Jiří Macháček
Jiří Macháček (born 6 July 1966 in Litoměřice) is a Czech actor and singer. Education Macháček graduated from high school in Prague before attending Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory, the Law Faculty at Charles University in Prague, and the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts. Career Macháček performed with several Czech theaters including the Theatre on the Balustrade (Divadlo Na zábradlí), Divadlo Sklep, and Divadlo Na Jezerce. His first major film role, in Saša Gedeon's comedy '' Return of the Idiot'' (1999), was followed by a prominent role in David Ondricek's '' Samotáři'' (Loners) in 2000, for which he won the Czech Lion for Best Supporting Actor. In 2004, he was again nominated for a Czech Lion for best actor in Jan Hřebejk's 2004 comedy '' Up and Down''. Singer and lyricist As well as acting, Macháček sings and writes songs for his band MIG 21, which has released five albums. Filmography *Kamenný most (1996, Tomáš Vorel) *O perlov ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Litoměřice
Litoměřice (; german: Leitmeritz) is a town in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 23,000 inhabitants. The town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument reservation. The town is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Litoměřice. Administrative parts Litoměřice is made up of four town parts: Litoměřice-Město, Pokratice, Předměstí and Za nemocnicí. Geography Litoměřice is located about south of Ústí nad Labem and northwest of Prague. The northwestern half of the municipal territory lies in the Central Bohemian Uplands, the southeastern half lies in the Lower Eger Table, on the edge of the Polabí lowlands. The highest point, located in the northern tip of the territory, is at above sea level. The town is situated on the right (northern) bank of the Elbe River, at its confluence with the Ohře, which flows from the south. History Early history The settlement of Litoměřice has a deep history of Pale ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Návrat Idiota
''The Idiot Returns'' ( cs, Návrat idiota; also released as Return of the Idiot) is a 1999 Czech film directed by Saša Gedeon. The movie is loosely based on ''The Idiot (novel), The Idiot'' by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was the Czech Republic's submission to the 72nd Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee. Plot František returns from a mental institution where he spent most of his life. He meets Anna, and later her lovers Emil and Robert, and her sister Olga. Cast * Pavel Liška as František * Anna Geislerová as Anna * Tatiana Vilhelmová as Olga * Jiří Langmajer as Emil * Jiří Macháček as Robert * Zdena Hadrbolcová as Emil's and Robert's mother * Jitka Smutná as Anna and Olga's mother * Pavel Marek as Krtek * Anna Polívková as Girl at dancing lessons Awards * 1999 Czech Lion Award for Best Film * 1999 Czech Lion Award for Best Screenplay - Saša Gedeon * 1999 Czech Lion Award for Best Director - Saša G ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Občanský Průkaz (film)
''Identity Card'' ( cs, Občanský průkaz) is a 2010 Czech comedy film by Ondřej Trojan based on a story by Petr Šabach. The film premiered on 21 October 2010. The story, which takes place in Prague in the years 1974–77, tells about a group of fellow students: Peter (Petr), Cinderella (Popelka), Ales (Aleš) and Mita (Míťa). The film begins when Peter receives his identity card An identity document (also called ID or colloquially as papers) is any documentation, document that may be used to prove a person's identity. If issued in a small, standard credit card size form, it is usually called an identity card (IC, ID c ... on his fifteenth birthday. References External links * * Občanský průkaz' at CSFD.cz * Občanský průkaz' at cfn.cz 2010 films 2010s Czech-language films 2010 comedy films Films set in the 1970s Czech Film Critics' Awards winners Czech comedy films {{2010s-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Dariusz Jabłoński (director)
