Movies: Jan Pivec

  • 1956
    Jan Žižka

    Jan Žižka (1956)

    Jan Žižka

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    The second part of the revolutionary Hussite trilogy takes place in the years 1419-1420....

    Jan Žižka
  • 1955
    Jan Hus

    Jan Hus (1955)

    Jan Hus

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    The first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", completed with Jan Žižka (1955) and Proti všem (Against All Odds, 1957). The film captures the period from May 1412 to the summer of 1415, a turbulent time in the Czech Kingdom, during which ther...

    Jan Hus
  • 1967
    Lucerna

    Lucerna (1967)

    Lucerna

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    A host of actors in the classic national fairy tale by A. Jirásek. Jirásek's "Lucerna" is the best-known and most performed of his plays. It was also used by television producers. In the second half of the 1960s, a successful transcription was create...

    Lucerna
  • 1959
    Dům na Ořechovce

    Dům na Ořechovce (1959)

    Dům na Ořechovce

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    The growing conflict between the unruly owner of the villa and his lodger ends up in court. The cohabitation ends in bodily harm - and the film actually translates two versions of the same events, as seen by each of the parties involved. However, the...

    Dům na Ořechovce
  • 1945
    Rozina the Love Child

    Rozina the Love Child (1945)

    Rozina the Love Child

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    Prague, the beginning of the 17th century. Rozina falls in love with Italian glass worker Nikolo, but after returning home, she gets a message that will never come to Prague. She falls for the promise of an older man to marry her, but when Nikolo d...

    Rozina the Love Child
  • 1952
    Hasek’s Tales from the Old Monarchy

    Hasek’s Tales from the Old Monarchy (1952)

    Hasek’s Tales from the Old Monarchy

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    Four short stories by the greatest Czech satirist Jaroslav Hašek. "Soup for Poor Children" tells the story of how Prince Robert himself cooked soup for poor children, "Meeting of the Municipal Council in Mejdlovary" is the history of filling the posi...

    Hasek’s Tales from the Old Monarchy
  • 1948
    Dnes neordinuji

    Dnes neordinuji (1948)

    Dnes neordinuji

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    The main character is a newly appointed associate professor MUDr. Jakub Johánek, a psychiatrist and timid teetotaler, who decides to celebrate his appointment with friends in a nightclub. The celebration, which lasts until late and the amount of alco...

    Dnes neordinuji
  • 1930
    Armored Car

    Armored Car (1930)

    Armored Car

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    An unknown gang has again broken into a van containing money from the European bank. Banker Sam Hamilton decides to use an armoured car for the next money transport. He hires racing driver Charly Allan as the driver. Allan is invited to Hamilton's ho...

    Armored Car
  • 1941
    Pantáta Bezoušek

    Pantáta Bezoušek (1941)

    Pantáta Bezoušek

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    Country man Josef Bezoušek has gone to Prague for an extended visit to his lawyer son's family. His son, daughter-in-law and granddaughters have welcomed him with open arms, so the grandfather quickly gets used to them and really likes the metropolis...

    Pantáta Bezoušek
  • 1958
    Puppies

    Puppies (1958)

    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....

    Puppies
  • 1949
    Story of the Bass Cello

    Story of the Bass Cello (1949)

    Story of the Bass Cello

    5.51949HD

    "Román s basou" is another short by master a stop-motion puppet-animator Jiri Trnka. The story is based on Anton Chekhovs story "Roman s Kontrabasom". Princess Bibulova decides to go fishing along the river while not far away a bass player leaves his...

    Story of the Bass Cello
  • 1957
    Against All

    Against All (1957)

    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 Žižk...

    Against All
  • 1937
    Rozkošný příběh

    Rozkošný příběh (1937)

    Rozkošný příběh

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    Poor saleswoman Helena accepts a theater ticket from a stranger who has left over the ticket after a disagreement with his fiancée Eva. The stranger is millionaire Jára Nerad, and Helena pretends to be rich in front of him. The next day, they meet by...

    Rozkošný příběh
  • 1967
    Zločin a trik II.

    Zločin a trik II. (1967)

    Zločin a trik II.

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    Zločin a trik II.
  • 1949
    Divá Bára

    Divá Bára (1949)

    Divá Bára

    6.61949HD

    This is a romantic story about a brave, self-made girl, despised daughter of a shepherd. She is not afraid of anything - neither night nor swimming. But the superstitious villagers are telling weird stories about her and about all sorts of strange th...

    Divá Bára
  • 1947
    Nevíte o bytě?

    Nevíte o bytě? (1947)

    Nevíte o bytě?

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    A comedy about the post-war housing crisis in Prague, which several young people are struggling with. The young puppeteer Josef lives in a sublet with the singer Šimůnek, who is currently missing. After returning from a trip, Josef discovers that a d...

    Nevíte o bytě?
  • 1953
    Jestřáb kontra Hrdlička

    Jestřáb kontra Hrdlička (1953)

    Jestřáb kontra Hrdlička

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    A story about the conditions in Bohemia in the second half of the nineteenth century, when small-town officials, such as Hrdlička, succumbed to the predators of the emerging large financial and industrial bourgeoisie, represented by Jestřáb....

    Jestřáb kontra Hrdlička
  • 1941
    Preludium

    Preludium (1941)

    Preludium

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    Theater props maker Karel Vajgant has a young wife, Magda, and two children, seven-year-old Pavlík and eleven-year-old Pepička. Magda is a caring mother, but she feels that her husband prioritizes work and his comfort. In a weak moment, Magda becomes...

    Preludium
  • 1958
    Kasaři

    Kasaři (1958)

    Kasaři

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    A detective comedy about ex-cashiers who - except for one - have improved and lead a proper and peaceful life and mostly desperately resist the slightest reminder of their past. However, one of them, Josef Fiala, formerly known as Procházka, is one d...

    Kasaři
  • 1947
    Nerozumím

    Nerozumím (1947)

    Nerozumím

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    Nerozumím