Vladimír Brabec

Acting

Vladimír Brabec

Born — Died

1934-05-15 — 2017-09-01

Place of birth

Prague, Zizkov, Czechoslovakia

Known for

Acting

Credits

84 titles

Czech movie, TV and stage actor.

Known for

Bakaláři poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bakaláři

1972

Dobrodružství kriminalistiky poster
8.6

No synopsis available yet.

Dobrodružství kriminalistiky

1989

Vyprávěj poster
7.6

Set in Czechoslovakia, the drama follows the lives of its characters against the backdrop of real historical events that shape their personal stories. To evoke period atmosphere, the series intersperses authentic clips from vintage Czechoslovak film newsreels, using their original commentaries or newly recorded historical voice-overs by Vladimír Fišer. A narrator, initially voiced by Vojtěch Kotek and later by Matěj Hádek, provides continuity and reflection, guiding viewers through changing times. Under the guidance of screenwriter Rudolf Merkner, each episode’s script weaves family and individual dramas into key moments of Czech and Slovak history: political shifts, cultural trends, and social transformations from the 1960s onward.

Vyprávěj

2009

Thirty Cases of Major Zema poster
7.3

Thirty 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

Případy 1. oddělení poster
8.3

No synopsis available yet.

Případy 1. oddělení

2014

The Visitors poster
7.6

It's the year 2484 and the Earth is threatened by a rogue comet which could fatally change its orbit. The solution is surprising - Adam Bernau, the greatest genius of 20th century developed 500 years ago an ingenious formula for easy transporting of continents and even worlds. Unfortunately, he made this discovery at the age of 11 and the exercise book containing it was destroyed in the fire. But this is not a challenge to Academic Filip who decides to send an expedition back in time to retrieve the precious exercise book from the fire. But everything is not so simple as it seems...

The Visitors

1983

Film credits

2000s · 4 titles

1990s · 11 titles

Česká muzika poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Česká muzika

1993

I Was a Teenage Intellectual (Byl jsem mladistvým intelektuálem) poster
7.4

Pavel and Eva are two teenagers who live a happy life full of McDonald's food, action movies and pop music. But one night, Pavel stumbles upon a secret gathering of intellectuals in the woods on his way to the video store. Not wanting to be discovered, the intellectuals attack him and the chief intellectual bites him in the leg. Some times later, he begins changing... Will the power of television, Eva's love and pop star Michal David's music save him from the intellectuals' evil clutches?

I Was a Teenage Intellectual (Byl jsem mladistvým intelektuálem)

1999

Halt, Or I'll Miss! poster
5.7

It is April 1945, spring begins and ends the war. German transport heading away from Bohemia.

Halt, Or I'll Miss!

1998

No artwork available
NR

A lyrical fairy tale of romantic mood tells of a girl who freed the Wind Young Man from the curse that punished him for his arrogance and violence. The fairy tale highlights the ennobling impulse and power of love, which can positively influence all human actions.

Perníkářka a větrný mládenec

1990

O princi, který měl o kolečko víc poster
NR

A fairy tale about a kingdom where the clever and wise must be given an "extra cog" so that the stupid can rule and steal. Prince Louis, however, manages to use the extra wheelbarrow brilliantly and outsmart the fools and thieves.

O princi, který měl o kolečko víc

1992

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

O těch Martinových dudách

1991

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Strážní andělé

1996

Martha and I poster
7.0

Emil (Vaclav Chalupa as a teen, Ondrej Vetchy as an adult) has been naughty, and his family is at a loss about what to do with him. He's been dallying with the family maid. They decide to ship him off to spend time with his uncle Ernst Michel Piccoli), who married his family maid. The boy has a good relationship with his uncle, and a touching picture of Czech family life just at the advent of World War II emerges. Since Emil and Ernst are both Jewish, they are eventually carted away by the Nazis.

Martha and I

1990

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Návrat do cizí země

1994

No artwork available
NR

An old English legend about a poor boy who became mayor of London served as the basis for a television adaptation. The orphan Dick Whittington was blessed with nothing more and nothing less than honesty, hard work, sincerity, a sense of honor, and justice. Together with a stroke of luck, it is precisely these character traits that help him become a respected and wealthy young man and a loving husband. And so this charmingly old-fashioned story, in which decency, diligence, and personal effort lead to success and fulfillment in life, retains its appealing and necessary relevance to this day.

