Květa Fialová
Birth : 1929-09-01, Veľké Dravce
Death : 2017-09-26
History
Květa Fialová se narodila na Slovensku, v obci Vel'ké Dravce v okrese Lučenec. Její maminka byla výtvarnice, vedle malby se věnovala i sochaření. Na Slovensku žila rodina do roku 1938, kdy je slovenští nacionalisté přinutili odejít do Čech. Z konce 2. světové války si dospívající Květa odnesla nanejvýš traumatizující zážitek, když ji spolu s matkou brutálně znásilnili sovětští vojáci. Tato zkušenost byla počátkem jejího komplikovaného a rozporuplného vztahu k mužům. Po válce se matka vrátila na Slovensko a Květa Fialová zůstala sama. Přitahovalo ji divadlo a v roce 1946 začala hrát v Českém Těšíně. Téhož roku byla přijata na brněnskou konzervatoř. Pokračovala studiem na JAMU, které úspěšně zakončila v roce 1950. Ještě během studia se objevila v malé roli zapomenutého budovatelského snímku VELKÁ PŘÍLEŽITOST. V 50. letech postupně prošla divadelními angažmá v Opavě, Českých Budějovicích, Kolíně a jednu sezónu hrála dokonce ve vzdáleném Martině na Slovensku. Přestože se pohybovala na oblasti, byla obsazena v několika nevýrazných filmech oné doby. Do Prahy mladou herečku pozval v roce 1958 Jan Werich. Divadlu ABC zůstala v následujících desetiletích věrná i po jeho připojení k Městským divadlům pražským až do roku 1991 a i později zde pohostinsky vystupovala. Příchod do Prahy znamenal větší nabídku filmových rolí. V 60. letech ztvárnila řadu výrazných filmových postav. Objevila se např. ve válečných dramatech SMRT SI ŘÍKÁ ENGELCHEN nebo OSTŘE SLEDOVANÉ VLAKY. Česká kinematografie ale především v Květě Fialové objevila ideální představitelku krásných osudových žen a v 60. letech se tak herečka stala pro mužské publikum sexy symbolem. Její životní rolí se stala postava barové zpěvačky v parodii na divoký západ LIMONÁDOVÝ JOE ANEB KOŇSKÁ OPERA. Protože neuměla zpívat, pěvecký part za ni nazpívala zpěvačka Yvetta Simonová. Ta ji ostatně zastoupila po pěvecké stránce i v muzikálu ZVONOKOSY o několik desítek let později. Typově podobné role femme fatale si zopakovala i v parodiích na brakové detektivky (FANTOM MORRISVILLU) a špionážní thrillery bondovského střihu (KONEC AGENTA W4C PROSTŘEDNICTVÍM PSA PANA FOUSTKY) a v detektivkách (PARTIE KRÁSNÉHO DRAGOUNA). Slušný prostor jí od konce 60. let poskytla i televize. Objevila se např. v inscenaci VAJÍČKO, seriálu HŘÍŠNÍ LIDÉ MĚSTA PRAŽSKÉHO nebo v představení CHARLIEHO TETA. Její filmová, televizní i divadelní kariéra plynula bez větších propadů a s přibývajícím věkem bez problémů měnila svůj herecký typ z osudových žen na zralé elegantní dámy a babičky, které hrála s nezaměnitelným šarmem a nadhledem. Taková byla její hraběnka v parodii ADÉLA JEŠTĚ NEVEČEŘELA nebo babička v rodinné komedii S TEBOU MĚ BAVÍ SVĚT. Své role uměla ztvárnit s typickou sebeironií a lehkou nadsázkou. Má široký herecký rejstřík, objevila se prakticky ve všech žánrech, největší podíl ale tvořily komedie, které také měly největší ohlas. V pozdějším věku našla svou parketu v postavách záhadných a komicky výstředních starých dam a řadu si jich zahrála zejména v televizních inscenacích, jako např. TŘI ALBERTI A SLEČNA MATYLDA, ZÁHADNÁ PANÍ SAVAGEOVÁ nebo TŘI DÁMY S PISTOLÍ. I v důchodovém věku, kdy většina hereček postupně mizí z obrazovek a filmového plátna, zůstala často obsazovanou a populární herečkou. Z jejích četných, většinou komediálních divadelních rolí stojí za zmínku např. Marta Brewsterová ve hře Jezinky bezinky nebo hlavní ženská role v černé komedii Harold a Maud. Pokud jde o osobní život, poprvé se provdala už v 21 letech, ale vzhledem k jejímu svéráznému vztahu k mužům manželství trvalo velmi krátce. Mladou herečku manželský život vyděsil natolik, že od manžela utekla a nějaký čas dokonce přespávala v opuštěné márnici kolínského hřbitova. Svého druhého muže, režiséra Pavla Hášu, poznala v roce 1957 a o dva roky později se vzali. Manželství nejenže vydrželo, ale lze ho považovat za šťastné - především díky tomu, že oba partneři k sobě byli nanejvýš tolerantní a dopřávali si vzájemně velkou míru svobody. V roce 1962 se jim narodila dcera a dnes je již Květa Fialová babičkou. Herečka se vždy zajímala o východní nauky, zejména budhismus, o okultismus a čarodějnictví. Vlastní sbírku předmětů vztahujících se k tomuto okruhu zájmů.
