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Jiří Macháček
Jiří Macháček (born 6 July 1966 in Litoměřice) is a Czechs, 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 (2004 film), 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, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Litoměřice
Litoměřice (; ) is a town in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 23,000 inhabitants. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected as an urban monument reservation. The town is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Litoměřice. Administrative division Litoměřice consists of four municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Litoměřice-Město (1,503) *Pokratice (4,436) *Předměstí (17,483) *Za nemocnicí (10) 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 Ohře 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. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Návrat Idiota
''The Idiot Returns'' () is a 1999 Czech film directed by Saša Gedeon. The movie is loosely based on ''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 Gedeon * 1999 Czech Lion Award for Best Supporting Actress - Anna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ženy V Pokušení
''Ženy v pokušení'' () is a 2010 Czech comedy film directed by Jiří Vejdělek. Plot summary Helena ( Lenka Dolanská Vlasáková), a relations consultant in her 40's, finds out one day, she faces problems she used to tackle with her clients. Her loving husband is caught in flagranti with a strange woman and Helena is facing new reality. Her 20-year-old daughter Laura ( Veronika Khek Kubařová) and her own mother Wilma ( Eliška Balzerová) are trying to support her mother and slowly finding out, how similar situation they had to handle and how difficult is to struggle relations with grace and humor. Cast * Lenka Dolanská Vlasáková as Helena * Eliška Balzerová as Vilma * Vojtěch Dyk as Jakub * Veronika Khek Kubařová as Laura * Jiří Macháček Jiří Macháček (born 6 July 1966 in Litoměřice) is a Czechs, Czech actor and singer. Education Macháček graduated from high school in Prague before attending Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory, the Law Faculty at Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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); Bavari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nasty (film)
''Shameless'' (), 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 people you let ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Svěrák
Jan Svěrák (; born 6 February 1965) is a Czechs, Czech film director and screenwriter. He is the son of screenwriter and actor Zdeněk Svěrák, with whom he collaborated on his most successful films. He is among the most recognized Czech filmmakers. His best-known films are the Oscar-winning ''Kolya (film), Kolya'' and the Oscar-nominated ''The Elementary School''. Life Jan Svěrák was born on 6 February 1965 in Žatec, into a family of pedagogues. About one year after his birth, the family moved to Prague and his father Zdeněk Svěrák became a screenwriter and actor. He made his first amateur filmmaking attempts at the age of twelve. As a teenager, he earned extra money by working at the Barrandov Studios. He originally wanted to be a cameraman, but graduated from the documentary filmmaking at Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (1983–1988). Jan Svěrák is married and has three children, sons František and Ondřej, and daughter Kateřina. Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Empties
''Empties'' () 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 scary ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beauty In Trouble
''Beauty in Trouble'' () is a 2006 Czech tragicomedy directed by Jan Hřebejk. Eddie Cockrell, writing in '' Variety'', said the " tle 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 Graves's enigmatic poem "Beauty in Trouble", and it begins with these words sung by a chanteuse who accompanies herself on the 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 chauvinism that powers strong sexual encounters, but he is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 that was filmed in 1988. Cast * Eva Holubová as Mother * Bolek Polívka as Father * Anna Marhoulová as Daughter * Tomáš Vorel Jr. as Son * Marika Sarah Procházková as Father's Lover (credited as Marika Procházková) * Jiří Macháček Jiří Macháček (born 6 July 1966 in Litoměřice) is a Czechs, 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, ... as The Biker Butcher * Ivana Chýlková as Son's Teacher External links * 2005 films 2005 comedy films Czech comed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Václav Marhoul
Václav Marhoul (; born 30 January 1960) 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). As of 2021 he planned his English-language debut with a biographical film about Joseph McCarthy, with Michael Shannon in the lead role, and co-starring Emilia Clarke Emilia Isobel Euphemia Rose Clarke (born 23 October 1986) is an English actress, best known for her role as Daenerys Targaryen in the HBO fantasy series ''Game of Thrones'' (2011–2019), for which she received nominations for four Primetime E ..., Dane DeHaan and Sco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mazaný Filip
''Mazaný Filip'' is a Czech comedy film released in 2003 and based on a stage play by Sklep Theatre. Cast * Tomáš Hanák as Philip Marlowe * Vilma Cibulková as Velma Hatfield * Oldřich Kaiser as Paolo Perrugini * Ivo Kubečka as Jules Amthor * Viktor Preiss as Barman At The Egypt Club * Bohumil "Bob" Klepl as Reception Clerk In Central * Eva Holubová as Tornado You (sings by Tereza Dufková) * Milan Šteindler as Benjamin Frogg, The Director * Jakub Špalek as Guest In Hotel * Jan Slovák as Officer Kid * Petr Vacek as Kenny Mattel * Lenka Vychodilová as Taxi Driver * Ivan Vyskočil as Old Man In The Lift * Tomáš Vorel as Entertainer * Jaroslav Dušek as Film Director * Matěj Hádek as A Friend In Studio * Šimon Caban as Chandler * Miroslav Etzler as L.A. Mayor * Martin Duba as Film Sharpener * Ivan Trojan as Make Up Artist * Otakáro Schmidt as Bedouin * Zdeněk David as Drunkard * Jiří Fero Burda as Lieutenant McGee * Petr Čtvrtníček as Jussepe, The G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Hand Can't Clap
''One Hand Can't Clap'' () 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 f ... 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 Czech-language comedy films {{2000s-CzechRepublic-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
