Jiří Sovák

Acting

Jiří Sovák

Born — Died

1920-12-27 — 2000-09-06

Place of birth

Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]

Known for

Acting

Credits

90 titles

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 8 titles

Kolya poster
7.4

After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly take responsibility for her son. However, it’s not long before the communication barrier is broken between the two new family members.

Kolya

1996

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Navštívení

1993

Return to Paradise Lost poster
5.6

A professor reunites with an old friend who inspires him to return to Czechoslovakia for the first time since he emigrated years ago.

Return to Paradise Lost

1999

V tomhle zámku straší, šéfe! poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

V tomhle zámku straší, šéfe!

1990

No artwork available
NR

On Saturday, October 12, 1996, Miroslav Donutil welcomed a sold-out crowd to Prague's Lucerna Hall, bringing his guests and friends onto the stage with him. Among them were Jiří Suchý and the Semafor Theater Orchestra, Jiří Sovák, Iva Bittová, Hana and Petr Ulrych with the band Javory, Miloš Štědroň with the original band of the Na provázku Theater, Bambini di Praga, and others. The program also included the presentation of two platinum records for 120,000 copies sold of the albums "Pořád se něco děje" and "Furt ve střehu," released by Multisonic. The evening, with its unique atmosphere, was recorded by Czech Television.

Miroslav Donutil v Lucerně

1996

The Frog Prince poster
6.1

When a young princess, instead of being fully dedicated to her love, persists in running around like a tomboy and roaming the forests with her gang, and a young prince refuses to give up all his vices and mischief, an aquaphobic fairy takes their fate into her hands. The princess then falls in love with the prince, who declares eternal fidelity to her. When he however breaks this promise, the fairy turns him into a frog. With which the loyalty of the princess is being tested as well.

The Frog Prince

1991

No artwork available
7.5

Titus is unlucky in life. His handicap is his red hair, which prevents him from finding a job. He ends up in a brewery, where he claims to be the son of the owner. He is exiled under humiliating circumstances and ends up in a castle, where he starts a game of substitutions, which is materialized in disguises in various wigs. These wigs also allow Titus to rise socially, leading to a comical denouement...

Talisman aneb Definitivní vítězství kapitalismu nad feudalismem

1992

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NR

The King is very worried. His kingdom is not exactly brimming with wealth, and he has three daughters to marry. So he's going to solve both problems at once. The daughters must find rich grooms. What does it matter that Libenka has fallen in love with a cobbler, Rosie is in love with a gardener and Miládka spends her time with a nice cook. So the princesses go out into the world and the magical grandfather and his gifts help them in their search...

Pane králi, jdeme zdáli

1990

1970s · 17 titles

How to Wake a Princess poster
6.4

At long last, King Dalimil and Queen Eliška have produced an heir, Princess Růženka. Consumed with envy, Eliška’s sister Melánie casts a curse: On the day Růženka turns seventeen, she will prick her finger and fall into a deep sleep together with the entire kingdom.

How to Wake a Princess

1978

Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea poster
6.2

Former Nazi Klaus Abard survives to the 1990s by taking anti-ageing pills. He plans to use a time travel trip to return to Germany in 1944 and present Hitler with a hydrogen bomb, so that he can win the war. Unfortunately the pilot, woman-chasing Karel Bures, dies on the morning of the trip and his earnest twin brother Jan impersonates him, without knowing about the plot.

Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea

1977

You Are a Widow, Sir poster
6.8

After a soldier cuts off the arm of king's cousin, king decides to deactivate the army. Of course, generals don't like it at all and they try to kill the king. The assassin should be artificial body in the shape of actress Evelina Keleti and with brain of psychotic serial killer Fany Stubová. They also manage to kill king's astrologer Stuart Hampl, who warns the king. Accidentally, Hampl's brain is implanted into assassin's body, actress Keleti is killed and chaos begins.

You Are a Widow, Sir

1971

A Nice Plate of Spinach poster
6.4

The heroes of this absurd comedy, full of confusion and humor are Dzharda Zemanek and Frantisek Liska.

A Nice Plate of Spinach

1977

Six Bears and a Clown poster
7.0

The owner of a circus decides to swap his trained bears for trained pigs, and fires clown Cibulka. The clown gets a job at a local school, bears escape and seek him out and a school inspector comes into town.

