Josef Somr
Popularity:0.143
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1934-04-15
Place of Birth:Vracov, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
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Also Known As:J. Somr

Closely Watched Trains (1966)
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity....

Brontosaurus (1980)
Tomás lives in a very small Czech town and is a nature lover and a birdwatcher. He struggles to keep the forests he loves clean and constantly...

The Snowdrop Festival (1984)
This movie is based on texts of Bohumil Hrabal, world-known Czech prosaic. It's a story (in a form of a mosaic of short episodes and pictures) about...

The Three Veterans (1984)
It is a story of three veterans released from the army. During one night spent camping in the country they one by one wake up and meet three elvish...

Dva muži hlásí příchod (1975)
An only son, Jirí Valenta (Jaromír Hanzlík), has been drafted to the army. At the barracks he acquires the nickname Seamstress...

Angel (2005)
An angel who ruins everything he touches is sent to Earth to learn about love, forgiveness and selflessness -- and he has just one day to do it.

Of Parents and Children (2008)
On a walk through Prague, a 40-year-old son's conversations with his septuagenarian father reveal complexities that both strain and sustain their...

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

A Nice Plate of Spinach (1977)
The heroes of this absurd comedy, full of confusion and humor are Dzharda Zemanek and Frantisek Liska.

I'm All Good (2008)
This Hrebejk’s comedy is set in Prague, four years after the democratic “Velvet revolution” of 1989. This was an era of sudden...

Morgiana (1972)
Jealous of her vapidly "good" sister's popularity, poisonous Viktoria doses pretty Klara's tea with a slow-acting fatal substance. As the latter...

Něco je ve vzduchu (1981)
The urn supposedly containing the remains of Alice's grandfather falls out of the window and breaks. To Alice's great surprise, the urn is empty and...

How Poets Are Losing Their Illusions (1985)
A story about a young medical school student and his adventures.

How the World Is Losing Poets (1982)
Inseparable friends Štěpán and Kendy are students in their final year of high school. When they are in the principal's office after...

The Poets Never Lose Hope (2004)
After his mother's death, a man tries to sort out his declining relationship, live-in best friend, a career opportunity and a potential new romance.

The Devil Knows Why (2003)
A good king rules this land, but still things are going from bad to worse. The point is that the greedy Minister of State has an interesting pact...

The Joke (1969)
In the 1950s, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he...

The Last One Will Go to Hell (1982)
A historical film that takes place on the eve of the thirty year war combines aspects of fairy-tales with historical dramas, fencing with a child...

Oldies but Goldies (2012)
A bitter-sweet comedy about two people who wish to live life to the full despite their age. Ota is a retired high-school teacher and at this point in...

Attention, Rounds! (1982)
A story about an everyday life of an inflectional department of Prague hospital.

Kinoautomat (1971)
Kinoautomat was the world's first interactive movie, conceived by Radúz Činčera for the Czechoslovak Pavilion at Expo '67 in Montreal. At...

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...

Prague Nights (1969)
A stuffy middle-aged foreigner, a businessman named Fabricius, lonely and looking for a night's diversion, finds it in the form of a mysterious...

Adelheid (1970)
In the aftermath of World War II, a soldier takes charge of a manor formerly owned by a German family and falls in love with the daughter, now a...

Fools and a Girl (1988)
A coming of age drama about a young boy Jirka who lives in Prague.

Waiting for the Rain (1978)
It’s a hot holiday season in the city and Alena is pretty much left to her own little self, fantasizing and running her personal daily rituals,...

Granny (1971)
A tale based on novel by Czech writer Bozena Nemcova.

Halt, Or I'll Miss! (1998)
It is April 1945, spring begins and ends the war. German transport heading away from Bohemia.

Oil Lamps (1971)
In 1900, Stepha, the vivacious 30 year old daughter of a wealthy couple, agrees to marry her cousin Paul, who has accumulated large debts as an...

Touha Sherlocka Holmese (1972)
Sherlock Holmes likes to play violin and expects a great career in music. He gets a place in a spa orchestra, but he is again and again distracted by...

A Star Is Falling Upwards (1975)
Švand, a room painter from Strakonice, begins a dizzying career as a pop music star, but he soon discovers that fame is not the most important...

