Jaroslav Průcha
Popularity:0.073
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1898-04-24
Place of Birth:Skvrnany, Plzen, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
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Also Known As:Ярослав Пруха

Journey Into the Depth of the Student's Soul (1939)
Small stories from a grammar school.Děj je poskládán z celé řady epizod, které během jednoho školního...

Tvrdohlavá žena a zamilovaný školní mládenec (1962)

The White Disease (1937)
In a country whose people have just been successfully persuaded of their superiority and the justification for military expansion by the fiery...

Silent Barricade (1949)
A fiction piece centered around the Czech resistance to the Nazis.

Virginity (1937)
The doomed love of a city girl caught in the vise of poverty is detailed in Vavra’s fluid, romantic work, one of the most elegant creations of...

May Fairy Tale (1940)
Ríša, a student of law, neglects his studies in favour of parties and pranks. His angry father refuses to continue helping him out of...

Wolf Trap (1958)
The title of this highly-regarded Czech drama translates as Wolf Trap. Set in the 1920s, the story revolves around an ambitious young provincial...

Grandmother (1940)
"Grandmother" is a highly romanticized autobiographical novel by a Czech 19th century writer, Bozena Nemcova. It's a classical, compulsory reading in...

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...

The Guild of the Kutná Hora Virgins (1938)
A morally questionable lord comes to the aid of a working class man who is to be executed for speaking out about thieving rich scoundrels sticking it...

The House of the Five Squirrels (1944)
Josef Houbička, the owner of the U pěti veverek apartment building in Malostran, is a kind and forgiving good man who allows himself to be...

Capek's Tales (1947)
Five crime stories connected by the narration of police superintendent Bartosek.

School Is the Foundation of Life (1938)
Seventh form pupils at a grammar school in Přívlaky are preparing for a secondary school sports competition. Class creep Krhounek gives the...

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...

The Magic House (1939)
When Vilem appears in the road with an unconscious young woman, it disturbs the peaceful life of three generations of the Balvínova family.

Man from the Unknown (1939)
Venice Film Festival 1940

Battalion (1937)
Attorney František Uher is known for his patriotic mindset and active assistance in disputes between the Czechs and the Austrian justice...

Mist on the Moors (1944)
Mist on the Moors examines fates of just about a few people. Their stories are outlined in a short space of time and are a symbolic representation of...

The Avalanche (1946)
An ambitious and selfish lawyer confesses to the murder of his first wife. Some of the scenes were filmed in the last weeks of the war.

Karel Hynek Mácha (1937)
Film about famous poet Karel Hynek Mácha

The Good Soldier Schweik (1930)
Joint montage of the first three silent films about Švejk: Good Soldier Švejk (1926, director: Karel Lamač), Švejk on the Front...

Nástup (1953)
"The Rally" is based on a communist writer Vaclav Řezáč's well-written novel of the same name

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.

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...

Here in Kocourkov (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...

History of Philosophy (1937)
A student rebellion precedes revolutionary events in Prague.

Návrat presidenta dr. Edvarda Beneše do Prahy 16. května 1945 (1945)

Krakatit (1948)
In early 20th century Czechoslovakia, a gravely ill chemist recalls his discovery of a powerful explosive and how it landed in the hands of...