Věra
Mrs. Matušková (segment "Právnička")
Herself
Viola Vávrová
Šarlota
A motley of vacationers on a bus headed for a week long vacation at a seaside resort. Among them: a single, moderately famous singer; a nerdy, onanistic man; a couple of old ladies reaching senility; a couple of young gals looking for an amorous adventure; a family with a boy unsure about where he fits sexually; a beautiful woman that, besides working as a trip guide, has pretensions of being a music composer; a couple of gay men; and another family where the parents are stuck in a sexual ice age while their twentyish daughter is looking to connect with a man.
Vaškova babička
Herself
Ester Krumbachová - a costume designer, screenwriter, director; one of the boldest personalities of the Czech New Wave. She worked in theatre, she was a writer and an illustrator. She co-created films such as O slavnosti a hostech (1966), Sedmikrásky (1966), Vsichni dobrí rodáci (1969), Pension pro svobodné pány (1968), Valerie a týden divu (1970), Slamený klobouk (1972) and many others. In the 1960s, she was a 'pivot' of the art scene in Prague, attracting artists who were on the threshold of their career, just setting out to find their own form of self-realization. Those who underwent her tutelage remember her forever. Director Vera Chytilová talks to those who knew Ester Krumbachová, who worked with her, befriended her, loved her. She sets off on a search that is to end by answering the question: Who was Ester?
Directress
Unusual comedy about women and their marriage troubles.
babička Líba
Capturing the dark humor of Czech author Michal Viewegh's chronicle of life after the Velvet Revolution, this black comedy chronicles three decades in the life of a small Czech family. While the original novel centered on the protagonist Kvido from his conception through his adulthood, first time director Petr Nikolaev and screenwriter Jan Novak changed the focus to his parents Milena, an extremely self-effacing lawyer who acts on stage in her spare time, and Ales, a rather aimless government worker who tends to drift wherever the wind takes him. The lives of Ales and Milena change dramatically following the Russian invasion of Prague in 1968.
Michail Forman, a successful business manager, gets stuck in a traffic jam. The weather is lousy, his car breaks down and he forgot to buy a present for his 5th wedding anniversary. He jumps out of his car and finds some shelter in the entrance of a shopping mall. Attracted by a little girl he enters the mall, but once he's in, time and reality are no longer something to rely on.
Old Mancinka
An elderly paper-crusher branded a fool in Prague secretly stashes condemned books, preserving their contents and extrapolating from them eccentric scenarios of wit.
stará dáma
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
As the Khmer Rouge carves a path of death throughout the land, a Czech doctor falls in love with a Cambodian woman. Their relationship, though sorely strained by the war's horrors, produces a child. The doctor is separated from his family once Pol Pot assumes control.
A car accident occurs and Dusan's teenage daughter Milena gets very seriously injured. To add insult to injury, Dusan is unable to donate a kidney when he finds out he is not Milena's biological father. Dusan is left to cope with his wife's infidelity, as well as the life of his ailing daughter.
matka vil
Návrhářka
Pavoučí královna
babička
Three middle-aged go for a vacation into the mountains with their children. How will they cope with their youngsters every-day needs without their wives? The annual men's ride of three fathers becomes something like a kindergarten in the winter countryside due to the wives' vigorous intervention. It turns out that in certain situations, fathers make better moms than moms themselves, which is especially true when moms aren't in sight. Their parenting methods are very peculiar and cause a lot of confusion and hilarity...
Baronin
On the outskirts of Weimar, Edouard and Charlotte, an aristocratic couple united after both becoming widows, invite two guests to their home: a childhood friend of Edouard's called the Captain, and despite Charlotte's ominous premonition, Ottilie, Charlotte's beautiful and orphaned niece...
