Аватар персоны Josef Vaniš

Josef Vaniš

Director
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06-01-1927

Birthday

Capricorn

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Also known as (male)

Vysoký Chlumec

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54 Works

Angelic Eyes

Angelic Eyes

Charming, witty and smart men represent a fictitious insurance company who soon fall for an innocent-looking young woman smarter than she seems.
4.0

Year:

1994

Papilio

Papilio

2.0

Year:

1987

Young Wine

Young Wine

0.0

Year:

1986

How Poets Are Losing Their Illusions

How Poets Are Losing Their Illusions

A story about a young medical school student and his adventures.
6.0

Year:

1985

...and again that Lucy!

...and again that Lucy!

A second part of a funny adventures of six years old Lucie and her two magic dolls.
6.6

Year:

1984

Lucy, the Menace of Street

Lucy, the Menace of Street

A first part of a funny adventures of six years old Lucie and her two magic dolls.
7.2

Year:

1984

Radical Cut

Radical Cut

6.0

Year:

1984

Levé křídlo

Levé křídlo

3.3

Year:

1984

Modré z nebe

Modré z nebe

0.0

Year:

1984

Zelená vlna

Zelená vlna

5.0

Year:

1982

No Magic from Tomorrow

No Magic from Tomorrow

Mr. Tau, the quiet and kind magician with a bowler hat and an umbrella, shows up unexpectedly on the wings of a plane during flight. The terrified crew contact the airport security service. After the plane lands, Mr. Tau disappears. The third security inspector Málek is determined to catch the hooligan at any price. To achieve this, he gives up his holiday to visit the children's summer camp. Mr. Málek's son, who just like all the other children is delighted by the new camp cook, Mr. Tau himself, has unknowingly set the inspector on the magician's trail. But the children at the camp are determined not to let their beloved magician get caught and ingeniously place all sorts of traps in Inspector Málek's way.
7.5

Year:

1979

Death of Hitch-Hikers

Death of Hitch-Hikers

Maniac, a driver, sits on the track women, which then rape and kill. For loved ones, he is an ordinary person who has a wife and child. When exposed, he does not stop before killing his wife and takes his son hostage, under the guise of which he is trying to escape abroad.
5.4

Year:

1979

Leť, ptáku leť!

Leť, ptáku leť!

6.2

Year:

1979

Alarm in the Clouds

Alarm in the Clouds

In defiance of all the laws of physics Mr. Tau is walking on the wing of an aircraft flying close to Prague. Young Alenka is enthusiastic, but the other passengers are horrified. The security inspector Málek believes the report from the crew to be a code alerting him to a hijack, and orders an emergency landing. In the confusion at the airport the fairytale Mr. Tau disappears into one of the halls.
5.5

Year:

1978

Noc klavíristy

Noc klavíristy

3.7

Year:

1977

Good Day, Town

Good Day, Town

The town is waking up. The bus driver Josef Král is saying goodbye to his wife Vera who is in a state of advanced pregnancy. At the rolling mill, the master craftsman Mares is preparing for retirement, which is now only two days away. Elderly Simon who grows and sells vegetables at the market has problems with his wife. Their little home has to give way to a new development but the wife Simonka refuses to move out. The chairman of the workers' council has troubles with the miner Adam, who has started drinking. He doesn't know that Adam is getting divorced and fears he may lose his young son to his wife.
0.0

Year:

1976

One Silver Piece

One Silver Piece

It is summer 1944. The war is far away from Slovak mountains for the time being. The head of forest management Borodác brings a new employee to complete the eight woodcutters work team of Czechs, Slovaks and one Pole - the young guy is Martin Uher, a former clerk form Prague. The eight tough men do not trust the newcomer at first, but as time is passing, they got used to him. After some time, Martin gets next to Julika, a young wife of the gamekeeper Tkác (Vlado Müller) and they begin to go out secretly. The gamekeeper knows that Martin had promised to cooperate with German Gestapo, after he had experienced a hard interrogation. In avoiding to be a grass, Martin leaves Prague to hide in Slovak mountains. Tkác wants Martin to inform on his colleagues who hide guns in the forest to ready to use them against Nazis.
0.0

