František Straka

Movies

Zbojník Ondráš
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Three Wishes for Cinderella
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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.
Death Chooses
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Silnice
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A young man steals a doctor’s car and has to pretend to be a doctor himself.
Svět otevřený náhodám
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Pan Tomšík
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Carlsbad Ponies
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Angelika, a ten years old daughter of a spa visitor Bachmann is terribly bored in Karlovy Vary spa. Her father enjoys different spa procedures, trying to lose some weight, but the little girl feels to be only waiting for something to enjoy. Moreover, she cannot speak any Czech unlike her father. Kája, a son of the hotel receptionist Vlasta, attempts to amuse her despite he cannot speak German. Both children make friends although there is the language barrier.
Adrift
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A fisherman saves Anada, a woman adrift, from drowning. He takes her to his home, and protects her. Eventually, she occupies a larger place than was to be expected. He commits adultery with her, but his own wife seems to be in love with the strange young woman.
Kinoautomat
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Kinoautomat was the world's first interactive movie, conceived by Radúz Činčera for the Czechoslovak Pavilion at Expo '67 in Montreal. At nine points during the film the action stops, and a moderator appears on stage to ask the audience to choose between two scenes; following an audience vote, the chosen scene is played.
Silvestrovské kousky Františka Housky
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Moderní byt
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Jak se dělá televizní soutěž
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Proměny nože
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The Cremator
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Mr. Kopfrkingl enjoys his job at a crematorium in Czechoslovakia in the late 1930s. He likes reading the Tibetan book of the dead and espouses the view that cremation relieves earthly suffering and sets out to save the world. There may be another idealogy that fits snugly with his existing worldview.
Záhořanský hon
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Raport
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The Limping Devil
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A baleful limping man walks through Prague. He is Asmodeus (Juraj Herz), the fiend of lustfulness, entertaining himself by putting together by magic couples of lovers. He only fails at the swimming pool. Zuzana (Jana Sulcová), the good-looking blonde, ignores the men whom the devil foists off onto her. She loves Honza (Václav Neckár) and the boy shares her feelings. The fiend is annoyed by the couple and tries to provoke a row. He sends heavy rain to force them into a hotel and then warns Zuzana's father by phone, but the young lovers manage to get out in time. Then the obstinate Asmodeus takes Honza in his sleep to the Institute for Emotional Disorders, where he shows him the ugly sides of love - hysteria, voyeurism, fetishism, suicide attempts...
Zázračný hlavolam
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Čtyři v kruhu
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Sign of the Cancer
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A murder in a hospital run by incompetents.
The Stolen Airship
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The Stolen Airship (Czech: Ukradená vzducholod) is a 1967 live-action/animated film by Czech filmmaker Karel Zeman. The story is based loosely on Jules Verne's novels Two Years' Vacation and The Mysterious Island. The film in Art Nouveau style consists of live-action scenes, generally shot in black and white, as well as hand-drawn, stop motion, and cutout animation. Various live-action and animated elements are often composited into the same scene.
When You Have a Holiday Dominique
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Eight-year old Dominique has a name-day. Her parents have a gift for her, but only give it to her in the evening, when everybody has come home from work. Then she darts out, where her girlfriends are already waiting for her.
Daisies
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Two teenage girls embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world around them.
Ninety Degrees in the Shade
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A woman attempts to cover up the thefts committed by the manager at the shop she works at.
The Shop on Main Street
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In a small town in Nazi-occupied Slovakia during World War II, decent but timid carpenter Tono is named "Aryan comptroller" of a button store owned by an old Jewish widow, Rozalie. Since the post comes with a salary and standing in the town's corrupt hierarchy, Tono wrestles with greed and guilt as he and Rozalie gradually befriend each other. When the authorities order all Jews in town to be rounded up, Tono faces a moral dilemma unlike any he's known before.
Einstein kontra Babinský
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Mykoin PH 510
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Defendant
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Managers at the construction of a big hydro plant are accused of having embezzled money.
Tři zlaté vlasy děda Vševěda
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Fortress on the Rhine
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During the Second World War, an old fortress is transformed into a detention camp for arrested allied generals who the Germans provide with every possible comfort. In the nearby garrison camp, however, hundreds of captured private soldiers try to survive hunger and cold.
Malý Bobeš ve městě
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Little Bobesh
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A story of a young boy called Bobesh and his funny adventures.
Žalobníci
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Chlap jako hora
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Letiště nepřijímá
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Páté kolo u vozu
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Johnny's Journey
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Five years old Johnny is going for his first journey with no parents.
Kudy kam?
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Po noci den
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Návštěva z oblak
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Krejčovská povídka
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Expres z Norimberka
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The Magical Hat
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Slovo dělá ženu
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Malý partyzán
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The Trap
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The Trap (Czech: Past) is a 1950 Czech drama film directed by Martin Frič. It was entered into the 1951 Cannes Film Festival.
Pětistovka
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