Date of birth: 1936-10-03
Place of birth: Holice, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Ян Качер

Jan Kačer (3 October 1936 – 24 May 2024) was a Czech actor and theatrical director. He appeared in more than sixty films from 1960 onwards. Kačer studied theatrical directing at DAMU. He was an actor and a director in The Drama Club and later Theatre on the Balustrade. Kačer was a parliamentary representative in the Federal Assembly from 1990 to 1992. His wife was the actress Nina Divíšková. Kačer died on 24 May 2024, at the age of 87.
1965-01-01
A synagogue service in Bohemia, where the Torah scrolls are ceremoniously taken out and read, interc

1990-01-01
A documentary about the composer who made Czech music famous all over the world.

1979-04-20
Jan Kačer became known primarily as an actor, but he also took up film directing several times - not

1967-10-06
The invincible agent Cyril Juan Borguette alias W4C has been assigned a mission to go to a hotel in
1996-01-01
1979-05-24

1960-02-12
Delinquent youths wander aimlessly and commit mischief. Few, however, manage to break free from the

2016-01-01
1981-10-22

1967-03-10
Engineer Jan Sebek (Jan Kacer) is undergoing treatment in a mental home after his unsuccessful attem

2004-03-11
Based on real event, Bolero is an excellent story of progressive recovery of a crime. The story surp

1987-06-01
Eleven disparate adolescents, gathered for a skiing camp at an isolated winter resort, find themselv

1964-04-10
The story of two communist friends, one of whom leaves as secretary to the district committee of the

2021-10-21
The brilliant Czech writer Milan Kundera has not given an interview in thirty years; nor does he app

1983-09-01
Two people scarred by a wartime past meet again years later during an archaeological dig. But the si

1983-09-01
Two people scarred by a wartime past meet again years later during an archaeological dig. But the si
1983-03-24
1982-06-24

1966-04-01
Michal's father and his friends are stigmatized by their war experience and the post-war social defo
1966-04-01
A leading director of the Czech film renaissance provides a philosophical meditation on life and dea
1968-08-30
"A refined film essay about the loneliness, wisdom and humility of old women. The film, most valued

1966-08-30
This three-part Austrian/Czech comedy stretches the boundaries of what is considered to be humorous.

1965-01-15
A passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure of hi
1968-02-23
1995-07-12
The story of Sebastien, a seriously ill 25-year-old, and his mother, whose lives were also affected

1963-05-03
Pavel is a Czech partisan fighter in the waning days of the war. Just as peace is declared, Pavel is

1985-01-01
Story of an extraordinary musician, violinist, who was famous, but his alcoholism led him to poverty
1969-01-01
A dialogue between judge and convict, winner and loser, which offers the viewer a reflection on the

1966-02-04
A successful art historian who has trouble telling people difficult truths, finds himself in an ines

2022-07-02
Zdena, a young nurse, starts her first night shift at an old people’s home and immediately faces a d

1994-01-01
An expedition arrives on planet Arkha, which appears desolate and uninhabited and yet suitable for a
1971-02-10
1970-01-01

1972-01-14
During World War II, a German university professor creates a spy ring that supplies the Allies with

2014-01-30
Story follows two best friend on private investigation. They are going to their hometown to prove th

1968-05-17
Cast out by his father, young Ondrej joins the Order of the Teutonic Knights, where he is raised by
1972-07-09
1997-07-17
Poetic movie about 3 generations of women.

1970-10-23
Three detective stories, three different views of life and death... Collection of three horror short
1980-01-14

2023-04-20
A boy is accidentally killed at an informal hunt somewhere on the border of two European countries.

1989-04-01
An overprotective mother plagues her daughter out of guilt over unintentionally scarring her daughte
2023-09-09
Documentary about Barrandov studios.
2000-03-28
1999-10-03

1975-01-23
A chronicle of dramatic events capturing the fates of people living in a Slovak village just after W
1994-01-01
1996-11-28
Thirty-year-old Prokop Randa returns to his native village, where he seeks peace and reconciliation
2012-01-01
1985-12-15

2016-01-31
An exciting drama from a detective history. In 1899 a dead girl - seamstress Anežka Hrůzová - was fo

2016-05-15
Czech Television's epic historical film draws on the breathtaking dramatic life of the great of Czec

2021-07-22
A story told through the eyes of a stray dog called Gump . On a journey to find his way home to his

2013-10-31
The film is not merely a record of rehearsals, but above all an intimate look at the relationships b

1969-01-01

1967-03-24
A gifted poet checks into a Gothic hotel in hopes of meeting the woman with whom he has long been en

1967-05-25
Bernhard works as a warehouse clerk in Munich. After being sentenced to probation for a physical alt

2003-05-27
A recording of the production from the courtyard of the Supreme Purkrab of Prague Castle starring Ja
1970-01-01
A young woman from an old patrician family in Prague collapses and is institutionalized in a psychic
1989-01-01

1987-02-01
A car accident occurs and Dusan's teenage daughter Milena gets very seriously injured. To add insult

2018-07-26
When nostalgia makes her rethink the sale of her family cottage, a woman cajoles her husband and lov
1969-09-19
At the centre of the story is Miss Lenka Stříbrná. An attractive, but a little strange young woman.
1985-02-06
This distinctive documentary portrait of Prague extolls the beauty, significance and spirit of the a

2003-11-06
Sentiment is Tomáš Hejtmánek's intimate documentary portrait of the great Czech director František V

1980-01-01
A few weeks in the life of the family of an attractive woman, the TV presenter Magda, her second hus
2012-05-13
The beautiful lady, as the locals call the widow and owner of the apartment building, the aging Mrs.
1981-01-01

2019-05-22
It's one bad day for Rudolf, a lonely 77-year old retired linguist, when he finds himself tailed by

1978-05-05
Slovak psychological drama from the end of World War II. The plot of the film takes place in a short

1982-10-14
In a South Moravian wine-growing village in the early 1970s lives an old man who cannot accept the a
2021-02-06

1990-06-01
An allegory set in an archetypal Czech village, it tells the story of what happens when a series of
2021-01-08
Every day, head nurse Marta's life is an exhausting merry-go-round of the most tedious duties. She r
2019-11-19
1991-02-01
At the beginning was the Slovak television series Lekár umierajúceho czasu (Doctor of Dying Time), d
1988-07-10

1990-02-01
Biography of Karel Čapek.
1996-01-18
The short story film based on the book of the same name by Karel Pecka depicts the atmosphere of the

1997-05-15
The film adaptation of the novel of the same by Michal Viewegh. The hero of the novel is a primary s
1970-01-28
1991-02-11
1988-07-17
1993-06-24
A TV adaptation of the famous novel in which writer Zikmund Winter depicts the life story of Prague
1996-01-01