Otto Heller

Otto Heller

Birth : 1896-03-08, Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary

Death : 1970-02-19

History

Otto Heller, B.S.C. (born Ota Heller, 8 March 1896, Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary – 19 February 1970, London, England, UK) was a Czech cinematographer long resident in the United Kingdom. He worked on almost 200 films, including The Queen of Spades (1949), the Ealing comedy The Ladykillers (1955) and the thriller Peeping Tom (1960). From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Date of birth may be September 3, 1896.

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Otto Heller

Movies

Bloomfield
Director of Photography
An aging soccer player has a part-time girlfriend, a young fan, and doubts about throwing a game.
In Search of Gregory
Director of Photography
Young Catherine Morelli, who lives in Rome, goes to Geneva to find romance at her father's wedding. There she begins a near nymphomaniac pursuit of a mystery man called Gregory.
Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?
Director of Photography
Heironymus Merkin screens an autobiographical movie of his life, growth and moral decay.
Duffy
Director of Photography
Half-brothers Stefane and Antony despise their biological father, callous millionaire Charles Calvert. Because Charles refuses to share his wealth with his sons, Stefane and Antony ask hip American thrill-seeker Duffy to help steal the money they believe is their birthright. When Charles decides to move a large portion of his savings from Morocco to France, Duffy has an opportunity to stage a daring burglary attempt at sea.
Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
Director of Photography
George Lester is a man who is chasing rainbows, looking for the pot of gold at the end. When his wife, Pamela grows tired of being dragged all over the world, she leaves him. While she is away, George converts her family home into a discotheque, when she returns, she threatens to send George to jail for fraud, cause she didn't give her approval. George needing some fast bucks, decides to turn to an old cohort of his, William Homer but Willy's a little short. George then decides to steal the plans to a new drill, Pamela's suitor, Dudley Heath is working on. But when George gets the mumps, he can't make it to the meeting place and refuses to give Willy the plans unless he gives him the cash first. And the buyers won't give unless they see the merchandise first.
The Naked Runner
Director of Photography
Sam Laker is an American industrialist, working in Britain, who has just been awarded an international award for industrial design. He is planning to travel to East Germany to attend a trade show and show off his invention, taking his 10 year old son with him for a holiday. Meanwhile a British Intelligence officer who served with Laker in the Second World War decides to use the opportunity of Laker's trip and his lack of an intelligence profile to coerce him into carrying out an assassination.
Funeral in Berlin
Director of Photography
Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to handle his defection and asks for one of their agents, Harry Palmer, to smuggle him out of East Germany.
Alfie
Director of Photography
A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes and goals in life.
Masquerade
Director of Photography
The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince.
The Ipcress File
Director of Photography
Sly and dry intelligence agent Harry Palmer is tasked with investigating British Intelligence security, and is soon enmeshed in a world of double-dealing, kidnap and murder when he finds a traitor operating at the heart of the secret service.
The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
Director of Photography
Those who have interfered with the Tomb of Ra-Antef are in terrible danger. Against expert advice, American showman and financial backer of the expedition, Alexander King, plans a world tour exhibiting this magnificent discovery from the ancient world but on the opening night the sarcophagus is void of its contents. The mummy has escaped to fulfill the dreadful prophesy and exact a violent and bloody revenge on all those who defiled his final resting place.
Woman of Straw
Director of Photography
Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle Charles Richmond by persuading Maria, a nurse he employs, to marry him.
West 11
Cinematography
Joe Beckett, seasoned citizen of the bedsitter belt, aged about 22, is the renegade son of modest, respectable parents and, to use his own description, 'an emotional leper'. He decides that he needs a violent shock to shake him back into life, and as a result accepts a commission to carry out the murder of a total stranger for a man he meets in a coffee bar...
