Czech films of the 1970s
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A List of Czech films of the 1970s.
Title Director Cast Genre Notes
1970
1970 in film
The year 1970 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* January 9 - Larry Fine, the second member of The Three Stooges, suffers a massive stroke, therefore ending his career....

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Valerie a tyden divu) Jaromil Jires Jaroslava Schallerová, Helena Anyžková fairy tale, horror
Už zase skáču přes kaluže (I Can Jump Puddles) Karel Kachyňa
Karel Kachyna
Karel Kachyňa was a Czech film director. His career spanned over five decades.Kachyňa was part of the Czech wave of liberal filmmakers in the 1960s which included Miloš Forman and Jiří Menzel....

Vladimír Dlouhý
Vladimír Dlouhý (actor)
Vladimír Dlouhý was a Czech actor, winner of the 2008 Czech Lion for best supporting actor in the film Guard No. 47.He died on 20 June 2010 after long struggle with cancer....

according the 1955 novel by Alan Marshall
Pane, vy jste vdova!
Pane, vy jste vdova!
You Are a Widow, Sir is a 1971 Czechoslovak comedy science fiction film directed by Václav Vorlíček....

 (You are a Widow, sir!)
Václav Vorlíček Jiří Hrzán, Iva Janžurová
Iva Janžurová
Iva Janžurová is a Czech actress. She attended grammar school in České Budějovice, but her love to theatre won after all and in 1963 she graduated from the Faculty of Theatre of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague...

, Jiří Sovák
Jirí Sovák
Jiří Sovák was a Czech actor, best known for his comedy roles.-Life and theatre career:Jiří Sovák was born Jiří Schmitzer to the family of an innkeeper in Prague. In 1941 he graduated from Prague State Conservatory where he had been studying drama...

, Olga Schoberová
Olga Schoberová
Olga Schoberová or Olinka Bérová born March 15, 1943 in Prague, Czech Republic , Czech-American actress, was often compared with Brigitte Bardot and Ursula Andress. She acted in 22 Czech, German, Italian and American movies. Olga was married to Brad Harris on 16 November 1967 and divorced in 1969...

sci-fi comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

Čtyři vraždy stačí, drahoušku
Čtyři vraždy stačí, drahoušku
Four Murders Are Enough, Darling is a 1970 Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Oldřich Lipský.- Cast :*Lubomír Lipský .... George Camel*Jiřina Bohdalová .... Sabrina*Iva Janžurová .... Kate Draxl*Marie Rosůlková .... Mrs. Harrington...

 (Four Murders is enough, Honey)
Oldřich Lipský Lubomír Lipský, Iva Janžurová
Iva Janžurová
Iva Janžurová is a Czech actress. She attended grammar school in České Budějovice, but her love to theatre won after all and in 1963 she graduated from the Faculty of Theatre of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague...

, Jiřina Bohdalová
Jirina Bohdalová
Jiřina Bohdalová is a Czech actress. She began acting in theatre and film at an early age. She was accepted to The Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague at her third attempt. She received an offer from Jan Werich to join the actor's troupe at “Divadlo ABC” theatre which she...

, Marie Rosůlková
comics
Comics
Comics denotes a hybrid medium having verbal side of its vocabulary tightly tied to its visual side in order to convey narrative or information only, the latter in case of non-fiction comics, seeking synergy by using both visual and verbal side in...

 parody
Parody
A parody , in current usage, is an imitative work created to mock, comment on, or trivialise an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation...

there are sequences of comics pictures by Kája Saudek
Kája Saudek
Kája Saudek is a Czech comics illustrator. He is one of the most important exponents of the Czech comics since the late 1960s. He is the twin brother of the photographer and painter Jan Saudek.- Biography :...

 in that film
Fruit of Paradise
Fruit of Paradise
Fruit of Paradise is a 1970 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Věra Chytilová. It was entered into the 1970 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Karel Novák - Josef* Jitka Nováková - Eva* Jan Schmid - Robert* Julius Albert - Starý pán...

 (Ovoce stromů rajských jíme)
Věra Chytilová
Vera Chytilová
Věra Chytilová is an avant-garde Czech film director and pioneer of Czech cinema. Banned by the Czechoslovakian government in the 1960s, she is best known for her Czech New Wave film, Sedmikrásky...

