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The Greatest Gift (2021)
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?
Directed by: Marta Santovjáková Gerlíková | Daria Hrubá
Stars: Bolek Polívka | Anna Polívková | Chantal Poullain | David Suchařípa | Sabina Rojková
Tichý společník (2020)
Directed by: Pavel Göbl
Stars: Klára Issová | Bolek Polívka | Hana Vagnerová | Pavel Řezníček | Ondřej Malý
Ženská na vrcholu (2019)
Directed by: Lenka Kny
Stars: Martin Dejdar | Bolek Polívka | Jana Preissová | Anna Polívková | Marek Němec
Batastories (2019)
As: Commentary (voice)
Peter Kerekes’ documentary focuses on the Bata shoe empire and the quest to find the next generation of shoe makers
Runtime: 80 min.
Directed by: Peter Kerekes
Stars: Bolek Polívka | Zuzana Stivínová
Tátova volha (2018)
As: Jindřich
Directed by: Jiří Vejdělek
Stars: Tatiana Vilhelmová | Bolek Polívka | Emília Vášáryová | Martin Myšička | Eliška Balzerová
Manžel na hodinu (2016)
As: Milan
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Tomáš Svoboda
Stars: Bolek Polívka | David Matásek | Eva Holubová | David Novotný | Lukáš Latinák
Angel 2 (2016)
As: Alois Kostál
A story that takes place during Advent, we'll meet again with your favorite pair angel Petronel and devil Urias. Their eternal wrangling causes the rare apple from the tree of the knowledge to roll on earth. And that God is really angry. Petronel with Urias find themselves in a small Czech town on the eve of the feast of St. Nicholas. And after a series of human and "divine" tests our heroes eventually ...
Directed by: Jiří Strach
Stars: Vica Kerekes | Ivan Trojan | Jiří Bartoška | Jiří Dvořák | Anna Čtvrtníčková
Little Feather (2016)
Martina is 18, loves dancing and goes by a nick name Shakira. Also, today she is leaving an orphanage...
Directed by: Lucia Klein Svoboda | Peter Klein Svoboda
Stars: Jan Plouhar | Bolek Polívka | Martin Finger | Dominika Morávková-Zeleníková | Štěpán Kozub
Děda (2016)
As: Štefan
Directed by: Marta Santovjáková Gerlíková | Jiří Novotný | Mejla Basel
Stars: Bolek Polívka | Petra Hřebíčková | David Suchařípa | Kristýna Frejová | František Segrado
Crazy Kingdom (2016)
As: Theofil
By some quirk of fate, the two small-time thieves and the spoiled princess find themselves in the Black Forest full of magic beings who believe that everyone has a chance to mend his ways. However, sometimes even the best intentions need to take a pretty long way round to be achieved... Funny fairy tale full of action, excitement, fun, magic but also love.
Directed by: Marta Ferencová
Stars: Vilma Cibulková | Bolek Polívka | Oldřich Kaiser | Vladimír Polívka | Denisa Pfauserová
Svatojánský věneček (2015)
As: Panovník
Directed by: Jiří Strach
Stars: Bolek Polívka | Ivan Trojan | Jiří Mádl | Jan Vondráček | Eliška Jansová
Home Care (2015)
As: Láďa
Dedicated home care nurse Vlasta attends her whimsical patients in Czech wine country and lives for her husband Lada and her daughter, but one day things change and Vlasta is forced to reach outside of her comfort zone. Drama and gentle humor intertwine as Vlasta realizes, for the first time in her life, that she might need some care, too.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Slávek Horák
Stars: Tatiana Vilhelmová | Bolek Polívka | Alena Mihulová | Zuzana Krónerová | Sára Venclovská
Hodinový manžel (2014)
Four swimmers - water polo players find themselves at the bottom of their existence after losing a match. So desperate that they even find themselves living at the bottom of their emptied pool. To save their "dignity" they start a questionable business "Husband to rent" fixing home items for local housewives. But as time will show the household items are not the only things they end up repairing.
