Josef Bek

Acting

Josef Bek

Born 1918-12-21 · Hradec Králové, Czechoslovakia [now in Czech Republic]

Acting credits

Silent Barricade poster
7.0

A fiction piece centered around the Czech resistance to the Nazis.

Silent Barricade

1949

No artwork available
10.0

The Czech revival movement is divided at the end of the first half of the 19th century. While the older generation, such as František Palacký, urges restraint, students lean towards radical positions. A report on the revolutionary events in Paris prompts Czech Prague residents to write down the demands of the Czech nation for self-determination and the proclamation of a constitution. Tensions peak during the All-Slavic Congress in Prague's Žofín. Vienna rejects the Czech demands and the congress is brutally dispersed by the Austrian police. Prague begins to build barricades...

Year of the Revolution 1848

1949

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Vinobraní

1972

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

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4.5

The catastrophically dry weather of 1947 causes immense problems in the countryside. In the small village Klícov, only farmers Hánek and Bervida and the old Hromádka have water. The others must queue every day for a drop for themselves and their cattle. All the villagers lament over their previous decision to turn down the cooperative chairman Kouba's proposal to built a new village water-supply system.

Žízeň

1950

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1.0

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Kontrola nemocného

1978

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3.3

Father Harpagon is a terrible miser, for whom money is the greatest joy, it is closer to him than his own children. His son would like to marry Mariana, a girl from the neighborhood, while his daughter has fallen in love with Valéro, a young man who is Harpagon's steward. But Harpagon has decided to marry Mariana himself and choose rich counterparts for his descendants. So the servant who steals Harpagon's money box must do the young people a favor...

Lakomec

1978

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4.7

A socialist drama from the time of the February coup. The owner of the brickyard will use several workers before February in order to subvert worker solidarity and continue to do his black business. However, the vigilance of a young, aware worker prevents him from doing so.

Dva ohně

1950

Princess Goldilocks poster
6.8

A princess was so beautiful and had such golden hair that she was known as Pretty Goldilocks. A neighboring king fell in love with her from her description, but much to the king's disappointment, she rejected his ambassador, saying she had no wish to be married...

Princess Goldilocks

1973

Sto dukátů za Juana poster
NR

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Sto dukátů za Juana

1971

Long Live Ghosts! poster
7.1

A trespassing gang of boys encounter a ghost in the ruins of a castle. When they rescue the ghost who is caught in a trapset, they become allies in a fight to prevent ruins from being turned into mushroom farm by the city authorities.

Long Live Ghosts!

1977

No artwork available
5.0

A story about the conditions in Bohemia in the second half of the nineteenth century, when small-town officials, such as Hrdlička, succumbed to the predators of the emerging large financial and industrial bourgeoisie, represented by Jestřáb.

Jestřáb kontra Hrdlička

1953

Alibi on the Lake poster
7.0

Miss Nováková reports to Major Tuma (Karel Höger) from the police about the disappearance of her roommate, the model Zuzana. Shortly afterwards, a film director named Konrád (Otomar Krejca) asks Tuma to cooperate on a new cinéma-vérité film describing the story of Zuzana's disappearance.

Alibi on the Lake

1966

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6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Obrácení Ferdyše Pištory

1967

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NR

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Jménem Jeho Veličenstva

1929

The Matches of a Beautiful Dragoon poster
5.4

In a suburban villa, a woman of means is murdered. Police Superintendent Zdychynec from the Prague Liben neighborhood reports the case to Police Councilman Vacátko, upon whose order an investigation is launched immediately. Zdychynec begins to suspect the wooer of his own daughter, a handsome dragoon named Rudi, of the crime. In Rudi's absence, Zdychynec searches his rented room in the apartment of the elegant Mrs Dragicová. All his findings - among others, sand left on Rudi's jackboots and a decent amount of money in his bedside table - convince the superintendent that he is following the right lead, especially when Rudi refuses to say where he was at the time of the murder.

The Matches of a Beautiful Dragoon

1971

Tři nevinní poster
6.5

The car thief Halama, the shy groom Poupě, the divorcing jealous Pic and the mustachioed cinema projectionist Vlk are suspected of robbing the cinema box office. They are so similar, however, that the sharp-witted Public Security investigator Doll doesn't know them at all...

Tři nevinní

1974

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NR

Original staging of an opera composed based on William Shakespeare's comedy "The Merry Wives of Windsor".

Falstaff

1975

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NR

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Sám proti městu

1974

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NR

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Blázinec ve všech poschodích

1968

Men About Town poster
7.1

Three blue collar workers have a night out in big city Prague.

Men About Town

1969

No artwork available
7.0

The story of a gypsy named Fabian, who came to work in Kunčice, and his son. Their lives change fundamentally on the great construction site of socialism. They both learn to read and write; Fabian becomes a skilled welder, and little Fabian is accepted into the pioneer organization. However, their transformation is not easy, it is not without many encounters, just like the transformation of Fabian's co-workers, many of whom have not yet overcome their racist prejudices.

Můj přítel Fabián

1955

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NR

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Lásky Emanuela Přibyla

1971

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6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Pan Jordán a Habada

1968