Karel Effa
Karel Effa, originally named Karel Effenberger (May 23, 1922 in Prague - June 11, 1993 in Prague), was a Czech actor.
As a professional soldier during World War II, he served in the Government Army during the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, which was deployed to Italy. Here he later ran to the Czechoslovak troops fighting on the side of the Western Allies. After the war, he remained in the army with the rank of sergeant, playing and singing for two years in the newly formed Army Art Ensemble of Vít Nejedlý. From there he went to the Theater of Satire, from there to the Theater of State Film, from there to the Music Theater in Karlín, from where he briefly jumped to the ABC Theater to return to the Karlín Theater. He has been a member of the Semafor Theater since 1979.
Karel Effa was a very prominent comedian who created 71 smaller and episodic film roles during his life - such as the villain Pancho Kid in the Czech comedy Lemonade Joe or Horse Opera, the black Gustav in Zeman's famous film The Stolen Airship, or the treasure keeper in the fairy tale film Proud princess. Karel Effa worked for many years as a member of the Czechoslovak State Film Ensemble, resp. Film studio in Barrandov, he also performed in the Theater in Fidlovačka, or in the former musical theater in Prague's Nusle, he also worked in the post-war Theater of Satire.
In addition to performing in theater and film, he has given six thousand touring performances during his lifetime, where he has used his folk humor, playing the guitar and singing tramp songs. He also remained a hiker all his life, he went to Brdy, often to the settlement of Ztracenka.
In 1964, he became a founding member of the Department of Friends and Supporters of Slavia, which aimed to save and lift football Slavia, which at the time lived in the Second Football League.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.771 |
| Birthday | 1922-05-23 |
| Place of Birth | Praha, Československo |
| Also Known As | Карел Эффа, |
1978
Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet
7.5/59
When famous detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in strange case of a missing dog and even stranger carnivorous plant. He becomes...
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Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet
1964
Lemonade Joe
7.14/75
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 to...
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Lemonade Joe
1977
Koncert pro mantinely
0/0
A musical and entertaining féerie based on the contrast between the world of classical music with its musicians and the world of sports with hockey pl...
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Koncert pro mantinely
1977
Pozor, ide Jozefína...
0/0
A satirical story about a young teacher, Josefína, who resolutely embarks on a fight against a group of bricklayers who demand exorbitant prices for t...
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Pozor, ide Jozefína...
1952
The Proud Princess
7.2/34
It's very human and nice story about lofty princess (her father is amiable but incapable - unforgettable performance of S. Neumann) and good, nice, ki...
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The Proud Princess
1980
Hodinářova svatební cesta korálovým mořem
8/1
This wacky musical comedy builds on absurd ideas, parodic humour and many variously subverted references to famous...
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Hodinářova svatební cesta korálovým mořem
1970
On the Comet
6.2/31
When a comet passes the Earth at close range, it pulls a small part of North Africa with it. Carried along are a bunch of people, among them Angelika,...
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On the Comet
1985
S Pydlou v zádech
7.5/2
The character of a simple folk smart guy who gets involved in a chess game between the powerful provides the excellent Josef Dvořák with space for a s...
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S Pydlou v zádech
1966
Who Wants to Kill Jessie?
7/44
In this zany Czechoslovakian comedy, a scientist invents a machine that projects a sleeping person's dream on a screen; disaster soon follows when the...
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Who Wants to Kill Jessie?
1959
May Stars
3.8/5
May 1945. On the outskirts of Prague, ordinary people meet Soviet soldiers-liberators with tears of joy in their eyes. In the early days of the lull,...
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May Stars
1959
The Princess with the Golden Star
6.8/32
A Czech fairy tale about a princess named Lada who runs away from home in a mouse fur disguise in order to escape an unwanted and forced marriage.
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The Princess with the Golden Star
2016
Věčná Slavia
0/0
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Věčná Slavia
1961
Black Saturday
5/1
In this crime story, surprisingly, neither the all-powerful criminals nor the spies or saboteurs are pursued, as was once common. The plot is almost m...
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Black Saturday
1964
The Jester's Tale
7.306/18
During the Thirty Years' War, ploughman Petr, recruiter Matěj and country girl Lenka are caught up in both sides of the war and experience many advent...
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The Jester's Tale
1977
Long Live Ghosts!
7.074/27
A trespassing gang of boys encounter a ghost in the ruins of a castle. When they rescue the ghost who is caught in a trapset, they become allies in a...
