
Růžena Lysenková
Actor · 1918 – 2013 · Diósgyõr, Hungary
Movies21
Movie7.0DramaA new owner of the estate, Konrád Ritter von Schiess, arrives in the Czech village of Sluky. On his orders, the inhabitants of the village are to be evicted and only 30 families are allowed to remain, who volunteer to work on the estate. However, the inhabitants refuse to work for the lords, and their solidarity only strengthens when one of them is murdered by the Gestapo based on a report by the estate manager Prokeš...
Mordová rokle
1952 · 2 votes
Movie6.5DramaRomanceA young, unmarried woman finds herself a "little bit pregnant" and she tries to hide this fact from her mother but it isn't long before the truth is obvious.
Movie6.7ComedyMusicTram 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 spots him on the Lesser Town Square in Prague, kissing an attractive blonde good-bye. It seems to Marie that her small comfortable world has collapsed and she walks out of the tram in tears. But her sadness does not last long. She wipes off the tears and begins to act. She withdraws all the money from their savings books and buys off all the latest models from the Fashion Works. The visit to the beauty salon then completes her transformation into a lady.
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A woman wearing hair rollers shuffles around a messy flat listening to the radio. The host advises women to try to maintain their loving relationships with their husbands. She advises them to be kind since their spouses are tired from work, and to always look their best. The woman decides to take action...
Movie9.5ComedyAn attractive and challenging 16-year-old girl has no shortage of admirers, but she becomes the cause of a small-town problem when she accuses her charming uncle of rape after trying in vain to seduce him. The bitter comedy, the only film directed by actor Václav Lohnisky, relies on the lively acting of both Vladimír Menšík as the eloquent uncle and Lucie Žulová as the mischievous seductress.
Panenství a kriminál
1970 · 2 votes
Movie6.5DramaRomanceExplores young adults' fears of being conscripted by the communist government into working outside of Prague, a relative oasis of creativity and freedom of thought. From an early script by Milos Forman.
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Three intertwined stories about Serbian truck driver who is involved into drug trafficking without knowing, Czech family who live by the road which makes them a lot of troubles since many cars crash into their house, and a bus full of Swedish grannies who go on a Trans-European package holiday.
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Naděje má hluboké dno
1989 · 1 votes
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...
Movie4.0DramaHistoryEmperor Francis Joseph I is about to arrive in Prague, and among those who came to Stromovka to welcome him is Veronika Pavlitová. She wants to submit a request for clemency for her imprisoned father to the emperor, because she is barely able to support herself and her siblings on the meager salary of a seamstress. By chance, the girl meets Božena Němcová, whom she admires immensely. She becomes her friend and confidant for a while. However, police director Paümann, who has been following Božena Němcová for a long time, takes advantage of the naivety of the young girl. Veronika, in her simple-mindedness, tells him many things. Only later will she understand how she was abused.
Veronika
1986 · 4 votes
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Tichý svědek
1974
Movie7.3WarThe Czech feature film, based on the book of the same name by J. Sosnar-Gazda, focuses on teenagers. The hero of the film is a boy named Jurášek from the Moravian Slovácko region, who helped the partisans during the war. He confirmed that his father was with the partisans and went to the forest at night to follow him when the partisans were expecting the Soviet paratroopers to jump. Jurášek finds a paratrooper who had been blown aside by the wind and finds a suitable shelter for him where he could heal his injured leg. Jurášek continues to help the partisans a lot. He informs them about the upcoming raid in the village and thus saves the Soviet paratrooper from being captured. When he then accompanies the paratrooper into the forest to a place from where he could safely broadcast, and when he says goodbye to him, he gets into a firefight with the Germans together with him and his bravery stands up well in it.
Jurášek
1957 · 3 votes
Movie6.6ComedyElén, a girl living with her mother and stepfather in a secluded forest, has a great singing talent. On her twenty-first birthday, she runs away from home and on the train, millionaire René falls in love with her. Their paths soon diverge, only to be reunited soon after. Violinist Pavel Sedloň falls in love with Elén, and although Elén does not love him, she is determined to marry him. At that time, René dies, exhausted from working on the operetta Srdce v delirium. However, he is saved at the last moment and everything comes to a happy ending when Oldřich Nový explains how the authors actually meant it all.
Pytlákova schovanka aneb Šlechetný milionář
The Poacher's Foster Daughter or Noble Millionaire
1949 · 8 votes
Movie8.5ComedyMr. Čap is an inventor who disturbs the peace of the town of Krásnov with his experiments. During his attempts to discover the eternal match, smoke and a stench pour out of the window, accompanied by detonations. Some people are amused by it, others fear for their lives.
Muž v povětří
1956 · 2 votes
Movie5.0DramaThis exemplary "psychological drama" depicts the difficulties with which a new socialist mindset is born. Director Jiří Sequens warns against ill-advised marriages into the families of the defeated bourgeoisie, because the former royalty refuses to accept a man from a different social class. The heroes of this film will find out. The former owner of a pharmacy refuses to accept that his daughter has married a mere technical draughtsman. However, her father's hateful schemes cause the sensitive woman to attempt suicide.
Movie7.0DramaHistoryThe leader of the emerging organized labor movement in the 1880s, Ladislav Zápotocký-Budečský, is exiled to his native village, where he works as a tailor and continues to raise social awareness among members of the working class.
Vstanou noví bojovníci
1951 · 2 votes
Movie6.0CrimeCaptain Jirák of the SNB is searching for the perpetrator of the murder of the former owner of an apartment building on the outskirts of town, which took place more than twenty years ago.
Na konci města
1955 · 2 votes
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A "fairly ordinary and mundane" working day in various operations of large steel mills...
Lidé jako ty
1960 · 4 votes
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Větrná setba
1983
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Series12
TV8.6CrimeDobrodružství kriminalistiky
1989 · 7 votes
TV7.0ComedyBakaláři
1972 · 2 votes
TV8.0ComedyChalupáři is a Czechoslovak comedy TV series filmed in 1974 and 1975 by František Filip.
Chalupáři
1975 · 14 votes
TV6.5DramaŽena za pultem
1977 · 7 votes
TV6.0ComedyPíseň pro Rudolfa III.
1967 · 2 votes
TV7.8Crime
TVDramaInženýrská odysea is a Czechoslovak/Czech TV series about three young students and their lives.
TV8.0CrimeHříšní lidé města pražského
1969 · 13 votes
TV7.3CrimeMalý pitaval z velkého města
1983 · 6 votes
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Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her employer's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.