Directing
Vladimír Čech
Born September 25, 1914 · České Budějovice, Československo
Died February 2, 1992 · aged 77
Vladimír Čech (25 September 1914 – 2 February 1992) was a Czechoslovak film director and screenwriter. He directed more than 35 films between 1941 and 1980. His 1971 film The Key was entered into the 7th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Silver Prize.
Known For
Affairs of my Wife · 1973Affairs of my Wife
★ 7.31973
MovieComedyCrime
Doctor Adéla Neradová, a medical doctor, has succumbed to the desire to uncover a criminal and become a kind of Sherlock Holmes in skirts. The thankless role of her Dr. Watson has fallen to her husband Peter, a professional photographer who helps her with the cases she gets involved in, but usually gets everything mixed up.
Expres z Norimberka · 1954Expres z Norimberka
★ 7.51954
MovieCrime
An adventure film about the struggle of the Czechoslovak security authorities against Western agents. In an express train departing from Nuremberg station, a cigarette box with plans and instructions for the destruction of one of the Czechoslovak dams is stuck under the seat. The State Security is informed about the whole operation and tries to catch the foreign agents.
Sedmého dne večer · 1975Sedmého dne večer
★ 4.21975
MovieCrimeDrama
A former aircraft mechanic wants to start a new life in a small border village after a stint in prison and working in the mines. But things don't work out as he would have liked and bad luck follows him. By an unfortunate coincidence, he even falls under suspicion of double murder...
A 105 p.c. Alibi · 1959A 105 p.c. Alibi
★ 7.31959
MovieCrime
On an early Sunday evening, people of the small town are reading lottery results that are hung on a board. Young man Karel Antos is annoyed that his lottery-ticket missed the main prize, a car, by only one number. Karel is going to the pub to drink away his bad luck with his friend Jirka Broz. The old accountant auditor Zelinka drops a wallet. Karel picks it up and before he gives it back he notices the winning lottery-ticket in it. Both young men accompany the old drunk man. Karel steals the ticket and exchanges it with his own. Next day, Zelinka is found dead. Investigators, Captain Tuma and the Lieutenant Líbal, soon discover that this is a murder case covered up as an accident.
For Whom Havana Dances · 1963For Whom Havana Dances
★ 4.01963
MovieDrama
Five young Cubans, ex-revolutionaries, meet after years in Havana during a dancing carnival night.
Úplně vyřízený chlap · 1965Úplně vyřízený chlap
★ 10.01965
MovieDrama
Ostrava - Kunčice , 1953: on the same day as the manifestation funeral for J. V. Stalin, the funeral of Brigadier Bédi Nevěřil, a tragic victim of the bureaucratic cadre machine... The story unfolds in the memoirs of another brigadier, former journalist Karel Kratochvil.
Štika v rybníce · 1952Štika v rybníce
★ 7.51952
MovieComedy
Young bricklayers Franta Doubrav and his friend Béla meet two girls, Mařka and Vlasta, on their way back from a friend's wedding, but they only manage to call them by their name and the construction site they are currently working on. Imagine their surprise when they discover that Mařka is a trained bricklayer who has joined Franta's father's work crew, where she proposes a new way of working that will help catch up on the construction delays. As a young girl, however, she must first deal with the distrust of the older and more experienced bricklayers.
Svatá hříšnice · 1970Svatá hříšnice
★ 7.01970
MovieComedyMusic
In the Prague Old Town and the adjoining streets there is always plenty of life. Housewives shop, beggars arouse sympathy, the Salvation Army tries to put the godless on the road to salvation by hymns and sermons, and Ferdys Pistora hunts in the pockets of his fellow men and isn't even put off by the presence of an officer of the law. Ferdys sets off to burgle villa of the banker Rosenstok, but a fire breaks out in the house and Ferdys ends up saving the banker's two small children. For this he is celebrated as a hero and gets a place as an errand boy with the Rosenstoks. At home he is visited by representatives of the Salvation Army, Captain Kosterka and Terezka, with whom Ferdys instantly falls in love.
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