Frank Towen
Actor · 1912 – 1991
Movies8
Movie5.9ComedyScience FictionAn upholsterer who is preparing a rocket for takeoff accidentally jettisons himself into space and returns to Earth 500 years later with an alien companion who wishes to learn more about the human race.
Movie4.8ComedyA bachelor named Faun with a Don Juan complex, seized with a hypochondriac's fear of the ineluctable approach of death, enters a race against time's passage. Faun's sexual love is imbued with the narcissistic vanity of a self-satisfied bacchant who even towards old age can't manage to forgo his lifelong pose as an irresistable seducer of women. He desperately searches for meaning in superficial, fleeting sex.
Movie7.7DramaMysteryIn the film, the creative forces of personalities from three spheres of art collide. The subtitle "The Game of Love and Hate" refers to the motivation of an old Czech medieval satire, the theme belongs to Antonín Přidal, an expert on this subject. His collaboration with Juraj Herz created a collage of past and present, an updated, sharp satire and a parable about the clash of human qualities that could not but end up in the vault. The music of the Prague Selection - Michael Kocáb and Michal Pavlíček - also contributed to the film's offensive provocativeness - the film was one of the reasons for their complete move to the underground. The dancing chorus of medieval citizens resembles more of a jumble of long-haired maniacs, the edge of a contemporary dump intrudes into the space of a medieval marketplace, and the characters oscillate between the past and the present, whether in their appearance, symbolism or behaviour.
Movie4.9CrimeAn elderly tailor strangles young women with a black stocking. Inspired by a true crime.
Černá punčocha
1987 · 5 votes
Movie8.5HistoryDramaThe life of cabaret and theater actress Xena Longenová.
Každému jeho nebe
1982 · 2 votes
Movie9.0MusicComedyThe director and choreographer from Prague are preparing a show performance "Oriental Fairy Tale" - a ballet on ice with the participation of vocal and instrumental ensembles and pop singers. They are shooting their picture in Kazakhstan at the Medeo high-altitude skating rink.
Movie4.7DramaThe story of the friendship between František and Gustav, which fades over the years, as well as the memory of a magical, almost dreamlike experience...
Kouzelné dobrodružství
1983 · 3 votes
MovieMusicAn editing film made from older Czech music films, in which Waldemar Matuska searches for a lost song of the sad Helena Vondráčková...
Zpívající film
1973