5 Movies Starring Jana Brejchovè

The Outrageous Baron Munchausen

The Outrageous Baron Munchausen

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1962-09-21

Languages:

Czech

Countries:

Czechoslovakia

Runtime:

83 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (817 Reviews)

Director:

Karel Zeman

Cast:

Writer:

Jirè Brdecka (dialogue)

Gottfried August Bèrger (book)

Josef Kainar (dialogue)

Rudolph Erich Raspe (stories)

Karel Zeman (screenplay)

Fullplot:

The stories of Baron Mènchhausen were enriched by Karel Zeman with a character of a modern astronaut Tommy and compare two different worlds - the world of a rococo cavalier whose fantasy does not have any limits and the world of a young man of the present time. The astronaut (Rudolf Jelènek) finds on the moon the famous dreamer Baron Mènchhausen (Milos Kopeckè), who takes him back to earth and a variety of exaggerated adventures. Amusing variation on the old stories, using live action against deliberately artificial backgrounds.

Courage for Every Day

Courage for Every Day

Basic Info:

Languages:

Czech

Countries:

Czechoslovakia

Runtime:

85 min

IMDB Ratings:

(115 Reviews)

Director:

Evald Schorm

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Jan Curèk

Antonèn Mèsa

Evald Schorm

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The Return of the Prodigal Son

The Return of the Prodigal Son

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1967-04-09

Languages:

Czech

Countries:

Czechoslovakia

Runtime:

103 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (136 Reviews)

Director:

Evald Schorm

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Sergej Machonin

Evald Schorm

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Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1983-10-01

Languages:

Czech

Countries:

Czechoslovakia

Runtime:

83 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (497 Reviews)

Director:

Juraj Herz

Cast:

Writer:

Juraj Herz (screenplay)

Ota Hofman (screenplay)

Frantisek Hrubèn (play)

Frantisek Hrubèn (screenplay)

Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (fairy tale)

Fullplot:

A more horrific and gloomy version of The Beauty and the Beast. Julie is a bankrupt merchant's daughter who as the only one of the three daughters chooses to save her father's life by going to the Haunted Wood's Castle where she meets Netvor. He wants to kill her, but her beauty prevents him from that. Although she is forbidden to see him she starts to love him and the love rescues him from his curse.

Beauty in Trouble

Beauty in Trouble

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-06-13

Languages:

Czech

Countries:

Czech Republic

Runtime:

110 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (746 Reviews)

Director:

Jan Hrebejk

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Robert Graves (poem)

Petr Jarchovskè

Fullplot:

A flood in Prague has damaged Marcela and Jarda's home. He behaves boorishly over their son's asthma so she threatens divorce and takes the kids to her mom's, a possessive woman whose husband is a creep. While Marcela is there, Jarda is jailed for possession of a stolen car (he's a mechanic who's turned his garage into a chop shop). Benes, the urbane man whose car it is, befriends Marcela, and soon she has options. Jarda's mother and her mother push her in opposite directions. Jarda has animal magnetism, Benes offers security, and her own body and mind may be at cross purposes. The Cold War is over, Czechs are free to behave well or badly. What's best?

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