Movies: Karel Šilhánek

  • 1940
    Pelikán má alibi

    Pelikán má alibi (1940)

    Pelikán má alibi

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    While street photographers Máček and Kalabis are vainly offering their services to passersby, a pair of cronies rob a jewelry store almost right in front of their eyes. Kalabis accidentally manages to photograph one of the robbers. Coincidentally, th...

    Pelikán má alibi
  • 1935
    Klub tří

    Klub tří (1935)

    Klub tří

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    Klub tří
  • 1940
    Grandmother

    Grandmother (1940)

    Grandmother

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    A highly romanticized autobiographical novel by a Czech 19th century writer, Bozena Nemcova. It's a classical, compulsory reading in Czech schools, about a wise, working-class woman, happier in her simplicity and good heart than the nobles whom she s...

    Grandmother
  • 1941
    Jan Cimbura

    Jan Cimbura (1941)

    Jan Cimbura

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    Two good friends return from long-term military service: Jan Cimbura from Semic and Josef Piksa from Putim. Piksa farms on his own, Cimbura accepts service with the Hradiště farmer and mayor of Kovanda. The farmhand Cimbura is a real treasure for the...

    Jan Cimbura
  • 1941
    Preludium

    Preludium (1941)

    Preludium

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    Theater props maker Karel Vajgant has a young wife, Magda, and two children, seven-year-old Pavlík and eleven-year-old Pepička. Magda is a caring mother, but she feels that her husband prioritizes work and his comfort. In a weak moment, Magda becomes...

    Preludium
  • 1939
    Dobře situovaný pán

    Dobře situovaný pán (1939)

    Dobře situovaný pán

    71939HD

    Antique dealer Samek lives a bachelor life. He financially helps his housekeeper raise her daughter Mána, who is learning to be a hairdresser in the countryside. On the recommendation of matchmaker Mudra, Samek decides to get married. Mána returns to...

    Dobře situovaný pán
  • 1938
    Líza Soars to the Skies

    Líza Soars to the Skies (1938)

    Líza Soars to the Skies

    4.71938HD

    The orphan Eliška Irovská, nicknamed Líza, arrives in her native village of Ptačice. As an orphan she is housed in the local poorhouse and has to go out begging. Her guardian Petr Tumlíř, however, sees that she is competent enough to go to school....

    Líza Soars to the Skies
  • 1946
    Men Without Wings

    Men Without Wings (1946)

    Men Without Wings

    5.61946HD

    After an attack against the guard of the Third Reich, Nazi repression intensifies, and the Czechoslovakian resistance's organized sabotage in an aircraft factory leads to Gestapo shootings....

    Men Without Wings
  • 1936
    Páter Vojtěch

    Páter Vojtěch (1936)

    Páter Vojtěch

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    Páter Vojtěch
  • 1948
    Až se vrátíš...

    Až se vrátíš... (1948)

    Až se vrátíš...

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    In an unsightly tenement house, the walls of which are as peeling as the souls of the tenants, an old woman waits for her son to return from prison. However, her neighbors believe that she is hiding a large fortune in her tattered suitcase, which she...

    Až se vrátíš...
  • 1944
    The House of the Five Squirrels

    The House of the Five Squirrels (1944)

    The House of the Five Squirrels

    6.31944HD

    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 ruthlessly oppressed by his proud wife, Filoména, and secretly fixes her problems with the tenants. He lends re...

    The House of the Five Squirrels
  • 1948
    Wild Beasts

    Wild Beasts (1948)

    Wild Beasts

    71948HD

    Building a bridge is no simple matter. The city council has to decide between two competing proposals, one of which is submitted by villainous scoundrels and scoundrels who would like to enrich themselves everywhere. Although the film was made before...

    Wild Beasts
  • 1936
    Na tý louce zelený

    Na tý louce zelený (1936)

    Na tý louce zelený

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    Na tý louce zelený
  • 1934
    Diagnosa X

    Diagnosa X (1934)

    Diagnosa X

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    Diagnosa X
  • 1931
    The Last Bohemian

    The Last Bohemian (1931)

    The Last Bohemian

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    The Last Bohemian
  • 1939
    Její hřích

    Její hřích (1939)

    Její hřích

    41939HD

    Lola Holm, a medical student, is studying for her final exams. She rejects the courtship of psychiatrist Associate Professor Linn. Bank cashier Goll lives extravagantly and his salary is not enough for his excesses. He is in need and has mental probl...

    Její hřích
  • 1934
    The Heroic Captain Korkoran

    The Heroic Captain Korkoran (1934)

    The Heroic Captain Korkoran

    7.71934HD

    The captain of the Prague shipping company, Adam Korkorán, lives his dreams of commanding ocean liners, even though in reality he only sails a small steamer on the Vltava River. The company's management still has problems with him, so when Korkorán r...

    The Heroic Captain Korkoran
  • 1935
    Vdavky Nanynky Kulichovy

    Vdavky Nanynky Kulichovy (1935)

    Vdavky Nanynky Kulichovy

    71935HD

    The story of a janitor's daughter who married into a "better man". Obedient to her mother and eager to "rise up" herself, Nanynka did everything she could to avoid being left with a bucket and rags and to be able to move a few floors higher. But marr...

    Vdavky Nanynky Kulichovy
  • 1935
    Raging Barbora

    Raging Barbora (1935)

    Raging Barbora

    5.41935HD

    The determined Mrs. Barbora Čápová, the owner of a goose farm in Brousilov, is trying to get her daughter married. The advertisement receives a whole box of responses, so the caring mother has plenty to choose from. Pavel Stehlík appears to be the mo...

    Raging Barbora
  • 1937
    Hlídač č. 47

    Hlídač č. 47 (1937)

    Hlídač č. 47

    71937HD

    A young village shopkeeper, Ferda Zuska, wants to jump in front of a train because his girlfriend has married someone else. At the last moment, he is saved by the railway guard Douša and his wife Anna. Ferda soon forgets his sadness and starts courti...

    Hlídač č. 47