František Vláčil Trailers
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František Vláčil (February 19, 1924, Český Těšín – January 28, 1999, Prague) was a Czech film director, painter, and graphic artist. Between 1945 and 1950, he studied esthetics and art history at Masaryk University in Brno. Later he worked in various groups and ateliers (e.g. on animated films), but his main area became played film. His films are well known for extraordinarily high art quality. Vláčil was awarded many film prizes like the Prize of the International Film Festival 1998 in Karlovy Vary or the Czech Lion Prize for his longstanding contribution to world film culture.
Most Popular František Vláčil Trailers
Total trailers found: 39
29 January 1988
A narration of episodes from the life of the famous Czech poet, Karel Hynek Mácha. Throughout the film, we witness a deep analysis of Mácha's complex character (his relation to another Czech writer of the time Josef Kajetán Tyl, his unbearable jealousy, his solitude, his attitude to nature,etc.
01 February 1985
The 50th anniversary of the Barrandov studios was celebrated with a spectacular show: many directors and other important people gathered in the expensive decorations of the Variety Theatre auditorium (built for the Circus Humberto series).
07 August 1959
Five short stories: The Master and the Twentieth Disciple; Every Week is Sunday; It's Boniface's Fault; The Raggedy Song; The Spider's Web.
20 May 1960
Two stories from the lives of border guards. In the story "The Pursuit", an experienced border guard and his young and inexperienced colleague follow the tracks of ski boots in a snowstorm.
01 January 1985
Story of an extraordinary musician, violinist, who was famous, but his alcoholism led him to poverty. Now he is playing time from time to rich people. Then Albert meets count Delesov, who tries to change Albert's life. Two different characters, two ways of life confront... Will Albert change?
04 November 1960
A poetic film about a dove getting lost on its way to Prague getting shot down by a paralyzed boy. An artist who finds the dove becomes friends with the boy.
15 September 1978
Ondrej lives on a farm outside a small town with his family. One day a group of men arrive at the family's house and the harmonious life they've led so far changes drastically for the worse.
01 March 1984
In 1947 by the Beskid mountains, the traces of war still linger, destroyed tanks dispersed throughout the farmland creating an eerie backdrop.
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.
01 August 1985
The movie's main storyline follows the life of Otík, a young man, in a tight-knit village community.
06 February 1970
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 maid.
20 April 1962
A small town is one day visited by a priest who is there on a secret mission. He is a member of the Inquisition sent to investigate the activities of a local miller.
30 November 1956
About meteorologists working on Lomničký štít. The film shows contrast between a man and mountains.
27 June 1958
A young boy’s infatuation with flight is the subject of Vláčil’s poetic, prize-winning early short, made for the Czechoslovak Army’s film unit.
01 January 1984
An episodic film about the inhabitants of Kersko, their hardships and their joys, most prominently hunting.
01 January 1986
Based on the only extensive prose work by the surrealist painter Josef Capek, Shades of Fern most resembles the philosophical fairy tales and fables of Josef’s older brother, the legendary Czech novelist and playwright Karel Capek.
17 May 1968
Cast out by his father, young Ondrej joins the Order of the Teutonic Knights, where he is raised by strict monk Armin.
05 October 1955
The fate of a tank crew on the most difficult part of the First Czechoslovak Independent Brigade's combat path during World War II.
14 November 1975
In SIRIUS, a young boy whose most cherished companion is his loyal German shepherd devises his own form of resistance when the Nazis arrest his father, then order the confiscation of local canines, including his pet, to be retrained as attack dogs against the rebellious populace.
15 February 1980
A docudrama about four weeks in the life of famous Czech composer Antonin Dvorak. The drama - filled with many of Dvorak's compositions - begins when the composer suddenly decides to cut a concert in London and return home.
01 January 1951
A film about injury prevention. It shows how there is a risk of electrical injury when one fails to observe safety regulations.
06 September 1963
In the Hussite times, religious truth was sifted even on the tips of weapons. When in 1430 the Hussites set out on a raid to Nuremberg, the so-called Spanila Cavalry, to defend their doctrine, the young commander of the cavalry, the landowner Keřský, whose bride had once been kidnapped by a vicious crusader, saw it as an opportunity for personal revenge.
19 February 1982
Her mother dead, 18-year-old Vladka travels to a remote village in the dead of winter to find the father she has never met.
22 October 1989
An interesting look at love destroyed by the demon of drugs, which uses opera singing instead of spoken word.
01 January 1991
Documentary about the making of the 1967 Czech film "Marketa Lazarova".
15 April 1977
In this character study by Czech director Frantisek Vlacil, a stout middle-aged physician whose marriage has come apart establishes a practice in a small town.
31 December 1950
A popular science film about the creation of a new drug, from the moment a chemist determines, basedd
28 December 1973
According to one Beskydy Mountains legend, if you do a good deed you will see silver trees. Little Ondra knows trees like that.
