Jiří Sovák

Jiří Sovák

Birth : 1920-12-27, Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]

Death : 2000-09-06

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Jiří Sovák

Movies

Return to Paradise Lost
Strejcek
Listonošky
Kolya
Růžička
After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly take responsibility for her son. However, it’s not long before the communication barrier is broken between the two new family members.
Miroslav Donutil v Lucerně
Divoké pivo
The Frog Prince
Hippolytus
When a young princess, instead of being fully dedicated to her love, persists in running around like a tomboy and roaming the forests with her gang, and a young prince refuses to give up all his vices and mischief, an aquaphobic fairy takes their fate into her hands. The princess then falls in love with the prince, who declares eternal fidelity to her. When he however breaks this promise, the fairy turns him into a frog. With which the loyalty of the princess is being tested as well.
Talisman
V tomhle zámku straší, šéfe!
Kastelán
Karel Gott v Lucerně
Trezor
Drábek
Čert a dráha
Vltavská víla
Young Wine
Stalo se jedné neděle
Ďábel ví hodně
Milan Horský
Mature Wine
Čestmír Semerád
Den velkého ticha
Kdo chce kam...
Chudák muzika
Co je doma to se počítá, pánové...
Novák
Czech comedy from the 70ties.
Lakovka
Nebožtíci na bále
tajný rada Dr. Brabé
Silvestr 1978
O vysoké věži
How to Wake a Princess
King Dalimil I.
The king Dalimil and the queen Eliska waited to see a longed-for offspring - a daughter Ruzenka. But Eliska's envious and bad sister Melánie curses her. When Ruzenka becomes 17 years old she will prick her finger and she will fall asleep for ages together with the entire kingdom.
O líném Honzovi
Jablko a jeho strom
A Nice Plate of Spinach
údržbář František Liška
The heroes of this absurd comedy, full of confusion and humor are Dzharda Zemanek and Frantisek Liska.
Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea
Klaus Abbard
Former Nazi Klaus Abard survives to the 1990s by taking anti-ageing pills. He plans to use a time travel trip to return to Germany in 1944 and present Hitler with a hydrogen bomb, so that he can win the war. Unfortunately the pilot, woman-chasing Karel Bures, dies on the morning of the trip and his earnest twin brother Jan impersonates him, without knowing about the plot. The plot goes wrong when they lose the bomb and land near Hitler's bunker in 1941, at a time that the Nazis sense victory. Bures, with two of the plotters, escape capture by the Nazis and make it back to the time machine. Bures programs the machine to return one day before they left, because he figures he can then save his brother and foil the plot.
Marecek, Pass Me the Pen!
Kroupa sr.
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.
Plavení hříbat
Circus in the Circus
Professor Růžička
To Moscow have arrived the participants of the international conference of the zoophilologists and also the international jury which is to elect for the world festival the best performance of the program of Moscow circus. Mrs Whistler (Iva Janzurová), British associate professor, makes her understood with the animals in their language but the Czech professor Ruzicka (Jirí Sovák), though he is capable of using the animals language, prefers teaching the animals the human language. Ruzicka's friend, the poodle Archibald, speaks "in Human" very well. The scientific dispute ends with a bet - if Ruzicka teaches the circus elephant to sing, Mrs Whistler will eat up her hat.
A Star Is Falling Upwards
Kalenda
Tři muži se žralokem
Únos
Egyptologové
Comedy, 1974 (Czech Republic) : The movie takes place in England. A group of married middle-aged gentlemen have founded a pretense amateur Egyptology society to maintain some degree of freedom from their wives. The elaborate trick gradually escalates into more and more tangled web of lies and tricks, until they have no option but to disband the society for good.
The Man from London
kasar Josef Reiner
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.
Tři nevinní
Halama / Poupě / Pic / Vlk
Tie malé výlety
Landa
Holka na vdávání
Věra-nevěra
František Málek
Věra-nevěra
Screenplay
Six Bears and a Clown
ředitel školy
The owner of a circus decides to swap his trained bears for trained pigs, and fires clown Cibulka. The clown gets a job at a local school, bears escape and seek him out and a school inspector comes into town.
Zlatá svatba
předseda MNV
Člověk není sám
major Sýkora
Hříšníci
Hry lásky šálivé
The Hour of Blue Elephants
Magician Bertoldi (voice)
