Movies: Jan Čuřík
- 1970
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
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Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the effects she experiences when she puts on a pair of magic earrings. Now seeing the world around her in a dif...
- 1975
The Day That Shook the World (1975)
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An historical depiction of the events preceding the political murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, would-be emperor of the Austro-Hungarian throne, in Sarajevo on June 28th, 1914....
- 1982
Attention, Rounds! (1982)
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A story about an everyday life of an inflectional department of Prague hospital....
- 1969
The Joke (1969)
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In the 1950s, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he sent to his girlfriend. Fifteen years later, he tries to get his revenge by seducing Helena, the wif...
- 1963
Something Different (1963)
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In her first feature, Věra Chytilová uses a combination of documentary and fiction film techniques to tell two stories in counterpoint. The first follows Olympic champion gymnast Eva Bosáková, who contemplates retirement as she undergoes a gruelling ...
- 1960
No Entrance (1960)
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- 1983
Fandy ó Fandy (1983)
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Little kids, little worries, big kids, big worries, sighs many a parent often. This is no different for the mother of eighteen-year-old Frantisek, who has just graduated from high school without much glory and is about to start his first job. Fandy i...
- 1987
Where, Gentlemen, Where Are You Going? (1987)
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A story of Jan Kolvara, forty years old architect, who is a little bit too obsessed with women in his life....
- 1963
Transport from Paradise (1963)
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Czechoslovakian Zbynek Brynych directs this psychological drama set in World War II Terezin ghetto. A dark, visual portrayal of the trials and tribulations the Theresienstadt people faced on a daily basis presented in a series of memorable stories. T...
- 1961
Páté oddělení (1961)
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- 1960
The White Dove (1960)
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A poetic film about a dove getting lost on its way to Prague getting shot down by a paralyzed boy. An artist who finds the dove becomes friends with the boy. Together they take care of it bringing it back to recovery....
- 1967
Five Girls Around the Neck (1967)
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Five Girls Around the Neck, in 1967, set out to explore that critical age of adolescence when a person's character is formed for good or evil. Schorm examined a girl's problems of being giving too much. She tries to buy the goodwill of her less fortu...
- 1980
Love Between the Raindrops (1980)
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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 uproots his clan from the country to the city, only to suffer the loss of his wife and the failure of...
- 1981
Sugar House (1981)
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In the final days of the Second World War in 1945 Frantisek Pribyl is killed during a shoot-out with the Germans. After the funeral, the widow (Jana Svandová) and her two young sons Martin and Ondra move to her deceased husband's native village at th...
- 2007
Golden Eels (2007)
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A little boy, named Prdelka, traveled with his father from Prague to the country during the Second World War. There, the boy became friends with a local fisherman and learned to catch the golden eels. Eventually, his father and mother were arrested b...
- 1964
A Place in the Crowd (1964)
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A film in five episodes, all based on an attempt to show the life of young people today, their feelings and relationships, their behaviour in public and private life....
- 1975
Kateřina a její děti (1975)
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- 1961
Every Penny Counts (1961)
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After inheriting a villa from his uncle, Emil Tuma meets its strange inhabitants, getting him in trouble....
- 1964
Joseph Kilian (1964)
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The story is about Harold, an isolated figure in an overwhelming world of totalitarian bureaucracy. Harold tries to find the elusive Joseph Kilian, an old acquaintance, in Prague. When Harold stumbles across a state-run cat-lending store, he impulsiv...
- 1974
People from the Subway (1974)
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Three short stories. Prague finally sees the approval of the subway construction. Thousands of individuals took part in preparing, course and finalizing construction of subway and their lives crossed at certain points of this construction....