Martin Frič (1931-1968)
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- DirectorMartin FricStarsJirí SovákMilena DvorskáJarmila SmejkalováForty-year old clerk Láda (Jirí Sovák) got divorced some time ago and then was married again, to an attractive woman. The young wife cannot keep the house in order but wants to dress up and have an easy-going life. Láda is often broke and has to borrow money. He thus devises a crafty plan to come into money. Taking a few days off in the office, he leaves for a small town. Here, he visits the managers of all the local stores and orders them to hand their sales over at the post office by noon so that the banknotes can be examined, since false one-hundred crown notes have reportedly appeared in the town and its surroundings.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsJirí SovákJirina BohdalováCestmír RandaFrantisek Jech (Cestmír Randa) is an American-skilled thief who lacks imagination in organizing his criminal activities. Vladimír Hudec (Jirí Sovák), author of detective novels and screenplays, is reproached by critics who claim that his plots are far-fetched. After reading Hudec's books, Jech is convinced that the writer is the right man to help him and his collaborators. He visits the writer who, in the course of a casual conversation about detective plots in literature, unintentionally instructs Jech how to steal a valuable church sculpture. Unable to stop him, Hudec then watches as his fantasy turns into reality.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsVlastimil BrodskýSlávka BudínováJosef HlinomazThe young equestrian acrobat Nina Georgia (Emília Vásáryová) is the National Circus's biggest star. Her Latvian father and Georgian mother disapprove of her growing love for the fellow equestrian and acrobat Vincek (Jan Tríska). They want a rich husband for their beautiful daughter.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsJirina BohdalováVlasta MatulováRudolf DeylAt the end of May 1918, released prisoners return to the Rumburk garrison from Russian captivity, hoping that the war is over for them. The only thing they want is to get their withheld soldier's pay and then go home. In the meantime, they take pleasure in having fun in the local wine cellar The Northern Rose and listen and watch the temperamental Tonka (Jirina Bohdalová) sing and dance. In an odd way, she gets close to the soldier Noha (Rudolf Deyl). The civilian inhabitants suffer from hunger and shortages. In the barracks and on the training grounds, however, the Austrian drill continues. Its brutal and absurd character is more and more often becoming the cause of the soldiers' discontent. Upon hearing the spreading news that they should return to the front, a rebellion breaks out.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsJirí SovákMilos KopeckýVlastimil BrodskýDuring his work assignment in Tamani Kingdom, Czech worker Lojza Králu saves a local man from dying in the desert. Two years later, it turns out the saved man was also the Taman king; and that he has decided to name Lojza his royal heir, which turns his life upside down.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsCestmír RandaJan PohanMilan HolubárDetectives have their hands full: first a shoplifting, soon the murder of a young driver. Do these crimes have anything in common?
- DirectorMartin FricStarsJirí SovákRudolf HrusínskýVáclav LohniskýCuba Drobbyan (Jiri Sovak) is a poor cavalier who has a good wife (Bela Jurdova) and eleven children. When it comes to the twelfth, Cuba decides to go into the world and get a good godfather for him. Meanwhile, the old man meets Bohas Zahorsky, but he does not want to be a godfather, because he is not equally equitable to all people, he rejects the devil (Otakar Brousek), eventually meets the Deathwalker (Vaclav Lohnisky) whom he chooses because he belongs to all people just equitable. The Deathwoman makes a treaty with Cuba and gives him a special gift: When Cuba sees him with a sick person at his head, the person dies if he stands at his feet, the healer heals. Cuba tries it a few times, and the Death Gift works. Cuba will gradually become a respected and popular folk healer. The rich and fat brewery brewer Pandrhola (Rudolf Hrusinsky), who has always refused to help and make fun of Kuba and all the local poor miners, is the counterpart of the poor cavalier. Even one day it will get sick. He calls Cuba, but he first refuses because Deathwoman stands in the bed's heads. In the end, however, Cuba is allowed to cope with Pandhra and treats it despite the fact that it breaks the deal with the Death Eater - let the bed with Pandrhola turn around so that the Deathwoman, standing at the head, stands at his feet. But Pandrhola lets Smrtak be trapped in a brewery barrel, making it impossible for anything alive to die. This will cause great confusion and upheaval on the ground. Eventually, Death Knight comes out of the barrel, Pandrhol sets off with his deadly scythe, and Kuba definitively removes his gift.