Josef Chvalina
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1920-04-30
Place of Birth:Prague, Czechoslovakia
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Also Known As:Йозеф Хвалина

A Story of Love and Honor (1978)
A story of love and honor that takes place during the mid-nineteenth century during revolutions, as well as economic, political, and social...

Six Black Girls (1969)
Detective Lieutenant Boruvka (Lubomír Lipský) is called to the State Scientific Library to investigate the loss of a precious...

Paní Marjánka, matka pluku aneb Ženské srdce (1980)

Romaneto (1981)
A frightening atmosphere, full of chilling dampness and darkness, follows the fate of a desperate searcher who tries in vain to unravel the supposed...

Malý Bobeš ve městě (1962)
A loose sequel to the film Little Bobes, it catches up with the title child hero in the town where he and his parents have moved. However, the...

Fortress on the Rhine (1962)
During the Second World War, an old fortress is transformed into a detention camp for arrested allied generals who the Germans provide with every...

Zelená vlna (1982)
A short film about Prague, Prague residents, and the beginning of the weekend.

Preclík (1964)
A satire about trying to please "those at the top".

Poklad byzantského kupce (1967)
A detective story revolving around an ancient treasure from the ninth century, believed to have been destroyed during World War II, takes place in an...

A Killer on the Tracks (1970)
An escort composed of three people transports a huge amount of new one-hundred crown banknotes in a special railway car. At the 196th kilometer, a...

A Man Who Rose in Price (1968)
Mr. Benda, a married father of two children, works for a company that liquidates old banknotes. After one drunken party, he is visited by a painter...

„Rakev ve snu viděti...“ (1968)
The Ronov castle has been changed into a hotel, offering stylish facilities to its guests: weddings in the torture chamber, a Black Lancer kidnapping...

Učitel a přítel zůstal veřejnosti neznám (1969)

Objížďka (1968)
The inhabitants of a picturesque village proud of its ancient linden tree will be disturbed by a disturbing event - a temporary road diversion is...

Devilish Honeymoon (1970)
Black comedy about a genius inventor and two young, smart and beautiful women. Both of them putting all their effort into getting the one man. This...

The Great Unknown (1970)
Three detective stories, three different views of life and death... Collection of three horror short stories.

Lekce (1972)
During World War II, a German university professor creates a spy ring that supplies the Allies with information about Nazi plans...

Svatba bez prstýnku (1972)
At the end of the occupation, Vojta, a young worker, marries the daughter of a rich builder to protect her from being deployed to the German Reich....

Svědectví mrtvých očí (1971)
When former criminal Gaudl discovers the strange behaviour of his son-in-law Professor Horacek, he becomes worried about his daughter Hedwig and...

Nobody Will Laugh (1966)
A successful art historian who has trouble telling people difficult truths, finds himself in an inescapable situation when a small lie quickly gets...

Affairs of my Wife (1973)
Doctor Adéla Neradová, a medical doctor, has succumbed to the desire to uncover a criminal and become a kind of Sherlock Holmes in...

Návraty (1972)
A psychological film about the sense of self-fulfillment of a divorced couple over 30 who feel that life is slipping through their fingers. While...

Kronika žhavého léta (1973)
A broadly drawn ideological epic set in the summer of 1947 in the borderlands of northern Bohemia: reactionary elements plot to undermine postwar...

Action B (1952)
Film shows the struggle of the Czechoslovak armed forces against groups of Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) under command Burlak, who tried to pass...

Akce v Istanbulu (1975)
A communist agent, who has successfully caught on with the stupidly gullible American secret services, does not have it easy - he is threatened with...

Daisies for the Lady of the Manor (1981)
Fifteen-year-old Kateřina will once again spend the holidays at the Castle Krabonoš, where her parents are both wardens. She finds it dull...

Čas lásky a naděje (1976)
A colour-printed melodramatic selanca from the beginnings of the organised labour movement in Bohemia... Antonín Zápotocký, the...

Putování Jana Amose (1983)
The distressing fate of the Czech great Jan Amos Komenský, forced to leave his homeland after the White Mountain disaster. It depicts his...

Windstorm (1967)
A worker steals bits and pieces of building materials from work to construct a new home for himself and his girlfriend. When he discovers that...

The Trap (1951)
The course of an organized strike by workers from North Moravian steelworks in 1931 to resist mass layoffs during the economic crisis.

Vysoká modrá zeď (1974)
Even in the 1970s, films were made in this country that emphasized not only the necessity to defend the impermeability of the Western borders by all...

Distant Journey (1949)
Prague, during World War II. Hana Kaufmann, a Jewish ophthalmologist, marries Dr. Antonín Bureš, a Christian man. When her family is...

Mlha (1966)
The work of actors on a stage makes a dreamlike parallelism between artistic immagination and the concreteness of everyday life. Tribute to Prague's...

Plavecký mariáš (1953)
In the past, most of the wood from the mountain forests was transported to the sawmills by river. The rafters were gradually replaced by trucks and...

