Jaroslava Adamová

Acting

Jaroslava Adamová

Born 1925-03-15 · Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]

Acting credits

Unknown Hour poster
4.2

Hynek Michánek wants to study medicine but fails his entrance exams five times. He starts a job as an orderly in a district hospital where one of the doctors on the examining board works as well. He feels no-one takes him seriously and he loathes the doctors, who treat him with disdain. When an old man begs him to end his pain and suffering by helping him to die, Hynek gives him a "liberating" injection. But now he has done it once, he finds he can't stop. He continues killing other patients, even though he knows he can't get away with it for long.

Unknown Hour

2009

Three Wishes for Cinderella poster
7.5

Popelka, a resourceful and independent young girl, is a servant in her stepmother's house and confides in her closest friend the owl. When she comes across three magical acorns, she's granted a single wish for each one of them.

Three Wishes for Cinderella

1973

In the Shadow poster
6.6

In the former Czechoslovakia, 1950s, police captain Hakl investigates a jewelry robbery. An opened safe deposit leads to a known burglar. What seems an easy case soon starts to tangle. When he is called off the case, he continues on his own. The investigation leads him onto thin ice. Can he beat a stronger enemy and save his family and his own life?

In the Shadow

2012

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Něžné hry

1991

No artwork available
7.0

Modern Japan-inspired fairy tale movie story.

Jamamba

1986

Padělek poster
5.0

Olga finds her husband Karel Brand, whom she has just divorced, shot dead after returning from the cinema. It appears to be a clear case of suicide, but Lieutenant Dusek of the Public Security Service suspects that it is a murder, which, it is not impossible, as a number of evidences point against it, could have been committed by Mrs Olga. A letter from the dead man to his wife seems to dispel any doubt that it could have been murder. Lieutenant Dusek, however, investigates further. Much more than he, however, learns about the true circumstances from Mrs. Olga's legal advisor, Dr. Klimesh. He learns that the letter is indeed a forgery and that Brand's death is linked to the raids of an anti-state gang. He hesitates for a long time whether to confide in security, believing that doing so would testify in favor of Dusek's theory that the murder was committed by Olga...

Padělek

1957

Zelary poster
7.0

A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, a man from a remote mountain village where time stopped 150 years ago, agrees to hide her as his wife.

Zelary

2003

Joachim, Put It in the Machine poster
7.3

A sincere provincial young man, Frantisek Koudelka leaves to work in Prague. For the trip he buys a computer made horoscope with biorhythms charts, marked according to his date of birth, there are trappy, precarious, unsuccessful and even critical days and few successful days. The clumsy luckless person Frantisek has finally a guidance for his life.

Joachim, Put It in the Machine

1974

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Morové povětří

1991

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2.7

A painter, whose art and views diverge considerably from the conventional society of a small American town, is suspected of murdering his wife. When passions are unleashed against him during a local election, he saves his life by fleeing to a cave in the nearby forest and from there, with the help of children whose trust he has gained, he organizes a successful search for the real murderer in the form of a children's game.

Muž v osidlech

1973

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6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Zločin lorda Savila

1968

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NR

Miller’s daughter Zuzanka Vojířová, betrothed to Ondřej Zachar, hesitates before marriage when Lord Peter Vok of Rožmberk invites her to his castle. There she bears his son Petříček, but his wife hides the child. After Vok’s death in battle, Zuzanka is expelled and lives as a beggar, reunited with her son and former fiancé, finding solace in the continuation of the Rožmberk lineage.

Zuzana Vojířová

1983

Rusalka poster
9.0

Three arias from Antonín Dvořák´s fairytale opera Rusalka turned in to a movie, sung by Gabriela Beňačková (Rusalka), Libuše Márová (Witch), René Tuček (Hunter).

Rusalka

1978

Kudy kam? poster
5.7

Spouses Vojta and Růžena Koskub are an ideal couple: they both love each other and are both doing well at work. But six months after their wedding, they appear before the divorce court. The reason? Růžena refuses to do all the housework herself. In addition to their main jobs, she and Vojta have other work responsibilities. Růžena draws illustrations for a tree atlas, Vojta writes a book about after-school child care. Neither of them has time for the household. The sitting judge, Mack, can't get the quarreling pair of teachers out of his head, so the man decides to give the Koskubs a well-meaning lesson in marital cohabitation. The two married couples find themselves together at a summer cottage, where men and women can demonstrate what they think is right. But it won't be easy for anyone...

Kudy kam?

1956

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Klíče na neděli

1993

Tale '88 poster
4.0

The lead character is a young woman who becomes close with a colleague of her husband. She finds herself at an important crossroad in life and considers whether to take a decisive step.

Tale '88

1989

Kouzelníkův návrat poster
9.0

Although the title would suggest it, this film has nothing to do with fairy tales at all: it takes place in the North Moravian border region just after the end of the Second War. It presents a fragmented mosaic of the fates of many people, returnees and immigrants, who tried to start a new life and believed in a happier tomorrow. Although the director Antonín Kachlík tried to give the story a certain credibility, he submits to the ideological demands of the 1980s. North Moravian borderlands in the first post-war year: a disparate and fragmented sequence of episodes depicts the individual fates of returnees and new immigrants. Another title that perhaps did not even need to be created.

Kouzelníkův návrat

1985

Dissolved and Effused poster
6.9

A police inspector and inexperienced trainee search for a mysteriously disappeared manufacturer of ointments for hair growth.

Dissolved and Effused

1985

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NR

The story of Sebastien, a seriously ill 25-year-old, and his mother, whose lives were also affected by the events of 1968 in Czechoslovakia.

Ohnivé jaro

1995

Pocta V+W poster
NR

Jiří Suchý recalls two of the most prominent artistic and creative figures in Czechoslovak culture of the last century: Jiří Voskovec and Jan Werich.

Pocta V+W

2005

Radúz and Mahulena poster
6.2

While hunting, Prince Radúz of Maguria wanders into the rival kingdom of the Tatra King, Stojmír. He discovers that their nations' long-standing feud stems from the bitter jealousy of Queen Runa, who was once rejected by Radúz’s father. Radúz is soon captured by Runa’s forces after crossing the border. His fate becomes entwined with the royal family when it is revealed that the white deer he killed belonged to Mahulena, the King’s youngest and most delicate daughter.

Radúz and Mahulena

1971

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9.0

Three stories (Gabriela, Eda and Jana), two of which are dedicated to girls. They share a common motif of disillusionment when the protagonists encounter scorn and disinterest.

Strakatí andělé

1965

You Kiss Like a God poster
5.5

A romantic comedy about love and life of young French teacher Helena.

You Kiss Like a God

2008

Historky z Ražické bašty poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Historky z Ražické bašty

1979