Vladimír Majer

Acting

Vladimír Majer

Born — Died

1894-02-21 — 1957-11-05

Known for

Acting

Credits

56 titles

Known for

The Good Soldier Švejk poster
7.5

Good-natured and garrulous, Schweik becomes the Austrian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of World War I -- although his bumbling attempts to get to the front serve only to prevent him from reaching it. Playing cards and getting drunk, he uses all his cunning and genial subterfuge to deal with the police, clergy, and officers who chivy him toward battle.

The Good Soldier Švejk

1957

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Píseň lásky

1919

Jánošík poster
5.5

Jánošík has been topic of many Slovak and Polish legends, books and films. According to the legend, he robbed nobles and gave the loot to the poor. The legend were also known in neighboring Silesia, the Margraviate of Moravia and later spread to the Kingdom of Bohemia. The actual robber had little to do with the modern legend, whose content partly reflects the ubiquitous folk myths of a hero taking from the rich and giving to the poor. However, the legend was also shaped in important ways by the activists and writers in the 19th century when Jánošík became the key highwayman character in stories that spread in the north counties of the Kingdom of Hungary (present Slovakia) and among the local Gorals and Polish tourists in the Podhale region north of the Tatras.

Jánošík

1936

Poor girl poster
6.2

The illegitimate child, Marie Růžová, grows up in the family of the Bořický miller. Childhood and youth spend with the son of Bořice, Klement. Klement asserts the rights, becomes a lawyer, and marries Jirina. In order not to cause further contradictions, Mary will go to Prague secretly at night. There he is living heavily as a waitress. He resists the insults of architect Jansky until he ultimately decides to commit suicide in despair.

Poor girl

1930

Nad propastí poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Nad propastí

1922

The Girl in Blue poster
6.5

A painting of a girl from another time comes to life for it's buyer in this costume comedy.

The Girl in Blue

1940

Film credits

1950s · 3 titles

1940s · 8 titles

The Girl in Blue poster
6.5

A painting of a girl from another time comes to life for it's buyer in this costume comedy.

The Girl in Blue

1940

Rukavička poster
7.5

A lost lady's glove that connects several human destinies. The focus here is not on the lost part of the wardrobe, but on piano virtuoso Arne Brant, a man armed with a charming smile and surrounded by women, two of whom have particularly influenced his life. The first is the daughter of a famous can-can star, dancer Pavlína Doré-Zejdová, the second is Mařenka Berková, the main character of the film and a kind of Kristián in skirts. An orderly and well-bred daughter from an honorable family who lives her second life as a lady of high society. The lost glove complicates the situation for all of them considerably, but in the end she finds her rightful place, just like the heroes of the film...

Rukavička

1941

Čtrnáctý u stolu poster
10.0

Thirteen people have gathered at Mayor Bartoš's. The company is uneasy about this number and therefore warmly welcomes the fourteenth guest, who is the new librarian Pavel Čtrnáctý...

Čtrnáctý u stolu

1943

Život je krásný poster
6.3

A famous writer seeks the favor of a charming aspiring artist. However, Jarmila intends to dedicate her life to art, and men should have no other place in it than as models for the artist's work. So, the lovelorn Jan disguises himself as a fortune teller and a grandfather with a scythe, just so that the chosen beauty will notice him a little...

Život je krásný

1940

Rozina the Love Child poster
7.5

Prague, the beginning of the 17th century. Rozina falls in love with Italian glass worker Nikolo, but after returning home, she gets a message that will never come to Prague. She falls for the promise of an older man to marry her, but when Nikolo does return, the tragic fate of Rozina is sealed.

Rozina the Love Child

1945

Turbina poster
6.7

The imperial councilor Ullik decides to modernize his old mills by installing a new turbine. His eccentric brother-in-law Artuš tries to prevent this, as the construction work disrupts the statics of the tower in which he lives. Ullik's older daughter Tynda is a talented singer. The bewitched girl secretly accepts the courtship of the virile Václav, the son of the night watchman. Her younger sister, the doctor Marie, wins the heart and hand of the astronomer Zouplna, despite her father's prohibition...

Turbina

1941

Lawyer of the Poor poster
8.0

A kind-hearted man and lawyer's clerk, Kypr, selflessly takes care of his ward Anna Marie and in the evenings helps the poor and helpless with various legal problems at the U Hrubiána pub. While Anna Marie gains the opportunity to succeed as a singer, the aging man struggles with growing problems that stem not only from his work as a lawyer for the poor, but above all from his tragic past shrouded in mystery, which catches up with him again after years...

Lawyer of the Poor

1941

Velká přehrada poster
6.0

Young engineer Petr Pavelec works on a dam plan on the Loučnica River. He meets Irena, the daughter of an unscrupulous construction entrepreneur Berka, and falls in love with her. When Petr's project wins the tender, Berka and Irena take him on as a partner, and the company is awarded the contract to build the dam. Petr, in love, does not see how sloppy the construction is being carried out. He only sees it when a worker is killed on the construction site...

Velká přehrada

1942

1930s · 14 titles

Jánošík poster
5.5

Jánošík has been topic of many Slovak and Polish legends, books and films. According to the legend, he robbed nobles and gave the loot to the poor. The legend were also known in neighboring Silesia, the Margraviate of Moravia and later spread to the Kingdom of Bohemia. The actual robber had little to do with the modern legend, whose content partly reflects the ubiquitous folk myths of a hero taking from the rich and giving to the poor. However, the legend was also shaped in important ways by the activists and writers in the 19th century when Jánošík became the key highwayman character in stories that spread in the north counties of the Kingdom of Hungary (present Slovakia) and among the local Gorals and Polish tourists in the Podhale region north of the Tatras.