 
Karel Novák
Karel Novák
Karel Novák is a Czechoslovak slalom canoer who competed in the early 1960s. He won two medals in the mixed C-2 event at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with a gold in 1961 and a bronze in 1963.-References:*...

, Jitka Nováková
Entered into the 1970 Cannes Film Festival
1970 Cannes Film Festival
The 1970 Cannes Film Festival was the 23rd competition. This year, Robert Favre LeBret, the founder of the festival, decided not to include any films from Russia and Japan...

Eden and After
Eden and After
Eden and After is a 1970 French-Czechoslovak drama film directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet. It was entered into the 20th Berlin International Film Festival.-Cast:* Catherine Jourdan - Violette* Lorraine Rainer - Marie-Eve* Sylvain Corthay - Jean-Pierre...

Alain Robbe-Grillet
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Alain Robbe-Grillet , was a French writer and filmmaker. He was, along with Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor and Claude Simon, one of the figures most associated with the Nouveau Roman trend. Alain Robbe-Grillet was elected a member of the Académie française on March 25, 2004, succeeding Maurice...

 
Entered into the 20th Berlin International Film Festival
20th Berlin International Film Festival
The 20th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from June 26 to July 7, 1970. However, the competition was cancelled and no prizes were awarded, over controversy surrounding Michael Verhoeven's film o.k.-Jury:* George Stevens...

1971
1971 in film
The year 1971 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 8 - Bob Dylan's hour long documentary film, Eat the Document, premieres at New York's Academy of Music...

Ženy v ofsajdu
Oil Lamps
Oil Lamps (film)
Oil Lamps is a 1971 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Juraj Herz. It was entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. It is based on a novel by Jaroslav Havlíček.-Plot:...

(Petrolejové lampy)
Juraj Herz  Entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival
1972 Cannes Film Festival
- Jury :*Joseph Losey *Bibi Andersson *Georges Auric *Erskine Caldwell *Mark Donskoi *Miloš Forman *Giorgio Papi *Jean Rochereau *Alain Tanner...

1972
1972 in film
The year 1972 in film involved some significant events.-Top grossing films :- Awards :Academy Awards:*Avanti!, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon and Juliet MillsB...

Morgiana Juraj Herz  Iva Janžurová, Petr Čepek drama
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...

Akce Bororo (Mission Bororo) Otakar Fuka Svatopluk Matyáš, Božidara Turzonovová
Božidara Turzonovová
Božidara Turzonovová is a significant Slovak film and stage actress. The former chairman of the Art Film Fest in Trenčianske Teplice, nowdays the president of the International Film Festival Cinematik held in Piešťany from 2006, is also known as the first dean of the Faculty of Drama at the...

, Vlastimil Brodský
Vlastimil Brodský
Vlastimil Brodský was a respected Czech actor. He appeared in over 90 films, and is considered a key figure in the postwar development of Czech cinema....

sci-fi
Dívka na koštěti
Dívka na košteti
Dívka na koštěti or The Girl on the Broomstick is a 1972 Czechoslovak fantasy-comedy film directed by Václav Vorlíček. It tells a story of a teenage witch, Saxana , frozen in time as a punishment for 300 years, who finds herself in a modern world. A sequel was released in 2011 - Saxána a Lexikon...

Václav Vorlíček Petra Černocká, Jan Hrušínský fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...

 comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

1973
1973 in film
The year 1973 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx divorces his second wife, Barbara Blakely. Blakely would later marry actor/singer Frank Sinatra....

Noc na Karlštejně
Noc na Karlštejně
A Night at Karlstein is a 1974 Czechoslovak musical film directed by Zdeněk Podskalský, based on an 1884 play by Jaroslav Vrchlický.- Film :*Charles IV .... Vlastimil Brodský*Elisabeth of Pomerania .... Jana Brejchová...

Zdeněk Podskalský
Zdenek Podskalský
Zdeněk Podskalský was a Czech film director and screenwriter. He directed 32 films between 1950 and 1987.-Selected filmography:* When the Woman Butts In...