Hostinec „U kamenného stolu“ (1949)
An innkeeper is grieving because his wife left him for a second-rate actor. His two nephews, who are not on speaking terms, have to take over the...

Sign of the Cancer (1967)
When Dr. Hahn is found murdered in the hospital’s inspection room, investigators question several suspects: his colleague and longtime lover...

The Secret of a Great Narrator (1972)
The life of the famous French writer Alexander Dumas the Elder. Screenwriter Jaroslav Dietl did not hide his admiration for this literary giant, and...

We Study After School (1940)
The heroes of the Czech film comedy are the students of the Business Academy, who sleep in the school desks under the avalanche of a large amount of...

Hry lásky šálivé (1971)
Two historical stories about love. In the story "The Arabian Horse", the scheming townsman Messer Francesco Vergellesi is so firmly convinced of his...

The Green Notebook (1949)
Businessman Karel Bočan is a swindler who writes down the debts of his victims in a green notebook. He is stopped by an observant boy who reveals...

It was in May (1951)
Worker Šebesta does not rejoice with the others in the May Day parade, as his boots are weighing him down. The following working day does not...

Veliká příležitost (1950)
An optimistic collective drama from the life of the workers on the construction site of the Youth Track. An amnestied prisoner wants to atone for his...

The Key (1971)
Jan Zika is the legendary hero of the communist resistance movement during World War II and leading functionary of the second underground Central...

Žízeň (1950)
The catastrophically dry weather of 1947 causes immense problems in the countryside. In the small village Klícov, only farmers Hánek...

Dva ohně (1950)
A socialist drama from the time of the February coup. The owner of the brickyard will use several workers before February in order to subvert worker...

Vstanou noví bojovníci (1951)
The leader of the emerging organized labor movement in the 1880s, Ladislav Zápotocký-Budečský, is exiled to his native village,...

Anna the Proletarian (1953)
The movie describes proletarian life in the Czech Lands after World War I.

V trestném území (1951)
A detective drama set just before the unification of our physical education system. Criminal investigators investigate the murder of a football club...

Shoesmachine (1954)
The happenings in a shoe factory serve as a not very thinly veiled examination of the pros and cons of both socialism and democracy.

The Windy Mountain (1956)
A group of temporary workers arrive at the Czech-German border to conduct geological exploration. However, not all people have pure intentions and a...

Zaostřit prosím! (1956)
A Czech satirical comedy, filmed according to a script by the State Prize laureate Jiří Marek based on several of his satirical short...

Přehlídce velím já! (1969)
A cunning plan to deprive an "illegal millionaire" of his ill-gotten wealth. But the catch is that someone else has an even more subtle plan...

Nikola Shuhai (1947)
At the end of the First World War, Nikola Shuhai and his friend from the army desert. On the way home, to the village of Kolochava, they both find...

Konec strašidel (1953)
The story of a group of little boys from a border town in Western Bohemia who help catch marauders.

Výstraha (1954)
In the last days of the war, American planes bomb a synthetic gasoline plant in the Sudetenland. The workers are then faced with the enormous task of...

Nechte to na mně (1955)
A hardworking employee at a printing plant takes on all sorts of roles until he nearly collapses under their weight. He learns that those who try to...

The Last of the Mohicans (1947)
Antique dealer Kohout is not a bad person. However, he has an ideal: to be the unlimited master at home. Therefore, he does not see his wife's...

Bláhový sen (1943)
Hairdresser Žofka Stárková desires fame perhaps more than other girls. The petty plans of her fiancé František do not...

A Dead Man among the Living (1947)
Human bravery can take many forms, just as ideas about it can. Small-town public opinion begins to despise a postal clerk because he gave cash to...

Premiera (1947)
A short grotesque by Josef Váchala (it had 4 screenwriters), which had the working title "The World in Reverse". Film amateur František...

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

Případ Z-8 (1949)
The workers at the ironworks are working to fulfill a two-year plan. The spy group takes advantage of the bitterness of a disrespected innovator and...

Mordová rokle (1952)
A new owner of the estate, Konrád Ritter von Schiess, arrives in the Czech village of Sluky. On his orders, the inhabitants of the village are...

Na konci města (1955)
Captain Jirák of the SNB is searching for the perpetrator of the murder of the former owner of an apartment building on the outskirts of town,...

New Czechoslovakia (1950)
Documentary about life in post-war socialist Czechoslovakia

Tchyně (1963)
This satirical micro-comedy condemns the petty bourgeois mentality, especially bragging. The ridiculous protagonists are two elderly neighbours who...

Okres na severu (1981)
Okres na severu is a Czechoslovak/Czech TV series filmed by Evžen Sokolovský in 1981.

Thirty Cases of Major Zema (1976)
Thirty Cases of Major Zeman is a Czechoslovak action-drama television show intended as a political propaganda to support the official attitude of the...

Muž na radnici (1976)
Muž na radnici was a Czechoslovak television program which was broadcast in 1976. The program was directed by Evžen Sokolovský. In 2011, it...