Jiří Vala

Acting

Jiří Vala

Born — Died

1926-11-27 — 2003-11-15

Place of birth

Poprad, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia]

Known for

Acting

Credits

88 titles

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 13 titles

Maria Stuarda poster
NR

Donizetti's opera as film.

Maria Stuarda

1988

Až já budu velká poster
NR

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Až já budu velká

1981

Poprask na silnici E 4 poster
7.5

Car transport of the locomotive is difficult, as the cargo is bulky. The three-man crew of the tractor therefore experiences many difficulties on the long journey across Bohemia...

Poprask na silnici E 4

1980

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NR

The opening image that begins the suspenseful story is marked by a tragic event: an eight-year-old girl is brutally murdered in the forest and the dog that accompanied her is shot. The crime sets in motion an extensive search operation. Time is running out for the murderer, and the detectives have many years of experience and knowledge of local conditions on their side. According to the law of a good detective story, the circle of possible perpetrators is wide. Everyone from the neighborhood of little Stán is a suspect, because the results of the investigation showed that the girl knew her murderer...

Soví hnízdo

1982

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NR

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Parcela 60, katastr Lukovice

1983

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8.0

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Světlo v tmách

1986

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NR

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Cucaracha

1987

Naši furianti poster
6.0

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Naši furianti

1983

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6.0

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Spor dramaturga Stroupežnického

1982

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6.0

College student Marta decides to seal her relationship with Zdeněk with a secret wedding. All that remains is to announce this fact to both parents. The bride's parents are a very interesting couple - the strict mother, a teacher, is a big stickler for order, the father, whom the tender half affectionately calls "daddy", doesn't bother with anything and spends his time composing poems. The groom's parents are currently most concerned with how to get their daughter Marcela married in the most favorable way possible, whose idol in life is the singer Jiří Korn.

Sardinky, aneb Život jedné rodinky

1986

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7.0

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Svatební skandály slečny Juliány

1980

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NR

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Otravný víkend

1989

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NR

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Bogan

1988

1970s · 22 titles

Affairs of my Wife poster
7.3

Doctor Adéla Neradová, a medical doctor, has succumbed to the desire to uncover a criminal and become a kind of Sherlock Holmes in skirts. The thankless role of her Dr. Watson has fallen to her husband Peter, a professional photographer who helps her with the cases she gets involved in, but usually gets everything mixed up.

Affairs of my Wife

1973

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A drama set in a rural environment. In 1948, in the middle of a joyful wedding, the groom Tomáš Záruba stumbles among the wedding guests with a gun in his hand. He was shot by his own father, who disapproved of his choice of bride. The groom, Tomáš, is the son of the old kulak Záruba, who during the occupation denounced his neighbor Libor, who subsequently ended up in a concentration camp. However, Libor survived, and young Tomáš Záruba falls in love with his daughter Jana and marries her despite his father's protests.

Rána jistoty

1975

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NR

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Julie pod balkonem

1978

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NR

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Vedlejší cesta

1977

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NR

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Opory společnosti

1972

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NR

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Jak se dělá televizní soutěž

1971

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NR

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Pohár za první poločas

1972

Pozdní léto poster
6.0

"Everybody needs to feel that they belong to someone - and that's what our little František can give..." These are the words of childless Věra, who, together with her husband Karel, decides to take in an abandoned boy from an orphanage. The couple have tried many things in their lives: studying, finding a job. But none of these have fully satisfied them. But they have managed to create a home for themselves and now they want to offer it to a third child... Vera and her parents are delighted with the boy, who is still only a trial. But Karel, who himself lives with a sense of failure in his life, is finding it difficult and slow to adjust to the new member of the family...

Pozdní léto

1974

Podivný výlet poster
NR

Petr, Martin and Čenda spent part of their youth in the war in the Beskydy Mountains. They were united by a common danger. Years later, when their personal lives are in crisis, on their trip to the Beskydy Mountains together, they reminisce about their youth...

