Jana Štěpánková

Acting

Jana Štěpánková

Born — Died

1934-09-06 — 2018-12-18

Place of birth

Zilina, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia]

Known for

Acting

Credits

86 titles

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 4 titles

Angel poster
6.8

An angel who ruins everything he touches is sent to Earth to learn about love, forgiveness and selflessness -- and he has just one day to do it.

Angel

2005

Všechno nejlepší! poster
7.5

One day in the life of a young taxi driver. Prague taxi driver Jarda wants to celebrate his birthday. He has everything nicely planned and under control, just like everything else in his professional and private life. He gets along with everyone, takes care of everything, and everyone is happy with him. Jarda simply "knows his way around." He has a wonderful wife, a beautiful apartment, a relaxed job, a new lover, and lots of good friends, but then a man gets into his new taxi, a man whom fate has also presented with a series of unexpected and complicated situations and fundamental decisions that day. And so, in their unexpected companionship and day-long journey, a number of relationships and values are transformed for both of them.

Všechno nejlepší!

2006

Opravdová láska poster
6.0

The next installment in a loose series about Renata Soukupová, first a girl and now a young woman. Renata, currently living in Paris, makes another return to the Czech Republic: a man comes to pick her up, and she decides to give him her love and trust. We know him from previous episodes; he is a former dissident named Holý, and he and Renata have always been attracted to each other. Renata realizes that he is finally the man with whom she would like to have a family. But Holý does not want children...

Opravdová láska

2008

Holiday Makers poster
5.7

A motley of vacationers on a bus headed for a week long vacation at a seaside resort. Among them: a single, moderately famous singer; a nerdy, onanistic man; a couple of old ladies reaching senility; a couple of young gals looking for an amorous adventure; a family with a boy unsure about where he fits sexually; a beautiful woman that, besides working as a trip guide, has pretensions of being a music composer; a couple of gay men; and another family where the parents are stuck in a sexual ice age while their twentyish daughter is looking to connect with a man.

Holiday Makers

2006

1990s · 12 titles

1980s · 15 titles

1970s · 9 titles

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Zdravá vdova 29/169

1972

No artwork available
NR

Original staging of an opera composed based on William Shakespeare's comedy "The Merry Wives of Windsor".

Falstaff

1975

No artwork available
7.0

A comedy about four "friendly" couples whose honesty, sincerity and also selfishness are put to an unexpected test. One of them, František, urgently needs to borrow twenty thousand crowns to buy a holiday cottage at a bargain price. The irony of the story is that Honza, who spontaneously lends him the money, becomes the object of suspicion in the company of calculating and suspicious friends.

Kaviár jen pro přátele

1970

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rovnice o jedné krásné neznámé...

1979

Paleta lásky poster
4.3

The years of Mánes' studies at art schools and on the period when the mature and distinctive artist was already promoting his concept of a new decoration of the Old Town Clock.

Paleta lásky

1976

Great Sorrow poster
5.2

Jana is forced to live in a foster home and always dreams about family reunion.

Great Sorrow

1975

Nezbedná pohádka poster
5.0

When you hear the word "Naughty Fairy Tale", you will undoubtedly think that it could not have been invented by anyone other than Josef Lada, a master of turning fairy tales inside out. And that's true. No brave prince, but Princess Máňa will free the innocent Honza from hell and make such order there that the devils will only hate to remember her.

Nezbedná pohádka

1977

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sám proti městu

1974

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Věc Makropulos

1971

1960s · 13 titles

Všude žijí lidé poster
10.0

Even if a person grumbles about difficulties, he should realize that he will find a place where he did not want to go at all. Such an exemplary realization is also reached by a budding doctor who was assigned a remote border village as his first posting - his fiancé did not want to go to such a backwater at all. But the example of the local doctor, who is about to retire, convinces him that a good doctor is needed everywhere.

Všude žijí lidé

1960

No artwork available
6.5

Two friends are living in Verona, Valentino and Proteo. Proteo professes his love to the charming Julia, who, after an initial misunderstanding, reciprocates his feelings. Valentino mocks his infatuation, but not for long. He leaves for Milan, where he falls in love with Silvia, the duke's daughter.

Dva šlechtici z Verony

1966

Anička jde do školy poster
9.0

Six-year-old Anička Čejková has moved with her parents from the village to a new housing estate in Prague. For now, she and her father are alone, but her mother is due to return from the hospital soon with her newborn Ondřej. Anička gets lost during her first walk around the neighborhood, but a nice young woman helps her. She is teacher Řeháková, in whose class 1. And soon Anička will start. The first-graders like the school, and when Anička confides in them that her mother will be back soon, they decide to give her a festive welcome.

Anička jde do školy

1962

Táto sežeň štěně poster
5.6

The holiday story revolves around the children of editor Hlavsa and their desire to get a dog. Dad bravely faces his children's wish and all he cares about is the dreamed summer peace. However, the editor's unexpectedly requested regular feature stories from the children's lives change everything. The uproar in the pages of the newspaper and the children's determination not to give up on their dream leads to the hope that something four-legged might eventually turn up at the Hlavs' after all.

Táto sežeň štěně

1964

Zkouška pokračuje poster
5.0

As a young actor František Lukávec and his teacher Vladimir Tuma became enemies. František insisted that Tuma was dismissed from the school as a reactionary and hostile to the new government. Many years passed, and here they met again on the stage of a theater. František is assigned the role of Julius Fucik, Tuma plays the role of a Gestapo man in the same play. In the course of the action, the Gestapo man beats Fucik. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Tuma beats up his old enemy during the dress rehearsal. Frantisek's face is bleeding, but he will still play. The rehearsal continues...