Two days before Christmas. Zuzanka and Tomás, friends from a kindergarten wander off during a walk. They admire toys and decoration in shop-windows. Zuzanka shall receive a sledge as a Christmas present and Tomás even a desired little brother. At a shooting gallery Tomás aims at a target on the trunk of a blue elephant which can call in Christmas. The impatient Zuzanka pushes to her friend and he shoots directly to the elephant's red eye. Things which the owner of the shooting gallery warned about happened: the sun popped on the sky, the snow melted and all Christmas shopping has stopped. Both pushful children decide to get a new eye for the elephant so that everything can be set right.
Prodej
You Are a Widow, Sir
král Rosebud IV.
After a soldier cuts off the arm of king's cousin, king decides to deactivate the army. Of course, generals don't like it at all and they try to kill the king. The assassin should be artificial body in the shape of actress Evelina Keleti and with brain of psychotic serial killer Fany Stubová. They also manage to kill king's astrologer Stuart Hampl, who warns the king. Accidentally, Hampl's brain is implanted into assassin's body, actress Keleti is killed and chaos begins.
A Killer on the Tracks
major Kalaš
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.
I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen
Professor David Moore
This futuristic science fiction comedy features an atomic bomb blast that causes women to grow beards and lose the ability to have children. A summit meeting is held at the United Nations, with the proposed solution of building a time machine. The decision is made to travel back in time and murder Einstein, with the hopeful result being that without the noted mathematician's research there will be no atomic bombs.
Men About Town
Tonda Skopec
Three blue collar workers have a night out in big city Prague.
Bohous
Alois Randa
The Best Woman in My Life
Láďa
Ordinary man making his dirty actions in the small town and his coming to the right side.
Objížďka
Přísně tajné premiéry
spisovatel Vladimír Hudec
Talisman
Hořké pivo, sladký likér
The End of Agent W4C
Foustka
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.
Poklad byzantského kupce
Sign of the Cancer
MUDr. Karel Petera (voice)
A murder in a hospital run by incompetents.
The Pipes
Kurt (voice)
This three-part Austrian/Czech comedy stretches the boundaries of what is considered to be humorous. Part one finds a silent film actor upset because of a rival actor's attention to the former's wife. When he kills his rival, it is only when he is strapped to the electric chair that he realizes that this is his last live scene. The second episode has the wife of an elderly British nobleman having an affair with the young gamekeeper of their estate. Part three finds a peasant woman taking a lover when her husband goes off to fight the war.
Who Wants to Kill Jessie?
Doc. Jindrich Beránek
In this zany Czechoslovakian comedy, a scientist invents a machine that projects a sleeping person's dream on a screen; disaster soon follows when the machine malfunctions and the cartoon-like dream characters become very real!
Hrdina má strach
úředník Zdeněk, Honzův přítel
Honza Vavrinec (Rudolf Hrusínský) works in the investment department of a large office. One day he gets involved in the case of an unjustly convicted worker who mistakenly considers him a parliamentary deputy. Honza as a "deputy" interferes in the case and helps the worker. Encouraged by the success and possibly also out of love for the beautiful secretary Svatava (Blanka Bohdanová), the then shy and fearful Honza stands up for the chief of the department, Hofmánek (Ladislav Pesek), who has been removed from his position.
Odsouzený z Pinktownu
Ninety Degrees in the Shade
A woman attempts to cover up the thefts committed by the manager at the shop she works at.
Terrible Woman
Koválek
Film by Jindrich Polák.
Muž, žena, Žoržík a klíč
Čintamani & podvodník
sňatkový podvodník Vincenc Plichta
A Star Named Wormwood
Červenka
At the end of May 1918, released prisoners return to the Rumburk garrison from Russian captivity, hoping that the war is over for them. The only thing they want is to get their withheld ...
Magnetické vlny léčí
Joe Banks, starosta a soudce
Tři chlapi po roce
Archimedov zákon
Among Us Thieves
František Fafejta
Uspořená libra
kamarád majitele libry
Tears the World Can't See
Pružina Pružinskij
When the Cat Comes
School director
Some people with a strange cat arrive in a small village. The cat wears glasses, and when someone takes them off, she can color people, according to their nature and mood. The grown-ups of the village consider the cat to be dangerous, but the kids just love her…
The King of Kings
Lojza Králů
During his work assignment in Tamani Kingdom, Czech worker Lojza saves a local man from dying in the desert. Two years later, it turns out the saved man was also the Taman king; and he has decided to name Lojza, a communist, his royal heir.
