Nina Popelíková

Acting

Nina Popelíková

Born — Died

1920-10-14 — 1982-04-18

Known for

Acting

Credits

63 titles

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 10 titles

Něco je ve vzduchu poster
5.0

The urn supposedly containing the remains of Alice's grandfather falls out of the window and breaks. To Alice's great surprise, the urn is empty and the girl learns that the grandfather didn't die but disappeared under mysterious circumstances on the 2nd September 1946 in the town of Telc. Her grandmother claims that a mysterious young man with dark glasses was implicated in her husband disappearance. Alice is determined to solve the mystery. Grandmother's story leads Alice to a shoemaker who hands her Professor Jeník's - her grandfather's - invention, called the Force-fields Accelerator. Alice tells her boyfriend Petr about the device and the young man creates a time machine following the professor's instructions. The young couple then travel back to 1946 and there they indeed meet Alice's grandfather, and his daughter Blanka, who will later be Alice's mother.

Něco je ve vzduchu

1981

Co je doma to se počítá, pánové... poster
6.7

For the Novák and Bartáček families, money is king, and they'll do just about anything to get it. While René Novák pitches his parents a lucrative scheme to swindle as many people with the last name Novák in the country as possible, the Bartáček clan decides to pretend to be much poorer than they really are in order to siphon some dollars from an American relative. And it doesn't take long before these separate scams start to intertwine.

Co je doma to se počítá, pánové...

1980

Love Between the Raindrops poster
6.4

Set in Prague during the years leading up to World War II, this family saga tells the story of a cobbler named Vincenc Bursik (Vladimir Mensik), who uproots his clan from the country to the city, only to suffer the loss of his wife and the failure of his shoe business within months. When his daughter moves away to go live with a wealthy businessman as his mistress, Vincenc is left to take care of his two sons, who spend their days in a secret garden vying for the affections of a teenage girl.

Love Between the Raindrops

1980

Pohádka o mokrosuchém štěstí poster
8.0

The water sprite Toníček fell in love with the beautiful and hard-working Andulka, but her father did not approve, so he sent her to Prague to work as a servant. Toníček did not give up and went to look for her. All the water sprites from Prague and the surrounding area helped him, but Andulka was nowhere to be found. Of course, she was eventually found, but it was not easy.

Pohádka o mokrosuchém štěstí

1982

No artwork available
NR

The story of an unhappy, childless princess, her loving husband and the poor villagers threatened by a terrible disease, who finally received help from above.

V zámku a podzámčí

1981

Nezralé maliny poster
7.0

A story about a meeting of high school graduates from Písek, a story about the enduring power of friendship, love, honesty and duty.

Nezralé maliny

1982

Má láska s Jakubem poster
8.0

A budding teacher comes from Prague to the South Bohemian district town where her fiancé Jakub, a young promising engineer at the local paper mill, lives. Petra is getting to know her new colleagues at school and the children in her new class, and is practicing hard with the Komenium music group, whose members she has known since her studies. She also gets to know Jakub's colleagues and the director of the paper mill, to whose position Jakub would like to be appointed after his retirement. It is this desire for a high position that leads Jakub to behave and act in a way that Petra cannot approve of.

Má láska s Jakubem

1982

Každému jeho nebe poster
8.5

The life of cabaret and theater actress Xena Longenová.

Každému jeho nebe

1982

No artwork available
7.0

Former sailor Kotrba, nicknamed the Admiral, has one dream, to take his own ship to sea. He's been building it for five years and now it's finished, but he still needs money to buy an engine. He asks for financial support from his friend Pošmurný. But he uses the excuse of his daughter's wedding. He has money set aside for a dowry, so he cannot lend his friend anything. Then Kotrba gets lucky - he wins a voucher for goods worth 10,000. But there's a hitch. He can only redeem the voucher for goods at the local unity, where he has become the 100,000th visitor. But Admiral Kotrba is foxy about it. Let's see what he comes up with!

Výhra admirála Kotrby

1981

No artwork available
10.0

It is 1883 and Josef Hibes, a social democrat, is organising a strike of textile workers. The main demand is a reduction in working hours...

