Jana Štěpánková

Acting

Jana Štěpánková

Born 1934-09-06 · Zilina, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia]

Acting credits

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

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dceruška Růže

1999

The Snowdrop Festival poster
6.6

An episodic film about the inhabitants of Kersko, their hardships and their joys, most prominently hunting. A lyrical and humorous adaptation of writings by Bohumil Hrabal.

The Snowdrop Festival

1984

Rosa & Dara and Their Great Adventures poster
8.5

Rosa and Dara recount their fantastic summer adventures, chasing down their grandparents' runaway cows in spots around the world.

Rosa & Dara and Their Great Adventures

2015

Ghosts of the Dormers poster
6.8

A tale about a young girl whose grandfather has built a garden of horrors.

Ghosts of the Dormers

1988

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NR

The story, set in the 1930s, takes place in the peaceful summer atmosphere of a small town, where the famous barrel organ player Ferdinand Houra arrives with his song, which is particularly popular with the local women and girls. It tells the story of the turbulent love affair between a young lawyer, Jindřich Koza, and the charming Alžběta, daughter of the prominent lawyer Drbohlav...

Usmívej se, lásko má

1995

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

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NR

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Teraz sa už nehráme...

1987

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NR

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Lucerna

1960

No artwork available
NR

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

Falstaff

1975

Angel poster
6.7

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

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NR

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Sám proti městu

1974

Opravdová láska poster
NR

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

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

No artwork available
10.0

A young man from a poor proletarian family successfully graduates from university, meets a girl who grew up in an orphanage - and surprises his surroundings, greedy relatives and a friend from a rich bourgeois family, by refusing any benefits. He regularly visits his parents to help them build their house, trying to act honestly at all times.

Poslední vlak

1983

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NR

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Jegor Bulyčov

1968

A 105 p.c. Alibi poster
7.3

On an early Sunday evening, people of the small town are reading lottery results that are hung on a board. Young man Karel Antos is annoyed that his lottery-ticket missed the main prize, a car, by only one number. Karel is going to the pub to drink away his bad luck with his friend Jirka Broz. The old accountant auditor Zelinka drops a wallet. Karel picks it up and before he gives it back he notices the winning lottery-ticket in it. Both young men accompany the old drunk man. Karel steals the ticket and exchanges it with his own. Next day, Zelinka is found dead. Investigators, Captain Tuma and the Lieutenant Líbal, soon discover that this is a murder case covered up as an accident.

A 105 p.c. Alibi

1959

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

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NR

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Věc Makropulos

1971

Člověk proti zkáze poster
9.0

Biography of Karel Čapek.

Člověk proti zkáze

1990

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NR

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Brokovnice

1992

The Quartette poster
4.0

In a small Czech town, mother dependent Robert, his attractive girlfriend Simona, histrionic Tomas and extremely reserved History freak Funes, all dissatisfied with their lives, are members of the same string Quartet. As they rehearse for their next concert, they will get into a circle of eccentric situations and misunderstandings.

The Quartette

2017

Great Sorrow poster
5.2

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

Great Sorrow

1975

Jmenuji se po tátovi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Jmenuji se po tátovi

1990