Karel Škvor

Nacimiento : 1910-11-02,

Muerte : 1971-06-17

Películas

Straw Hat
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Slacker Maurice Fadinar wasted his whole inheritance and the only way out of this situation, as it seems, to marry Helen Nonankur - daughter of a wealthy farmer. At the last meeting with his mistress in a nearby forest Fadinar's horse eats straw hat which belongs to a married lady, spending time in the company of young and hot Lieutenant Emil. Emil literally puts a knife to Maurice throat - or the lady will get back the exact same hat immediately, or he will arrange such a scandal that no wedding will not happen ...
Kam slunce nechodí...
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Hry lásky šálivé
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Sunday Father
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A divorced engineer is preparing "accidental" meeting between his eleven years daughter and his fiancé.
A la deriva
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Un pescador salva a una mujer de morir ahogada y se la lleva a su casa. Allí se convertirán en amantes, pero la esposa del pescador parece sentirse también atraída por la extraña invitada.
Martillo para las brujas
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Basada en textos reales sobre juicios inquisitorios, esta película tiene como argumento el narrar las atrocidades que cometía la Inquisición sobre personas inocentes, y que por alguna razón eran catalogadas como brujas, herejes ó hechiceros.
Prague Nights
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Prague - mystical city. It was here in the Middle Ages, alchemists and magicians gathered. Rumor has it that the house of Prague hide secret obtain the philosopher's stone, and complex multi-level labyrinth of underground tunnels and cellars keep many unsolved mysteries and untold treasures. Prague just full of ghosts and phantoms. Let us slightly lift the veil that hides the secrets and little to satisfy your curiosity, get acquainted with some legends of Prague.
The Thirteenth Chamber
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Twelve-year old Kosta, a little boy of an overactive imagination, makes friends with equally sensitive eleven-year old Blanka. Fantasy leads the two children to the forgotten attic in the house of Blanka's parents. For them, this is the forbidden "thirteenth chamber," and to Kosta, an old glass vase becomes a magic ball with the help of which he can play his favorite play "on fate". The children observe the adults and unconsciously sense that something has gone wrong in Blanka's family. Her dad is a physician and her mother is not happy with him, still recollecting her former wooer Petr who left for India upon his graduation.
Maratón
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It is 5 May 1945 and the uprising against the hated German occupiers has broken out in Prague. The Czech guards open the gate of the Pankrác prison to allow the prisoners to escape en masse. Many of them are shot dead by the German guards but young Ruda (Jaromír Hanzlík) manages to run away. He is taken care of by one of the Prague fighters, concierge Kytka. Kytka hides him in the flat of the house's owner where only the young maid Karla (Jana Brejchová) is left, ordering her to take care of Ruda.
Happy End
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Un hombre se casa con una mujer, y ésta le es infiel. El hombre, por venganza, la asesina, siendo condenado a muerte... Aclamada película checa por su innovador sistema narrativo: todo el film está rodado al revés, comenzando por final y terminando con el principio, e incluso los diálogos están pronunciados a la inversa.
Poklad byzantského kupce
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Romance for Bugle
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A lyrical story about first love, death and disappointment, based on a poem of the same title.
Golden Queen
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A man returns to his native village in search of renewed faith and his old girlfriend. But she, now a middleaged woman, does not recognise him and he goes home, more disillusioned than ever.
La tienda en la calle Mayor
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Anton Brtko es un humilde carpintero que trata de vivir con placidez en una pequeña ciudad eslovaca durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Aunque observa con ironía y desprecio a los seguidores nazis que tratan de imponer su disciplina sobre la comunidad, la presión de su esposa Evelyn y su cuñado Markus, un caudillo fascista local, no deja de poner trabas a su tranquilidad. Cuando Markus le ofrece hacerse cargo, en calidad de ario, de la mercería de la anciana Sra. Lautmann, su vida queda trastocada. Mientras Evelyn se ilusiona con la idea de enriquecerse, Tono intenta hacer entender a la Sra. Lautmann que queda relegada del negocio por ser judía, pero no sólo le resulta imposible a causa de la sordera de la mujer, sino que además entre ambos surge una relación de ternura y comprensión mutua. Las situaciones cómicas en la tienda se suceden mientras la fiebre antisemita se va intensificando en el exterior.
Místenka bez návratu
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Lemonade Joe
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A satire of the Great American Way, with Lemonade Joe a "clean living" gunfighter who drinks only Kola-Loca Lemonade and convinces everyone else in town (with his gun skills) that all "real men" drink ONLY lemonade!
Passing Through a Thick Forest
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Handlíři
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The Golden Fern
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Wandering through the forest, a woodcutter finds a golden fern whose seed turns into a beautiful woman - they fall in love. After getting drunk in a village feast, he gets to sign up to the army. The fairy gives him a shirt to wear and asks him to swear he will never abandon it. At the war front, he falls in love with the the colonel's daughter and will have to perform various feats to get her attention.
Transport from Paradise
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Czechoslovakian Zbynek Brynych directs this psychological drama set in World War II Terezin ghetto. A dark, visual portrayal of the trials and tribulations the Theresienstadt people faced on a daily basis presented in a series of memorable stories. Their hopes and dreams unfold against the perpetual threat of deportation (or worse) by the Nazis. Based on the novel "Night and Hope" by Arnost Lustig.
Zámek pro Barborku
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Zelené obzory
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Polnočná omša
Art Direction
La trampa del diablo
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Siglo XVIII. A una aldea bohemia llega un nuevo párroco que adopta una actitud inquisitorial sobre la vida y costumbres de sus feligreses, tratando de averiguar si en su grey se oculta alguna oveja negra. El elemento discordante resulta ser un maduro molinero, que destaca por saber interpretar los signos de la tierra y del clima.
Labyrint srdce
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The Night Guest
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When a man stops at a motel one evening in 1961, his tormenting behavior drives one of the people present at the motel to remember his experiences in a concentration camp during WWII.
Žalobníci
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Higher Principle
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During the Nazi occupation of a Czech city civilians are being rounded up on the slightest of pretexts and shot. One day three high school boys who crack jokes about a recently deceased "hero of the Reich" are pulled out of school by the Gestapo.
Skid
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Spy film about a man with a face lift who gets recruited by western organisations.
