Václav Vodák

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Deváté srdce
6.8

Deváté srdce

Apr 13, 1979
Martin, a poor student, volunteers to go on a quest to find a cure for the princess Adriana, who is stricken with a strange illness. Unknown to Martin or anyone else, the princess is actually under the spell of the powerful magician Andlobrandini, who is preparing a rejuvenating elixir made from the blood of nine men's hearts.
Fantasy
Mučedníci lásky
5.2

Mučedníci lásky

Apr 21, 1967
This three-part ballad, which often uses music to stand in for dialogue, remains the most perfect embodiment of Nemec’s vision of a film world independent of reality. Mounting a defense of timid, inhibited, clumsy, and unsuccessful individuals, the three protagonists are a complete antithesis of the industrious heroes of socialist aesthetics. Martyrs of Love cemented Nemec’s reputation as the kind of unrestrained nonconformist the Communist establishment considered the most dangerous to their ideology.
Romance
Kulhavý ďábel
4

Kulhavý ďábel

Sep 13, 1968
A baleful limping man walks through Prague. He is Asmodeus (Juraj Herz), the fiend of lustfulness, entertaining himself by putting together by magic couples of lovers. He only fails at the swimming pool. Zuzana (Jana Sulcová), the good-looking blonde, ignores the men whom the devil foists off onto her. She loves Honza (Václav Neckár) and the boy shares her feelings. The fiend is annoyed by the couple and tries to provoke a row. He sends heavy rain to force them into a hotel and then warns Zuzana's father by phone, but the young lovers manage to get out in time. Then the obstinate Asmodeus takes Honza in his sleep to the Institute for Emotional Disorders, where he shows him the ugly sides of love - hysteria, voyeurism, fetishism, suicide attempts...
Comedy
Le Bedeau
6.1

Le Bedeau

Jan 10, 1969
A verger, who likes to dress as a priest, is invited, by one of the villagers, to be the pastor at a vacant church. The atheist teacher resents the pastor, and tries to embarrass him in various ways, including being caught with the local girl, Majka.
Comedy
A quelques jours près...
3
Une jeune femme mariée part en Tchécoslovaquie pour ses études, et tombe amoureuse d'un de ses professeurs, alors que se produisent les évènements du Printemps de Prague.
Drama
L’Incinérateur de cadavres
7.7
M. Kopfrkingl est un employé modèle. Incinérateur de cadavres de son état, il exerce son métier avec amour. Il aime ses morts, il est heureux de libérer les âmes et souhaite, par amour de son prochain, a tous une mort prochaine. À la veille de la Seconde Guerre mondiale un ami nazi le persuade qu'il doit avoir du sang allemand dans les veines. Et M. Kopfrkingl se prend à rêver d'une race pure. Son crématoire va pouvoir tourner à plein régime.
Comedy
Nevěsta
1

Nevěsta

Sep 24, 1970
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.
Drama
Les lampes à pétroles
6.1
In 1900, Stepha, the vivacious 30 year old daughter of a wealthy couple, agrees to marry her cousin Paul, who has accumulated large debts as an Austrian army officer. Paul refuses to work or to consummate the marriage, and then his health steadily declines.
Drama
Prague Duet
6

Prague Duet

Jan 01, 1998
Dr. Lauren is staying in Prague for a conference and falls in love with Czech writer Jiri Kolmar.
Drama
Noc oranžových ohňů
1
Petr Rynes (Svatopluk Matyás) is celebrating his forty-fifth birthday in the company of his friends. He is happy with his wife, and his abilities at work have been rewarded with the medal For Outstanding Work. But a few short seconds are enough to change his life when he makes the ill-judged decision to take his car to bring a friend's wife to the celebration, and hits a pedestrian on the way. He has of course been drinking at the party and is consequently sentenced to sixteen months in prison. Being in jail is not an easy thing for a honorable communist. He soon gets into conflict with several violent inmates, who think they can break his spirit by violence.
Drama
Den pro mou lásku
5.9

Den pro mou lásku

Jun 03, 1977
The sore and tender hearts of a young couple with a toddler are explored in this drama. The little girl, four years old, is not aware that she is doing anything distressing while she ambles about the house on the day after a post-examination celebration by her father, a university student. Even though hung over, he tries hard to be patient with her. The beginning of the story follows her on her little adventures. The girl comes down with a fever, which kills her before anything can be done, and the student and his photographer wife mourn and comfort one another. Little encounters with children cause the mother pain she is seldom free of, until she gives birth to their next child, a son.
Romance
Después del sueño
5

Después del sueño

Sep 09, 1992
Amós is a sailor and owner of a ship. He is impatient with the arrival of his uncle who returns from the Soviet Union, after having exiled there after the Civil War. They have no time to meet because the old man unexpectedly dies. Amos knows, thanks to the letters his mother received, that his uncle had a treasure. However, this one is not among the objects that were in the old man's room.
Drama
Morgiana
7.2

Morgiana

Sep 15, 1972
Jealous of her vapidly "good" sister's popularity, poisonous Viktoria doses pretty Klara's tea with a slow-acting fatal substance. As the latter grows hysterically weak, the former finds success increasingly compromised by guilt, blackmail, and the pesky need to kill others lest she be exposed.
Drama
La fête et les invités
6.886
Un petit groupe d'amis bourgeois est en sortie d'une journée à la campagne, sortie qui comprend un pique-nique. Alors qu'ils se promènent après le pique-nique, ils rencontrent un groupe d'hommes à l'air officieux qui les réquisitionnent dans une petite clairière. Bien qu'il n'y ait pas de menace directe et que les pique-niqueurs n'aient pas peur, ils ressentent néanmoins le besoin de faire ce que les hommes disent.
Drama