Anna Polívková

Acting

Anna Polívková

Born

1979-03-24 (47)

Place of birth

Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czechia]

Known for

Acting

Credits

42 titles

Dcera herce Bolka Polívky a herečky Evelyny Steimarové. Patří k talentům mladé generace. Po studiu pražské státní konzervatoři navštěvovala katedru nonverbálního divadla při HAMU. V roce 1999 odcestovala studovat do Paříže na Mezinárodní školu pohybového divadla. Svou první větší roli dostala ve filmu Juliuse Ševčíka RESTART. O rok pozdějí zazáříla v jedné z hlavních roli filmu ÚČASTNÍCI ZÁJEZDU, ve kterém ztvárnila postavu Jolany. Nyní ji můžeme vidět na obrazovkach tv v seriálu ORDINACE V RŮŽOVÉ ZAHRADĚ.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 13 titles

Mothers poster
5.0

The four best friends are confident, smart, having fun, discussing men, relationships and sex. But they're also taking care of kids, or they just had kids, or they're pregnant. Sara has a nice ass, so she started taking pictures of it and living in the world of social media. Hedvika lives in a bit of a golden cage, her workaholic husband isn't home much, so it's no wonder she's charmed by the young busker David. Zuzana, after her break-up with Kamil, is penniless, just a worked-up and hurried mother of two. Slovak immigrant Eliska, on the other hand, has a great boyfriend, unbearable parents, is pregnant and is sick of everything.

Mothers

2021

White Lie poster
7.5

Lukas' mother has the last hours of her life left. Her biggest wish is for Lukas to have a child. So Lukas asks his neighbor Natalie, who is five months pregnant, to visit his mother in the hospital and tell her that she is going to have his baby. His mother is finally happy - Lukas fulfilled her greatest wish. Soon after, they receive some very happy news - a new heart donor has been found. After the operation, Lukas and Natalie must keep up the act to avoid upsetting his recovering mother. As they play the devoted couple, the web of lies expands, ensnaring family friends and Lukas's colleagues. The deception starts to turn Lukas's life upside down.

White Lie

2023

What Men Long for 2. poster
6.1

Irena Kopáčová, a relationship psychologist, hits rock bottom when her practice lease is terminated and she discovers her partner’s infidelity. After drunkenly visiting a soothsayer and wishing to be a man, she wakes up in a male body and must navigate life from an entirely new perspective, struggling to convince others of her true identity.

What Men Long for 2.

2022

The Greatest Gift poster
2.7

In ancient times, our land was ruled by pagan gods and goddesses. But what happens when they start getting involved in people's lives and vice versa? Will Morena, the goddess of winter, win, or will she be defeated by the goddesses of spring, summer and autumn?

The Greatest Gift

2022

Ruce v záruce poster
3.5

Lenka is a high-earning manager in the global finance sector. She lives for her work and is on the verge of achieving success in her life: if she manages to close a deal with a Turkish company, she will become the director of the company for the whole of Asia. However, because of her work, she neglects her loved ones—her husband Jiří, a university professor, and her teenage son Patrik, who is currently experiencing his first relationship. A foolish bet with her son that she can skate more than 100 meters on roller skates proves fatal – she wins the bet, but immediately breaks both her wrists.

Ruce v záruce

2022

Birthday Wishes: Christenings poster
7.0

In the house of Líba and Arnošt, preparations for the christening are in full swing, which are to take place exactly according to Líba's detailed plan - including choosing the child's name. However, nothing goes as expected: daughter-in-law Simona secretly chooses a different name, Arnošt gets involved in a "detective" search for lost keys and a supposed theft, while Karel and his friend Richard solve a misunderstanding in a jewelry store. The chaos is compounded by the confused saleswoman Vlastička, who has lost her memory. As the day of the christening approaches, secrets surface, identities become clear, and family relationships are put to the test.

Birthday Wishes: Christenings

2026

The Case of the Dead Deadman poster
3.9

A team of detectives bumbles and fumbles their way through an investigation that involves murder, blackmail and possibly someone they know.

The Case of the Dead Deadman

2020

Tango pro 3 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tango pro 3

2026

Somewhere Over the Chemtrails poster
6.2

When a villager is injured by a car at a party, firefighter Brona is immediately convinced that it is an attack perpetrated by an “Arab”. His colleague Standa sees things differently. A laconic film that explores the causes of racism.

