Josef Vondráček
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Birthday:1932-10-05
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Slingboy (1960)
A young Czech boy is freed from a concentration camp and now is working for the army against the Germans.

Proč nevěřit na zázraky (1978)
Wartime events from a child's perspective were a popular theme during the previous regime - here it is a twelve-year-old village boy who experiences...

Shadow of a Flying Bird (1977)
It doesn't help to have an exacerbated situation like a family losing their only son - killed in a motorcycle accident. His parents, however, don't...

Nikola Šuhaj loupežník (1978)
The merging of reality with legend, the image of reality (Ruthenian Verkhovyna in the 1920s) and its reflection in people's minds - this is what...

Waiting for the Rain (1978)
It’s a hot holiday season in the city and Alena is pretty much left to her own little self, fantasizing and running her personal daily rituals,...

The Day the Tree Blooms (1961)
Based on a novel by Maria Majerova, this well-photographed but routine romantic drama is directed and co-scripted by Vaclav Krska. Set in a more...

Pracka v láhvi (1979)
An ambitious girl is hired by a group of thieves as a maid in the apartment of a famous actress. The thieves thus prepare the ground for a...

Love Between the Raindrops (1980)
Set in Prague during the years leading up to World War II, this family saga tells the story of a cobbler named Vincenc Bursik (Vladimir Mensik), who...

Calamity (1982)
Funny banter about love, sex, social status, and other ideals, while a new railway employee is trained and sent on his first run as driver.

Concert (1981)
Rock concerts used to be suspicious. They were supposed to attract all sorts of strange individuals who meant no good. In this case, it's a pair of...

Kotva u přívozu (1980)
A few weeks in the life of the family of an attractive woman, the TV presenter Magda, her second husband and her teenage son. Magda is a lively,...

Closely Watched Trains (1966)
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity....

Attention, Rounds! (1982)
A story about an everyday life of an inflectional department of Prague hospital.

The Hope (1964)
A group of outcasts, including a vagabond and a prostitute, gather at the outskirts of the industrial area of a large Czech city, one of the things...

Únos Moravanky (1983)
The popular Moravanka brass band performs at the fair. Vasek Pivoňka, the bandleader of the local brass band Kulatěnky, which broke up, decides to...

The Return of the Prodigal Son (1967)
Engineer Jan Sebek (Jan Kacer) is undergoing treatment in a mental home after his unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide. His therapist, via...

Murder Czech Style (1967)
The protagonist (Rudolf Hrusinsky) is a dull, fat, shy government clerk indulging in voyuerism and ego fantasies. In love with another clerk (Kveta...

Never Strike A Woman... Even with A Flower (1967)
Shortish forty-year old Ludvík Podzimek, lute and flute player in a Prague orchestra, is far from being an attractive man. He is nevertheless...

Windstorm (1967)
A worker steals bits and pieces of building materials from work to construct a new home for himself and his girlfriend. When he discovers that...

A Man Who Rose in Price (1968)
Mr. Benda, a married father of two children, works for a company that liquidates old banknotes. After one drunken party, he is visited by a painter...

Maturita za školou (1973)
The short story film follows the fate of three young men who will soon have to decide what to do with their lives. The first "Poet", an aspiring...

Dva muži hlásí příchod (1975)
An only son, Jirí Valenta (Jaromír Hanzlík), has been drafted to the army. At the barracks he acquires the nickname Seamstress...

Vrtkavý král (1975)
The historical television play was written based on Vančura's Pictures from the History of the Czech Nation and takes place against the backdrop of...

Králův kalich (1975)
A section of the life of George of Poděbrady from his coronation to his death (1458–1471), creating a portrait of a remarkable monarch whose...

The Little Mermaid (1976)
The little mermaid rescues a prince from drowning and falls in love with him. To be with him, she makes a deal with the evil sorceress: her beautiful...

Sestricky (1984)
A Czech psychological film about the school of life, its sorrows and beauties. The main character is a young aspiring nurse Marie Sahulová,...

My Sweet Little Village (1985)
The movie's main storyline follows the life of Otík, a young man, in a tight-knit village community. The sweet-tempered Otík works as...

Hráči (1983)
A professional card player and swindler, Icharev, arrives in a small town with a plan to rip off some local jackdaw if possible. However, a trio of...

Cutting It Short (1981)
Francin, manager of a small-town brewery, has a charming wife whose abundant blonde locks are an adornment to the town. Maryska looks ethereal but...

Forbidden Dreams (1987)
Leo Popper is a happy family man living in rural Bohemia in the years preceding the Nazi invasion. Out of economic necessity he moves with his family...

An Uncertain Season (1988)
The small group of actors have to face many problems while preparing a new performance.

Člověk proti zkáze (1990)
Biography of Karel Čapek.

The Gentle Barbarian (1990)
A commemorative and essayistic meditative piece on the Prague quarter Libeň during the 1950s.

Skřivánčí ticho (1990)
The hero of the story is a forty-something intellectual, a sensitive composer of classical music. His exclusive profession, his work, which is...

Vracenky (1991)
In the fifites the 10 year old boy Honza lives with his single mother in Prague. The mother is a dedicated communist in the beginning but she changes...

Strange Creatures (1990)
A parable for the end of totalitarianism. Three protagonists - a high official, a secretary, and a border guard - representative of three...

Pan Tau (1970)
Pan Tau always had a gentle expression and a friendly smile, he was elegantly dressed in a stroller, with an umbrella and a white carnation in the...