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Bolek Polívka

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31-07-1949

Birthday

Leo

Zodiac Sign

-

Genres

113

Total Films

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Vizovice, Czech Republic

Place of Birth

Popular works

Creative career

actor

113 Works

producer

0 Works

director

13 Works

writer

10 Works

other

2 Works

Čmaňa

Čmaňa

0.0

Year:

2024

Dry Season

Dry Season

Two neighboring clans and two different approaches to life. What happens when the strained relationship of two domineering fathers interferes with the love of their own children?
5.7

Year:

2024

Réveillon

Réveillon

On New Year's Eve, just a few hours before the breakup of Czechoslovakia, the Varchal family meets in Banská Bystrica in front of the church to baptize the newest addition to the family, little Zuzka, the daughter of Petr and Helena. However, Peter misses the baptism, because he got his hands on the file of his father Daniel, from which he learns that his father was led as an agent of the ŠtB. When Peter finally arrives home, he immediately confronts Daniel's father with his discovery. Daniel's heart can't handle it and he has a heart attack. His life is saved by the quick intervention of a family friend and the rest of the family. Daniel is taken to the hospital. After Peter reveals the reason for his father's collapse, more and more Varchal secrets begin to emerge, and the argument about the father and his motives gather momentum. As they leaf through the file together, the family is shaken to its foundations with each subsequent page.
6.0

Year:

2023

The Greatest Gift

The Greatest Gift

In ancient times, our land was ruled by pagan gods and goddesses. But what happens when they start getting involved in people's lives and vice versa? Will Morena, the goddess of winter, win, or will she be defeated by the goddesses of spring, summer and autumn?
2.0

Year:

2022

Princ Mamánek

Princ Mamánek

6.3

Year:

2022

Word

Word

Beata Parkanová, the filmmaker behind Moments, returns to Karlovy Vary with an exceptionally vivid portrait of the family of notary Václav Vojíř, a small-town moral authority, and his selfless wife Věra. This masterfully told and highly original intimate drama, whose protagonists undergo a difficult ordeal in the summer of 1968, is reinforced by finely wrought, exquisite performances from Martin Finger and Gabriela Mikulková.
6.0

Year:

2022

Srdce na dlani

Srdce na dlani

Josef is looking forward to finally fulfilling his old dream of becoming a street clown after retirement. With his charm, he charms even the vigorous Maruška, the owner of the mobile cafe. It's like the two of you have been looking for each other all your life. But isn't it a little late for fateful love? In addition, his daughter Anička and five-year-old Honzík are currently moving into the villa with Josef. She thinks she's done with men for good, but meeting her old love, Pavel, hits her in the heart. A new girl, Evička, joins Honzík in kindergarten. Honzík experiences the feelings associated with love for the first time, he does not fully understand them, so he gathers advice from his mother, grandfather Josef or sympathetic uncle Karel. He also meets love in kindergarten when he falls in love with Honzík's teacher, Eliška. And to add to the rapprochement, Karl's basset Váleček gets along very well with Elišča's basset Šalina.
5.8

Year:

2022

Way Home

Way Home

With his father's memory waning, a struggling forester must confront the troubling reality about his livelihood and his family's future.
2.0

Year:

2021

Gump

Gump

A story told through the eyes of a stray dog called Gump . On a journey to find his way home to his owner, Gump encounters many challenges, meets new people, and makes a few canine friends along the way. A story about the devotion of a dog, who without hesitation will give his own life for the life of its beloved owner.
6.2

Year:

2021

Silent Companion

Silent Companion

To recharge after a divorce, a woman returns to her home village, which faces a bizarre problem. The cemetery has run out of room.
3.0

Year:

2021

Lakomec

Lakomec

5.3

Year:

2020

The Secret of Karma

The Secret of Karma

The story of a man who sees his past lives from before he was born after being declared dead for the second time.
3.8

Year:

2020

Batastories

Batastories

Peter Kerekes’ documentary focuses on the Bata shoe empire and the quest to find the next generation of shoe makers
0.0

Year:

2019

Women on the Run

Women on the Run

Vera has lived a wonderful life with Jindrich, and she is fully determined to fulfill his last wish - running a marathon. The emancipated and spirited mother of three daughters doesn't think that doing so will be a problem. She and her daughters will split up the route into four parts, and they'll overcome the over 42-kilometer-long challenge as a family relay team. Of course, the fact that neither of them has ever ran even a meter poses no problem.
6.0

Year:

2019

Kouzelník Žito

Kouzelník Žito

3.6

Year:

