Josef Somr
Aithnichte airson: Acting
Co-là-breith: 1934-04-15
Àite breith: Vracov, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Cuideachd aithnichte mar: J. Somr
Closely Watched Trains
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity....
Saoradh : 1966.11.18Popularity : 8.896
Brontosaurus
Tomás lives in a very small Czech town and is a nature lover and a birdwatcher. He struggles to keep the forests he loves clean and constantly...
Saoradh : 1980.08.22Popularity : 1.119
The Snowdrop Festival
This movie is based on texts of Bohumil Hrabal, world-known Czech prosaic. It's a story (in a form of a mosaic of short episodes and pictures) about...
Saoradh : 1984.01.01Popularity : 4.523
The Three Veterans
It is a story of three veterans released from the army. During one night spent camping in the country they one by one wake up and meet three elvish...
Saoradh : 1984.07.01Popularity : 3.586
Dva muži hlásí příchod
An only son, Jirí Valenta (Jaromír Hanzlík), has been drafted to the army. At the barracks he acquires the nickname Seamstress...
Saoradh : 1975.09.26Popularity : 1.206
Angel
An angel who ruins everything he touches is sent to Earth to learn about love, forgiveness and selflessness -- and he has just one day to do it.
Saoradh : 2005.11.03Popularity : 3.346
Of Parents and Children
On a walk through Prague, a 40-year-old son's conversations with his septuagenarian father reveal complexities that both strain and sustain their...
Saoradh : 2008.03.06Popularity : 1.38
How Poets Are Enjoying Their Lives
Zatímco Kendy se jako pomocný režisér vrací do rodného města natáčet s televizním...
Saoradh : 1988.06.01Popularity : 2.071
A Nice Plate of Spinach
The heroes of this absurd comedy, full of confusion and humor are Dzharda Zemanek and Frantisek Liska.
Saoradh : 1977.09.09Popularity : 1.828
I'm All Good
This Hrebejk’s comedy is set in Prague, four years after the democratic “Velvet revolution” of 1989. This was an era of sudden...
Saoradh : 2008.05.05Popularity : 2.424
Morgiana
Jealous of her vapidly "good" sister's popularity, poisonous Viktoria doses pretty Klara's tea with a slow-acting fatal substance. As the latter...
Saoradh : 1972.09.15Popularity : 4.867
Něco je ve vzduchu
The urn supposedly containing the remains of Alice's grandfather falls out of the window and breaks. To Alice's great surprise, the urn is empty and...
Saoradh : 1981.05.08Popularity : 1.487
How Poets Are Losing Their Illusions
A story about a young medical school student and his adventures.
Saoradh : 1985.04.01Popularity : 1.617
How the World Is Losing Poets
Inseparable friends Štěpán and Kendy are students in their final year of high school. When they are in the principal's office...
Saoradh : 1982.11.12Popularity : 1.614
The Poets Never Lose Hope
After his mother's death, a man tries to sort out his declining relationship, live-in best friend, a career opportunity and a potential new romance.
Saoradh : 2004.01.22Popularity : 1.196
The Devil Knows Why
Fairytale. A good king rules this land, but still things are going from bad to worse. The point is that the greedy Minister of State has an...
Saoradh : 2003.02.27Popularity : 1.408
The Joke
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...
Saoradh : 1969.02.28Popularity : 4.871
The Last One Will Go to Hell
A historical film that takes place on the eve of the thirty year war combines aspects of fairy-tales with historical dramas, fencing with a child...
Saoradh : 1982.07.23Popularity : 1.074
Oldies but Goldies
A bitter-sweet comedy about two people who wish to live life to the full despite their age. Ota is a retired high-school teacher and at this point in...
Saoradh : 2012.04.12Popularity : 3.97
Attention, Rounds!
A story about an everyday life of an inflectional department of Prague hospital.
Saoradh : 1982.04.23Popularity : 10.804
Kinoautomat
Kinoautomat was the world's first interactive movie, conceived by Radúz Činčera for the Czechoslovak Pavilion at Expo '67 in...
Saoradh : 1971.01.14Popularity : 2.396
A Man Who Rose in Price
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...
Saoradh : 1968.06.28Popularity : 1.811
Prague Nights
A stuffy middle-aged foreigner, a businessman named Fabricius, lonely and looking for a night's diversion, finds it in the form of a mysterious...
Saoradh : 1969.06.06Popularity : 1.809
Adelheid
In the aftermath of World War II, a soldier takes charge of a manor formerly owned by a German family and falls in love with the daughter, now a...
Saoradh : 1970.02.06Popularity : 5.004
Fools and a Girl
A coming of age drama about a young boy Jirka who lives in Prague.
