Zdeněk Skalický

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Hop – a je tu lidoop
5.8
The fisherman Fuksa fishes in the creek an old bottle and he sells it to innkeeper Merta. When Merta opens it, a genie appears, who can fulfill all his wishes.
Comedy
Jak se točí Rozmarýny
6
The director of films for kids called Bonzurka together with her loyal assistants Drahuska and Honza are looking for the actors for a new movie "The Knee". Children for this movie should not be afraid and shy and they must have talent for acting. Thus the scouting is quite difficult. The most difficult is to find an actress for a main character who lost her hair after a serious illness and now has to spent the whole holiday in the countryside with a bald head resembling a knee. Although the makeup artist does his best an artificial baldness does not solve anything. From the selected little girls only the self-assertive Rosemary has the guts to let her long hair to be cut and shave off her head.
Family
„Já už budu hodný, dědečku!“
6.2
To the intolerant and bloody-minded Prague actor Bergner (Milos Kopecký) is the lead in Moliere's Misanthrope which he is studying now as tailor-made. On top of that he is malicious and he advises to the new actress Helenka (Dagmar Havlová) in such a way that she upsets the theatre director. If Bergner accuses somebody of a mischief and he is wrong, he never apologizes. When he almost crashes an older elegant lady by his car on the zebra crossing, instead of an apology he calls her an old ballet dancer... But in Brno's TV he takes part in a discussion on manners and he gives himself as an example of good manners and grace. In the train he meets a magic old man (Ladislav Pesek) who warns him and admonishes him to change his behavior. After he arrives to Prague the old man's threat comes true.
Comedy
The Secret of Steel City
5.6
Le docteur François Sarrasin, et le professeur Érik Janus, cohéritiers d’une immense fortune, font construire chacun une ville. Tandis que la cité que le docteur Sarrasin fait ériger est moderne et privilégie le bien-être de ses habitants, le professeur Janus fait construire une cité industrielle destinée à la production d’armes de destruction massive. Au vu de dramatiques et inquiétants incidents s'étant déroulés à la frontière, le docteur Sarrasin envoi secrètement un observateur, pour enquêter…
Science Fiction
Kdo přichází před půlnocí
1
The accountants at a agricultural cooperative near Prague have completed the calculation of wages. The driver with the cashier are leaving for a bank in Prague to withdraw the cash amounting to over one million crowns. On returning back, an oncoming heavy truck appears, crashing into their car. The injured men cannot defend themselves, and the whole cash is stolen from them.
Crime
Koncert na konci léta
6
A docudrama about four weeks in the life of famous Czech composer Antonin Dvorak. The drama - filled with many of Dvorak's compositions - begins when the composer suddenly decides to cut a concert in London and return home. While on the train, flashbacks reveal his relationship to his wife Anna and her sister Josefina. Both women gave him inspiration, yet Dvorak is clearly troubled in some way as musical excerpts come and go in his creative mind.
Drama
Julek
5.5

Julek

May 09, 1980
Drama
Smrt stopařek
5.4

Smrt stopařek

Oct 05, 1979
Maniac, a driver, sits on the track women, which then rape and kill. For loved ones, he is an ordinary person who has a wife and child. When exposed, he does not stop before killing his wife and takes his son hostage, under the guise of which he is trying to escape abroad.
Drama
Kalamita
5.5

Kalamita

Jan 29, 1982
Funny banter about love, sex, social status, and other ideals, while a new railway employee is trained and sent on his first run as driver.
Comedy
Temné slunce
4.8

Temné slunce

Sep 19, 1980
A remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit.
Science Fiction
Vrchní, prchni
7.1

Vrchní, prchni

Jan 09, 1981
A comedy concerning a down on his luck bookshop owner with a penchant for women who decides to make some money by pretending to be a waiter and collecting cash from unsuspecting diners.
Comedy
La fougère d'or
6.4

La fougère d'or

Aug 29, 1963
Conte de fées tchèque sur un berger qui trouve une fougère dorée dotée de pouvoirs magiques.
Fantasy
S tebou mě baví svět
7.8
Three middle-aged go for a vacation into the mountains with their children. How will they cope with their youngsters every-day needs without their wives? The annual men's ride of three fathers becomes something like a kindergarten in the winter countryside due to the wives' vigorous intervention. It turns out that in certain situations, fathers make better moms than moms themselves, which is especially true when moms aren't in sight. Their parenting methods are very peculiar and cause a lot of confusion and hilarity...
Comedy
Le Troisième Prince
6.1

