Petr Čepek Trailers
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Petr Čepek was a Czech actor associated with The Drama Club in Prague. His final film was Faust, directed by Czech surrealist Jan Švankmajer. Cepek attended the Academy of Performing Arts (DAMU) along with many notable Czech actors of the time, before appearing in Ostrava’s first theater, DPB until 1965. After joining with fellow colleagues in Prague’s Činoherní Klub, where he contributed to the formation of numerous famous theatre productions such as Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and Gogo’s Revizor (The Government Inspector). Čepek turned to politics in the late 1980s, participating in political rallies and negotiations before returning to the Academy of Performing Arts (DAMU) to teach until his death in 1994. Čepek was honored posthumously for his double role in the Švankmajers film Faust.
Most Popular Petr Čepek Trailers
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10 October 1981
The story of the chief prosecutor Dr. Klapka - a self-confident, cold-blooded, calculating man who lives in the comfort befitting his position - and his attractive wife.
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 March 1990
The film tells the story of an enthusiastic young man who joins a textile factory in the late 1950s and assumes that a promising career awaits him - the protagonist is therefore constantly comparing himself to his favourite literary model, the equally ambitious Julian Sorel from Stendhal's fresco The Red and the Black.
13 May 1993
A group of teenagers are trying to solve a mystery of a puzzle created and left to them by the dead boy.
03 January 1969
Young script-writer Frantisek (Petr Cepek) is hired to write a film script based on the successful novel Looking Back.
31 March 1972
Prague in the 1930s. A young, pretty girl gets on a crowded tram. She immediately catches the attention of a young man who not only appreciates the girl's charm, but also tries to steal her handbag discreetly.
01 December 1990
Young prisoner Jan, nicknamed Roughboy (Petr Cepek), tries to commit suicide. He was imprisoned for a fight in which he injured a functionary of the National Committee and for stealing material but actually by the blame for this crime was pinned on him by the road-builders in whose group he worked.
21 November 1975
The economic crisis in the early 1930s also affected the inhabitants of the distinctive Moravian-Slovak countryside.
06 October 1967
The invincible agent Cyril Juan Borguette alias W4C has been assigned a mission to go to a hotel in Prague, get hold of a saltcellar with a plan for the military exploitation of Venus hidden in it, and hand it over to the beautiful agent Alice.
16 November 1981
How to marry off two daughters and a maid, especially when the father has no idea that it's high time? Father Ubaldo has worries; his two daughters are constantly complaining about their health.
24 March 1967
A gifted poet checks into a Gothic hotel in hopes of meeting the woman with whom he has long been enamored.
28 September 1979
The castle custodian Král is moving to a new place of work with his wife, son Radek and a five - years old daughter Terezka.
07 January 1993
Against the petty, which places its own glory above honest work and honest human relationships. Čapek's Foltýn is from the family of eternally recurring dramatic themes about the conflict between talent and untalent, soundness and dilettancy, vocation and parasitism, of all kinds.
01 September 1989
Sonya is the heiress to the riches of a Czech noble family—the Hajns. Petr, a social climber marries her, ignoring some shady goings-on—in particular, an insane uncle who prowls the mansion believing himself invisible, a peccadillo the family indulges.
26 June 1981
Two men of principle face each other. One is backed by a whole, however poor village, the other by the law.
14 December 1979
Two seriously injured patients are brought to the hospital at almost the same time: truck driver Honza Linhart, who had an accident, and a young woman found unconscious in a forest by a man picking mushrooms.
01 June 1982
In this animated version of Edgar Allan Poe's story, a traveller arrives at the Usher mansion to find that the sibling inhabitants are living under a mysterious family curse.
01 January 1973
Rambling Engelbert: 1973 Czechoslovakian T.V. movie musical
27 November 1989
In 1866, as Austria faces war with Prussia, 19-year-old Ludvík Machl joins a secret Czech resistance group.
01 April 1987
Films for children gradually fell into the grip of expressive and content sterility, succumbing to exhortative, educational tendencies.
01 January 1971
A recording of a theatre production directed by Jan Kačer from 1967.
28 June 1970
This film brings us back to show us the life of the famous ancient sage Aesop, who helped people with his wisdom in their struggle for freedom and happiness.
05 November 1971
In 1900, Stepha, the vivacious 30 year old daughter of a wealthy couple, agrees to marry her cousin Paul, who has accumulated large debts as an Austrian army officer.
13 March 1981
Mr Jiš managed to give his first script at Barrandov. Already in the preparatory phase, he discovers with horror that the filmmakers have completely bypassed his intention - instead of a probe into the life of a contemporary village, they are preparing a spectacular musical show, which they are convinced will be a hit with the audience.
25 April 1980
After five years of hard work in America Juraj Hordubal (Anatoliy Kuznetsov) returns back home. He is looking forward to his wife Polana (Libuse Geprtová) and his little daughter Hafie.
08 August 1991
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.
15 September 1972
Jealous of her vapidly "good" sister's popularity, poisonous Viktoria doses pretty Klara's tea with a slow-acting fatal substance.
01 May 1987
In a school somewhere in the border region, a young teacher is trying to integrate Romani children into the classroom.
10 September 1994
A very free adaptation of Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus", Goethe's "Faust" and various other treatments of the old legend of the man who sold his soul to the devil.
01 August 1985
The movie's main storyline follows the life of Otík, a young man, in a tight-knit village community.
01 July 1988
As the Khmer Rouge carves a path of death throughout the land, a Czech doctor falls in love with a Cambodian woman.
06 February 1981
Francin, manager of a small-town brewery, has a charming wife whose abundant blonde locks are an adornment to the town.
27 February 1970
This futuristic science fiction comedy features an atomic bomb blast that causes women to grow beards and lose the ability to have children.
28 May 1982
A doctor is shocked when his beloved colleague Mima signs a contract with foreign car manufacturer Ferat, in order to work for them as a rally-driver.
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.
25 June 1988
Painter Horace visits his friend, a former criminalist, and is intrigued by two strange women who live in the house opposite.
01 January 1984
An episodic film about the inhabitants of Kersko, their hardships and their joys, most prominently hunting.
01 February 1991
At the beginning was the Slovak television series Lekár umierajúceho czasu (Doctor of Dying Time), dedicated to the Rudolphine-era scientist Jan Jesenius.
01 January 1985
A police inspector and inexperienced trainee search for a mysteriously disappeared manufacturer of ointments for hair growth.
01 November 1989
Based on a Jack London story, this is another attempt at a Western spectacle - after the short story triptych The Canyon of Gold - about a teenage boy who, after his father's death, lives in a gold-mining town.
08 October 1971
A tale based on novel by Czech writer Bozena Nemcova.
