Jára Kohout

Acting

Jára Kohout

Born 1904-12-09

Acting credits

The Projectionist poster
5.9

A projectionist bored with his everyday life begins fantasizing about his being one of the superheroes he sees in the movies he shows.

The Projectionist

1970

History of Philosophy poster
7.0

A student rebellion precedes revolutionary events in Prague.

History of Philosophy

1937

Neviděli jste Bobíka? poster
7.0

An elderly rich lady, Hyacinta Horáková, is leaving for a spa. She entrusts her terrier Bobík to her sister-in-law Ludmila and her daughter Marcela, who live in her villa. The dog mysteriously disappears before long and there is no choice but to publish an advertisement promising a reward. In the newspaper's administration, advertising artist Ludvík Zoubek notices Marcela. He would like to please the girl who has charmed him and starts looking for the dog...

Neviděli jste Bobíka?

1944

Falešná kočička poster
6.5

A fortune teller predicts that Dr. Přelouč will marry the third poor girl he meets. Míla, the daughter of factory owner Janota, likes the doctor and, with the help of his housekeeper Amálka, sneaks into his home disguised as a poor shoelace saleswoman. She first prepares for her role by exploring the outskirts, where she meets Vendelín Pleticha, who becomes her guide to the local pubs and her teacher of the vernacular. Dr. Přelouč is enthusiastic about the poor, uneducated girl and tries to teach her the basics of social behavior and standard language. All this until he discovers that Míla has deceived him and that Pleticha is not her father, as she had claimed...

Falešná kočička

1937

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NR

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Neviňátka

1929

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6.5

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Mořská panna

1939

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9.0

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Král ulice

1935

Třetí zvonění poster
10.0

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Třetí zvonění

1938

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9.0

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Lojzička

1936

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9.0

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The Suffering of the Gray Sister

1930

Vy neznáte Alberta poster
5.7

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Vy neznáte Alberta

1940

Three Steps from the Body poster
6.5

Tommy Fikejs and Ferda Říha, two perpetual students, are completely broke. They are up to their necks in debt, their landlady is kicking them out, and there is no hope of securing another loan. Tommy does have a wealthy uncle—an automotive tycoon—but the man refuses to be "touched" for money, whether by persuasion or coercion, despite Tommy bombarding him with pleading letters.

Three Steps from the Body

1934

Life Is a Dog poster
7.2

Young music composer Viktor Honzl in vain looks for work. He is prevented from committing suicide by a technician of the gasworks who shortly beforehand has disconnected his gas due to past due bills. In the disguise of an older, serious, musical scholar Viktor obtains work in a music publishing house.

Life Is a Dog

1933

On the Green Meadow poster
7.0

Alena Skalická, the owner of the "Krásná skála" estate, returns to the property after years abroad to take over its management herself. Her uncle Skalický and Engineer Miloš Miláček, who have managed the estate until now, are planning a grand welcome. The gamekeeper, Štětivec, is set to deliver the welcoming speech, and Head Forester Eisenkulka is rehearsing him. Štětivec’s wife, the sharp-tongued Barbora, is terrified that her Matěj might do something foolish.

On the Green Meadow

1936

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7.0

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Exekutor v kabaretu

1934

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8.0

The story of a janitor's daughter who married into a "better man". Obedient to her mother and eager to "rise up" herself, Nanynka did everything she could to avoid being left with a bucket and rags and to be able to move a few floors higher. But marrying off a poor daughter is not exactly easy...

Vdavky Nanynky Kulichovy

1935

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7.5

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Manželka něco tuší

1938

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10.0

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Prach a broky

1926

Srdce v celofánu poster
7.5

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Srdce v celofánu

1940

Dceruška k pohledání poster
6.3

Czech-American professor Johny Novák takes over his father's inheritance. The estate reveals that Johny is the father of a girl who lives with her mother Helena Strnadová in Prague, where Johny had stayed eighteen years earlier. Johny's father did not approve of his love and so he withheld Helen's letters, but he sent money to Helen's aunt for the child. Johny intends to visit Helen and her daughter with his friend Jimmy Sládek and informs his aunt about it by telegraph...

Dceruška k pohledání

1940

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7.0

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Venoušek a Stázička

1922

Prosím, pane profesore! poster
6.5

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Prosím, pane profesore!

1940

Ještě větší blbec, než jsme doufali poster
4.3

Vít Dolejší, popularly known as Vitoušek, monitors the groundwater in the underground of the National Theatre, and when he gets fired because the theatre will go to the nuns, he has no choice but to inherit the Richmond Hotel in Karlovy Vary from his American grandfather and the five million dollars tied up in its rapid reconstruction. At that moment, however, he finds himself caught in the web of intrigues of a wealthy ex-broker called Boss, the hotel manager and former Aesthete Křiváček, and the cunning lawyer Wagner. However, not only big money is at stake, but also the charm of the notorious gambler Alice, with whom Vitoušek falls in love and then shows everyone that he is not such a fool as everyone thought.

Ještě větší blbec, než jsme doufali

1994

The Eleventh Commandment poster
6.8

During the New Year's Eve celebration of the arrival of the twentieth century, three friends meet in a nightclub. Notary Jiří Voborský, clerk Emanuel Střela and Lieutenant Miloslav Jičínský.

The Eleventh Commandment

1935

Behind the camera