Acting
Vladimír Majer
Born February 21, 1894
Died November 5, 1957 · aged 63
No biography available.
Known For
Poor girl · 1930Poor girl
★ 6.21930
MovieDramaRomance
The illegitimate child, Marie Růžová, grows up in the family of the Bořický miller. Childhood and youth spend with the son of Bořice, Klement. Klement asserts the rights, becomes a lawyer, and marries Jirina. In order not to cause further contradictions, Mary will go to Prague secretly at night. There he is living heavily as a waitress. He resists the insults of architect Jansky until he ultimately decides to commit suicide in despair.
White Paradise · 1924White Paradise
★ 8.01924
MovieDramaRomance
After a young man is arrested for a crime he didn't commit, the daughter of the local tavern owners must spring to the rescue.
Jánošík · 1936Jánošík
★ 5.51936
MovieAdventureDrama
Jánošík has been topic of many Slovak and Polish legends, books and films. According to the legend, he robbed nobles and gave the loot to the poor. The legend were also known in neighboring Silesia, the Margraviate of Moravia and later spread to the Kingdom of Bohemia. The actual robber had little to do with the modern legend, whose content partly reflects the ubiquitous folk myths of a hero taking from the rich and giving to the poor. However, the legend was also shaped in important ways by the activists and writers in the 19th century when Jánošík became the key highwayman character in stories that spread in the north counties of the Kingdom of Hungary (present Slovakia) and among the local Gorals and Polish tourists in the Podhale region north of the Tatras.
The Merry Wives · 1938The Merry Wives
★ 6.61938
MovieComedyHistory
A morally questionable lord comes to the aid of a working class man who is to be executed for speaking out about thieving rich scoundrels sticking it to the poor.
Powder and Petrol · 1932Powder and Petrol
★ 8.01932
MovieComedy
The Voskovec and Werich duo play a peculiar pair - a clumsy coach driver and an equally clumsy traffic policeman, who both fall in love with a young actress. Although their ludicrous courtship does not work out, both buddies become successful revue comedians.
Rukavička · 1941Rukavička
★ 7.51941
MovieDramaRomance
A lost lady's glove that connects several human destinies. The focus here is not on the lost part of the wardrobe, but on piano virtuoso Arne Brant, a man armed with a charming smile and surrounded by women, two of whom have particularly influenced his life. The first is the daughter of a famous can-can star, dancer Pavlína Doré-Zejdová, the second is Mařenka Berková, the main character of the film and a kind of Kristián in skirts. An orderly and well-bred daughter from an honorable family who lives her second life as a lady of high society. The lost glove complicates the situation for all of them considerably, but in the end she finds her rightful place, just like the heroes of the film...
Nad propastí · 1922Nad propastí
★ 9.01922
MovieDrama
Kasaři · 1958Kasaři
★ 4.41958
MovieCrimeComedy
A detective comedy about ex-cashiers who - except for one - have improved and lead a proper and peaceful life and mostly desperately resist the slightest reminder of their past. However, one of them, Josef Fiala, formerly known as Procházka, is one day asked to open a safe in the Sitex factory that has been slammed open with keys inside by careless employees. The operation goes well, but in time Fiala finds himself suspected of theft...
Movies
Poor girl · 1930Poor girl
★ 6.21930
MovieDramaRomance
The illegitimate child, Marie Růžová, grows up in the family of the Bořický miller. Childhood and youth spend with the son of Bořice, Klement. Klement asserts the rights, becomes a lawyer, and marries Jirina. In order not to cause further contradictions, Mary will go to Prague secretly at night. There he is living heavily as a waitress. He resists the insults of architect Jansky until he ultimately decides to commit suicide in despair.
White Paradise · 1924White Paradise
★ 8.01924
MovieDramaRomance
After a young man is arrested for a crime he didn't commit, the daughter of the local tavern owners must spring to the rescue.
Jánošík · 1936Jánošík
★ 5.51936
MovieAdventureDrama
Jánošík has been topic of many Slovak and Polish legends, books and films. According to the legend, he robbed nobles and gave the loot to the poor. The legend were also known in neighboring Silesia, the Margraviate of Moravia and later spread to the Kingdom of Bohemia. The actual robber had little to do with the modern legend, whose content partly reflects the ubiquitous folk myths of a hero taking from the rich and giving to the poor. However, the legend was also shaped in important ways by the activists and writers in the 19th century when Jánošík became the key highwayman character in stories that spread in the north counties of the Kingdom of Hungary (present Slovakia) and among the local Gorals and Polish tourists in the Podhale region north of the Tatras.
The Merry Wives · 1938The Merry Wives
★ 6.61938
MovieComedyHistory
A morally questionable lord comes to the aid of a working class man who is to be executed for speaking out about thieving rich scoundrels sticking it to the poor.
Powder and Petrol · 1932Powder and Petrol
★ 8.01932
MovieComedy
The Voskovec and Werich duo play a peculiar pair - a clumsy coach driver and an equally clumsy traffic policeman, who both fall in love with a young actress. Although their ludicrous courtship does not work out, both buddies become successful revue comedians.
Rukavička · 1941Rukavička
★ 7.51941
MovieDramaRomance
A lost lady's glove that connects several human destinies. The focus here is not on the lost part of the wardrobe, but on piano virtuoso Arne Brant, a man armed with a charming smile and surrounded by women, two of whom have particularly influenced his life. The first is the daughter of a famous can-can star, dancer Pavlína Doré-Zejdová, the second is Mařenka Berková, the main character of the film and a kind of Kristián in skirts. An orderly and well-bred daughter from an honorable family who lives her second life as a lady of high society. The lost glove complicates the situation for all of them considerably, but in the end she finds her rightful place, just like the heroes of the film...
