Otto Heller

Otto Heller

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

Muerte : 1970-02-19

Historia

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

Películas

El ídolo caído
Director of Photography
Richard Harris interpreta a Eitan, un héroe del fútbol de ayer que intenta afrontar el mañana.
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.
Qué día tengo!
Director of Photography
Tras el fracaso de su último negocio y para no perder a su mujer, George Lester decide, junto a un amigo, robar los planos de un invento diseñado por un pretendiente de su esposa.
Atrapado
Director of Photography
Al Servicio de Inteligencia Británico se le ha escapado uno de los agentes rusos más importantes. Se plantea la necesidad de eliminarlo antes de que proporcione a los rusos información vital de naturaleza técnica y científica.
Funeral en Berlín
Director of Photography
El jefe del servicio de espionaje soviético, el coronel Stock, proyecta huir a Occidente. Harry Palmer, un hombre que ejerce de espía a la fuerza tras haber sido atrapado en un sucio asunto, es enviado a Berlín para ayudar a Stock, pero para ello tendrá que cambiar de identidad.
Alfie
Director of Photography
Alfie (Michael Caine), un cockney londinense que trabaja como chófer en una empresa de coches de alquiler, es famoso en la ciudad por ser un galán seductor e irresistible. Sus numerosas conquistas le hacen ver lo deliciosa que es la vida de soltero; además, todas las chicas desean que sus nombres figuren en esa lista de honor, de la que Alfie se siente tan orgulloso.
Agentes dobles
Director of Photography
Diplomáticos británicos están a pocas semanas de concluir un acuerdo con un país del Oriente Medio para un nuevo contrato del petróleo favorable para sus intereses. Sólo hay un problema, el hombre con el que debían cerrar el trato, el Príncipe Jamil, heredero al trono de este rico país, aún no ha llegado a la edad mínima necesaria para gobernar. El gobierno británico tiene miedo a que, durante las semanas que faltan antes de su cumpleaños, el joven sea asesinado. Para evitar que esto ocurra, la Oficina Británica en el Exterior echa mano del Coronel Drexel, un veterano héroe de guerra, y de David Frazer, un soldado americano. (FILMAFFINITY)
Ipcress
Director of Photography
A Harry Palmer no le gusta el mundo del espionaje, pero no conoce otro tipo de vida. En esta ocasión, la misión de Harry consiste en localizar al doctor Aubrey Richards, que ha desaparecido teniendo en su poder un valioso archivo que puede haber llegado a manos del enemigo. El gobierno también teme que Richards haya sido sometido a un lavado de cerebro, como ya había pasado con otros dos científicos británicos...
La maldición de la momia
Director of Photography
Poco después de descubrir la tumba de Ra Antef, el profesor Dubois es asesinado en el desierto egipcio. Desoyendo todas las amenazas y advertencias, Alexander King, un showman americano que es quien financia la expedición, hace que el sarcófago del joven faraón recorrar toda Europa y los Estados Unidos. Pero la primera noche del espectáculo, King rompe los sellos de la momia Ra Antef y hace un asombroso descubrimiento...
La mujer de paja
Director of Photography
Charles Ritchmon, un magnate inglés de las finanzas que lleva años inmovilizado en una silla de ruedas, contrae matrimonio con su enfermera María. La boda la han tramado la propia Maria y Anthony, un sobrino del millonario: si Ritchmon sufre una nueva crisis cardíaca, María heredará una colosal fortuna, y su cómplice recibirá un millón de libras. Durante un crucero por el Mediterráneo, Charles fallece. Para legitimar el testamento, María y Anthony simulan que el magnate sigue vivo hasta su llegada a Londres; pero, inesperadamente, la policía entra en juego.
Distrito 11
Cinematography
Beckett es un tullido emocional que va de trabajo en trabajo, de mujer en mujer, incapaz incluso de amar a su madre. Por él se interesa Dyce, quien desea desembarazarse de su tía y piensa que él es el hombre adecuado para el trabajo...
Vida para Ruth
Director of Photography
Cuando la hija de John Harris es gravemente herida en un accidente de navegación, el hospital le dice que ella va a necesitar una transfusión de sangre urgente. Debido a sus creencias religiosas, Harris se niega a dar el permiso y la niña muere. Cuando la investigación libera a Harris de toda culpa, el médico a cargo del caso intenta llamar a la policía para presentar cargos de homicidio contra Harris.
