Jan Werich
Popularity:1.532
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1905-02-06
Place of Birth:Praha - Československo
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Also Known As:Ян Верих
Assignment K (1968)
Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. Scott's cover is destroyed when enemy agents...
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962)
A 20th century man lands on the Moon and discovers that Baron Munchausen has beaten him to it, accompanied by Cyrano de Bergerac and the characters...
The Emperor and the Golem (1952)
The Emperor's mismanagement of his country is provoking some in his court to plot to overthrow him. He feels successful, at least, when he discovers...
Jan Werich's Fimfarum (2002)
feature-length animated band on the themes of Jan Werich's book. A funny and instructive narrative about fairy-tale and everyday things, about the...
Fimfarum 2 (2006)
In this antological film, four fairy tales from the book by Jan Werich, each one by a different director. Břetislav Pojar directs the story of...
Two Little Frosts (1955)
Two mischievous frost spirits make things chilly for a pair of travelers in this wintry comic folktale.
Once Upon a Time, There Was a King... (1955)
A selfish self-centered widowed ruler, barely tolerated by his subjects and called appropriately enough, 'King Myself, First' asks his three...
Fimfarum - To the good of all (2011)
The film contains three Jan Werich's fairy tales, each directed by one artist. The first story sets out to the Sumava mountains in Southern Bohemia...
The Creation of the World (1958)
La Création du Monde is among the first animated feature films made in France. But to be exact, the film was animated in Czechoslovakia and...
Your Money or Your Life (1932)
A czech film that focuses on an unfaithful husband who married in to money, as well as an impoverished man who is turns to theft.
The Fall of Berlin (1950)
Surrounded by a few party officials, Alexei Ivanov, a stakhanovist smelter, is decorated by Stalin. The "Little Father of the Peoples" takes this...
Heave-Ho! (1934)
A Milk-Cannery baron, Jakub Simonides, is broken by the Canned Milk-Trust and, in his wanderings with a worker, Filip Kornet, he discovers he still...
The World Belongs to Us (1937)
One of the few European films of the 30s to criticize the Nazis, even if they couldn't be directly named due to censorship: Gangsters with gray hats...
When the Cat Comes (1963)
While old Oliva tells a group of children about his life as a sailor and how he met Diana and her cat with sunglasses, a strange circus arrives in...
The Good Soldier Schweik (1956)
Adapting Jaroslav Hasek's raucous satirical novel, and also bringing Josef Lada's equally famous illustrations to garrulous puppet life, posed Trnka...
Crisis (1939)
A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War 2.
U nás v Kocourkově (1934)
Curious citizens await the arrival of an important guest, the son of poacher, who became famous abroad. Begins celebration in his honor, but nobody...
When the Oak Leaves Fall (1991)
The story is a celebration of the cleverness and wit of the simple peasant Čupera, who triumphs not only over the demon of alcohol, but also over...
The 25th Hour (1967)
A Romanian peasant fights to get back to his family after he's imprisoned by the Nazis.The picture is based on real events. It includes Hungary's...
The Cry (1964)
While a woman is in the hospital preparing to deliver her child, her husband has all day to reflect upon his wife and their relationship. As he tends...
Mean Barbara (1987)
When the village school master discovers the body of a mean-spirited, miserly old woman, with whom he has had a disagreement, he decides to dispose...
Pan Tau – der Film (1988)
Pan Tau, the friend of all children, now also helps the adults. A movie producer is in trouble and decides to shoot another Pan-Tau movie. But the...
The Golden Fish (1951)
A poor fisherman catches the golden fish that promises him to fulfil three wishes if he sets her free again. He does so and the fish fulfils two of...
Dog's Heads (1955)
Dog's Heads (Czech: Psohlavci) is a 1955 Czech drama film directed by Martin Frič, based on the novel of the same name by Alois Jirásek. It...
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkova budějovická anabase (1956)
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Z Hatvanu na hranice Haliče (1954)
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkovy nehody ve vlaku (1955)
Jaroslav Hasek's Exemplary Cinematograph (1956)
Pan Tau (1970)
Pan Tau always had a gentle expression and a friendly smile, he was elegantly dressed in a stroller, with an umbrella and a white carnation in the...