David Nykl
Nascimento : 1967-02-07, Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
História
David Nykl (born 7 February 1967 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech Canadian actor of film, television, commercials and theater.
After the Soviet invasion in 1968, he and his family left then-Communist Czechoslovakia for Canada. Upon arriving at Victoria, British Columbia, his father found work as a structural engineer and his mother found work as a nurse.
Nykl attended the University of British Columbia, where he majored in liberal arts.
Nykl has appeared heavily in Vancouver and Prague in dozens of theater, film and television productions. Known for his versatility and depth as an actor, he has also produced theatre and film projects, and in 1994 he co-founded Prague's Misery Loves Company Theatre with Richard Toth and Ewan McLaren.
He is known to science fiction fans as the recurring Stargate Atlantis character of Dr. Radek Zelenka, a Czech scientist on Earth's expedition to the "lost city" of Atlantis. His character often provides a foil to the main scientists, who forget the limits of their situation.
He is fluent in Czech, English, French and Spanish. Though his character on Stargate Atlantis speaks English with a Czech accent, Nykl normally speaks with a Canadian accent. Whenever Zelenka spoke Czech in Stargate Atlantis, Nykl was given the lines in English, and he translated them.
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Principal Bernstein
Two cutting-edge scientists give 'birth' to a Neanderthal—the first to walk the earth for some 35,000 years—in order to attempt to answer these questions. Part 'normal' child, part science experiment, William’s 'parents' struggle with the best way to raise him. As William grows toward adulthood, he is educated in the human experiences of love and intimacy. But his primitive impulses begin to emerge the more he tries to conform to human expectations, leading to tragic consequences for him and his loved ones.
Dr. Fisher
A story about the power of belief, The Devout follows Darryl Eckford during trying times: his 4-year-old daughter, Abigail, has terminal cancer with weeks to live. Abigail is obsessed with space, and she talks with extraordinary detail of the Apollo 1 space mission. After she admits her former name, Darryl researches the space mission and finds inexplicable coincidences. A devout Christian, Darryl faces a crisis of faith when he begins to believe that his daughter was an astronaut in a former life. This newfound belief instills hope in Darryl, because, if his daughter has lived before, she will live again. He must face his wife, community and his own faith as he seeks out truth, because, if his daughter has lived before, she will live again. Its intriguing story and meticulous direction from Connor Gaston makes The Devout one of the most impressive Canadian independent films of the year.
Sleeper
Quando uma precipitação nuclear torna a atmosfera irrespirável, dois homens terão de manter saudável o ambiente extremamente frágil do último lugar habitável na Terra e ao mesmo tempo cuidar dos corpos de um grupo de pessoas criogenicamente conservadas, a serem despertas somente quando as condições do planeta permitirem. Para tanto, porém, os guardiões terão de manter a própria sanidade mental na clausura de um bunker subterrâneo.
Science Teacher
Casey Newton (Britt Robertson) é uma adolescente com enorme curiosidade pela ciência. Um dia, ela encontra um pequeno broche que permite que se transporte automaticamente para uma realidade paralela chamada Tomorrowland, repleta de invenções futuristas visando o bem da humanidade. Ela logo busca um meio de chegar ao lugar e, no caminho, conta com a ajuda da misteriosa Athena (Raffey Cassidy) e de Frank Walker (George Clooney), que esteve em Tomorrowland quando garoto mas hoje leva uma vida amargurada.
Medical Examiner
Durante uma noite no histórico Forte Álamo, no Texas, um grupo improvável de heróis formará a linha de defesa contra o ataque de monstros perigosos.
Drake
Due to a road closure, eight strangers must take refuge in an abandoned church during a storm. They learn how to manage through various dilemmas by working together.
Cliff Gardner
An ambitious city councilman has his life turned upside down when he discovers that his every move is being filmed by a camera crew that only he can see.
Elliot Maine
Lori's fiancee Jack disappears after she accompanies him on a business trip. After she discovers he was about to expose a corruption scandal, all traces of Jack's existence vanish as well. Does Jack really exist or is he a fragment of Lori's imagination? She sets out on a wild hunt for answers.
Paoul Moran
Life's a beast...until you find one.
Donny Plachtt
The Seamstress was brought into being by the desperate curse of an innocent woman being tortured to death by a vigilante mob. Voracious for blood, the hideously-mutilated specter hunts a small group of friends who become trapped on the island where she died.
John
Helen Leonard (Ashley Judd) é uma mulher bem-sucedida que tem um casamento feliz e um relacionamento harmonioso com sua filha. Porém, existe algo que ela tem um segredo: sua bipolaridade, que surge como um surto devastador, transformando sua maneira de enxergar a vida. Agora, sua família e seus amigos tem a missão de fazê-la perceber que a vida continua bela.
CSI
Outro filme que pertence a série Mestres do Terror e trás Stuart Gordon dirigindo o que ele melhor sabe dirigir, uma adaptação de um conto do escritor de terror H.P. Lovecraft, o mesmo de Re-animator, que tem a direção de Stuart. Aqui é contada a história de um universitário que estuda uma teoria misteriosa e secreta. Ele passa a ser perseguido por causa disso por pesadelos que envolvem coisas estranhas como uma bruxa, uma entidade sobrenatural e até mesmo o próprio diabo. Assim, ele começa a desconfiar da sanidade e passa a acreditar que a teoria que estuda, acidentalmente, abriu um portal para alguma dimensão diabólica que vai culminar no sacrifício do bebê de sua vizinha. Ele luta com toda as suas forças para tentar salvar a criança, mas percebe que está cada vez mais difícil e chega mesmo a desejar o suicídio. Dessa forma, o filme reúne os sustos característicos que marcam a obra do diretor com uma boa dose de humor absurdo. É diversão garantida.
Herbert
Na fronteira da Turquia com a Armênia, as imponentes florestas abrigam dois grupos distintos: estudiosos paleontólogos e militares caçando terroristas. As duas equipes acabam se conhecendo quando o vulcão entra em erupção e um perigo é liberado: gigantescos e famintos pterodáctilos da era jurássica. Como Deter esses gigantescos seres violentos e voadores?
Russel
Um astronauta psicótico assume um observatório espacial tripulado por um cientista, sua esposa e sua filha adolescente.
A four-story omnibus depicting different Czech slices-of-life from the titular city.
George Willmont
Jack Gracy, a former security guard at the American Embassy in Russia, has shown up uninvited to a party at the embassy in the former Soviet Republic of Bazrhikistan, where his estranged girlfriend is working. As the two are talking upstairs, a group of terrorists disguised as caterers burst in and take all the guests downstairs hostage. The terrorists are threatening to launch nuclear missles at America if their demands are not met, but they haven't planned on Jack being their to spoil the party.
Henek
Poland 1939, shortly before invasion of the German troops. To save their belongings from the Nazis, the Jewish family Diamant transfers them to their 17-year-old catholic maid Fusia. In return Fusia provides them with food until the ghetto is dissolved, and then hides 13 people in her loft for over two years. However, as the front approaches and two German nurses take quarter in Fusias apartment everything seems to be in vain.