Directed by: Tomáš Svoboda
Stars: Bolek Polívka | David Matásek | David Novotný | Jitka Čvančarová | Lukáš Latinák
Andělé všedního dne (2014)
Based on a best-selling novel by Michal Viewegh, Angels of everyday focuses on a few intimate family members: a recently widowed young doctor Ester; a school canteen cook and her son; a driving instructor, his wife, and their closest relatives.
Directed by: Alice Nellis
Stars: Marián Labuda | Bolek Polívka | Vladimír Javorský | Vojtěch Dyk | Eliška Křenková
Tři bratři (2014)
Three brothers leave their home to see the world. During their journey, young men as by miracle enter into famous fairy tales (Little Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Twelve Months) and face traps, unexpected moments and even love in a story full of humor and songs.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Jan Svěrák
Stars: Jiří Lábus | Vojtěch Dyk | Tomáš Klus | Zdeněk Piškula | Kateřina Kosová
Dědictví aneb Kurva se neříká (2014)
As: Bohuš Stejskal
Directed by: Robert Sedláček
Stars: Miroslav Donutil | Ivana Chýlková | Bolek Polívka | Dagmar Veškrnová-Havlová | Arnošt Goldflam
Revival (2013)
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Alice Nellis
Stars: Bolek Polívka | Miroslav Krobot | Jenovéfa Boková | Karel Heřmánek | Marián Geišberg
Kovář z Podlesí (2013)
As: kovář
Directed by: Pavel Göbl
Stars: Bolek Polívka | Gregor Bauer | Valerie Šámalová | Filip Dvořák | Matěj Převrátil
To the Woods (2012)
As: Ludva Papoš
Honza Marak has long since abandoned a career in IT and has bought a cottage on the outskirts of a small village, where he’s settled in with his wife Marketa, daughter Anyna and son Sayen. He works in the woods as a forest labourer repairing roads and enclosures, cutting wood to sell and assisting the foresters. Marketa earns a living as a masseuse and alternative healer, making use ...
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Tomáš Vorel
Stars: Barbora Nimcová | Anna Linhartová | Tomáš Hanák | Tomáš Vorel ml. | Vojtěch Vovesný
Signál (2012)
As: Staněk
Two young technicians, Filos and Kája, come to a small village that is a bit cut off from the rest of the world in order to find the best place to install a new station for the reception of a cell phone signal. Their arrival understandably arouses a feeling of expectation among the locals, especially when they learn of the interesting financial reward for the owner of the land on which the transmitter ...
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Tomáš Řehořek
Stars: Bolek Polívka | Karel Roden | Kryštof Hádek | Jiří Menzel | Vojtěch Dyk
Men in Hope (2011)
As: Rudolf
Charming bon vivant Rudolf is convinced that infidelity is the basis for a happy marriage, since, after all, a woman does not want to be bored with her partner.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Jiří Vejdělek
Stars: Vica Kerekes | Bolek Polívka | Berenika Kohoutová | Simona Stašová | Petra Hřebíčková
The Magical Duvet (2011)
As: dědeček
The great musical comedy by F. A. Brabec V perine is the first Czech film made entirely in 3D. This stimulating comedy, in true and thorough 3D, presents a whole new computer-made world concealed in a quilt, where a large part of the film is taking place. The film V perine is a musical comedy made in the high-spirited style of Mamma Mia. In a relaxed world, where everybody used ...
