Eman Fiala
Actor · 1899 – 1970 · Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic)
Vlivem rodinné tradice se věnoval studiu hudby (kompozice a dirigování). Hrál již v němých filmech, později skládal také filmovou hudbu, psal filmové náměty a hrál hlavně větší i menší komické role. Bratr komika Ference Futuristy a hudebního skladatele Jiřího Julia F. Pocházel z umělecké rodiny: otec KAREL FIALA (1871-1931) a bratr FERENC FUTURISTA (1891-1947, vlastním jménem František Fiala) byli herci, bratranec JIŘÍ JULIUS FIALA (1892-1974) hudební skladatel. Sám se v mládí věnoval spíše vážné hudbě. Jako kapelník začal spolupracovat s kabarety Rokoko a Červená sedma a postupně se dostal k herectví. Poprvé se objevil ve filmu UČITEL ORIENTÁLNÍCH JAZYKŮ (1818). Za celý život vytvořil téměř dvě stovky rolí v němých a zvukových filmech, k řadě hraných filmů složil hudbu a písně. Často hrál hudebníky, skladatele, dirigenty a učitele hudby. Z větších postav je třeba uvést Emana Habáska z MUŽŮ V OFSAJDU (1931), Lojzíka Chrastila z BATALIONU (němý 1927, zvukový 1937) nebo Bianchiniho v PYTLÁKOVĚ SCHOVANCE (1949).
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Movie6.2DramaRomanceThe illegitimate child, Marie Růžová, grows up in the family of the Bořický miller. Childhood and youth spend with the son of Bořice, Klement. Klement asserts the rights, becomes a lawyer, and marries Jirina. In order not to cause further contradictions, Mary will go to Prague secretly at night. There he is living heavily as a waitress. He resists the insults of architect Jansky until he ultimately decides to commit suicide in despair.
Movie6.4DramaSkid-row epic about a lawyer's decline.
Movie7.0DramaHistoryA student rebellion precedes revolutionary events in Prague.
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Neviňátka
1929
Movie7.1ComedyWesternA satire of the Great American Way, with Lemonade Joe a "clean living" gunfighter who drinks only Kola-Loca Lemonade and convinces everyone else in town (with his gun skills) that all "real men" drink ONLY lemonade!
Movie6.7DramaA story about domestic life in a typical working-class environment. Life and trials and how little situations have big consequences.
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Zelený automobil
1921
Movie6.9ComedyWarA comedy based on the novel of Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Svejk happens during the World War I. I Dutifully Report: In the introduction to the second part of the film adaptation of Hašek's novel The Good Soldier Švějk presents his main character Josef Švejk. With the distinctive traditional Czech cartoon character of a soldier Svejk, this time you meet on the way to the front and eventually right in the firing line. You can look at his famous train events, and also probably the most famous episode of the novel, Švejk's Budějovice anabasis. Don't miss the scene with the secretly bought cognac, the episode with Svejk as a fake Russian prisoner of war, including the court scene, and the scene in which lieutenant Dub is caught in a brothel. Despite the criticism, Steklý's adaptation is undoubtedly the most famous and memorable at present.
- Movie6.0Drama
Žíznivé mládí
1943 · 2 votes
Movie8.0RomanceDramaA romantic story of a noble lady who wanted to live without the bonds of marriage, but her desire for a child led her - carefully disguised - into the arms of a young nobleman. Only years later did she believe in his love and make herself known.
Movie10.0ComedyNaše XI.
1936 · 1 votes
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.
- Movie6.7ComedyFamily
Kdybych byl tátou
1939 · 3 votes
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Diebe
1928
Movie6.0ComedyCrimeSuccessful writer Gabriel Anděl still loves his wife Lola very much, but he can't stand the way she is always getting involved in his work, so he decides to divorce her. Just as he is about to move into his country villa, a police inspector appears on the scene with a warning that some crooks are planning to sell the house in question to a rich Czech-American. Anděl and the inspector immediately drive there and indeed find a gang of criminals disguised as servants. However, these are far from the only crooks involved in this complicated case. Before the crazy night is over, Gabriel and Lola will have many more surprises and complicated situations...
- Movie7.9Family
Little Honzík tries everything he can in order to join the team for Spartakiada Games.
Movie7.5DramaRomanceA lost lady's glove that connects several human destinies. The focus here is not on the lost part of the wardrobe, but on piano virtuoso Arne Brant, a man armed with a charming smile and surrounded by women, two of whom have particularly influenced his life. The first is the daughter of a famous can-can star, dancer Pavlína Doré-Zejdová, the second is Mařenka Berková, the main character of the film and a kind of Kristián in skirts. An orderly and well-bred daughter from an honorable family who lives her second life as a lady of high society. The lost glove complicates the situation for all of them considerably, but in the end she finds her rightful place, just like the heroes of the film...
Rukavička
1941 · 2 votes
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Movie7.0CrimeComedyA writer of pulp crime novels is drawn into a series of real crimes. This film was one of the first Czech attempts on a genre parody.
Movie5.9ComedyJaroslav Hašek screens four film stories in the fairground shed around 1900. After period advertising slides and a "newspaper", we see "the first part of a sensational, exemplary, parfuss, salon program - a film from the life of school-age children, shot under very difficult circumstances". The plot of this film takes place partly in a school classroom and partly in a gymnasium toilet, where the primate Chocholka took refuge from a Latin composition. "Exemplary Family Happiness" is the second film that takes the viewer into the family of the municipal official Honzátek, in which many stormy scenes occurred when the hamster, provided by Honzátek Jr., moved into the sofa - a wedding gift from Sister Ema. Equally surprising are two other stories, one of which tells about the "father of the poor", the owner of a company with unrecoverable cash flow and a famous patron, and the other about the fateful consequences of a joint trip between the old bachelor Mr. Hanzlíček and his neighbors.
Movie7.0DramaHistoryPrague in the 1870s. Work in Smolík's sulphur factory is hard and dangerous to health. The poorly paid workers resemble torches because their clothes are soaked with poisonous phosphorus. Young Josef Rezler also works in the sulphur factory and uses his earnings to feed his mother and little sisters. He throws his perpetually drunken father out of the house. The older worker Brož forces Josef to learn to read and write. A cholera epidemic breaks out in Prague and Josef is the only one of his family to survive the disease...
Pochodně
1961 · 2 votes
Movie8.0FamilyComedyA selfish self-centered widowed ruler, barely tolerated by his subjects and called appropriately enough, 'King Myself, First' asks his three daughters to name the measure of their love for him. When one of them says, "more than salt", he banishes her from the kingdom. Not understanding what she meant the King assumes love can only be measured by precious metals or one's own talent, the 'correct' answers from his other two daughters. The arrogance of the King leads him to gather all the salt in the kingdom and destroy it. Of course, this backfires as he slowly learns the universal value of the substance, and of course, the essence of his daughter's reply. With the help of the wise and magical old 'herb woman', the King also learns what it means to be a true and wise ruler.
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The catastrophically dry weather of 1947 causes immense problems in the countryside. In the small village Klícov, only farmers Hánek and Bervida and the old Hromádka have water. The others must queue every day for a drop for themselves and their cattle. All the villagers lament over their previous decision to turn down the cooperative chairman Kouba's proposal to built a new village water-supply system.
Žízeň
1950 · 2 votes