Six Bears and a Clown

1972

The Man from London poster
3.6

A British citizen by the name of George Reiner (Jirí Sovák) arrives at Prague airport. He was once a Czech safe-breaker, and has now returned home after thirty years to steal twenty-dollar gold coins still kept in the safe at a private villa in Pilsen whose owner fled to the West.

The Man from London

1974

Circus in the Circus poster
5.1

To Moscow have arrived the participants of the international conference of the zoophilologists and also the international jury which is to elect for the world festival the best performance of the program of Moscow circus. Mrs Whistler (Iva Janzurová), British associate professor, makes her understood with the animals in their language but the Czech professor Ruzicka (Jirí Sovák), though he is capable of using the animals language, prefers teaching the animals the human language. Ruzicka's friend, the poodle Archibald, speaks "in Human" very well. The scientific dispute ends with a bet - if Ruzicka teaches the circus elephant to sing, Mrs Whistler will eat up her hat.

Circus in the Circus

1976

I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen poster
5.9

This futuristic science fiction comedy features an atomic bomb blast that causes women to grow beards and lose the ability to have children. A summit meeting is held at the United Nations, with the proposed solution of building a time machine. The decision is made to travel back in time and murder Einstein, with the hopeful result being that without the noted mathematician's research there will be no atomic bombs.

I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen

1970

Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! poster
7.8

This comedy is about one average family. The father works as master in the factory and his son is studying on high school. One day father must start to visit the evening school. It's the same school as his son visiting. The lives both students are connecting together. The son must teach the math and physics his own father. The father getting to know, that the life of the students is not simple as he supposed.

Marecek, Pass Me the Pen!

1976

A Killer on the Tracks poster
5.8

An escort composed of three people transports a huge amount of new one-hundred crown banknotes in a special railway car. At the 196th kilometer, a village girl is waiting at the railway crossing and spots two men removing some packages from the track. The scene is immediately followed by the report of a gun and the unwanted witness is shot dead. Soon afterwards, on the 201st kilometer, the train explodes. Only one of the escorts Lenk (Radoslav Brzobohatý) survives the explosion, taken to hospital with serious injuries. Criminologist Major Kalas (Jirí Sovák) and the very young Second Lieutenant Karlícek (Jaromír Hanzlík) patiently gather facts, leads and testimonies.

A Killer on the Tracks

1970

No artwork available
8.0

Two cronies, Brument and Cornu, are on trial. They are accused of attempting to murder Brumant's wife. The woman's interrogation reveals that both gentlemen were, as usual, heavily intoxicated that day. Brumant, who is having financial problems, has offered his wife to his cronies for sale. The price will depend on how much water she displaces when immersed in a barrel. And they immediately make the attempt...

Prodej

1971

Silvestr 79 aneb Hrajeme si jako děti poster
NR

A New Year's Eve television variety show from late 1979.

Silvestr 79 aneb Hrajeme si jako děti

1979

Long Live Ghosts! poster
7.1

A trespassing gang of boys encounter a ghost in the ruins of a castle. When they rescue the ghost who is caught in a trapset, they become allies in a fight to prevent ruins from being turned into mushroom farm by the city authorities.

Long Live Ghosts!

1977

Jablko a jeho strom poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Jablko a jeho strom

1977

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Švec Janek v pohádkové zemi

1979

Egyptologové poster
NR

Comedy, 1974 (Czech Republic) : The movie takes place in England. A group of married middle-aged gentlemen have founded a pretense amateur Egyptology society to maintain some degree of freedom from their wives. The elaborate trick gradually escalates into more and more tangled web of lies and tricks, until they have no option but to disband the society for good.

Egyptologové

1974

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Šaty po tetě

1979

1960s · 23 titles

When the Cat Comes poster
7.0

While old Oliva tells a group of children about his life as a sailor and how he met Diana and her cat with sunglasses, a strange circus arrives in town.

When the Cat Comes

1963

The Song of the Grey Pigeon poster
6.7

An unusual children's film set during World War II in Czechoslovakia, this compelling drama unfolds five different segments that present the war through the eyes of three youngsters. The three have a series of adventures which include saving a soldier from being captured by the Germans, helping out the resistance fighters, and meeting up with a young Russian woman trained in guerrilla warfare. As they learn more about life and danger, various circumstances constantly recall the reality of war itself. The title comes from a wounded pigeon under the care of one of the youngsters.

The Song of the Grey Pigeon

1961

Who Wants to Kill Jessie? poster
7.0

In this zany Czechoslovakian comedy, a scientist invents a machine that projects a sleeping person's dream on a screen; disaster soon follows when the machine malfunctions and the cartoon-like dream characters become very real!