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: F. A. Brabec
Stars: Lucie Bílá | Karel Roden | Eliška Balzerová | Matěj Převrátil | Amélie Pokorná
Ulovit miliardáře (2009)
As: rabín Kocharowski
Directed by: Tomáš Vorel
Stars: Jiří Mádl | Tomáš Matonoha | Josef Carda | Ester Janečková | Kateřina Sedláková
Operacja Dunaj (2009)
As: Jirzi
Operation Danube was the cover name for the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact armies in August 1968. The fleet of Polish tanks which arrive to liberate their neighbor, ostensibly threatened by a counter-revolution, includes the old tank nicknamed Ladybird, which is the last to leave the barracks.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Jacek Glomb
Stars: Zbigniew Zamachowski | Bolek Polívka | Martha Issová | Jiří Menzel | Jan Budař
Malé oslavy (2008)
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Zdeněk Tyc
Stars: Bolek Polívka | Matej Landl | Anna Šišková | Ági Gubík | Tereza Nvotová
Bathory: Countess of Blood (2008)
As: Monk Petr
Bathory is based on the legends surrounding the life and deeds of Countess Elizabeth Bathory known as the greatest murderess in the history of mankind. Contrary to popular belief, Elizabeth Bathory was a modern Renaissance woman who ultimately fell victim to mens aspirations for power and wealth.
Runtime: 141 min.
Directed by: Juraj Jakubisko
Stars: Anna Friel | Franco Nero | Vincent Regan | Karel Roden | Hans Matheson
I'm All Good (2008)
As: Mrklas
This Hrebejk’s comedy is set in Prague, four years after the democratic “Velvet revolution” of 1989. This was an era of sudden freedom, transition and confusion. Most people got carried away, quickly abandoning the old values and uncritically accepting the new. Some people just took a break…
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Jan Hřebejk
Stars: Miroslav Vladyka | Lenka Vlasáková | Petr Forman | Bolek Polívka | Jiří Schmitzer
Svatba na bitevním poli (2008)
As: starosta Touchyn
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Dušan Klein
Stars: Zlata Adamovská | Bolek Polívka | Josef Somr | Miroslav Šimůnek | Jana Doleželová
ROMing (2007)
As: Stano
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Jiří Vejdělek
Stars: Marián Labuda | Bolek Polívka | Oldřich Vlach
Pleasant Moments (2006)
Hana is a psychologist and a thoroughly independent woman. Her unemployed husband, jealous of his wife, finds a younger girlfriend, but their teenage son Honzik is frustrated; everyone ignores him. Hana's patient Eva, an attractive middle-aged woman, is having problems with her 25-year-old son; she is in love with her son's friend and her son is offended by her behavior. To complete the circle, he falls in ...
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Věra Chytilová
Stars: Bolek Polívka | Jana Krausová | David Kraus | Jana Janěková
Through This Night (2005)
As: Josef Nemec
The film portrays the final days of the most famous Czech authoress, Božena Nìmcová, who in the mid-19th century dared to live a life free of social constraints.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Dagmar Knöpfel
Stars: Corinna Harfouch | Petr Forman | Bolek Polívka | Anna Polívková | Ondřej Vetchý
The Gnome (2005)
As: Father
A tragicomedy full of slapstick and vignettes, and even an unexpected shootout. A family of villagers moves up in the world - to the county seat. Dad works as a butcher at a meatpacking plant, mom is a checker at a supermarket. The daughter is at odds with her homeroom teacher, while the son - a vegetarian, anarchist, and avid pothead - is apprenticing as a butcher to please his father. The kid's ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Tomáš Vorel
Stars: Bolek Polívka | Eva Holubová | Tomáš Vorel ml.
Bolero (2004)
As: Ilonin otec
Based on real event, Bolero is an excellent story of progressive recovery of a crime. The story surprises all the time, shows new connections, new possibilities, exposes new ideas and facts. It's possible to understand the film on more levels. It describes the position and all the feelings of victim's family, the police work as well as the impact of the crime on it's malefactors. It ...