Dick Whittington

1993

No artwork available
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Dědek Bárta

1990

1980s · 11 titles

No artwork available
NR

The daughters of the king of birds have chosen human grooms and left their native fairy forest in the form of silver and golden eggs. One is found by Štěpán in the gamekeeper's lodge, the other by the count in the castle. When the eggs hatch into beautiful girls, it seems that both couples will live happily and contentedly together. But each of the daughters is different, Aranka only desires wealth and deprives the count of all his money in the castle, Kačenka truly loves her huntsman and does not care about money. The spell that brought them to humans can also harm the king's daughters.…

O stříbrném a zlatém vajíčku

1981

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Po rozvodu

1982

No artwork available
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

O princezně solimánské

1984

Rukojmí v Bella Vista poster
7.0

The film thematically follows the stories of the TV series "30 cases of Major Zeman". We can meet Major Zeman again with Lieutenant Colonel Zitny, Major Hradec and Lieutenant Gajdoš. The film is set in 1972 in a South American country and shows the activities of an international counter-revolutionary headquarters, which the central character of the film - Major Hradec - uncovers even at the cost of his own life. The film was largely shot in Cuba. The film is an edited version of the series episodes 27 and 28 "Messages from an Unknown Land" and "Hostages in Bella Vista".

Rukojmí v Bella Vista

1980

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Betazóna

1987

No artwork available
NR

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Jsou určité hranice

1987

No artwork available
2.7

No synopsis available yet.

Než poznáš první úsměv

1989

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Herec

1988

Citová výchova jednej Dáše poster
8.0

Young Dasha lives in a small town. Her father is a prominent man, the owner of a restaurant. However, when her father's connections are not enough to get Dasha accepted to college, she has to spend the summer working part-time in her father's business. Love, friends, even running away from home, all belong to this period of Dasha's life. The failed wedding arranged by her parents, the patronizing imposition of university studies at a price that the girl fears - all this brings on the one hand a deep disappointment in her own parents, but over time also the recognition of her own mistakes.

Citová výchova jednej Dáše

1982

Jestli jednou odejdu poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Jestli jednou odejdu

1985

No artwork available
NR

The coal miner Prokop complains about his fate. For some time now, evil forces have been ruining his coal mining work, and he is being haunted by witches. He decides to move out of the region. But the kind Stazka, the blacksmith's wife, won't let him. And he discovers that the queen of the witches is the missing girl from their village, Mařenka. How can the unfortunate Mařenka be saved from the spell and what has actually happened to her? Only a good deed by a person who once hurt her can save her. Such an act will transform the queen of the witches back into a pretty peasant girl.

Královna bludiček

1981

1970s · 16 titles

No artwork available
8.0

An astronomer, wooing the hand of King John's daughter, builds a royal puppet. King John considers it blasphemy, but when a puppet is shot and killed in an assassination attempt by an evil prince from a neighboring kingdom instead of King John, nothing stands in the way of the astronomer and Princess Korunca.

Král, kejklíř a hvězdář

1971

The Liberation of Prague poster
5.3

On 20th of April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germany and Hitler decides to commit suicide. In Prague K.H. Frank (Nazi Secretary of State and Chief of police in the Protectorate of Bohemia a Moravia) discusses with his commanders how to transform the city into an impregnable fortress, but the Praguers do not intend to wait any longer. From the early hours of 4th of May people start assembling in the streets and tearing down German signs. On the next day, the 5th of May, the uprising begins.

The Liberation of Prague

1977

Nekonečná – nevystupovat poster
8.3

Two somewhat crazy friends Milan (Milan Lasica) and Julo (Július Satinský) resolve to have a peaceful holiday in an old guard house that Julo has bought from his uncle. But in the early hours of the very first morning they are woken up by the loud sound of a trumpet. It is the severe supervisor of a nearby recreation center forcing the children out of their beds and out to exercise drill. To protect themselves from the children, Milan and Julo put up signs saying "private property". The first to disturb their privacy is the supervisor's little granddaughter Miluska, who uses their shed as her gingerbread house. The children in the camp are disgruntled, the supervisor's program bores them, and so they make up all sorts of other things to do.

Nekonečná – nevystupovat

1979

Sto dukátů za Juana poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sto dukátů za Juana

1971

Chased and Suspected poster
10.0

Late at night Eva Trojanová returns home to an agitated husband; three days later, her body is found with bruises on her neck. Her spouse, missing after a business trip, becomes the prime suspect and flees to northern Bohemia. When investigators learn he is innocent, Captain Hart continues pursuing him, not as a criminal but as a desperate man whose plight may endanger himself or draw him into conflict with the law.

Chased and Suspected

1979

No artwork available
3.7

No synopsis available yet.

Silvestr na přání aneb Čí jsou hory Kavčí

1977

Královna Černá růže poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Královna Černá růže

1972

No artwork available
NR

The Himalayan mountain Makalu, located in Nepal, is the fifth highest mountain in the world. In 1973, a Czechoslovak expedition also attempted to climb it via the challenging route, the so-called South Pillar, but it ended tragically. The group of climbers led by the experienced Ivan Kaščák (real-life Ivan Gálfy) is composed of the fittest men. In the base camp and during the preparation of the advanced camps, the expedition struggles with common health problems - a sore tooth, intestinal problems or a cold. For the actual climb to the summit of Makalu, Kaščák chooses a young engineering student Milan, a colleague Karol who is a generation older than him, and a young man Jož. In the advanced camp, without Kaščák's knowledge, he gives up his place to the ambitious Karol. However, due to fatigue and lack of oxygen, Milan falls down a snowy slope and injures his head and spine. He can‘t be transported down.

