
Jiří Ornest
Actor · 1946 – 2017
Movies19
Movie5.9RomanceComedyA computer programmer and his son are going out of the city for vacation.
Movie4.6ComedyMusicA musical starring Jiří Menzel (whose part is sung by Achilles Michailidis) as a math and physics teacher employing innovative teaching methods.
Movie4.7Hana is a psychologist and a thoroughly independent woman. Her unemployed husband, jealous of his wife, finds a younger girlfriend, but their teenage son Honzik is frustrated; everyone ignores him. Hana's patient Eva, an attractive middle-aged woman, is having problems with her 25-year-old son; she is in love with her son's friend and her son is offended by her behavior. To complete the circle, he falls in love with Hana and Honzik is utterly disgusted by their affair. Another of Hana's patients is Dub, a millionaire who can have pretty much anything, or anyone, he wants. He wants Hana. But he can't have her.
Movie6.2DramaHistoryIn 1939, Czech diplomat Jan Masaryk flees to the United States to escape his recent past: Germany has invaded Czechoslovakia and he is now a man with no nation; because, as the Czechoslovak ambassador in London, he failed to win the support of the British and could not avert the fall of his country and the outbreak of the World War II.
Movie6.4ComedyFamilyA clever but often teased boy, is able to clone himself thanks to a stolen formula from a scientist. Time to take revenge on those bullies.
Movie5.7DramaHistoryThe deportation of 4000 Jews from Budapest to Auschwitz in July 1944, as told by George Tabori, and how the narrator’s mother escaped it, owing to coincidence, courage and some help from where you’d least expect it.
My Mother's Courage
1995 · 9 votes
Movie6.8FantasyRomanceThe little mermaid rescues a prince from drowning and falls in love with him. To be with him, she makes a deal with the evil sorceress: her beautiful voice against a life on land.
- Movie7.0DramaComedy
The female employees of the poultry-processing factory find relief from their monotonous work in chatting about weddings and marriages. The very young Zdena (Marta Vancurová), too, dreams about a white veil and an entourage of bridesmaids. On her return home from work, she runs into a peculiar man on an abandoned road who pertinaciously offers to read her palm for a few crowns to buy soup. His augury is rather usual - wealth and poverty, suffering and happiness. Then however, he declares that Zdena must marry exactly on 3 November of that year otherwise she will be unhappy.
Nevěsta
1970 · 2 votes
Movie3.8DramaFrançoise, a French sociology student, moves to Czechoslovakia to write her thesis. She falls in love with Pavel, a professor. But the events of the "Prague Spring" begin and Pavel decides to collaborate. Françoise returns to France and meets up with her militant friends on the eve of the events of May 68 in Paris.
Movie5.6ComedyMusicA period musical comedy set in a quiet Prague quarter at the end of the fifties. Using the western plot device of the "man from nowhere" a generation gap story unfolds of changing social climate. The action is driven by the character of a young man named Baby who causes a local rebellion by bringing rock'n'roll to a Communist neighborhood raised on swing.
Movie4.2DramaThe story takes place in the Czech-German border region in 1938. The hero Tomás Jakl marries but the marriage is not very lucky and falls apart. His German friend forced him to enter the Nazi party.
- Movie6.5ComedyDrama
Radio announcer Petrícek reads the evening news in a studio. Viki, the female editor of a woman's program, is annoyed by the stereotypical information he provides as well as by the speaker's melodious voice and his heart-felt performance. Then she gets an idea for a prank. She calls the speaker from the neighboring room on the phone and pretends to be an unhappily married woman who draws all her strength to live from Petrícek's voice.
Movie6.2AdventureAnimationThe Little Man lives happily in his little house in the Hollow Mountain. His peaceful life ends once he begins to have dreams about a mysterious house where he is to find what he desires. Even though he does not feel like having any desires, he crack the mystery himself.
MovieComedy
Movie6.0DramaAn 11-year-old boy is the only survivor of a tragic car accident in which both parents are killed. It's not until he meets a travelling student theatre company that he is able to shake off the long-term shock...
Nechci nic slyšet
1978 · 3 votes
- MovieDramaHistory
Šťastlivec Sulla
1992
- MovieDrama
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.
MovieDocumentaryOn the 16th of January 2009, it will be 40 years from the self-burning of Jan Palach. He committed this act in protest against the progressing lethargy and pusillanimity of the Czechoslovak nation following the occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
Series7
TV7.0ComedyBakaláři
1972 · 2 votes
TV8.6CrimeDobrodružství kriminalistiky
1989 · 7 votes
TV7.0DocumentaryPříběhy slavných
2000 · 1 votes
TV6.0
TV7.7CrimeComedyHříchy pro pátera Knoxe
1992 · 3 votes
TVComedy
TVDramaA man's life is turned upside down by the tsunami disaster. This suspenseful, almost detective-like story is set against the backdrop of the real-life natural disaster that struck the shores of the Indian Ocean in late 2004, when a devastating tsunami wave affected the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.
Vlna
2008