Sámková
The Francs with their daughters Olina and Jirina are building a villa in the village of Rezkovice. Father Franc (Vladimír Mensík) doesn't allow himself a minute's respire and restlessly forces to work his wife, both daughters and Zdenek, Jirina's suitor. Zdenek does not protest against it and, in addition, he is skillful. On the contrary, Olina's boyfriend Libor is worse at work. He studies at the Technical College and he does not succeed much in grasping the building handicraft. Franc, proud of his pursuits, decides that he will arrange the wedding for both daughters and then hand them over the key of the villa in which both pairs have luxuriously furnished flats.
Frau Schaffroth
Blumová
Jadwiga Pawlowa
hraběnka Thunová
When famous detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in strange case of a missing dog and even stranger carnivorous plant. He becomes convinced that he is standing against his greatest enemy, the Gardener, who supposedly died years ago in a swamp...
kovářova žena Dorotka
Mother Superior
Hlavními postavami je mladá psycholožka Doubravka a vesnický mladík Honza Macháček. On je traktorista, který při ztřeštěné sázce dočasně přišel o řidičský průkaz, takže teď pase družstevní stádo krav, ona je na chatě se svým chlapcem Bobou, který nepříliš úspěšně studuje medicínu a právě se připravuje na opravné zkoušky. Honzova bezprostřednost, optimismus a přístup k životu i práci ostře kontrastuje se sobeckým, slabošským a nevyrovnaným Bobou a Doubravka si stále víc uvědomuje, že její cit k Bobovi zmizel a doopravdy má vlastně ráda Honzu. Otázkou je, jak se na takovou partii bude dívat její poněkud konzervativní rodina.
Ema
Micinka
manekýnka Magda Sýkorová
A British citizen by the name of George Reiner (Jirí Sovák) arrives at Prague airport. He was once a Czech safe-breaker, and has now returned home after thirty years to steal twenty-dollar gold coins still kept in the safe at a private villa in Pilsen whose owner fled to the West.
lesní panna Jasana
Queen (voice) (uncredited)
Popelka, a resourceful and independent young girl, is a servant in her stepmother's house and confides her closest friend the owl. When she comes across three magical acorns, she's granted a single wish for each one of them.
Countess Zedlau
Slacker Maurice Fadinar wasted his whole inheritance and the only way out of this situation, as it seems, to marry Helen Nonankur - daughter of a wealthy farmer. At the last meeting with his mistress in a nearby forest Fadinar's horse eats straw hat which belongs to a married lady, spending time in the company of young and hot Lieutenant Emil. Emil literally puts a knife to Maurice throat - or the lady will get back the exact same hat immediately, or he will arrange such a scandal that no wedding will not happen ...
Princess
A tale based on novel by Czech writer Bozena Nemcova.
Dragičová
In a suburban villa, a woman of means is murdered. Police Superintendent Zdychynec from the Prague Liben neighborhood reports the case to Police Councilman Vacátko, upon whose order an investigation is launched immediately. Zdychynec begins to suspect the wooer of his own daughter, a handsome dragoon named Rudi, of the crime. In Rudi's absence, Zdychynec searches his rented room in the apartment of the elegant Mrs Dragicová. All his findings - among others, sand left on Rudi's jackboots and a decent amount of money in his bedside table - convince the superintendent that he is following the right lead, especially when Rudi refuses to say where he was at the time of the murder.
Black comedy about a genius inventor and two young, smart and beautiful women. Both of them putting all their effort into getting the one man. This will inevitable lead to all sorts of mischief, crime and even a murder. This murder-comedy, shot at the dawn of normalization has intentionally broke off from any connection to the reality of its time. The director Zdeněk Podskalský has focused on creating intriguing story lines, revolving around the two endeavouring female characters who are fighting for the same man. Two competing parties are not only ready to kill the other, but also (if necessary) the potential groom. This film has enabled the members of the cast, composed mainly of the brightest stars of the Czech acting scene of that time, to show an incredible acting range, from the lightest comedy to the darkest cynical morbidity.
Trojanová
An escort composed of three people transports a huge amount of new one-hundred crown banknotes in a special railway car. At the 196th kilometer, a village girl is waiting at the railway crossing and spots two men removing some packages from the track. The scene is immediately followed by the report of a gun and the unwanted witness is shot dead. Soon afterwards, on the 201st kilometer, the train explodes. Only one of the escorts Lenk (Radoslav Brzobohatý) survives the explosion, taken to hospital with serious injuries. Criminologist Major Kalas (Jirí Sovák) and the very young Second Lieutenant Karlícek (Jaromír Hanzlík) patiently gather facts, leads and testimonies.
