Jan Kapr

Birth : 1914-03-12,

Death : 1988-04-29

Movies

Kapr Code
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This film traces the life of Jan Kapr, a prominent Czech composer of the 20th century. A documentary opera with an ambitious libretto and playful and refined editing work, Kapr Code is an unexpected celebration of creativity that shakes up our ideas of biography and pays tribute to the importance of resisting homologation and censorship through art and creation.
Objev na Střapaté hůrce
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Nevěra
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Based on book by Svatopluk Turek.
Shoesmachine
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The happenings in a shoe factory serve as a not very thinly veiled examination of the pros and cons of both socialism and democracy.
Comedians
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Komedianti is a 1954 Czech film directed by Vladimír Vlcek. It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.
Přiznání Václava Urbánka
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Konec strašidel
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The battle of peace
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Rok stalinské epochy
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The Hen and the Sexton
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Cooperative members are harvesting crops, trying to get new water piping installed and preparing to plough away the field boundaries in autumn. Local kulak Voznica (Vladimír Repa) doesn't like any of this so he forces sexton Kodýtek (Vlasta Burian) to help him sabotage their efforts.
Nové Československo
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The First Years
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Případ Z-8
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The Green Notebook
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Polsko
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Vesnice na rozcestí
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Basa tvrdí muziku
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O milionáři, který ukradl slunce
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The millionaire who stole the sun, adaptation of a social tale by Jiri Wolker. A millionaire who owns a whole town, its factories and workers, falls ill. The surgeons tell him that sunshine is the only cure for him. The millionaire orders the sun to be taken down from the sky and put in a metal enclosure to shine only for himself...
Liška a džbán
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Žíznivé mládí
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