Life for Ruth
Director of Photography
John Harris finds himself ostracized and placed on trial for allowing his daughter Ruth to die. His religious beliefs forbade him to give consent for a blood transfusion that would have saved her life. Doctor Brown is determined to seek justice for what he sees as the needless death of a young girl.
Light in the Piazza
Cinematography
A young American woman traveling in Italy with her mother is slender, blonde, beautiful and there is something charmingly naive about her. Fabrizio Naccarelli seems to always know where the mother and daughter will sightsee next. Signor Naccarelli is just as concerned about where this will lead as Mrs. Johnson is. Then she starts thinking that perhaps her daughter can be a wife of a wealthy young man in a society where all she has to do is look beautiful. What happens if Signor Naccarelli finds out who his prospective daughter-in-law really is?
Victim
Director of Photography
Barrister Melville Farr is on the path to success. With his practice winning cases and a loving marriage to his wife, Farr's career and personal life are nearly idyllic. However, when blackmailers link the secretly closeted Farr to a young gay man, everything Farr has worked for is threatened. But instead of giving in, Farr decides to fight.
The Singer Not the Song
Director of Photography
A Roman Catholic priest defies a Mexican bandit whose gang kills villagers in alphabetical order.
Sacred Waters
Cinematography
Water is a scarce and sometimes dangerous resource in the Swiss Mountain Village. Anytime the wooden pipe is damaged and the supply breaks, one man from the village is determined by "unlucky" draw to take on the life-threatening repairs.
Too Hot to Handle
Director of Photography
A French reporter working on a steamy story about the secret strip joints found in London's Soho district becomes involved in the lives of the owner and star of a famous club.
Hello London
Cinematography
Hello London is a 1958 documentary film starring Sonja Henie and Michael Wilding.
Peeping Tom
Director of Photography
Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.
Ferry to Hong Kong
Cinematography
Mark Conrad, a habitual drunk and troublemaker with a shady past, is expelled by Hong Kong police after one too many bar fights. He's sent to Macao on the Fa Tsan, a ferry owned by Captain Hart. Conrad's papers are out of order and Macao refuses him entry. Unable to go ashore, Conrad is a permanent passenger on the ferry with Hart, who detests him. It's all one long, lazy voyage for Conrad until one fateful trip when an encounter with a typhoon and pirates forces Conrad to choose between an aimless drifter's life and becoming a man again.
The Rough and the Smooth
Director of Photography
Young blonde woman seems to destroy everyone she comes in contact with.
The Vicious Circle
Director of Photography
When Dr Howard Latimer finds the German Actress that he has just met at London Airport murdered in his flat, it leads him into the world of murder, blackmail and a fake passport scam.
Manuela
Director of Photography
James Prothero, forty-three years old and up to his ears in alcohol, is the skipper of a tramp ship due to leave South America for Britain – and he’s sick to death of carting goods back and forth across the world. Then he meets Manuela, a beautiful native girl smuggled on board by one of his crew, and comes to realise that she, too, is a lost soul. Gradually a love affair develops between them, and Prothero becomes dangerously blind to the responsibilities of his position.
The Passionate Stranger
Director of Photography
Judith Wynter is a happily married novelist whose romantic works are eagerly devoured by scores of female readers. When Carlo, a handsome young Italian chauffeur, arrives to work for Judith and her husband, a professor currently recovering from an attack of paralysis, he causes quite a flutter; when he then reads the manuscript of Judith's latest novel, he jumps to a rather unfortunate conclusion... and life in the Wynter household becomes very complicated indeed!
Child in the House
Director of Photography
A lonely child must stay with her uncaring aunt and uncle after her mother is hospitalized. Her estranged father is a fugitive. For love and companionship, the eleven-year old girl becomes friends with the housemaid. When at long last, she meets her dad, she must vow to never reveal his location to the police.
Who Done It?
Director of Photography
This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private detective and investigates a plot to assassinate British scientists.
