Acting

Filip Balek-Brodský

Born — Died

1871-09-17 — 1949-10-30

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Known for

Film credits

1940s · 9 titles

Krakatit poster
6.5

In Czechoslovakia, in the early 20th century, a seriously ill chemist recalls how he discovered a powerful explosive and how it ended up in the hands of anarchists.

Krakatit

1948

Warriors of Faith poster
5.0

After the Battle of Lipany, the remnants of the Hussite troops concentrated under the leadership of Jan Roháč of Dubé at Sion Castle. However, he had no prospects of victory against the soldiers of the Lordship. Sion was conquered, Roháč of Dubé was captured and executed as a pest in Prague on September 9, 1437.

Warriors of Faith

1947

May Fairy Tale poster
7.5

Ríša, a student of law, neglects his studies in favour of parties and pranks. His angry father refuses to continue helping him out of his debts. Ríša, however, is not entirely beyond hope. He decides to go and stay for a while with his uncle, a priest, who lives in Moravia, in order to prepare for his exams. He meets Helenka, the timid daughter of the local gamekeeper, at a village ball and is enchanted by her. The days pass and their idyllic relationship begins to tire Ríša. He begins to tell Helenka about his former debauched life the about the broken hearts of beautiful women. Helenka is hurt and refuses to see Ríša anymore. His uncle, the priest, is incensed at his behaviour and orders his nephew out of the house. Ríša tries desperately to find Helenka so he can make it up to her.

May Fairy Tale

1940

Přítelkyně pana ministra poster
8.1

The main character of the funny story is an ordinary typist Julinka Svobodová, who works for the established business firm Hrubý a syn and lives in a sublet with the seamstress Mrs. Pokorná. Although she is poor and sometimes manages to be late, she is still cheerful and pleasant. However, a small coincidence is enough and everything changes. That is when she takes an elevator ride with the Minister of Trade, Dr. Horák, who coincidentally lives in the same building. Mrs. Pokorná, in good faith, hints to the inquisitive landlady that Julinka is the Minister's girlfriend. From the talkative woman, an innocent rumor spreads like wildfire and, surprisingly, it helps the girl in every way...

Přítelkyně pana ministra

1940

Městečko na dlani poster
6.2

Tragicomic events in the idyllic town of Rukapán reveal both the prejudices of the local residents and their solidarity. The chronicle of the town of Rukapán captures the funny and tragic fates of its inhabitants at the end of the nineteenth century. Poacher Matěj saves the council of Zimmerheier in a buried mine, mayor Buzek is warned by an angel to stop drinking, and other events form a mosaic of the small town.

Městečko na dlani

1942

Grandmother poster
6.6

A highly romanticized autobiographical novel by a Czech 19th century writer, Bozena Nemcova. It's a classical, compulsory reading in Czech schools, about a wise, working-class woman, happier in her simplicity and good heart than the nobles whom she serves.

Grandmother

1940

Poznej svého muže poster
8.0

You can see for yourself that finding the right one is not easy in this Czech comedy film. The gullible daughter of a bankrupt landowner would never have imagined that she had married not the rich man who was supposed to save her family, but a marriage fraudster who was impersonating him. The cheerful story full of mistakes and misunderstandings still captivates with its plot and quick dialogues.

Poznej svého muže

1940

Lawyer of the Poor poster
8.0

A kind-hearted man and lawyer's clerk, Kypr, selflessly takes care of his ward Anna Marie and in the evenings helps the poor and helpless with various legal problems at the U Hrubiána pub. While Anna Marie gains the opportunity to succeed as a singer, the aging man struggles with growing problems that stem not only from his work as a lawyer for the poor, but above all from his tragic past shrouded in mystery, which catches up with him again after years...

Lawyer of the Poor

1941

Srdce v celofánu poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Srdce v celofánu

1940

1930s · 32 titles

Poor girl poster
6.2

The illegitimate child, Marie Růžová, grows up in the family of the Bořický miller. Childhood and youth spend with the son of Bořice, Klement. Klement asserts the rights, becomes a lawyer, and marries Jirina. In order not to cause further contradictions, Mary will go to Prague secretly at night. There he is living heavily as a waitress. He resists the insults of architect Jansky until he ultimately decides to commit suicide in despair.

Poor girl

1930

Ballad-Singer poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ballad-Singer

1932

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Her Stepmother

1930

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Cácorka

1935

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bláhové děvče

1938

From the Frying-Pan Into the Fire poster
3.7

Silvestr Blažek loses his job, but he doesn't lose heart. He also courts the saleswoman Boženka Straková. The driver of the builder Herold, Karel Verner, is also interested in the girl. Boženka is the daughter of Narcis Straka, a man with a mysterious past. However, Herold's father-in-law Jakub Suldovský recognizes him as an old friend from Vienna, where they both loved the same woman....