Le Troisième Prince

Jul 01, 1983
Dans un ancien royaume, le prince Jindřich devint éperdument amoureux d'une jeune fille d'une grande beauté représentée sur un tableau. Il partit alors à sa recherche, mais jamais ne revint. Un jour, une troupe de saltimbanques s'arrêta dans le château où se désolait la reine depuis la disparition de son fils unique. Sur les conseils de la voyante de la troupe, la reine fit cuire le seul poisson que les pêcheurs attrapèrent le jour suivant, mangea la chair, donna l'eau de cuisson à boire à la jument et la tête à manger à la chienne. Un an plus tard, le même jour, la reine accoucha de jumeaux, la jument mis bas deux poulains identiques et la chienne eut deux chiots, eux aussi identiques. Et là où les arrêtes avaient étaient enterrées, deux épées semblables sortirent de terre. En un an les enfants grandirent comme les autres en sept ans...
Family
Každý den odvahu
5.9

Každý den odvahu

Jan 15, 1965
A passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure of his peers to live up to his ideals.
Drama
Dáma na kolejích
6

Dáma na kolejích

Sep 30, 1966
Tram 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.
Comedy
Fantom Morrisvillu
7.1

Fantom Morrisvillu

Jul 15, 1966
Inspector Brumpby (Jaroslav Marvan) and the young crime reporter Allan Pinkerton (Vít Olmer) attend wedding of Sir Hannibal Morris (Oldrich Nový) with beautiful Clarence (Kveta Fialová). After the ceremony, Clarence's ex-husband, criminal Manuel Diaz (Waldemar Matuska), who was believed dead, shows up in her room. He wants to get his hands on Clarence and, most importantly, on the money she would inherit in the eventuality of her new husband's death. Diaz makes attempts on Hannibal's life. He knows his way about an underground labyrinth in the château and the traps he sets up for Hannibal seem to work, since Hannibal is apparently found dead after an explosion in the labyrinth, after which his body vanishes. The inspector tries to solve the countless mysteries. In this, he is joined by Allan, always ahead of the man of the law in his estimation and judgment of the situation.
Comedy
Na kolejích čeká vrah
5.9
An escort composed of three people transports a huge amount of new one-hundred crown banknotes in a special railway car. At the 196th kilometer, a village girl is waiting at the railway crossing and spots two men removing some packages from the track. The scene is immediately followed by the report of a gun and the unwanted witness is shot dead. Soon afterwards, on the 201st kilometer, the train explodes. Only one of the escorts Lenk (Radoslav Brzobohatý) survives the explosion, taken to hospital with serious injuries. Criminologist Major Kalas (Jirí Sovák) and the very young Second Lieutenant Karlícek (Jaromír Hanzlík) patiently gather facts, leads and testimonies.
Crime
Konec agenta W4C prostřednictvím psa pana Foustky
6.3
The invincible agent Cyril Juan Borguette alias W4C has been assigned a mission to go to a hotel in Prague, get hold of a saltcellar with a plan for the military exploitation of Venus hidden in it, and hand it over to the beautiful agent Alice. He will have to compete for the saltcellar with other agents working for the world's various greater and smaller powers. The head of the Prague counter-intelligence unit gets news of agent W4C's mission. Deficient in personnel, he nominates accountant Foustka as agent 13B. Mr Foustka takes his dog Pajda with him and the two head for the airport. Pajda helps him track down agent W4C in a classy hotel that becomes the battleground for the interests and plans of the secret agents from different countries, each trying to get hold of the precious saltcellar.
Comedy
Jeden z nich je vrah
5.7

Jeden z nich je vrah

Apr 23, 1971
Marek (Jirí Holý), formerly a driver of a long-distance lorry, has served his term for smuggling art works abroad and is released from jail. Years ago, he sacrificed himself and confessed his guilt on behalf of his companions - the drivers Krása, Jelínek, Hess and Novák from the Ministry of Culture who gave them tips. Marek finds Hess and tells him that now he expects the gang to compensate him for the wasted years of his life.
Crime
Lupič Legenda
1

