Frank Towen

Acting

Frank Towen

Born 1912-10-27

Acting credits

Man in Outer Space poster
5.9

An upholsterer who is preparing a rocket for takeoff accidentally jettisons himself into space and returns to Earth 500 years later with an alien companion who wishes to learn more about the human race.

Man in Outer Space

1962

The Magpie in the Wisp poster
7.7

In the film, the creative forces of personalities from three spheres of art collide. The subtitle "The Game of Love and Hate" refers to the motivation of an old Czech medieval satire, the theme belongs to Antonín Přidal, an expert on this subject. His collaboration with Juraj Herz created a collage of past and present, an updated, sharp satire and a parable about the clash of human qualities that could not but end up in the vault. The music of the Prague Selection - Michael Kocáb and Michal Pavlíček - also contributed to the film's offensive provocativeness - the film was one of the reasons for their complete move to the underground. The dancing chorus of medieval citizens resembles more of a jumble of long-haired maniacs, the edge of a contemporary dump intrudes into the space of a medieval marketplace, and the characters oscillate between the past and the present, whether in their appearance, symbolism or behaviour.

The Magpie in the Wisp

1991

Goodbye, Medeo poster
9.0

The director and choreographer from Prague are preparing a show performance "Oriental Fairy Tale" - a ballet on ice with the participation of vocal and instrumental ensembles and pop singers. They are shooting their picture in Kazakhstan at the Medeo high-altitude skating rink.

Goodbye, Medeo

1982

Černá punčocha poster
4.9

An elderly tailor strangles young women with a black stocking. Inspired by a true crime.

Černá punčocha

1987

The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun poster
4.8

A bachelor named Faun with a Don Juan complex, seized with a hypochondriac's fear of the ineluctable approach of death, enters a race against time's passage. Faun's sexual love is imbued with the narcissistic vanity of a self-satisfied bacchant who even towards old age can't manage to forgo his lifelong pose as an irresistable seducer of women. He desperately searches for meaning in superficial, fleeting sex.

The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun

1984

Kouzelné dobrodružství poster
4.7

The story of the friendship between František and Gustav, which fades over the years, as well as the memory of a magical, almost dreamlike experience...

Kouzelné dobrodružství

1983

Zpívající film poster
NR

An editing film made from older Czech music films, in which Waldemar Matuska searches for a lost song of the sad Helena Vondráčková...

Zpívající film

1973

Každému jeho nebe poster
8.5

The life of cabaret and theater actress Xena Longenová.

Každému jeho nebe

1982