Jana Brejchová
Jana Brejchová
Jana Brejchová is a Czech film actress. She has appeared in over 70 films since 1953. She was married to actor Vlastimil Brodský.-Selected filmography:* Desire * Suburban Romance...

, Vlastimil Brodský
Vlastimil Brodský
Vlastimil Brodský was a respected Czech actor. He appeared in over 90 films, and is considered a key figure in the postwar development of Czech cinema....

musical
Musical theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...

 comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

music by Karel Svoboda
Karel Svoboda
Karel Svoboda was a Czech composer of popular music. He wrote music for many TV series in the 1970s.- Works :...

Three Nuts for Cinderella Václav Vorlíček Libuše Šafránková
Libuše Šafránková
Libuše Šafránková is a Czech actress. Her husband is actor Josef Abrhám. In 2008 she received the prize Hvězda mého srdce , awarded by the Czech Television.- Filmography :...

, Pavel Trávníček
fairy-tale
1974
1974 in film
The year 1974 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 7 - Blazing Saddles is released in the USA.*August 7 - Peter Wolf, lead singer of The J...

Jáchyme, hoď ho do stroje!
Jáchyme, hoď ho do stroje!
Jáchyme, hoď ho do stroje! is a 1974 Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Oldřich Lipský.-Cast:* Luděk Sobota - František Koudelka* Marta Vančurová - Blanka* Věra Ferbasová - František's aunt* Josef Dvořák - Bedřich Hudeček...

Oldřich Lipský Luděk Sobota
Ludek Sobota
Luděk Sobota is a Czech stand-up comedian and actor. He studied at Faculty of Theatre. He has his own theatre in Prague, Divadlo Ludka Soboty , which is located near the metro station I. P. Pavlova...

, Marta Vančurová
comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

written by Ladislav Smoljak
Ladislav Smoljak
Ladislav Smoljak was a Czech film and theater director, actor and screenwriter. He was born in Prague.Smoljak tried to study at an art academy but failed the admission process. He went on to study physics and mathematics, and later worked as journalist and scriptwriter...

 & Zdeněk Svěrák
Zdenek Sverák
Zdeněk Svěrák is a Czech actor, humorist and scriptwriter. He is one of the most popular Czech cultural personalities. In 1989, he was a member of the jury at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival....

, founders of "Jára Cimrman
Jára Cimrman
Jára Cimrman or Jára da Cimrman is a Czech fictional character created by Jiří Šebánek, Ladislav Smoljak and Zdeněk Svěrák. He is presented as one of the greatest Czech playwrights, poets, composers, teachers, travellers, philosophers, inventors, detectives, mathematicians and sportsmen of the...

 theatre"
Kdo hledá zlaté dno
Kdo hledá zlaté dno
Who Looks for Gold? is a 1974 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Jiří Menzel. It was entered into the 25th Berlin International Film Festival.-Cast:* Jan Hrušínský* Jana Giergielová* Július Pántik* Míla Myslíková* Alois Liskutin* Frantisek Husák...

Jiří Menzel
Jirí Menzel
Jiří Menzel is a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and screenwriter. His films often combine a humanistic view of the world with sarcasm and provocative cinematography...

 
Entered into the 25th Berlin International Film Festival
25th Berlin International Film Festival
The 25th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from June 27 to July 8, 1975.-Jury:* Sylvia Syms * Ottokar Runze* Henry Chapier* Else Goelz* Albert Johnson* Rostislav Yurenev* Carlo Martins* S...

1975
1975 in film
The year 1975 in film involved some significant events, with Steven Spielberg's thriller Jaws topping the box office.-Events:*March 26 - The film version of The Who's Tommy premieres in London....

Jacob, the Liar Frank Beyer
Frank Beyer
Frank Beyer was German film director. In East Germany he was one of the most important film directors, working for the state film monopoly DEFA and directed films that dealt mostly with the Nazi era and contemporary East Germany. His film Traces of Stones was banned for 20 years in 1966 by the...

 
Vlastimil Brodský
Vlastimil Brodský
Vlastimil Brodský was a respected Czech actor. He appeared in over 90 films, and is considered a key figure in the postwar development of Czech cinema....