Somewhere Over the Chemtrails

2022

Blended poster
3.9

After a blind date gone horribly wrong Jim and Lauren agree they never ever want to see each other again. Well that's all about to change when the two find themselves and their respective families (including children) all stuck together in one suite at an African Safari vacation spot.

Blended

2022

Side Effects poster
4.8

Daniel (Martin Pechlát) is a successful architect who has just completed the design of a skyscraper that will soon become a landmark of the city. When he is about to tell his wife Kateřina (Anna Polívková) the joyful news, he learns unexpected news in return. Kateřina went to the doctor, who found out that her kidneys were failing and the only long-term solution was a transplant. So to give or not to give? This is the question Daniel must solve. Will he offer his wife a kidney, which may cost him his life, or will he not offer, which may cost him marriage? And how will their friends Erik (Mira Nosek) and Diana (Barbora Seidlová), who hoped to enjoy a carefree weekend and celebrate Kateřina's birthday together, step in?

Side Effects

2025

We're Going to Team Building poster
5.4

What happens during the team building, stays at the team building.

We're Going to Team Building

2023

Přání Ježíškovi poster
6.0

An irresponsible playboy whose life revolves around making women happy discovers that there is such a thing as paternal and partner responsibility. A seemingly perfect married couple is confronted by fate in the form of a young refugee from a children's home. A successful and confident manager has found his soul mate, but introducing her to his parents is a nightmare for him. Two lonely people who have given up on happiness and finding the right person may get one more chance.

Přání Ježíškovi

2021

2010s · 12 titles

The Last Aristocrat poster
5.9

Frank, a native New Yorker, inherits his ancestral estate, Castle Kostka, and returns to the Czech Republic with his daughter Maria and wife Vivien after over forty years abroad. They find the castle in gradual decay, inhabited only by the long-slumbering steward Josef, housekeeper Mrs. Tichá, and hypochondriac handyman Krása. As the staff slowly awakens from the post-revolutionary 1990s inertia, Frank’s family faces a difficult decision: sell the dilapidated property and return to America or undertake the challenge of restoring Castle Kostka.

The Last Aristocrat

2019

Špunti na vodě poster
5.6

A family comedy about what happens when dads want to water without their precious halves.

Špunti na vodě

2017

Two Brides and One Wedding poster
4.1

A TV personality returns home for her sister's wedding and realizes she still has feelings for an ex-boyfriend who is now her sister's fiancé.

Two Brides and One Wedding

2018

What Men Want poster
6.6

The charismatic and self-confident man, Karel Král, is the editor-in-chief of men's magazine. Although a chauvinistic type, he is very popular with women. However, he struggles in his personal life. He frequently argues with his ex-wife over their 17 year-old daughter Julie, who despises his new way of life. Then the consequences of his behavior catch up with him. He loses his job, and the editor-in-chief position is given to a young and beautiful woman. But his bad luck does not end there. After another fight with his ex-wife and daughter, and a woman driver crashing into his car, Karel and his best friend Cestmír have an evening of binge drinking. During the wild night, he expresses a wish to be a woman. When he wakes up the next morning he discovers that his wish has been granted.

What Men Want

2018

The Blue Tiger poster
6.3

Johanka and Matyáš have an unusual home. The two live among the animals and plants of an enchanted botanical garden in the middle of the city, but this idyll is under threat. To the children’s horror, the mayor wants to build a theme park on the same spot. The Blue Tiger, an animal with magic powers, comes to their aid. Only he can protect the garden, but Johanka and Matyáš must now stop the mayor from capturing their newfound friend. MODRY TYGR is a colourful, atmospheric and imaginatively told animated fairytale that inspires the viewer to reflect on natural resources and habitats.

The Blue Tiger

2012

Špindl poster
4.9

When on the mountains, so to Špindl. In the snowy Špindlerův Mlýn the sisters Eliška, Katka and Magda go to the women's ride in the full-length winter comedy Špindl. They plan to enjoy relaxation, fun and perhaps a bit of love adventure. Eliška is fine, but Katka and Magda were already thirty and are still single. Does the right one appear in winter snow? It is certain that they will meet other participants and entertaining figures, and during the weekly stay, all of them will get an avalanche of love and livelihoods.

Špindl

2017

Deep in Moss poster
7.0

An adventurous story of forest thorns and a water nymph, set in the middle of a deep forest.

Deep in Moss

2018

The Inheritance or You Shouldn't Say That poster
4.1

The aging Bohus buries his wife Vlastička and after seven years of abstinence starts drinking again.