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsFrantisek SmolíkMartin RuzekMarie KyselkováA Czech fairy tale about a princess named Lada who runs away from home in a mouse-fur disguise in order to escape an unwanted, forced marriage.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsZdenek StepánekVladimír RázBela JurdováA psychological drama about four men trapped in a spiral of alcohol addiction.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsZdenek StepánekOtomar KrejcaSlávka BudínováThe construction of the new dam deprived the ferryman Ryba of his trade. The new dam replaced the ferry. However, Ryba's ancestors were ferrymen and the old man would have liked his two sons to take up the same profession. But Josef is an indecisive weakling and Karel found work on the dam. That's why old Ryba drove him out of the house. The persistent rain brings Ryba miserable joy. The man knows well that a sudden flood can endanger the unfinished dam. In his fanatical hatred, he forgets that the water from a broken dam would sweep away his house and his daughter-in-law and sick grandchild in the first place.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsJan PivecJosef KemrZdenka Baldová
- DirectorMartin FricStarsOldrich NovýTheodor PistekFrantisek KreuzmannA hard-working employee of a typographic factory accepts all kinds of functions until he almost collapses under their weight. He realizes that those who want to do everything end up doing nothing.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsVladimír RázJana DítetováJarmila KurandováWhen the ancient privileges of Chodové were threatened by Wolf Maximilian Laminger von Albenreuth, "Lomikar", Jan Sladký Kozina defended their rights. He was arrested and executed in 1695.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsVladimír RázZdenek StepánekJirina PetrovickáBiopic on Czech doctor Jan Jansky, who in his research published the classification of the four different blood types, for the first time, in 1907.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsJan WerichMarie VásováNatasa GollováEmperors baker and Bakers emperor - it refers to the fact that in movie just a regular young baker gets switched with real old Emperor which leaves everyone thinking that emperor did get younger by drinking the potion of youth.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsOldrich LukesJosef ChvalinaJana Dítetová1931: The course of an organized strike by which workers in the North Moravian steelworks resisted mass redundancies in times of economic crisis.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsVlasta ChramostováMajka TomásováMiroslav HolubGerman agents attempt to trick a Czech resistance fighter into betraying her comrades.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsOldrich NovýHana VítováElla NollováPoor country girl survives the perils of a big city thanks to unselfish support of a noble millionaire.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsVítezslav BocekBedrich BozdechRudolf DeylA worker's collective commits to putting a revolutionary performance motorcycle into production. However, a series of mishaps and misadventures accompany this impressive endeavor.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsMilka Balek-BrodskáOtýlie BenískováMarie BlazkováJust after the end of the war, in May 1945, Lieutenant Mares returned to Prague with his unit. He looks forward to seeing his family, fiancee and friends. Gradually he learns that his fiancee is already married, his mother and sister have been arrested and shot, and his former friends are dead or have disappeared in the maelstrom of war. He finds only the old professor Blazej, who has not left his basement apartment for five years to avoid meeting the Germans.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsZdenek DíteJana DítetováSvatopluk BenesPrague 1947 - World Ice Hockey Championship. Austria's victory over Sweden helped Czechia win the World Championship. In the celebrating crowd at the stadium, dentist Jan Vanecek receives a kiss from an excited unknown girl. The atmosphere is captured by a camera preparing a film magazine for cinemas. This magazine is seen by Vanecek's fiancee Lída, who does not want to see Jan again. He asks his friend Oldrich for help in reconciling with Lída.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsJaroslav PruchaJaroslav MarvanLída ChválováFive crime stories connected by the narration of police superintendent Bartosek.
