Аватар персоны Čeněk Šlégl

Čeněk Šlégl

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30-09-1899

Birthday

Libra

Zodiac Sign

-

Genres

76

Total Films

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Place of Birth

Popular works

Creative career

actor

76 Works

producer

0 Works

director

23 Works

writer

14 Works

other

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Nocturnal Butterfly

Nocturnal Butterfly

Venice Film Festival 1941
6.2

Year:

1941

Station Master

Station Master

Vlasta Burian jako černý pasažér rozvrátí disciplinovaný chod jednoho nádraží. Pan Ťopka působí dojmem gentlemana trochu chaplinovského typu. Živí se příležitostnou prací, za níž jezdí výhradně jako černý pasažér vlakem. Při jedné jízdě se setká s obávaným generálním inspektorem drah Kokrhelem. Na jedné malé stanici se mu podaří vystoupit a převléknout se do uniformy přednosty stanice. Setkání s inspektorem Kokrhelem se však nevyhne... (oficiální text distributora)
7.5

Year:

1941

Burian the Liar

Burian the Liar

Fifty years old Baron von Fibberg lives at The Fibberg Castle with his wife Olga and daughter Charley. Besides the delight in hunting, Baron is very enthusiastic about truth. Although he can't withstand any falsehood of others, he keeps his own intimate secrets from his wife. Charley seems to be an innocent girl at first glance, but she has a little secret too. She fell in love with a young fop Ernest Benda and married him in secret. Her only concern is the way, how to let her strict father know about the marriage. Together with her husband they prepare a plan how to do it, but it turns out to be a catastrophe for the whole family.
6.2

Year:

1940

Panna

Panna

5.5

Year:

1940

The Catacombs

The Catacombs

The title refers to the office of records in the basement of a large company... sort of the place where a troublesome employee may be dumped in a dead end job. If fact, the story is a simple romantic comedy, with Burian as the kindly old stick-in-the-mud who helps the young man to sort out his romance with the daughter of the company's owner.
7.7

Year:

1940

U svatého Matěje

U svatého Matěje

0.0

Year:

1939

Ulice zpívá

Ulice zpívá

8.0

Year:

1939

Kristian

Kristian

Alois Novák (Oldrich Nový), a minor clerk in a travel agency and the husband of a dowdy housewife Marenka (Natasa Gollová), lives a run-of-the-mill, dull life. In his soul, however, there resides an inextinguishable desire for adventure. And so once a month he poses as a playboy. As the mysterious and wealthy Mr. Kristian he goes to the exclusive Orient Bar where he does not skimp on generous tips and where he platonic-ally seduces beautiful and elegant women. In the salon he speaks of love and the magnificence of exotic lands, which he has supposedly come to know on his wanderings abroad. In reality he has read all of this in the travel agency's brochures.
7.3

Year:

1939

The White Yacht in Split

The White Yacht in Split

When the yacht of her former lover Mario Tudor arrives in Split, widowed Countess de Milesi, plagued by financial troubles, is hell-bent on selling him a fake copy of an expensive painting.
0.0

Year:

1939

Teď zas my

Teď zas my

7.0

Year:

1939

He Stood at the Till

He Stood at the Till

U pokladny stál... is a Czech comedy film. It was released in 1939.
7.9

Year:

1939

School Is the Foundation of Life

School Is the Foundation of Life

Seventh form pupils at a grammar school in Přívlaky are preparing for a secondary school sports competition. Class creep Krhounek gives the class teacher Lejsal a copy of the seventh form’s magazine Roar. Most of the teachers insist on severe punishing the culprit. The author does not own up and consequently the whole class is punished by being banned from taking part in the schools competition. The most gifted pupil, Benetka, rather sharply criticises the school in a homework essay on a subject of his choice. The strict Czech language teacher is convinced Benetka is the author of the school magazine. Benetka denies the charge but his expulsion from school is proposed anyway on account the views he expounded in his essay. Eventually, Boukal, the author of the school magazine comes forward and admits to writing it. The pupils are allowed to take part in the contest and thanks to Benetka they win. In the meantime however the teachers vote to expell him.
8.3

Year:

1938

Advokátka Věra

Advokátka Věra

5.5

Year:

1937

Srdce na kolejích

Srdce na kolejích

0.0

Year:

1937

Rozvod paní Evy

Rozvod paní Evy

0.0

Year:

1937

Švadlenka

Švadlenka

6.0

Year:

1936

Uličnice

Uličnice

0.0

Year:

1936

Ulička v ráji

Ulička v ráji

0.0

Year:

1936

Irčin románek

Irčin románek

6.0

Year:

1936

Sextánka

Sextánka

7.0

Year:

1936

Světlo jeho očí

Světlo jeho očí

0.0

Year:

1936

Klub tří

Klub tří

4.0

Year:

1935

Studentská máma

Studentská máma

8.0

Year:

1935

Hrdina jedné noci

Hrdina jedné noci

6.3

Year:

1935

Rozpustilá noc

Rozpustilá noc

0.0

Year:

