Jan Pohan
Popularity:0.7564
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1930-12-07
Place of Birth:Drahovice, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic
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Also Known As:Ян Поган, Josef Pohan

Slingboy (1960)
A young Czech boy is freed from a concentration camp and now is working for the army against the Germans.

Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977)
Former Nazi Klaus Abard survives to the 1990s by taking anti-ageing pills. He plans to use a time travel trip to return to Germany in 1944 and...

Under the Badgers Rock (1978)
The gamekeeper Straka lives by himself in the Bohemian forest hill. He has quarreled with his only son. He cannot come to terms with the fact that...

Marketa Lazarová (1967)
Mikolás and his brother Adam end up with a young German hostage of noble blood during a robbery. While their clan prepares for the wrath of...

The Secret of Steel City (1979)
The film is a metaphor for the Cold War. It depicts two neighbouring nations: peace loving Fortuna and the not so peaceful land of the Steel City.

The Day the Tree Blooms (1961)
Based on a novel by Maria Majerova, this well-photographed but routine romantic drama is directed and co-scripted by Vaclav Krska. Set in a more...

On the Poachers Trail (1979)
Second part of the trilogy. Vasek is expected to go to Bulgaria for a holiday with his parents during the summer vacation, but the boy finds the...

The Medal (1980)
The trenches of World War I provide for a captivating backdrop to the drama of Corporal Hoferik. In his devotion to the Habsburg Monarchy, he...

Man Overboard (1981)
Ten-year-old David joins a sailing club. He trains hard and helps repair the sailing boats, but people have to take turns actually sailing. The club...

Who's That Soldier? (1988)
In the Czech film comedy from 1988, you can see for yourself that the war was not easy, but otherwise it was great fun. Sergeant Kouba serving with...

Skid (1960)
Spy film about a man with a face lift who gets recruited by western organisations.

Dark Sun (1980)
A remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit.

Behind the Sloe-Bush (1981)
Third part of the trilogy. Vaska again is visiting his grandfather living in Bohemian Forest and understands the importance of guarding nature.

The Little Mermaid (1976)
The little mermaid rescues a prince from drowning and falls in love with him. To be with him, she makes a deal with the evil sorceress: her beautiful...

Joseph Kilian (1964)
The story is about Harold, an isolated figure in an overwhelming world of totalitarian bureaucracy. Harold tries to find the elusive Joseph Kilian,...

Fear (1964)
A car deliberately runs down a young man on a road by a small border town. The locals recognize the dead man as one of the students who were there on...

Sny o Zambezi (1982)
Drama directed by Stanislav Strnad.

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

Lemonade Joe (1964)
A satire of the Great American Way, with Lemonade Joe a "clean living" gunfighter who drinks only Kola-Loca Lemonade and convinces everyone else in...

A Leap In The Dark (1964)
Spring 1943: A three-member group of resistance fighters flies from a Soviet military airport into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to...

Adventures with a Naked Boy (1965)
A man boards on a tram together with a naked boy. Somebody has stolen the boy's clothes when he was out bathing, leaving him with not even change for...

Crime at the Girls School (1966)
Three short story omnibus. The main hero and connecting link is Lieutenant Boruvka, created by Lubomír Lipsky. He deals with the murder case...

If a Thousand Clarinets (1965)
A military base. An awkward soldier. A statue of Bach. And suddenly all guns in the area change into music instruments. Great mystery is immediately...

Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (1966)
In this zany Czechoslovakian comedy, a scientist invents a machine that projects a sleeping person's dream on a screen; disaster soon follows when...

People From Caravans (1966)
Story about the people around the circus and the unfortunate love of a young man an acrobat. Before the dispute escalates so much that, according to...

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...

Lokis (1986)
After arriving at the mysterious castle, the university professor begins to encounter a sequence of mysterious events, to which he reacts with his...

The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz (1967)
TV adaptation of Jules Verne's posthumously published novel.

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...

Honor and Glory (1969)
This historical film by Hynek Bočan touches upon the indecisiveness of the Czech nation, ready to bend the backbone in face of foreign rule....

Slasti Otce vlasti (1969)
The young Prince Charles (Jaromír Hanzlík), the future King of his country Charles IV, is being educated at the French court in the...

