Date of birth: 1930-12-07
Place of birth: Drahovice, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Ян Поган, Josef Pohan


1961-06-16
Criminals have their hands full: first a shoplifting, soon the murder of a young driver. Do these cr

1960-05-06
A young Czech boy is freed from a concentration camp and now is working for the army against the Ger

1978-05-12
Karel, a young man with an unknown past, but with a defined set of values and an ideal moral code, a

1978-02-17
February 1948. The struggle of decisive social forces for the heart of Europe.

1977-08-12
Former Nazi Klaus Abard survives to the 1990s by taking anti-ageing pills. He plans to use a time tr

1979-02-23
Experiences of a Tatra factory driver during demanding load tests of Tatra 148 trucks in extremely h

1978-12-08
The gamekeeper Straka lives by himself in the Bohemian forest hill. He has quarreled with his only s

1967-11-24
Mikolás and his brother Adam end up with a young German hostage of noble blood during a robbery. Whi

1979-05-11
The film is a metaphor for the Cold War. It depicts two neighbouring nations: peace loving Fortuna a
1961-10-13
Based on a novel by Maria Majerova, this well-photographed but routine romantic drama is directed an

1962-01-05
Screen adaptation of Julius Fucik's story about communist fighters.
1988-09-25

1979-11-09
Second part of the trilogy. Vasek is expected to go to Bulgaria for a holiday with his parents durin
1964-01-01
A TV film based on a short story by Alfonz Bednár. A drama set during the Slovak National Uprising.

1980-10-31
The trenches of World War I provide for a captivating backdrop to the drama of Corporal Hoferik. In

1981-09-04
Ten-year-old David joins a sailing club. He trains hard and helps repair the sailing boats, but peop

1980-07-18
The film thematically follows the stories of the TV series "30 cases of Major Zeman". We can meet Ma

1988-07-01
In the Czech film comedy from 1988, you can see for yourself that the war was not easy, but otherwis

1960-10-28
Spy film about a man with a face lift who gets recruited by western organisations.

1962-05-18
A group of saboteurs search for a weapons cache hidden by the Nazi army. Beskydy in the summer of 19

1961-11-10
A bunch of old friends reunite for the start of the rail tunnel construction. The miner Vojta Balvín

1980-09-19
A remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit. Engineer Prokop creates the devastating explo

1981-10-02
Third part of the trilogy. Vaska again is visiting his grandfather living in Bohemian Forest and und

1963-08-16
At the beginning, the newly arrived soldiers form a musical theatre troupe to escape the humiliation

1976-11-12
The little mermaid rescues a prince from drowning and falls in love with him. To be with him, she ma

1964-02-21
The story of a trio of released criminals that even prison re-education did not reform. They intend

1964-09-04
The story is about Harold, an isolated figure in an overwhelming world of totalitarian bureaucracy.

1964-04-03
A car deliberately runs down a young man on a road by a small border town. The locals recognize the

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

1982-12-17
Two aspiring car racers have a big dream: they want to make a journey to the heart of Africa. But th

1983-07-01
Two aliens stir up trouble on Earth in order to study humans. Misunderstandings ensue.

1964-10-16
A satire of the Great American Way, with Lemonade Joe a "clean living" gunfighter who drinks only Ko

1964-08-28
Spring 1943: A three-member group of resistance fighters flies from a Soviet military airport into t

1965-04-30
A man boards on a tram together with a naked boy. Somebody has stolen the boy's clothes when he was

1966-09-02
The series of children's films about Detective Martin, who intervenes in cases involving children, b

1966-02-18
Three short story omnibus. The main hero and connecting link is Lieutenant Boruvka, created by Lubom

1965-01-26
A military base. An awkward soldier. A statue of Bach. And suddenly all guns in the area change into

1966-08-26
In this zany Czechoslovakian comedy, a scientist invents a machine that projects a sleeping person's

1966-12-23
Story about the people around the circus and the unfortunate love of a young man an acrobat. Before

1970-08-14
An escort composed of three people transports a huge amount of new one-hundred crown banknotes in a

1987-02-28
After arriving at the mysterious castle, the university professor begins to encounter a sequence of

1968-04-05
On one Sunday, when a scrap metal collection is announced, the children find a strange wire puzzle t
1967-01-01
1967-10-28
TV adaptation of Jules Verne's posthumously published novel.

