Gustav Opočenský
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).
The Ear
as uncreditedUpon returning home from an official party, a Czech government official and his wife discover it...
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Witchhammer
as uncreditedIn the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to...
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Against All
as MikulasAfter 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 uncreditedFormer 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 uncredited1974 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Karel Steklý.
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Days of Betrayal
as uncreditedThis feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the...
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Funeral Ceremony
as uncreditedMatylda (Jaroslava Ticha), who lives in the Czech countryside, is trying to arrange burial plans...
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Jan Žižka
as Jindrich from HradecThe second part of the revolutionary Hussite trilogy takes place in the years 1419-1420.
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Jan Hus
as Popish MessengerJan Hus is a 1954 Czechoslovak film directed by Otakar Vávra. It is the first part of the...
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Build a House, Plant a Tree
as Emil ŠimiakJuraj Jakubisko's first feature film after a forced nine-year-long break is a story about an...
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Prince Bajaja
as KingThe hero of this popular fairy tale is a young prince who, after the death of his parents, goes...
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Concert at the End of Summer
as uncreditedA docudrama about four weeks in the life of famous Czech composer Antonin Dvorak. The drama -...
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Shadows of a Hot Summer
as Ranený BanderovecThe story of 1947, when Bender's band, after a beating of the Nazis, tried to fight their way...
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Ballad for a Bandit
as uncreditedThe film version of the theatre musical production by the "Divadlo na provazku" in Brno tells...
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Oldrich and Bozena
as uncreditedAt the turn of the 10th and 11th centuries Boleslav's kingdom fell apart in the fratricidal war...
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Maratón
as uncreditedIt is 5 May 1945 and the uprising against the hated German occupiers has broken out in Prague....
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On a Wayward Princess
as LuciperPrincess Julia doesn't want to marry an old prince Hubert so she runs away from home. She meets...
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Arabela
as Film DirectorArabela was a children's television series produced in Czechoslovakia which aired from 1979 to...
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