Jan W. Speerger

Acting

Jan W. Speerger

Born 1896-04-29 · Adamov, Ceské Budejovice District, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]

Acting credits

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Krásná vyzvědačka

1928

The Kreutzer Sonata poster
8.0

We have a liberal, modern Czech flapper bound to a serious and bored husband and don't forget the important fact that the wife has a lover so soon the widening gulf between husband and wife leads to stress and resentment and we get a tormented psychological study of irreconcilable differences that will lead to tragedy.

The Kreutzer Sonata

1927

Na růžích ustláno poster
7.0

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Na růžích ustláno

1935

Jánošík poster
6.2

Janosík, a friar retrained as a bandit, becomes the farmers' symbol of resistance and fight against the feudal conditions.

Jánošík

1921

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10.0

The Czech revival movement is divided at the end of the first half of the 19th century. While the older generation, such as František Palacký, urges restraint, students lean towards radical positions. A report on the revolutionary events in Paris prompts Czech Prague residents to write down the demands of the Czech nation for self-determination and the proclamation of a constitution. Tensions peak during the All-Slavic Congress in Prague's Žofín. Vienna rejects the Czech demands and the congress is brutally dispersed by the Austrian police. Prague begins to build barricades...

Year of the Revolution 1848

1949

Poor girl poster
6.2

The illegitimate child, Marie Růžová, grows up in the family of the Bořický miller. Childhood and youth spend with the son of Bořice, Klement. Klement asserts the rights, becomes a lawyer, and marries Jirina. In order not to cause further contradictions, Mary will go to Prague secretly at night. There he is living heavily as a waitress. He resists the insults of architect Jansky until he ultimately decides to commit suicide in despair.

Poor girl

1930

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10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Podskalák

1929

Gypsies poster
6.5

The tale of the Venetian gondolier whose desire for revenge following a thwarted love affair leads him to Bohemia. The intricate plot also deals with destinies of other characters, who finally come together in a dramatic encounter at one time and in one place. In his role as screenwriter and director, Anton produced a highly accomplished version of Mácha’s work. He respected the original but was also able, along with the DoP Karel Kopřiva, to capitalise on the possibilities that the film medium offered. For the Venice prologue, the filmmakers exploited the photogenic qualities of the city – the narrow streets, the lagoons, gondolas and the sea – and they moved the set to the enigmatic Czech landscape around the castle of Kokořín.

Gypsies

1922

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8.0

A Carl Lamac directed movie based on a novel by Karel Václav Rais.

The Old Man Bezousek

1927

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9.0

Directed by Svatopluk Innemann.

Schweik in Russian Captivity

1927

White Paradise poster
8.0

After a young man is arrested for a crime he didn't commit, the daughter of the local tavern owners must spring to the rescue.

White Paradise

1924

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6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Dnes o půl jedenácté

1949

History of Philosophy poster
7.0

A student rebellion precedes revolutionary events in Prague.

History of Philosophy

1937

13th district poster
4.6

Inspector Cadek from the 13th police station keeps an eye on the released safe-cracker nicknamed The Cat. He rightly suspects that Cat will go and pick up his last loot which the police didn't manage to find and that he will want revenge on Karta who helped put him behind bars. At the hospital, Cat's ex-lover Fróny hopelessly falls for doctor Chrudimský and decides to start a new life. She still refuses to help the inspector in his search for The Cat and Karta.

13th district

1946

Burian the Liar poster
6.8

Fifty years old Baron von Fibberg lives at The Fibberg Castle with his wife Olga and daughter Charley. Besides the delight in hunting, Baron is very enthusiastic about truth. Although he can't withstand any falsehood of others, he keeps his own intimate secrets from his wife. Charley seems to be an innocent girl at first glance, but she has a little secret too. She fell in love with a young fop Ernest Benda and married him in secret. Her only concern is the way, how to let her strict father know about the marriage. Together with her husband they prepare a plan how to do it, but it turns out to be a catastrophe for the whole family.

Burian the Liar

1940

Beware! poster
7.5

A drama about Slovaks who emigrated before WW I. It is focused on the life of Ondrej Muranica. He emigrates to America because of the hard life that is partly caused by Hungarian landowners. His dreams and hopes for a happier life are destroyed by a disaster in the mines where he works. Ondrej is declared missing.Years later he returns to his home country and finds out his wife married his best friend.

Beware!

1947

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5.0

A story of two story of two children tossed between their indifferent parents and a progressive boarding school.

On the Sunnyside

1933

The Merry Wives poster
6.6

A morally questionable lord comes to the aid of a working class man who is to be executed for speaking out about thieving rich scoundrels sticking it to the poor.

The Merry Wives

1938

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NR

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Kouříme domovinu

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6.7

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Kdybych byl tátou

1939

Ballad-Singer poster
9.0

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Ballad-Singer

1932

Young Love poster
6.0

The story of love, between a sturdy village boy and a gentle country girl, filmed with a movingly genuine charm.

Young Love

1933

One in a Million poster
10.0

Věra Kalinová lives a life of luxury with her uncle, a factory owner. Having just won a literary contest, she receives an offer to work for the social affairs column of a magazine. The aspiring writer takes her future editorial role very seriously—she wants to experience "real life" first. Telling her family she is heading to the mountains, she disguises herself as a poor girl and visits an employment agency.

One in a Million

1935

Falešná kočička poster
6.5

A fortune teller predicts that Dr. Přelouč will marry the third poor girl he meets. Míla, the daughter of factory owner Janota, likes the doctor and, with the help of his housekeeper Amálka, sneaks into his home disguised as a poor shoelace saleswoman. She first prepares for her role by exploring the outskirts, where she meets Vendelín Pleticha, who becomes her guide to the local pubs and her teacher of the vernacular. Dr. Přelouč is enthusiastic about the poor, uneducated girl and tries to teach her the basics of social behavior and standard language. All this until he discovers that Míla has deceived him and that Pleticha is not her father, as she had claimed...

Falešná kočička

1937

Behind the camera