
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
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Bakaláři
1972
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Krásný ztráty
2000
6.3Finding 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
6.7Hospital 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
6.3No synopsis available yet.
Ranč U Zelené sedmy
1998
7.3No synopsis available yet.
Malý pitaval z velkého města
1983
Film credits
2010s · 4 titles
4.0In 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
8.5Rosa 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
3.0The discovery of decades-old skeletal remains kicks off a criminal investigation into the ancient secrets of the Beskydy Mountains.
Doctor Martin: The Mystery of Beskid Mountains
2018
5.0Several generations living together leads to some curious situations. A crazy teenager, a retired orchid grower, a passionate handyman with disastrous results, a student at a university for seniors who still gets butterflies, an unemployed archaeologist, and other members of a fairly normal yet wonderfully wacky (crazy) family, enjoy gathering together at the table, where there is always room for more chairs...
Rodinka
2010
2000s · 4 titles
7.5One 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
6.8An 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
5.7A 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
6.0The 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
1990s · 11 titles
No synopsis available yet.
Dceruška Růže
1999
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
4.9The parents decided to send two twins, Honza, and Martin, on vacation to their grandfather.
Twins at the Zoo
1990
9.0Biography of Karel Čapek.
Člověk proti zkáze
1990
No synopsis available yet.
Brokovnice
1992
No synopsis available yet.
Nález
1991
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Jmenuji se po tátovi
1990
No synopsis available yet.
Vikingové z Bronských vršků
1993
No synopsis available yet.
Přátelská výpomoc
1990
No synopsis available yet.
Poslední slovo
1995
No synopsis available yet.
Pán plamínků
1990
1980s · 13 titles
6.7An 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Kdoví, kdy začne svítat...?
1988
No synopsis available yet.
Teraz sa už nehráme...
1987
No synopsis available yet.
Preceptor
1986
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Viktor Veliký
1988
6.8A tale about a young girl whose grandfather has built a garden of horrors.
Ghosts of the Dormers
1988
The story of a young man who found the meaning of love and a place in life at the cost of a loss.
Kariéra
1985
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Motanice
1988
No synopsis available yet.
Tajemství čínského velblouda
1987
No synopsis available yet.
Začalo to karafiátem
1982
5.0In the mid-eighties, screenwriter and director Jaroslav Balík tried to give voice to the problems of an ambitious young woman who decides to get back to work after a few years spent on maternity leave. NFA.CZ
Experiment Eva
1986
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
No synopsis available yet.
Slunečnice
1986
1970s · 10 titles
No synopsis available yet.
Zdravá vdova 29/169
1972
Original staging of an opera composed based on William Shakespeare's comedy "The Merry Wives of Windsor".
Falstaff
1975
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
No synopsis available yet.
Rovnice o jedné krásné neznámé...
1979
4.3The 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
5.2Jana is forced to live in a foster home and always dreams about family reunion.
Great Sorrow
1975
No synopsis available yet.
Vdovcovy intimní večery
1979
5.0When 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 synopsis available yet.
Sám proti městu
1974
No synopsis available yet.
Věc Makropulos
1971
1960s · 13 titles
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
5.6The 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
10.0Even 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
6.2A 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
5.0As 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
9.0Six-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
6.2A children's adventure spy film from a time when the radio telephone was science fiction.
Zpívající pudřenka
1960
No synopsis available yet.
Jegor Bulyčov
1968
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
4.5An 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
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
5.0In 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
No synopsis available yet.
Tlouštík
1961
1950s · 5 titles
7.3On 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
4.5The discovery of an unexploded aerial bomb on a construction site brings a shock to the peaceful existence of a small town: the sudden threat makes at least some people rethink their previous attitudes.
Bomba
1958
"The Rally" is based on a communist writer Vaclav Řezáč's well-written novel of the same name
Nástup
1953
5.7The history of the rebellion of the brave Chody, led by Jan Sladký Kozina and Matěj Přibek, against the violent tyranny of the foreign nobleman Maximilian Lamminger of Albenreuth. Based on the novel of the same name by Alois Jirásek.
Dog's Heads
1955
At the annual festival in Strážnice, long-time rivals - cooperative members from the neighboring municipalities of Dubnice and Bojanova - met. This time, the people of Dubnice are leading both in selling sausages and in the artistic forum. Despite the protests of the accounting cooperative Ambrože, the youth from Bojanova establish a singing and dancing group, led by teacher Bartoš, whom Ambrože's daughter Eva loves. However, they go all the way to Dubnice to practice so that the irritable Ambrož does not know about it. This is the reason for the rift between Eva and Bartoš. They only reconciled after the defeat of the Bojanova group in the regional round of the competition. It turns out that neither Bojanova nor Dubnice alone can build an artistically strong group, but if they unite, they have hope for success in the next year of Strážnice.
Ještě svatba nebyla...
1954
Series credits
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Bakaláři
1972
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Krásný ztráty
2000
6.3Finding 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
6.7Hospital 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
6.3No synopsis available yet.
Ranč U Zelené sedmy
1998
6.3No synopsis available yet.
Ranč U Zelené sedmy
1998
6.3No synopsis available yet.
Ranč U Zelené sedmy
1998
7.3No synopsis available yet.
Malý pitaval z velkého města
1983
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Doktor Martin
2015
3.0No synopsis available yet.
Stopy života
2013
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Synové a dcery Jakuba skláře
1986
8.0No synopsis available yet.
První republika
2014
8.0Plechová kavalérie is a Czechoslovak/Czech TV series about combine operators filmed by Jaroslav Dudek.
Plechová kavalerie
1979
4.8No synopsis available yet.
Nemocnice na kraji města po dvaceti letech
2003
7.2Sumara, 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
7.2Sumara, 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 synopsis available yet.
Z hříček o královnách
1994
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Paragrafy na kolech
1985
2.0No synopsis available yet.
Hospital on the Edge of Town - The New Generation
2008
6.2No synopsis available yet.
Bambinot
1984
No synopsis available yet.
Alexandr Dumas starší
1970
9.0Taková 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 synopsis available yet.
Aneta
1995
No synopsis available yet.
U nás doma
1990
4.2No synopsis available yet.
Cukrárna
2010
No synopsis available yet.
Kluk na ženění
1973
