Alois Vachek
Closely Watched Trains
as NovakAt a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice...
Movie pageLarks on a String
as uncreditedIn post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to...
Movie pageWitchhammer
as uncreditedIn the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to...
Movie pagePearls of the Deep
as Disabled Man (segment "Smrt pana Baltazara")A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave, this five-part anthology shows off the breadth of...
Movie pageSecluded, Near Woods
as uncreditedThe Lavicka's, a Czech family from the city, rents a house in the country with the option to...
Movie pageThose Wonderful Movie Cranks
as CourierReturning home to Prague, the magician Pasparte, an owner of a circus caravan, meets his dying...
Movie pageCrime in the Night Club
as PorotceA black comedy set in a Prague cabaret.
Movie pageCase for a Rookie Hangman
as uncreditedLemuel Gulliver (Lubomír Kostelka) has had a car accident and continues his journey across the...
Movie pageA Nice Plate of Spinach
as starý vězeňThe heroes of this absurd comedy, full of confusion and humor are Dzharda Zemanek and Frantisek...
Movie pageMiss Golem
as uncreditedIt is the 1920's. The good-looking hostess Věra demonstrates household robots to visitors of the...
Movie pagePast na kachnu
as uncreditedTaxi driver Koukal (Miroslav Machácek) is stopped by the police for a routine traffic check. In...
Movie pageWho Looks for Gold?
as uncreditedWhen he returns to Prague from a stint in the Army, Lada does not seem to fit in anywhere, and...
Movie pageCrime at the Girls School
as Czech Teacher (segment "Zločin v dívčí škole")Three short story omnibus. The main hero and connecting link is Lieutenant Boruvka, created by...
Movie pageCapricious Summer
as Man in pubMiddle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river,...
Movie pageThe Unfortunate Bridegroom
as uncreditedA comedy about two bumbling policemen investigating an alleged rape in a small Czech town. One...
Movie pageThe Secret of a Great Narrator
as uncreditedThe life of the famous French writer Alexander Dumas the Elder. Screenwriter Jaroslav Dietl did...
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