Zkouška pokračuje

1960

Blbec z Xeenemünde poster
6.2

A tragicomedy set in wartime Germany. The protagonist is 16-year-old Bruno, who is considered by everyone to be an uneducated goofus. But he hates the people who mock him so much that he starts to eliminate them with precisely aimed missiles. What the Third Reich's most respected scientists can't decipher, he has intuitively cracked...

Blbec z Xeenemünde

1963

Tarzanova smrt poster
5.0

In the era of the rise of Nazism in Germany, a strange man, exhibited in a circus for the amusement of the audience, is found to be the heir to a large fortune. The new owner must learn social behaviour and resist the advances of those who would like to seize his fortune themselves.

Tarzanova smrt

1963

Zpívající pudřenka poster
6.2

A children's adventure spy film from a time when the radio telephone was science fiction.

Zpívající pudřenka

1960

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Jegor Bulyčov

1968

No artwork available
7.0

A twelve-year-old boy knows that adults often lie—and this realization causes him no end of trouble. When he stumbles upon the suspicious death of an old man, he begins to weave a web of suspicion.

Mlčení mužů

1969

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tlouštík

1961

No artwork available
7.0

A little boy, who has no time for his busy parents, solves his loneliness by befriending a dashing old man whose shed holds many surprising secrets and unseen things.

Červená kůlna

1968

The House of Lost Souls poster
4.5

An escaped inmate of a mental home, Franz Moose, has been found shot dead in the forest. In the course of their investigation, District Commander Havel (Jirí Adamíra) and Lieutenant Mares (Miroslav Zounar) slowly work their way through the complicated case. Havel learns from the employees' testimonies that Moose was facing trial for war crimes before he was finally sent to the hospital. There he shared his room with Kozdera, spent his time painting, and made several attempts to escape. Havel wants to interrogate Kozdera but the unfortunate patient gets killed before he can do so.

The House of Lost Souls

1967

1950s · 4 titles

Series credits

Bakaláři poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bakaláři

1972

Krásný ztráty poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Krásný ztráty

2000

Labyrinth poster
6.3

Finding the body of the regional politician Karas, killed in the spirit of medieval torture and carefully arranged in a strange scene, unleash police hunt for a sadistic perpetrator. He puts investigation team in the way of a complex series of murders that shake the local region and criminologists themselves.

Labyrinth

2015

Nemocnice na kraji města poster
6.7

Hospital at the End of the City is a popular television series first released in Czechoslovakia in 1977, it featured an ensemble cast and received much viewer praise in central Europe. The series ran from 1977 to 1981 for a total of twenty episodes. The success of the series inspired the German television series The Black Forest Clinic.

Nemocnice na kraji města

1978

Ranč U Zelené sedmy poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Ranč U Zelené sedmy

1998

Ranč U Zelené sedmy poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Ranč U Zelené sedmy

1998

Ranč U Zelené sedmy poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Ranč U Zelené sedmy

1998

Malý pitaval z velkého města poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Malý pitaval z velkého města

1983

Doktor Martin poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Doktor Martin

2015

Stopy života poster
3.0

No synopsis available yet.

Stopy života

2013

Synové a dcery Jakuba skláře poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Synové a dcery Jakuba skláře

1986

První republika poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

První republika

2014

Plechová kavalerie poster
8.0

Plechová kavalérie is a Czechoslovak/Czech TV series about combine operators filmed by Jaroslav Dudek.

Plechová kavalerie

1979

Nemocnice na kraji města po dvaceti letech poster
4.8

No synopsis available yet.

Nemocnice na kraji města po dvaceti letech

2003

Ďáblova lest poster
7.2

Sumara, the head of the criminal investigation department, is investigating the case of a girl who was found covered in snake blood. Coincidentally, the girl is studying archaeology and is conducting excavations at the nearby Podlažice monastery. The magical number 666 was written in blood on her forehead, and her body was wrapped in a snake coiled around an egg. This prompts the involvement of Dr. Runa, an expert in magic and the occult. The incredible mysteries surrounding a satanic cult and the creation of the Devil's Bible begin to unravel.

Ďáblova lest

2009

Ďáblova lest poster
7.2

Sumara, the head of the criminal investigation department, is investigating the case of a girl who was found covered in snake blood. Coincidentally, the girl is studying archaeology and is conducting excavations at the nearby Podlažice monastery. The magical number 666 was written in blood on her forehead, and her body was wrapped in a snake coiled around an egg. This prompts the involvement of Dr. Runa, an expert in magic and the occult. The incredible mysteries surrounding a satanic cult and the creation of the Devil's Bible begin to unravel.

Ďáblova lest

2009

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Z hříček o královnách

1994

Paragrafy na kolech poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Paragrafy na kolech

1985

Hospital on the Edge of Town - The New Generation poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hospital on the Edge of Town - The New Generation

2008

Bambinot poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Bambinot

1984

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Alexandr Dumas starší

1970

Taková normální rodinka poster
9.0

Taková normální rodinka was a Czechoslovak television programme which was first broadcast in 1971. The programme was directed by Jaroslav Dudek. It was released on DVD in 2006.

Taková normální rodinka

1971

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Aneta

1995

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

U nás doma

1990

Cukrárna poster
4.2

No synopsis available yet.

Cukrárna

2010

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kluk na ženění

1973