Luz en la Ciudad
Cinematography
Las vacaciones que disfruta una familia norteamericana en Florencia no resultan tan apacibles como esperaban. Los problemas empiezan cuando su hija, que sufrió daños cerebrales irreversibles debido un accidente, se enamora de un italiano que parece no conceder importancia al infantilismo de la muchacha.
Víctima
Director of Photography
Melville Farr es un prestigioso abogado inglés felizmente casado con Laura. Sin embargo, detrás de su apariencia conservadora se esconde un homosexual que busca escarceos con jovencitos, a pesar de que le había prometido a su mujer que esa etapa de su vida ya estaba clausurada. Ambientada en una época en la que la homosexualidad era todavía considerada un delito que podía implicar penas de cárcel.
El demonio, la carne y el perdón
Director of Photography
En un pueblecito mexicano tiene lugar un enfrentamiento entre un bondadoso sacerdote (John Mills) y un malvado bandido (Bogarde) que se propone dominar el pueblo. El odio a la Iglesia lleva a éste a cometer todo tipo de abusos y tropelías para conseguir que el nuevo clérigo se vaya. Sin embargo, el cura, con su inmensa paciencia y mansedumbre, acaba por redimir al bandido, que recupera la fe en Dios.
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
En el Soho de Londres, Johnny Solo regenta el Pink Flamingo Club. No se deja intimidar fácilmente, así que cuando comienza a recibir amenazas y ofertas de protección, las rechaza. Detrás de la trama está Diamonds Dielli, un competidor. Midnight Franklin, su novia y estrella del club, trata de convencerlo para que abandone el negocio.
Hello London
Cinematography
Hello London is a 1958 documentary film starring Sonja Henie and Michael Wilding.
El fotógrafo del pánico
Director of Photography
Böhm interpreta a psicópata que fotografía a sus víctimas mientras mueren; es un hombre profundamente perturbado, cuyo desequilibrio hunde sus raíces en la infancia. Su padre, un científico obsesionado por estudiar las reacciones infantiles ante el miedo, destrozó su psique y lo convirtió en un adulto acomplejado y afectado por una demencia demoníaca. El personaje necesita registrar en imágenes el terror que sienten sus víctimas antes de morir. Por eso ejerce la profesión de fotógrafo, para encubrir sus intenciones y poder satisfacer sus morbosos impulsos sin levantar sospechas.
Escala prohibida
Cinematography
Un vagabundo soñador ayuda a un capitán de barco en peligro. Película con trama humorística con un reparto encabezado por Orson Welles y la bella Sylvia Syms.
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.
Ricardo III
Cinematography
En la segunda mitad del siglo XV, en Inglaterra, estalla una guerra civil: la Guerra de las Dos Rosas (1455-1485) entre la Casa de Lancaster (rosa roja) y la de York (rosa blanca), que será el último enfrentamiento entre el absolutismo real y la nobleza La victoria de Mortimer Cross desplazó del trono a los Lancaster y Eduardo IV de York, fue proclamado rey. A su victoria contribuyeron sus hermanos Ricardo de Gloucester y Jorge Clarence. La siniestra figura de Ricardo -deforme, siempre a la sombra y al acecho- protagoniza una de las páginas más negras de la historia de Inglaterra. Célebre adaptación de la obra de Shakespeare.
El quinteto de la muerte
Director of Photography
En una casa aislada y próxima a las vías del tren vive la señora Wilberforce, una venerable anciana que alquila dos habitaciones al misterioso profesor Marcus y a los cuatro miembros de su siniestra banda de música.
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.
Su Majestad de los mares del sur
Director of Photography
Un marinero aventurero es abandonado en un bote a la deriva a causa de un motín. En medio del mar, y a causa del sol, pierde el conocimiento, que recobra ya cuando está en una pequeña isla bajo los cuidados de un curandero indígena y de un comerciante alemán. El aventurero pronto se hace con la confianza de los indígenas, a quienes enseña nuevas costumbres y a defenderse de los piratas. Así, consigue también el control sobre la producción de copra del que se extrae un rico aceite, que también una compañía alemana pretende monopolizar. Poco a poco se va convirtiendo en el rey de la isla.