Romeo, Julieta y las tinieblas
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Pavel, un joven estudiante que vive en Praga en 1942, decide esconder a Hanka, una chica judía que huye de las fuerzas alemanas, en el ático del edificio en el que vive. (FILMAFFINITY)
První parta
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Probuzení
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A 105 p.c. Alibi
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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.
Taková láska
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Občan Brych
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Of Things Supernatural
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Czech comedy fantasy directed by Jiri Krejcik et al.
Morálka paní Dulské
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Wolf Trap
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The title of this highly-regarded Czech drama translates as Wolf Trap. Set in the 1920s, the story revolves around an ambitious young provincial politician (Miroslav Dolozai) who enters into a marriage of convenience with a smotheringly possessive -- and much older -- woman (Jirina Sejbavola). Hoping to temporarily escape his overbearing wife's clutches, the husband strikes up a friendship with her young ward (Jana Brejchova). The relationship blossoms into a deep abiding love, but the jellyfish husband can't bring himself to declare his ardor to the girl. Even after the death of the wife, the husband hasn't the intestinal fortitude to admit his passion, and the results are bleak indeed for the unfortunate ward. Director Jiri Weiss does a masterful job staging his story of frustration and denial against a backdrop of post-WWI bourgeois banality.
Puppies
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Explores young adults' fears of being conscripted by the communist government into working outside of Prague, a relative oasis of creativity and freedom of thought. From an early script by Milos Forman.
I Dutifully Report
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A comedy based on the novel of Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Svejk happens during the World War I. I Dutifully Report: In the introduction to the second part of the film adaptation of Hašek's novel The Good Soldier Švějk presents his main character Josef Švejk. With the distinctive traditional Czech cartoon character of a soldier Svejk, this time you meet on the way to the front and eventually right in the firing line. You can look at his famous train events, and also probably the most famous episode of the novel, Švejk's Budějovice anabasis. Don't miss the scene with the secretly bought cognac, the episode with Svejk as a fake Russian prisoner of war, including the court scene, and the scene in which lieutenant Dub is caught in a brothel. Despite the criticism, Steklý's adaptation is undoubtedly the most famous and memorable at present.
Padělek
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Against All
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After the battle of Sudoměř the Hussite teaching spreads through the whole country and people start leaving their homes to help build the fortification of Tábor. Prague citizens request help against the army of Zikmund. The Hussite army with Jan Žižka in the lead make their way towards Prague. They fortify themselves on the mountain Vítkov and engage in a bloody battle with Zikmund’s huge army.
Playing with the Devil
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Zaostřit prosím!
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Silvery Wind
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Second half of the 19th century. In a small town in South Bohemia, fifth-former Jan Ratkin is living through the confusions of first love together with his classmates.
Jaroslav Hasek's Exemplary Cinematograph
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Po noci den
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Jan Žižka
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The second part of the revolutionary Hussite trilogy takes place in the years 1419-1420.
Jan Hus
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Jan Hus is a 1954 Czechoslovak film directed by Otakar Vávra. It is the first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", one of the most famous works of the Czechoslovak director, completed with Jan Žižka (1955) and Proti všem (Against All Odds, 1957).
The Best Man
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Měsíc nad řekou
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Konec strašidel
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Nad námi svítá
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Early Days
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Early Days follows the early life of famous Czech writer Alois Jirásek. Jirásek had already developed his own view of the history of the Czech nation while he was at grammar school in Broumov. When he becomes the supply teach in Litomyšl, he has already written his first book and a number of poems. The local dignitaries await the arrival of the young writer in excited anticipation. Jirásek, however, is sickened by the empty patriotism from the depths of his soul and soon becomes disagreeable to the notables. The district sheriff tries to remove Jirásek from the school and drive him out of town. Unable to do this, the sheriff appoints a pro-Austrian headmaster who attempts to sabotage Jirásek. The students stand behind Jirásek , however, and discontent is not only felt in Litomyšl but throughout Bohemia.
Mikoláš Aleš
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DS-70 nevyjíždí
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Posel úsvitu
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It was in May
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The Trap
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Czech drama film.
Veliká příležitost
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Hostinec „U kamenného stolu“
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Pětistovka
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The Poacher's Foster Daughter or Noble Millionaire
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Lost in the Suburbs
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Czechoslovak drama film about soldiers returning from World War II
Wolves' Lairs
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This drama from the times of Slovak National Uprising is situated in a small Slovak village. It is the tragical story of a widow and her four sons who fight alongside the partisans against the German occupants.
Až se vrátíš...
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White Darkness
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A young doctor and a group of injured are hiding in an underground shelter and are liberated by Soviet soldiers.
Muzikant
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Dravci
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Wild Beasts
Poslední mohykán
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A Dead Man among the Living
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Nadlidé
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Men Without Wings
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After an attack against the guard of the Third Reich, Nazi repression intensifies, and the Czechoslovakian resistance's organized sabotage in an aircraft factory leads to Gestapo shootings.
Sobota
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Jarní píseň
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Girl from the Beskids
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Neviděli jste Bobíka?
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El Golem
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El Golem, un ser gigantesco creado por un rabino a partir de la arcilla, adquiere vida para proteger a los judíos de Praga de la persecución.