Lupič Legenda

Mar 09, 1973
It is 1905. The police director gets Jindrich Legenda (Eduard Cupák) shadowed as, yet Legenda had served his sentence for a burglary, the jewels have not been found. Russian revolution encouraged also Czech workers to fight for their rights. Radical anarchists are followed by Legenda's friend Karel Wohryzek (Vladimír Mensík) who was forced to collaborate with the police as he was convicted of pornography distribution.
Crime
Noc na Karlštejně
7.6

Noc na Karlštejně

Jul 12, 1974
No Woman is allowed into Karlstejn Castle! Yet the enamoured Daniele Kolářová and the equally enamoured Jana Brejchová manage to spend one night in disguise in the Castle despite the strict royal ban.
Comedy
Jak utopit dr. Mráčka aneb Konec vodníků v Čechách
6.6
There are still water spirits among us. One group lives in Prague, led by Mr. Wassermann, who is using his wife's family as a servants. All they need is their old house near the river. But the house is to be demolished. They have to stop it. And the only way is to drown Dr. Mrácek, who is responsible for the demolition. But he falls in love with Wassermann's niece Jana. He changes to fish, is mistaken for water spirit from Germany, is drowned and revived again. The other problem is the flour with ears... and so on...
Comedy
Muž z Londýna
2.5

Muž z Londýna

Jun 07, 1974
A British citizen by the name of George Reiner (Jirí Sovák) arrives at Prague airport. He was once a Czech safe-breaker, and has now returned home after thirty years to steal twenty-dollar gold coins still kept in the safe at a private villa in Pilsen whose owner fled to the West.
Comedy
Sarajevski atentat
5.9

Sarajevski atentat

Oct 31, 1975
An historical depiction of the events preceding the political murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, would-be emperor of the Austro-Hungarian throne, in Sarajevo on June 28th, 1914.
Drama
Bouřlivé víno
7

Bouřlivé víno

Apr 30, 1976
It is the summer of 1968 and also in South Moravian Pálavice appear political clashes. The so far peacefully farming Unified farmers' cooperative starts splitting. Some of the farmers have found the cooperative called Vidrupa and want to deal with wine in private trade. Michal Janák, chairman of the farmers' cooperative is a deliberate man and refuses the latent return to the capitalism. As an excellent farmer he continues preparing planting out new vineyards. His adversaries do not agree - the returns will come many years later. Jozka Hrdlicka, an émigré, notices on the Austrian TV the interview with the representatives of Vidrupa and decides to visit his native village. The new suit and the hired car transform the bankrupt and criminal to the successful businessman with wine.
Comedy
Kluk za dvě pětky
1

Kluk za dvě pětky

Nov 01, 1983
Even under socialism, it was not advisable to cross the line between rich and poor. When a mason's apprentice falls in love with a girl from a wealthy family who lives in a magnificent villa during his first thug, he can hardly expect his feelings to be fulfilled. The schematic and lifeless depiction of the young generation has hardly contributed to a truer view of contemporary reality.
Comedy
Osvobození Prahy
2

Osvobození Prahy

May 06, 1977
On 20th of April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germany and Hitler decides to commit suicide. In Prague K.H. Frank (Nazi Secretary of State and Chief of police in the Protectorate of Bohemia a Moravia) discusses with his commanders how to transform the city into an impregnable fortress, but the Praguers do not intend to wait any longer. From the early hours of 4th of May people start assembling in the streets and tearing down German signs. On the next day, the 5th of May, the uprising begins.
Drama
Fešák Hubert
5.9

Fešák Hubert

Jun 01, 1985
Hubert Hrabe, known as Smart Boy, is a Prague dandy who is always skirting the edge of the law. Like every likable rogue, he has a worthy adversary - Police Inspector Mourek, who has long been trying in vain to put him behind bars. However, this defender of justice, who is constantly trying to outsmart his "own" criminal, ends up becoming the victim of his own zeal while hunting forgers that are as good as any in Europe, as Hubert the Smart Boy, sets a trap for Mourek
Comedy
Ženy v ofsajdu
1

Ženy v ofsajdu

Jul 20, 1971
Kastl is a hairdresser but his real passion is his second job as football referee. This job takes all his free time and makes his wife very nervous.
Comedy
Svatá hříšnice
1