 
Czech-German co-production
Páni kluci Iva Janžurová
Iva Janžurová
Iva Janžurová is a Czech actress. She attended grammar school in České Budějovice, but her love to theatre won after all and in 1963 she graduated from the Faculty of Theatre of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague...

1976
1976 in film
The year 1976 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*March 22 - Filming begins on George Lucas' Star Wars science fiction film...

Day for My Love
Day for My Love
Day for My Love is a 1976 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Juraj Herz. It was entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival.-Cast:* Eva Sitta - Hanka * Milada Černá* Emma Černá* Lubomír Černík - Kabát* Vlastimil Harapes...

Juraj Herz  Entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival
27th Berlin International Film Festival
The 27th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from June 24 to July 5, 1977.-Jury:* Senta Berger * Ellen Burstyn* Helène Vager* Rainer Werner Fassbinder* Derek Malcolm* Andrej Michaolkow-Kontschalowski* Ousmane Sembène...

Marečku, podejte mi pero!
Marečku, podejte mi pero!
Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! is a 1976 Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Oldřich Lipský.- Plot :Jiri Kroupa , a master in the factory for agricultural machinery, has the oppotunity for promotion, but he would have to study at the technical evening college...

Oldřich Lipský Jiří Sovák
Jirí Sovák
Jiří Sovák was a Czech actor, best known for his comedy roles.-Life and theatre career:Jiří Sovák was born Jiří Schmitzer to the family of an innkeeper in Prague. In 1941 he graduated from Prague State Conservatory where he had been studying drama...

, Jiří Schmitzer, Josef Abrhám
Josef Abrhám
Josef Abrhám is a Czech film and theatre actor.In 1965–1982 he was one of the leading actors of The Drama Club in Prague and has been noted as one of the Czech Republic's best performers...

, Josef Kemr
Josef Kemr
Josef Kemr was a Czech actor. He starred in the 1969/1970 film Witchhammer under director Otakar Vávra.-References:...

, Iva Janžurová
Iva Janžurová
Iva Janžurová is a Czech actress. She attended grammar school in České Budějovice, but her love to theatre won after all and in 1963 she graduated from the Faculty of Theatre of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague...

, Václav Lohniský
comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

written by Ladislav Smoljak
Ladislav Smoljak
Ladislav Smoljak was a Czech film and theater director, actor and screenwriter. He was born in Prague.Smoljak tried to study at an art academy but failed the admission process. He went on to study physics and mathematics, and later worked as journalist and scriptwriter...

 & Zdeněk Svěrák
Zdenek Sverák
Zdeněk Svěrák is a Czech actor, humorist and scriptwriter. He is one of the most popular Czech cultural personalities. In 1989, he was a member of the jury at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival....

Léto s kovbojem
Léto s Kovbojem
Léto s Kovbojem, Summer With a Cowboy in English, is a 1976 Czechoslovak film directed by Ivo Novák. It starred Daniela Kolářová, Jaromír Hanzlík and Oldřich Vízner.- Casting :* Daniela Kolářová — Doubravka* Jaromír Hanzlík — Honza...

 (Summer with Cowboy)
Ivo Novák Daniela Kolářová
Daniela Kolárová
- Film :* Kawasaki's Rose * Vratné lahve … Eliška* Tmavomodrý svět … Haniččina matka* Oběti a vrazi … matka* Cesta z města … matka Markéty* V erbu lvice … Anežka...

, Jaromír Hanzlík, Oldřich Vízner
comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

Na samotě u lesa
Na samotě u lesa
Seclusion Near a Forest is a 1976 Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Jiří Menzel. Filming took place near Radešice and in Svatý Jan .- Plot :...

 (weekend house into hamlet)
Jiří Menzel
Jirí Menzel
Jiří Menzel is a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and screenwriter. His films often combine a humanistic view of the world with sarcasm and provocative cinematography...

Zdeněk Svěrák
Zdenek Sverák
Zdeněk Svěrák is a Czech actor, humorist and scriptwriter. He is one of the most popular Czech cultural personalities. In 1989, he was a member of the jury at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival....