Dariusz Jabłoński (born 30 May 1961) is a Polish film director and producer, president of his own production company, Apple Film Productions, and one of the leading independent producers in Poland. Biography Jabłoński is a graduate of the Film Directing Academy in Łódź, Poland. He has worked on the biggest films in Polish cinematography – as a Second Director on ''Dekalog'' by Krzysztof Kieślowski and as First Assistant Director on the "White Visiting Card" and "Magnate" by Filip Bajon. He produced and directed "The Visit of an Elderly Lady" (1986) – the first Polish independent film—and ''Photographer'' (1998), which received a number of international film awards: Grand Prix FIPA D'OR and Prix Planete in Biarritz (1999); Grand Prix VPRO Joris Ivens Award at IDFA in Amsterdam (1998); Prix Europa for Best Non-fiction TV Program (1998); Best Documentary in Banff (1999); Best Documentary at Double Take, Durham; Grimme Prize in Germany (2000); Bavarian ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nasty (film)
''Shameless'' ( cz, Nestyda), is a 2008 Czech comedy film directed by Jan Hřebejk. Following their collaborations on ''A Novel for Women'' and ''The Holiday Makers'', Czech filmmaker Hřebejk and author Michal Viewegh reunited for ''Shameless'', a comic romp based on Viewegh's bestselling ''Tales of Marriage and Sex''. Overall, the film was a commercial success. Plot Oskar (Jiří Macháček), a popular TV weather forecaster, suddenly wakes up to an altered sense of identity: rather than belonging to easygoing wife Zuzana (a bewildered Simona Babčáková), he feels he ought to belong to the whole wide world – hence the national embarrassment. His first entanglement is with babysitter Kocicka (Eva Kerekéšová), a lean teenybopper who's more attached to her pet turtle than her older lover – at least until he accidentally smothers it in the dryer. Next in line is mature pop icon Nora (Emília Vášáryová), who's about to teach him a thing or two about freedom: the more peop ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jan Svěrák
Jan Svěrák () (born 6 February 1965 in Žatec) is a Czech film director. He is the son of screenwriter and actor Zdeněk Svěrák. He studied documentary filmmaking at the FAMU. He and his films have received awards including the Academy Award, Crystal Globe, Golden Globe Award, and Tokyo Grand Prix. He lives in Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate .... Filmography References External links * Personal websiteJan Svěrák- profile Biography 1965 births Living people People from Žatec Czech film directors Czechoslovak film directors Czech screenwriters Male screenwriters German-language film directors Academy of Performing Arts in Prague alumni Directors of Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award winners {{Czech-bio-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Empties
''Empties'' ( cs, Vratné lahve) is a 2007 film directed by Jan Svěrák and written by his father Zdeněk Svěrák, who also stars in the film. It was released first in the Czech Republic in March 2007. The film is a comedy from the same team which made Kolya. Plot Josef Tkaloun is an elderly teacher at a high school in Prague who cannot control his anger when his pupils misbehave in his poetry class. He quits his job and despite his wife urging him to retire, becomes a cycle courier. After an inevitable accident, he still refuses to stay at home and takes a job in the local Žižkov supermarket. He works behind a counter, recycling glass beer bottles. There he begins to flirt with the customers and matchmake both for an old friend and for the man he works with. His own flirtations (and sexually charged dreams) almost get him into trouble with his wife, so he resolves to reignite the passion in his marriage by celebrating his wedding anniversary with a hot air balloon ride. The ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Beauty In Trouble