Richard III
Cinematography
Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of York, plots to seize power for himself. Masterfully deceiving and plotting against nearly everyone in the royal court, including his eventual wife, Lady Anne, and his brother George, Duke of Clarence, Richard orchestrates a bloody rise to power before finding all his gains jeopardized by those he betrayed.
The Ladykillers
Director of Photography
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
The Divided Heart
Director of Photography
During World War II, a German woman, Inga, goes missing and is presumed dead. Her infant son is placed in an orphanage where, years later, he's adopted by a childless couple. The adoptive parents' happiness is shattered when Inga reappears and insists on custody of her son.
The Rainbow Jacket
Director of Photography
A champion jockey is banned from racing so spends his time helping a young lad to become the next champion.
His Majesty O'Keefe
Director of Photography
Men steal for it. Nations go to war for it. The it is oil - and it grows on trees. Coconut oil is the precious lifeblood of 1870s South Seas traders. And lots of real blood will be spilled to get it! Screen royalty Burt Lancaster ist His Majesty O'Keefe in this last of three adventures that (along with The Flame and the Arrow and The Crimson Pirate) blew a revitalizing wind into the sails of the swashbucker genre. Action, cunning and derring-do are watchwords of the title seafarer as he befriends, defends and ultimately rules the islanders of exotic Yap. Lensed on gorgeus Fiji locations, grandly scored by Robert Farnon and rousingly directed by Byron Haskin, His Majesty O'Keefe delivers heroics of regal proportions.
The Square Ring
Director of Photography
Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
Director of Photography
A meek teller thinks he's killed his boss. He flees with a box of cash hoping for a new life with his younger mistress.
The Crimson Pirate
Director of Photography
Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball Scientist, sailing ships, naval fights, and tons of swordplay.
Flesh and Blood
Cinematography
Based upon the play A Sleeping Clergyman by James Bridie, it tells the story of three generations of the Scottish Cameron family, with its various conflicts and romances.
Golden Arrow
Director of Photography
On a journey from Paris to London, a Briton, a Frenchman and an American bond with each other and indulge in a romantic fantasy about a girl they see.
Now Barabbas
Director of Photography
A humane prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer.
The Last Days of Dolwyn
Director of Photography
An old woman fights a group of industrialists who are planning to build a dam and flood the valley where she grew up.
The Queen of Spades
Director of Photography
An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fanatic about cards, murders her for the secret, then finds himself haunted by the woman's spirit.
Noose
Director of Photography
Set in post Second World War Britain, Noose is the story of black market racketeers who face attempts to bring them to justice by an American fashion journalist, her ex-army fiancée and a gang of honest toughs from a local gym. When a corpse turns up at black market front The Blue Moon Club, Yank reporter Carole Landis starts snooping, much to gang boss Joseph Calleia’s annoyance. And soon there’s a hit man on the way...
Bond Street
Director of Photography
Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the impending wedding of society girl Hazel Court and Robert Flemyng.
They Made Me a Fugitive
Director of Photography
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
Temptation Harbour
Director of Photography
The story of a harbor signalman who retrieves a suitcase full of money after witnessing a murder, fails to report it to the police, and finds himself the object of murderous and mercenary interest.
Night Boat to Dublin
Cinematography
British intelligence officers (Robert Newton, Guy Middleton) head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist.
I Live in Grosvenor Square
Director of Photography
The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London. Neagle loves Harrison. There arrives patriot GI Dean Jagger to rouse things up in the square. Snotty British Neagle and Jagger clash and fall for each other. What will Harrison have to say or do about these? What will the consequences be? Will the three finally become two and which two in this extremely patriotic love and war story.
One Exciting Night
Director of Photography
A young singer meets a man who is the victim of a kidnap plot, and is assumed by the gang to be his girlfriend.
Mr. Emmanuel
Director of Photography
An elderly Jewish man from Manchester, travels to Nazi Germany to seek the mother of a young German refugee that has attempted suicide. In Germany, Mr. Emmanuel’s efforts to seek out Hertha Rosenhein are greeted by a wall of silence from the scared Jewish community and anti-Semitic hatred from many Germans.