Svatá hříšnice

Dec 25, 1970
In the Prague Old Town and the adjoining streets there is always plenty of life. Housewives shop, beggars arouse sympathy, the Salvation Army tries to put the godless on the road to salvation by hymns and sermons, and Ferdys Pistora hunts in the pockets of his fellow men and isn't even put off by the presence of an officer of the law. Ferdys sets off to burgle villa of the banker Rosenstok, but a fire breaks out in the house and Ferdys ends up saving the banker's two small children. For this he is celebrated as a hero and gets a place as an errand boy with the Rosenstoks. At home he is visited by representatives of the Salvation Army, Captain Kosterka and Terezka, with whom Ferdys instantly falls in love.
Comedy
Tajemství velikého vypravěče
4.3
The life of the famous French writer Alexander Dumas the Elder. Screenwriter Jaroslav Dietl did not hide his admiration for this literary giant, and in addition to the screenplay he also wrote a three-part TV play about Dumas (starring Vladimír Menšík). In Kachyn's film, Dumas played the father and son of the Štěpánková brothers, and it was a very difficult and difficult task for these young actors.
Comedy
Le Miroir aux alouettes
7.183
Au cours de la Seconde Guerre mondiale dans une petite ville slovaque, le menuisier Brtko est obligé, presque contre son gré, de s'approprier la boutique d'une vieille dame juive. Quand l'ordre est donné d'évacuer les juifs, Brtko décide de sauver la vieille dame. Oscar du meilleur film étranger à Hollywood.
Drama
Chronique d'un fou
7.5

Chronique d'un fou

Dec 18, 1964
An anti-war black comedy set during the Thirty Years' War. It follows ploughman Petr, recruiter Matěj and country girl Lenka who get caught up in both sides of the war and experience many adventures before they find happiness. The film combines live action with animation to suggest the artistic style of the engraver Matthäus Merian.
Adventure
Le Dirigeable volé
6.9

Le Dirigeable volé

Apr 28, 1967
En 1891, à Prague, alors qu'ils visitent le Salon des Sciences et des Techniques, cinq garçons intrépides montent à bord d'un dirigeable et prennent les airs. Echappant à toutes les poursuites, ils survolent l'Europe et parviennent au-dessus de l'Océan. Une tempête détruit complètement le dirigeable, mais les garçons échouent heureusement sur une île inconnue... Ils y vivent comme Robinson, découvrent le repaire du légendaire Capitaine Nemo et affrontent une bande d'aventuriers.
Adventure
105 % alibi
8.5

105 % alibi

Nov 20, 1959
On an early Sunday evening, people of the small town are reading lottery results that are hung on a board. Young man Karel Antos is annoyed that his lottery-ticket missed the main prize, a car, by only one number. Karel is going to the pub to drink away his bad luck with his friend Jirka Broz. The old accountant auditor Zelinka drops a wallet. Karel picks it up and before he gives it back he notices the winning lottery-ticket in it. Both young men accompany the old drunk man. Karel steals the ticket and exchanges it with his own. Next day, Zelinka is found dead. Investigators, Captain Tuma and the Lieutenant Líbal, soon discover that this is a murder case covered up as an accident.
Crime
Krajina s nábytkem
4.2

Krajina s nábytkem

Mar 01, 1987
The story of a music academy student Zdenek, who meets a charming girl, and without realizing also gets a son with her. Dealing with such a situation is not easy, especially when one day the child's mother disappears. Twenty year old Zdenek faces a serious decision. Although he is aware that a child may endanger his studies and perhaps even future career, he refuses to entrust him to the care of the state institution.
Drama
Zkrocení zlého muže
3
Tereza lives and works in Prague. She meets a handsome man, Tommie, speaking in a language incomprehensible to her. It seems that he is the manager of the Finnish ice hockey team. A love story starts to blossom. When the coach of the Czech ice hockey team tries to use Tereza to retrieve information about the strategy of the Finnish team, Tommie leaves Tereza. Will Tereza be able to clear up this misunderstanding?
Comedy
30 případů majora Zemana
7.25
Thirty Cases of Major Zeman is a Czechoslovak action-drama television show intended as a political propaganda to support the official attitude of the communist party. The series were filmed in the 1970s. Each episode encompasses one year, and investigations are stylized to that year. Most are inspired by real cases. The series follows the life of police investigator Jan Zeman during his career from 1945 to 1975.
Drama