''Beauty in Trouble'' ( cz, Kráska v nesnázích) is a 2006 Czech tragicomedy directed by Jan Hřebejk. Eddie Cockrell, writing in ''Variety (magazine), Variety'', said the "[t]itle comes from the Robert Graves poem, itself adapted into a Czech popular song in the 1980s, and performed in the film by homegrown thrush Radůza. Germ of the pic's idea was the first line, 'Beauty in trouble flees to the good angel/On whom she can rely...'" Plot The script is based on Robert Grave's enigmatic poem, Beauty in Trouble and it begins with these words set to music sung by a chanteuse who accompanies herself with an accordion. The film is a naturalistic love story about the sex life of a beautiful woman, Marcela, and her concurrent relationships with three men; Jarda, her abusive husband, Risha, her abusive step-father, and Evžen, a dashing, older man she meets shortly after the film begins. With her husband, Jarda, she enjoys lustful sex and his physical abusiveness is an extension of a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Skřítek (film)
''Skřítek'' is a Czech comedy film. It was released in 2005. It could be called a "feature butcherly slapstick". Skřítek is a slapstick film, so the dialogues are substituted for interjections and all the sounds are stylised. Tomáš Vorel decided to film a slapstick film after several years as his debut in this genre was an episode in a Czech film Pražská pětka ''Pražská pětka'' is a Czechoslovak comedy film A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending ( ... that was filmed in 1988. External links * 2005 films 2005 comedy films Czech comedy films 2000s Czech films {{2000s-CzechRepublic-film-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Václav Marhoul
Václav Marhoul (; born 30 January 1960 in Prague) is a Czech film director, screenwriter and actor. He studied at Prague's FAMU, graduating in 1984. He directed his first film ''Mazaný Filip'', based on Raymond Chandler's books, in 2003. In 2008, his second film ''Tobruk'' was premiered. His next film '' The Painted Bird'', based on Jerzy Kosiński's novel of the same title, premiered at the 76th Venice International Film Festival. He also starred in several films such as '' Gympl'' (2007), ''Ulovit miliardáře'' (2009) and ''Cesta do lesa'' (2012). He is set to make his English-language debut with a biographical film about Joseph McCarthy, with Michael Shannon in the lead role, and co-starring Emilia Clarke, Dane DeHaan and Scoot McNairy John Marcus "Scoot" McNairy (born November 11, 1977) is an American actor and film producer. He is known for his roles in '' Monsters'', '' Argo'', ''Killing Them Softly'', ''12 Years a Slave'', '' Gone Girl'', and '' Batman v Super ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mazaný Filip
''Mazaný Filip'' is a Czech comedy film released in 2003 and based on a stage play by Sklep Theatre. Cast and characters *Philip Marlowe .... Tomáš Hanák *Velma Hatfield .... Vilma Cibulková *Paolo Perrugini .... Oldřich Kaiser *Jules Amthor .... Ivo Kubečka *Barman at the Egypt Club .... Viktor Preiss *Reception Clerk in Central .... Bohumil "Bob" Klepl *Tornado You .... Eva Holubová (sings by Tereza Dufková) *Benjamin Frogg, director .... Milan Šteindler *Guest in Hotel .... Jakub Špalek *Officer Kid .... Jan Slovák *Kenny Mattel .... Petr Vacek *Taxi Driver .... Lenka Vychodilová *Old Man in the Lift .... Ivan Vyskočil *Entertainer .... Tomáš Vorel *Film Director .... Jaroslav Dušek *A Friend in Studio .... Matěj Hádek *Chandler .... Šimon Caban *L.A. Mayor .... Miroslav Etzler *Film Sharpener .... Martin Duba *Make Up Artist .... Ivan Trojan *Bedouin .... Otakáro Schmidt *Drunkard ....Zdeněk David *Lieutenant McGee .... Jiří Fero Burda *Gangster J ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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One Hand Can't Clap
''One Hand Can't Clap'' ( cs, Jedna ruka netleská) is a 2003 Czech comedy film directed by David Ondříček. Cast and characters * Jiří Macháček as Standa * Ivan Trojan as Zdenek * Marek Taclík as Ondrej * Klára Pollertová as Sandra * Isabela Bencová as Martina * Kristína Lukešová as Andrea * David Matásek as Jan * Vladimír Dlouhý as Martina's father * Jan Tříska Jan Tříska (; 4 November 1936 – 25 September 2017) was a Czech actor who played over 160 roles across stage, film, and television. He worked in the United States after emigrating there in the 1970s, but later returned to his native country fo ... as Standa's father References External links * 2003 comedy films 2003 films Czech Lion Awards winners (films) Czech comedy films 2000s Czech-language films 2000s Czech films {{2000s-CzechRepublic-film-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |