
Acting
Květa Fialová
Born — Died
1929-09-01 — 2017-09-26
Place of birth
Veľké Dravce
Known for
Acting
Credits
83 titles
Květa Fialová se narodila na Slovensku, v obci Vel'ké Dravce v okrese Lučenec. Její maminka byla výtvarnice, vedle malby se věnovala i sochaření. Na Slovensku žila rodina do roku 1938, kdy je slovenští nacionalisté přinutili odejít do Čech. Z konce 2. světové války si dospívající Květa odnesla nanejvýš traumatizující zážitek, když ji spolu s matkou brutálně znásilnili sovětští vojáci. Tato zkušenost byla počátkem jejího komplikovaného a rozporuplného vztahu k mužům. Po válce se matka vrátila na Slovensko a Květa Fialová zůstala sama. Přitahovalo ji divadlo a v roce 1946 začala hrát v Českém Těšíně. Téhož roku byla přijata na brněnskou konzervatoř. Pokračovala studiem na JAMU, které úspěšně …
Known for
7.3Thirty Cases of Major Zeman is a Czechoslovak action-drama television show intended as a political propaganda to support the official attitude of the communist party. The series were filmed in the 1970s. Each episode encompasses one year, and investigations are stylized to that year. Most are inspired by real cases. The series follows the life of police investigator Jan Zeman during his career from 1945 to 1975.
Thirty Cases of Major Zema
1976
7.3No synopsis available yet.
Malý pitaval z velkého města
1983
No synopsis available yet.
Bližní na tapetě
1970
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Hříšní lidé města pražského
1969
7.0No synopsis available yet.
F. L. Věk
1971
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Love Lost
2002
Film credits
2000s · 4 titles
3.6Three sixteen year-old friends on a summer holiday are trying to lose their virginity. Finally they succeed with a help of a local girl Lenka (Vankova).
Virginity Sucks
2006
No synopsis available yet.
Hříšný člověk Jiří Sequens
2006
No synopsis available yet.
Já z toho budu mít smrt
2006
No synopsis available yet.
Vladimír Menšík – 75
2004
1990s · 17 titles
No synopsis available yet.
Záhadná paní Savageová
1998
No synopsis available yet.
Čardášová princezna
1990
No synopsis available yet.
Něžné hry
1991
4.2The film, which opens with students arriving at a police academy, is a crazy comedy that is more a series of zany episodes and jokes than a coherent story. They are linked by a simple plot in which the commander of the police academy, Major Maisner, searches among his recruits for an alleged FBI spy and, after a not-so-subtle practical joke, gets into a dispute with his subordinate, a dispute that ends in a genuine bank robbery.
Byl jednou jeden polda
1995
No synopsis available yet.
Jenny Marx, la femme du diable
1993
4.8An allegory set in an archetypal Czech village, it tells the story of what happens when a series of mysterious events take place, including the disappearance of the station master. While everything has a rational explanation, collective paranoia takes over and everyone's worst instincts are unleashed. Interrogations, disenfranchisement, and the search for scapegoats ultimately lead to murder. The movie was completed in 1969, but it was banned and not released till 1990, Evald Schorm who died in 1988 never saw it completed.
The Seventh Day, the Eighth Night
1990
No synopsis available yet.
Pohádka o lidech a Boží lékárně
1995
What happens when a young man starts believing the fabrications in newspapers? Astrology brings him nothing but new problems, especially with his parents. Sometimes, however, a horoscope can help open up new perspectives on life, as happened to his adult sister, who falls in love... with a newspaper boy.
Pozor na Kozoroha
1994
6.4Dr. Lauren is staying in Prague for a conference and falls in love with Czech writer Jiri Kolmar.
Prague Duet
1998
7.2Told from the perspective of man reflecting on his childhood in Prague in the early years of World War II and the eventual destruction of his family as the Nazis rise to power. The storyline focuses heavily on Jewish-Czech Silberstein family members. Drama was filmed on the real events as a tribute to Mr. Nicholas Winton, the British humanitarian who organized the rescue of 669 children, most of them Jewish, from Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War in an operation later known as the Czech Kindertransport from German-occupied Czechoslovakia and likely death in the Holocaust.
All My Loved Ones
1999
8.0An elderly paper-crusher branded a fool in Prague secretly stashes condemned books, preserving their contents and extrapolating from them eccentric scenarios of wit.
Too Loud A Solitude
1995
6.7Michail Forman, a successful business manager, gets stuck in a traffic jam. The weather is lousy, his car breaks down and he forgot to buy a present for his 5th wedding anniversary. He jumps out of his car and finds some shelter in the entrance of a shopping mall. Attracted by a little girl he enters the mall, but once he's in, time and reality are no longer something to rely on.
Passage
1997
The comedy tells the story of how cowboy Bill, thanks to his clever talking horse Lightning, became brave, defeated the evil Jackal, and thus freed the village from fear and the old tyrant, with humorous hyperbole.
Ať ten kůň mlčí!
1992
Not all kingdoms are the same. When King Alfonso wants to have an heir in the kingdom of men, he finds himself in a tricky situation. But a ruler is a ruler because he can deal with tense moments decisively. And so, with the generous support of the invisible fairy godmother, Alfonso chooses his bride after all. However, this causes the atmosphere in the kingdom to become tense, and the advisors Lakabus and Kakabus impatiently await the first disaster. It is not long in coming. A girl is born in the powerful kingdom of men.
Štěstí krále Alfonse
1996
6.1Capturing the dark humor of Czech author Michal Viewegh's chronicle of life after the Velvet Revolution, this black comedy chronicles three decades in the life of a small Czech family. While the original novel centered on the protagonist Kvido from his conception through his adulthood, first time director Petr Nikolaev and screenwriter Jan Novak changed the focus to his parents Milena, an extremely self-effacing lawyer who acts on stage in her spare time, and Ales, a rather aimless government worker who tends to drift wherever the wind takes him. The lives of Ales and Milena change dramatically following the Russian invasion of Prague in 1968.
The Wonderful Years That Sucked
1997
Carpenter Jakub is preparing a gift for his bride Bára – a carved chest. On the advice of his grandmother, a herbalist, he goes into the forest to find a twig from a magical larch tree so that the chest will blossom. In the nighttime forest, he is helped by the fairy Modřínka, who likes Jakub. However, the proud Bára rejects Jakub, and he almost falls victim to the forest fairies. Who will save him, and who will be his bride?
Jakub a Modřínka
1996
No synopsis available yet.
Motýl na anténě
1991
1980s · 12 titles
9.0Bratislava, 1930s. The owner of a luxury tailoring salon, Alfréd Blum, has always relied on a classy clientele, thanks to which he rose to the top of society. But times change, the world is in an economic crisis, and Blum discovers that in reality he only has debts. He has completely lost his assets in shares, and his clients have to deny themselves luxury goods. The only hope to save his family from poverty is Blum's life insurance policy for 300,000 crowns. Therefore, the businessman turns to his old acquaintance, unemployed tailor Ján Kepeš, with an unusual offer. He gives him five thousand crowns and arranges a job for him in a Viennese salon. The condition is that Kepeš kills Blum...
Smrť šitá na mieru
1980
No synopsis available yet.
Revue za šest korun
1985
Miller’s daughter Zuzanka Vojířová, betrothed to Ondřej Zachar, hesitates before marriage when Lord Peter Vok of Rožmberk invites her to his castle. There she bears his son Petříček, but his wife hides the child. After Vok’s death in battle, Zuzanka is expelled and lives as a beggar, reunited with her son and former fiancé, finding solace in the continuation of the Rožmberk lineage.
Zuzana Vojířová
1983
5.5On the outskirts of Weimar, Edouard and Charlotte, an aristocratic couple united after both becoming widows, invite two guests to their home: a childhood friend of Edouard's called the Captain, and despite Charlotte's ominous premonition, Ottilie, Charlotte's beautiful and orphaned niece...
Elective Affinities
1983
5.2The two heroes of the film's story - the decent but dry engineer Zárub and the marriage swindler Majer - are granted this wish by the mysterious forces of the moon. The two men change their appearance, which, however, contrasts sharply with their unchanged characters and voices. The incomprehensible swap naturally becomes the source of many comic plots and situations.
It's Not Me
1986
6.1The Francs with their daughters Olina and Jirina are building a villa in the village of Rezkovice. Father Franc (Vladimír Mensík) doesn't allow himself a minute's respire and restlessly forces to work his wife, both daughters and Zdenek, Jirina's suitor. Zdenek does not protest against it and, in addition, he is skillful. On the contrary, Olina's boyfriend Libor is worse at work. He studies at the Technical College and he does not succeed much in grasping the building handicraft. Franc, proud of his pursuits, decides that he will arrange the wedding for both daughters and then hand them over the key of the villa in which both pairs have luxuriously furnished flats.
Half a House Without a Groom
1981
No synopsis available yet.
Pavouk se smaragdovýma očima
1986
No synopsis available yet.
Proč se vraždí starší dámy
1982
NRWhat could the fairies be missing, anyone who sees those three lovely elderly ladies living happily in their castle in the middle of a beautiful garden would think. And yet something was missing. They longed for someone to cheer them up, to care for them. A little magic was all it took for Princess Janet to trade her family castle for a fairy garden. At first it seemed that she would not be so bad off here, but as soon as she made it known that she would not marry the obsolete king of the flower elves, a cruel punishment awaited her.
Bílá kočička
1980
Black comedy about an old servant working for three unmarried sisters.
Fish for four
1987
No synopsis available yet.
Případ nevinné řeky
1986
3.7Even the best of resolutions can crumble, especially when late paternal feelings are echoed. Although the protagonist is a lecturer in ethics at the university, explaining the principles of good behaviour to the students, he himself experiences many confusions and troubles when he tries to get his teenage daughter from his first marriage admitted to medical school. The eloquent, self-confident man slowly turns into a bully, who also defies his own principles.
Samorost
1984
1970s · 13 titles
7.5Popelka, a resourceful and independent young girl, is a servant in her stepmother's house and confides in her closest friend the owl. When she comes across three magical acorns, she's granted a single wish for each one of them.
Three Wishes for Cinderella
1973
7.5When famous detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in strange case of a missing dog and even stranger carnivorous plant. He becomes convinced that he is standing against his greatest enemy, the Gardener, who supposedly died years ago in a swamp...
Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet
1978
5.5The main characters are a young psychologist Doubravka and a village youth, Honza Macháček. He is a tractor driver who temporarily lost his driver's license in a crazy bet, so he now herds a cooperative herd of cows, she is at the cottage with her boy Boba, who is not very successful in studying medicine and is currently preparing for his remedial exams. Honza's immediacy, optimism and approach to life and work contrast sharply with the selfish, weak-willed and unbalanced Boba, and Doubravka increasingly realizes that her feelings for Boba have disappeared and that she actually loves Honza. The question is how her somewhat conservative family will view such a game.
Summer with a Cowboy
1976
3.6A British citizen by the name of George Reiner (Jirí Sovák) arrives at Prague airport. He was once a Czech safe-breaker, and has now returned home after thirty years to steal twenty-dollar gold coins still kept in the safe at a private villa in Pilsen whose owner fled to the West.
The Man from London
1974
8.0A wandering magician, capable of listening to the secrets of a child's soul, is able to create a magical land called San Jago di Campanella even in a secluded mountain hunting lodge. He arrives there just before Christmas and is able to give the children there a sense of well-being full of soothing fantasy.
Putovanie do San Jaga
1973
5.8An escort composed of three people transports a huge amount of new one-hundred crown banknotes in a special railway car. At the 196th kilometer, a village girl is waiting at the railway crossing and spots two men removing some packages from the track. The scene is immediately followed by the report of a gun and the unwanted witness is shot dead. Soon afterwards, on the 201st kilometer, the train explodes. Only one of the escorts Lenk (Radoslav Brzobohatý) survives the explosion, taken to hospital with serious injuries. Criminologist Major Kalas (Jirí Sovák) and the very young Second Lieutenant Karlícek (Jaromír Hanzlík) patiently gather facts, leads and testimonies.