The Hundred Pound Window
Director of Photography
An accountant who has to take a second job working at a racetrack, soon becomes mixed up with a shady crowd.
Candlelight in Algeria
Director of Photography
Candlelight in Algeria is a 1944 British war film directed by George King and starring James Mason, Carla Lehmann and Raymond Lovell. This drama follows the exploits of Eisenhower's top aide, Mark Clark, and other important Allies as they journey to an important meeting held on Algeria's coast. The precise location of this vital secret gathering is upon a piece of film which must not fall into enemy hands
The Night Invader
Director of Photography
Dick Marlow, a British agent, has parachuted into the occupied Netherlands to retrieve vital documents. Whilst on the trail of the papers, he poses occasionally as an American journalist and a Gestapo officer. He meets and falls in love with a Dutch woman who professes solidarity with the British, but matters become complicated and dangerous when it transpires that the woman's brother is in possession of the documents Dick Marlow needs, and is far less kindly disposed towards the British than his sister – or is she?
The Dark Tower
Director of Photography
While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.
Tomorrow We Live
Director of Photography
British World War II film set in occupied France, portraying the activities of members of the French Resistance and the Nazi tactic of taking and shooting innocent hostages in reprisal for acts of sabotage. The opening credits acknowledge "the official co-operation of General de Gaulle and the French National Committee". It was released as "At Dawn We Die" in the US.
From Mayerling to Sarajevo
Director of Photography
An Austrian prince's doomed love affair with a Czech countess sparks turmoil across Europe.
Two Women
Director of Photography
Considering his wife as his property, a smuggler bullies the unfortunate woman and does not allow her to turn to another man.
Threats
Director of Photography
"Menaces" deals with the months before WW2 in a hotel :t he fear of the impending war never leaves the guests of an hotel in Paris.
The Ghost Train
Director of Photography
A group of travelers find themselves stranded for the night at a deserted train station, which according to the old stationmaster, has been haunted for the last 20 years.
Slávko nedej se!
Director of Photography
Duchacek Will Fix It
Self – Director of Photography
Duchacek Will Fix It
Director of Photography
The Illusion Factory
Self
In this reportage, film professionals offer the viewers a peek behind the scenes at the Barrandov studios. We see how sets are constructed and we find out what sorts of things are stored in the prop department. The friendly commentary describes the journey from camera negatives to a film on the big screen. We learn about film technology and take a glance into film laboratories and editing rooms. The film also presents unique footage from the filming of The White Disease, namely the dramatic scene with five hundred extras in which the Marshal announces his declaration of war.
A Step into the Darkness
Director of Photography
A dashing but mysterious man saves a gambler from suicide, crashes the posh party of a prominent industrialist, falls in love with his daughter, and finds himself in a web of intrigue revolving around her blackmailing fiance and a gang of counterfeiters.
Třetí zvonění
Director of Photography
The White Disease
Director of Photography
The White Plague, a leprosy-like disease, ravages the world during a war. Based on a play by Karel Čapek.
History of Philosophy
Director of Photography
A student rebellion precedes revolutionary events in Prague.
Karel Hynek Mácha
Director of Photography
Film about famous poet Karel Hynek Mácha
Děvčata, nedejte se!
Director of Photography
The High Command
Director of Photography
A general must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier.
Důvod k rozvodu
Director of Photography
The World Belongs to Us
Director of Photography
One of the few European films of the 30s to criticize the Nazis, even if they couldn't be directly named due to censorship: Gangsters with gray hats stir up trouble in what is obviously the Sudetenland.
Vzdušné torpédo 48
Director of Photography
Port-Arthur
Cinematography
French-language remake of Port Arthur (1936): espionage, action and romance in the Russo-Japanese War, as the conflict threatens Russian naval officer Boris Ranewsky and his Japanese wife Youki.
