Czech cinema is the name for cinematography of Czech Republic, as well as the Czech cinematography while it was a part of other countries.
Jiří Menzel was a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and screenwriter. His films often combine a humanistic view of the world with sarcasm and provocative cinematography. Some of these films are adapted from works by Czech writers such as Bohumil Hrabal and Vladislav Vančura.
TV Nova is a commercial television station in the Czech Republic. It began broadcasting in February 1994 as the first privately held nationwide Czech TV station. Its first CEO was Vladimír Železný. It quickly achieved the largest market share in the country and remained in this position until the early 2010s.
Pan Tau is a character created for a children's television series. There were 33 episodes in 3 series made by the Czechoslovak Television (ČST) in cooperation with Barrandov Studios and the West German TV network Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR). A pilot film was shot in 1966, and 33 episodes were made from 1970 until 1979. The project ended with a feature film in 1988.
Ivan Martin Jirous was a Czech poet and dissident, best known as the artistic director of the Czech psychedelic rock group The Plastic People of the Universe, and later one of the key figures of the Czech underground during the communist regime. He is more frequently known as Magor, which can be roughly translated as "shithead", "loony", or "fool", a nickname given to him by the experimental poet Eugen Brikcius.
Elinor Anne Harvie is a Canadian actress who portrayed Morticia on The New Addams Family. Later, she starred as Dr. Lindsey Novak in Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis.
Jiří Voskovec, born Jiří Wachsmann and known in the United States as George Voskovec was a Czech actor, writer, dramatist, and director who became an American citizen in 1955. Throughout much of his career he was associated with actor and playwright Jan Werich. In the U.S., he is best known for his role as the polite Juror #11 in the 1957 film 12 Angry Men.
Ivan Kral was a Czech-born American composer, filmmaker, guitarist, record producer, bassist, and singer-songwriter. He worked across genres including pop music, punk rock, garage rock, rock, jazz, soul, country and film scores. His music has been recorded by such artists as U2, Téléphone, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Simple Minds, and John Waite, among others. The Czech three-time Andel Awards winner died of cancer in 2020, aged 71.
Hospital at the End of the City is a Czechoslovak television series first released in 1978 by Czechoslovak Television. It featured an ensemble cast and received much viewer praise in Central Europe. The series, with a screenplay by Jaroslav Dietl and directed by Jaroslav Dudek, ran from 1978 to 1981 for a total of twenty episodes. The show's success inspired the German television series The Black Forest Clinic.
Lucie Vondráčková is a Czech popular singer and theatre and film actress. She has won a number of awards, including the Best Actress award at the 2020 Prague Independent Film Festival for her role in Beyond her Lens.
HC Dukla Prague is a handball club from Prague, Czech Republic, that plays in the Chance Extraliga.
Duchacek Will Fix It is a Czech comedy film directed by Karel Lamač. It was released in 1938.
Tři chlapi v chalupě is a Czechoslovak comedy television series produced by Czechoslovak Television, which also broadcast during period 1961–1963.It was the second Czechoslovak series after Rodina Bláhova. 18 episodes followed by a special episode in 1964 were broadcast. Only four parts have been preserved until now. The series was filmed by several directors, František Filip directed the most episodes. The screenplay was the work of Jaroslav Dietl, Jiří Hubač, Ilja Prachar and Josef Barchánek. The plot of the series is devoted to stories from the lives of men of three generations of the Potůček family, who live together in one cottage in the village.
Lawyer Vera is a 1937 Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Martin Frič.
Policajti z předměstí is a Czech television comedy series which premiered on TV Nova. In 1999, 21 episodes were aired.
Jiří Macháček is a Czech actor and singer.
Policie Modrava is a Czech crime drama television series which premiered on TV Nova in 2011. The series was cancelled after the pilot aired on 9 October 2011 due to financial problems, but was renewed in 2012. The series premiered after four years on 1 March 2015. Soňa Norisová, Jaroslav Satoranský, Filip Tomsa and others appear in the main roles.
The King of Šumava: The Phantom of the Dark Land is a 2022 three-part adventure miniseries directed by David Ondříček and produced by the production company Lucky Man Films. The series was filmed under the brand Voyo Original. The script was written by Tomáš Vávra and David Ondříček.
Zločiny Velké Prahy is a Czech crime television series. The series takes place in 1922, in the period when central Prague merged with thirty-eight cities to create Great Prague. However, according to the creators, the individual stories are meant to sound simultaneously. The series has ten parts and is directed by Jaroslav Brabec. Writer and historian Michal Dlouhý who also orked on the script of Četnické humoresky, collaborated on the series.
Záhada hlavolamu is a Czechoslovak adventure television series produced by Czechoslovak Television, which broadcast it in 1969–1970. The nine-part series is an adaptation of the novels The Mystery of the Puzzle and Stínadla se bouří by the writer Jaroslav Foglar. It was filmed by director Hynek Bočan, who is also the author of the script with Václav Šašek. The series focuses on a group of boys from the Rychlé šípy Club who venture into the mysterious urban district of Stínadla, where they uncover various local secrets.