2018

Tátova volha

Tátova volha

Unexpectedly widowed costume designer Eva discovers a child's drawing that sends her and her daughter on a road trip to uncover a family secret.
5.5

Year:

2018

Manžel na hodinu

Manžel na hodinu

Milan's relationship with Dr. Eliška is developing promisingly, and when Milan finally decides to propose to her, it seems that nothing stands in the way of the wedding. Well, apart from one small "trifle" - Milan is still married to Slovakian woman Janka, Kryštof's mother, with whom he somehow forgot to divorce years ago! Apart from Milan's misgivings, there is another problem - the foursome's return to playing water polo is not going very well. There are only three left... and that's a hell of a lot... To save the group and pull his friend Jakub out of his depression, Kryštof decides to bring the aquabels to the pool with whom he wants to practice his performance. Honza is not too enthusiastic about Kryštof's plan at first, but later with the vision of rescuing a friend (and the possibility of being in the presence of beautiful aquabels) everyone starts preparing a performance called "Husband of the Hour".
3.7

Year:

2016

Angel 2

Angel 2

A story that takes place during Advent, we'll meet again with your favorite pair angel Petronel and devil Urias. Their eternal wrangling causes the rare apple from the tree of the knowledge to roll on earth. And that God is really angry. Petronel with Urias find themselves in a small Czech town on the eve of the feast of St. Nicholas. And after a series of human and "divine" tests our heroes eventually find that the path to knowledge leads primarily through self discovery through the strength of friendship, love and forgiveness skills.
7.4

Year:

2016

Little Feather

Little Feather

Martina is 18, loves dancing and goes by a nick name Shakira. Also, today she is leaving an orphanage...
6.7

Year:

2016

To Make a Comedy Is No Fun

To Make a Comedy Is No Fun

Documentary feature about Czech director Jiří Menzel, featuring Menzel himself as well as Miloš Forman, Emir Kusturica, István Szabó and others.
6.0

Year:

2016

Green Horse Rustlers

Green Horse Rustlers

An unemployed farmer convinces a geologist friend to quit his university job to seek fortune illegally mining moldavite.
4.0

Year:

2016

Děda

Děda

8.0

Year:

2016

Crazy Kingdom

Crazy Kingdom

By some quirk of fate, the two small-time thieves and the spoiled princess find themselves in the Black Forest full of magic beings who believe that everyone has a chance to mend his ways. However, sometimes even the best intentions need to take a pretty long way round to be achieved... Funny fairy tale full of action, excitement, fun, magic but also love.
4.5

Year:

2016

Home Care

Home Care

Dedicated home care nurse Vlasta attends her whimsical patients in Czech wine country and lives for her husband Lada and her daughter, but one day things change and Vlasta is forced to reach outside of her comfort zone. Drama and gentle humor intertwine as Vlasta realizes, for the first time in her life, that she might need some care, too.
6.0

Year:

2015

Husband to Rent

Husband to Rent

Four swimmers - water polo players find themselves at the bottom of their existence after losing a match. So desperate that they even find themselves living at the bottom of their emptied pool. To save their "dignity" they start a questionable business "Husband to rent" fixing home items for local housewives. But as time will show the household items are not the only things they end up repairing.
4.2

Year:

2014

Angels of Everyday

Angels of Everyday

Based on a best-selling novel by Michal Viewegh, Angels of everyday focuses on a few intimate family members: a recently widowed young doctor Ester; a school canteen cook and her son; a driving instructor, his wife, and their closest relatives.
6.3

Year:

2014

Three Brothers

Three Brothers

Three brothers leave their home to see the world. During their journey, young men as by miracle enter into famous fairy tales (Little Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Twelve Months) and face traps, unexpected moments and even love in a story full of humor and songs.
6.3

Year:

2014

The Inheritance or You Shouldn't Say That

The Inheritance or You Shouldn't Say That

The aging Bohus buries his wife Vlastička and after seven years of abstinence starts drinking again.
4.5

Year:

2014

Revival

Revival

6.8

Year:

2013

To the Woods

To the Woods

Honza Marak has long since abandoned a career in IT and has bought a cottage on the outskirts of a small village, where he’s settled in with his wife Marketa, daughter Anyna and son Sayen. He works in the woods as a forest labourer repairing roads and enclosures, cutting wood to sell and assisting the foresters. Marketa earns a living as a masseuse and alternative healer, making use of various mind-altering plants and mushrooms, which leads to conflict with the old inhabitants and eventually with drug enforcement. Daughter Anyna attends a distant school where her grades deteriorate as she wanders the woods learning from nature rather than from her textbooks.
5.6

