Gustav Opočenský

Born: 1920-12-07

Gustav Opočenský was the son of Bohemian poet and journalist Gustav Roger of Opočenský (1881-1949). Originally, he began to study law, but after closing Nazi colleges in 1939 he headed for the theater, close to art, thanks to his father. He did not undergo any professional training, but after the war he gained his first permanent engagement in the Realistic Theater in Prague (1945-1946). Due to his unbridled inheritance, his father in the mid-1950s came into conflict with the Communist power, he had to go to the theater in Cologne from Pardubice and eventually in 1956 he banned the ban on artistic activity. Then he worked as a miner, later a worker in Stalin's races in Záluží near Most, but at the beginning of the following decade he managed to return to the theater. Subsequent banning of activity silenced Opočenský for twelve years, he reappeared in the film MARATÓN (1968). We can also remind him of his comedic role as an old Nazi in the movie ZÍTRA VSTANU AND I WILL BE TEA (1977). Gustav Opočensky's wife was actress Eva Strupplová (* 1926). Bohemian and artistic family genes also accompany the lives of their two sons, the artist and musician Petr Opočenský (* 1950) and sculptor Pavel Opočensky (* 1954).


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The Ear

as uncredited
Released: 1990-01-01

Upon returning home from an official party, a Czech government official and his wife discover it...

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Witchhammer

as uncredited
Released: 1970-01-23

In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to...

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Against All

as Mikulas
Released: 1957-10-04

After the battle of Sudoměř the Hussite teaching spreads through the whole country and people...

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Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea

as uncredited
Released: 1977-08-12

Former Nazi Klaus Abard survives to the 1990s by taking anti-ageing pills. He plans to use a...

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Za volantem nepřítel

as uncredited
Released: 1975-10-03

1974 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Karel Steklý.

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Days of Betrayal

as uncredited
Released: 1973-04-27

This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the...

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Funeral Ceremony

as uncredited
Released: 1969-01-01

Matylda (Jaroslava Ticha), who lives in the Czech countryside, is trying to arrange burial plans...

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Jan Žižka

as Jindrich from Hradec
Released: 1956-02-05

The second part of the revolutionary Hussite trilogy takes place in the years 1419-1420.

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Build a House, Plant a Tree

as Emil Šimiak
Released: 1980-01-04

Juraj Jakubisko's first feature film after a forced nine-year-long break is a story about an...

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Romaneto

as uncredited
Released: 1981-03-27

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Prince Bajaja

as King
Released: 1971-12-17

The hero of this popular fairy tale is a young prince who, after the death of his parents, goes...

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Jan Hus

as Popish Messenger
Released: 1955-04-29

Jan Hus is a 1954 Czechoslovak film directed by Otakar Vávra. It is the first part of the...

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Hry lásky šálivé

as uncredited
Released: 1971-10-22

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Ballad for a Bandit

as uncredited
Released: 1979-06-15

The film version of the theatre musical production by the "Divadlo na provazku" in Brno tells...

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The Secret of the Gold Buddha

as uncredited
Released: 1973-06-01

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Oldrich and Bozena

as uncredited
Released: 1985-08-01

At the turn of the 10th and 11th centuries Boleslav's kingdom fell apart in the fratricidal war...

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Maratón

as uncredited
Released: 1968-12-31

It is 5 May 1945 and the uprising against the hated German occupiers has broken out in Prague....

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Concert at the End of Summer

as uncredited
Released: 1980-02-15

A docudrama about four weeks in the life of famous Czech composer Antonin Dvorak. The drama -...

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Tam kde hnízdí čápi

as uncredited
Released: 1976-03-26

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On a Wayward Princess

as Luciper
Released: 1987-07-01

Princess Julia doesn't want to marry an old prince Hubert so she runs away from home. She meets...

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Shadows of a Hot Summer

as Ranený Banderovec
Released: 1978-09-15

The story of 1947, when Bender's band, after a beating of the Nazis, tried to fight their way...

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Na konci světa

as Nývlt
Released: 1975-12-26

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Putování Jana Amose

as uncredited
Released: 1983-10-01

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Luk královny Dorotky

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1971-02-26

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Arabela

as Film Director
First aired: 1980-12-25

Arabela was a children's television series produced in Czechoslovakia which aired from 1979 to...

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Rozpaky kuchaře Svatopluka

as hotelový host
First aired: 1985-01-11

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Popel a hvězdy

as uncredited
First aired: 1990-01-01

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