Dreams Come True
Director of Photography
A popular opera singer falls in love with a gangly farm boy. Anton's father is left all alone when his son runs off to the Big City with Ilona. Things really get sticky when Albert becomes obsessed with the notion that Ilona is actually his own illegitimate daughter!
Port Arthur
Director of Photography
Espionage, war and romance in the Far East in 1904: Russian naval officer Boris Ranewsky marries Youki, the sister of a fanatical Japanese officer, but war is imminent.
Uličnice
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Ulička v ráji
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Jízdní hlídka
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Na tý louce zelený
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The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss
Director of Photography
A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for year without touching his inheritance.
Bezdětná
Director of Photography
...and Life Goes On
Director of Photography
On the coast of Yugoslavia lives fisherman Ivo Kralj, his wife Marie, son Vuk, and Ivo's mother in one happy home. Marie, who loves her husband and always looks forward to his return from sea, attracts Nikola, with whom Ivo, out of jealousy, has a scuffle at a dance. After the outbreak of World War I Ivo is mobilized. He ends up in a P.O.W. camp where he is subjected to hard labour. His family then receives news of his death. The years pass and the lonely widow Marie is occasionally visited by her friend Nikola. Ivo's mother would like her to remarry. Soon after the wedding Marie becomes pregnant. Ivo, who has been thought dead, succeeds in escaping the P.O.W. camp where he has spent several years. Upon his arrival home he finds his name on a memorial erected to the victims of the war...
Jedenácté přikázání
Director of Photography
Raging Barbora
Director of Photography
Knockout – Ein junges Mädchen, ein junger Mann
Cinematography
Don't Make Grandpa Angry
Director of Photography
Polská krev
Director of Photography
Heave-Ho!
Director of Photography
A Milk-Cannery baron, Jakub Simonides, is broken by the Canned Milk-Trust and, in his wanderings with a worker, Filip Kornet, he discovers he still owns a half-finished apartment-house. They rally the workers and complete the building for use as a collectivist dairy. The cooperative flourishes and after a chase/pursuit with the police, pratfalls, slapstick and various crashes, the workers buy out the Milk-Trust.
Tři kroky od těla
Director of Photography
Žena, která ví, co chce
Director of Photography
Woman concert star seeks to connect with her adult daughter, by her former marriage to a staid industrialist who has kept the two apart since the girl was very small, and receives inadvertent help from the industrialist's just-fired employee who has fallen in love with the girl.
Carnival of Love
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A popular, big spending matinee idol chases a blonde while trying to elude a heartless creditor.
Die vertauschte Braut
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Anita v ráji
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Jindra, the Countess Ostrovín
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Dobrý tramp Bernášek
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Prodaná nevěsta
Camera Operator
S vyloučením veřejnosti
Director of Photography
S vyloučením veřejnosti
kameraman
I'm a Girl with a Devil in the Flesh
Director of Photography
This Czech sophisticated romantic comedy, filmed by director Anton also in a parallel French version ("Une petite femme dans le train"), casts beautiful Czech star Baarova in the role that Meg Lemonnier played in the Gallic version.
Pobočník Jeho Výsosti
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Die Tochter des Regiments
Cinematography
Baby
Director of Photography
Anton Spelec, Sharp-Shooter
Director of Photography
Anton Špelec (Vlasta Burin) is a producer of musical instruments by trade but a sharp-shooter at heart. He expects to be awarded a medal at a large parade in town where veteran sharp-shooters will be honored. When the town council is one medal short, Anton must wait another year for his prized possession. He drowns his disappointment in drink at the local pub and becomes so drunk that he insults the emperor who sentences him to jail. Instead of fulfilling the emperor’s orders himself, Anton sends his employee in his stead.
Zapadlí vlastenci
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The Ideal Schoolmaster
Director of Photography
This light-hearted comedy operetta tells the story of a newly appointed high school professor who becomes an ideal target for pranks and jokes.