Year:

2012

Signál

Signál

Two young technicians, Filos and Kája, come to a small village that is a bit cut off from the rest of the world in order to find the best place to install a new station for the reception of a cell phone signal. Their arrival understandably arouses a feeling of expectation among the locals, especially when they learn of the interesting financial reward for the owner of the land on which the transmitter will stand. A fight flares up in the village over this reward, and all weapons, those permitted and those not, are put into use. Of course, there is also the question of whether Filos and Kája will be able to live up to the expectations that have been placed on them. Maybe they aren't even who they claim to be...
4.4

Year:

2012

Men in Hope

Men in Hope

Charming bon vivant Rudolf is convinced that infidelity is the basis for a happy marriage, since, after all, a woman does not want to be bored with her partner.
7.5

Year:

2011

The Magical Duvet

The Magical Duvet

The great musical comedy by F. A. Brabec V perine is the first Czech film made entirely in 3D. This stimulating comedy, in true and thorough 3D, presents a whole new computer-made world concealed in a quilt, where a large part of the film is taking place. The film V perine is a musical comedy made in the high-spirited style of Mamma Mia. In a relaxed world, where everybody used to dance rock'n'roll and the streets were full of pink Cadillacs, good and bad dreams hidden in our quilts take form. The musical adventure culminates in the magical world of dreams.
3.7

Year:

2011

Ulovit miliardáře

Ulovit miliardáře

A report is fabricated accusing a successful businessman, Patrik Grossmann, of racism. When the media launches a full-blown campaign against him, the atmosphere gets so thick that anyone can kick him while he's down just to prove their morality.
2.0

Year:

2009

Operation Dunaj

Operation Dunaj

Operation Danube was the cover name for the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact armies in August 1968. The fleet of Polish tanks which arrive to liberate their neighbor, ostensibly threatened by a counter-revolution, includes the old tank nicknamed Ladybird, which is the last to leave the barracks.
5.0

Year:

2009

Anatomie gagu

Anatomie gagu

0.0

Year:

2008

Small Celebrations

Small Celebrations

0.0

Year:

2008

Bathory: Countess of Blood

Bathory: Countess of Blood

Bathory is based on the legends surrounding the life and deeds of Countess Elizabeth Bathory known as the greatest murderess in the history of mankind. Contrary to popular belief, Elizabeth Bathory was a modern Renaissance woman who ultimately fell victim to men’s aspirations for power and wealth.
5.6

Year:

2008

I'm All Good

I'm All Good

This Hrebejk’s comedy is set in Prague, four years after the democratic “Velvet revolution” of 1989. This was an era of sudden freedom, transition and confusion. Most people got carried away, quickly abandoning the old values and uncritically accepting the new. Some people just took a break…
5.8

Year:

2008

Hodina klavíru

Hodina klavíru

0.0

Year:

2007

ROMing

ROMing

5.4

Year:

2007

Pleasant Moments

Pleasant Moments

Hana is a psychologist and a thoroughly independent woman. Her unemployed husband, jealous of his wife, finds a younger girlfriend, but their teenage son Honzik is frustrated; everyone ignores him. Hana's patient Eva, an attractive middle-aged woman, is having problems with her 25-year-old son; she is in love with her son's friend and her son is offended by her behavior. To complete the circle, he falls in love with Hana and Honzik is utterly disgusted by their affair. Another of Hana's patients is Dub, a millionaire who can have pretty much anything, or anyone, he wants. He wants Hana. But he can't have her.
4.6

Year:

2006

Something Like Happiness

Something Like Happiness

Over the course of a year, in a small town scarred and beaten down by industrialization, Tonda and Monika, friends since childhood, come to experience what life might be like if they could be with one another – which they seemingly can't. Or can they?
6.4

Year:

2005

Through This Night

Through This Night

The film portrays the final days of the most famous Czech authoress, Božena Nìmcová, who in the mid-19th century dared to live a life free of social constraints.
0.0

Year:

2005

The Gnome

The Gnome

A tragicomedy full of slapstick and vignettes, and even an unexpected shootout. A family of villagers moves up in the world - to the county seat. Dad works as a butcher at a meatpacking plant, mom is a checker at a supermarket. The daughter is at odds with her homeroom teacher, while the son - a vegetarian, anarchist, and avid pothead - is apprenticing as a butcher to please his father. The kid's in hot water with both his forewoman and the police. But dad isn't much of an example, letting himself be tempted by the charms of a lovely young butcher. However much mom tries - visiting the beauty parlor, her psychologist, or even the confessional - her husband shows his interest by moving out. Mom plots revenge. And somehow an imp gets mixed up in it all
5.6

