4 Movies Starring Jirè Machècek

Loners

Loners

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2000-04-13

Languages:

Czech

Countries:

Czech Republic, Slovakia

Runtime:

103 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (2091 Reviews)

Director:

David Ondrècek

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Olga Dabrowskè (story)

Petr Zelenka (screenplay)

Petr Zelenka (story)

Fullplot:

Robert works for a travel agency and helps to arrange scenes from the everyday lives of "ordinary" Czech families as an attraction for Japanese tourists. He also works as a kind of matchmaker and occasionally helps to put together some of his friends. He helps to separate his friend Hanka from Peter, an announcer for an independent radio station who tries to capture "real" life by recording the moments from "reality" and playing them over the air. Vesna, came to Prague from Macedonia because it is according to her the best place for UFOs to land, but her real reason for coming is somewhat different... Hanka is followed by the crazy Ondrej, until then a respected brain surgeon, and married with two kids. Through him she meets Jacob, who uses copious amounts of weed in order to be constructive in this gloomy world. On the other hand, this destroys his short-term memory - and he forgets that he already has a girlfriend. The disappointed Hanka runs to her parents, only to find some twenty-odd Japanese tourists watching her parents eat their dinner...

Up and Down

Up and Down

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-09-16

Languages:

Czech, English, German, Russian

Countries:

Czech Republic

Runtime:

108 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(1644 Reviews)

Director:

Jan Hrebejk

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Fullplot:

The discovery of an abandoned child by two smugglers kicks into a gear a series of tragic, comic events.

Strawberry Wine

Strawberry Wine

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-04-10

Languages:

Polish

Countries:

Poland, Slovakia

Runtime:

109 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (301 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Dariusz Jablonski

Andrzej Stasiuk (novel)

Andrzej Stasiuk

Fullplot:

This is not a love story though it is full of love. It is not a comedy though the characters often say funny things. It is not a detective story even though the hero is trying to solve a murder. It is not a nature drama though it shows the splendid colours and customs of the countryside. It is not a musical though Lubica expresses her longing in a passionate dance. Nor is it a film about ghosts though a ghost does ask the hero for a favour. A few draughts of Strawberry Wine are enough to take us into a magical world in the true centre of Europe, where love, crime and penitence are just as much a part of life as the changing of the seasons, the migration of birds or the flowing of a mountain stream.

Kooky

Kooky

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-05-20

Languages:

Czech

Countries:

Czech Republic

Runtime:

95 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (826 Reviews)

Director:

Jan Sverèk

Fullplot:

Young Ondra has asthma and so his mom throws away his favorite toy: a musty old stuffed bear named Kooky. That night Ondra dreams that Kooky is determined to find his way back home from the dump. In the boy's fantasy, the bear gets lost in a forest occupied by strange animals and remarkable beings that he never heard of while living on the toy shelf in Ondra's room. And of course even in this small imaginary world, true good exists as does real evil, which Kooky must face up to in order to become a real hero.

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