Before Graduation
Director of Photography
The story of high school students, talented Jan and Karel, who has a problem with math. Their life affects pedantic professor of mathematics Klec, that goes with them on a school trip, which escalates the conflict between them. Jan wants to escape, but Professor Donat will discourage him. Karel fails the exam of mathematics and decides to commit suicide.
The Cruel Girlfriend
Cinematography
The Undertaker
Director of Photography
Should We Wed Them?
Director of Photography
Professor Bock is to inaugurate the museum, the construction of which was donated by a generous patron who remains anonymous. He learns that it is his brother's wife, a former dancer, and whom he hates. But her daughter falls in love with Jim, the son of the ex-dancer, and everything will work out.
Une nuit au paradis
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Lelíček in the Services of Sherlock Holmes
Director of Photography
The Portorican prime minister asks British detective Sherlock Holmes to find a twin for King Fernando XXIII, a weak and frightened man who fears anarchists and does not want to show himself in public. Holmes finds in the Czech newspapers a photo of the perfect double, František Lelíček, a daring bon vivant drowned in debt, so when Holmes offers him money, Lelíček decides to travel to Portorico and play the role.
The bat
Cinematography
Film by Karel Lamac.
Business in Distress
Finnicky efficiency expert is sent to straighten out business management problems at a jazz club, and finds self being drawn into the swingin' scene.
Business in Distress
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Finnicky efficiency expert is sent to straighten out business management problems at a jazz club, and finds self being drawn into the swingin' scene.
The Squeeker
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Him and His Sister
Director of Photography
Postman Brabec is a welcome guest of the revue theatre for his sense of humor, and he brings his director Holt letters from female admirers every day. Holt's fans include Brabec's sister Anny. The girl would like to join the theatre, but for the time being works as a maid for the actress Velden. A new revue is being rehearsed, the name of the author is secret. Veldenová will return the role just before the premiere because she doesn't like it. The quick-witted Brabec introduces the director to his sister, who knows all the parts by heart.
Imperial and Royal Field Marshal
Director of Photography
Comedy film directed by Karel Lamač.
Imperial and Royal Field Marshal
voják
Comedy film directed by Karel Lamač.
Those of the Sideshow
Cinematography
Young Anny returns from school to her circus family, which runs a little venue at the town fair. When Anny suddenly has to fill in for one of the artists, her piano-playing not only enthrals the audience, but also theatre agent Hobbes. He casts the whole family for the Apollo theatre in Berlin, where Anny quickly raises to stardom and is offered an engagement from the US.
Viennese hearts
Director of Photography
The girl from USA
Director of Photography
St. Wenceslas
Camera Operator
St. Wenceslas (Czech: Svatý Václav) is a 1930 Czechoslovak historical film about Saint Wenceslas.[2] It was the most expensive Czech film to date,[3] with the largest set constructed in Europe to accommodate an all-star cast of over a hundred, together with 1,000 extras for the lavish battle scenes.
An old sin
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Adjunkt Vrba
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Pražské švadlenky
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The Sins of Love
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The troubled situation of a provincial actor and his actress wife who come to the city. The actor is suspected of attacking another actor who admires the actress.
Sündig und süß
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Father Vojtech
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Father Vojtech (Czech: Páter Vojtěch) is a 1929 silent Czech romance film directed by Martin Frič.
Známosti z ulice
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Sündenfall
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Daughters of Eve
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An unmarried showgirl takes a handsome companion with her on a vacation, to the distress of others.
Kedlubnový kavalír
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The Lovers of an Old Criminal
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Factory owner Pardon, meets Olga, daughter of clairvoyant Stefanie Lesczynska at a ball. Their brief acquaintance is interrupted when Olga and her mother have to leave. Fifi Hrazánková has her sights set on the elligible Pardon. Pardon asks his Uncle Cyril Ponděliček if the girl could take over his position at work so that she may be dissuaded of her amorous intentions. Fifi seduces Pondělíček. In the meantime, Pardon meets Olga and Stefanie again by chance and offers them a place to stay at Ponděliček’s while Pondělíček passes himself off as Pardon.