, Daniela Kolářová
Daniela Kolárová
- Film :* Kawasaki's Rose * Vratné lahve … Eliška* Tmavomodrý svět … Haniččina matka* Oběti a vrazi … matka* Cesta z města … matka Markéty* V erbu lvice … Anežka...

, Josef Kemr
Josef Kemr
Josef Kemr was a Czech actor. He starred in the 1969/1970 film Witchhammer under director Otakar Vávra.-References:...

, Naďa Urbánková
comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

written by Ladislav Smoljak
Ladislav Smoljak
Ladislav Smoljak was a Czech film and theater director, actor and screenwriter. He was born in Prague.Smoljak tried to study at an art academy but failed the admission process. He went on to study physics and mathematics, and later worked as journalist and scriptwriter...

 & Zdeněk Svěrák
Zdenek Sverák
Zdeněk Svěrák is a Czech actor, humorist and scriptwriter. He is one of the most popular Czech cultural personalities. In 1989, he was a member of the jury at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival....

Hra o jablko Věra Chytilová
Vera Chytilová
Věra Chytilová is an avant-garde Czech film director and pioneer of Czech cinema. Banned by the Czechoslovakian government in the 1960s, she is best known for her Czech New Wave film, Sedmikrásky...

Jiří Menzel
Jirí Menzel
Jiří Menzel is a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and screenwriter. His films often combine a humanistic view of the world with sarcasm and provocative cinematography...

, Evelyna Steimarová, Dagmar Bláhová
Dagmar Bláhová
Dagmar Bláhová , Liberec, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech television actress notable for her appearance as Maria Ramsay in the popular Australian television soap opera, Neighbours. She emigrated to Australia during the Communist era but returned after the Velvet Revolution in 1989. Also as Dáša...

tragicomedy
Tragicomedy
Tragicomedy is fictional work that blends aspects of the genres of tragedy and comedy. In English literature, from Shakespeare's time to the nineteenth century, tragicomedy referred to a serious play with either a happy ending or enough jokes throughout the play to lighten the mood.-Classical...

Ať žijí duchové! (Vivat Ghosts!) Oldřich Lipský Jiří Sovák
Jirí Sovák
Jiří Sovák was a Czech actor, best known for his comedy roles.-Life and theatre career:Jiří Sovák was born Jiří Schmitzer to the family of an innkeeper in Prague. In 1941 he graduated from Prague State Conservatory where he had been studying drama...

, Hana Vávrová, Lubomír Lipský
fairy-tale comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

1977
1977 in film
The year 1977 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*In the Academy Awards, Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight win Best Actor and Actress and Supporting Actress awards for Network....

Zítra vstanu a opařím se čajem
Zítra vstanu a opařím se čajem
Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea is a 1977 Czechoslovak comical science fiction film directed by Jindřich Polák. It is a screen adaptation of Josef Nesvadba's short story with the same title.-Plot:...

Jindřich Polák Petr Kostka
Petr Kostka
Petr Kostka is a Czech actor.He was born in Říčany near Prague, Czechoslovakia. In 2003, he received Thalia Award for performing Herman in Smíšené pocity Mixed Emotions.-Selected filmography:...

, Jiří Sovák
Jirí Sovák
Jiří Sovák was a Czech actor, best known for his comedy roles.-Life and theatre career:Jiří Sovák was born Jiří Schmitzer to the family of an innkeeper in Prague. In 1941 he graduated from Prague State Conservatory where he had been studying drama...

, Vladimír Menšík
Vladimír Menšík
Vladimír Menšík was a popular Czech actor and entertainer, born in Ivančice, Moravia, Czechoslovakia. Both comedian and serious actor, he created a wide range of lively characters...

, Vlastimil Brodský
Vlastimil Brodský
Vlastimil Brodský was a respected Czech actor. He appeared in over 90 films, and is considered a key figure in the postwar development of Czech cinema....

sci-fi comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

Což takhle dát si špenát
Což takhle dát si špenát
Což takhle dát si špenát is a 1977 Czechoslovak comedy science fiction film directed by Václav Vorlíček.-Cast:* Vladimír Menšík - Zemánek* Jiří Sovák - Liška* Iva Janžurová - Lišková / Marcelka * Michal Kocourek - Zemánek...

