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Directing
Miroslav Balajka
Born August 31, 1950
Died January 25, 2009 · aged 58
No biography available.
Known For
A Valley of Beautiful Frogs · 1974A Valley of Beautiful Frogs
★ 9.01974
MovieFamilyRomance
A fifteen years old Jana escapes summer camp wearing nothing but bikini...
Inseparable Five · 1987Inseparable Five
★ 7.01987
MovieFamilyComedy
A funny movie about life and adventures of the five inseparable friends from little town in south Czech republic.
Hotel Pacific · 1975Hotel Pacific
★ 7.31975
MovieDramaHistory
Set in the early 1930s, a young man finds a job as a dishwasher in a hotel and quickly works his way up the ladder. Loosely based on the novel by Henryk Worcell.
Čas lásky a naděje · 1976Čas lásky a naděje
★ 6.51976
MovieDramaHistory
A colour-printed melodramatic selanca from the beginnings of the organised labour movement in Bohemia... Antonín Zápotocký, the second workers' president, is the author of the literary novel Rozbřesk - the plot is said to be inspired by the fate of his grandmother and mother.
Vím, že jsi vrah... · 1972Vím, že jsi vrah...
★ 4.61972
MovieCrime
Dana Martinová, a young woman of loose morals, dies at the hands of a mentally unstable young man, Pavel Zach. In a fit of jealousy, he could not restrain himself and killed the girl with a blow to the head. The police find the corpse thanks to Dana's friend Eva Simonova. And it's Eva who becomes Pavel's second victim. The young man, afraid of being found out, attacks the girl and drowns her in the bathtub. Lieutenant Zeman, a criminal investigator, is put in charge of the double murder as his first case, assisted by his more experienced colleague Suchánek. However, the investigation initially goes nowhere. While Pavel's father tries to have his mentally ill son committed to a psychiatric hospital, Pavel commits another murder out of fear. Neither he nor the investigators know that Pavel has been a mere tool in the hands of someone else for some time...
Who Looks for Gold? · 1974Who Looks for Gold?
★ 5.61974
MovieDrama
When he returns to Prague from a stint in the Army, Lada does not seem to fit in anywhere, and he cannot get the hang of the system of deliberately underperforming on the job. His girlfriend tries to keep him in the city with a variety of stratagems, but he eventually takes a job as a truck driver on a dam-building project. He uses the truck to visit his girl on weekends. Ingenuous, he is unaware that the truck is being used for black-market smuggling, and that his girlfriend two-times on him when he cannot arrange to leave on time for his weekend.
Sestricky · 1984Sestricky
★ 5.91984
MovieDramaComedy
A Czech psychological film about the school of life, its sorrows and beauties. The main character is a young aspiring nurse Marie Sahulová, who, after a trouble in the hospital - she secretly brought a boy to her boarding school - is transferred to a rural health centre, where together with an old doctor and a peculiar nurse she has to travel around twenty-five villages and a number of solitudes in the harsh environment of the neglected villages of the 1950s. The nurse, a wise and experienced woman whom no one calls anything other than "babi", becomes her guide, who introduces her to the practice and the pitfalls of private life in a distinctive way. In the mosaic of everyday worries and more or less serious medical interventions, Marie matures and finds the meaning of her work and life.
Mys Dobré naděje · 1976Mys Dobré naděje
★ 8.01976
MovieDrama
World War II is slowly coming to an end. On the German side of the border, panic slowly breaks out and the local commander orders the local port to be mined. The Czech boatmen take advantage of the sudden confusion and decide to carry out a crazy plan: steal a German ship full of explosives and sail towards Prague, which according to fascist plans is to become the last German stronghold...