Hodina života

1981

1970s · 15 titles

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

The Death of Black King poster
5.2

Prague in the 1930s. A young, pretty girl gets on a crowded tram. She immediately catches the attention of a young man who not only appreciates the girl's charm, but also tries to steal her handbag discreetly. And so we meet one of the main characters of the film, a swindler, pickpocket and generally strange being Josef Kořínek alias Pépi. In addition to him, the story is populated by other characters from the Prague outskirts. Of course, the film also features the shrewd councilman Vacátko and his inseparable investigators Brůžek and Bouše. They have a sad duty - to track down the murderer of the collector Krále, who was found dead and who lost a sum of money on the way from the bank that could interest many people from his surroundings...

The Death of Black King

1972

The Apple Game poster
6.1

Sarcastic comedy about the Czechoslovakia of the seventies. A young gynaecologist can't figure out whether to get serious with a young nurse or to stay casual with his married lover. Things get complicated when both women don't want to play his game anymore.

The Apple Game

1978

No artwork available
3.7

No synopsis available yet.

Silvestr na přání aneb Čí jsou hory Kavčí

1977

Konečně si rozumíme poster
7.0

After a few months at the spa, 14-year-old Pavel discovers that his love, his classmate Zuzana, has outgrown him. In addition, she has found a new boy classmate, who is nicknamed Eifelák because of his height. This is a big shock for Pavel and like a proper teenager he is very worried, he invents blood feuds which usually turn against him, in short he is completely distraught. His problems and suffering are understood more by his grandfather than by his busy parents. But the right patch for the wound is found in the form of another girl whom Pavel meets by chance and who is very special...

Konečně si rozumíme

1977

Sólo pro starou dámu poster
9.0

After many decades in Germany, Marie Hahn will come to Prague to meet her relatives and friends. She learns unflattering information about her husband's behaviour during the German occupation, she suffers health problems, but even her daughter is not interested in helping her mother...

Sólo pro starou dámu

1979

Pokus o vraždu poster
6.5

The main character of the story is Professor Trojan, the head of a Prague clinic, who is not experiencing the happiest of times. His cat has been poisoned with cyanide, he has a falling out with his son Petr, who has moved to Brno to be with his wife, the promising singer Eva, and only seeks out his father when he needs money, and as if that weren't enough, someone shoots him in the evening. Trojan initially considers it a mistake or a prank and does not share the fears of those around him. But then cyanide is discovered and one of the patients takes it from the assistant Dvoracek, who borrowed it for an unauthorized experiment. Trojan pairs the cyanide with a gunshot and slowly begins to suspect that someone is trying to kill him. At first he suspects Dvorak, who might become the foreman after his death, but later, as he falls deeper and deeper into a psychosis of fear and apprehension, he begins to suspect everyone around him...

Pokus o vraždu

1973

Kat nepočká poster
6.0

In 1944, the popular film actress Hlínová is arrested by the Gestapo for sheltering a Resistance man. A film producer uses his connections with the Nazis to promote her in order to finish the film. Just before the last day of filming, actress Hlínová realizes that she is under constant guard and wants to escape. However, she is arrested again.

Kat nepočká

1972

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sešli se na Vlachovce

1973

Smoke on the Potato Fields poster
6.7

A stout middle-aged physician whose marriage has come apart establishes a practice in a small town. Gradually he's drawn into the lives of his patients—a childless couple, a pregnant girl with a stern mother, the son of a duck farmer—and each relationship reveals a bit more about him and the idyllic but insular community.

Smoke on the Potato Fields

1977

No artwork available
10.0

Eleven-year old Mísa has the temperament of a proper boy and endless problems with the grown-ups. It is no wonder that he longs to become an adult without further delay. Mísa keeps house together with his father and has various duties. After a failed attempt at dish-washing he goes off to the research institute where his father is working on an important invention. He is trying to produce a substance that would make poultry and other animals bigger and thus help the struggle against famine in the world, but so far he has only managed to produce a shrinking substance. After his father leaves the laboratory, Mísa mixes up different ingredients and makes the growth substance. He drinks it and instantly becomes an adult. His father, conversely, turns into a toddler after drinking the shrinking substance with his beer by mistake.

