Аватар персоны Věra Kalábová

Věra Kalábová

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20-07-1932

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Cancer

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Fr. Dittrich, František Ditrich, František Dittrich, František Pavlíček

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director

69 Works

writer

5 Works

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64 Works

The Damned House of Hajn

The Damned House of Hajn

Sonya is the heiress to the riches of a Czech noble family—the Hajns. Petr, a social climber marries her, ignoring some shady goings-on—in particular, an insane uncle who prowls the mansion believing himself invisible, a peccadillo the family indulges. The uncle’s stalking every corner of the house, popping out of cupboards and out from behind curtains slowly takes its toll on the young bride.
6.0

Year:

1989

Černá punčocha

Černá punčocha

An elderly tailor strangles young women with a black stocking. Inspired by a true crime.
5.5

Year:

1987

Cena medu

Cena medu

0.0

Year:

1987

Dva na koni, jeden na oslu

Dva na koni, jeden na oslu

The musical version of the successful play of Oldřich Daněk was transferred to the screen by director Jiří Sequens in 1986. It takes place in the 14th century in Bohemia during the reign of King Wenceslas IV. Heroes of the story are three mercenaries who always fight on the wrong side and are always beaten, but they are moral winners of all conflicts and skirmishes.
7.0

Year:

1987

Ants Bring Death

Ants Bring Death

A crime movie directed by Zbynek Brynych.
5.0

Year:

1986

Oldrich and Bozena

Oldrich and Bozena

At the turn of the 10th and 11th centuries Boleslav's kingdom fell apart in the fratricidal war between the Přemyslovci and the other clans the main profiteer of this being the German emperor. At that time it seemed as if the Czech state and the lineage of its princes was awaiting its end..." It is with these words that the tale of this film begins, whose narrative is based upon the the play by František Hrubín of the same name.
3.0

Year:

1985

Love from the Passage

Love from the Passage

A drama based on the criminal youth life in Prague during eighties.
4.0

Year:

1985

Katapult

Katapult

Adaptation of Vladimir Paral's comic novel, which criticizes consumerism as an attitude of life.
2.0

Year:

1984

Samorost

Samorost

2.0

Year:

1984

Oči pro pláč

Oči pro pláč

0.0

Year:

1984

Záchvěv strachu

Záchvěv strachu

4.3

Year:

1984

Poslední vlak

Poslední vlak

0.0

Year:

1983

Attention, Rounds!

Attention, Rounds!

A story about an everyday life of an inflectional department of Prague hospital.
6.8

Year:

1982

Zlatá slepice

Zlatá slepice

3.3

Year:

1981

Hodina života

Hodina života

0.0

Year:

1981

Romaneto

Romaneto

6.0

Year:

1981

Rytmus 1934

Rytmus 1934

0.0

Year:

1980

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

Those Wonderful Movie Cranks

Those Wonderful Movie Cranks

Returning home to Prague, the magician Pasparte, an owner of a circus caravan, meets his dying colleague who entrusts his beautiful daughter Aloisie to his care. In Prague they all take up their lodgings at the house At Blue Fish in which they intend to arrange the programs. The firm is owned by widow Evzenie with whom Pasparte shares flat and bed. Evzenie is jealous of Aloisie therefore Pasparte sends Aloisie as a housewife to the single man Jakub Kolenatý who earns his living by photographing and wants to record the revived pictures of Prague. Pasparte wants to found in Prague the first permanent Czech movie theatre in which there would be projected also the original Czech films.
6.0

Year:

1979

Trasa

Trasa

0.0

Year:

1979

Čistá řeka

Čistá řeka

5.0

Year:

1978

Náš dědek Josef

Náš dědek Josef

6.0

Year:

1977

Noc klavíristy

Noc klavíristy

3.7

Year:

1977

Smrt na černo

Smrt na černo

0.0

Year:

1977

Splynutí duší

Splynutí duší

0.0

Year:

1976

Marecek, Pass Me the Pen!

Marecek, Pass Me the Pen!