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Long Live Ghosts!
1966
The Pipes
6/3
This three-part Austrian/Czech comedy stretches the boundaries of what is considered to be humorous. Part one finds a silent film actor upset because...
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The Pipes
1968
The Wishing Machine
7/7
Two young boys, play hooky from school in order to explore an ultramodern world's fair. They take in the many marvelous scientific and industrial exhi...
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The Wishing Machine
1955
Hudba z Marsu
6.1/9
The employees of the furniture company MARS welcome a rare visitor with hired music. Their boast that they would put together an orchestra is taken se...
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Hudba z Marsu
1969
Pražská romance
0/0
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Pražská romance
1970
I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen
5.9/30
This futuristic science fiction comedy features an atomic bomb blast that causes women to grow beards and lose the ability to have children. A summit...
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I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen
1974
Sám proti městu
0/0
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Sám proti městu
1972
Straw Hat
5.563/8
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 weal...
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Straw Hat
1988
Paní Liška
0/0
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Paní Liška
1971
Zpívající přístavy
0/0
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Zpívající přístavy
1973
Affairs of my Wife
7.333/3
Doctor Adéla Neradová, a medical doctor, has succumbed to the desire to uncover a criminal and become a kind of Sherlock Holmes in skirts. The thankle...
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Affairs of my Wife
1974
A Night at Karlstein
7.667/18
No Woman is allowed into Karlstejn Castle! Yet the enamoured Daniele Kolářová and the equally enamoured Jana Brejchová manage to spend one night in di...
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A Night at Karlstein
1977
Almost King
6.167/15
A fairy tale about how those who have a heart and are not stingy will not fail. The most popular hero of Czech fairy tales, besides the brave prince a...
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Almost King
1961
Tlouštík
0/0
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Tlouštík
1947
The Stolen Border
5.5/2
Czech film tells the story of a border town in World War II. Family members and friends become enemies.
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The Stolen Border
1965
The Borrowed Face
7/3
It is the 1930s. Physician Bartos devotedly attends poor patients in the city suburbs, at the same time researching the possibilities of regeneration...
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The Borrowed Face
1984
...and again that Lucy!
6.667/9
A second part of a funny adventures of six years old Lucie and her two magic dolls.
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...and again that Lucy!
1949
Distant Journey
6.857/21
Prague, during World War II. Hana Kaufmann, a Jewish ophthalmologist, marries Dr. Antonín Bureš, a Christian man. When her family is sent to the There...
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Distant Journey
1985
Barrandovské nokturno aneb Jak film tančil a zpíval
8/1
The 50th anniversary of the Barrandov studios was celebrated with a spectacular show: many directors and other important people gathered in the expens...
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Barrandovské nokturno aneb Jak film tančil a zpíval
1981
Bulldogs and Cherries
4.286/7
The dreaded Italian mafioso, Marian Labuda, will also be convinced. Mafioso Carmello was guilty of the principles of his organization when he tried to...
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Bulldogs and Cherries
1971
Four Murders Are Enough, Darling
6.4/24
Two criminal gangs are ruthlessly fighting for a 1-million dollar check that, purely by chance, got into the flat of shy high school teacher George Ca...
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Four Murders Are Enough, Darling
1984
Amadeus
8/4911
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Salzburg...
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Amadeus
1985
The Feather Fairy
7.125/40
A fairy-tale about an old lady who takes care of snow and Jakub who does not fear death. It reflects the idea of people's longing for happiness, love...
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The Feather Fairy
1984
Byt je vykraden, maminko...
0/0
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Byt je vykraden, maminko...
1985
The False Prince
7.7/3
The Sultan awaits the arrival of his son, Prince Omar, who has brought up in a distant land. The master tailor and his assistances are making clothes...
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The False Prince
1986
Růžový Hubert
5/3
Eerie things are happening at Chelford Castle at night: Since the murder of Abbot Hubert some 400 years ago, his ghost is said to haunt the abbey on d...
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Růžový Hubert
1962
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
7.4/96
A 20th century man lands on the Moon and discovers that Baron Munchausen has beaten him to it, accompanied by Cyrano de Bergerac and the characters fr...
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The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
1960
The Lost Photography
6/3
A young boy from Prague is trying to find a Soviet soldier from the old 1945 picture.
