Jan Sverák
Date of Birth: 06 Feb 1965
Country: Czech Republic
Biography: Jan Svěrák (born 6 February 1965 in Žatec) is a Czech film director. He is the son of screenwriter and actor Zdeněk Svěrák. He studied documentary filmmaking at the FAMU. He and his films have received awards including the Academy Award, Crystal Globe, Golden Globe Award, and Tokyo Grand Prix.
Total Credits at Criticker: 8 (Director), 3 (Writer)
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March 15, 1939: Germany invades Czechoslovakia. Czech pilots flee to England, joining the RAF. After the war, back home, they are put in labor camps, suspected of anti-Communist ideas. This film cuts between a post-war camp where Franta is a prisoner and England during the war, where Franta is like a big brother to Karel, a very young pilot. On maneuvers, Karel crash lands by the rural home of Susan, an English woman whose husband is MIA... (imdb)
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Franta Louka is a concert cellist in Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia, a confirmed bachelor and a lady's man.
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Two guys bought a car and travelled through the country untill they met a lonely girl on the road. So they begin to travel together having so much fun... (imdb)
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Tkaloun is a nervous, over-aged school teacher living with his slowly retreating wife and struggling to find a new way of life for himself after he leaves his teaching job. When he accepts new work in a supermarket as the clerk responsible for storing empty glass bottles, he learns that it is never too late to be kind to other people, nor for life itself... (IMDB Comments)
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The time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside Prague. In school, their class is so wild and indisciplined that their teacher quits and is replaced by the militant Igor Hnidzo. He is very strict - but also very just. His weakness is his interest in young women. (imdb)
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A fantasy film about Dobbelgängers who live inside TV set. If you've been filmed for TV, your double will appear into the TV world. It needs to such your energy to survive always you turn the set on. Olda is one of the victims who almost dies because of it. He starts to fight against his double. (Me)
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Ropáci (1988) - Short Film
A zoologist and a biochemist go out into an oilfield with a cameraman and filmmaker to observe and study the elusive oil gobblers.
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When asthmatic, six-year-old ONDRA is forced to throw away his scruffy, sawdust-stuffed teddy bear, KOOKY, he prays for the safe return of his friend. Kooky is about to be crushed in a rubbish dump when he suddenly comes to life, making his escape into a mysterious forest. The naïve, cuddly Kooky needs help to survive amongst the rough-and-ready creatures of the forest and he finds it when he meets the crotchety forest guardian HERGOT. (kukysevraci.cz/en/ofilmu.html)
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