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: F. A. Brabec
Stars: Barbora Seidlová | Martin Stropnický | Jan Potměšil | Jan Kačer | Jiří Bartoška
Pupendo (2003)
As: Bedřich Mára
Artist Bedřich Mára (Bolek Polivka) is unable to find much secure work due to his public antagonism toward the ruling Communist Party. He has a wife and two children. Life begins to change when art historian Alois Fábera (Jiři Pecha) begins working on a piece about Bedřich, leading to a job offer from a Party official. Things are looking up, until the wrong people hear portions ...
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Jan Hřebejk
Stars: Vilma Cibulková | Bolek Polívka | Eva Holubová | Jaroslav Dušek | Jiří Pecha
Expulsion from Paradise (2001)
As: Director Rosta / Doctor
Philosophical movie, staged at the least philosophical environment imaginable: A closed scenery of a nudist spot, where some hired Czech stuff is making a plain erotic movie for a rich Russian producer. Nothing in this movie is what it seems to be at the first superficial glance.
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: Věra Chytilová
Stars: Bolek Polívka | Veronika Bellová | Jan Antonín Pitínský | Milan Šteindler
Wild Flowers (2000)
As: polednice
Seven seemingly unconnected fairy tales - glued together only by folklore, mood, color and light - make up this Czech collection of visual poetry. The original piece of literature, written by Karel Jaromír Erben in 1853, contained twelve tales.
Runtime: 81 min.
Directed by: F. A. Brabec
Stars: Bolek Polívka | Linda Rybová | Karel Roden | Dan Bárta | Jana Švandová
Out of the City (2000)
As: Ludva Papoš
A computer programmer and his son are going out of the city for vacation.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Tomáš Vorel
Stars: Barbora Nimcová | Anežka Kušiaková | Tomáš Hanák | Luba Skořepová | Michal Vorel
Divided We Fall (2000)
As: Josef Cízek
In Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia, a childless couple agree to hide a Jewish friend at great personal risk of discovery and execution.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Jan Hřebejk
Stars: Martin Huba | Bolek Polívka | Csongor Kassai | Jaroslav Dušek | Anna Šišková
Eliška má ráda divočinu (1999)
As: Marčélo
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Otakáro Schmidt
Stars: Bolek Polívka | David Vávra | Veronika Žilková | Jiří Lábus | Zuzana Stivínová
Cosy Dens (1999)
As: Strýc
Two families, Sebkovi and Krausovi, are celebrating christmas, but not everyone is in a good mood. Teenage kids think their fathers are totaly stupid, fathers are sure their children are nothing more than rebels, hating anything they say. Written by Antonín
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Jan Hřebejk
Stars: Miroslav Donutil | Bolek Polívka | Jiří Kodet | Simona Stašová | Emília Vášáryová
Forgotten Light (1996)
As: Vicar Holý
Father Holy, a village priest, battles against the state and religious bureaucracies of 1980s Czechoslovakia in his fight to raise money for a new church roof. Permeated by his love for the villagers, his encounters are marked by his good humor. In his losing battle against Church and State, Holy is ordered to be transferred away from his parish and his allies. The Czech-American, Milena Jelinek, adapted ...
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Vladimír Michálek
Stars: Bolek Polívka | Zita Kabátová | Veronika Žilková | Jiří Lábus | Jiří Pecha
Suzanne (1996)
As: Chris d'Garné
Runtime: 130 min.
Directed by: Dušan Rapoš
Stars: Bolek Polívka | Eva Vejmělková | Maroš Kramár
Accumulator 1 (1994)
As: inženýr Slezák
In this movie, TV sets are full of life. If a person is in TV (e.g. because it was filmed on the street) it has a double that's right in the TV set. This double needs energy from the true character to survive. Each time, the real human watches TV, his Double will pull life energy from him. So there's a mysterious Death-serial. Many persons die in front of their TV set and nobody knows why. Olda, the main ...