Nad propastí · 1922Nad propastí
★ 9.01922
MovieDrama
Kasaři · 1958Kasaři
★ 4.41958
MovieCrimeComedy
A detective comedy about ex-cashiers who - except for one - have improved and lead a proper and peaceful life and mostly desperately resist the slightest reminder of their past. However, one of them, Josef Fiala, formerly known as Procházka, is one day asked to open a safe in the Sitex factory that has been slammed open with keys inside by careless employees. The operation goes well, but in time Fiala finds himself suspected of theft...
The Good Soldier Švejk · 1957The Good Soldier Švejk
★ 7.51957
MovieComedyWar
Good-natured and garrulous, Schweik becomes the Austrian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of World War I -- although his bumbling attempts to get to the front serve only to prevent him from reaching it. Playing cards and getting drunk, he uses all his cunning and genial subterfuge to deal with the police, clergy, and officers who chivy him toward battle.
Your Money or Your Life · 1932Your Money or Your Life
★ 7.51932
MovieComedy
A czech film that focuses on an unfaithful husband who married in to money, as well as an impoverished man who is turns to theft.
Girls, Stand Fast! · 1937Girls, Stand Fast!
★ 7.81937
MovieComedy
Emanuel Pokorný, a bachelor, is to join a rural church school as a professor. Before leaving, however, he finds an infant abandoned in his room. Since he has no time to search for the child's parents, he secretly takes the child to the boarding house. And from that moment on, there is no end to his travails...
Lawyer of the Poor · 1941Lawyer of the Poor
★ 8.01941
MovieDrama
A kind-hearted man and lawyer's clerk, Kypr, selflessly takes care of his ward Anna Marie and in the evenings helps the poor and helpless with various legal problems at the U Hrubiána pub. While Anna Marie gains the opportunity to succeed as a singer, the aging man struggles with growing problems that stem not only from his work as a lawyer for the poor, but above all from his tragic past shrouded in mystery, which catches up with him again after years...
The Arrival from the Darkness · 1921The Arrival from the Darkness
★ 6.61921
MovieFantasyHorror
One of the first Czechoslovak films to be shown abroad--a fantasy horror, filmed on the fully furnished premises of the Berlin film studio Am Zoo. The central role is portrayed by the “arrivee from darkness”, Ješek, who is awakened from a deathly sleep. The film represents unusual sparks of creative efforts and the ambitions of creative community around the director Jan S. Kolár, who was inspired by international trends and techniques.
The Fate of the Good Soldier Schweik · 1930The Fate of the Good Soldier Schweik
1930
MovieComedy
A joint edit of the first three silent films about Švejk: The Good Soldier Švejk (1926, directed by Karel Lamač), Švejk at the Front (1926, directed by Karel Lamač) and Švejk in Russian Captivity (1926, directed by Svatopluk Innemann, based on the work by Karel Vaněk). The main role was played by the then very popular Karel Noll. The last silent sequel Švejk in Civilian (1927) exists separately, but the copy of the film is considerably damaged.
Čtrnáctý u stolu · 1943Čtrnáctý u stolu
★ 10.01943
MovieComedyCrime
Thirteen people have gathered at Mayor Bartoš's. The company is uneasy about this number and therefore warmly welcomes the fourteenth guest, who is the new librarian Pavel Čtrnáctý...
Big City Jungle · 1930Big City Jungle
1930
MovieDrama
Rozina the Love Child · 1945Rozina the Love Child
★ 7.51945
MovieHistoryDrama
Prague, the beginning of the 17th century. Rozina falls in love with Italian glass worker Nikolo, but after returning home, she gets a message that will never come to Prague. She falls for the promise of an older man to marry her, but when Nikolo does return, the tragic fate of Rozina is sealed.
Život je krásný · 1940Život je krásný
★ 6.31940
MovieComedy
A famous writer seeks the favor of a charming aspiring artist. However, Jarmila intends to dedicate her life to art, and men should have no other place in it than as models for the artist's work. So, the lovelorn Jan disguises himself as a fortune teller and a grandfather with a scythe, just so that the chosen beauty will notice him a little...
The Girl in Blue · 1940The Girl in Blue
★ 6.51940
MovieComedyFantasy
A painting of a girl from another time comes to life for it's buyer in this costume comedy.
Dr. Jenkins Miracle Cure · 1923Dr. Jenkins Miracle Cure
★ 9.01923
MovieComedy
A brave young woman falls in love with a mysterious stranger.
The Good Soldier Švejk · 1926The 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.
Velká přehrada · 1942Velká přehrada
★ 6.01942
MovieDrama
Young engineer Petr Pavelec works on a dam plan on the Loučnica River. He meets Irena, the daughter of an unscrupulous construction entrepreneur Berka, and falls in love with her. When Petr's project wins the tender, Berka and Irena take him on as a partner, and the company is awarded the contract to build the dam. Petr, in love, does not see how sloppy the construction is being carried out. He only sees it when a worker is killed on the construction site...
Rozpustilá noc · 1934Rozpustilá noc
★ 9.01934
MovieComedy
Zlatý pavouk · 1957Zlatý pavouk
★ 7.01957
MovieDrama
A man was killed while trying to leave Czechoslovakia. One and a half kilograms of gold was found on him - not in coins, not in jewelry, not in bars - but in the form of plates used to make teeth...