Saoradh : 1988.10.10Popularity : 0.824
Waiting for the Rain
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,...
Saoradh : 1978.10.13Popularity : 1.293
Granny
A tale based on novel by Czech writer Bozena Nemcova.
Saoradh : 1971.10.08Popularity : 2.055
Halt, Or I'll Miss!
It is April 1945, spring begins and ends the war. German transport heading away from Bohemia.
Saoradh : 1998.03.12Popularity : 1.318
Oil Lamps
In 1900, Stepha, the vivacious 30 year old daughter of a wealthy couple, agrees to marry her cousin Paul, who has accumulated large debts as an...
Saoradh : 1971.11.05Popularity : 1.039
Touha Sherlocka Holmese
Sherlock Holmes likes to play violin and expects a great career in music. He gets a place in a spa orchestra, but he is again and again distracted by...
Saoradh : 1972.03.03Popularity : 1.145
A Star Is Falling Upwards
Švand, a room painter from Strakonice, begins a dizzying career as a pop music star, but he soon discovers that fame is not the most important...
Saoradh : 1975.08.29Popularity : 2.179
The Great Unknown
Three detective stories, three different views of life and death... Collection of three horror short stories.
Saoradh : 1970.10.23Popularity : 1.612
Days of Betrayal
This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot),...
Saoradh : 1973.04.27Popularity : 2.698
The Liberation of Prague
On 20th of April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germany and Hitler decides to commit suicide. In...
Saoradh : 1977.05.06Popularity : 1.692
Love Your Enemies
The story of a Swiss woman and a Czech man, who changed hundreds of lives.
Saoradh : 2005.01.01Popularity : 0.379
The Valley of the Bees
Cast out by his father, young Ondrej joins the Order of the Teutonic Knights, where he is raised by strict monk Armin. After years of hardship,...
Saoradh : 1968.05.17Popularity : 4.66
Smoke on the Potato Fields
In this character study by Czech director Frantisek Vlacil, a stout middle-aged physician whose marriage has come apart establishes a practice in a...
Saoradh : 1977.04.15Popularity : 0.647
Boys Will Be Boys
Three friends - Tomás, Hubert and Jozka - are boys growing up in a little town. Tomás lives with his aunt Apolena and uncle...
Saoradh : 1976.03.19Popularity : 4.372
Half a House Without a Groom
The Francs with their daughters Olina and Jirina are building a villa in the village of Rezkovice. Father Franc (Vladimír Mensík)...
Saoradh : 1981.03.20Popularity : 0.705
Murder in the Excelsior Hotel
In Vražda v hotelu Excelsior, the interwar period homicide detective squad from Prague investigates the murder of a wealthy woman, Mrs...
Saoradh : 1971.10.08Popularity : 2.043
Miss Golem
It is the 1920's. The good-looking hostess Věra demonstrates household robots to visitors of the Futurum exhibition. Young inventor Petr comes...
Saoradh : 1973.03.30Popularity : 2.824
Max, Sally and the Magic Phone
Max and Sally, the heroes of popular Czech animated series are leaving the TV in order to become a regular boy and girl.
Saoradh : 2001.10.10Popularity : 1.811
Ghosts of the Dormers
A tale about a young girl whose grandfather has built a garden of horrors.
Saoradh : 1987.01.15Popularity : 2.199
The End of Old Times
Czechoslovakia 1918. The newly formed National Assembly has made Stoklasa the administrator of the Kratochvile Castle. Although with no aristocratic...
Saoradh : 1989.01.01Popularity : 2.021
Summer with a Cowboy
Hlavními postavami je mladá psycholožka Doubravka a vesnický mladík Honza Macháček. On je traktorista,...
Saoradh : 1976.10.15Popularity : 1.58
Monkey's Playtime
The fisherman Fuksa fishes in the creek an old bottle and he sells it to innkeeper Merta. When Merta opens it, a genie appears, who can fulfill all...
Saoradh : 1978.02.10Popularity : 3.049
Evropa tančila valčík
Otakar Vávra dedicated his latest film to events accompanying the devastation of the first World War. It takes place in representative centers...
Saoradh : 1989.12.29Popularity : 0.973
Indians from Vetrov
In the frontier village Vetrov boys from the children's home called Indians lead a bitter "war" with the local Símáks. Before a battle...
Saoradh : 1979.09.07Popularity : 2.587
Private Torment
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...
Saoradh : 1967.12.22Popularity : 1.08
One of Them Is the Murderer
Marek (Jirí Holý), formerly a driver of a long-distance lorry, has served his term for smuggling art works abroad and is released from...
