Jiří Svoboda

Jiří Svoboda

Birth : 1945-05-05, Kladno, Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia [now Czech Republic]

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Jiří Svoboda

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Rašín
Screenplay
Rašín
Director
A Soul to Redeem
Director
Kráska a netvor 1950
Director
Domina
Director
Nepolepšitelný
Director
Les mrtvých
Director
Boží duha
Screenplay
Boží duha
Director
Searching for Ester
Himself
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?
Sametoví vrazi
Screenplay
A thriller loosely based on one of the most violent Czech criminal cases of the nineties, popularly known as the Orlík murders. The film delves into the motivation behind the killings, exposing their exceptional cruelty and an absolute absence of moral values. The perpetrators executed four people on their way to achieving material gain. Two of the bodies were found at the bottom of Orlík reservoir, the third perished in a bomb blast, and the forth was shot at home...
Sametoví vrazi
Idea
A thriller loosely based on one of the most violent Czech criminal cases of the nineties, popularly known as the Orlík murders. The film delves into the motivation behind the killings, exposing their exceptional cruelty and an absolute absence of moral values. The perpetrators executed four people on their way to achieving material gain. Two of the bodies were found at the bottom of Orlík reservoir, the third perished in a bomb blast, and the forth was shot at home...
Sametoví vrazi
Director
A thriller loosely based on one of the most violent Czech criminal cases of the nineties, popularly known as the Orlík murders. The film delves into the motivation behind the killings, exposing their exceptional cruelty and an absolute absence of moral values. The perpetrators executed four people on their way to achieving material gain. Two of the bodies were found at the bottom of Orlík reservoir, the third perished in a bomb blast, and the forth was shot at home...
Udělení milosti se zamítá
Screenplay
Udělení milosti se zamítá
Director
What Hedwig Didn't Tell Us
Writer
A sad story about a young girl who is forced to move from one foster home to another.
What Hedwig Didn't Tell Us
Director
A sad story about a young girl who is forced to move from one foster home to another.
Jen o rodinných záležitostech
Screenplay
Life in communist Czechoslovakia in the early 1950s and the punishments for going against the state.
Jen o rodinných záležitostech
Writer
Life in communist Czechoslovakia in the early 1950s and the punishments for going against the state.
Jen o rodinných záležitostech
Director
Life in communist Czechoslovakia in the early 1950s and the punishments for going against the state.
The Damned House of Hajn
Writer
Sonya is the heiress to the riches of a Czech noble family—the Hajns. Petr, a social climber marries her, ignoring some shady goings-on—in particular, an insane uncle who prowls the mansion believing himself invisible, a peccadillo the family indulges. The uncle’s stalking every corner of the house, popping out of cupboards and out from behind curtains slowly takes its toll on the young bride.
The Damned House of Hajn
Director
Sonya is the heiress to the riches of a Czech noble family—the Hajns. Petr, a social climber marries her, ignoring some shady goings-on—in particular, an insane uncle who prowls the mansion believing himself invisible, a peccadillo the family indulges. The uncle’s stalking every corner of the house, popping out of cupboards and out from behind curtains slowly takes its toll on the young bride.
The World Knows Nothing
Writer
The story takes place in the Czech-German border region in 1938. The hero Tomás Jakl marries but the marriage is not very lucky and falls apart. His German friend forced him to enter the Nazi party.
The World Knows Nothing
Director
The story takes place in the Czech-German border region in 1938. The hero Tomás Jakl marries but the marriage is not very lucky and falls apart. His German friend forced him to enter the Nazi party.
End of the Lonely Farm Berhof
Writer
Drama set on an isolated farm on the Czech-Polish border immediately after the end of WWII.
End of the Lonely Farm Berhof
Director
Drama set on an isolated farm on the Czech-Polish border immediately after the end of WWII.
Scalpel, Please
Writer
A psychological drama exploring the notion of the doctor as a moral authority, who within the framework of their everyday work must face questions of life and death. The film is adapted from a novel by Valja Stýblová, in which the author draws upon her personal experiences as a former neurosurgeon. The protagonist of this drama is an ageing professor, based at a Prague neurological clinic, who is haunted by issues concerning his own principles and values, and also by the case of a young patient, Víťa, afflicted with an inoperable tumour.
Scalpel, Please
Director
A psychological drama exploring the notion of the doctor as a moral authority, who within the framework of their everyday work must face questions of life and death. The film is adapted from a novel by Valja Stýblová, in which the author draws upon her personal experiences as a former neurosurgeon. The protagonist of this drama is an ageing professor, based at a Prague neurological clinic, who is haunted by issues concerning his own principles and values, and also by the case of a young patient, Víťa, afflicted with an inoperable tumour.
Této noci v tomto vlaku
Director
Rubikova kostka
Director
Schůzka se stíny
Screenplay
Schůzka se stíny
Director
Švédská zápalka
Director
Jehla
Director
Girl with Shells
Director
Thirteen-year-old Vendula dozes off at school and dreams about her parents riding in a carriage dressed in their wedding clothes. The young teacher is angry with the girl who has already failed a year, and has no idea that she is looking after three younger half-brothers. They all have a different father and their mother comes home noisy and drunk every day, often accompanied by a man...
Chain
Director
Carefree young nurse Marta learns upon her husband's death that he was involved in all manner of criminal activity, which puts her life in danger.
Blue Planet
Screenplay
A young engineer, Štěpán Pavlík, dreams of becoming a cosmonaut.
Blue Planet
Director
A young engineer, Štěpán Pavlík, dreams of becoming a cosmonaut.
Oddechový čas
Screenplay
Oddechový čas
Director
Dům Na poříčí
Screenplay
Dům Na poříčí
Director
Zrcadlo pro Kristýnu
Screenplay
Zrcadlo pro Kristýnu
Director
The Motive for Murder
Director
Paradajs
Director
Přízrak
Screenplay
Přízrak
Director
Spartakiádní vrah
Director