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Pavel Landovský (September 11, 1936 – October 10, 2014) was a Czech actor, playwright and director. He was a prominent dissident under the communist regime of former Czechoslovakia.
Landovský was born in Německý Brod and studied at the Faculty of Theatre in Prague and then played in regional theaters in Teplice, Šumperk, Klatovy and Pardubice. The first play that he wrote, Hodinový hoteliér, premiered at the Činoherní theater on 11 May 1969. In 1971 the communist regime banned him from film and television. He continued acting at The Drama Club and other theatres. Landovský was one of the initiators of the human rights' petition Charter 77. He was subsequently banned from working at the theater. Constantly harassed by the secret police (Státní bezpečnost), during the winter of 1978-79, Landovský was accosted at night by an agent and severely beaten and had his leg broken. Feeling compelled to leave for his safety, when was offered a position in the ensemble of the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria, he accepted.
After the Velvet Revolution in 1989, he was able to return to Prague in January 1990. There he was able to act again, playing one of the lead characters in the play Audience at club Činoherní - a play written by his friend Václav Havel 16 years earlier, and who had recently been elected president of then Czechoslovakia. The play was directed by Jiří Menzel.
He died on October 10, 2014 from a heart attack in Kytín, aged 78.
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16 March 1984
Based on Nikolai Erdman’s banned 1928 comedy play The Suicide, a socially critical grotesque aboute
22 December 1967
A worker steals bits and pieces of building materials from work to construct a new home for himself and his girlfriend.
28 January 1983
Within the span of 48 hours "contemporaries" encounter each other. In the middle is Max, who lost his job years ago because of his affair with the wife of an influential man.
01 January 1982
A misunderstood youth is incorrectly placed in a mental hospital.
05 May 1967
When Dr. Hahn is found murdered in the hospital’s inspection room, investigators question several suspects: his colleague and longtime lover Dr.
31 October 2013
The film is not merely a record of rehearsals, but above all an intimate look at the relationships between its individual protagonists.
26 October 2000
A drug dealer named Mikes, who lives in Prague and longs to escape his own clichéd life.
02 November 1989
A poetic attempt to show the state of mind of people critical of the regime in Prague who vacillate between their love of their homeland and their desire to emigrate, illustrated by the example of a philosophy professor who has to work as a gravedigger and luggage transporter at the airport.
27 November 1983
The film deals with the fateful experiences of Czech refugees in Switzerland.
26 July 1968
The Ronov castle has been changed into a hotel, offering stylish facilities to its guests: weddings in the torture chamber, a Black Lancer kidnapping brides, a night's lodging in a family tomb etc.
05 February 1988
Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him.
16 June 1994
Vladimír Michálek chose an unconventional adaptation of Franz Kafka's novel for his feature debut. Artistically reminiscent of the classic films of Karel Zeman, the director reinterpreted this dark story of a man vainly seeking a place in a rigidly ordered society by changing the desperate conclusion into a happy end.
10 January 1969
A verger, who likes to dress as a priest, is invited, by one of the villagers, to be the pastor at a vacant church.
03 July 1970
Lemuel Gulliver has had a car accident and continues his journey across the unknown countryside on foot.
25 April 1995
Fierlinger concentrates his considerable talents as an animator to recount through fragmented memories, vivid recollections, and the occasional evocative photograph his life as the rebellious son of Jan Fierlinger, Czechoslovakian career politician.
20 November 1981
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
28 June 1968
Mr. Benda, a married father of two children, works for a company that liquidates old banknotes. After one drunken party, he is visited by a painter who tattooed his back in drunkenness the previous night.
10 October 2001
Max and Sally, the heroes of popular Czech animated series are leaving the TV in order to become a regular boy and girl.
01 January 1990
A recording of the legendary production “Audience“ from the Prague Drama Club with Josef Abrhám and Pavel Landovský.
01 January 1971
A recording of a theatre production directed by Jan Kačer from 1967.
