Jana Preissová

Acting

Jana Preissová

Born 1948-02-07 · Plzeň, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]

Acting credits

Straw Hat poster
5.6

Slacker Maurice Fadinar wasted his whole inheritance and the only way out of this situation, as it seems, to marry Helen Nonankur - daughter of a wealthy farmer. At the last meeting with his mistress in a nearby forest Fadinar's horse eats straw hat which belongs to a married lady, spending time in the company of young and hot Lieutenant Emil. Emil literally puts a knife to Maurice throat - or the lady will get back the exact same hat immediately, or he will arrange such a scandal that no wedding will not happen ...

Straw Hat

1972

Morgiana poster
7.3

Jealous of her vapidly "good" sister's popularity, poisonous Viktoria doses pretty Klara's tea with a slow-acting fatal substance. As the latter grows hysterically weak, the former finds success increasingly compromised by guilt, blackmail, and the pesky need to kill others lest she be exposed.

Morgiana

1972

Capricious Summer poster
6.4

Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimming and philosophizing. Then it starts to rain. It just seems to be that sort of summer. Antonin runs the swimming bath with his portly wife Katherine... A man appears with his horse-drawn caravan. He lays a striped pole across the river and walks over. With a handstand and a magic trick, Ernie the Conjuror invites everyone to that evening's performance... Ernie is a tightrope walker of only modest skill, but with a slim and beautiful assistant, Anna. Antonin speaks to her. The two spend the night in the change room by the river, Antonin massaging her feet all night long. Katherine decides to move into the caravan with Ernie. But now the major and even the canon sense Anna's attractiveness...

Capricious Summer

1968

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Backstage: Kytice

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NR

About the love of two princes for one princess. The archer whose arrow flies the furthest will win the hand of the beautiful princess and ascend to the royal throne. So decided the king when both his sons fell in love with the same princess and both wanted to rule. But no one suspected that the arrow that would help one of the princes win his beloved and rule the land was magical.

Kouzelný šíp

1998

How to Pull Out a Whale's Tooth poster
7.6

Vasek, 8 years old boy is desperate to find a new "father" for his mother.

How to Pull Out a Whale's Tooth

1977

No artwork available
6.3

A simple print worker selflessly cares for his sick mother. He spends all his free time with her and the only hobby he indulges in from time to time is model railways. But the arrival of a beautiful girl changes everything. The hero suddenly falls into a love infatuation, not knowing how to cope with the conflict of his unrecognised feelings and his concern for his mother...

Klec pro dva

1968

How to Get Daddy to Change poster
7.9

Adventures of the "How to Rip Whale Tooth" (1977) heroes continue... The story takes place in the countryside, where little Vashko's dad takes him and his mother, and where another surprise awaits them: not only an excellent holiday in the setting of a rock town, but also the figure of a grandfather, understanding all the dangerous beliefs in the turbulent surface of the renewed relationship of the three closest people. Vasek's other wish comes true - his dad teaches him the secrets of rock climbing. This shared passion, however, causes further conflicts between the two parents - much to the chagrin of both Vasek and his grandfather.

How to Get Daddy to Change

1978

Julek poster
5.8

The future communist journalist Julius Fučík had a stimulating childhood and youth in a working-class environment, when his moral maturity was already showing. The authors of the film recall that the young Julek was a star of the suburban operetta scene, and in three episodes they depict him both in his early childhood and already at the gymnasium, when the outbreak of the World War shaped his determination.

Julek

1980

Crime in the Night Club poster
6.3

The theft of a pearl necklace and subsequent murder took place at the Tartaros cabaret. All this could compromise the minister, who is an admirer of the singer Clara. The real culprits must be found as soon as possible...

Crime in the Night Club

1968

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NR

Once upon a time, a capricious witch conjured a rose and a ring and endowed them with magical properties. Whoever owns them arouses love in the opposite sex. And how will this fairy tale about the whims of love, based on the magic of a ring and a rose, end? In it, Prince Laurel will eventually love his Bětuška, and Princess Andělka will marry Prince Bulka.

Růže a prsten

1972

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Putování po Blažených ostrovech

1990

Princess Jasnenka and the Flying Shoemaker poster
6.0

Fairy tale about young cobbler Jíra, who had fashioned wings from leather in order to rescue princess Jasnenka from the tower of the royal castle, where her father had closed her to to save her from the evil witch and her daughter Cernava.

Princess Jasnenka and the Flying Shoemaker

1987

Krásný čas poster
NR

The third installment in a loose series featuring the character Renáta Soukupová. Renáta is on the threshold of her thirties and is determined to conquer Bohemia back, to find her permanent and certainly beautiful existence here. And, of course, love, because she left France partly due to a failed romantic relationship. However, things do not turn out as the young woman imagines.

Krásný čas

2006

Rok na vsi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rok na vsi

1997

A Story of Love and Honor poster
6.5

A story of love and honor that takes place during the mid-nineteenth century during revolutions, as well as economic, political, and social hypocrisy. Two extraordinary but lonely artists share a passionate love, as evidenced by the preserved letters that they exchanged.

A Story of Love and Honor

1978

The Secret of the Gold Buddha poster
9.0

A crime story set in the second half of the 19th century. Krasl, a Prague schoolteacher, is searching for a statue of the Golden Buddha, which is supposed to contain compromising materials on the factory owner Riessig.

The Secret of the Gold Buddha

1973

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6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Podezřelé okolnosti

1978

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NR

A television adaptation of the poetic play by Vítězslav Nezval. The love story of the knight de Grieux and the sinful saint Manon was staged for the television screen with an extraordinary sense of poetic value in 1970. Poetic salons with many mirrors, decorative candlesticks, flowing curtains.

Manon Lescaut

1970

No artwork available
6.5

King Černomysl has four daughters and one son, who is just celebrating his 17th birthday. The king intends to find him a bride, but the prince has fallen in love with the miller's daughter Rózinka. The king holds a ball, the jester brings him a new assistant, the miller's daughter in disguise. Meanwhile, the prince looks for Rózinka at her home, but the miller tells him that she has disappeared.

Magnolia

1972

Viktor Veliký poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Viktor Veliký

1988

The Great Unknown poster
5.0

Three detective stories, three different views of life and death... Collection of three horror short stories.

The Great Unknown

1970

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mlynářka z Granady

1975

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Bludiště cest

1988