Year:

2005

Bolero

Bolero

Based on real event, Bolero is an excellent story of progressive recovery of a crime. The story surprises all the time, shows new connections, new possibilities, exposes new ideas and facts. It's possible to understand the film on more levels. It describes the position and all the feelings of victim's family, the police work as well as the impact of the crime on it's malefactors. It also touches the topic of moral decay of the descendants of rich, high-posted families. In addition to this, the power of the storyline is accentuated by the quality of the artistic treatment of the whole piece.
5.7

Year:

2004

Pupendo

Pupendo

Artist Bedřich Mára (Bolek Polivka) is unable to find much secure work due to his public antagonism toward the ruling Communist Party. He has a wife and two children. Life begins to change when art historian Alois Fábera (Jiři Pecha) begins working on a piece about Bedřich, leading to a job offer from a Party official. Things are looking up, until the wrong people hear portions of the historian's writing.
6.6

Year:

2003

Útek do Budína

Útek do Budína

0.0

Year:

2002

Z města cesta

Z města cesta

A poetic documentary about different sides of nature and city life.
5.0

Year:

2002

Expulsion from Paradise

Expulsion from Paradise

Philosophical movie, staged at the least philosophical environment imaginable: A closed scenery of a nudist spot, where some hired Czech stuff is making a plain erotic movie for a rich Russian producer. Nothing in this movie is what it seems to be at the first superficial glance.
4.2

Year:

2001

Wild Flowers

Wild Flowers

Seven seemingly unconnected fairy tales - glued together only by folklore, mood, color and light - make up this Czech collection of visual poetry. The original piece of literature, written by Karel Jaromír Erben in 1853, contained twelve tales.
7.0

Year:

2000

Out of the City

Out of the City

A computer programmer and his son are going out of the city for vacation.
5.7

Year:

2000

Divided We Fall

Divided We Fall

In 1943, a childless couple, the Čížeks, decide to hide a Jewish refugee, David Wiener, the son of Čížek's former employer, in the secret pantry of their apartment. Čížek is aware of the danger into which he has brought his household and his neighbours, but he takes helping his fellow man in need for granted. But at the same time, as a largely unheroic hero, he is dying of fear. His personal situation is greatly complicated by the approaching end of the war, when he faces danger from both the Germans and his "honest" fellow Czechs...
7.2

Year:

2000

Cosy Dens

Cosy Dens

Two families, Sebkovi and Krausovi, are celebrating Christmas, but not everyone is in a good mood. The teenage kids think that their fathers are totally stupid, and the fathers are sure that their children are nothing more than rebels, hating anything they say.
8.0

Year:

1999

Akáty bílé

Akáty bílé

0.0

Year:

1997

Forgotten Light

Forgotten Light

Father Holy, a village priest, battles against the state and religious bureaucracies of 1980s Czechoslovakia in his fight to raise money for a new church roof. Permeated by his love for the villagers, his encounters are marked by his good humor. In his losing battle against Church and State, Holy is ordered to be transferred away from his parish and his allies. The Czech-American, Milena Jelinek, adapted this moving story from the the novel The Forgotten Light, by the 1930s Czech writer/poet and Catholic priest Jakub Deml. (1934)
6.2

Year:

1996

Král Ubu

Král Ubu

A cruel picture of the ways in which human beings acquire power and then cling to it. The story of Father Ubu, an idiot who climbs over the bodies of the dead to his royal post, is presented with a touch of the grotesque where naive comic elements meet black humor. Using a human touch, the film- makers were able to transform the original into a film aimed at a contemporary audience while remaining faithful to the vision of Father Ubu and Mother Ubu venturing everything in their efforts to seize power and mammon.
7.8

Year:

1996

Suzanne

Suzanne

8.0

Year:

1996

Brother of Sleep

Brother of Sleep

In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austrian mountains. While growing up he is considered strange by the other villagers and discovers his love of music, especially rebuilding and playing the organ at the village church. After experiencing an "acoustic wonder", his eye color changes and he can hear even the most subtle sounds.
6.7

Year:

