Gustav Opočenský
Gustav Opočenský was the son of Bohemian poet and journalist Gustav Roger of Opočenský (1881-1949).
Originally, he began to study law, but after closing Nazi colleges in 1939 he headed for the theater, close to art, thanks to his father. He did not undergo any professional training, but after the war he gained his first permanent engagement in the Realistic Theater in Prague (1945-1946). Due to his unbridled inheritance, his father in the mid-1950s came into conflict with the Communist power, he had to go to the theater in Cologne from Pardubice and eventually in 1956 he banned the ban on artistic activity. Then he worked as a miner, later a worker in Stalin's races in Záluží near Most, but at the beginning of the following decade he managed to return to the theater.
Subsequent banning of activity silenced Opočenský for twelve years, he reappeared in the film MARATÓN (1968).
We can also remind him of his comedic role as an old Nazi in the movie ZÍTRA VSTANU AND I WILL BE TEA (1977).
Gustav Opočensky's wife was actress Eva Strupplová (* 1926). Bohemian and artistic family genes also accompany the lives of their two sons, the artist and musician Petr Opočenský (* 1950) and sculptor Pavel Opočensky (* 1954).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.6791 |
| Birthday | 1920-12-07 |
| Place of Birth | Prague, Czechoslovakia |
| Also Known As | Gustav Opocenský, G. Opocenský, Gustav Opocensky, |
1977
Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea
6.2/55
Former Nazi Klaus Abard survives to the 1990s by taking anti-ageing pills. He plans to use a time travel trip to return to Germany in 1944 and present...
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Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea
1979
Ballad for a Bandit
9/3
The film version of the theatre musical production by the "Divadlo na provazku" in Brno tells the tale of legendary bandit Nikola Šuhaj from Koločava.
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Ballad for a Bandit
1980
Concert at the End of Summer
6.2/6
A docudrama about four weeks in the life of famous Czech composer Antonin Dvorak. The drama - filled with many of Dvorak's compositions - begins when...
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Concert at the End of Summer
1971
Luk královny Dorotky
10/1
Set in a vagabond and petty bourgeois environment, the three stories deal with the pitfalls of love, the petty and insidious betrayals of trust.
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Luk královny Dorotky
1981
Romaneto
7/2
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Romaneto
1983
Salty Rose
6.8/5
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Salty Rose
1987
Rudin
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Rudin
1970
Just Because You're Grown-Up
10/1
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Just Because You're Grown-Up
1991
Home
6/2
In the young man's imagination, the image of a mysterious house - a mystical building that symbolizes the spiritual world of an unknown faith - persis...
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1971
Prince Bajaja
6.2/6
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Prince Bajaja
1973
Days of Betrayal
5.6/5
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Days of Betrayal
1975
Za volantem nepřítel
5/2
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Za volantem nepřítel
1984
Záchvěv strachu
4.8/5
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Záchvěv strachu
1975
Na konci světa
4.25/4
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Na konci světa
1976
Boty plné vody
8/3
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Boty plné vody
1990
The Ear
7.247/73
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The Ear
1983
Putování Jana Amose
5.5/2
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Putování Jana Amose
1989
Evropa tančila valčík
6.5/2
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1990
Funeral Ceremony
6/7
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Funeral Ceremony
1985
Oldrich and Bozena
4.5/4
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1980
Build a House, Plant a Tree
5.3/10
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1989
Chief, There Is a Horse in the Backyard
5.5/2
Criminal comedy, a fourth movie from the "Chief" series.
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1989
Nedosněné sny
0/0
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1978
Shadows of a Hot Summer
7.3/10
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1970
Witchhammer
7.558/78
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Witchhammer
1987
On a Wayward Princess
5.833/5
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On a Wayward Princess
1988
Uloupené dětství
0/0
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Uloupené dětství
1971
Hry lásky šálivé
4.667/3
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Hry lásky šálivé
1973
The Secret of the Gold Buddha
9/1
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The Secret of the Gold Buddha
1968
Marathon
5.625/8
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Marathon
1957
Against All
6.1/7
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Against All
1956
Jan Žižka
7.286/7
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Jan Žižka
1955
Jan Hus
6.3/10
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1971
Třírohý klobouk
0/0
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1990
Pot, lesk a potlesk
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1969
Mlčení mužů
7/1
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Mlčení mužů
1976
Tam kde hnízdí čápi
5.5/2
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1987
Flotila
0/0
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1989
Cesta na jihozápad
10/1
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1991
Svědek umírajícího času
5.75/4
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1987
V kleštích
0/0
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1992
Zbabělec
4/2
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