Květ ze Šumavy
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Werther
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Loupežníci na Chlumu
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Aničko, vrať se!
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The Old Man Bezousek
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A Carl Lamac directed movie based on a novel by Karel Václav Rais.
The Loves of Kačenka Strnadová
Director of Photography
The film depicts the adventures of Kacenka (Zdena Kavková) and Vincek (Vlasta Burian), two innocent country bumpkins who live in a Czech small town, and the various jobs that Kacenka has once she moves to Prague, that beautiful capital city. Our heroine will have to bear difficult working conditions and to make things worse, she falls in love with a fake aristocrat. Fortunately her companion, Vincek who is also in Prague, has an unrequited love for her. Though he is the cause of many Kacenka's problems, Vincek finally will help and resolve her loves troubles. And of course there is a happy ending that brings the Czech couple together.
Švejk na frontě
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Directed by Carl Lamac.
The Fake Sweetheart
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The film depicts the troubles of Herr Verner ( Herr Karel Hasler ), a middle-aged bachelor dentist who wants to marry.
Příběh jednoho dne
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Hraběnka z Podskalí
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Dobrý voják Švejk
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Josef Kajetán Tyl
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A biographical story about significant Czech dramatist, writer and actor Josef Kajetán Tyl.
The Kreutzer Sonata
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We have a liberal, modern Czech flapper bound to a serious and bored husband and don't forget the important fact that the wife has a lover so soon the widening gulf between husband and wife leads to stress and resentment and we get a tormented psychological study of irreconcilable differences that will lead to tragedy.
Lucerna
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A Czechoslovakian comedy directed by Carl Lamac and starring himself Theodor Pistek & Anny Ondra.
Syn hor
Syn hor
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Karel Havlíček Borovský
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Vdavky Nanynky Kulichovy
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Chyťte ho!
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Painter Johnny Miller bets his friends he can find his house blindfolded. But he stumbles into a bandits' camp, and being mistaken for one of them, is sent to rob the villa of Frank Sellins, a banker, and his niece Lilly.
Píseň života
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White Paradise
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After a young man is arrested for a crime he didn't commit, the daughter of the local tavern owners must spring to the rescue.
The Kidnapping of Fux the Banker
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Muž bez srdce
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Tu ten kámen
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Dr. Jenkins Miracle Cure
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A brave young woman falls in love with a mysterious stranger.
Proč se nesměješ
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Za oponou smrti
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Koryatovič
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Proudy
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Poslední polibek
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Manželé paní Mileny
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Mrtví žijí
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Jejich svatební noc
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Stíny
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Nad propastí
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Venoušek a Stázička
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Roztržené foto
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Kříž u potoka
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Trny a květy
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Moderní Magdalena
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Cesty k výšinám
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Poisoned Light
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Professor Grant signs a contract with Dr. Selin for the sale of his invention of cold light with the plans for his invention being kept in Grant's apartment. The negotiations are secretly heard by the illusionist Durk, who wants to seize the invention. A few days later Selín is found dead, killed by a light bulb filled with poisonous gas. Durk performs at the birthday party of Grant's daughter Anna and seizes the plans for the invention.
Arrival from the Darkness
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Shot in the early 1920s, this classic film about the elixir of life and the secret of the Black Tower has finally been restored to its original version.
The Flames of Life
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Odplata
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Setřelé písmo
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Zpěv zlata
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Za svobodu národa
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Komediantka
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Krasavice Kaťa
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Dráteníček
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Záhadný případ
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Probuzené svědomí
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Aloisův los
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Vzteklý ženich
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Utrpením ke slávě
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O Adrienu
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Československý Ježíšek
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