1995

Accumulator 1

Accumulator 1

In this movie, TV sets are full of life. If a person is in TV (e.g. because it was filmed on the street) it has a double that's right in the TV set. This double needs energy from the true character to survive. Each time, the real human watches TV, his Double will pull life energy from him. So there's a mysterious Death-serial. Many persons die in front of their TV set and nobody knows why. Olda, the main character, is one of the persons, that get more and more weak. He is near death, till Fisarek, the natural healer appears. He teaches Olda how he can resist this magic force and how he can fight it.
7.0

Year:

1994

The Inheritance or Fuckoffguysgoodday

The Inheritance or Fuckoffguysgoodday

Bohus is indolent and spends his days drinking brandy. One day he finds he has inherited a brickworks, several shops and a five-star hotel. Bohus sets out to tour his new empire, insulting everyone on the way.
6.6

Year:

1992

The Elementary School

The Elementary School

The time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside Prague. In school, their class is so wild and indisciplined that their teacher quits and is replaced by the militant Igor Hnidzo. He is very strict – but also very fair. His weakness though, is his interest in young women.
7.4

Year:

1991

Flames of Royal Love

Flames of Royal Love

In 1992, Prague is the capital of a small kingdom. The prince is supposed to choose his bride to be at a royal ball. But to everybody's surprise, he chooses an ugly cleaning-woman. She is shy and silent, but after the marriage she turns into a wild and rumbustious woman with an obstinate and stubborn mind. They both try to kill each other, but the queen is thrown into the dungeons.
4.2

Year:

1991

Pražákům, těm je hej

Pražákům, těm je hej

The story begins in 1984 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, few years before the end of Communist era. The band Pražský výběr (Prague's selection) has just received the news thier 5-year ban has expired and they are alowed to perform once again. This half fantasy half document about the band would draw the atmosphere of middle european late Communist era and the eufory of it's end.
8.0

Year:

1991

The Gentle Barbarian

The Gentle Barbarian

A commemorative and essayistic meditative piece on the Prague quarter Libeň during the 1950s.
5.3

Year:

1990

About a Hungry Babe

About a Hungry Babe

A grotesque and self-ironic reflection on the last things, and how you have to work for yourself.
0.0

Year:

1990

Time of the Servants

Time of the Servants

Dana is young medical student with no self esteem, she can't deal with life, people and even not with herself. After her boyfriend leaves her, she changes to selfish woman, manipulating people and making them to serve her. She plays with her husband, neighbors and friends - for her own good and for fun.
4.8

Year:

1989

Sitting on a Branch, Enjoying Myself

Sitting on a Branch, Enjoying Myself

Pepe and Prengel, returning from war, meet Ester and both fall in love with the girl and live together in a deserted house. Fanatic communist, Zelmira, wants to turn their world upside-down.
6.2

Year:

1989

Štek

Štek

1.0

Year:

1989

The Jester and the Queen

The Jester and the Queen

The movie is a satirical look at foreign occupation - a medieval Czech jester entertains a German king and his French wife, or a modern Czech villager helps a Bavarian hunter and his French wife find wild boar in Bohemia - the story switches back and forth between the two plots and time-periods.
6.7

Year:

1988

Freckled Max and the Spooks

Freckled Max and the Spooks

A parody of Frankensteinian stories. It is a story of a little boy, an orphan who arrives at the Castle of Count Frankenstein - a world inhabited by mysterious and sometimes a bit ridiculous scary creatures. Although each one of them is different, they all share one thing: they feel lonely and they are desperate for a little love and affection.
5.0

Year:

1987

Poslední leč

Poslední leč

6.0

Year:

1982

Horí

Horí

0.0

Year:

1982

Calamity

Calamity

Funny banter about love, sex, social status, and other ideals, while a new railway employee is trained and sent on his first run as driver.
5.5

Year:

1982

Zlatá ručka

Zlatá ručka

0.0

Year:

1982

Blues pro EFB

Blues pro EFB

0.0

Year:

1980

Commedia dell'arte

Commedia dell'arte

0.0

Year:

1980

Ballad for a Bandit

Ballad for a Bandit

The film version of the theatre musical production by the "Divadlo na provazku" in Brno tells the tale of legendary bandit Nikola Šuhaj from Koločava.
9.0

Year:

1979

Am a Ea

Am a Ea

0.0

Year:

1977

Traja chrobáci

Traja chrobáci

6.8

Year:

1976

Kazisvěti

Kazisvěti

0.0

Year:

1973

Kouzelný hrášek

Kouzelný hrášek

0.0

Year:

1973

Paroháči

Paroháči

0.0

Year:

1973

Kouzelné hodinky

Kouzelné hodinky

0.0

Year:

1973

Kočky neberem

Kočky neberem

0.0

Year:

1967