Jiří Žůček

Películas

La profecía
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Incapaz de decirle a su mujer Katherine la trágica muerte de su hijo recién nacido, el diplomático americano Robert Thorn acepta un huérfano como su hijo. Los detalles del nacimiento del chico son un secreto, pero cuando Damien va creciendo, empieza a dar muestras de que no es un chico corriente.
La guerra de Hart
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Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el teniente Thomas Hart, un oficial de buena familia y estudiante de derecho en Yale, es capturado por los alemanes. A los pocos días de ser interrogado, es enviado a un campo de prisioneros. Una vez allí, el coronel estadounidense William McNamara, al mando entre los prisioneros, le pregunta si ha dado información al enemigo. Como Hart lo niega, es expulsado del barracón de los oficiales. Ocurre un crimen, y el oficial nazi a cargo del campo permite a los prisioneros llevar adelante una corte marcial para resolver el caso.
Destino de caballero
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Edad Media, siglo XIV. William es un joven plebeyo extraordinariamente dotado para justas y torneos. Tras la repentina muerte de su maestro, en compañía de sus amigos y escuderos Roland y Wat, se lanza a la aventura y se hace pasar por un noble caballero. Durante sus viajes conocerá a Chaucer, un escritor que falsificará un árbol genealógico que justifique el título nobiliario del que se ha apropiado.
Ravenous
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En 1847, el capitán John Boyd, que ha cometido una falta grave durante la guerra entre Méjico y EE.UU., es enviado a un remoto fuerte de Sierra Nevada. Un día, Colqhoun, un extraño personaje, sostiene que él y otros colonos, después de ser sorprendidos por una avalancha, quedaron encerrados durante largo tiempo en una cueva, logrando sobrevivir gracias a la práctica del canibalismo. Pero la verdadera historia aún está por descubrir.
Blancanieves, un cuento de terror (La verdadera historia)
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Cuando la joven madre de Lillian muere durante el parto, su padre se vuelve a casar con la bella y vanidosa Lady Claudia, pero la buena apariencia de Claudia es sólo eso: pura apariencia lejos de la realidad. Su objetivo es dar a luz su propio hijo y convertirse en la Reina Claudia con el maléfico espejo mágico. El intento fallido de asesinar a Lillian deja a la joven perdida en el oscuro bosque donde conocerá a siete enanitos...
Calamity
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Funny banter about love, sex, social status, and other ideals, while a new railway employee is trained and sent on his first run as driver.
Waiting for the Rain
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It’s a hot holiday season in the city and Alena is pretty much left to her own little self, fantasizing and running her personal daily rituals, keeping most people at a safe distance, yet trying to get male attention.
Meeting in July
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A romantic story about Jakub, a student in the summer camp, and his teacher Klara.
How to Wake a Princess
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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.
The Apple Game
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Sarcastic comedy about the Czechoslovakia of the seventies. A young gynaecologist can't figure out whether to get serious with a young nurse or to stay casual with his married lover. Things get complicated when both women don't want to play his game anymore.
The Case of Dead Schoolmates
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A West German businessman Friedrich Schmidt is arriving to Czechoslovakia with private mission and mission for Intelligence service. He wants to settle the old event from the time of the Second World War when he as a student of the Czech grammar school in the town of Kostelec took part at the denunciation of his schoolmate Pavel Richter. Pavel was during the period of Nazi terror following the assassination of Acting Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia Heydrich executed. Schmidt has also to enter into relations with persons suitable for cooperation with the West Intelligence service. Schmidt - earlier, before the German occupation Smíd - meets the schoolmates and endeavors to avert suspicion that arose already at the time of the tragic event.
Circus in the Circus
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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.
Prodaná nevěsta
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Škaredá dědina
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Sedmého dne večer
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Vysoká modrá zeď
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Zpívající film
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Affairs of my Wife
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Dvě věci pro život
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After returning home from the army, Vasek (Ladislav Potmesil) has married Bozka (Eva Trejtnarová) and the couple now live at her parents' house. Vasek is unhappy both with his work and with sharing the house with Bozka's parents. He and his friend Ruda (Oldrich Vlach) decide to take a temporary job in Ostrava for a year. Bozka is against this, but Vasek gets his way. Mining is hard work but Vasek gradually adapts to it. He gets homesick from time to time and wants to go back, but his pride always wins out. Once he really does travel back to see Bozka, but he doesn't find her at home.
On the Comet
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Un cometa pasa muy cerca de la tierra, arrastrando con él una pequeña parte del norte de África y llevándose a un montón de gente. Entre ellos, Angélica, que acaba de escapar del barco de un despiadado traficante de armas, y a sus dos hermanos, que la están buscando. Luego hay un grupo de nativos que planea una rebelión contra los colonos franceses. Todos estos conflictos se vuelven secundarios cuando la gente finalmente se da cuenta de que están condenados a vivir juntos en un planeta alienígena. Sin embargo, este tiempo de paz y felicidad mundial no durará mucho tiempo.... Adaptación de la novela "Hector Servadac", de Julio Verne.
Long Live the Republic
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Oldrich is the runt of his village, beaten by his father, bullied by the other boys. But he has imagination of his side, and a wiry toughness they can’t defeat. The village is in turmoil, because the Nazi occupiers have just retreated and the Red Army is advancing. Oldrich dodges amid the mayhem and panic, taking his share of blows but always managing to stay one step ahead. Beautifully shot and darkly ironic, Karel Kachyna’s forgotten masterpiece jumbles reality, memory and fantasy to capture the intensity and confusion of childhood in a war zone.
Do You Keep a Lion at Home?
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“And what did you do at school today?” In Pavel Hobl’s Czech fairytale, when Pepik and Honzik learn that school has been canceled they embark on an amazing odyssey around Prague that has them directing traffic, following the lead of a talking dog, breaking the spell an evil sorcerer has placed on a group of local musicians, rollerskating through a museum, and winning a magical car race. (University of Chicago Doc Films)