Rudolf Hrušínský
Rudolf Hrušínský was an acclaimed Czech actor during his country's era of communism. He was born in Nová Včelnice to Hermina Červičková and Rudolf Hrušinský (original name Rudolf Böhm, also took the stage name Otomar Otovalský). He was born, literally, back stage during a showing of the play Taneček panny Marinky. Initially he travelled from place to place, wherever his father could find a gig, but eventually his family settled in Prague. He dropped out of law school to pursue acting. Initially he starred in minor plays, but managed to escalate to famous film roles, many of which won him fame abroad
The Cremator
as Karel KopfrkinglIn 1930s Prague, a Czech cremator who firmly believes cremation relieves one from earthly...
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The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
as sultánA 20th century man lands on the Moon and discovers that Baron Munchausen has beaten him to it,...
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Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet
as komisař LedvinaWhen famous detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in strange case of a...
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Larks on a String
as TrusteeIn post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to...
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My Sweet Little Village
as doktorThe movie's main storyline follows the life of Otík, a young man, in a tight-knit village...
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The Good Soldier Švejk
as Josef ŠvejkGood-natured and garrulous, Schweik becomes the Austrian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he...
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The Snowdrop Festival
as Jarin FrancThis movie is based on texts of Bohumil Hrabal, world-known Czech prosaic. It's a story (in a...
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The Elementary School
as PrincipalThe time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside...
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I Dutifully Report
as Josef ŠvejkA comedy based on the novel of Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Svejk happens during the World...
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Love Between the Raindrops
as lékárníkSet in Prague during the years leading up to World War II, this family saga tells the story of a...
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The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians
as vynálezce OrfánikIn 1897, in a castle near the town of Werewolfville in the Carpithians, a slightly deranged...
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Cutting It Short
as MUDr. Gruntorád, předseda správní rady pivovaruFrancin, manager of a small-town brewery, has a charming wife whose abundant blonde locks are an...
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The Murderer Hides His Face
as major SNB KalašIn the forest near the village of Drahovice, a nurse from the local health center is found...
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The Three Veterans
as PankrácIt is a story of three veterans released from the army. During one night spent camping in the...
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Ball Lightning
as Dr. RadostaA comedy about exchange of 12 apartments , which, its organizer, lawyer Radosta, rightly called...
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Jan Hus
as purkmistrův synJan Hus is a 1954 Czechoslovak film directed by Otakar Vávra. It is the first part of the...
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A Great Road Ahead
as StraslipkaAbout the great Czech satirist Jaroslav Hašek, who was captured by the Russians during the First...
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Forbidden Dreams
as ProšekLeo Popper is a happy family man living in rural Bohemia in the years preceding the Nazi...
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Higher Principle
as kolaborant ZajíčekDuring the Nazi occupation of a Czech city civilians are being rounded up on the slightest of...
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Capricious Summer
as Antonín DůraMiddle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river,...
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Dark Sun
as CarsonA remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit.
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Fear
as major SNB KalašA car deliberately runs down a young man on a road by a small border town. The locals recognize...
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The White Lady
as předseda MNV FrantišekThis castle has its own ghost - a mysterious White lady. She emerges from the painting on the...
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Honor and Glory
as uncreditedThis historical film by Hynek Bočan touches upon the indecisiveness of the Czech nation, ready...
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Those Wonderful Movie Cranks
as uncreditedReturning home to Prague, the magician Pasparte, an owner of a circus caravan, meets his dying...
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How Poets Are Enjoying Their Lives
as HubáčekZatímco Kendy se jako pomocný režisér vrací do rodného města natáčet s televizním štábem...
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The End of Old Times
as Jakub LhotaCzechoslovakia 1918. The newly formed National Assembly has made Stoklasa the administrator of...
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On the Trail of Blood
as major VB KalašMajor Kalas from the Prague criminal intelligence service has been sent to a small town of Dubá...
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Caught by Night
as Dr. PfitznerA communist journalist from Prague is sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp.
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90° in the Shade
as Mr. KurkaIn a Prague shop, an assistant has been carrying on an affair with the dishonest, married...
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Crime in the Night Club
as KnézA black comedy set in a Prague cabaret.
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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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Jan Žižka
as Burgrave's SonThe second part of the revolutionary Hussite trilogy takes place in the years 1419-1420.
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Dissolved and Effused
as Otec HlaváčekA police inspector and inexperienced trainee search for a mysteriously disappeared manufacturer...
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Smoke on the Potato Fields
as Dr. MeluzinIn this character study by Czech director Frantisek Vlacil, a stout middle-aged physician whose...