A Killer on the Tracks
1970
5.4In a suburban villa, a woman of means is murdered. Police Superintendent Zdychynec from the Prague Liben neighborhood reports the case to Police Councilman Vacátko, upon whose order an investigation is launched immediately. Zdychynec begins to suspect the wooer of his own daughter, a handsome dragoon named Rudi, of the crime. In Rudi's absence, Zdychynec searches his rented room in the apartment of the elegant Mrs Dragicová. All his findings - among others, sand left on Rudi's jackboots and a decent amount of money in his bedside table - convince the superintendent that he is following the right lead, especially when Rudi refuses to say where he was at the time of the murder.
The Matches of a Beautiful Dragoon
1971
No synopsis available yet.
Mário a kúzelník
1976
No synopsis available yet.
Adagio
1970
5.6Slacker Maurice Fadinar wasted his whole inheritance and the only way out of this situation, as it seems, to marry Helen Nonankur - daughter of a wealthy farmer. At the last meeting with his mistress in a nearby forest Fadinar's horse eats straw hat which belongs to a married lady, spending time in the company of young and hot Lieutenant Emil. Emil literally puts a knife to Maurice throat - or the lady will get back the exact same hat immediately, or he will arrange such a scandal that no wedding will not happen ...
Straw Hat
1972
No synopsis available yet.
O statečné princezně Janě
1979
No synopsis available yet.
Do zbrane, kuruci
1974
NRLevoča, first half of the 16th century. Master Paul creates his most famous work - a late Gothic altar in the Church of St. James. He has just recruited the carving companion Kristof into his service.
Skrytý prameň
1974
1960s · 11 titles
7.2At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to the war and the resistance that surrounds him, this young man embarks on a journey of sexual awakening and self-discovery, encountering a universe of frustration, eroticism, and adventure within his sleepy backwater depot.
Closely Watched Trains
1966
No synopsis available yet.
Úřad
1968
In Slovakia, they also created a pair of investigators who have appeared in several films. Volanie démonov is the third of them. The police officers, one Maigret-like, thoughtful, the other humorously hasty, this time solve a fire in a furniture factory and the deaths of two employees - one burned himself, the other fell into a dry well. The investigation of the complicated case takes a long time, but in the end it turns out that revenge can be extraordinarily strong and persistent.
Volanie démonov
1968
7.1A satire of the Great American Way, with Lemonade Joe a "clean living" gunfighter who drinks only Kola-Loca Lemonade and convinces everyone else in town (with his gun skills) that all "real men" drink ONLY lemonade!
Lemonade Joe
1964
6.1The 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. He will have to compete for the saltcellar with other agents working for the world's various greater and smaller powers. The head of the Prague counter-intelligence unit gets news of agent W4C's mission. Deficient in personnel, he nominates accountant Foustka as agent 13B. Mr Foustka takes his dog Pajda with him and the two head for the airport. Pajda helps him track down agent W4C in a classy hotel that becomes the battleground for the interests and plans of the secret agents from different countries, each trying to get hold of the precious saltcellar.
The End of Agent W4C
1967
7.0Inspector Brumpby (Jaroslav Marvan) and the young crime reporter Allan Pinkerton (Vít Olmer) attend wedding of Sir Hannibal Morris (Oldrich Nový) with beautiful Clarence (Kveta Fialová). After the ceremony, Clarence's ex-husband, criminal Manuel Diaz (Waldemar Matuska), who was believed dead, shows up in her room. He wants to get his hands on Clarence and, most importantly, on the money she would inherit in the eventuality of her new husband's death. Diaz makes attempts on Hannibal's life. He knows his way about an underground labyrinth in the château and the traps he sets up for Hannibal seem to work, since Hannibal is apparently found dead after an explosion in the labyrinth, after which his body vanishes. The inspector tries to solve the countless mysteries. In this, he is joined by Allan, always ahead of the man of the law in his estimation and judgment of the situation.
The Phantom of Morrisville
1966
4.51. A taxi driver barely finishes his coffee before a young woman asks for a ride to impress her boyfriend, only to reveal her beau’s ramshackle “plan” beside his sleek car. He then smooths over a quarreling couple, helps a frustrated engineer solve his machine’s fault in a dream, and delivers a masked father’s gifts for his estranged daughter. 2. Mr. Kalina, an airport employee, fulfills a flight attendant’s plea by taking in an orphaned African girl for the night. He ensures her safe transfer to a children’s home the next day. 3. Zaza, a coquettish milliner’s assistant, juggles the attentions of a shy tailor and her stern salon manager. After a humiliating fall on the runway, the tailor comforts her and stages a private reprise, revealing where her heart truly belongs.
