Jiří Kodet
He came from a very old Czech theatrical family of Steimar and artistic family of Kodet, he was the son of Czech actress Jiřina Steimar and sculptor Jan Kodet. After her parents divorced, her mother married Jaroslav Juhan, a car racer, but he emigrated. This had an impact on the further studies of Jiří Kodet, who was expelled from the grammar school and was not admitted to the DAMU until the second time. He left the DAMU before graduating and began his theatre career at the East Bohemian Theatre in Pardubice (1961-1962). In 1962-64 he was in the Artistic Military Ensemble, based in Pohořelec, Prague. With this ensemble he toured a large part of the former Czechoslovakia. His future colleagues from the Drama Club, Jiří Hrzán, Jiří Zahajský and Petr Skoumal, were in the ensemble with him. In Pardubice, he was sought out by Jan Kačer, who was assembling a troupe for the Petr Bezruč Theatre in Ostrava. Kodet worked in Ostrava from 1963-1965, and from 1966 he played at the Prague Drama Club, where some of the members of the Ostrava ensemble moved. In 1991 he became a member of the drama company of the National Theatre in Prague. During his lifetime he played a number of small and episodic roles in film and television, but it was not until the end of his life that he was able to play major roles, mainly thanks to director Jan Hřebejk, who cast him in his film Divided We Fall, and earlier also in Cosy Dens, which was his most successful film ever. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jiří Kodet, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Cosy Dens
as Otec KrausTwo families, Sebkovi and Krausovi, are celebrating Christmas, but not everyone is in a good...
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Closely Watched Trains
as uncreditedAt a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice...
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Morgiana
as BessantJealous of her vapidly "good" sister's popularity, poisonous Viktoria doses pretty Klara's tea...
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The Liberation of Prague
as uncreditedOn 20th of April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi...
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All My Good Countrymen
as uncreditedThe lives of 7 friends in a small Czech town from 1945 to some time after 1958.
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Divided We Fall
as Dr. Fischer-RybáfIn 1943, a childless couple, the Čížeks, decide to hide a Jewish refugee, David Wiener, the son...
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Sokolovo
as uncreditedThe plot begins in the Soviet Union showing first efforts to establish the Czechoslovak legion...
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The Secret of Steel City
as uncreditedThe film is a metaphor for the Cold War. It depicts two neighbouring nations: peace loving...
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Bulldogs and Cherries
as Giulio SalvatoreThe dreaded Italian mafioso, Marian Labuda, will also be convinced. Mafioso Carmello was guilty...
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Run, Waiter, Run!
as RudyA comedy concerning a down on his luck bookshop owner with a penchant for women who decides to...
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Accumulator 1
as MikulíkIn this movie, TV sets are full of life. If a person is in TV (e.g. because it was filmed on the...
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Just Whistle a Little
as uncreditedSeveral big-city teenagers are falsely accused of vandalizing a valuable organ, casting light on...
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Merry Christmas Octopus
as FáraEva and her younger brother Johnny own two sentient octopuses made out of strange matter. Will...
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My Brother Has a Cute Brother
as herec v reklamním filmuHonza Pavelka (Jan Hrusínský) wins the junior motorbike speed races. His thirteen-year-old...
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The Day That Shook the World
as MorsleyAn historical depiction of the events preceding the political murder of Archduke Franz...
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Assassination
as uncreditedThe assassination of Heydrich in Prague during WWII.
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Romeo, Juliet and Darkness
as uncreditedPavel, a young student living in Prague in 1942, hides a Jewish girl in his apartment building's...
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Dissolved and Effused
as Továrník BierhanzlA police inspector and inexperienced trainee search for a mysteriously disappeared manufacturer...
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My Daughter's Operation
as uncreditedA car accident occurs and Dusan's teenage daughter Milena gets very seriously injured. To add...
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The Great Movie Robbery
as uncreditedThe film is essentially a feature-length commercial for an exhibition to mark the 40th...
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Lovers in the Year One
as AssistantIt is the summer of 1945. A party of young people are enjoying the beginning of a new life to...
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Panelstory or Birth of a Community
as uncreditedAn old man is wandering round a badly signposted and as yet mostly under construction Prague...
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Higher Principle
as uncreditedDuring the Nazi occupation of a Czech city civilians are being rounded up on the slightest of...
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Girl with Shells
as uncreditedThirteen-year-old Vendula dozes off at school and dreams about her parents riding in a carriage...
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Pan Tau – der Film
as uncreditedPan Tau, the friend of all children, now also helps the adults. A movie producer is in trouble...
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Past na kachnu
as uncreditedTaxi driver Koukal (Miroslav Machácek) is stopped by the police for a routine traffic check. In...
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Eugene among Us
as uncreditedYoung Eugene from the provinces travels to Prague in search of fame. Once there he gets an offer...
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Crime at the Girls School
as Pavel Lavecký (segment "Zločin v dívčí škole")Three short story omnibus. The main hero and connecting link is Lieutenant Boruvka, created by...
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The Apple Game
as MUDr. ArnoŠt RýdlSarcastic comedy about the Czechoslovakia of the seventies. A young gynaecologist can't figure...
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No Magic from Tomorrow
as uncreditedMr. Tau, the quiet and kind magician with a bowler hat and an umbrella, shows up unexpectedly on...
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Hotel for Strangers
as JiříA gifted poet checks into a Gothic hotel in hopes of meeting the woman with whom he has long...
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How the World Is Losing Poets
as uncreditedInseparable friends Štěpán and Kendy are students in their final year of high school. When they...
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Something Different
as JirkaIn her first feature, Věra Chytilová uses a combination of documentary and fiction film...
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Bridal Tour to Jilji
as RadovanA scientist meets a nice girl and they start dating. He decides the only way to find out for...
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How Poets Are Enjoying Their Lives
as režisér PerglZatímco Kendy se jako pomocný režisér vrací do rodného města natáčet s televizním štábem...
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Sugar House
as František Přibyl, otec Ondry a MartinaIn the final days of the Second World War in 1945 Frantisek Pribyl is killed during a shoot-out...
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Escape Home
as uncreditedA twelve-year-old is looking for his biological parents after discovering the fact that he was...
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The Glass House
as uncreditedA story about a life of a group of children in the foster home.
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Hearty Greetings from the Globe
as uncreditedTwo aliens stir up trouble on Earth in order to study humans. Misunderstandings ensue.
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The Great Unknown
as uncreditedThree detective stories, three different views of life and death... Collection of three horror...
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Blue Planet
as Petr MálekA young engineer, Štěpán Pavlík, dreams of becoming a cosmonaut.
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Alarm in the Clouds
as uncreditedIn defiance of all the laws of physics Mr. Tau is walking on the wing of an aircraft flying...
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Dita Saxová
as Younger Werli's Son (voice)A beautiful, underachieving, 18-year-old orphan considers various suitors, ponders philosophy,...
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Sentiment
as uncreditedSentiment is Tomáš Hejtmánek's intimate documentary portrait of the great Czech director...
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The Medal
as KostolányThe trenches of World War I provide for a captivating backdrop to the drama of Corporal Hoferik....
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The Jester and the Queen
as KingThe movie is a satirical look at foreign occupation - a medieval Czech jester entertains a...
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The Mysterious Mr. Hyde
as uncreditedThe television adaptation of Stevenson's well-known short story enriched the story with a new...
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Thirty Cases of Major Zema
as uncreditedThirty Cases of Major Zeman is a Czechoslovak action-drama television show intended as a...
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Arabela
as TV DirectorArabela was a children's television series produced in Czechoslovakia which aired from 1979 to...
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Arabela
as (uncredited)Arabela was a children's television series produced in Czechoslovakia which aired from 1979 to...
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Pan Tau
as uncreditedPan Tau always had a gentle expression and a friendly smile, he was elegantly dressed in a...
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Nemocnice na kraji města
as uncreditedHospital at the End of the City is a popular television series first released in Czechoslovakia...
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The Visitors
as Eda NehasilIt's the year 2484 and the Earth is threatened by a rogue comet which could fatally change its...
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The Flying Cestmir
as uncreditedYoung boy Cestmir finds a magic rock which allows him to bring the seeds of the flowers which...
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Sanitka
as uncreditedSanitka was a Czech television, drama series, first broadcast in 1984 and eleven episodes were...
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Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus
as FamilienratThe boy Simplizissimus grows up with simple farmers in the Spessart region. But the idyll is...
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