Vladimír Slavínský (26 September 1890 16 August 1949) was a Czech

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Life

Vladimír Slavínský was born Otakar Vladimír Pitrman in Dolní Štěpánice, on September 26, 1890. Since his youth he acted in amateur theatres while working as a typesetter. In 1912 he wrote his first two screenplays. After the World War I he co-founded a production company Pojafilm with Alois Jalovec and started directing. He directed mostly sentimental dramas and comedy films, which were very commercially successful at the time. He died in

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on August 16, 1949.

Selected filmography

Director

* '' The Son of the Mountains'' (1925) * '' The Little Window'' (1933) * '' Three Men in the Snow'' (1936) * ''

Delightful Story ''Delightful Story'' (Czech:''Rozkosný príbeh'') is a 1936 Czech operetta film directed by Vladimír Slavínský and starring Věra Ferbasová, Zita Kabátová and Frantisek Kristof-Veselý.Opěla p.296 The film's sets were designed by the art d ...

'' (1936) * '' The Minister's Girlfriend'' (1940) * '' Lawyer of the Poor'' (1941) * '' Chalk and Cheese'' (1941) * ''

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'' (1942) * ''Seine beste Rolle'' (1944), Nazi German film * '' The last Mohican'' (1947) * ''

No Surgery Hours Today '' No Surgery Hours Today'' ( cs, Dnes neordinuji) is a 1948 Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Vladimír Slavínský and starring Jan Pivec, Dagmar Frýbortová and Paula Valenska, Paula Valenská. Cast * Jan Pivec as Dr. Jakub Johánek * Dagma ...

'' (1948)

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