From the Frying-Pan Into the Fire

1934

Žena, která ví, co chce poster
9.0

Woman concert star seeks to connect with her adult daughter, by her former marriage to a staid industrialist who has kept the two apart since the girl was very small, and receives inadvertent help from the industrialist's just-fired employee who has fallen in love with the girl.

Žena, která ví, co chce

1934

Three Men in the Snow poster
7.8

Young doctor Hájek has been looking for a job for a long time in vain. But luck has smiled on him a little - he has won a competition for the best advertising slogan, which was held by the factory owner Bárta. The prize is a stay in a luxurious mountain hotel. At the same time, Bárta is also leaving for the same winter resort, but on a whim he decides to use a false name and pretend to be a poor man. It is therefore not surprising that the hotel staff gets confused when accommodating the two guests. The poor young man receives all sorts of honors and favors, the factory owner huddles in a small room without heating. In addition, Bárta's cute daughter appears on the scene, and all sorts of complications are not long in coming.

Three Men in the Snow

1936

Imperial and Royal Field Marshal poster
6.2

František Procházka was retired early because his soldiers sang a forbidden song about a c. and k. field marshal. Since he is a soldier in body and soul and his request for reactivation is rejected, he decides to visit his nephew Rudi. Upon arrival, he finds the uniform of the secretly expected field marshal in his nephew's room and, after putting it on and walking through the corridors of the garrison in it, he has no choice but to complete the entire play to the end. With his performance, he helps his nephew to get married, convicts the wanted spy and is eventually promoted to the real marshal and called back into service.

Imperial and Royal Field Marshal

1930

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Švanda dudák

1937

Heave-Ho! poster
6.8

A Milk-Cannery baron, Jakub Simonides, is broken by the Canned Milk-Trust and, in his wanderings with a worker, Filip Kornet, he discovers he still owns a half-finished apartment-house. They rally the workers and complete the building for use as a collectivist dairy. The cooperative flourishes and after a chase/pursuit with the police, pratfalls, slapstick and various crashes, the workers buy out the Milk-Trust.

Heave-Ho!

1934

Zborov poster
6.0

In the Škoda factory, where they are feverishly rearming in 1914, works the foreman Kalina, the father of the young men Pavel and Jan. Pavel is a supporter of the monarchy, while Jan, on the contrary, defends the idea of ​​our national independence. Just before mobilization, Jan escapes to Russia, where he joins a group of volunteer legionnaires called the "Czech Company", fighting against the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Pavel enlists in the Austrian army. The brothers do not meet again until July 1917 in the battle of Zborov in Ukraine, which marked a successful breakthrough of the Austro-Hungarian front.

Zborov

1939

No artwork available
6.3

The film is about an unhappy mother who left her husband and a young son. She works as a singer and the boy is in the oven at the house on the wreath. The housekeeper beats the son and he runs away.

Her Boy

1930

No artwork available
7.5

Eva, a saleswoman in a record shop, is pestered by a rude customer. Councilor Švarc comes to her defense and immediately asks her to help him get rid of his temperamental mistress, Rita. According to Švarc’s plan, Eva is to play the role of his ex-mistress, who is determined to win him back. Meanwhile, Rita leaves Švarc on her own initiative; she has met the famous aviator Jiří Vydra, who arranged to meet her at a fishermen's tavern.

Man in Demand on All Sides

1934

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Exekutor v kabaretu

1934

Humoreska poster
8.0

Dvořák's well-known composition reappears again and again in the serious moments of the lives of the father and son Hupeks - talented non-professional musicians for whom music gives them the opportunity to rise above difficulties and problems...

Humoreska

1939

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Black eyes, why are you crying…?

1930

Otec Kondelík a ženich Vejvara poster
7.0

The family of Prague burgher and master interior decorator Václav Kondelík lives happily in their house on Ječná Street. The peace is disturbed by an invitation to an "apron party", where their daughter Pepička meets a young municipal official, František Vejvara. The two young people fall in love. Their relationship is also supported by Mrs. Kondelíková, because Vejvara could become a welcome groom for her daughter. However, Pepička's acquaintance disrupts the established order of Kondelík's life.

Otec Kondelík a ženich Vejvara

1938

Jarka a Věra poster
5.3

Student Jarek Pšenička worries teachers and parents in this Czech comedy. He is in his second year of sixth form and is facing another re-examination. His sister Věra is the exact opposite of her brother: she is a model student. But she also cannot avoid trouble - she falls hopelessly in love with Jarek's home tutor, a candidate for professorship, Stáni Mařík...

Jarka a Věra

1938

No artwork available
5.0

A story of two story of two children tossed between their indifferent parents and a progressive boarding school.

On the Sunnyside

1933

Love in Waltz Time poster
9.0

A working class young woman disregards the wishes of her father to stay in her place, and marries higher in society by wooing a wealthy car manufacturer.