Podivný výlet

1978

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NR

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Honba za filmovým námětem

1970

Wine Working poster
7.7

It is the summer of 1968 and also in South Moravian Pálavice appear political clashes. The so far peacefully farming Unified farmers' cooperative starts splitting. Some of the farmers have found the cooperative called Vidrupa and want to deal with wine in private trade. Michal Janák, chairman of the farmers' cooperative is a deliberate man and refuses the latent return to the capitalism. As an excellent farmer he continues preparing planting out new vineyards. His adversaries do not agree - the returns will come many years later. Jozka Hrdlicka, an émigré, notices on the Austrian TV the interview with the representatives of Vidrupa and decides to visit his native village. The new suit and the hired car transform the bankrupt and criminal to the successful businessman with wine.

Wine Working

1976

Konec semestru poster
1.0

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Konec semestru

1974

Královské řádění poster
NR

The already old King Charles IV. is fully devoted to politics and reigning and does not have as much time for his wife Anna Svídnická (third in line) as the young and in love monarch would like. Anna therefore weaves a small intrigue to incite the king to jealousy. The second picture from the life of the aging Charles IV. concerns his last wife Elizabeth. On the contrary, she does not desire the king's tenderness at all and prefers to devote herself to the problems of the monarchy. But this time it is the king who craves marital joys, and therefore tries to arouse jealousy in the queen...

Královské řádění

1975

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NR

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Dlouhý podzimní den

1971

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NR

The apartment in the old house is occupied by a large family: a couple with three daughters, one of whom lives here with her husband and child. The young people want their own apartment, while the mother, who is indiscriminately directing the whole family, wants to exchange the current apartment for a larger one. At the moment when the son-in-law wants to show the housing committee of the cooperative the apartment in the worst possible condition, the mother frantically cleans up the artificial mess, because at the same time more people are coming in to exchange it. The confusion reaches its peak...

Klícka

1972

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NR

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Zázrak v Oužlebičkách

1972

Metráček poster
7.2

The heroine of the story is a teenage Jitka Pažoutová, suffering from her fatness and clumsiness. For her, the real torture is especially the gym classes led by a sympathetic gym teacher, nicknamed Bohoušek by the girls. A change for the better is a dodgeball match, which the girls win thanks to Jitka's "guns", which simply cannot be caught. At the tournament, Jitka meets Honza Koubek - a boy who insults her, but then apologizes to her and persuades her to try using her strength in the shot put...

Metráček

1972

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NR

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Raněný lučištník

1976

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Hvězda první velikosti

1974

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NR

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Preclíková válka

1977

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NR

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Na dvoře vévodském

1979

A Valley of Beautiful Frogs poster
9.0

A fifteen years old Jana escapes summer camp wearing nothing but bikini...

A Valley of Beautiful Frogs

1974

1960s · 12 titles

Poklad byzantského kupce poster
6.6

A detective story revolving around an ancient treasure from the ninth century, believed to have been destroyed during World War II, takes place in an archaeological environment. Its main character is, alongside Captain Exner, who is investigating a strange murder committed on the premises of a scientific institute, a young student at the Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Slovak Republic, Kamila Housková, who discovers that the treasure was not destroyed, but most likely stolen. The bright girl continues her search for the treasure against Captain Exner's will and leads the investigators to a trail that proves the connection between the lost treasure and the murdered woman...

Poklad byzantského kupce

1967

There behind the forest poster
7.7

The brave soldiers, including a young Romani man determined to become a machine driver after the war, are preparing to fight for the Dukla Pass, and they must fight hard for every inch of land. They will redeem their success with their own blood.

There behind the forest

1962

Love Without Words poster
4.5

1. A taxi driver barely finishes his coffee before a young woman asks for a ride to impress her boyfriend, only to reveal her beau’s ramshackle “plan” beside his sleek car. He then smooths over a quarreling couple, helps a frustrated engineer solve his machine’s fault in a dream, and delivers a masked father’s gifts for his estranged daughter. 2. Mr. Kalina, an airport employee, fulfills a flight attendant’s plea by taking in an orphaned African girl for the night. He ensures her safe transfer to a children’s home the next day. 3. Zaza, a coquettish milliner’s assistant, juggles the attentions of a shy tailor and her stern salon manager. After a humiliating fall on the runway, the tailor comforts her and stages a private reprise, revealing where her heart truly belongs.