Who Wants to Kill Jessie?

1966

The End of Agent W4C poster
6.1

The invincible agent Cyril Juan Borguette alias W4C has been assigned a mission to go to a hotel in Prague, get hold of a saltcellar with a plan for the military exploitation of Venus hidden in it, and hand it over to the beautiful agent Alice. He will have to compete for the saltcellar with other agents working for the world's various greater and smaller powers. The head of the Prague counter-intelligence unit gets news of agent W4C's mission. Deficient in personnel, he nominates accountant Foustka as agent 13B. Mr Foustka takes his dog Pajda with him and the two head for the airport. Pajda helps him track down agent W4C in a classy hotel that becomes the battleground for the interests and plans of the secret agents from different countries, each trying to get hold of the precious saltcellar.

The End of Agent W4C

1967

Chlap jako hora poster
5.0

We learn that the greatest virtue of socialist competition is collective cooperation. This is what the young, physically fit assembler refuses to understand. He suspects his co-workers of overlooking his merits out of jealousy. And it takes him a long time to understand that the individual alone can do nothing, that only the collective has the necessary strength - and therefore the truth.

Chlap jako hora

1960

Bohous poster
8.2

Alois, manager of a remote mountain inn, loses his maid when she can’t stand his oversized Saint Bernard, Bohouš. When a ravenous guest arrives, Alois makes a wager: if the guest can out-eat Bohouš in one sitting, they earn a free week’s stay; if not, they must serve as the inn’s maid for a week.

Bohous

1968

Tears the World Can't See poster
8.3

Three friends from a wet neighbourhood come back from the pub properly stoned and decide to continue partying at the home of one of them, because he has a nice wife who understands and gives them a nice treat. But the reality is somewhat different...

Tears the World Can't See

1963

Poklad byzantského kupce poster
6.6

A detective story revolving around an ancient treasure from the ninth century, believed to have been destroyed during World War II, takes place in an archaeological environment. Its main character is, alongside Captain Exner, who is investigating a strange murder committed on the premises of a scientific institute, a young student at the Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Slovak Republic, Kamila Housková, who discovers that the treasure was not destroyed, but most likely stolen. The bright girl continues her search for the treasure against Captain Exner's will and leads the investigators to a trail that proves the connection between the lost treasure and the murdered woman...

Poklad byzantského kupce

1967

Men About Town poster
7.1

Three blue collar workers have a night out in big city Prague.

Men About Town

1969

When the Woman Butts In poster
6.8

Miroslav Hornicek is a deluded young man who is convinced he is Faust incarnate. This turn of mind leads to some ludicrous situations, such as when he believes a woman is really a cat. Before he can be rounded up and interned wherever they keep people with this type of a problem, love enters his life and the clouds that obscured his vision begin to dissipate.

When the Woman Butts In

1960

90° in the Shade poster
5.7

In a Prague shop, an assistant has been carrying on an affair with the dishonest, married manager. An emotionally repressed auditor with domestic problems of his own uncovers serious stock discrepancies. A test of loyalties and a questioning of values concludes in tragedy.

90° in the Shade

1965

The Best Woman in My Life poster
7.2

Ordinary man making his dirty actions in the small town and his coming to the right side.

The Best Woman in My Life

1968

Spadla s měsíce poster
10.0

A story about the uproar caused by the arrival of a new, young and, by local standards, too energetic zookeeper in a village JZD. Her name is Maya Četná and one evening she arrives like a tornado on a motorbike in the semi-truck of a typical Czech village. The chairman, leaving the next day for a long-term training, has no time to get to know the girl properly, so it's no wonder he can't help wondering when she returns.

Spadla s měsíce

1961

I Survived Certain Death poster
7.0

Telling the prisoners of a death camp. Boxer Tony Majer, who got into a concentration camp for a fight with the Gestapo, remembers the murderous work in quarries, on the cruel torture of the Nazis and prison solidarity that helped him survive.

I Survived Certain Death

1960

The Pipes poster
6.0

This three-part Austrian/Czech comedy stretches the boundaries of what is considered to be humorous. Part one finds a silent film actor upset because of a rival actor's attention to the former's wife. When he kills his rival, it is only when he is strapped to the electric chair that he realizes that this is his last live scene. The second episode has the wife of an elderly British nobleman having an affair with the young gamekeeper of their estate. Part three finds a peasant woman taking a lover when her husband goes off to fight the war.