The Inheritance or You Shouldn't Say That

2014

The Spooks poster
3.9

A young clerk is delegated to sort out the affairs of a certain property. It is an old castle belonging to the city with a garden, in which nobody is really interested, but the tenants of the property do not pay rent and taxes, do not work and do not send their children to school. Correcting this state of affairs will prove difficult, because it is a family of aristocratic spirits who have so far dealt with scares and witchcraft, but do not know the material concerns of ordinary mortals and cannot imagine such a revolution in their lives.

The Spooks

2016

No artwork available
8.5

A spa comedy full of thieves and swindlers, disguises, blunders, and misunderstandings, but above all, crazy humor. The television comedy by screenwriter Anna Vovsová and director Zuzana Zemanová Šejk takes place in a small spa somewhere in northern Bohemia. A successful group of amateur actors is hiding here from the law in order to get abroad as soon as possible and escape their deserved punishment for robbing a jewelry store. However, conflicts exist not only within this group, but also between the spa director and the female staff, especially between the director and his own daughter, a masseuse. She refuses to obey him and quits her job at a time when there is no replacement for her.

Sheikh

2010

Ženská na vrcholu poster
5.0

Helena, a free-spirited single café owner, takes her eight-year-old son Mikuláš to the mountains for a quiet Advent stay but, through a mix-up, ends up at a remote high-altitude lodge run by adventure guide Richard, his spirited daughter Zuzka, and his sociable brother Mišo. Unbeknownst to Helena, her parents also arrive, insisting the family spend Christmas together. Amid snowbound isolation, cultural clashes between city visitors and mountain folk, playful rivalries between the children, and unexpected challenges transform her planned retreat.

Ženská na vrcholu

2019

Fairy Tales for Emma poster
8.0

When London-based immigration officer Petr Miller receives a startling call from Prague informing him that the woman who listed him as guardian after her accident has given birth to his daughter, eight-year-old Ema, he’s forced to confront the possibility he’s an unwitting father. Reluctant to abandon his solitary life, Petr nevertheless travels to Prague to care for Ema and soon discovers that raising a child will turn his world and his heart completely upside down.

Fairy Tales for Emma

2016

2000s · 5 titles

Ženy môjho muža poster
2.0

The stories of all the characters are linked to the fate of a media-successful married couple. The film is an account of life in a Central European metropolis, from which humanity and spiritual values are disappearing as a result of a hasty lifestyle. Vera and Daniel's marriage has been deadlocked for a long time, Vera is at the end of her career as an actress and Daniel prefers to hang out with younger girls than with his own wife. In addition, a young Macedonian woman, Liana, enters their family and Vera finds a part of herself in her. Parallel to Vera and Daniel, Eva, a nurse, and Martin, a designer, are looking for a place in life.

Ženy môjho muža

2009

Through This Night poster
8.0

The film portrays the final days of the most famous Czech authoress, Božena Němcová, who in the mid-19th century dared to live a life free of social constraints.

Through This Night

2005

Holiday Makers poster
5.7

A motley of vacationers on a bus headed for a week long vacation at a seaside resort. Among them: a single, moderately famous singer; a nerdy, onanistic man; a couple of old ladies reaching senility; a couple of young gals looking for an amorous adventure; a family with a boy unsure about where he fits sexually; a beautiful woman that, besides working as a trip guide, has pretensions of being a music composer; a couple of gay men; and another family where the parents are stuck in a sexual ice age while their twentyish daughter is looking to connect with a man.

Holiday Makers

2006

Restart poster
5.4

It's April 1st, and Sylvie makes a fateful mistake. Abandoned and dejected, she takes to the streets of the big city to fight for her love. She overcomes one obstacle after another, hoping to save her relationship. She has no idea that she is heading for a fatal collision. She would rather start this day over again.

Restart

2005

No artwork available
NR

Řehoř lives a contented life. His wife Evženie does not. After sixty years of marriage, eighty-year-old Evženie comes to her granddaughter, lawyer Katka, to ask for her help in divorcing her eighty-five-year-old husband Řehoř. Katka is shocked by her grandmother's decision and her harshness and intransigence. What must have happened in her grandparents' relationship that even decades have not been able to erase? Katka does not want to break up her beloved family and tries to figure out her grandmother's reasons. She uncovers her own family's dramatic past, but her grandparents' secret remains hidden from her. Her grandmother risks losing her granddaughter and hides the truth from her, not wanting to pass on the burden of her past guilt to the next generation. She tries to come to terms with the past and find peace. And Řehoř? Will Katka protect him?

Stínu neutečeš

2009

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