Love Without Words

1962

Smrt na Cukrovém ostrově poster
6.0

A Czech ship's doctor accidentally meets his fellow expatriates on a tropical island. Under his influence, a sympathetic young woman, who has gone abroad with her sickly old father and her selfish and unprincipled husband, decides to return to her homeland...

Smrt na Cukrovém ostrově

1962

Den končí ráno poster
NR

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Den končí ráno

1965

The Borrowed Face poster
7.0

It is the 1930s. Physician Bartos devotedly attends poor patients in the city suburbs, at the same time researching the possibilities of regeneration of human tissues after transplantation. His former colleague Rosen, now working as an assistant at the private clinic of surgeon Kirchenbruch, considers the research a mere utopia. The disappointed Bartos, trying to verify his theories, therefore accepts the outrageous proposal of Marion, owner of a brothel - to surgically replace the face of her lover, the wanted thief Cutter, with the face of murdered Father Hopsasa. Bartos is well paid but his successful operation remains a secret.

The Borrowed Face

1965

Jarní povětří poster
8.5

People in Czechoslovakia perceive the events of February 1948 differently. This movie tells how they behave depending on their views, beliefs and character.

Jarní povětří

1961

The Night Guest poster
8.0

When a man stops at a motel one evening in 1961, his tormenting behavior drives one of the people present at the motel to remember his experiences in a concentration camp during WWII.

The Night Guest

1961

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NR

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Jegor Bulyčov

1968

Skid poster
4.8

Spy film about a man with a face lift who gets recruited by western organisations.

Skid

1960

This Year in September poster
8.0

16-year-old Hanka is experiencing the turmoil of first love. She loves college student Pavel Horák, but she cannot get close to him. Pavel is also attracted to the serious girl, but he is also shy and timid. That is why every meeting between them ends in mutual disappointment, insecurity and a feeling of threat…

This Year in September

1963

Spanilá jízda poster
7.0

In the Hussite times, religious truth was sifted even on the tips of weapons. When in 1430 the Hussites set out on a raid to Nuremberg, the so-called Spanila Cavalry, to defend their doctrine, the young commander of the cavalry, the landowner Keřský, whose bride had once been kidnapped by a vicious crusader, saw it as an opportunity for personal revenge. Although Oldřich Daněk has tried to establish a distinctive interpretation of historical events, he reflects on where the blinded desire to punish a bad deed with further cruelty leads, but his version seems too thesis-like and lifeless, it does not rise above the descriptively illustrated scenes from old Czech chronicles...

Spanilá jízda

1963

1950s · 11 titles

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NR

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Dobrá píseň

1955

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Hedvábný šál

1954

King of the Sumava poster
5.3

A movie about Czechoslovak border guards trying to arrest the famous escapee called "King of the Sumava".

King of the Sumava

1959

Sons of the Mountains poster
9.0

The story of a friendship for life and death captures a real event that took place in the snowy Krkonoše Mountains in 1913. The actors of the drama were Bohumil Hanč, one of our first ski racers, and his friend Václav Vrbata. The film's plot takes place between 1912 and 1913 and is framed by two international 50 km races. After winning in 1912, Bohumil Hanč wants to stop racing at the behest of his wife Slávka. In 1913, strong foreign competitors enter the race, so Bohumil succumbs to the pleas of his friends and decides to race for the last time. However, the weather changes during the race. Strong winds and snow begin to blow, severe frost sets in, and for the racers, it means a fight for their lives.

Sons of the Mountains

1956

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6.0

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Posvícení

1954

Desire poster
6.5

A poignant overview of how short life can be, this interesting drama from Czech director Vojetch Jasny is divided into four separate segments. In the first skit, a young child's impressions are observed as his newborn baby sister becomes a part of the family. In the second, a young woman falls in love for the first time one summer, and in the third, a tough, older peasant woman battles against the farming cooperatives. Finally, in the last segment, everything comes full circle as a woman who is about to become a grandmother dies while her daughter-in-law has not yet given birth.