The Square Ring
Director of Photography
La película sigue las vidas de cinco boxeadores diferentes y sus motivos para dedicarse a esa actividad.
El expreso de París
Director of Photography
El contable de una casa de comercio en Holanda, hombre con una especie de obsesión con los trenes, descubre al dueño de la firma en el momento en que éste va a escapar con el dinero del negocio. En una lucha que sostienen, el hombre cae en un canal y el gerente cree que lo ha matado. Tentado por el dinero, toma el Expreso de París que pasa en ese momento, abandonando a su mujer y sus hijos.
El temible burlón
Director of Photography
Siglo XVIII. Todo un clásico del cine de piratas que narra las correrías de Burt Lancaster y su acrobático e inseparable compañero Cravat, unos temibles corsarios que aterrorizan a las tripulaciones de los barcos que navegan por el Mediterráneo.
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.
La dama blanca (Reina de espadas)
Director of Photography
1806: Un oficial del Ejército obtiene de una avejentada condesa el secreto para ganar perpetuamente a las cartas. Lo malo es que esta lo obtuvo a través de un pacto con el Diablo.
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.
Me hicieron un fugitivo
Director of Photography
Morgan se une a una banda dirigida por Narcy. En su primer encargo, huye de un accidente de coche después de matar a un policía. Pero acaba siendo reconocido como el conductor y es enviado a la cárcel. Buscando venganza se escapa y se dirige a Londres. En el camino lo ayuda una mujer (Sra. Fenshaw), que le encarga el asesinato de su marido...
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.
De Mayerling a Sarajevo
Director of Photography
Julio de 1914, atentado de Sarajevo. Francisco Fernando de Austria, heredero del Imperio austrohúngaro, se enamoró de Sophie Chotek, una condesa checa. Las ideas políticas del archiduque ya resultaban bastante problemáticas para la familia real, pero este romance con una joven que no pertenecía a la realeza era inadmisible. La Corona, sin embargo, accedió a la unión matrimonial, pero despojando al heredero de sus poderes, que se limitaban a la rutinaria inspección de las tropas. Sophie solicitó permiso para acompañar a su marido en algunos viajes protocolarios. En julio de 1914, de visita en Sarajevo, la real pareja fue víctima de un atentado perpetrado por Princip, un estudiante nacionalista bosnio. Esta fue la causa inmediata de la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918).
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
Director of Photography
Ulička v ráji
Director of Photography
Jízdní hlídka
Director of Photography
Na tý louce zelený
Director of Photography
La maravillosa aventura de Ernest Bliss
Director of Photography
Ernest Bliss (Cary Grant) es un rico y apuesto caballero que se aburre muchísimo. Un día, preocupado, decide visitar al doctor Sir James Aldroyd, que le aconseja un método para curar su aburrimiento: trabajar y vivir durante todo un año sin tocar ni un penique de su fortuna. Ernest, convencido de que lo conseguirá, hace con su médico una apuesta de 50.000 libras.
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
Director of Photography
A popular, big spending matinee idol chases a blonde while trying to elude a heartless creditor.
Die vertauschte Braut
Director of Photography
Anita v ráji
Director of Photography
Jindra, the Countess Ostrovín
Director of Photography
Dobrý tramp Bernášek
Director of Photography
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
Director of Photography
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
Director of Photography
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
Director of Photography
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
Director of Photography
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
Director of Photography
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
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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
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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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