Year:

1976

Anna, sestra Jany

Anna, sestra Jany

0.0

Year:

1976

Zpívající film

Zpívající film

0.0

Year:

1973

Dvě věci pro život

Dvě věci pro život

After returning home from the army, Vasek (Ladislav Potmesil) has married Bozka (Eva Trejtnarová) and the couple now live at her parents' house. Vasek is unhappy both with his work and with sharing the house with Bozka's parents. He and his friend Ruda (Oldrich Vlach) decide to take a temporary job in Ostrava for a year. Bozka is against this, but Vasek gets his way. Mining is hard work but Vasek gradually adapts to it. He gets homesick from time to time and wants to go back, but his pride always wins out. Once he really does travel back to see Bozka, but he doesn't find her at home.
5.0

Year:

1973

Oasis

Oasis

The year is 1943. The war is raging between the Germans and the Allies in North Africa. A truck with a Czech crew, Lieutenant Navara and six soldiers, escapes from the Foreign Legion fortress. Their aim is to reach the Allies and fight against Nazism. The truck is destroyed by a German army plane, which is hit by enemy fire in its turn. One Czech soldier dies in the attack, the driver is badly wounded, and Navara has serious burns on his face. The group has very little water and must reach an oasis that is 60 km away.
6.7

Year:

1972

Carlsbad Ponies

Carlsbad Ponies

Angelika, a ten years old daughter of a spa visitor Bachmann is terribly bored in Karlovy Vary spa. Her father enjoys different spa procedures, trying to lose some weight, but the little girl feels to be only waiting for something to enjoy. Moreover, she cannot speak any Czech unlike her father. Kája, a son of the hotel receptionist Vlasta, attempts to amuse her despite he cannot speak German. Both children make friends although there is the language barrier.
0.0

Year:

1971

Angels Who Burn Their Wings

Angels Who Burn Their Wings

Munich at night: Robert Susmeit, a 16-year-old teenager who is jealously obsessed with his mother Hilde, traces her and her latest lover at a mundane apartment building where he kills the man in the heat of the moment at a swimming pool. His fatal outburst is secretly witnessed by Moni Dingeldey, a girl of the same age as his. Fascinated by the shaken and devastated strange boy who she hopes to be a soul-mate, she hides Robert in her mother's apartment. Meanwhile, a crowd of policemen and reporters frantically comb through the building in search a murderer whose identity is known only to Robert's parents who are searching as well...
6.6

Year:

1970

Seventeen and Anxious

Seventeen and Anxious

Zbynek Brynych's forgotten masterpiece "Oh Happy Day" is best described as coming-of-age-psychedelia.
5.4

Year:

1970

Proměny nože

Proměny nože

0.0

Year:

1970

Hvězda

Hvězda

0.0

Year:

1969

Dialogue 20-40-60

Dialogue 20-40-60

"Using the same, three times repeating dialogue – dramatic conversation between man and woman – Jerzy Skolimowski from Poland, Slovak director Peter Solan and Czech director Zbynìk Brynych shot three different stories. The result was an extraordinary experiment in the world cinema, which we can call an insight in the relationships of men and women of different age groups, an analysis of love and marriage of those who are at the beginning, in the middle or going towards the end of their life."
5.3

Year:

1968

I, Justice

I, Justice

At the year 1946, the time of the Nuremberg Process. One of the main actors of the Second World War, who reportedly committed suicide, Adolf Hitler is, however, missing. The Czech doctor Herman (Karel Höger) is kidnapped from Prague and driven to the sanatorium of Professor Rolf Harting (Jirí Vrstála). The sanatorium is a disguised military stronghold, most probably occupied by a Nazi garrison, with prison cells and an execution chamber in the basement. At night, Herman is taken to a patient in whom he, to his horror, recognizes Hitler (Fritz Diez).
5.8

Year:

