Acting

Ervín Zolar

Born 1914-12-14

Acting credits

Death Is Called Engelchen poster
6.4

Pavel is a Czech partisan fighter in the waning days of the war. Just as peace is declared, Pavel is shot in the spine and sent to the hospital emergency ward. As he fades in and out of consciousness, he recalls the events that led to his participation in the underground. Holding German occupation commander Engelchen responsible for all the horrors and deprivations heaped upon his comrades, Pavel is kept alive by the possibility of recovering and exacting vengeance upon the Nazi officer - no matter how long it takes.

Death Is Called Engelchen

1963

I Survived Certain Death poster
7.0

Telling the prisoners of a death camp. Boxer Tony Majer, who got into a concentration camp for a fight with the Gestapo, remembers the murderous work in quarries, on the cruel torture of the Nazis and prison solidarity that helped him survive.

I Survived Certain Death

1960

The Jester's Tale poster
7.3

During the Thirty Years' War, ploughman Petr, recruiter Matěj and country girl Lenka are caught up in both sides of the war and experience many adventures before they find happiness.

The Jester's Tale

1964

Lost in the Suburbs poster
8.0

Czechoslovak drama film about soldiers returning from World War II

Lost in the Suburbs

1949

A Leap In The Dark poster
NR

Spring 1943: A three-member group of resistance fighters flies from a Soviet military airport into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to establish contacts with an illegal communist center in the occupied territory.

A Leap In The Dark

1964

The Five Sinners poster
5.0

The short story explores the often tragic impact of prejudice or suspicion that relies on the appearance of the human face. Guests in a remote pub recount their own experiences of such cases, furthermore influenced by their experiences in the First World War...

The Five Sinners

1964

No artwork available
6.5

In the last days of the war, American planes bomb a synthetic gasoline plant in the Sudetenland. The workers are then faced with the enormous task of building a new plant on the site of the ruins and starting production. Their efforts are truly bearing fruit - after immense sacrifices, Stalin's plants are back in full swing, which is something that competitors abroad don't like to see and they try to use the reaction to liquidate the production of synthetic gasoline...

Výstraha

1954

I, Justice poster
6.4

At the year 1946, the time of the Nuremberg Process. One of the main actors of the Second World War, who reportedly committed suicide, Adolf Hitler is, however, missing. The Czech doctor Herman (Karel Höger) is kidnapped from Prague and driven to the sanatorium of Professor Rolf Harting (Jirí Vrstála). The sanatorium is a disguised military stronghold, most probably occupied by a Nazi garrison, with prison cells and an execution chamber in the basement. At night, Herman is taken to a patient in whom he, to his horror, recognizes Hitler (Fritz Diez).

I, Justice

1968

Kidnapped poster
6.7

American agents hijack a plane on the Ostrava-Prague route to launch a campaign against the People's Democratic Czechoslovakia. The plane lands in West Germany, but the Americans have an unexpected problem convincing the hijackers to stay in the West. Based on a true story.

Kidnapped

1953

Reportáž psaná na oprátce poster
6.5

Screen adaptation of Julius Fucik's story about communist fighters.

Reportáž psaná na oprátce

1962

Wo der Wildbach durch das Höschen rauscht - Witwen-Report poster
4.8

In the diary of the late mayor finds his virtuous widow evidence how wild it really driving the good citizens of the town. That there is just here in their quiet small Upper Bavarian village much Swap and let some of the meaning joyful women burn anything that angered not only the Mayor's widow but also the village priest. But the cesspool goes much, much deeper ...

Wo der Wildbach durch das Höschen rauscht - Witwen-Report

1974