Love Without Words
1962
7.0Shortish forty-year old Ludvík Podzimek, lute and flute player in a Prague orchestra, is far from being an attractive man. He is nevertheless generally considered a great 'Don Juan'. Women take up with him out of a certain motherly compassion and Ludvík's tender heart does not allow him to split with any of them. His lovers thus accumulate and cause him numerous troubles.
Never Strike A Woman... Even with A Flower
1967
6.8A poor miner, Kuba Dařbuján, cares for his wife Markýtka and eleven children. When a newborn arrives, he seeks a godfather and, finding only Death fair to all, accepts a pact: as a doctor whom Death accompanies at the foot of a patient’s bed, he can heal; but if Death stands at the head, no cure is possible. Kuba eventually heals even a miserly brewer, violating the pact and imprisoning Death, leading to a world where no one can die and unforeseen chaos follows.
Darbujan and Pandrhola
1960
5.0Sanin, an aging Russian nobleman, recalls his unfulfilled love for a simple girl with whom he fell in love during his youthful travels, but left her for a short-lived love affair with a selfish high society beauty.
Jarní vody
1968
4.2The protagonist (Rudolf Hrusinsky) is a dull, fat, shy government clerk indulging in voyuerism and ego fantasies. In love with another clerk (Kveta Fiolova), he is urged on in his pursuit by a commiserate executive. The story is told in a flashback sequence as the cuckolded Hrusinsky attempts suicide by gassing himself in his bathtub. The "Murder" of the title is not a murder as such, rather the murder that Hrusinsky remembers planning upon discovering his wife's unfaithfulness with his supposed friend and advisor. Both plots failing in his mind, he loses himself in fantastic reveries of his funeral and of hypocritical mourners. ' Deciding (perhaps) that this is not the way out either, he gives up the attempt and imagines a life of reconciliation and eventual affluence.
Murder Czech Style
1967
1950s · 3 titles
6.8A Czech fairy tale about a princess named Lada who runs away from home in a mouse fur disguise in order to escape an unwanted and forced marriage.
The Princess with the Golden Star
1959
7.0The story of the piper Švanda, who went abroad for money and fame, but whose love for his homeland ultimately wins.
Strakonický dudák
1955
7.0A man was killed while trying to leave Czechoslovakia. One and a half kilograms of gold was found on him - not in coins, not in jewelry, not in bars - but in the form of plates used to make teeth...
Zlatý pavouk
1957
Series credits
7.3Thirty Cases of Major Zeman is a Czechoslovak action-drama television show intended as a political propaganda to support the official attitude of the communist party. The series were filmed in the 1970s. Each episode encompasses one year, and investigations are stylized to that year. Most are inspired by real cases. The series follows the life of police investigator Jan Zeman during his career from 1945 to 1975.
Thirty Cases of Major Zema
1976
7.3No synopsis available yet.
Malý pitaval z velkého města
1983
No synopsis available yet.
Bližní na tapetě
1970
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Hříšní lidé města pražského
1969
7.0No synopsis available yet.
F. L. Věk
1971
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Love Lost
2002
No synopsis available yet.
Povstalecká história
1984
7.0No synopsis available yet.
13. komnata
2006
8.8No synopsis available yet.
Dynastie Nováků
1982
No synopsis available yet.
Strom pohádek
1987
No synopsis available yet.
Hotel Herbich
2000
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Draculův švagr
1996
6.0No synopsis available yet.
S Italem v kuchyni
2009
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Povídky malostranské
1984
No synopsis available yet.
Náhrdelník
1993
No synopsis available yet.
Země úsměvů a snů
1970
No synopsis available yet.
Zaprášené histórie Ema Bohúňa
1970
3.0No synopsis available yet.
Bazén
2005
9.5No synopsis available yet.
Druhý dech
1989
No synopsis available yet.
Duhový luk
1973
No synopsis available yet.
Starožitníkův krám
1980
No synopsis available yet.
Přízraky mezi námi
2000
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Top Star Magazín
2008