Desire

1958

Tank Brigade poster
6.2

The fate of a tank crew on the most difficult part of the First Czechoslovak Independent Brigade's combat path during World War II. We also follow the fate of its commander, Sergeant Juraj Klimka. During the bloody battles for the Dukel Pass, he falls in love and it turns out that behind the mask of a sovereign, he is actually a shy and sensitive person.

Tank Brigade

1955

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NR

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Učené ženy

1954

A Suburban Romance poster
6.5

A young, unmarried woman finds herself a "little bit pregnant" and she tries to hide this fact from her mother but it isn't long before the truth is obvious.

A Suburban Romance

1958

Zítra se bude tančit všude poster
5.1

A group of union members, impressed by the First World Festival of Democratic Youth, held in Prague in 1947, decide to found a dance troupe. However, they are looking for someone who can teach them everything they need...

Zítra se bude tančit všude

1952

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NR

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Nositelé řádů

1953

Series credits

Bakaláři poster
7.0

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Bakaláři

1972

Dobrodružství kriminalistiky poster
8.6

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Dobrodružství kriminalistiky

1989

Thirty Cases of Major Zema poster
7.3

Thirty Cases of Major Zeman is a Czechoslovak action-drama television show intended as a political propaganda to support the official attitude of the communist party. The series were filmed in the 1970s. Each episode encompasses one year, and investigations are stylized to that year. Most are inspired by real cases. The series follows the life of police investigator Jan Zeman during his career from 1945 to 1975.

Thirty Cases of Major Zema

1976

Pan Tau poster
7.1

Pan Tau always had a gentle expression and a friendly smile, he was elegantly dressed in a stroller, with an umbrella and a white carnation in the lapel. Foremost, he was famous for his magic bowler hat. By tapping on his hat, Pan Tau was able to change his appearance into a puppet, to conjure up miscellaneous objects or to do other magic. His most characteristically behavior is that he would help children who were experiencing some sort of difficulties in-between their dreams and reality, like finding a place for skiing, settling family problems on Christmas, and even give a boy a good time at a fair when he is supposed to have piano lessons. To adults, he usually remained invisible.

Pan Tau

1970

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NR

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Úsměvy světa

1969

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NR

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Úsměvy světa

1969

We All Are Required to Attend School poster
4.0

Stories from a daily life of children attending a regular school.

We All Are Required to Attend School

1984

F. L. Věk poster
7.0

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F. L. Věk

1971

Inženýrská odysea poster
NR

Inženýrská odysea is a Czechoslovak/Czech TV series about three young students and their lives.

Inženýrská odysea

1980

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9.0

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Dnes v jednom domě

1980

Sňatky z rozumu poster
7.8

Sňatky z rozumu was a Czechoslovak television programme which was first broadcast in 1968. The programme was directed by František Filip.

Sňatky z rozumu

1968

Nejmladší z rodu Hamrů poster
NR

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Nejmladší z rodu Hamrů

1975

A Prague Underworld poster
7.8

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A Prague Underworld

1988

Rozpaky kuchaře Svatopluka poster
5.5

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Rozpaky kuchaře Svatopluka

1985

Okres na severu poster
8.0

Okres na severu is a Czechoslovak/Czech TV series filmed by Evžen Sokolovský in 1981.

Okres na severu

1981

Byl jednou jeden dům poster
8.0

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Byl jednou jeden dům

1975

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NR

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Zákony pohybu

1979

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NR

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Přísahám a slibuji

1990

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NR

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Slané pohádky

1984

Dobrá Voda poster
8.5

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Dobrá Voda

1983

Summer with Kate poster
7.0

A funny story about a little girl Kate and her summer adventures.

Summer with Kate

1975

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8.0

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Země úsměvů a snů

1970

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NR

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Zastretý farebný svet

1980

Hostinec U koťátek poster
NR

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Hostinec U koťátek

1971

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NR

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Pouť králů

1982

Zlá krev poster
6.7

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Zlá krev

1987

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NR

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Boříkovy lapálie

1972

Behind the camera