Witchhammer (1970)
In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imaginary witchery, and engages in brutal...

I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen (1970)
This futuristic science fiction comedy features an atomic bomb blast that causes women to grow beards and lose the ability to have children. A summit...

Jakou barvu má láska (1974)
Cyril Dadák (Václav Postránecký), a TV reporter falls in love at first sight with a young engineer Milena (Jaroslava...

Dobré světlo (1986)
Drama directed by Karel Kachyna.

Sokolovo (1975)
The plot begins in the Soviet Union showing first efforts to establish the Czechoslovak legion in 1942. The film also shows the assassination of...

Televize v Bublicích aneb Bublice v televizi (1974)

The Day That Shook the World (1975)
An historical depiction of the events preceding the political murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, would-be emperor of the Austro-Hungarian throne, in...

The Liberation of Prague (1977)
On 20th of April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germany and Hitler decides to commit suicide. In...

The Case of Dead Schoolmates (1977)
A West German businessman Friedrich Schmidt is arriving to Czechoslovakia with private mission and mission for Intelligence service. He wants to...

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...

Amadeus (1984)
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young...

Naked Among Wolves (1963)
Based on a true story of inmates at KZ Buchenwald that risked their lives to hide a small Jewish boy shortly before the liberation of the camp.

The Bear and the Ghosts (1959)
Princess Blanka (Aglaia Morávková) is secretly meeting her beloved, huntsman Ondrej (Jirí Papez). Only the chamber-maid Anezka...

The Fate of Baron Leisenbohg (1991)
The 35-year-old ministry official Baron Leisenbohg had the stage career ten years ago as the cast of the "Queen of the Night", opera that promoted...

Night of Orange Fires (1975)
Petr Rynes (Svatopluk Matyás) is celebrating his forty-fifth birthday in the company of his friends. He is happy with his wife, and his...

Diagnóza smrti (1979)
Two seriously injured patients are brought to the hospital at almost the same time: truck driver Honza Linhart, who had an accident, and a young...

Black Wolf (1972)
In the thick woods at the edge of the Bohemian Forest, two border guards are keeping watch - rifleman Kucera (Rudolf Jelínek) and dog handler...

Hroch (1973)
The bank officer Bedrich Hroch is sent by the bank director to the zoo, which asked an allocation of one and half kg of gold for a gold tooth for a...

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...

A Star Named Wormwood (1965)
At the end of May 1918, released prisoners return to the Rumburk garrison from Russian captivity, hoping that the war is over for them. The only...

Maratón (1968)
It is 5 May 1945 and the uprising against the hated German occupiers has broken out in Prague. The Czech guards open the gate of the Pankrác...

Under the Earth (1987)
When the Germans invade Poland during World War II, a family of Jews seeks refuge in a well. Based on real events, the three survivors moved to...

Boty plné vody (1976)
Three short stories ("Zelenáči 1945", "Silvestr 1948" and "Zimní vítr 1951") about members of the SNB units guarding the...

Secret of the Chinese Carnation (1964)
Professor Wilkens has invented a formula for a new type of fuel and puts it on a microfiche that he sends to his daughter and her bodyguard, but ...

Narozeniny režiséra Z. K. (1988)
A directors autobiography about his debut during the rise of socialism.

All My Loved Ones (1999)
Told from the perspective of man reflecting on his childhood in Prague in the early years of World War II and the eventual destruction of his family...

Strange Creatures (1990)
A parable for the end of totalitarianism. Three protagonists - a high official, a secretary, and a border guard - representative of three...

On the Road to Atlantis (1982)
Unterwegs nach Atlantis is an Austrian-German-Swiss-Czechoslovakian science fiction television series from 1981.

Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus (1975)
The boy Simplizissimus grows up with simple farmers in the Spessart region. But the idyll is abruptly destroyed by the Thirty Years' War....

Sňatky z rozumu (1968)
Sňatky z rozumu was a Czechoslovak television programme which was first broadcast in 1968. The programme was directed by František Filip.

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...

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...

Chalupáři (1975)
Chalupáři is a Czechoslovak comedy TV series filmed in 1974 and 1975 by František Filip.

Sanitka (1984)
Sanitka was a Czech television, drama series, first broadcast in 1984 and eleven episodes were made. It starred Jaromír Hanzlík,...