The Pipes

1966

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Muž, žena, Žoržík a klíč

1965

Magnetické vlny léčí poster
6.5

Detective Biddle arrives in a small American town to warn the local mayor Banks about a fraudulent healer. Together, they agree on how to convict the con man. They only need to catch him in the act, so the mayor feigns illness and the healer is called upon to help him. Directed by Vojtěch Jasný, they played with gusto - the healer Jan Werich and the mayor Jiří Sovák.

Magnetické vlny léčí

1965

Přísně tajné premiéry poster
7.0

A crime writer is accused of being too imaginative and his ideas unworkable, but everything changes when an international criminal demands his professional cooperation. The somewhat freaked out and disbelieving hero is also surprised to discover that his own wife has unsuspected criminal tendencies...

Přísně tajné premiéry

1968

Darbujan and Pandrhola poster
6.8

A poor miner, Kuba Dařbuján, cares for his wife Markýtka and eleven children. When a newborn arrives, he seeks a godfather and, finding only Death fair to all, accepts a pact: as a doctor whom Death accompanies at the foot of a patient’s bed, he can heal; but if Death stands at the head, no cure is possible. Kuba eventually heals even a miserly brewer, violating the pact and imprisoning Death, leading to a world where no one can die and unforeseen chaos follows.

Darbujan and Pandrhola

1960

The Hero Is Afraid poster
8.0

Honza Vavrinec (Rudolf Hrusínský) works in the investment department of a large office. One day he gets involved in the case of an unjustly convicted worker who mistakenly considers him a parliamentary deputy. Honza as a "deputy" interferes in the case and helps the worker. Encouraged by the success and possibly also out of love for the beautiful secretary Svatava (Blanka Bohdanová), the then shy and fearful Honza stands up for the chief of the department, Hofmánek (Ladislav Pesek), who has been removed from his position.

The Hero Is Afraid

1966

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tři chlapi po roce

1964

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Talisman

1968

The King of Kings poster
7.4

During his work assignment in Tamani Kingdom, Czech worker Lojza saves a local man from dying in the desert. Two years later, it turns out the saved man was also the Taman king; and he has decided to name Lojza, a communist, his royal heir.

The King of Kings

1963

1950s · 9 titles

Today for the Last Time poster
8.2

Concert master Karel Mašek is a drunk, as well as engineer Danda and other regular guests of the pub U Kroců. Mašek returns from the pub in the morning and promises the woman that he will stop drinking. But he failed again, and the orchestra players refuse to play with him. Danda returns home without a bag and goes to Krocs again in the morning, even though he has an important job at work. He has been degraded to subordinate job position, but he refused to admit it at home.

Today for the Last Time

1958

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Posvícení

1954

Jaroslav Hasek's Exemplary Cinematograph poster
5.9

Jaroslav Hašek screens four film stories in the fairground shed around 1900. After period advertising slides and a "newspaper", we see "the first part of a sensational, exemplary, parfuss, salon program - a film from the life of school-age children, shot under very difficult circumstances". The plot of this film takes place partly in a school classroom and partly in a gymnasium toilet, where the primate Chocholka took refuge from a Latin composition. "Exemplary Family Happiness" is the second film that takes the viewer into the family of the municipal official Honzátek, in which many stormy scenes occurred when the hamster, provided by Honzátek Jr., moved into the sofa - a wedding gift from Sister Ema. Equally surprising are two other stories, one of which tells about the "father of the poor", the owner of a company with unrecoverable cash flow and a famous patron, and the other about the fateful consequences of a joint trip between the old bachelor Mr. Hanzlíček and his neighbors.

Jaroslav Hasek's Exemplary Cinematograph

1956

Mezi nebem a zemí poster
10.0

Working in the city office is a bitter clerk who believes he has only 14 days to live and so he bravely stands up to his bureaucratic director.

Mezi nebem a zemí

1958

Zaostřit prosím! poster
7.3

A Czech satirical comedy, filmed according to a script by the State Prize laureate Jiří Marek based on several of his satirical short stories. The film contains three stories, the first of which mocks careerism, the second takes aim at the inadequate attitude of some of our literary critics, and the final story is a satirical picture of how irresponsible construction work is still done in some parts of our country.

Zaostřit prosím!