This comedy is about one average family. The father works as master in the factory and his son is studying on high school. One day father must start to visit the evening school. It's the same school as his son visiting. The lives both students are connecting together. The son must teach the math and physics his own father. The father getting to know, that the life of the students is not simple as he supposed.
7.7

Year:

1976

Hřiště

Hřiště

2.0

Year:

1976

Hudba kolonád

Hudba kolonád

0.0

Year:

1975

Romance for a Crown

Romance for a Crown

A musical comedy about a date between boy and girl which started badly but continued very unexpectedly...
5.0

Year:

1975

Who Looks for Gold?

Who Looks for Gold?

When he returns to Prague from a stint in the Army, Lada does not seem to fit in anywhere, and he cannot get the hang of the system of deliberately underperforming on the job. His girlfriend tries to keep him in the city with a variety of stratagems, but he eventually takes a job as a truck driver on a dam-building project. He uses the truck to visit his girl on weekends. Ingenuous, he is unaware that the truck is being used for black-market smuggling, and that his girlfriend two-times on him when he cannot arrange to leave on time for his weekend.
5.0

Year:

1974

A Night at Karlstein

A Night at Karlstein

No Woman is allowed into Karlstejn Castle! Yet the enamoured Daniele Kolářová and the equally enamoured Jana Brejchová manage to spend one night in disguise in the Castle despite the strict royal ban.
7.6

Year:

1974

The Man from London

The Man from London

A British citizen by the name of George Reiner (Jirí Sovák) arrives at Prague airport. He was once a Czech safe-breaker, and has now returned home after thirty years to steal twenty-dollar gold coins still kept in the safe at a private villa in Pilsen whose owner fled to the West.
2.5

Year:

1974

People from the Subway

People from the Subway

Three short stories. Prague finally sees the approval of the subway construction. Thousands of individuals took part in preparing, course and finalizing construction of subway and their lives crossed at certain points of this construction.
3.5

Year:

1974

Three Men Travelling

Three Men Travelling

Three Men Travelling is billed as a loosely related sequel to Tri chlapi v chalupe (1963), sending our country protagonists set out from their family nests in the village of Ouplavice into the big wide world. Grandpa Potucek, (Lubomír Lipský) and his son Václav (Jan Skopecek) take part in the cooperative's excursion to spa town Karlovy Vary, a Pilsen brewery and some agricultural enterprises in western Bohemia. During the course of a series of misunderstandings and merrymaking, grandfather Potucek decides he will not let problems with sick calves unsettle him, and that he will persevere in his role as the leader of the cooperative.
0.0

Year:

1973

Operation Bororo

Operation Bororo

A man and a woman from a different planet come to the Earth to get a cure for a disease that is apparently threatening to eradicate their civilisation.
5.6

Year:

1973

Zpívající film

Zpívající film

0.0

Year:

1973

Death Chooses

Death Chooses

0.0

Year:

1973

Morgiana

Morgiana

Jealous of her vapidly "good" sister's popularity, poisonous Viktoria doses pretty Klara's tea with a slow-acting fatal substance. As the latter grows hysterically weak, the former finds success increasingly compromised by guilt, blackmail, and the pesky need to kill others lest she be exposed.
7.2

Year:

1972

Six Black Girls

Six Black Girls

Detective Lieutenant Boruvka (Lubomír Lipský) is called to the State Scientific Library to investigate the loss of a precious manuscript, the Infernal Psalter of the Occult Sciences by Master Peregrinus from the eleventh century, written in a secret script which has only recently been deciphered by senior lecturer Zajíc (Josef Chvalina). Chaos is reigning in the labyrinth of passages and halls of the former monastery where the library is housed. In order to save space the director of the library has introduced a peculiar system. The books are arranged in the bookcases according to height and six girls dressed in black, the library assistants, are quite happy to cut volumes down to size in case of need. Boruvka refuses the case, since he is specialist in murders. He has to return to the investigation, however, when senior lecturer Zajíc disappears.
4.3

Year:

1969

The Cremator

The Cremator

In 1930s Prague, a Czech cremator who firmly believes cremation relieves one from earthly suffering is drawn inexorably to Nazism.
7.8

Year:

1969

Funeral Ceremony

Funeral Ceremony

Matylda (Jaroslava Ticha), who lives in the Czech countryside, is trying to arrange burial plans for her dying husband, Jan (Ludvik Kroner). While Matylda hopes to have a funeral for Jan in the small town where they once lived, there are complications. Years earlier, Jan spoke out against the Communist government and was consequently expelled from the town. When Matylda fails to convince a local politician to allow the ceremony, she uses her husband's funeral as a public show of dissent.
5.8

Year:

1969

Riders in the Sky

Riders in the Sky

The story of Czech pilots in RAF service during the Battle of Britain, and the ongoing aerial battle in Northern Europe. It tells the story of the crews of the RAF’s No. 311 Squadron, which was mainly crewed by escaped Czech airmen, and their bombing raids during the Second World War.
5.6

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

Private Torment

Private Torment

A worker steals bits and pieces of building materials from work to construct a new home for himself and his girlfriend. When he discovers that she’s having an affair with his boss, he devises one elaborate plot after another to murder the rival, each time with pathetic results.
0.0

Year:

1967

Sedm havranů

Sedm havranů

0.0

Year:

1967

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

Flám

Flám

0.0

Year:

1966

Transit Carlsbad

Transit Carlsbad

Even in the "enlightened" 60. years filmmakers like to play spies. In the grand-world environment, Luxury hotel in Karlovy Vary the sophisticated charade unfolds, in which several foreign agents interested in the famous Austrian scientist, the discoverer of the artificial protein. Endangered man fortunately never notice danger around him. His protection was entrusted to the mysterious madame Elizabeth, amongst agents famed as the ' 006, in fact, working for the State security... As a parody, perhaps the movie succeeded, but hardly convincing anyone - and this is despite scriptwriting participation of the renowned Jan Procházka.
4.5

Year:

1966

The Phantom of Morrisville

The Phantom of Morrisville

Inspector Brumpby (Jaroslav Marvan) and the young crime reporter Allan Pinkerton (Vít Olmer) attend wedding of Sir Hannibal Morris (Oldrich Nový) with beautiful Clarence (Kveta Fialová). After the ceremony, Clarence's ex-husband, criminal Manuel Diaz (Waldemar Matuska), who was believed dead, shows up in her room. He wants to get his hands on Clarence and, most importantly, on the money she would inherit in the eventuality of her new husband's death. Diaz makes attempts on Hannibal's life. He knows his way about an underground labyrinth in the château and the traps he sets up for Hannibal seem to work, since Hannibal is apparently found dead after an explosion in the labyrinth, after which his body vanishes. The inspector tries to solve the countless mysteries. In this, he is joined by Allan, always ahead of the man of the law in his estimation and judgment of the situation.
7.1

Year:

1966

Intimate Lighting

Intimate Lighting

A musician and his girlfriend visit an old musician friend of his and his family.
6.6

Year:

1966

Crime at the Girls School

Crime at the Girls School

Three short story omnibus. The main hero and connecting link is Lieutenant Boruvka, created by Lubomír Lipsky. He deals with the murder case between climbers, the death of the dancer in the music theater and the strange disappearance of the mathematics professor.
6.4

Year:

1966

The Fifth Horseman Is Fear

The Fifth Horseman Is Fear

In Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, a doctor-turned-warehouse employee reluctantly agrees to treat a gravely wounded political fugitive, putting himself and everyone living in his building complex in danger.
6.3

Year:

1965

The Day the Tree Blooms

The Day the Tree Blooms

Based on a novel by Maria Majerova, this well-photographed but routine romantic drama is directed and co-scripted by Vaclav Krska. Set in a more old-fashioned time, the story centers around Lenka (Suzana Fisarskova), a young woman with a domineering, psychologically abusive father. When Lenka falls in love she suffers the ultimate injustice when her father and her family forbid her to marry the man. They see no advantage in such a union and want her to marry a wealthy local landowner instead, for obvious reasons. But Lenka is not as submissive as they think and she runs away to the city to look for the man she loves -- only to find a serious problem, though a surmountable one, is waiting for her.
7.0

Year:

1961

The Pilgrimage to the Holy Virgin

The Pilgrimage to the Holy Virgin

Farmers get away from their arguments by embarking on a religious pilgrimage, enjoy a picnic en route, and on their return decide to form a cooperative.
7.0

Year:

1961