Saoradh : 1971.04.23Popularity : 2.259
Hubert the Smart Boy
Hubert Hrabe, known as Smart Boy, is a Prague dandy who is always skirting the edge of the law. Like every likable rogue, he has a worthy adversary -...
Saoradh : 1985.06.01Popularity : 2.577
Funeral Ceremony
Matylda (Jaroslava Ticha), who lives in the Czech countryside, is trying to arrange burial plans for her dying husband, Jan (Ludvik Kroner). While...
Saoradh : 1990.06.01Popularity : 2.014
The Oddsockeaters
Oddsockeaters are small invisible creatures, responsible for socks that go missing when we only have one left from a pair. But unlike them,...
Saoradh : 2016.10.20Popularity : 2.239
The Giants
A blue dwarf and a red dwarf get into a vicious argument. Each ultimately calls upon a matching giant to protect them, with unexpected results.
Saoradh : 1970.09.11Popularity : 0.588
Konecná stanica
A successful Slovak film adaptation of the eponymous play Radošina Naive Theatre.
Saoradh : 2004.12.01Popularity : 2.138
Zelňačka
Czech TV adaptation of the french novel "La Soupe aux choux", previously adapted for the cinema in France, with De Funès ("Cabbage Soup",...
Saoradh : 1996.03.13Popularity : 1.422
Hotel for Strangers
A gifted poet checks into a Gothic hotel in hopes of meeting the woman with whom he has long been enamored. He is surrounded by a variety of offbeat...
Saoradh : 1967.03.24Popularity : 3.912
The Secret of Steel City
The film is a metaphor for the Cold War. It depicts two neighbouring nations: peace loving Fortuna and the not so peaceful land of the Steel City.
Saoradh : 1979.05.11Popularity : 2.05
Cerni baroni
Life of Czechoslovak soldiers in a military unit for the so called "politically unreliable" - the Technical auxiliary battalions, aka "the black...
Saoradh : 1992.06.04Popularity : 2.008
My Sweet Little Village
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...
Saoradh : 1985.08.01Popularity : 4.05
Little Witch on a Broomstick
When Your mum is a Witch, be careful what You play with
Saoradh : 2011.09.15Popularity : 2.734
The Ninth Heart
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...
Saoradh : 1979.04.13Popularity : 1.714
The Divine Emma
The opera lady singer Ema Destinnová is in all her splendor at the American stages. But in Europe there rages war and she decides to return...
Saoradh : 1979.12.21Popularity : 1.526
30 Maidens and Pythagoras
A musical starring Jiří Menzel (whose part is sung by Achilles Michailidis) as a math and physics teacher employing innovative teaching...
Saoradh : 1977.09.16Popularity : 1
Comrades
Chytilová was not allowed to direct films between 1969 and 1976. The sole exception was the made-for-TV film Kamarádi, now virtually...
Saoradh : 1971.01.01Popularity : 0.463
Dum U Zlateho usvitu
Magic and spells in the peaceful town of Jack-o'-lantern, which you will not find on any map. A funny story telling you how a magician's visit can...
Saoradh : 2009.12.25Popularity : 0.395
Čas pracuje pro vraha
Vera, wife of the plumber Simandl (Josef Somr), is found murdered in the cinema next to the IDOC (Information and Documentation) agency where she...
Saoradh : 1980.02.01Popularity : 0.58
Those Wonderful Movie Cranks
Returning home to Prague, the magician Pasparte, an owner of a circus caravan, meets his dying colleague who entrusts his beautiful daughter Aloisie...
Saoradh : 1979.08.03Popularity : 1.166
Kam nikdo nesmí
Lucie Rýdlová is found dead at a destroyed car after a night accident. The seat position shows that she cannot have been driving, and...
Saoradh : 1979.11.16Popularity : 1.103
Dilino a čert
"Why is my son stupid?" laments the poor Roma coal miner. His son Dilino is a nice boy, but he still causes his parents a lot of worry. He hasn't...
Saoradh : 2009.12.25Popularity : 0.977
Defendant
Managers at the construction of a big hydro plant are accused of having embezzled money.
Saoradh : 1964.02.25Popularity : 0.674
Eugene among Us
Young Eugene from the provinces travels to Prague in search of fame. Once there he gets an offer to write engagé lyrics for pop songs...
Saoradh : 1990.10.01Popularity : 0.701
Fruit of Paradise
An experimental retelling of the story of Adam and Eve which then progresses into an allegorical depiction of the loss of innocence.
Saoradh : 1970.07.31Popularity : 2.477
Travis
Tv movie based on a story by J. Hanák.
Saoradh : 1997.02.19Popularity : 0.673
Rainbow Kulick
Little boy Milan is going to visit his grandfather in the countryside - for a first time.
Saoradh : 1985.12.23Popularity : 0.802