1968

The House of Lost Souls

The House of Lost Souls

An escaped inmate of a mental home, Franz Moose, has been found shot dead in the forest. In the course of their investigation, District Commander Havel (Jirí Adamíra) and Lieutenant Mares (Miroslav Zounar) slowly work their way through the complicated case. Havel learns from the employees' testimonies that Moose was facing trial for war crimes before he was finally sent to the hospital. There he shared his room with Kozdera, spent his time painting, and made several attempts to escape. Havel wants to interrogate Kozdera but the unfortunate patient gets killed before he can do so.
3.5

Year:

1967

Grandpa, Kylian and I

Grandpa, Kylian and I

The Karpísek married couple, both doctors, are leaving for London for two months on business. They entrust their five-year old son Jozánek to the care of their neighbor, Mrs Pokorná.
0.0

Year:

1967

The Pipes

The Pipes

This three-part Austrian/Czech comedy stretches the boundaries of what is considered to be humorous. Part one finds a silent film actor upset because of a rival actor's attention to the former's wife. When he kills his rival, it is only when he is strapped to the electric chair that he realizes that this is his last live scene. The second episode has the wife of an elderly British nobleman having an affair with the young gamekeeper of their estate. Part three finds a peasant woman taking a lover when her husband goes off to fight the war.
5.0

Year:

1966

Tales About Children

Tales About Children

Three small short stories, each of which was created by one of the famous Czechoslovak filmmakers of children's films: Magdalena, Fraud and Karp.
5.0

Year:

1965

The High Wall

The High Wall

Jitka is a 12-year-old girl who feels the first stirring of love. She becomes friends with a young man who is hospitalized with paralysis. Jitka visits the man every day and witnesses his slow recovery, but she is unaware that she could have deeper feelings for him.
6.2

Year:

1964

The Hope

The Hope

A group of outcasts, including a vagabond and a prostitute, gather at the outskirts of the industrial area of a large Czech city, one of the things that helps some of them survive is alcohol.
6.4

Year:

1964

Kdy brečí muži

Kdy brečí muži

0.0

Year:

1964

Vertigo

Vertigo

Psychological study of country girl Jitka and her blossoming love for an older man afraid of her youth and spontaneity.
7.0

Year:

1963

Bílá oblaka

Bílá oblaka

5.5

Year:

1962

Akce Kalimantan

Akce Kalimantan

3.0

Year:

1962

Ledoví muži

Ledoví muži

5.0

Year:

1961

U nás v Mechově

U nás v Mechově

2.5

Year:

1960

Life for Jan Kaspar

Life for Jan Kaspar

The bridegroom Jan Kaspar is an officer in the Klement Gottwald's Nová Hut rolling-mill. After bidding farewell to his freedom, he accidentally takes a sip from the bottle of tetrachlore which he stores at home. He disregards the dizziness, but the next day, he faints in the factory and has a brain concussion. During her regular tests, doctor Dudková is shocked by a high percentage of residual nitrogen found in Kaspar's blood. Doctor Bohácek, with whom Dudková consults, thinks that it is a liver disease and informs the head physician Filip. The doctors know nothing about tetrachlore and are in the dark about the case. Despite that, they immediately start to fight for Kaspar's life and their struggle consequently affects their personal lives.
4.0

Year:

1959

Clouds of Glass

Clouds of Glass

A young boy’s infatuation with flight is the subject of Vláčil’s poetic, prize-winning early short, made for the Czechoslovak Army’s film unit.
6.8

Year:

1958

Escape

Escape

Czechoslovak army film that tells the story of a medic at a rural military hospital whose weekend leave is canceled when his supervisor is called away.
0.0

Year:

1957

Crooked Mirror

Crooked Mirror

A satirical military "Fashion Show" instructing Czechoslovak soldiers how and how not to dress.
0.0

Year:

1956

Gigant

Gigant

A documentary about the construction of several pig feedlots in the Czech countryside and the cooperation of citizens, soldiers and children on these constructions.
0.0

Year:

1950