Václav Vorlíček Jiří Sovák
Jirí Sovák
Jiří Sovák was a Czech actor, best known for his comedy roles.-Life and theatre career:Jiří Sovák was born Jiří Schmitzer to the family of an innkeeper in Prague. In 1941 he graduated from Prague State Conservatory where he had been studying drama...

, Vladimír Menšík
Vladimír Menšík
Vladimír Menšík was a popular Czech actor and entertainer, born in Ivančice, Moravia, Czechoslovakia. Both comedian and serious actor, he created a wide range of lively characters...

sci-fi comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

Dinner for Adele
Dinner for Adele
Dinner for Adele is a 1977 Czechoslovak comedy detective film directed by Oldřich Lipský. Alternative titles were Adele Hasn't Had Her Dinner Yet, Nick Carter in Prague and Adele Hasn't Had Her Supper Yet.-Plot:...

 aka Nick Carter in Prague (Adéla ještě nevečeřela)
Oldřich Lipský Michal Dočolomanský, Naďa Konvalinková
Naďa Konvalinková
Naďa Konvalinková is a Czech actress.After graduating from the Faculty of Theatre of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, she worked in the J. K...

, Miloš Kopecký
Miloš Kopecký
Miloš Kopecký was a Czech actor, active mainly in the second half of the 20th century.- Biography :...

, Rudolf Hrušínský
Rudolf Hrušínský
Rudolf Hrušínský was an acclaimed Czech actor.-Biography:He was born in Nová Včelnice to Hermina Červičková and Rudolf Hrušinský . He was born, literally, back stage during a showing of the play Taneček panny Marinky...

black comedy
Black comedy
A black comedy, or dark comedy, is a comic work that employs black humor or gallows humor. The definition of black humor is problematic; it has been argued that it corresponds to the earlier concept of gallows humor; and that, as humor has been defined since Freud as a comedic act that anesthetizes...

Entered into the 1978 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...

1978
1978 in film
The year 1978 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* February 1 - Bob Dylan's film Renaldo and Clara, a documentary of the "Rolling Thunder Revue" tour premieres in Los Angeles, California....

Kulový blesk Ladislav Smoljak
Ladislav Smoljak
Ladislav Smoljak was a Czech film and theater director, actor and screenwriter. He was born in Prague.Smoljak tried to study at an art academy but failed the admission process. He went on to study physics and mathematics, and later worked as journalist and scriptwriter...

Josef Abrhám
Josef Abrhám
Josef Abrhám is a Czech film and theatre actor.In 1965–1982 he was one of the leading actors of The Drama Club in Prague and has been noted as one of the Czech Republic's best performers...

, Rudolf Hrušínský
Rudolf Hrušínský
Rudolf Hrušínský was an acclaimed Czech actor.-Biography:He was born in Nová Včelnice to Hermina Červičková and Rudolf Hrušinský . He was born, literally, back stage during a showing of the play Taneček panny Marinky...

comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

written by Ladislav Smoljak
Ladislav Smoljak
Ladislav Smoljak was a Czech film and theater director, actor and screenwriter. He was born in Prague.Smoljak tried to study at an art academy but failed the admission process. He went on to study physics and mathematics, and later worked as journalist and scriptwriter...

 & Zdeněk Svěrák
Zdenek Sverák
Zdeněk Svěrák is a Czech actor, humorist and scriptwriter. He is one of the most popular Czech cultural personalities. In 1989, he was a member of the jury at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival....

1979
1979 in film
The year 1979 in film involved some significant events.- Major events :* March 5 - Production begins on Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.* May 25 - Alien, a landmark of the science fiction genre, is released....

Panelstory Věra Chytilová
Vera Chytilová
Věra Chytilová is an avant-garde Czech film director and pioneer of Czech cinema. Banned by the Czechoslovakian government in the 1960s, she is best known for her Czech New Wave film, Sedmikrásky...

Those Wonderful Men with a Crank (Báječní muži s klikou) Jiří Menzel
Jirí Menzel
Jiří Menzel is a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and screenwriter. His films often combine a humanistic view of the world with sarcasm and provocative cinematography...

Entered into the 1979 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...

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