Love in Waltz Time

1937

Ideál septimy poster
7.0

Jindřich Tůma, a partner in the gas mask shop "Asana", has a very energetic wife who promotes a vegetarian diet. The real soul of the company is Ing. Ivan Kareš, who also leads civil defense exercises. On the street, during a practice air raid warning, he sternly reprimands a girl who did not go to shelter. It is Věrka, the Tůma's niece, who comes from the countryside to finish her studies in Prague. Věrka enters the seventh grade and soon shares the enthusiasm of her classmates for an unknown composer whose pseudonym is Michal Marhan. Ing. Kareš gives a lecture on civil defense in the seventh grade and so meets Věrka again. Kareš tries to convince the girls of the necessity of more concrete life ideals. At the premiere of Marhan's operetta "Píseň o štěstí" it turns out that Kareš is the composer. The girls give him a standing ovation. Ivan ignores Věrka, with whom he has recently had a falling out. The stubborn girl therefore leaves for home...

Ideál septimy

1938

Srdce na kolejích poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Srdce na kolejích

1937

Such Is Life poster
6.7

A story about domestic life in a typical working-class environment. Life and trials and how little situations have big consequences.

Such Is Life

1930

Důvod k rozvodu poster
6.7

The cunning lawyer Dr. Werner tries to divorce Pavel Bertl, who is considered by everyone to be a notorious gambler and drunkard. In reality, he is a weakling; although he loves his wife very much, he squanders her fortune. He is already in danger of financial ruin and Bertl, instead of truly improving himself, lets the lawyer convince him that the only way out of this situation is divorce. He secretly leaves home for the mountains with a girl whom the lawyer randomly finds for him, in order to obtain a reason for the divorce...

Důvod k rozvodu

1937

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Karel Havlíček Borovský

1931

Tulák Macoun poster
7.0

A series of unfortunate events led the protagonist astray: even taking other people's money did not save his wife's life, she died in childbirth. After his release from prison, he did not find the strength to report to his daughter who was placed in an orphanage, and after a fight in a pub, out of fear of being prosecuted again, he even fled abroad. But, old and sick, he still longs to return to his homeland.

Tulák Macoun

1939

Její hřích poster
7.0

Lola Holm, a medical student, is studying for her final exams. She rejects the courtship of psychiatrist Associate Professor Linn. Bank cashier Goll lives extravagantly and his salary is not enough for his excesses. He is in need and has mental problems. He seeks medical help and accidentally meets Lola. At first, she rejects Goll's attentions, but then she can't resist him and becomes his mistress. Goll embezzles money. He is exposed and faces imprisonment. He turns to his uncle for help, but he rejects his request...

Její hřích

1939

Don't Say No, Girl! poster
9.0

Based on an anonymous letter about Margot's fiancée's infidelity, the factory owner Hora hires detective Pejsek. His investigation then reveals Margot's efforts to obtain money from the factory owner for her lover Pepito, a fake gambler and swindler. Pepito has lost twenty thousand and must pay the money by midnight. At a fashion show, Margot receives a check from the factory owner for the purchase of a fur coat, but accidentally puts it in the pocket of a fur coat that the saleswoman and model Eva secretly borrows after the show...

Don't Say No, Girl!

1932

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Klatovští dragouni

1938

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Štvaní lidé

1933

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

An old sin

1930

1920s · 19 titles

The Fake Sweetheart poster
9.0

The film depicts the troubles of Herr Verner (Karel Hasler), a middle-aged bachelor dentist who wants to marry.

The Fake Sweetheart

1926

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Radioamatéři

1927

Popelka poster
NR

A silent version of Cinderella.

Popelka

1929

The Prague Executioner poster
5.0

Rudolf Měšťák’s silent film The Prague Executioner, based on the novel of the same name by Josef Svátek, is a historical tale of love, betrayal and revenge.

The Prague Executioner

1927

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Děvče z tabákové továrny

1929

No artwork available
NR

The problem of companionship marriages , i.e. marriages determined by purely practical rather than emotional motives, is addressed with all its pros and cons using two relationships . The four protagonists are the student Erich Helmholz and his wife Elli, a seamstress, both a happily married but not in love couple, and the consultant's daughter Maria, who comes from the best "stable" and who, in her ignorance, first allows herself to be impregnated by any man (without really understanding how this could have happened) and then, under pressure from her horrified parents, enters into a companionship marriage with another man who has brilliant career prospects.

Kameradschaftsehe

1929

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Známosti z ulice

1929

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Boží mlýny

1929

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Z českých mlýnů

1925

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kašpárek a Budulínek

1927

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Otec Kondelík a ženich Vejvara I.

1926

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dva pekelné dny

1928

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tchán Kondelík a zeť Vejvara

1929

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Z českých mlýnů

1929

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Do panského stavu

1925

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sextánka

1928

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Aničko, vrať se!

1927

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lešetínský kovář

1925

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Stín ve světle

1929