Vynes na horu svoj hrob

1979

V každém pokoji žena poster
4.5

The plethora of heroines living in the makeshift former Women's Homes share one feature - they mostly feel lonely. Some of them got used to this state and resigned, others still believe in a happier future...

V každém pokoji žena

1974

Pasiáns poster
6.5

Student Eva is dashing up a steep slope to try to catch a bus, but she twists her ankle and the bus doesn't wait. There won't be another bus until the next day, and so Eva returns to her parents' cottage where she has been studying by herself for several days. She finds the door open, and inside a young man, Dusan, who behaves as if he were at home. Eva is a little scared and so she pretends to be a chance passerby who can't go any further because of her injured ankle. The boy offers her a bed for the night. He also fetches some plum brandy, they drink toasts to each other, and Eva starts to play Patience.

Pasiáns

1977

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

O statečné princezně Janě

1979

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Poslední výstřel Davida Sandela

1972

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rovnice o jedné krásné neznámé...

1979

Svatby pana Voka poster
5.6

Czech nobleman Petr Vok of Rozmberk (Milos Kopecký) is no longer so young, but his amatory adventures continue to arouse the envy of men and the indignation of respectable ladies. In his "female retinue" at the chateau in Bechyne he has twelve comely girls, but he still manages to seduce the miller's wife and the maid. Lord Vok is in great financial difficulties. His elder brother Vilém advises him to marry a rich woman. Petr surprises him by announcing his intention to marry the very young Katerina of Ludanice.

Svatby pana Voka

1971

No artwork available
NR

Oldřich Daňek's play tells a love story from our ancient times about the beautiful convent inmate Jitka and the brave Břetislav, the son of the Bohemian prince Oldřich and the simple laundress Božena. This witty apocryphal uses semi-historical, semi-legendary material in a modern way.

Břetislav a Jitka

1974

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Pan Větrovský z Větrova a paní Deštná z Dešťova a také Martin a Klaudina

1970

1960s · 10 titles

The Shield and the Sword poster
NR

The year is 1940 and Nazi Germany is at the height of its military prowess, having captured most of Europe and eyeing the Soviet Union to the East. The Russian military command suspects hostile intent from Germany and so arranges for its spies to infiltrate ranks of the German military and the SS. Alexander Belov is a Russian spy, who travels from Soviet-held Latvia to Nazi Germany under an alias of Johann Weiss. His mastery of the German language, steel nerves and an ability to manipulate others help him to use his connections in the SS to ascend the ladder of the German intelligence. He uses his position to identify sympathetic Germans, who help him to procure vital intelligence, and to help local resistance movements in their collective fight against Nazism.

The Shield and the Sword

1968

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

S čím kdo zachází

1964

Poslední růže od Casanovy poster
7.5

The story takes place at the time when Giacomo Casanova, probably the most famous conqueror of women, held the position of librarian at the Valdštejn castle in Duchcov. He was then a rather bored and grumpy old man who enjoyed only writing his memoirs and then a daily game of cards with the Count. But all that changed when Wallenstein's young nephew František Adam arrived at the chateau with his charming wife Valeria. She wanted to see the famous seducer with her own eyes. However, she was somewhat disappointed by the reality, as well as by the seducer's outdated views on love.

Poslední růže od Casanovy

1966

The Night Guest poster
8.0

When a man stops at a motel one evening in 1961, his tormenting behavior drives one of the people present at the motel to remember his experiences in a concentration camp during WWII.

The Night Guest

1961

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Cesta řeky k moři

1966

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Zdravý nemocný

1961

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dům U špačka

1967

Prague Nights poster
5.8

A stuffy middle-aged foreigner, a businessman named Fabricius, lonely and looking for a night's diversion, finds it in the form of a mysterious blonde. In an abandoned cemetery, she tells him three tales involving black magic and erotic obsession. In "The Last Golem," a young rabbi struggles to fashion a massive, silent giant out of living clay — until he's distracted by a mute servant girl. In the second episode, "Bread Slippers," an 18th-century countess indulges her passion for sweet cakes, adulterous affairs, and secret kisses with pretty maids until a mysterious visitor whisks her away to an abandoned mansion, where Fate has a different kind of dance in store for her. And in the final story, "Poisoned Poisoner," a ravishing murderess in the Middle Ages dispatches lecherous merchants to the tune of upbeat '60s Czech pop songs.

