Acting

Jan Zelenka

Born 1856-12-09

Acting credits

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

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6.5

The name day of Mr. Fiala: The husband catches his wife with his friend. In the ensuing argument the husband is insulted and attacked. The lovers believe him to be dead and carry him from the house out into the street. Drunkards find him there and they think they have have killed him. They stand him against a wall with his face in the window of a miser who has just been counting his money. The miser punches the man in the head and takes the "corpse" to river and throws it in.

Night Terror

1914

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NR

A young clerk loses her account book. It is found by a young unemployed man with whom the clerk falls in love. The young man answers a classified advertisement and starts work at a doctor's surgery who has just completed his fourth vivisection. The young man is not aware that he is to become the next object of the experimentation. Having dressed up the last corpse in the clothes of the unemployed man, the doctor takes it to the railway track so that it can be run over by a train. Urged by the clerk, the police begin a search and the case is entrusted to the famous detective, Gordon, who is soon on the trail of the mad doctor. He manages to apprehend the doctor and then hands him over to the police. The young man is saved and finds love in the arms of the bank clerk.

Mad Doctor

1920

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Černí myslivci

1921

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Macocha

1919

No artwork available
NR

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České nebe

1918

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NR

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Sivooký démon

1919

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7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mnichovo srdce

1921

St. Wenceslas poster
7.5

Czechoslovak historical film about Saint Wenceslas. It was the most expensive Czech film to date, with the largest set constructed in Europe to accommodate an all-star cast of over a hundred, together with 1,000 extras for the lavish battle scenes.

St. Wenceslas

1930

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Neznámé matky

1921

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6.5

During his wanderings through the countryside, the student Niky meets the actress Eva, a member of a film company who has come to the countryside to film. However, because the director of the company has fallen into the water, the filmmakers, including Eva, are forced to leave early. Out of grief, Niky gets drunk and bathes in the pond. A thief steals his trousers and Niky is forced to go home wearing only his shirt. On the way, he sees a drying cassock on the fence and puts it on...

Niky's Magnificent Adventure

1920

Dr. Jenkins Miracle Cure poster
9.0

A brave young woman falls in love with a mysterious stranger.

Dr. Jenkins Miracle Cure

1923

The Good Soldier Švejk poster
7.5

The first film treatment of the fate of the good soldier Švejk, a dog dealer from Prague, who is arrested after the Sarajevo assassination, psychiatrically examined and later called up to c. and k. army to fight for the emperor lord.

The Good Soldier Švejk

1926

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5.8

A Czechoslovakian comedy directed by Carl Lamac and starring himself Theodor Pistek & Anny Ondra.

Lucerna

1925

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10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Aničko, vrať se!

1927

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Probuzené svědomí

1919