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The Lost Photography
1963
When the Cat Comes
7/77
While old Oliva tells a group of children about his life as a sailor and how he met Diana and her cat with sunglasses, a strange circus arrives in tow...
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When the Cat Comes
1963
A Great Road Ahead
6.7/3
About the great Czech satirist Jaroslav Hašek, who was captured by the Russians during the First World War. Not wanting to fight for the interests of...
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A Great Road Ahead
1971
Marcelka
0/0
A rich man can not cheer his daughter Marcelka. He calls overseas doctors and tries to repaint his castle but nothing helps. Only young boy Petrik is...
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Marcelka
1957
Florenc 13,30
5.9/4
The plot of the film follows a bus ride on the Prague - Karlovy Vary route and the actions of the people on it. A diverse group of people with various...
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Florenc 13,30
1976
Circus in the Circus
5.1/10
To Moscow have arrived the participants of the international conference of the zoophilologists and also the international jury which is to elect for t...
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Circus in the Circus
1967
The Stolen Airship
7/28
Five young people take off in a lighter-than-air machine at the Prague Centennial Exhibition. In an Art Nouveau style, the film consists of live actio...
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The Stolen Airship
1956
Muž v povětří
8.5/2
Mr. Čap is an inventor who disturbs the peace of the town of Krásnov with his experiments. During his attempts to discover the eternal match, smoke an...
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Muž v povětří
1959
Of Things Supernatural
5.545/11
An anthology of three absurd, ironic tales inspired by Čapek’s “Tales from One Pocket” and “Fables and Side Stories,” each showing uncanny forces disr...
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Of Things Supernatural
1971
You Are a Widow, Sir
6.845/29
After a soldier cuts off the arm of king's cousin, king decides to deactivate the army. Of course, generals don't like it at all and they try to kill...
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You Are a Widow, Sir
1968
The Terribly Sad Princess
7.462/26
Like a fairy tale, King Henry and King Good-thought decided long ago that their only children should marry and so prevent war arising between their ki...
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The Terribly Sad Princess
1949
Rodinné trampoty oficiála Tříšky
5.6/5
The plump, punctual and slightly despotic Mr. Tříška worked as a housing officer, which completely damaged his psychological resilience, he is short-t...
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Rodinné trampoty oficiála Tříšky
1979
The Ninth Heart
6.5/16
Martin, a poor student, volunteers to go on a quest to find a cure for the princess Adriana, who is stricken with a strange illness. Unknown to Martin...
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The Ninth Heart
1961
Florián
7/2
A mobile chapel of St. Florian is moved every week between the villages of Zbořov and Spáňovice. The farmer Florian Jírovec, who has to provide his ho...
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Florián
1972
Zlatá svatba
8/2
At the beginning of normalisation in the 1970s, the appearance of ideologically tinged stories intensified, but there were also attempts to create unp...
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Zlatá svatba
1954
The Circus Will Be
7.5/4
A few bus-loads of holidaymakers from the agricultural cooperative on a day trip arrive to see the show at the Slavia Circus. But, they have bad luck....
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The Circus Will Be
1961
Every Penny Counts
7/2
After inheriting a villa from his uncle, Emil Tuma meets its strange inhabitants, getting him in trouble.
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Every Penny Counts
1964
A Star Travels South
6/3
The Prague Grand Orchestra travels by train to a music festival in Yugoslavia. Only the singer Sona Klánová missed the departure. In the meantime, she...
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A Star Travels South
1949
Pan Novák
0/0
Mr. Novák, an insurance company clerk, only cares about his job, nothing else interests him. Even the social changes in February 1948 leave him indiff...
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Pan Novák
1978
Good-for-Nothing
4.667/3
A young man seeks freedom and eventually gets conformed. To escape society, he wanders south. After some adventures he returns to his lover, where he...
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Good-for-Nothing
1952
Hasek’s Tales from the Old Monarchy
6.7/5
Four short stories by the greatest Czech satirist Jaroslav Hašek. "Soup for Poor Children" tells the story of how Prince Robert himself cooked soup fo...
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Hasek’s Tales from the Old Monarchy
1953
Kidnapped
6.7/3
American agents hijack a plane on the Ostrava-Prague route to launch a campaign against the People's Democratic Czechoslovakia. The plane lands in Wes...
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Kidnapped
1956
Jaroslav Hasek's Exemplary Cinematograph
5.938/8
Jaroslav Hašek screens four film stories in the fairground shed around 1900. After period advertising slides and a "newspaper", we see "the first part...
