Jaroslava Skorkovská
Actor · 1899 – 1986
Movies6
- Movie8.0DramaRomance
Pražský flamendr
1926 · 1 votes
- Movie10.0Comedy
Prach a broky
1926 · 1 votes
Movie5.8DramaThe doomed love of a city girl caught in the vise of poverty is detailed in Vavra’s fluid, romantic work, one of the most elegant creations of the Czech Modernist era... The film lingers over its characters’ habitats and haunts, finding psychological truths in what each owns or desires, and countering every Hollywood-ready scene of gleaming restaurants and dazzling penthouses with realist moments of employment lines and crammed flats. Vavra’s classical camerawork and aura of romantic defeatism give Virginity a force comparable to the master of this genre, Hollywood’s Frank Borzage. (BAM/PFA)
Movie6.8ComedyDramaThe sad hero of the story, Petr, an ordinary lawyer in a construction company, is crowded into a small apartment in Žižkov with his wife and grandparents, desperately struggling with the lack of money. One day he offers an old man a seat on a crowded trolley bus and is generously rewarded for his good deed, for the unknown old man is a fabulous grandfather. He gives Peter a magic bell and the opportunity to make three wishes, but the first two slip through his fingers. For the third, the astonished man must take time to think...
- Movie9.0Drama
Výkřik do sibiřské noci
1936 · 1 votes
- MovieDramaComedy
Vajíčko
1969