Date of birth: 1887-10-15
Place of birth: Plzen/Pilsen, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Plzen, Czech Republic]
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Бедржих Карен


1962-04-20
A small town is one day visited by a priest who is there on a secret mission. He is a member of the

1957-08-23
Good-natured and garrulous, Schweik becomes the Austrian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he is

1937-12-21
In a country whose people have just been successfully persuaded of their superiority and the justifi

1953-02-20
The movie describes proletarian life in the Czech Lands after World War I.

1938-09-16
A morally questionable lord comes to the aid of a working class man who is to be executed for speaki

1947-04-11
In late 19th century Czech-speaking Bohemia, oppressed workers at German-owned mines and foundries r

1959-10-02
A student commits suicide out of unhappy love to a married man; story is recounted in retrospective

1952-11-21
A biographical film about the traveler Emil Holub, conceived as an illustrative story of an exceptio

1952-01-11
A biographical film about the famous Czech painter Mikoláš Aleš, portrayed as part of the vanguard o
1921-03-04
1921-09-16

1953-01-30
American agents hijack a plane on the Ostrava-Prague route to launch a campaign against the People's

1955-10-28
The film, in individual episodes, captures the fate of Bedřich Smetana from 1856 until the end of hi
1931-09-18

1957-10-04
After the battle of Sudoměř the Hussite teaching spreads through the whole country and people start
1954-06-04
In the last days of the war, American planes bomb a synthetic gasoline plant in the Sudetenland. The

1955-04-29
The first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", completed with Jan Žižka (1955) and Proti vše
1918-12-20
1930-02-14
Colonel Švec (original Czech title: Plukovník Švec) is a 1930 Czechoslovak historical war drama. It

1951-09-28
A biographical film about a Czech mechanic and designer who was the first in the Czech lands to cons

1921-11-25
Janosík, a friar retrained as a bandit, becomes the farmers' symbol of resistance and fight against
1954-06-18