Josef Svátek

Birth : 1906-02-08,

Death : 1976-10-08

Movies

Kdo hledá, najde
Flirt se slečnou Stříbrnou
Minister
Jak se zbavit Helenky
Prague at Zero Hour
Czech friends help refugees from Nazi Germany escape in 1939.
Černá dynastie
Kohout plaší smrt
The Lupinek Case
In a wooden hut used as a canvassing center, members of a children's puppet-theatre group are rehearsing for a production about a journey to the Moon. The goings-on inside the hut and outside are being closely followed by amateur detective Pepik Barnabás. He, however, is the first to be under suspicion when a trunk containing puppets goes missing. The children follow him but, when they catch up with him, they discover he hasn't got it. Pepík offers to help them in their search.
Všude žijí lidé
Officer
Tři tuny prachu
A 105 p.c. Alibi
father Antos
On an early Sunday evening, people of the small town are reading lottery results that are hung on a board. Young man Karel Antos is annoyed that his lottery-ticket missed the main prize, a car, by only one number. Karel is going to the pub to drink away his bad luck with his friend Jirka Broz. The old accountant auditor Zelinka drops a wallet. Karel picks it up and before he gives it back he notices the winning lottery-ticket in it. Both young men accompany the old drunk man. Karel steals the ticket and exchanges it with his own. Next day, Zelinka is found dead. Investigators, Captain Tuma and the Lieutenant Líbal, soon discover that this is a murder case covered up as an accident.
Bomba
Nemoc z nemytých rukou
Jedno procento
Electricity Management
The Prague Executioner
Novel
Rudolf Měšťák’s silent film The Prague Executioner, based on the novel of the same name by Josef Svátek, is a historical tale of love, betrayal and revenge. The screening of the restored 35 mm copy, coloured in accordance with the original tinting and toning process, will be accompanied by music from an ensemble headed by musicologist and composer Vlastislav Matoušek.