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Jan Svěrák
Stars: Marián Labuda | Petr Forman | Edita Brychta | Bolek Polívka | Zdeněk Svěrák
The Inheritance or Fuckoffguysgoodday (1992)
As: Bohuš
The rough Redneck may inherit from Stepfather a Million Dolars so the fun can begin.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Věra Chytilová
Stars: Miroslav Donutil | Bolek Polívka | Jozef Kroner | Šárka Vojtková | Dagmar Veškrnová-Havlová
Flames of Royal Love (1991)
In 1992, Prague is the capital of a small kingdom. The prince is supposed to choose his bride to be at a royal ball. But to everybody's surprise, he chooses an ugly cleaning-woman. She is shy and silent, but after the marriage she turns into a wild and rumbustious woman with an obstinate and stubborn mind. They both try to kill each other, but the queen is thrown into the dungeons.
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: Jan Němec
Stars: Ivana Chýlková | Josef Abrhám | Bolek Polívka | Jiří Bartoška | Vilém Čok
The Gentle Barbarian (1990)
As: Vladimír
A commemorative and essayistic meditative piece on the Prague quarter Libeň during the 1950s.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Petr Koliha
Stars: Ivana Chýlková | Bolek Polívka | Jiří Menzel | Arnošt Goldflam | Jaromír Hanzlík
Pražákům, těm je hej (1989)
As: Policeman
The story begins in 1984 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, few years before the end of Communist era. The band Pražský výběr (Prague's selection) has just received the news thier 5-year ban has expired and they are alowed to perform once again. This half fantasy half document about the band would draw the atmosphere of middle european late Communist era and the eufory of it's end.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Karel Smyczek | Michael Kocáb
Stars: Roman Skamene | Michal Pavlíček | Vilém Čok | Miroslav Štibich | Michael Kocáb
Sitting on a Branch, Enjoying Myself (1989)
As: Pepe
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Juraj Jakubisko
Stars: Bolek Polívka | Štefan Kvietik | Deana Horváthová | Markéta Hrubešová | Miroslav Macháček
The Jester and the Queen (1988)
As: Jester
The movie is a satirical look at foreign occupation - a medieval Czech jester entertains a German king and his French wife, or a modern Czech villager helps a Bavarian hunter and his French wife find wild boar in Bohemia - the story switches back and forth between the two plots and time-periods.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Věra Chytilová
Stars: Bolek Polívka | Vlastimil Brodský | Chantal Poullain | Jiří Kodet | Jiří Pecha
Freckled Max and the Spooks (1987)
As: Henry
A parody of Frankensteinian stories. It is a story of a little boy, an orphan who arrives at the Castle of Count Frankenstein - a world inhabited by mysterious and sometimes a bit ridiculous scary creatures. Although each one of them is different, they all share one thing: they feel lonely and they are desperate for a little love and affection.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Juraj Jakubisko
Stars: Jacques Herlin | Ferdy Mayne | Eddie Constantine | Martin Hrebeň | Gerhard Karzel
Kalamita (1982)
As: Honza Dostál
Funny banter about love, sex, social status, and other ideals, while a new railway employee is trained and sent on his first run as driver.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Věra Chytilová
Stars: Bolek Polívka | Jana Synková | Dagmar Bláhová | Jaroslava Kretschmerová | Marie Pavlíková
Poslední leč (1981)
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Vladimír Sís | Bolek Polívka
Stars: Bolek Polívka | Jiří Pecha | Ivana Kaslová | Hana Vaňková
Balada pro banditu (1979)
The film version of the theatre musical production by the "Divadlo na provazku" in Brno tells the tale of legendary bandit Nikola Šuhaj from Koločava.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Vladimír Sís
Stars: Miroslav Donutil | Pavel Nový | Bolek Polívka | Iva Bittová
Behind the Curtain of Night ()
The story of a man who sees his past lives from before he was born after being declared dead for the second time.
Directed by: Dalibor Stach
Stars: Brendan Fraser | Bolek Polívka | Marcia Cross | Dawn Olivieri | Massimo Dobrovic