1968-07-26
The Ronov castle has been changed into a hotel, offering stylish facilities to its guests: weddings

1968-06-28
Mr. Benda, a married father of two children, works for a company that liquidates old banknotes. Afte

1969-01-24
This historical film by Hynek Bočan touches upon the indecisiveness of the Czech nation, ready to be

1969-07-08
The young Prince Charles (Jaromír Hanzlík), the future King of his country Charles IV, is being educ
1969-09-19
At the centre of the story is Miss Lenka Stříbrná. An attractive, but a little strange young woman.

1970-01-23
In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confe

1970-02-27
This futuristic science fiction comedy features an atomic bomb blast that causes women to grow beard
1975-09-19
A harsh and raw story about the difficult life of a village woman and the sad fate of her three daug

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

1960-02-26
The conflicts in one pilot's fractured marriage come to a head just as Soviet jets are introduced to

1972-01-21
Dana Martinová, a young woman of loose morals, dies at the hands of a mentally unstable young man, P

1976-05-14
World War II is slowly coming to an end. On the German side of the border, panic slowly breaks out a
1974-04-19
A group of children from a working-class neighbourhood in Pilsen search for a way to effectively pro
1974-01-18
A man who was a communist MP during the First Republic joins the Slovak National Uprising, but is wo

1974-01-04
Cyril Dadák (Václav Postránecký), a TV reporter falls in love at first sight with a young engineer M

1975-04-25
In the era of normalisation, a number of (pseudo)historical films were made, even described as recon

1986-10-01
Viktor Průcha, a successful small-town architect, lives well but knows his comfort rests on compromi

1975-06-06
The teenage hero tries his best to meet the nomination limit for important races, but his coach's in

1974-06-21
Tomáš, an unscrupulous Prague taxi driver who is involved in stealing antiques and smuggling them ab

1975-02-14
This story from the time of the occupation tells how the students of the teachers' institute decided

1975-05-09
The plot begins in the Soviet Union showing first efforts to establish the Czechoslovak legion in 19

1974-09-27
The news that the television is going to make a film about the cooperative's leisure activities lead
1974-07-05

1975-12-19
A communist agent, who has successfully caught on with the stupidly gullible American secret service

1976-11-01
The ten-year-old orphan Borisek is fathered by the entire military unit. The boy serves there with d

1976-04-02
Three detective stories from industrial Ostrava. Police search in vain for a missing 16-year-old gir

1976-02-06
A quarrel between divorced waitress Mája and her fifteen-year-old son Petr ends with the boy physica

1976-08-06
Three stories from the school environment, mostly from the perspective of teachers. In the first sto

1975-10-31
An historical depiction of the events preceding the political murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, wo

1975-11-21
The economic crisis in the early 1930s also affected the inhabitants of the distinctive Moravian-Slo
1974-01-01

1976-09-17
A colour-printed melodramatic selanca from the beginnings of the organised labour movement in Bohemi

1977-05-06
On 20th of April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germa

1977-02-18
A West German businessman Friedrich Schmidt is arriving to Czechoslovakia with private mission and m

1983-10-01
The distressing fate of the Czech great Jan Amos Komenský, forced to leave his homeland after the Wh

1984-09-01
Detective Weiner probes the death of Tomáš Ruml, found in a ruined house. Son of the architect behin
1984-01-08
Vladimír Menšík in a dramatic story of a suddenly rich peasant. The play tells the story of the trag
2003-01-01
Today's story takes place in distant California, but it could just as easily happen here. It tells o

1988-07-01
As the Khmer Rouge carves a path of death throughout the land, a Czech doctor falls in love with a C

1987-05-01
František Cepl is a young man from a simple family. He graduated from a real school and was going to

1984-09-19
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the
1985-01-27
1985-06-09
1985-01-01
Children join folklore groups at an early age, but their relationship to them is formed only gradual
1986-07-01
A dramatic patrol car weekend on the streets of Prague's city centre. Lieutenant Josef Kabát and his
1986-02-01

1963-04-10
Based on a true story of inmates at KZ Buchenwald that risked their lives to hide a small Jewish boy
1991-12-25
A fairy tale about a lake in which there are two kingdoms. In the water lily kingdom, they love the

1992-01-01
Greek mythology has always inspired creators of various artistic genres. No wonder, for Greek myths
1959-01-01
Princess Blanka (Aglaia Morávková) is secretly meeting her beloved, huntsman Ondrej (Jirí Papez). On

1991-03-30
The 35-year-old ministry official Baron Leisenbohg had the stage career ten years ago as the cast of

1975-03-07
Petr Rynes (Svatopluk Matyás) is celebrating his forty-fifth birthday in the company of his friends.

