Jan Schmid
Popularity:0.1576
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1936-06-14
Place of Birth:Tábor, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
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Julek (1980)
The future communist journalist Julius Fučík had a stimulating childhood and youth in a working-class environment, when his moral maturity...

Fruit of Paradise (1970)
An experimental retelling of the story of Adam and Eve which then progresses into an allegorical depiction of the loss of innocence.

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.

Ztracený manžel a zastřelený výhybkář (1981)

Matěji, proč tě holky nechtějí? (1981)
Matěj Hůrka, a teenage bricklayer's apprentice, a young man who is delicate in matters of love, lives with his grandmother in a country cottage. He...

Schůzka se stíny (1983)
Two people scarred by a wartime past meet again years later during an archaeological dig. But the silent, inaccessible man in particular is reluctant...

Hearty Greetings from the Globe (1983)
Two aliens stir up trouble on Earth in order to study humans. Misunderstandings ensue.

Únos Moravanky (1983)
The popular Moravanka brass band performs at the fair. Vasek Pivoňka, the bandleader of the local brass band Kulatěnky, which broke up, decides to...

Evo, vdej se! (1984)
A bitterly funny look at the beginning of a young teacher's career, based on Halina Pawlowska's first screenplay, which she wrote while still a...

Bulldogs and Cherries (1981)
The dreaded Italian mafioso, Marian Labuda, will also be convinced. Mafioso Carmello was guilty of the principles of his organization when he tried...

Amerika (1994)
Vladimír Michálek chose an unconventional adaptation of Franz Kafka's novel for his feature debut. Artistically reminiscent of the...

The End of a Priest (1969)
A verger, who likes to dress as a priest, is invited, by one of the villagers, to be the pastor at a vacant church. The atheist teacher resents the...

The Great Movie Robbery (1987)
The film is essentially a feature-length commercial for an exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of the nationalisation of the Czechoslovak film...

A Girl Fit to Be Killed (1976)
The waitress Gita from the hotel "Bobí vrch" approaches her lover who has not left his wife yet and gives him an ultimatum: if he does not do...

The Hussites (2013)
What if the events in a key era in our history were actually completely different than what our history textbooks try to tell us? What if Master Jan...

Boomerang (1997)
The story, written by former George Stransky former political prisoners and today's chairman Pen Club is situated to 50 years and uranium camp of...

Day for My Love (1977)
The sore and tender hearts of a young couple with a toddler are explored in this drama. The little girl, four years old, is not aware that she is...

Nine Circles of Hell (1988)
As the Khmer Rouge carves a path of death throughout the land, a Czech doctor falls in love with a Cambodian woman. Their relationship, though sorely...

Prodavač humoru (1984)
The honest and a bit naive director of a variety agency, Jožin Petránek, sits on the qualification committee that judges entertainers and...

Všechno nebo nic (1985)
Approaches to important life values can vary: while the top athlete who has made it in cycling tries to monetise his talent, his brother cannot...

Carmen Not Only According to Bizet (1968)
This is funny or rather crazy adaptation of classical opera Carmen inspired by famous czech theatre Ypsilon play of the same name shot at various...

Requiem for a Maiden (1992)
A fourteen-year-old girl isplaced in an institution for mentally ill instead of a foster-home due to an official mistake. Here she gets a most cruel...

Švédská zápalka (1983)
The aging police commissioner, who has a twenty-five-year-old fiancée, Olga, is disturbed at his sixtieth birthday party by the news from the...

Prague – The Restless Heart of Europe (1985)
This distinctive documentary portrait of Prague extolls the beauty, significance and spirit of the ancient city adopting modern way of life. The form...

The Fortress (1994)
The evils of totalitarianism provide the central message of this Czech-French drama. The film is set in a quiet, rural village headed by a...

Ferat Vampire (1982)
A doctor is shocked when his beloved colleague Mima signs a contract with foreign car manufacturer Ferat, in order to work for them as a...

Blue Planet (1980)
A young engineer, Štěpán Pavlík, dreams of becoming a cosmonaut.

Eugene among Us (1990)
Young Eugene from the provinces travels to Prague in search of fame. Once there he gets an offer to write engagé lyrics for pop songs...

Chief, Come Back! (1984)
Criminal comedy, a second movie from the "Chief" series.

Můj hříšný muž (1987)
A Czech film about love and marital crisis as a work injury.

How Poets Are Enjoying Their Lives (1988)
Zatímco Kendy se jako pomocný režisér vrací do rodného města natáčet s televizním...

An Angel Seduces the Devil (1988)
Once again, you can take a look behind the scenes of the Riviera Chateau on the Prague periphery, where a brothel for the socialites is hidden under...

Lovec senzací (1989)
Journalist E. E. Kisch tells crime stories from old Prague, which he himself experienced in the years before World War I and recorded in his reports...

Tichý společník (1989)
A smaller town has its own newspaper. The editor, Stanek, works there and is concerned with status and a comfortable life. His teenage son has his...

The Gentle Barbarian (1990)
A commemorative and essayistic meditative piece on the Prague quarter Libeň during the 1950s.

Skřivánčí ticho (1990)
The hero of the story is a forty-something intellectual, a sensitive composer of classical music. His exclusive profession, his work, which is...

Ztracený manžel a zastřelený výhybkář (1981)
