Jiří Hálek
1930 - 2020After studying at DAMU in Prague, he first worked briefly in Ostrava at the Municipal Youth Theater, [2] then served basic military service in the army ensemble "Winning Wings", after playing military service in Mladá Boleslav from where he then went to the Paravan Theater. From 1965 until 2002 he was a member of the ensemble at the Prague Drama Club.
It is an actor of small body growth, a distinctive profile in the face, as well as a distinctive voice speech. He debuted in Czech film in 1948 in the film Crossroads of Life, then performed in a number of predominantly minor roles, for example in Marek, give me a pen! or How the world comes to the poets.
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Marecek, Pass Me the Pen!
Oldřich Lipský
Jiří Sovák, Jiří Schmitzer
This comedy is about one average family. The father works as master in the factory and his son is studying on high school. One day father must start to visit the evening school. It's the same school as his son visiting. The lives both students are connecting together. The son must teach the math and physics his own father. The father getting to know, that the life of the students is not simple as he supposed.
Marecek, Pass Me the Pen!
The Three Veterans
Oldřich Lipský
Rudolf Hrušínský, Petr Čepek
It is a story of three veterans released from the army. During one night spent camping in the country they one by one wake up and meet three elvish brothers. Each of the veterans is given a magic item - one gets magic harp that provides him with servants by wish, other one endless pouch of gold and the last one owns magic hat that can create all the staff excluding money and people.
The Three Veterans
Zahrada
Jan Švankmajer
Jiří Hálek, Luděk Kopřiva
Frank visits his friend Josef, who introduces him to his pedigree rabbits and his wife Mary. Frank is more interested in the slightly unsettling fact that Josef and Mary's garden fence is entirely made up of living people holding hands. Finally, Frank asks Josef how he manages to keep the fence together..
The Garden
Karlovarští poníci
Jiří Hanibal
Barbora Landová, Vladimír Zátka
Angelika, a ten years old daughter of a spa visitor Bachmann is terribly bored in Karlovy Vary spa. Her father enjoys different spa procedures, trying to lose some weight, but the little girl feels to be only waiting for something to enjoy. Moreover, she cannot speak any Czech unlike her father. Kája, a son of the hotel receptionist Vlasta, attempts to amuse her despite he cannot speak German. Both children make friends although there is the language barrier.
Carlsbad Ponies
Case for a Rookie Hangman
Pavel Juráček
Lubomír Kostelka, Klára Jerneková
Lemuel Gulliver (Lubomír Kostelka) has had a car accident and continues his journey across the unknown countryside on foot. On the road he finds a dead rabbit dressed like a man and takes a watch from its waistcoat breast pocket. The half-ruined house that he enters reminds Lemuel of his childhood and brings up a painful memory of a dearly loved girl Markéta who was drowned years ago. Gulliver finds himself in Balnibarbi, a country where he doesn't understand the laws and habits and so continually offends against public decency. It is a day when people are ordered to keep their mouths shut and they force their visitor to follow suit. He faces harsh interrogation and finds it difficult to explain that he is not the rabbit Oscar whose watch has been found in his possession.
Case for a Rookie Hangman
Den sedmý – osmá noc
Evald Schorm
Jan Libíček, Josef Bek
An allegory set in an archetypal Czech village, it tells of what happens when a sequence of mysterious events take place, including the disappearance of the stationmaster. While everything has a rational explanation, collective paranoia takes hold and everyone’s worst instincts are released. Interrogations, the abolition of rights and the search for scapegoats ultimately lead to murder
The Seventh Day, the Eighth Night
Hogo fogo Homolka
Jaroslav Papoušek
František Husák, Helena Růžičková
The Homolka family celebrates a great occasion: they were finally able to buy a car. They immediately begin to drive for small trips to Hradcany, to the airport, and plan further trips. Their euphoria is spoiled by a letter from their great-grandmother. Their great-grandfather is dying and the family is expected to come along to say goodbye. The annoyed Homolkas therefore set off to the South Bohemian village where the grandparents live.
Hogo Fogo Homolka
The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun
Věra Chytilová
Leoš Suchařípa, Libuše Pospíšilová
A bachelor named Faun with a Don Juan complex, seized with a hypochondriac's fear of the ineluctable approach of death, enters a race against time's passage. Faun's sexual love is imbued with the narcissistic vanity of a self-satisfied bacchant who even towards old age can't manage to forgo his lifelong pose as an irresistable seducer of women. He desperately searches for meaning in superficial, fleeting sex.
The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun
