4 Movies Starring Pavel Liska

The Idiot Returns

The Idiot Returns

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-02-25

Languages:

Czech

Countries:

Czech Republic, Germany

Runtime:

99 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (758 Reviews)

Director:

Sasa Gedeon

Cast:

Writer:

Fyodor Dostoevsky (novel)

Sasa Gedeon

Fullplot:

Frantisek, the main character is returning to his family. Until now he's been, "successfully" avoiding all relationships. He is an ingenuous and a pure person and thus, is regarded as an idiot. He becomes involved in various love and family conflicts. It is because he hasn't experienced much of the "real" life that he is able to perceive human relationships in their genuineness.

Something Like Happiness

Something Like Happiness

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-09-15

Languages:

Czech

Countries:

Czech Republic, Germany

Runtime:

102 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (1260 Reviews)

Director:

Bohdan Slèma

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Three young adults in Most sort out feelings and responsibilities: Monika's boyfriend has left for the States, her mother wants her to join him there, and if the invitation does come, what should she do? Tonèk is a nice guy, his love for Moni is unrequited. He's trying to rebuild his family's crumbling house; a nearby factory has made an offer to buy the land. With Moni, he watches out for the two young sons of Dasha, their friend who's in a hopeless long-term affair with a married man: Dasha is at once unstable, unrealistic, neglectful of her boys, and cruel to those who help. For whom is this something like happiness?

Lunacy

Lunacy

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-11-17

Languages:

Czech

Countries:

Czech Republic, Slovakia

Runtime:

118 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (2569 Reviews)

Director:

Jan Svankmajer

Genres:

DramaHorror

Cast:

Writer:

Edgar Allan Poe (story)

Marquis de Sade (story)

Jan Svankmajer

Fullplot:

A horror movie testing two approaches to running an insane asylum - absolute freedom versus control and punishment - within the context of a world that combines the worst of both. Jean Berlot, a young man subject to a nightmare of being forced into a straitjacket by two orderlies, is befriended by a marquis. At the marquis's estate, Jean witnesses a black Mass, buries someone alive, and is invited to try preventive therapy. He's willing to enter a sanatorium because he believes he can rescue a young woman from there who has told him that the real director and staff of the clinic are locked in the basement. Jean conspires with her to set them free: the horrors have only begun.

The Country Teacher

The Country Teacher

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-03-27

Languages:

Czech

Countries:

Czech Republic, France, Germany

Runtime:

103 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

(1079 Reviews)

Director:

Bohdan Slèma

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Petr, youthful, quiet, and sensitive, comes from Prague to teach natural science in a country town. The gruff principal asks what he's running from and predicts he'll be gone in six months. Marie, a widow with a teen son, Lada, befriends Petr. She's lonely. Petr does some chores at her farm and watches Lada with his weekend girlfriend, Bara. We meet Petr's parents and understand some of why he left Prague, then Petr's friend Mihi pays a visit and we understand more. Mihi throws a wrench in things, and Lada comes to Petr for help. Has Petr found his place in the world, but what about his nature?

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