Prague Nights

1969

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Jejich den

1962

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Šibalství Scapinova

1961

1950s · 4 titles

Life for Jan Kaspar poster
4.0

The bridegroom Jan Kaspar is an officer in the Klement Gottwald's Nová Hut rolling-mill. After bidding farewell to his freedom, he accidentally takes a sip from the bottle of tetrachlore which he stores at home. He disregards the dizziness, but the next day, he faints in the factory and has a brain concussion. During her regular tests, doctor Dudková is shocked by a high percentage of residual nitrogen found in Kaspar's blood. Doctor Bohácek, with whom Dudková consults, thinks that it is a liver disease and informs the head physician Filip. The doctors know nothing about tetrachlore and are in the dark about the case. Despite that, they immediately start to fight for Kaspar's life and their struggle consequently affects their personal lives.

Life for Jan Kaspar

1959

Desire poster
6.5

A poignant overview of how short life can be, this interesting drama from Czech director Vojetch Jasny is divided into four separate segments. In the first skit, a young child's impressions are observed as his newborn baby sister becomes a part of the family. In the second, a young woman falls in love for the first time one summer, and in the third, a tough, older peasant woman battles against the farming cooperatives. Finally, in the last segment, everything comes full circle as a woman who is about to become a grandmother dies while her daughter-in-law has not yet given birth.

Desire

1958

No artwork available
5.0

The achievements of socialism must be protected by all means - and it can even be fun. The Svazarmov paratroopers convince the casual cooperative members that the military education of the population must not be underestimated; they simply carry out an ambush.

Návštěva z oblak

1955

No artwork available
6.2

The commander of the military training camp, newly promoted Major Cibulka, keeps his subordinates in line. Because of an unexpected emergency, he refuses to give leave even to the young lieutenant Zabran, whose wife is due to give birth any day. In addition, a false article appears in an army newspaper claiming that Zábrana is an example of a bad company commander. In fact, it is he who has the best leadership skills. Fearing for his wife's health, Zábrana disobeys orders and departs for Prague at night to visit his wife in the maternity ward. Cibulka decides to push the envelope even harder, and drives Zábrana, whom he has long disliked, before the prosecutor.

September Nights

1957

Series credits

Bakaláři poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bakaláři

1972

Dobrodružství kriminalistiky poster
8.6

No synopsis available yet.

Dobrodružství kriminalistiky

1989

Vyprávěj poster
7.6

Set in Czechoslovakia, the drama follows the lives of its characters against the backdrop of real historical events that shape their personal stories. To evoke period atmosphere, the series intersperses authentic clips from vintage Czechoslovak film newsreels, using their original commentaries or newly recorded historical voice-overs by Vladimír Fišer. A narrator, initially voiced by Vojtěch Kotek and later by Matěj Hádek, provides continuity and reflection, guiding viewers through changing times. Under the guidance of screenwriter Rudolf Merkner, each episode’s script weaves family and individual dramas into key moments of Czech and Slovak history: political shifts, cultural trends, and social transformations from the 1960s onward.

Vyprávěj

2009

Thirty Cases of Major Zema poster
7.3

Thirty 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

Případy 1. oddělení poster
8.3

No synopsis available yet.

Případy 1. oddělení

2014

The Visitors poster
7.6

It's the year 2484 and the Earth is threatened by a rogue comet which could fatally change its orbit. The solution is surprising - Adam Bernau, the greatest genius of 20th century developed 500 years ago an ingenious formula for easy transporting of continents and even worlds. Unfortunately, he made this discovery at the age of 11 and the exercise book containing it was destroyed in the fire. But this is not a challenge to Academic Filip who decides to send an expedition back in time to retrieve the precious exercise book from the fire. But everything is not so simple as it seems...

The Visitors

1983

Malý pitaval z velkého města poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Malý pitaval z velkého města

1983

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Z hříček o královnách

1994

We All Are Required to Attend School poster
4.0

Stories from a daily life of children attending a regular school.

We All Are Required to Attend School

1984

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Šaráda

1990

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Povstalecká história

1984

Stopy života poster
3.0

No synopsis available yet.

Stopy života

2013

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Úsměvy světa

1969

Hříchy pro pátera Knoxe poster
7.7

No synopsis available yet.

Hříchy pro pátera Knoxe

1992

Sňatky z rozumu poster
7.8

Sňatky z rozumu was a Czechoslovak television programme which was first broadcast in 1968. The programme was directed by František Filip.

Sňatky z rozumu

1968

Doktor z vejminku poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Doktor z vejminku

1983

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Přísahám a slibuji

1990

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bronzová spirála

1989

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kouzelný svět divadla a melodií

1979

Stopy zločinu poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Stopy zločinu

1985

Anča a Pepík poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Anča a Pepík

2017

No artwork available
NR

Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her employer's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.

Little Dorrit

1967

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Roky prelomu

1989

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Svetlá nad prístavom

1986