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Jaroslav Hasek's Exemplary Cinematograph
1956
Sons of the Mountains
9/1
The story of a friendship for life and death captures a real event that took place in the snowy Krkonoše Mountains in 1913. The actors of the drama we...
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Sons of the Mountains
1986
A co ten ruksak, králi?
5/1
In one kingdom, there was a stupid king. And he suddenly became wise because he met a magical grandfather who gave him a backpack. Who would have thou...
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A co ten ruksak, králi?
1963
Ticho! Ticho! Ticho!
0/0
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Ticho! Ticho! Ticho!
1966
Martin and Nine Fools
6.5/2
Captain Martin from the police's child department and his colleague Kraus are called to Znojmo to help solve a case regarding stolen toys found in the...
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Martin and Nine Fools
1947
Nobody Knows Anything
8.5/2
Martin Plechatý and Petr Nový roam occupied Prague with their trams. Times are hard and sometimes survival is not easy - especially when, in an attemp...
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Nobody Knows Anything
1947
Parohy
4/5
Oldřich Nový was and will forever remain the embodiment of charm, elegance and personal charm for Czech cinema, to which all women, regardless of age,...
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Parohy
1947
Portáši
6/1
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Portáši
1947
The Last of the Mohicans
7/2
Antique dealer Kohout is not a bad person. However, he has an ideal: to be the unlimited master at home. Therefore, he does not see his wife's wishes,...
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The Last of the Mohicans
1961
The Pilgrimage to the Holy Virgin
8/2
Farmers get away from their arguments by embarking on a religious pilgrimage, enjoy a picnic en route, and on their return decide to form a cooperativ...
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The Pilgrimage to the Holy Virgin
1966
Svatební cesta aneb Ještě ne, Evžene!
6/3
After a night of partying together, the groom-to-be and his friend wake up to find that the wedding is taking place today. The movers are already brin...
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Svatební cesta aneb Ještě ne, Evžene!
1948
The Musician
7.5/2
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The Musician
1948
Ves v pohraničí
7.667/3
The family of Prague greengrocer Pavlas was among the first immigrants to settle in the border village of Severov. Together, the new residents manage...
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Ves v pohraničí
1947
Sign of the Anchor
7.5/2
The mysterious story of a young girl Pavla, who mysteriously disappeared from her mother five years ago, takes place in the dark corners of the Bratis...
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Sign of the Anchor
1949
Red Lizard
10/1
Grammar school teacher Bláha hurts himself in pursuit of a red lizard, and is lying unconscious in the lonely house of Santrucek family. The postman,...
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Red Lizard
1948
Old Ironside
0/0
At the end of the war, the old train driver Matys saves his beloved locomotive Líza from depth charges. However, the locomotive is damaged and he is i...
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Old Ironside
1961
Ztracená revue
7/2
The music and dance revue about the clown and the girl from the poster takes place in the streets of Prague, in the quiet corners of the Old Town, Les...
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Ztracená revue
1949
Zrcadlo na vesnici 3
0/0
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Zrcadlo na vesnici 3
1949
Zrcadlo byrokratické 2
0/0
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Zrcadlo byrokratické 2
1953
Nad námi svítá
6/2
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Nad námi svítá
1961
Pochodně
7/2
Prague in the 1870s. Work in Smolík's sulphur factory is hard and dangerous to health. The poorly paid workers resemble torches because their clothes...
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Pochodně
1984
...and again that Lucy!
6.667/9
A second part of a funny adventures of six years old Lucie and her two magic dolls.
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...and again that Lucy!
1973
Three Men Travelling
7/1
Three Men Travelling is billed as a loosely related sequel to Tri chlapi v chalupe (1963), sending our country protagonists set out from their family...
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Three Men Travelling
1964
Secret of the Chinese Carnation
6.167/12
Professor Wilkens has invented a formula for a new type of fuel and puts it on a microfiche that he sends to his daughter and her bodyguard, but mult...
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Secret of the Chinese Carnation
1988
Figurky ze šmantů
6/2
Three short stories about the people and folk around the shaft.
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Figurky ze šmantů
1988
Náhodou je príma!
0/0
Even ideology permeated the children's stories: the beginnings of forced collectivisation in the village are seen through the eyes of a young boy. As...
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Náhodou je príma!
1954
Setkání s Hansem Sachsem
0/0
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