Just Because You're Grown-Up

1970

Devilish Honeymoon poster
6.0

Black comedy about a genius inventor and two young, smart and beautiful women. Both of them putting all their effort into getting the one man. This will inevitable lead to all sorts of mischief, crime and even a murder. This murder-comedy, shot at the dawn of normalization has intentionally broke off from any connection to the reality of its time. The director Zdeněk Podskalský has focused on creating intriguing story lines, revolving around the two endeavouring female characters who are fighting for the same man. Two competing parties are not only ready to kill the other, but also (if necessary) the potential groom. This film has enabled the members of the cast, composed mainly of the brightest stars of the Czech acting scene of that time, to show an incredible acting range, from the lightest comedy to the darkest cynical morbidity.

Devilish Honeymoon

1970

Osud jménem Kamila poster
4.2

Tomáš, an unscrupulous Prague taxi driver who is involved in stealing antiques and smuggling them abroad, lives with his devoted mistress, but he is always thinking of his destined love, Kamila, who has emigrated to Switzerland. It is for her that he plans a robbery of a rare stamp, which he convinces his naive brothers to commit. The seemingly simple theft goes wrong and almost ends in the death of an innocent man. The planned escape across the border, in which a slick Swiss businessman plays a key role, also fails...

Osud jménem Kamila

1974

Ženitba poster
6.5

A television adaptation of the classic comedy by Ukrainian playwright N. V. Gogol.

Ženitba

1977

Čertova nevěsta poster
NR

Pretty country girl Verunka is afraid that she will never get married. No groom is good enough for her mother. Above all, she wants a rich groom for her daughter. She would never give her Vendulka to the painter Žabž, even though he truly loves her daughter. The lavish dress and title enchant her mother Hromaska, and she has no idea who she is promising Vendulka to as her wife. If it weren't for the clever Žabž, Hromaska ​​could have the devil as her son-in-law.

Čertova nevěsta

1975

1960s · 24 titles

People From Caravans poster
10.0

Story about the people around the circus and the unfortunate love of a young man an acrobat. Before the dispute escalates so much that, according to the old clown, Vincek ends up with a noose on his back and Lotyš in a bass, fate intervenes and the young acrobat is called up to the war, where he serves with the dragoons. After serving his time and being released into civilian life, he sets out to find the National with his beloved Nina. However, she has not been with the circus for almost a whole year. Her parents took her away and Vincek, to the chagrin of his friends and the principal, decides to go looking for her. After a long journey, he finds his beloved in the Russian Kuznecki circus, but she has changed a lot during the years of separation. A simple girl in love has turned into a calculating, ambitious woman who desires money above all. But Vincek doesn't have you.

People From Caravans

1966

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Polka jede do světa

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

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

Slasti Otce vlasti poster
6.4

The young Prince Charles (Jaromír Hanzlík), the future King of his country Charles IV, is being educated at the French court in the company of his fiancée Blanche (Daniela Kolárová). One day he receives a summons from his father John of Luxembourg (Milos Kopecký) in Italy. He leaves for Italy accompanied by a deputation from Bohemia. On the way the prince's company fights a battle with armed Milanese against heavy odds. Thanks to Charles's perspicacity, the prince's almost naked soldiers win through. In Lucca in Italy Charles joins his father, and here he experiences an amorous adventure and escapes from the traps laid by the Italian rebels.

Slasti Otce vlasti

1969

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Prodej

1967

Malá mořská víla poster
NR

On her fifteenth birthday, when mermaids are allowed to sail above the sea for the first time, the little mermaid saves the life of a handsome prince. She falls in love with him so much that she is willing to sacrifice anything for his love - even her immortality or her voice. She is not afraid of pain and, with the help of a sea witch, transforms into a human being. She then meets her prince on the seashore...

Malá mořská víla

1966

Bílá spona poster
7.5

Criminals have their hands full: first a shoplifting, soon the murder of a young driver. Do these crimes have anything in common? But the attempt to create a suspenseful story is broken by its unimaginative nature.