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Journey Into the Depth of the Student's Soul
as septimán Jan VaněkSmall stories from a grammar school.Děj je poskládán z celé řady epizod, které během jednoho...
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Jak se krade milión
as ŠafránekThe exemplary accountant Antonín Safránek lives his orderly life as a citizen of a small town....
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Attention, Rounds!
as světoběžník PrepslA story about an everyday life of an inflectional department of Prague hospital.
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Tichá bolest
as GrandfatherA young man has led his whole life with his grandfather. When he was in school, he was the only...
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Diagnóza smrti
as major KalašTwo seriously injured patients are brought to the hospital at almost the same time: truck driver...
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Alena
as uncreditedMaster armourer Tomás has young wife Alena, of whom he is very jealous. One day the ruler of...
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The Circus Will Be
as uncreditedA few bus-loads of holidaymakers from the agricultural cooperative on a day trip arrive to see...
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Bulldogs and Cherries
as Don MorellanoThe dreaded Italian mafioso, Marian Labuda, will also be convinced. Mafioso Carmello was guilty...
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The Hope
as LucinA group of outcasts, including a vagabond and a prostitute, gather at the outskirts of the...
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Golden Eels
as ProšekA little boy, named Prdelka, traveled with his father from Prague to the country during the...
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Magician
as Poetry Reader (voice)A narration of episodes from the life of the famous Czech poet, Karel Hynek Mácha. Throughout...
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Oasis
as Kaprál 'baron'The year is 1943. The war is raging between the Germans and the Allies in North Africa. A truck...
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Murder Czech Style
as František PokornýThe protagonist (Rudolf Hrusinsky) is a dull, fat, shy government clerk indulging in voyuerism...
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The Hero Is Afraid
as úředník investičního odboru Honza VavřinecHonza Vavrinec (Rudolf Hrusínský) works in the investment department of a large office. One day...
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We Study After School
as Karel TomanThe heroes of the Czech film comedy are the students of the Business Academy, who sleep in the...
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The Beggar's Opera
as LockitUnlike any other opera, the so-called Beggar's Opera is not just one composition, but a lineage...
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The Beggar's Opera
as PolicemanUnlike any other opera, the so-called Beggar's Opera is not just one composition, but a lineage...
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as ConductorThe Prague Grand Orchestra travels by train to a music festival in Yugoslavia. Only the singer...
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About Dressy Sally
as Narrator (voice)Sally, a dressy little girl, receives a lesson from a sorcerer about lying and happiness.
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When the Woman Butts In
as Dr. WagnerKam Cert Nemuze by director Zdenek Podskalsky is a routine farce that slowly builds up steam to...
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Faust's House
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)A film story based on the old Prague legends. It tells about a poor student lured by wealth,...
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Paths of Death and Angels
as Schrevek JózsefReviewers found this somewhat surreal film so visually stunning as to be worth watching even...
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Líza Soars to the Skies
as Jarka, syn RejlkovýchThe orphan Eliška Irovská, nicknamed Líza, arrives in her native village of Ptačice. As an...
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The Gentle Barbarian
as opilecA commemorative and essayistic meditative piece on the Prague quarter Libeň during the 1950s.
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Shoesmachine
as SramThe happenings in a shoe factory serve as a not very thinly veiled examination of the pros and...
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Swap
as uncreditedThis grotesque, micro-realistic film is set in a small village at the end of the seventies. A...
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Meze Waltera Hortona
as Farley GreshamThe fact that the man succumbed one morning to an irresistible urge to sit down at the piano and...
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One Moment
as HimselfPoetic, affectionate, lyrical, and elegy for actor Rudolf Hrusinsky composed of a wordless...
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The Night Guest
as uncreditedWhen a man stops at a motel one evening in 1961, his tormenting behavior drives one of the...
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Ghosts of the Dormers
as DědaA tale about a young girl whose grandfather has built a garden of horrors.
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Presentiment
as uncreditedA daughter of a celebrity family experiences a holiday adventure with a mysterious young man....
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La valle di pietra
as uncreditedIn the 18th Century, in Bohemia, a government surveyor meet a priest during a lunch and remained...
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The Physician of a Dying Time
as Rudolf II.Series about the life of Renaissance anatomist, scholar and politic Johannes Jessenius. Already...
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Sňatky z rozumu
as uncreditedSňatky z rozumu was a Czechoslovak television programme which was first broadcast in 1968. The...
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On the Road to Atlantis
as Rudolf II.Unterwegs nach Atlantis is an Austrian-German-Swiss-Czechoslovakian science fiction television...
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