1979-12-14
Two seriously injured patients are brought to the hospital at almost the same time: truck driver Hon
1985-04-06
The story begins at the airport and on an international express train, which is being carried by a G
1984-06-02

2007-12-24
Three soldiers desert and take refuge in an ancient, crumbling castle where three veiled maidens wel

1968-06-15
1936 in a small town near the Czechoslovakian border. Albert and Fritz are close friends. Albert liv

2007-02-25
The story is based on Operation Stone, during which State Security agents deliberately misled citize

2000-01-02
Based on the novel by French writer Jean Labord, who was a long-time court reporter for the Paris ne
1985-05-19
The true story of a group of Czechoslovak citizens who are building a paper industry in Alto Catumbe

1972-02-04
In the thick woods at the edge of the Bohemian Forest, two border guards are keeping watch - riflema

1973-03-29
The bank officer Bedrich Hroch is sent by the bank director to the zoo, which asked an allocation of

1986-09-01
In the 1980s, the building themes were transformed into bipolar moral dilemmas involving overly ambi
2005-09-25
Second-rate writer Marton spends his not-yet-advanced old age in a luxurious retirement home. Apart

1959-12-25
The young worker Helena Pokorná and her widowed father are employed in the same factory. The father

1971-05-14
Jan Zika is the legendary hero of the communist resistance movement during World War II and leading

1965-02-26
At the end of May 1918, released prisoners return to the Rumburk garrison from Russian captivity, ho
1986-06-15

1968-12-31
It is 5 May 1945 and the uprising against the hated German occupiers has broken out in Prague. The C

1969-06-20
A cunning plan to deprive an "illegal millionaire" of his ill-gotten wealth. But the catch is that s

2009-11-05
Former classmates meet after sixty years at a school reunion, undoubtedly their last, face to face w
2009-01-04
After many years, Anka Lomnická, a former countess and emigrant, arrives in Prague. By chance, she f

1987-04-16
When the Germans invade Poland during World War II, a family of Jews seeks refuge in a well. Based o

1964-01-01
In a small Texas town where cowboys lived their usual lives, local villain Bill Crooked Mouth and hi
1965-01-08
Three stories (Gabriela, Eda and Jana), two of which are dedicated to girls. They share a common mot
1998-11-25
It is certainly no coincidence that Lady Chatterley's Lover was written after World War I, in 1928.
1963-02-01
A tragicomedy set in wartime Germany. The protagonist is 16-year-old Bruno, who is considered by eve
1960-10-28
A significant event in the life of the Ostrava assemblers. Private matters take a backseat as prepar
1981-10-03
1983-05-14
Tonda is a sixteen-year-old boy who has a talent for sports. His father, who is also a coach, would

1977-11-11
The story of an old gentleman who had spent his life restoring antiques. As an art connoisseur, he p
1988-03-27
Young Ivanka wants to study art history, but she is disappointed when she is not accepted to univers

1968-01-26
A crime writer is accused of being too imaginative and his ideas unworkable, but everything changes

1979-01-19
A short story film in which the first story takes place at the end of the German occupation, when a

1961-02-24
People in Czechoslovakia perceive the events of February 1948 differently. This movie tells how they
1976-12-17
Three short stories ("Zelenáči 1945", "Silvestr 1948" and "Zimní vítr 1951") about members of the SN

1959-05-15
A comedy about a young salesman Havelka, who gets his life's wish. He wins his dream car Spartacus i

1958-08-08
The rude and bitter mining engineer Štěrba strongly opposes the proposal of his colleague Ing. Vocho

1987-05-01
In a school somewhere in the border region, a young teacher is trying to integrate Romani children i

1964-10-09
Professor Wilkens has invented a formula for a new type of fuel and puts it on a microfiche that he
1988-01-01
Three short stories about the people and folk around the shaft.
1988-03-01
A directors autobiography about his debut during the rise of socialism.
1989-05-01
A dramatic story about the devastation of the environment and human character.

1999-10-21
Told from the perspective of man reflecting on his childhood in Prague in the early years of World W

1990-06-01
A parable for the end of totalitarianism. Three protagonists - a high official, a secretary, and a

1995-04-11
The life story of Blessed Zdislava of Lemberk, about whom legends rather than sparse historical refe
1990-01-01
1989-12-29
1991-10-01
1999-05-05
2000-02-20