Bílá spona

1961

Little Bobesh poster
7.0

A story of a young boy called Bobesh and his funny adventures.

Little Bobesh

1962

No artwork available
6.5

Radio announcer Petrícek reads the evening news in a studio. Viki, the female editor of a woman's program, is annoyed by the stereotypical information he provides as well as by the speaker's melodious voice and his heart-felt performance. Then she gets an idea for a prank. She calls the speaker from the neighboring room on the phone and pretends to be an unhappily married woman who draws all her strength to live from Petrícek's voice.

How to Get Rid of Helenka

1968

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Zločin pátera Amara

1968

Never Strike A Woman... Even with A Flower poster
7.0

Shortish forty-year old Ludvík Podzimek, lute and flute player in a Prague orchestra, is far from being an attractive man. He is nevertheless generally considered a great 'Don Juan'. Women take up with him out of a certain motherly compassion and Ludvík's tender heart does not allow him to split with any of them. His lovers thus accumulate and cause him numerous troubles.

Never Strike A Woman... Even with A Flower

1967

The Borrowed Face poster
7.0

It is the 1930s. Physician Bartos devotedly attends poor patients in the city suburbs, at the same time researching the possibilities of regeneration of human tissues after transplantation. His former colleague Rosen, now working as an assistant at the private clinic of surgeon Kirchenbruch, considers the research a mere utopia. The disappointed Bartos, trying to verify his theories, therefore accepts the outrageous proposal of Marion, owner of a brothel - to surgically replace the face of her lover, the wanted thief Cutter, with the face of murdered Father Hopsasa. Bartos is well paid but his successful operation remains a secret.

The Borrowed Face

1965

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

Probuzení poster
5.2

Delinquent youths wander aimlessly and commit mischief. Few, however, manage to break free from the influence of such a gang. One of the lucky ones is a girl who grew up in an orphanage - already reformed and reformed, she remembers her dark past.

Probuzení

1960

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.

Dobrodružství Toma Sawyera

1967

Žalobníci poster
10.0

The young generation is not very at peace with the morality of their parents. In a story set in a Moravian village, the otherwise contented cooperators indulge in stealing from the common property without seeing anything wrong with such actions. After being reprimanded by their own children, they first get angry but then become ashamed. The result is a late agitational comedy that no longer deals with the peasants' entry into the agricultural cooperative, but with the mores prevailing there. The ideologically mature youth act as a guarantee of a happy future.

Žalobníci

1961

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

No artwork available
NR

A medium-length story about the birth of a father and son friendship.

Oranžový měsíc

1962

No artwork available
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Darounická poudačka

1964

Deváté jméno poster
5.0

Ancient crimes are once again encroaching on a man who failed during the occupation. So he wants to cover his tracks with another murder...

Deváté jméno

1964

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Čertouská poudačka

1966

No artwork available
7.0

Káj Mick has always been called Kočka (Cat). He is a sensitive young man who reacts violently to the misunderstanding of both his family and his surroundings. Finding his own way in life is his problem...

On the Tightrope

1963

1950s · 4 titles

Series credits

Bakaláři poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bakaláři

1972

Thirty Cases of Major Zema poster
7.3

Thirty Cases of Major Zeman is a Czechoslovak action-drama television show intended as a political propaganda to support the official attitude of the communist party. The series were filmed in the 1970s. Each episode encompasses one year, and investigations are stylized to that year. Most are inspired by real cases. The series follows the life of police investigator Jan Zeman during his career from 1945 to 1975.

Thirty Cases of Major Zema

1976

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

Malý pitaval z velkého města poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Malý pitaval z velkého města

1983

Chalupáři poster
8.0

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

Chalupáři

1975

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

No artwork available
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tři chlapi v chalupě

1961

Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus poster
6.8

The boy Simplizissimus grows up with simple farmers in the Spessart region. But the idyll is abruptly destroyed by the Thirty Years' War. Simplizissimus is sent to the besieged fortress of Hanau. When the lansquenets there play crude jokes on him, he flees with his friend Herzbruder to the Croats. But even here he does not fare much better.

Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus

1975

Hostinec U koťátek poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hostinec U koťátek

1971