- DirectorPalo BielikMartin FricStarsPalo BielikJirina StepnickováJúlius PántikThe first Slovak feature film made after the Second World War. Before the First World War, many Slovaks emigrated to America in search of a better life, because Slovakia was oppressed by the ruling Hungarian government and people could not find work. Like others, Ondrej Muranica, a young mountaineer, goes overseas to find work and earn money for his family in the New World of his dreams. However, his dreams and hopes for a better life are dashed by a mining disaster. Ondrej is saved, but loses his memory. He is declared missing and when he accidentally regains his memory years later, Ondrej decides to return home. Only after returning to his homeland does he discover that his wife Eva has married his best friend Miso. As if on cue, disaster looms.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsDana MedrickáJaroslav MarvanElla NollováInspector Cadek from the 13th police station should keep 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 get 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.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsOtomar KorbelárVlasta FabiánováRuzena SlemrováJan Sochor, a renowned poacher, is strongly opposed to the young prince wooing his daughter Baruska. He remembers all too well the time of his own youth and his contribution to the preservation of the princely family.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsHans HoltWinnie MarkusClementia EgiesYoung newlywed Martin Mansfeld suspects his wife Maria Mansfeld of infidelity and together with his friend sets a trap for her.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsGustav WaldauSusi NicolettiHana Vítová
- DirectorMartin FricStarsZdenek StepánekVlasta MatulováVítezslav VejrazkaTwo men, Slaba, a doctor, and Chodovský, a painter, meet by chance in a mountain hut. Both witnessed the suicide of a young girl years ago. Only now do they find out how the tragedy actually happened.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsTerezie BrzkováJirina StepnickováFrantisek SmolíkHlavsa, the widely respected manager of a small-town pawn shop, commits embezzlement because of his whimsical and dissolute wife, and when the situation cannot be saved, he shoots himself. His mother, a simple village woman, takes in her widowed daughter-in-law and teenage grandson on the condition that they both help her make up for all the damage. For the city lady, the hard village work is an ordeal. The same for young Borík, a gifted pianist who finds it hard to give up his dreams of a career as an artist.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsLilly HodácováOldrich NovýHana VítováScrewball comedy about a prank that could have come at a high cost. Valentin Plavec, a very hardworking but also very naive insurance clerk, becomes the target of endless jokes and pranks of his colleagues Bejsovec and Voborník. However, their last successful stunt got a bit out of hand. They added a 1 to the winning number 8456 and told Valentin that he had won a million in the lottery. But since Valentin cannot collect his winnings immediately, he withdraws twenty thousand, which is all the savings he has saved with his fiancee Helena, and starts shopping for a deposit.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsNatasa GollováOldrich NovýAdina MandlováZuzanka (Natasa Gollová) can finally stop toiling away at washing dishes at hotel Mercur after a distant aunt has bequeathed her her own hotel - Blue Star. She proudly marches over to the luxury hotel in the center of town and immediately begins to change the personnel. Because this involves the facilities belonging to a joint-stock company, which no one can inherit, she is considered insane. It comes out that her inheritance is in reality a small, shabby little hotel of the same name in the IV town district. The personnel are three unemployed youths who in this way work off the money they owe for rent. The first guest is wealthy Vladimír Rychta Rohan (Oldrich Nový), whose parents spent their honeymoon in this very hotel. He wants to celebrate his wedding there, with which his fiancée Milada (Adina Mandlová), who is waiting for him at the luxurious Blue Star, does not concur.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsOldrich NovýLadislav PesekNatasa GollováEditor Viktor Bláha is a notorious prankster. He likes to make up crazy stories and likes to have fun at the expense of his surroundings. Until one day he meets a cute girl who has an imagination even bigger than his and can keep up with him.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsRùzena NaskováFerenc FuturistaFrantisek SmolíkRich spinster Berta celebrates her sixtieth birthday. Her faithful admirer Dr. Jelinek proposes. But Berta can not forget Edward, the great love of her life, and refuses the offer.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsOtomar KorbelárLadislav PesekAdina MandlováA writer of pulp crime novels is drawn into a series of real crimes.