1935

Long Live with Dearly Departed

Long Live with Dearly Departed

Wealthy and ill Petr Kornel (Karel Hasler) is not pleased with the carousing lifestyle of his nephew. He stops supporting him financially and demands that he change his name. Out of gratitude Kornel bequeaths a substantial sum of money to his nurse Alice (Adina Mandlová) with the condition that she marries. Petr Suk (Hugo Haas), as the nephew is now named, visits the doctor. In the waiting room his X-ray is mistakenly switched with one of another patient's. On the basis of this he presently learns that he is seriously ill and has only one day of life left to him.
7.0

Year:

1935

Polská krev

Polská krev

10.0

Year:

1934

Jägerblut

Jägerblut

0.0

Year:

1934

On the Sunnyside

On the Sunnyside

A story of two story of two children tossed between their indifferent parents and a progressive boarding school.
5.0

Year:

1933

Eaten Out of House and Home

Eaten Out of House and Home

The gullible buyer Žemla Martin (Francis Smolik) finally opened his dream shop. After a while, you get a lot of friends. Especially the former captain Kyllijána (Vlasta Burian), who come to him to drink brandy debt and sit on a bag of peas, where he talks nonsense. Its debt is starting to grow nicely. Later dupe marry an evil Pavlina Šustrová (Ela Poznerová). It can also bring their calculating mother, widow Catherine Šustrová (Antonie Nedošínská). These two together with a bun Kyllijánem use, but outside him are friendly. Later, when Žemla catches his wife cheating when he has become the father of a foreign child, and when he discovers that the shop is broke and completely vyjedený, poisoning. A best friend Žemlův captain Kylliján happily drunk debt for plum deleted.
5.0

Year:

1933

Anton Spelec, Sharp-Shooter

Anton Spelec, Sharp-Shooter

Anton Špelec (Vlasta Burin) is a producer of musical instruments by trade but a sharp-shooter at heart. He expects to be awarded a medal at a large parade in town where veteran sharp-shooters will be honored. When the town council is one medal short, Anton must wait another year for his prized possession. He drowns his disappointment in drink at the local pub and becomes so drunk that he insults the emperor who sentences him to jail. Instead of fulfilling the emperor’s orders himself, Anton sends his employee in his stead.
7.1

Year:

1932

Ballad-Singer

Ballad-Singer

0.0

Year:

1932

The Ideal Schoolmaster

The Ideal Schoolmaster

This light-hearted comedy operetta tells the story of a newly appointed high school professor who becomes an ideal target for pranks and jokes.
8.0

Year:

1932

The Undertaker

The Undertaker

4.3

Year:

1932

Lelíček in the Services of Sherlock Holmes

Lelíček in the Services of Sherlock Holmes

The Portorican prime minister asks British detective Sherlock Holmes to find a twin for King Fernando XXIII, a weak and frightened man who fears anarchists and does not want to show himself in public. Holmes finds in the Czech newspapers a photo of the perfect double, František Lelíček, a daring bon vivant drowned in debt, so when Holmes offers him money, Lelíček decides to travel to Portorico and play the role.
8.2

Year:

1932

Third Company

Third Company

0.0

Year:

1931

Cobblers

Cobblers

2.0

Year:

1931

Business in Distress

Business in Distress

Finnicky efficiency expert is sent to straighten out business management problems at a jazz club, and finds self being drawn into the swingin' scene.
6.4

Year:

1931

The Dogheads

The Dogheads

0.0

Year:

1931

The Case of Colonel Redl

The Case of Colonel Redl

The case of Colonel Redl -- an officer blackmailed into spying by virtue of his homosexuality.
0.0

Year:

1931

Fidlovačka

Fidlovačka

In "Fidlovacka", the name of a Czechoslovakian festival, the proprietress of a cheese factory picks a fiancé for her orphaned niece in her desire to bring aristocratic blood into the family. THe niece has also picked the man she wants to marry and isn't the the rich aristocrat.
0.0

Year:

1930

Imperial and Royal Field Marshal

Imperial and Royal Field Marshal

Comedy film directed by Karel Lamač.
6.1

Year:

1930

Her Boy

Her Boy

Directed by Friedrich Feher.
3.0

Year:

1930

The Sins of Love

The Sins of Love

The troubled situation of a provincial actor and his actress wife who come to the city. The actor is suspected of attacking another actor who admires the actress.
0.0

Year:

1929

Aničko, vrať se!

Aničko, vrať se!

0.0

Year:

1927

Svéhlavička

Svéhlavička

0.0

Year:

1927

The Loves of Kačenka Strnadová

The Loves of Kačenka Strnadová

The film depicts the adventures of Kacenka (Zdena Kavková) and Vincek (Vlasta Burian), two innocent country bumpkins who live in a Czech small town, and the various jobs that Kacenka has once she moves to Prague, that beautiful capital city. Our heroine will have to bear difficult working conditions and to make things worse, she falls in love with a fake aristocrat. Fortunately her companion, Vincek who is also in Prague, has an unrequited love for her. Though he is the cause of many Kacenka's problems, Vincek finally will help and resolve her loves troubles. And of course there is a happy ending that brings the Czech couple together.
6.0

Year:

1926

Mořská panna

Mořská panna

0.0

Year:

1926

The Thief

The Thief

0.0

Year:

1919