Chicken on Travels
Kaláb
Ceiling
(voice)
The young Marta has made a break in her medical education to fully invest in her career as a model. We follow her for a day in her life, almost completely without hearing her voice. It is seldom that Marta gets the space to speak, instead she is mostly subject to the voice of others.
Hledá se táta!
Florián
Florián Jírovec
OK 12 startuje
Spadla s měsíce
The Song of the Grey Pigeon
Fero Šlosiarik
An unusual children's film set during World War II in Czechoslovakia, this compelling drama unfolds five different segments that present the war through the eyes of three youngsters. The three have a series of adventures which include saving a soldier from being captured by the Germans, helping out the resistance fighters, and meeting up with a young Russian woman trained in guerrilla warfare. As they learn more about life and danger, various circumstances constantly recall the reality of war itself. The title comes from a wounded pigeon under the care of one of the youngsters.
Valčík pro milión
Chlap jako hora
Duda
I Survived Certain Death
Josef
Telling the prisoners of a death camp. Boxer Tony Majer, who got into a concentration camp for a fight with the Gestapo, remembers the murderous work in quarries, on the cruel torture of the Nazis and prison solidarity that helped him survive.
Darbujan and Pandrhola
Kuba Dařbuján, havíř a léčitel
When the Woman Butts In
Chairman of JZD Hatl
Kam Cert Nemuze by director Zdenek Podskalsky is a routine farce that slowly builds up steam to some rib-tickling slapstick episodes. (Miroslav Hornicek) is a deluded young man who is convinced he is Faust incarnate. This turn of mind leads to some ludicrous situations, such as when he believes a woman is really a cat. Before he can be rounded up and interned wherever they keep people with this type of a problem, love enters his life and the clouds that obscured his vision begin to dissipate.
Probuzení
Zpívající pudřenka
Driver
Komu patří pohár?
Sny na neděli
Death in the Saddle
Mikota
On the state stud-farm, Tomás (Rudolf Jelínek) is preparing to become a jockey together with other boys. He loves to read cowboy stories and Western pulp magazines and his passion makes him...
Občan Brych
clerk Hlaváč
Today for the Last Time
holič A. Zemánek
Concert master Karel Mašek is a drunk, as well as engineer Danda and other regular guests of the pub U Kroců. Mašek returns from the pub in the morning and promises the woman that he will stop drinking. But he failed again, and the orchestra players refuse to play with him. Danda returns home without a bag and goes to Krocs again in the morning, even though he has an important job at work. He has been degraded to subordinate job position, but he refused to admit it at home.
Tenkrát o vánocích
Mezi nebem a zemí
Jahrgang 21
Film by Václav Gajer.
Florenc 13,30
Tachecí
To byla noc
September Nights
Zaostřit prosím!
Pošahal's friend Zoun
Neporažení
Jarda
Kudy kam?
Vojta
Jaroslav Hasek's Exemplary Cinematograph
Muž v povětří
Jenda Pospíchal
Bill, Please
The director of the company Restaurants and Canteens arrives to attend a screening of a film made in various restaurants. A group of villagers come in to one of the restaurants for their lunch. The two waiters carry on chatting and ignore their customers. The head waiter finally brings them a crumpled menu, but whatever they order, he crosses off the menu and urges them to order something they do not want. In another restaurant a customer complains he has found a button in his sauce. The waiter promises to get him another portion but, once out of sight, he simply takes the button out of the food and brings back the same plate on which he has carelessly rearranged the food. Other customers are trying to pay but the staff point to the waiter with the wallet; he, however, is absorbed in watching a chess game and is neglecting his duties.
Tank Brigade
Návštěva z oblak
Fools among us
vedoucí obchodu s oděvy
The Best Man
citizen at a meeting
The Circus Will Be
A few bus-loads of holidaymakers from the agricultural cooperative on a day trip arrive to see the show at the Slavia Circus. But, they have bad luck. It is Monday, the day on which the employees have their extra day off.
Krejčovská povídka
Výstraha
Severní přístav
Beránek
Olověný chléb
První oběd
Ó ti lektoři
Posvícení
Martin
Plavecký mariáš
Action B
Pvt. Jula
Film shows the struggle of the Czechoslovak armed forces against groups of Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) under command Burlak, who tried to pass through the territory of Slovakia.
Přiznání
Vstanou noví bojovníci
Sláma
We Want to Live
Jindřich
Poetic story of a proletarian couple's relationship in the years of economic crisis and unemployment.
Nobody Knows Anything