18 November 1966
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity.
13 May 1966
Jurácek's feature debut is shot in two parts. In the first, a corporal accompanies a new recruit with a sore Achilles tendon for his physical, and all the girls or young women they see are played by the same actress (Ruzickova).
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.
20 January 2011
A bitter sweet comedy that follows a highly appointed Chancellor who set to step down from his position after years of service to his country.
26 April 1968
Comedy based on short Sean O'Casey play. John Jo Mulligan finds himself in a situation with which his pious conscience cannot cope.
10 December 2009
Řehoř lives a contented life. His wife Evženie does not. After sixty years of marriage, eighty-year-old Evženie comes to her granddaughter, lawyer Katka, to ask for her help in divorcing her eighty-five-year-old husband Řehoř.
01 January 1986
Two apartments are joined together, the demolition of a wall transfers two small flats into a big one.
26 December 1984
An alpine village shortly before the First World War. Widowed forester Rufman has little sympathy for his sons Friedel and Elias.
04 June 1992
Life of Czechoslovak soldiers in a military unit for the so called "politically unreliable" - the Technical auxiliary battalions, aka "the black barons".
09 October 2008
When Oskar, a self-centred TV weatherman, cheats on his wife Zuzana with their au pair, she kicks him to the curb and enlists her in-laws in the search for a new boyfriend.
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.
08 March 2007
Czech literature teacher Josef Tkaloun, who is past retirement age, realises one day that he no longer understands his pupils, and so he quits… dramatically.
24 May 1989
To finish his movie, a young director has himself declared unfit to conclude business and with help from his friend commit credit frauds.
01 January 1989
Vienna in the thirties. Two Jewish thieves dress up as Orthodox Jews so that they can steal without being recognized.
29 March 1957
The history of motoring in Bohemia begins when Laurin and Klement founded a factory for the production of motorcycles.
01 November 1990
Set in a bleak, filth-ridden provincial hospital, a disillusioned doctor begins to find the philosophical ramblings of a mental patient more stimulating than the company of "sane" society.
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 September 1991
A run-of-the-mill family is terrorized by strangers dressed in military garb who invade their private realm.
13 April 1995
A film based on the true story of a twenty year old girl who lives with her mother and her younger, parasitic partner in Bratislava’s Petržalka district.
24 March 1972
Slacker Maurice Fadinar wasted his whole inheritance and the only way out of this situation, as it seems, to marry Helen Nonankur - daughter of a wealthy farmer.
13 February 1997
Set over a two-decade period in a tiny Central European village, this drama not only chronicles a couple's tragic star-crossed love, it also serves as a metaphor for the tragedy of lost traditions.
30 June 1967
A comedy about two bumbling policemen investigating an alleged rape in a small Czech town. One of the alleged rapists is supposed to get married the day he's locked up.
20 September 2012
Teacher Tomáš Majer, who joined a former special school in 2010, has disappeared. He arrived at the school several months after his sister Jana, also a teacher, was murdered.
18 April 2002
Libor is a teenager who, in a matter of minutes, finds himself transported from the exclusive world of today's wealthy elite, with its opulent villas, snobbish parties, expensive private schools, and chauffeur-driven cars, into a situation where he must fight for his life.
17 October 1969
Adolf, the irresistible seducer of women, is fond of Janicka, a novice opera singer. The girl, however, prefers famous men and Adolf thus does not have a single chance with her.
12 March 1998
It is April 1945, spring begins and ends the war. German transport heading away from Bohemia.
01 May 1991
In 1992, Prague is the capital of a small kingdom. The prince is supposed to choose his bride to be at a royal ball.
19 September 1969
At the centre of the story is Miss Lenka Stříbrná. An attractive, but a little strange young woman.
24 April 1995
Young photographer Ondřej's hobby revolves around flying ultralight aircraft. During one such flight, he spots two men at a lonely villa, one of whom is shooting at the other.
