Helena Vondráčková

Documentary about the Intervision Song Contest in general and the 1980 edition in particular. Focuses on Finland's participation and the shipyard strikes in Gdansk at the time.

Three friends meet regularly at a renowned spa, where their band entertains the local guests while they enjoy a guys' getaway together. Everything changes with the sudden revelation that one of them has a secret seven-year-old son.

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Count Frank Kostka, his wife Vivien and their daughter Marie live in their ancestral castle Kostka. They are helped by the housekeeper Mrs. Tichá, the handyman Krása and the Castellan Josef. The original interest of visitors to the castle in the Curse of Comtesse Marie is no longer the same as before, which does not bother Maria at all – at least she has enough time for her Max, a nobleman from the next Castle Hvězda. Frank, however, is at a loss, there is not enough money either for salaries or for the necessary repairs. And just then, Bendy's lawyer's daughter Deniska appears, stirring up the tranquil waters of the ancestral home...

A group therapy session unites three scorned wives as they help one another destroy the lives and careers of their selfish, unfaithful husbands.

Performances by leading Czech singers performing hits by Karel Svoboda and Michal David. You will hear songs you know from the musicals Dracula, Monte Cristo, Night at Karlštejn, and Cleopatra.

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'The Magic Voice of a Rebel' portrays the story of the Czech singer Marta Kubisová, who without never intending it, became a symbol of freedom for all generations in the newly free Czhecoslovakia in 1989. It is Marta herself who tells us her life story and how the Soviet invasion in Czechoslvakia in 1968 changed her life. Because of her deep involvement in the Prague Spring movement, she went from being the most popular singer in the country to being banned and suffering a sudden removal from the public scene by the new authorities imposed from Moscow. She refused to escape to exile and together with other banned intelectuals and artists became a disident instead. Blacklisted and persecuted by the secret police, she also suffered the betrayal of beloved people who were collaborating with the regime.

Kameňák 2, inspired again by well-known and less well-known stone jokes (director Zdeněk Tročko received an incredible sixty thousand of them from the audience!) directly follows the first part, which ends with the gushing of a blue erectile spring from the rock at the Kameňákov castle. The miraculous effect of the blue spring on potency causes an unprecedented uproar in the town, and even old Kropáčková experiences its beneficial power. However, as suddenly as the spring appeared, it also disappeared. But did it really disappear? And where? The insidious granny Kropáčková knows this best, who in the second part becomes a terror to the young men in the town. The disappearance of the blue spring of a lucrative business has not let even the local mafia sleep. All traces lead unmistakably to the Kropáčková house in the manor house...

The heroes of this wacky spectacle are the large Karafiát family, who, in the emerging market conditions, decide to abandon their current way of making a living (stealing funeral wreaths and transforming them into artfully tied bouquets) and start a business. This is how the peculiar travel agency Český ráj, built on the ingenious idea of not taking poor Czech tourists abroad, but on the contrary, rich foreigners to Bohemia, sees the light of day. Thanks to a quirky advertising campaign, a motley mix of French people actually manage to board a bus in Paris and set off. But the Karafiats' entrepreneurial worries are just beginning.

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Young knight John travels the world in search of fame and fortune, but also to help others and prove himself. However, things go dire fast and he becomes burdened with life's hardships. But then he meets a pretty water nymph, Mary.

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The 50th anniversary of the Barrandov studios was celebrated with a spectacular show: many directors and other important people gathered in the expensive decorations of the Variety Theatre auditorium (built for the Circus Humberto series). They smiled and showed well-deserved relaxation after a job well done in managing socialist cinema. Vladimir Sís interspersed this with excerpts from films, mainly his own and also a little of others who had worked on the "Hill of Dreams".

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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.

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The television program *Svátek melodií* (Holiday of Melodies) marked the 30th anniversary of Pragokoncert, the former Czechoslovak arts agency established in 1948, which represented socialist-era artists for both domestic and international stages. The concert is hosted by actress Hana Maciuchová and Tomáš Sedláček. Leading pop stars of the late 1970s perform a selection of songs, including such once-famous hits as "Co takhle dát si špenát," "Kolotoč," "Klaudie," "Snad jsem se ti zdál," "Do re mi la," "Song se má hrát," "Motorest," "Hrajte starý rokenrol," "Chanson d’amour," "Malovaný džbánku," "Jsem tvá," and "Tentokrát se budu smát já." The Pragokoncert Grand Orchestra is conducted by Milivo Uzelac and Ladislav Štaidl.

Want to get to a space planet full of songs? Use the attractions of the magical TV carousel from 1978, which will take you up to the stars. You will hear, among others, Sleep, Son, I Have a Wish, Little Sprig, What a Pretty Cheek You Have, Lullaby of the White Elephant, March of the Cosmonauts, Mill Wheel, A Dozen Horses, Magic Grandfather, Tram Grandma, Dandelion and Let's Go Play.

A New Year's Eve television variety show from late 1979.

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

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School supply teacher timid folk art Ales Brabec won first prize at a music festival and will therefore offer to work for the Prague little theater in the basement. Its director Soukup just needs a few songs for the upcoming musical, and so is willing to do everything to Alex to create the right atmosphere for composing.

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A musical comedy about a date between boy and girl which started badly but continued very unexpectedly...

A legendary New Year's Eve special featuring Vladimír Menšík... Televised New Year's Eve programs hold a legendary status in the history of TV entertainment. Let us revisit one of the very best—*New Year's Eve 1977*—hosted by the outstanding actor and comedian Vladimír Menšík. He welcomes a host of stars from the worlds of acting, music, and television to the stage—including Miloš Kopecký, Karel Gott, Helena Vondráčková, Jiří Sovák, Miroslav Horníček, Luděk Sobota, Dagmar Veškrnová (Havlová), Vladimír Dvořák, and many others. You can be certain that you will be thoroughly entertained as the year draws to a close, in the excellent company of popular stars and brilliant humor.

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Once upon a time, there was a kingdom where a spoiled and conceited princess lived. She didn't like frogs and other similar vermin, so she didn't like it very much when they suddenly started jumping on her from everywhere. In the local pond, there lived a waterman whose water machine for water lilies broke down. Instead of beautiful flowers, he produced croaking frogs. However, the waterman didn't like the princess's behavior at all and as punishment, he made her speechless. She can only be freed if she kisses the frog. So the prince and the young diver enter the story to put everything in order. Will the princess kiss the frog? And who will finally earn the improved princess as his wife?

Helena Vondráčková and Lubomír Lipský in an almost criminal ballad... The director of a company in a district town leaves for a business trip to Prague. He stops a charming young hitchhiker and she lures him to the water by the forest. In an unexpected moment, she disappears with his wallet, clothes and car. The director and his driver must continue on foot. Meanwhile, the clever lady is already standing on the road again, looking for the next victim... A charming "musical ballad" based on verse dialogues parodying K. J. Erben's ballads and well-known songs.

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Like a fairy tale, King Henry and King Good-thought decided long ago that their only children should marry and so prevent war arising between their kingdoms ever again. But the young prince is wary of marrying anyone he doesn’t know.

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