Writing

Otto Zelenka

Born — Died

1931-03-12 — 2013-10-22

Known for

Writing

Credits

21 titles

Known for

Series credits

Behind the camera

Ratili poster
7.0

Dreaming of creating a Czech musical theater, not recognized in his homeland, Josef Navratil, under the pseudonym of Iosif Ratili, one day comes on tour to Georgia.

Ratili

1984

Odvážná slečna poster
9.0

JUDr. Kroupa will take over as President of the Civil Court from his colleague who is retiring. His job description is mostly to judge married couples who are divorcing and arguing over alimony, with the very least concern for the welfare of their children. With his new job, Kroupa "inherits" a handsome but peculiar secretary, Zdenka, who takes a liking to him. However, his attempts at courtship are occasionally thwarted by strange events...

Odvážná slečna

1970

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1.7

Czech TV adaptation of the french novel "La Soupe aux choux", previously adapted for the cinema in France, with De Funès ("Cabbage Soup", 1981).

Zelňačka

1996

A Leap In The Dark poster
NR

Spring 1943: A three-member group of resistance fighters flies from a Soviet military airport into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to establish contacts with an illegal communist center in the occupied territory.

A Leap In The Dark

1964

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NR

The story of an ordinary family, which leaves no doubt that it is moving from the private sphere to the social landscape, to the absurdities of an era dominated by totalitarian power...

Vyloženě rodinná historie

1990

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sedmá ruka

1973

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Minulý pátek

1982

No artwork available
10.0

The growing conflict between the unruly owner of the villa and his lodger ends up in court. The cohabitation ends in bodily harm - and the film actually translates two versions of the same events, as seen by each of the parties involved. However, the attempt at morality, which proclaimed the necessity of removing the old survivals in people's thinking, did not quite work, and the testimony presented is at times a bit stiff.

Dům na Ořechovce

1959

No artwork available
6.0

A dramatic patrol car weekend on the streets of Prague's city centre. Lieutenant Josef Kabát and his colleagues drive through the centre of Prague every day in a patrol car. He loves his neighbourhood more than anything and wouldn't trade it for a more comfortable life in the office or at the control room. After a citizen calls the 158 emergency line, Kabát goes to various cases, be it accidents, thefts, disturbances or assaults. In one burglarized apartment, he finds the perpetrators' broken dioptric glasses and a torn piece of leather jacket. These are exactly the kind of things worn by his 18-year-old son Pavel, who coincidentally disappeared at the same time, allegedly with friends on a cottage holiday. However, Kabát has no time to deal with his family problems: there are too many thieves and shady characters roaming the streets of Prague. The worst of them are a couple of young men who have just raped and murdered an innocent girl...

Tísňové volání

1986

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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

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fučík

1956

Člověk proti zkáze poster
9.0

Biography of Karel Čapek.

Člověk proti zkáze

1990

Life for Jan Kaspar poster
4.0

The bridegroom Jan Kaspar is an officer in the Klement Gottwald's Nová Hut rolling-mill. After bidding farewell to his freedom, he accidentally takes a sip from the bottle of tetrachlore which he stores at home. He disregards the dizziness, but the next day, he faints in the factory and has a brain concussion. During her regular tests, doctor Dudková is shocked by a high percentage of residual nitrogen found in Kaspar's blood. Doctor Bohácek, with whom Dudková consults, thinks that it is a liver disease and informs the head physician Filip. The doctors know nothing about tetrachlore and are in the dark about the case. Despite that, they immediately start to fight for Kaspar's life and their struggle consequently affects their personal lives.

Life for Jan Kaspar

1959

No artwork available
7.0

Young Jana brings her divorced lover Petr to her apartment. However, her relatives return early from the cottage and Jana decides to pass off Petr as one of the admirers of her charming mother Helena, who works as a model. When Petr leaves, her grandmother decides that Helena's uninhibited life full of admirers and lovers must end and decides to find her a groom. She intends to invite the suitor to her birthday party. However, she is not the only one involved, and so on the appointed evening several suitors gather...

Košilka

1974

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rudin

1987

Hlavní výhra poster
6.5

A comedy about a young salesman Havelka, who gets his life's wish. He wins his dream car Spartacus in a lottery. So together with his fiancée, they experience a happiness they have never known before and have no idea that their dream car will complicate their lives...

Hlavní výhra

1959

The Secret of the Gold Buddha poster
9.0

A crime story set in the second half of the 19th century. Krasl, a Prague schoolteacher, is searching for a statue of the Golden Buddha, which is supposed to contain compromising materials on the factory owner Riessig.

The Secret of the Gold Buddha

1973

No artwork available
1.0

No synopsis available yet.

Někoho jsem zastřelil

1967

Začít znova poster
10.0

Young Jan Stehlík signs up for a job to build a new mine. On the train he meets the pretty Alena, who falls in love with him. However, she means nothing to the superficial Jan, and when the girl becomes his lover, he treats her rudely and insultingly. But Alena's relationship troubles the honest Joseph, who really likes her.

Začít znova

1964

No artwork available
7.0

A comedy about a charismatic man who lacks the confidence of his surroundings. However, he was not completely satisfied with the original script and invited Jiří Mucha to adapt Otto Zelenka's script, which gave the film the final form of a bitter conversational comedy. It is also worth noting that the big beat band Olympic appeared in the film in its early days with the song "Dangerous Figure".

Flám

1966