Jánošík

1936

Poor girl poster
6.2

The illegitimate child, Marie Růžová, grows up in the family of the Bořický miller. Childhood and youth spend with the son of Bořice, Klement. Klement asserts the rights, becomes a lawyer, and marries Jirina. In order not to cause further contradictions, Mary will go to Prague secretly at night. There he is living heavily as a waitress. He resists the insults of architect Jansky until he ultimately decides to commit suicide in despair.

Poor girl

1930

Powder and Petrol poster
8.0

The Voskovec and Werich duo play a peculiar pair - a clumsy coach driver and an equally clumsy traffic policeman, who both fall in love with a young actress. Although their ludicrous courtship does not work out, both buddies become successful revue comedians.

Powder and Petrol

1932

No artwork available
4.3

An unknown gang has again broken into a van containing money from the European bank. Banker Sam Hamilton decides to use an armoured car for the next money transport. He hires racing driver Charly Allan as the driver. Allan is invited to Hamilton's house for a party. During a dance with the banker's daughter Bessy he is attacked by bandits, pushed to the ground and Bessy is kidnapped.

Armored Car

1930

The Fate of the Good Soldier Schweik poster
NR

A joint edit of the first three silent films about Švejk: The Good Soldier Švejk (1926, directed by Karel Lamač), Švejk at the Front (1926, directed by Karel Lamač) and Švejk in Russian Captivity (1926, directed by Svatopluk Innemann, based on the work by Karel Vaněk). The main role was played by the then very popular Karel Noll. The last silent sequel Švejk in Civilian (1927) exists separately, but the copy of the film is considerably damaged.

The Fate of the Good Soldier Schweik

1930

St. Wenceslas poster
7.5

Czechoslovak historical film about Saint Wenceslas. It was the most expensive Czech film to date, with the largest set constructed in Europe to accommodate an all-star cast of over a hundred, together with 1,000 extras for the lavish battle scenes.

St. Wenceslas

1930

No artwork available
4.2

Juraj Hordubal returns from America after eight years, where he has earned enough money to improve his farm. However, his daughter Hafia does not recognize him and his wife Polana does not show any joy at his return. Štěpán Manya has been a farmhand on the farm all these years, and people claim that he has become Polana's lover. Juraj denies the accusations and believes that his wife's distance from him is only due to the long separation...

The Hordubals

1938

Big City Jungle poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Big City Jungle

1930

Girls, Stand Fast! poster
7.8

Emanuel Pokorný, a bachelor, is to join a rural church school as a professor. Before leaving, however, he finds an infant abandoned in his room. Since he has no time to search for the child's parents, he secretly takes the child to the boarding house. And from that moment on, there is no end to his travails...

Girls, Stand Fast!

1937

The Merry Wives poster
6.6

A morally questionable lord comes to the aid of a working class man who is to be executed for speaking out about thieving rich scoundrels sticking it to the poor.

The Merry Wives

1938

No artwork available
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

Zlaté ptáče

1932

Rozpustilá noc poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Rozpustilá noc

1934

Your Money or Your Life poster
7.5

A czech film that focuses on an unfaithful husband who married in to money, as well as an impoverished man who is turns to theft.

Your Money or Your Life

1932

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Pimp girls

1930

1920s · 21 titles

Nad propastí poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Nad propastí

1922

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tanečnice

1920

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Babinský

1927

White Paradise poster
8.0

After a young man is arrested for a crime he didn't commit, the daughter of the local tavern owners must spring to the rescue.

White Paradise

1924

No artwork available
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Píseň života

1925

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Noc tříkrálová

1922

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Jedenácté přikázání

1925

The Lumberjack poster
9.0

A brave young woman falls in love with a mysterious stranger.

The Lumberjack

1923

The Arrival from the Darkness poster
6.6

One of the first Czechoslovak films to be shown abroad--a fantasy horror, filmed on the fully furnished premises of the Berlin film studio Am Zoo. The central role is portrayed by the “arrivee from darkness”, Ješek, who is awakened from a deathly sleep. The film represents unusual sparks of creative efforts and the ambitions of creative community around the director Jan S. Kolár, who was inspired by international trends and techniques.

The Arrival from the Darkness

1921

No artwork available
10.0

The troubled situation of a provincial actor and his actress wife who come to the city. The actor is suspected of attacking another actor who admires the actress.

The Sins of Love

1929

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Láska slečny Věry

1922

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Diebe

1928

The Good Soldier Švejk poster
7.5

The first film treatment of the fate of the good soldier Švejk, a dog dealer from Prague, who is arrested after the Sarajevo assassination, psychiatrically examined and later called up to c. and k. army to fight for the emperor lord.

The Good Soldier Švejk

1926

No artwork available
10.0

A biographical story about significant Czech dramatist, writer and actor Josef Kajetán Tyl.

Josef Kajetán Tyl

1926

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Román hloupého Honzy

1927

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Děvče z Podskalí

1922

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Květ ze Šumavy

1927

Chyťte ho! poster
9.0

Painter Johnny Miller bets his friends he can find his house blindfolded. But he stumbles into a bandits' camp, and being mistaken for one of them, is sent to rob the villa of Frank Sellins, a banker, and his niece Lilly.

Chyťte ho!

1925

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hraběnka z Podskalí

1926

No artwork available
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Bahno Prahy

1928

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Marwille detektivem

1922

Behind the camera