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Josef Illík
Born September 10, 1919
Died January 21, 2006 · aged 86
No biography available.
Known For
The Ear · 1990The Ear
★ 7.31990
MovieMysteryDrama
Government bureaucrat Ludvik becomes suspicious after several colleagues disappear and he overhears something strange at a cocktail party. Returning home with his wife, Anna, he finds their house under surveillance and spends a fraught night worrying about his possible arrest in the morning. Marital difficulties come to light as Ludvik and his wife attempt to act normal in front of the cameras while dredging up their problems out of sight.
Three Wishes for Cinderella · 1973Three Wishes for Cinderella
★ 7.51973
MovieFantasyFamily
Popelka, a resourceful and independent young girl, is a servant in her stepmother's house and confides in her closest friend the owl. When she comes across three magical acorns, she's granted a single wish for each one of them.
Prince and the Evening Star · 1979Prince and the Evening Star
★ 6.21979
MovieFantasyFamily
A wonderful fairytale about looking for love, defeating evil and learning some valuable moral lessons on the way. The story begins with the young Prince Velen, who is left in charge of the castle and his three sisters. During the night he has a visitation and before he knows it, all his sisters are married off and gone away, and himself falls in love with beautiful Večernice. Now he is faced with the King's wraths and charged with a quest. The journey, however, hides obstacles and danger; not only treacherous merchants and robbers, but also a evil wizard Mrakomor...
Witchhammer · 1970Witchhammer
★ 7.61970
MovieDramaThriller
In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imaginary witchery, and engages in brutal torture and persecution of their subjects.
Něco je ve vzduchu · 1981Něco je ve vzduchu
★ 5.01981
MovieScience FictionComedy
The urn supposedly containing the remains of Alice's grandfather falls out of the window and breaks. To Alice's great surprise, the urn is empty and the girl learns that the grandfather didn't die but disappeared under mysterious circumstances on the 2nd September 1946 in the town of Telc. Her grandmother claims that a mysterious young man with dark glasses was implicated in her husband disappearance. Alice is determined to solve the mystery. Grandmother's story leads Alice to a shoemaker who hands her Professor Jeník's - her grandfather's - invention, called the Force-fields Accelerator. Alice tells her boyfriend Petr about the device and the young man creates a time machine following the professor's instructions. The young couple then travel back to 1946 and there they indeed meet Alice's grandfather, and his daughter Blanka, who will later be Alice's mother.
Fair Wind · 1974Fair Wind
★ 8.51974
MovieHistoryDrama
Jan Vacek, a revolutionary of Czech origin, organizes the retreat of communist troops in Baku after the Bolshevik Revolution, following the fall of the local commune...
Focusing on the Turquoise Mountain · 1978Focusing on the Turquoise Mountain
★ 5.01978
MovieAdventureComedy
It tells about the collaboration of Mongolian-Czech geologists who are discovering treasure deposits in Mongolia, and shows the events that happen to them in a humorous tone.
Suffering · 1962Suffering
★ 6.31962
MovieRomanceFamily
This is an engaging drama by director Karel Kachyna about the growing pains of a young teen (Jorga Kotrbova) and the hardships of a noble steed mistreated by a cruel neighboring farmer. The teen is having a hard time figuring out adult modes of behavior, and at the same time her heart goes out to the horse that is suffering under the treatment of the farmer next door to her family. As the teen adopts the horse as a friend, some clarification will be sure to come on the meaning of adulthood and the benefits of compassion.
Filmography
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King of the Sumava · 1959King of the Sumava
★ 5.31959
MovieDramaAdventure
A movie about Czechoslovak border guards trying to arrest the famous escapee called "King of the Sumava".
Director of Photography
Friday Is No Holiday · 1980Friday Is No Holiday
★ 5.01980
MovieComedy
A Czech film comedy about the ordinary days of an ordinary Novák family, about the confusion of finding and the winding road to wisdom...
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