Vladimír Hrubý

Acting

Vladimír Hrubý

Born 1924-03-23 · Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]

Acting credits

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

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

Hearty Greetings from the Globe poster
6.9

​Two aliens stir up trouble on Earth in order to study humans. Misunderstandings ensue.

Hearty Greetings from the Globe

1983

Marathon poster
5.6

It is 5 May 1945 and the uprising against the hated German occupiers has broken out in Prague. The Czech guards open the gate of the Pankrác prison to allow the prisoners to escape en masse. Many of them are shot dead by the German guards but young Ruda (Jaromír Hanzlík) manages to run away. He is taken care of by one of the Prague fighters, concierge Kytka. Kytka hides him in the flat of the house's owner where only the young maid Karla (Jana Brejchová) is left, ordering her to take care of Ruda.

Marathon

1968

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Soud pana Havleny

1981

The Three Veterans poster
7.8

It is a story of three veterans released from the army. During one night spent camping in the country they one by one wake up and meet three elvish brothers. Each of the veterans is given a magic item - one gets magic harp that provides him with servants by wish, other one endless pouch of gold and the last one owns magic hat that can create all the staff excluding money and people.

The Three Veterans

1984

Konec cesty poster
7.3

Josef Lachman, once a security officer, serves twelve years for aiding an SS fugitive’s escape. Upon release, he works as a driver on a dam project, hunting buried English pounds Meyer told him about. With miner Rokos’s help, he retrieves the cash and hides it with his daughter Eva, but she spends some at Tuzex, Rokos blackmails him, and they discover the notes are WWII forgeries.

Konec cesty

1960

Chief, It's Amazing poster
6.3

Criminal comedy, a first movie from the "Chief" series.

Chief, It's Amazing

1982

Directive poster
7.0

An early comic short film by Václav Vorlíček.

Directive

1955

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Príde pani z Grónska

1964

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Autorevue

1966

'Okay, Boss...!' poster
5.8

Láda Pitras (Ludek Sobota) and Oto Vacák (Petr Nározný) founded in the company Pragokov a Research department of recruitment of labor. For recruitment of workers in professions sought after both recruiters worked out an effective, often almost illegal methods. They followed secretly for instance the welder Niederle and managed to record his lovesick courting to his colleague Anicka. The fear of his jealous wife made him to join Pragokov.

'Okay, Boss...!'

1978

Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet poster
7.5

When famous detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in strange case of a missing dog and even stranger carnivorous plant. He becomes convinced that he is standing against his greatest enemy, the Gardener, who supposedly died years ago in a swamp...

Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet

1978

Velká sázka o malé pivo poster
5.7

The year is 1946 and the story takes us to a great bar among the characters of Prague's gallery. A professional conman, commonly known as "The Engineer", makes a bet with pickpocket Franz that he will sell Karlštejn Castle to a rich American who is currently in Prague...

Velká sázka o malé pivo

1982

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

Kinoautomat poster
7.3

Kinoautomat was the world's first interactive movie, conceived by Radúz Činčera for the Czechoslovak Pavilion at Expo '67 in Montreal. At nine points during the film the action stops, and a moderator appears on stage to ask the audience to choose between two scenes; following an audience vote, the chosen scene is played.

Kinoautomat

1971

The Pilgrimage to the Holy Virgin poster
8.0

Farmers get away from their arguments by embarking on a religious pilgrimage, enjoy a picnic en route, and on their return decide to form a cooperative.

The Pilgrimage to the Holy Virgin

1961

Young Bohácek's Sufferings poster
6.2

Tóna Bohácek has been a great worry to his mother, Mrs Bohácková. All his friends equal in age are already married and some of them even have children - only Tóna still has nothing. Mother Bohácková thus publishes an ad in the Lonely Hearts column on behalf of her son. From among the girls who responded, she picks out Janicka, a girl from the neighboring village, and then forces Tóna to go to have a look at her and bring her home. The date of the two young people, however, does not turn out well due to the embarrassment on both sides, and Tóna returns home drowning in the feeling of ridiculousness. On the way, he picks up hitchhiker Kveta from Prague. Only then, he realizes that the mother with her festive dinner is waiting for him and Janicka at home and thus asks Kveta to substitute for the girl from the ad.

Young Bohácek's Sufferings

1969

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

On Zizka's Battle Waggon poster
6.0

Widowed yeoman Tuma and his household are on their way to help the town of Kourim, which is under attack by the papist troops. His son Ondra is secretly following his father. Miksík the castellan, who is responsible for Ondra, finds himself forced to set off after the boy. They are both captured by soldiers from Kutná Hora. Miksík sacrifices himself to give Ondra a chance to flee. On the way, Ondra runs into the orphan Sulík. The two boys become friends and begin to wander together.

On Zizka's Battle Waggon

1968

No artwork available
6.3

Three nine-year-old boys are ridden with guilt after chasing their classmate into a busy street, causing him to get hit by a truck.

Tragic Monday

1960

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Muž s puškou

1955

On the Comet poster
6.2

When a comet passes the Earth at close range, it pulls a small part of North Africa with it. Carried along are a bunch of people, among them Angelika, who has just escaped from a ruthless weapon dealer's ship, and her two brothers, who are searching for her. Then there's a group of natives planning a rebellion against the French colonists. All conflicts become secondary when the people finally realize that they're doomed to live together on an alien planet. However, this time of peace and happiness won't last for long...

On the Comet

1970

Televize v Bublicích aneb Bublice v televizi poster
8.0

The news that the television is going to make a film about the cooperative's leisure activities leads the locals to extraordinary social and sporting activity, but the only result is a chain of endless confusions, misunderstandings and disasters...

Televize v Bublicích aneb Bublice v televizi

1974