Jirí Machácek

Jirí Machácek

Total Credits at Criticker: 10 (Actor), 2 (Writer)

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    Loners
    Robert works for a travel agency and helps to arrange scenes from the everyday lives of "ordinary" Czech families as an attraction for Japanese tourists. He also works as a kind of matchmaker and occasionally helps to put together some of his friends. He helps to separate his friend Hanka from Peter, an announcer for an independent radio station who tries to capture "real" life by recording the moments from "reality" and playing them over the air.
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    Up and Down
    In the dead of the night, near the Czech-Slovak border, two smugglers discover their truckload of illegal Indian immigrants have left a baby behind. (Sony Pictures Classics)
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    Vratné lahve
    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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    Jedna ruka netleská
    Standa is a foul ball. The fate has been harsh to him but he took all the hard knocks without much fuzz so far. Being released from a prison, he believes everything would change for the better now. His former boss Zdeněk owes him a considerable sum of money and Standa hopes it will help him to fulfill his dreams. But unfortunately he hooks up with Ondřej who's even a bigger loony than him. (onehandcantclap.com)
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    Skřítek
    A tragicomedy full of slapstick and vignettes, and even an unexpected shootout. A family of villagers moves up in the world - to the county seat. Dad works as a butcher at a meatpacking plant, mom is a checker at a supermarket. The daughter is at odds with her homeroom teacher, while the son - a vegetarian, anarchist, and avid pothead - is apprenticing as a butcher to please his father... (imdb)
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    Medvídek
    The film follows a trio of married couples, exploring the lives of their relationships: Jirka (Jiří Macháček) and Vanda (Táňa Vilhelmová) have a young daughter, but their love has started to erode; Roman (Roman Luknár) and Anna (Aňa Geislerová) appear to be happily married, trying to conceive, but infidelity will come between them (expats.cz)
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    Wino Truskawkowe
    Middle of Europe. Village in the mountains with only one bus running. Love, crime, atonement. People and ghosts. Cheap wine and magic.
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    Nestyda
    Oskar is a television weatherman. Like many fortysomethings, he tries to ward off his midlife crisis and his increasingly dissatisfying marriage with a steady stream of affairs. When he manipulates a weather report for the sake of flirting, the repercussions arequick to follow: Oskar finds himself jobless and wifeless. His carefree bachelor lifestyle interlaced with lovers of varying ages is not, however, idylilic.
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    Women in Temptation
    When a marriage counselor is abandoned by her husband for a younger woman, she sets out for new companionship. (imdb)
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    Muzi v nadeji
    Can infidelity be the basis for a happy marriage? Rudolf charming bon vivant is convinced: "A woman has to feel that a man must fight to try to keep him. And most importantly, women should not be bored! " (csfd.cz)
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