Bolek Polívka
Popularity:2.998
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1949-07-31
Place of Birth:Vizovice, Czech Republic
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Also Known As:Boleslav Polívka
Brother of Sleep (1995)
In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austrian mountains. While growing up he is considered...
Operation Dunaj (2009)
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...
The Inheritance or Fuckoffguysgoodday (1992)
Bohus is indolent and spends his days drinking brandy. One day he finds he has inherited a brickworks, several shops and a five-star hotel. Bohus...
Uprostřed babího léta ve stepi zahoukal vlak (1972)
Divided We Fall (2000)
In 1943, a childless couple, the Čížeks, decide to hide a Jewish refugee, David Wiener, the son of Čížek's former employer, in the...
Bathory: Countess of Blood (2008)
Bathory is based on the legends surrounding the life and deeds of Countess Elizabeth Bathory known as the greatest murderess in the history of...
Cosy Dens (1999)
Two families, Sebkovi and Krausovi, are celebrating Christmas, but not everyone is in a good mood. The teenage kids think that their fathers are...
Wild Flowers (2000)
Seven seemingly unconnected fairy tales - glued together only by folklore, mood, color and light - make up this Czech collection of visual poetry....
Pupendo (2003)
Artist Bedřich Mára (Bolek Polivka) is unable to find much secure work due to his public antagonism toward the ruling Communist Party. He has...
Accumulator 1 (1994)
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....
Calamity (1982)
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.
Expulsion from Paradise (2001)
Philosophical movie, staged at the least philosophical environment imaginable: A closed scenery of a nudist spot, where some hired Czech stuff is...
The Jester and the Queen (1988)
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...
I'm All Good (2008)
This Hrebejk’s comedy is set in Prague, four years after the democratic “Velvet revolution” of 1989. This was an era of sudden...
Forgotten Light (1996)
Father Holy, a village priest, battles against the state and religious bureaucracies of 1980s Czechoslovakia in his fight to raise money for a new...
Ballad for a Bandit (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...
Men in Hope (2011)
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...
Dry Season (2024)
Two neighboring clans and two different approaches to life. What happens when the strained relationship of two domineering fathers interferes with...
The Magical Duvet (2011)
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,...
Král Ubu (1996)
A cruel picture of the ways in which human beings acquire power and then cling to it. The story of Father Ubu, an idiot who climbs over the bodies of...
Pražákům, těm je hej (1991)
The story begins in 1984 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, few years before the end of Communist era. The band Pražský výběr (Prague's...
Bolero (2004)
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...
The Gnome (2005)
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...
Signál (2012)
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...
Z města cesta (2002)
A poetic documentary about different sides of nature and city life.
About a Hungry Babe (1990)
A grotesque and self-ironic reflection on the last things, and how you have to work for yourself.
The Gentle Barbarian (1990)
A commemorative and essayistic meditative piece on the Prague quarter Libeň during the 1950s.
To the Woods (2012)
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...
Réveillon (2023)
The Varchals try to celebrate the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, but their father suffers a heart-attack after damning evidence is revealed that he...
Three Brothers (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,...
Jarmila Šuláková – královna lidové písně (2023)
The Inheritance or You Shouldn't Say That (2014)
The aging Bohus buries his wife Vlastička and after seven years of abstinence starts drinking again.
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...
Sitting on a Branch, Enjoying Myself (1989)
Pepe and Prengel, returning from war, meet Ester and both fall in love with the girl and live together in a deserted house. Fanatic communist,...
Husband to Rent (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...
Angels of Everyday (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;...
Home Care (2015)
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...
Crazy Kingdom (2016)
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...
The Secret of Karma (2020)
The story of a man who sees his past lives from before he was born after being declared dead for the second time.
Through This Night (2005)
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...
Angel 2 (2016)
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...
Green Horse Rustlers (2016)
An unemployed farmer convinces a geologist friend to quit his university job to seek fortune illegally mining moldavite.
Freckled Max and the Spooks (1987)
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...
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...
Manžel na hodinu (2016)
Milan's relationship with Dr. Eliška is developing promisingly, and when Milan finally decides to propose to her, it seems that nothing stands...
Little Feather (2016)
Martina is 18, loves dancing and goes by a nick name Shakira. Also, today she is leaving an orphanage...
Tátova volha (2018)
Unexpectedly widowed costume designer Eva discovers a child's drawing that sends her and her daughter on a road trip to uncover a family secret.
Out of the City (2000)
A computer programmer and his son are going out of the city for vacation.
Something Like Happiness (2005)
Over the course of a year, in a small town scarred and beaten down by industrialization, Tonda and Monika, friends since childhood, come to...
Women on the Run (2019)
Vera has lived a wonderful life with Jindrich, and she is fully determined to fulfill his last wish - running a marathon. The emancipated and...
Batastories (2019)
Peter Kerekes’ documentary focuses on the Bata shoe empire and the quest to find the next generation of shoe makers
The Greatest Gift (2022)
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?...
Silent Companion (2021)
To recharge after a divorce, a woman returns to her home village, which faces a bizarre problem. The cemetery has run out of room.
Way Home (2021)
With his father's memory waning, a struggling forester must confront the troubling reality about his livelihood and his family's future.
Gump (2021)
A story told through the eyes of a stray dog called Gump . On a journey to find his way home to his owner, Gump encounters many challenges, meets new...
Time of the Servants (1989)
Dana is young medical student with no self esteem, she can't deal with life, people and even not with herself. After her boyfriend leaves her, she...
The Elementary School (1991)
The time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside Prague. In school, their class is so wild and indisciplined...
To Make a Comedy Is No Fun (2016)
Documentary feature about Czech director Jiří Menzel, featuring Menzel himself as well as Miloš Forman, Emir Kusturica, István...
Word (2022)
Beata Parkanová, the filmmaker behind Moments, returns to Karlovy Vary with an exceptionally vivid portrait of the family of notary...
Srdce na dlani (2022)
Josef is looking forward to finally fulfilling his old dream of becoming a street clown after retirement. With his charm, he charms even the vigorous...
The Inheritance or Fuckoffguysgoodday (1992)
The Inheritance or Fuckoffguysgoodday (1992)
The Inheritance or You Shouldn't Say That (2014)
Frankenstein's Aunt (1987)
Frankenstein's Aunt is the protagonist of three novels - two by Allan Rune Pettersson and a seven-episode TV miniseries based on the first one. The...
She Came Out of the Blue Sky (1979)
Spadla z oblakov is a Slovak language sci-fi TV series for children created in year 1978. The series became very popular in Czechoslovakia and...