1956

Jahrgang 21 poster
7.0

At the beginning of the Second World War, Czech music student Honsik comes to Germany from Prague to join a "foreign worker company". After rescuing a boy from the rubble of a bombed-out house, he himself is seriously injured and taken to a hospital in Stralsund. There he is regarded as a second-class citizen and the Germans are preferred to him. Nurse Käthe stands up for him, cares for him and defies all prohibitions. A love affair is kindled between the two, but it is not under a good star. Honsik tries to flee to his homeland with his comrades and Käthe supports him. At the last moment, however, Honsik realizes that his love for Käthe is stronger than his homesickness and makes his way back. Once back home, he can only watch as Käthe is arrested by the Gestapo. With the help of a resistance fighter, the young man from Prague manages to escape after all.

Jahrgang 21

1958

Action B poster
6.3

Film shows the struggle of the Czechoslovak armed forces against groups of Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) under command Burlak, who tried to pass through the territory of Slovakia.

Action B

1952

The Circus Will Be poster
7.5

A few bus-loads of holidaymakers from the agricultural cooperative on a day trip arrive to see the show at the Slavia Circus. But, they have bad luck. It is Monday, the day on which the employees have their extra day off.

The Circus Will Be

1954

Plavecký mariáš poster
6.3

In the past, most of the wood from the mountain forests was transported to the sawmills by river. The rafters were gradually replaced by trucks and railways, but they still remember the days of their glory and the romance of water travel. Two experienced old swimmers, Váň and Šindelář, managed to push for a return to the old way, at least for one trip. They got a group of like-minded enthusiasts and rafts made of logs can set off down the river...

Plavecký mariáš

1953

Series credits

Bakaláři poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bakaláři

1972

Bakaláři poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bakaláři

1972

Pan Tau poster
7.1

Pan Tau always had a gentle expression and a friendly smile, he was elegantly dressed in a stroller, with an umbrella and a white carnation in the lapel. Foremost, he was famous for his magic bowler hat. By tapping on his hat, Pan Tau was able to change his appearance into a puppet, to conjure up miscellaneous objects or to do other magic. His most characteristically behavior is that he would help children who were experiencing some sort of difficulties in-between their dreams and reality, like finding a place for skiing, settling family problems on Christmas, and even give a boy a good time at a fair when he is supposed to have piano lessons. To adults, he usually remained invisible.

Pan Tau

1970

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

GENUS

1995

Arabela poster
8.2

Arabela was a children's television series produced in Czechoslovakia which aired from 1979 to 1981. The series has 13 episodes and is in the Czech language.

Arabela

1980

Chalupáři poster
8.0

Chalupáři is a Czechoslovak comedy TV series filmed in 1974 and 1975 by František Filip.

Chalupáři

1975

We All Are Required to Attend School poster
4.0

Stories from a daily life of children attending a regular school.

We All Are Required to Attend School

1984

Hříšní lidé města pražského poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hříšní lidé města pražského

1969

F. L. Věk poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

F. L. Věk

1971

The Flying Cestmir poster
6.6

Young boy Cestmir finds a magic rock which allows him to bring the seeds of the flowers which allow flying from Blue Planet...

The Flying Cestmir

1984

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Bližní na tapetě

1970

Příběhy slavných poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Příběhy slavných

2000

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Dnes v jednom domě

1980

Slavné historky zbojnické poster
7.8

No synopsis available yet.

Slavné historky zbojnické

1986

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Strom pohádek

1987

Klapzubova jedenáctka poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Klapzubova jedenáctka

1968

Byl jednou jeden dům poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Byl jednou jeden dům

1975

Byli jednou dva písaři... poster
8.1

No synopsis available yet.

Byli jednou dva písaři...

1973

Bambinot poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Bambinot

1984

Eliška a její rod poster
NR

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Eliška a její rod

1966

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Z hříček o královnách

1994

Druhý dech poster
9.5

No synopsis available yet.

Druhý dech

1989

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rodina Bláhova

1959

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Štipku soli

1977

Territory of the White Kings poster
6.5

The story centers around a group of children, led by Leontinka and Olda. Father of Leontinka manages the local Deer Park with an invaluable breed of white deer. A series of mysterious events unfolds, threatening the deer. Leontinka and Olda, who is in turn a son of a local police officer, search for the villain.

Territory of the White Kings

1991

Advokát ex offo poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Advokát ex offo

1989

Ze staré drogerie poster
8.3

No synopsis available yet.

Ze staré drogerie

1983

Behind the camera