Susan Kodicek
Actor · 1947 – 2011 · Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)
British-based Czech born actress and later writer/director. Born Zuzana Opršalová, but mostly credited as Susan Kodicek or Hannah Kodicek, she was best known for her performance in the BBC's adaptation of John Le Carrie's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
Movies10
Movie6.4MusicDocumentaryTwo closely related episodes. Youths make problems for two local orchestras about to compete nationally, and in a talent competition a young girl gets stage fright, while another lies to her boss to compete.
MovieDramaTV MovieA dramatised impression of the events surrounding the Electrical Trades Union ballot rigging case of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
The Union
1981
Movie6.4ComedyCrimeThree short story omnibus. The main hero and connecting link is Lieutenant Boruvka, created by Lubomír Lipsky. He deals with the murder case between climbers, the death of the dancer in the music theater and the strange disappearance of the mathematics professor.
Movie6.6DramaComedyA few days in the life of a Czechoslovak teenager when he starts work.
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A tram pasted with posters travels through Prague. The mounted loudspeakers invite passers-by to a series of concerts of Giuseppe Verdi's masterpieces. On the tram a party of young people is getting drunk.
Movie8.0DramaRomanceSurly solitary truck driver is given an assistant for his daily rounds: a young woman with a fondness for mini-skirts and boys, fresh out of prison.
MovieDramaTV MovieTV play set in an experimental self-rehabilitations unit at a British Prison, where six lifers participate in group therapy.
The Sin Bin
1981
MovieComedyFamilyA family movie about a group of young children responsible for the bear cubs training in the Prague Zoo.
Movie8.0DramaA film in five episodes, all based on an attempt to show the life of young people today, their feelings and relationships, their behaviour in public and private life.
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Jakubisko’s graduation work which examines the lives of young people on the eve of their joining the army for national service.
Series4
TV6.6DramaPlay for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
Play for Today
1970 · 10 votes
TV7.0DramaA one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.
Playhouse
1974 · 1 votes
TV7.6War & PoliticsDramaTinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a seven-part BBC2 spy drama written by Arthur Hopcraft, adapted from John le Carré's eponymous 1974 novel. The serial, which stars Alec Guinness, Alexander Knox, Ian Richardson, Michael Jayston, Bernard Hepton, Anthony Bate, Ian Bannen, George Sewell and Michael Aldridge, was broadcast from 10 September to 22 October 1979. George Smiley, the ageing master spy of the Cold War and once heir-apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla 'The Sandman' of the KGB and reveal the identity of the mole before he disappears.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
1979 · 130 votes
TV8.2DramaWar & PoliticsThe Sandbaggers is a British television drama series about men and women on the front lines of the Cold War. Set contemporaneously with its original broadcast on ITV in 1978 and 1980, The Sandbaggers examines the effect of the espionage game on the personal and professional lives of British and American intelligence specialists.
The Sandbaggers
1978 · 12 votes