Jan Drda

Birth : 1915-04-04,

Death : 1970-11-28

Movies

Igraszki z diabłem
Writer
Nejkrásnější hádanka
Writer
Helluva Good Luck
Story
O hloupé havířce
Story
Princess Jasnenka and the Flying Shoemaker
Writer
Pohádka o mladém ševcovském tovaryšovi Jírovi, který si vyrobil z jemné kůže křídla, s jejichž pomocí vysvobodil z věže královského hradu princeznu Jasněnku, kam ji zavřel její otec v marné snaze zabránit věštbě zlé čarodějnice, a posléze ji vymanil i z moci samotné čarodějnice a její dcery Černavy. ( official text from distributor)
Zlaté kapradí
Story
Pohádka o mokrosuchém štěstí
Story
Igraszki z diabłem
Writer
The fearless soldier, Marcin Kabat, returns to his hometown from a long war.
Dalskabáty, hříšná ves aneb Zapomenutý čert
Theatre Play
Hádavá pohádka
Book
Jan Pivec vzpomíná
Self
Zapomenutý čert
Screenplay
Zapomenutý čert
Theatre Play
The Dynamite Watcher
Short Story
The Golden Fern
Original Story
Wandering through the forest, a woodcutter finds a golden fern whose seed turns into a beautiful woman - they fall in love. After getting drunk in a village feast, he gets to sign up to the army. The fairy gives him a shirt to wear and asks him to swear he will never abandon it. At the war front, he falls in love with the the colonel's daughter and will have to perform various feats to get her attention.
Higher Principle
Short Story
During the Nazi occupation of a Czech city civilians are being rounded up on the slightest of pretexts and shot. One day three high school boys who crack jokes about a recently deceased "hero of the Reich" are pulled out of school by the Gestapo.
Higher Principle
Screenplay
During the Nazi occupation of a Czech city civilians are being rounded up on the slightest of pretexts and shot. One day three high school boys who crack jokes about a recently deceased "hero of the Reich" are pulled out of school by the Gestapo.
Darbujan and Pandrhola
Screenplay
Darbujan and Pandrhola
Short Story
Dařbuján a Pandrhola
Book
Playing with the Devil
Screenplay
Playing with the Devil
Theatre Play
Silent Barricade
Screenplay
A fiction piece centered around the Czech resistance to the Nazis.
Silent Barricade
Book
A fiction piece centered around the Czech resistance to the Nazis.
Zámky se otvírají
Self (uncredited)
Znamení kotvy
Screenplay
Znamení kotvy
Story
The Avalanche
Dramaturgy
An ambitious and selfish lawyer confesses to the murder of his first wife. Some of the scenes were filmed in the last weeks of the war.
Průlom
Dramaturgy
Magical River
Dramaturgy
Leopold Kohák married a rich widow a long time ago and now has nothing to do compared to his energetic wife. He's growing old and troubled by the fact that he betrayed his first love Emča and his beloved river Sázava where he spent his childhood and youth. A visit from an old friend Lebeda brings it all back to him. After a nervous breakdown Leopold secretly visits his home instead of going to the spa. A wandering tramp suggest Leopold should bathe in the magical waters of the Sázava, and slowly his youth returns to him.
Rozina the Love Child
Dramaturgy
Prague, the beginning of the 17th century. Rozina falls in love with Italian glass worker Nikolo, but after returning home, she gets a message that will never come to Prague. She falls for the promise of an older man to marry her, but when Nikolo does return, the tragic fate of Rozina is sealed.
Prstýnek
Dramaturgy
Girl from the Beskids
Screenplay
Městečko na dlani
Novel
Druhá směna
Story
Stříbrná oblaka
Novel
Chovej se slušně
Screenplay
Chovej se slušně
Director
Zapomniany Diabeł
Author
Zapomniany diabeł (czes. Dalskabáty, hříšná ves aneb Zapomenutý čert) – sztuka teatralna czeskiego prozaika i dramaturga Jana Drdy z 1960 roku.