerly known as Procházka, is one day asked to open a safe in the Sitex factory that has been slammed open with keys inside by careless employees. The operation goes well, but in time Fiala finds himself suspected of theft...
Kasaři
1958 · 5 votes
Movie5.0DramaHistoryThe revolutionary year of 1848 brought great hopes among the hitherto silent classes, awakening social and national hopes. The response also penetrated the remote countryside, even as far as the Podkrkonoše Mountains. The young shoemaker there began to take an interest in social and political events, and he also experienced disappointment in later developments.
O ševci Matoušovi
1948 · 1 votes
Movie8.2DramaDuring the Nazi occupation of a Czech city civilians are being rounded up on the slightest of pretexts and shot. One day three high school boys who crack jokes about a recently deceased "hero of the Reich" are pulled out of school by the Gestapo.
Movie8.0DramaThe happenings in a shoe factory serve as a not very thinly veiled examination of the pros and cons of both socialism and democracy.
Movie7.7DramaThe family of Prague greengrocer Pavlas was among the first immigrants to settle in the border village of Severov. Together, the new residents manage to harvest their first harvest on time and successfully - but they will have to uncover a German saboteur posing as the manager of a sawmill...
Ves v pohraničí
1948 · 3 votes
- Movie6.0DramaHistory
The course of an organized strike by workers from North Moravian steelworks in 1931 to resist mass layoffs during the economic crisis.
Movie7.7ComedyCrimeFive crime stories connected by the narration of police superintendent Bartosek.
Movie5.5DramaWarCzech film tells the story of a border town in World War II. Family members and friends become enemies.
- Movie6.7Drama
Karel Kubat, the successful director of the Globus printing house, learns on his fiftieth birthday that he has a serious heart condition. The bad news forces him to take stock of his life. In his mind, he returns to key situations that gradually changed his character and outlook on life...
Kariéra
1948 · 3 votes
- Movie6.0DramaWar
A drama set in the Vítkovice Ironworks at the end of the occupation. It depicts the struggle of Ostrava steelworkers to save the blast furnaces, which the retreating Nazis want to blow up.
Movie6.0CrimeAn attempted theft of a rare antique is uncovered at a castle that houses an apprentice recreation center. The apprentices help uncover the real perpetrators and their accomplices.
Křížová trojka
1949 · 2 votes
- Movie6.2Drama
DS-70 nevyjíždí
1951 · 36 votes
Movie7.0DramaA man was killed while trying to leave Czechoslovakia. One and a half kilograms of gold was found on him - not in coins, not in jewelry, not in bars - but in the form of plates used to make teeth...
Zlatý pavouk
1957 · 2 votes
Movie6.5FamilyAdventureA group of children from 1930s Prague follow the news about the polar expedition of the Chelyuskin, whose members find themselves stranded on a floating crust after the shipwreck. The rescue operation they had planned eventually turns out to be an aid to the striking workers of Děčín...
Ledové moře volá
1961 · 2 votes
- Movie9.0DramaRomance
Včera neděle byla
1938 · 1 votes
- Movie7.5Drama
The journey of the Třeboň paddlers to the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Helsinki (1952).
Neklidnou hladinou
1963 · 2 votes