Date of birth: 1964-06-17
Place of birth: Plzeň, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Ivan Franeck, Ivan Franěk, Ivan Franek

Ivan Franěk (born June 17, 1964) is a Czech actor. After relocating from former Czechoslovakia to France in 1989, he has been active mainly in French and – particularly – Italian film & TV industry. His breakthrough role was lead Tobias Horvath in the Italian romance drama Brucio nel vento (2002), directed by Silvio Soldini and based on the novel Hier by Ágota Kristóf.

2009-08-27
Hynek Michánek wants to study medicine but fails his entrance exams five times. He starts a job as a

2002-01-18
For ten years, immigrant Tobias has worked at a Swiss clock factory and, in the relentless ticking,

2004-11-24
In Paris, two cops are competing for the vacant job of chief of police, in the middle of the search

2006-06-21
The upper-class secret agent teaming up accidentally with an easily-corrupted, sly interpreter...

2020-02-12
Take an irascible dwarf whose surname is Piccolo, with an easy trigger and an immoderate passion for

2007-05-11
Valerio Mastandrea is Franz, a night bus driver on the airport route who owes a lot of money from po

2008-12-03
Lisa and Julien are married and lead a happy uneventful life with their son Oscar. But their life ra

2010-05-07
You're 20 years old and life is full of endless possibilities. But, on a rainy evening, you bumps in

2005-01-01
A mentally unstable woman loses her daughter's custody to her mother. Things get even more complicat

2007-05-17
Julie is a woman who seemingly has everything. A handsome husband, teenage daughter and a thriving,

2023-06-15
Monika, a woman in her fifties, feels that she has reached all the important milestones in her life.

2023-07-27
Stories about parent-child relationships, fate, and the unknown forces that guide our steps unfold a

2010-10-06
Somewhere in Eastern Europe. Carole is a young nurse with a humanitarian aid group that has reached
2015-06-04

2009-06-19
Rome, Paris and Helsinki right after the Madrid bombings. Three stories about people who, for differ

2009-07-07
A man leaves his busy city life for the peace of the country home where he spent his early childhood

2011-05-10
Ivan, a drifting immigrant in search of work and dignity, lands on an Italian island only to be met
2005-06-10

2008-04-18

2014-03-20
James prepares for his eighth grade oral exams while his family is going through different times.

2013-04-20
The fragile Lia suffers from a deep depression. Her relationship with her boyfriend Viktor is gettin

2002-10-31

2013-01-12
A married couple unexpectedly find themselves witness to a murder. The perpetrators pay them to rema

2001-10-03
A bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into t

2021-08-04
1981. Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, aka OSS 117, is back. For this new mission – more delicate, more

2000-11-27
In Paris in 1935, a young Jewish woman married to an anti-fascist activist befriends her neighbor wh

2003-11-12
Based on a novel by Jean-Claude Izzo, this melancholic movie focuses on three sailors being the last

2015-09-09
In the Middle Ages, Federico, a soldier, visits the convent in Bobbio, where Sister Benedetta is fac

2015-01-24
Seventeen-year-old Jenny dreams of becoming a synchronized swimmer. Family events turn her life upsi

2023-04-05
D'Artagnan, a spirited young Gascon, is left for dead after trying to save a noblewoman from being k

2024-03-22

2014-10-09

An elderly Jewish woman, who was a teenager during the outset of the Holocaust and was forced to cho

2012-08-25
Lisa Boeri is at the top of her corporate career. At night she frequents the notorious Club Tulpa, o

2016-09-01
A man wakes up one morning with an annoying ringing sound in his ears. A note on the fridge says: "Y

2003-11-21
In a remote, isolated Yazidi Kurdish village in post-Soviet Armenia, Hamo, a widower with a pitiful

2016-11-10
Anna, a French journalist at the peak of her career, drops everything to pursue a small story. A mad

2017-03-30
The story of four inmates during their 48 hours furlough, of their reality and how it has brought th

2017-02-15

2003-11-02
On My Skin (Italian: Sulla mia pelle, also known as Upon My Skin) is a 2003 Italian crime-drama film

2017-03-02
26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets

2010-11-12
1828. In the wake of the repression of revolutionary uprisings in the monarchist South, three young

2017-11-16
A hieratic Count sits in his elegant mansion finishing his writings - Alphonse, a young Waloon offic

2018-10-18
During a break on a rooftop, Teco, a young baker, notices the intriguing fall of a strange bird. He

2018-01-04
Three years later Michele (The Invisible boy) meets his mother and his twin sister. Both have storie

2010-11-05

2014-09-25
Ambulance-chasing lawyers takes on the case of a convicted murderer who, just being released after d

2013-05-21
Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his

2018-07-12
A writer gets into a rehab where he meets a lot of successful men who destroyed their lives with alc

2008-10-10

2013-06-26
Paris, December. A conductor of a choir is found mysteriously murdered, with burst eardrums. Lionel

2019-06-19
Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and

2020-06-02

2021-07-01
Anton is, or rather was, a famous theater actor, but cruel life began to put treacherous obstacles i

2009-09-16
This gripping historical drama recounts the story of Armenian-born Missak Manouchian, a woodworker a

2020-11-26
Early one morning, in an unspecified and seemingly far off time, a 12 year old boy, together with s

2002-05-22
In Paris, in 1943, Jules, a 19-year-old Jew, lived without an ideal, tossed about by circumstances.

2007-01-01
Italy, XIII century. The story of friendship between two young people who dedicated their lives to G

2025-04-03

1990-01-01
Helenka, a textile industrial student, invents an ideal man who is the envy of all her friends. The

2025-05-01
Love takes many forms, and Albert, Kateřina, and Gábina are not afraid to go to extremes in their pu

2025-07-30
When a 15th-century prince denounces God after the devastating loss of his wife, he inherits an eter

2025-10-09
In 1547, young knight Petr Pětipeský is sent to the remote village of Urbach to oversee the construc
