Acting

Ladislav Desenský

Born August 10, 1874

Died April 10, 1941 · aged 66

No biography available.

Known For

The Kreutzer SonataThe Kreutzer Sonata · 1927
The Kreutzer Sonata
8.01927
MovieDrama
We have a liberal, modern Czech flapper bound to a serious and bored husband and don't forget the important fact that the wife has a lover so soon the widening gulf between husband and wife leads to stress and resentment and we get a tormented psychological study of irreconcilable differences that will lead to tragedy.
BattalionBattalion · 1927
Battalion
6.41927
MovieDrama
Skid-row epic about a lawyer's decline.
The Loves of Kačenka StrnadováThe Loves of Kačenka Strnadová · 1926
The Loves of Kačenka Strnadová
6.11926
MovieComedy
The film depicts the adventures of Kacenka (Zdena Kavková) and Vincek (Vlasta Burian), two innocent country bumpkins who live in a Czech small town, and the various jobs that Kacenka has once she moves to Prague, that beautiful capital city. Our heroine will have to bear difficult working conditions and to make things worse, she falls in love with a fake aristocrat. Fortunately her companion, Vincek who is also in Prague, has an unrequited love for her. Though he is the cause of many Kacenka's problems, Vincek finally will help and resolve her loves troubles. And of course there is a happy ending that brings the Czech couple together.
Žena, která ví, co chceŽena, která ví, co chce · 1934
Žena, která ví, co chce
9.01934
MovieComedy
Woman concert star seeks to connect with her adult daughter, by her former marriage to a staid industrialist who has kept the two apart since the girl was very small, and receives inadvertent help from the industrialist's just-fired employee who has fallen in love with the girl.
The Good Soldier ŠvejkThe Good Soldier Švejk · 1926
The Good Soldier Švejk
7.51926
MovieComedy
The first film treatment of the fate of the good soldier Švejk, a dog dealer from Prague, who is arrested after the Sarajevo assassination, psychiatrically examined and later called up to c. and k. army to fight for the emperor lord.
Fidlovačka aneb Žádný hněv a žádná rvačkaFidlovačka aneb Žádný hněv a žádná rvačka · 1930
Fidlovačka aneb Žádný hněv a žádná rvačka
1930
MovieComedyMusic
In "Fidlovacka", the name of a Czechoslovakian festival, the proprietress of a cheese factory picks a fiancé for her orphaned niece in her desire to bring aristocratic blood into the family. THe niece has also picked the man she wants to marry and isn't the the rich aristocrat.

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