Amy
(segment "Fabricius a Zuzana")
Prague - mystical city. It was here in the Middle Ages, alchemists and magicians gathered. Rumor has it that the house of Prague hide secret obtain the philosopher's stone, and complex multi-level labyrinth of underground tunnels and cellars keep many unsolved mysteries and untold treasures. Prague just full of ghosts and phantoms. Let us slightly lift the veil that hides the secrets and little to satisfy your curiosity, get acquainted with some legends of Prague.
Twelve-year old Kosta, a little boy of an overactive imagination, makes friends with equally sensitive eleven-year old Blanka. Fantasy leads the two children to the forgotten attic in the house of Blanka's parents. For them, this is the forbidden "thirteenth chamber," and to Kosta, an old glass vase becomes a magic ball with the help of which he can play his favorite play "on fate". The children observe the adults and unconsciously sense that something has gone wrong in Blanka's family. Her dad is a physician and her mother is not happy with him, still recollecting her former wooer Petr who left for India upon his graduation.
Černeková
paní Campilliová
Alice
The invincible agent Cyril Juan Borguette alias W4C has been assigned a mission to go to a hotel in Prague, get hold of a saltcellar with a plan for the military exploitation of Venus hidden in it, and hand it over to the beautiful agent Alice. He will have to compete for the saltcellar with other agents working for the world's various greater and smaller powers. The head of the Prague counter-intelligence unit gets news of agent W4C's mission. Deficient in personnel, he nominates accountant Foustka as agent 13B. Mr Foustka takes his dog Pajda with him and the two head for the airport. Pajda helps him track down agent W4C in a classy hotel that becomes the battleground for the interests and plans of the secret agents from different countries, each trying to get hold of the precious saltcellar.
tanečnice Milada Havlová
Alice Pokorná
The protagonist (Rudolf Hrusinsky) is a dull, fat, shy government clerk indulging in voyuerism and ego fantasies. In love with another clerk (Kveta Fiolova), he is urged on in his pursuit by a commiserate executive. The story is told in a flashback sequence as the cuckolded Hrusinsky attempts suicide by gassing himself in his bathtub. The "Murder" of the title is not a murder as such, rather the murder that Hrusinsky remembers planning upon discovering his wife's unfaithfulness with his supposed friend and advisor. Both plots failing in his mind, he loses himself in fantastic reveries of his funeral and of hypocritical mourners. ' Deciding (perhaps) that this is not the way out either, he gives up the attempt and imagines a life of reconciliation and eventual affluence.
Shortish forty-year old Ludvík Podzimek, lute and flute player in a Prague orchestra, is far from being an attractive man. He is nevertheless generally considered a great 'Don Juan'. Women take up with him out of a certain motherly compassion and Ludvík's tender heart does not allow him to split with any of them. His lovers thus accumulate and cause him numerous troubles.
The countess
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to the war and the resistance that surrounds him, this young man embarks on a journey of sexual awakening and self-discovery, encountering a universe of frustration, eroticism, and adventure within his sleepy backwater depot.
Hanibal's fiancee
Inspector Brumpby (Jaroslav Marvan) and the young crime reporter Allan Pinkerton (Vít Olmer) attend wedding of Sir Hannibal Morris (Oldrich Nový) with beautiful Clarence (Kveta Fialová). After the ceremony, Clarence's ex-husband, criminal Manuel Diaz (Waldemar Matuska), who was believed dead, shows up in her room. He wants to get his hands on Clarence and, most importantly, on the money she would inherit in the eventuality of her new husband's death. Diaz makes attempts on Hannibal's life. He knows his way about an underground labyrinth in the château and the traps he sets up for Hannibal seem to work, since Hannibal is apparently found dead after an explosion in the labyrinth, after which his body vanishes. The inspector tries to solve the countless mysteries. In this, he is joined by Allan, always ahead of the man of the law in his estimation and judgment of the situation.
Barborka (voice)
Tornádo Lou
A satire of the Great American Way, with Lemonade Joe a "clean living" gunfighter who drinks only Kola-Loca Lemonade and convinces everyone else in town (with his gun skills) that all "real men" drink ONLY lemonade!
model Marcela
Marijánka, Klofátova žena
Florindella
A Czech fairy tale about a princess named Lada who runs away from home in a mouse fur disguise in order to escape an unwanted and forced marriage.
Irena