František Velecký Trailers
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Velecký was a very particular figure of Slovak acting, being antipode to venerated mainstream showbiz celebrities. Although he had never received any formal training in acting, he managed to earn great respect of both filmmakers and audience members.
He performed in some 50 Slovak, Czech, German, Hungarian and UK/US movies, but he will be most remembered for portraying the lead character of Mikoláš in the Czech movie Marketa Lazarová.
Velecký was born 8 March 1934 in Zvolen. He originally studied civil engineering and worked as a designer for few years. However, since his early age he was attracted by the world of cinema and finally in his 30s managed to get his first major roles.
Practically at the beginning of his acting career, after a few minor films including Každý týždeň sedem dní (1964) and Nylonový mesiac (1965), he received the role of his lifetime in Marketa Lazarová (1966). This experience deeply influenced the rest of his life.
In interviews, he described with gratitude how the director František Vláčil completely changed his way of seeing the world during the long production of this movie.
Despite the impact the role had on the film (widely considered the best Czech cinema) and on his life, Velecký would probably be more recognized by Western audiences for his appearances in The Brothers Grimm (released 2005) and the Academy Award-nominated Želary (2003).
For most of his career, Velecký was free of any theatre company ties except being briefly associated with the Theatre of Spišká Nová Ves in the 1980s.
During his professional career, Velecký was not limited to acting. He was assistant director to Juraj Jakubisko on the film Zbehovia a pútnici (1968) and he applied his talent in fine arts during the 1990s.
Velecký died of cancer 5 October 2003 in Bratislava.
Most Popular František Velecký Trailers
Total trailers found: 45
01 January 2000
Television adaptation of the classic novel by American author N. West.
10 December 1975
A psychological story of a young printing house leader and his subordinates and a "dangerous contract from the West".
04 May 2000
Poetic film from summertime Bratislava, reminiscent of Slovak films of the 1960s or the work of Dušan Hanák.
21 September 1973
Sixteen-year-old students of a grammar school are supposed to write essays on "Love". The class best student Andrea (Jaroslava Schallerová) writes about a patriotic love to a country as she has no experience with a partner love.
26 August 2005
Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and performing exorcisms.
06 November 2003
Sentiment is Tomáš Hejtmánek's intimate documentary portrait of the great Czech director František Vláčil.
25 June 1971
Comedy about the "Husarenstreich", the 1757 Berlin raid during the Seven Years' War.
11 February 1966
The sweet story of the Bratislava architect Andrej and the beautiful Vanda, with whom Andrej, who has been cynical about women, falls in love for the first time.
01 January 1980
The beautiful, bright and intelligent, but perfectly mischievous Marquise de Mertuil and her charming and equally depraved and ruthless friend, the master of seduction Vicomte de Valmont play a cynical game full of intrigue.
10 November 1978
Second movie of the famous Czech adventure trilogy: Osada Havranů Na veliké rece Volání rodu
01 April 1986
A story of a young student of medicine, who arrives in a small mountain village after being accused for carrying out illegal abortion.
09 March 1972
Set in the 1890s on the Hungarian plains, a group of farm workers go on strike in which they face harsh reprisals and the reality of revolt, oppression, morality and violence.
30 September 1987
A king was dying. An old man told his sons that only the water of life would save him.
06 December 1968
An apocalyptic story of three wars in three film tales encompassing the end of the WWI,WWII, as well as a vision of the world destroyed by nuclear weapons.
21 July 1970
Impressionistic film based on a Maupassant story about five friends who fall in love with the same beautiful girl one summer.
24 November 1967
Mikolás and his brother Adam end up with a young German hostage of noble blood during a robbery. While their clan prepares for the wrath of the German king, Mikolás is sent to pressure his neighbor Lazar into a defense pact.
06 June 1969
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 blonde.
11 December 1969
Epic recalling the early days of the Republic of the councils.
21 December 1974
This film, set at the beginning of the 17th century, is the first East-European "Eastern". Bocskai István orders the free Heyducks to shepherd a huge herd of cattle through the country torn to three parts, to the Dalmatian coast, where he can get weapons in exchange, for fighting the Austrians.
11 September 1992
A satiric tragi-comedy about two women and their lover Robert who is an emigrant that keeps coming back.
28 August 1964
The film could have been a lyrical evocation of the ČSSR's first generation: the youngsters born during the war, who grew up in a state violently at pains to find and define itself, and were now ready to break away from the nation-builder ethics of their elders – but Grečner turned it into an anxiety-riddled existentialist vision of a whole globe in fear.
20 September 1968
A biographical film about the Slovak nationalist Ľudovít Štúr. It captures the revolutionary events of 1848 in Austria-Hungary, when Štúr, as a member of the Diet, led the fight for the national rights of the Slovak people.
20 August 1984
A dramatic love story in the front line.
17 December 1971
The hero of this popular fairy tale is a young prince who, after the death of his parents, goes out into the world.
02 July 1976
A funny outlaw tale inspired by traditional folk humour. Pacho is no ordinary outlaw. He detests injustice and feudal oppression and he copes with each troublesome situation with the help of his cleverness and wit.
01 July 1972
In 1757, the second year of the Seven Years' War, Frederick II the Great stands at the gates of Prague.
01 January 1972
Two 14-year-old girls Radka and Jožka are going through adolescent difficulties. One of them wants to buy a new dress, which her parents, who are building a house, cannot give her money for.
30 January 1969
Slovak partisans, bravely fighting against Nazi superiority, would never have succeeded to such an extent if they had not been supported by the villagers.
22 February 1974
It is 1920, political unrest is growing in Prague and the Social Democrats are about to betray their historic mission by prioritising their own selfish interests instead of those of the working class.
01 January 1979
A television film, an adaptation of Vladimír Mináč's first novel. The dramatic story of two brothers during the Slovak National Uprising provides artistic testimony to authentic events from the Slovak mountains in 1944.
25 December 1964
A psychological drama from the judiciary. Lawyer Kolár handles the case of the rape and murder of a fourteen-year-old girl and tries to remove the fifteen-year-old boy from suspicion and subsequent conviction based on discrepancies in the case file.
01 January 1993
The tragicomedy of a man who, by inappropriately attending the wedding of his subordinate, wants to demonstrate humanistic thinking in a society that is not ripe for such ideas.
01 January 1973
This poetic film presents the ballad of the boys who turned into stags, by the associative means of music, painting and folk art.