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

Days of Betrayal (1973)
This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot),...

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...

Love Your Enemies (2005)
The story of a Swiss woman and a Czech man, who changed hundreds of lives.

Smoke on the Potato Fields (1977)
In this character study by Czech director Frantisek Vlacil, a stout middle-aged physician whose marriage has come apart establishes a practice in a...

The Valley of the Bees (1968)
Cast out by his father, young Ondrej joins the Order of the Teutonic Knights, where he is raised by strict monk Armin. After years of hardship,...

Boys Will Be Boys (1976)
Three friends - Tomás, Hubert and Jozka - are boys growing up in a little town. Tomás lives with his aunt Apolena and uncle...

Half a House Without a Groom (1981)
The Francs with their daughters Olina and Jirina are building a villa in the village of Rezkovice. Father Franc (Vladimír Mensík)...

Murder in the Excelsior Hotel (1971)
In Vražda v hotelu Excelsior, the interwar period homicide detective squad from Prague investigates the murder of a wealthy woman, Mrs...

Miss Golem (1973)
It is the 1920's. The good-looking hostess Věra demonstrates household robots to visitors of the Futurum exhibition. Young inventor Petr comes to...

Max, Sally and the Magic Phone (2001)
Max and Sally, the heroes of popular Czech animated series are leaving the TV in order to become a regular boy and girl.

Ghosts of the Dormers (1988)
A tale about a young girl whose grandfather has built a garden of horrors.

The End of Old Times (1989)
Czechoslovakia 1918. The newly formed National Assembly has made Stoklasa the administrator of the Kratochvile Castle. Although with no aristocratic...

Summer with a Cowboy (1976)
Hlavními postavami je mladá psycholožka Doubravka a vesnický mladík Honza Macháček. On je traktorista,...

Monkey's Playtime (1978)
The fisherman Fuksa fishes in the creek an old bottle and he sells it to innkeeper Merta. When Merta opens it, a genie appears, who can fulfill all...

Evropa tančila valčík (1989)
Otakar Vávra dedicated his latest film to events accompanying the devastation of the first World War. It takes place in representative centers...

Indians from Vetrov (1979)
In the frontier village Vetrov boys from the children's home called Indians lead a bitter "war" with the local Símáks. Before a battle...

Private Torment (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...

One of Them Is the Murderer (1971)
Marek (Jirí Holý), formerly a driver of a long-distance lorry, has served his term for smuggling art works abroad and is released from...

Hubert the Smart Boy (1985)
Hubert Hrabe, known as Smart Boy, is a Prague dandy who is always skirting the edge of the law. Like every likable rogue, he has a worthy adversary -...

Funeral Ceremony (1969)
Matylda (Jaroslava Ticha), who lives in the Czech countryside, is trying to arrange burial plans for her dying husband, Jan (Ludvik Kroner). While...

The Oddsockeaters (2016)
Oddsockeaters are small invisible creatures, responsible for socks that go missing when we only have one left from a pair. But unlike them,...

The Giants (1970)
A blue dwarf and a red dwarf get into a vicious argument. Each ultimately calls upon a matching giant to protect them, with unexpected results.

Konecná stanica (2004)
A successful Slovak film adaptation of the eponymous play Radošina Naive Theatre.

Zelňačka (1996)
Czech TV adaptation of the french novel "La Soupe aux choux", previously adapted for the cinema in France, with De Funès ("Cabbage Soup",...

Hotel for Strangers (1967)
A gifted poet checks into a Gothic hotel in hopes of meeting the woman with whom he has long been enamored. He is surrounded by a variety of offbeat...

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.

Black Barons (1992)
Life of Czechoslovak soldiers in a military unit for the so called "politically unreliable" - the Technical auxiliary battalions, aka "the black...

My Sweet Little Village (1985)
The movie's main storyline follows the life of Otík, a young man, in a tight-knit village community. The sweet-tempered Otík works as...

Little Witch on a Broomstick (2011)
When Your mum is a Witch, be careful what You play with

The Ninth Heart (1979)
Martin, a poor student, volunteers to go on a quest to find a cure for the princess Adriana, who is stricken with a strange illness. Unknown to...

The Divine Emma (1979)
The opera lady singer Ema Destinnová is in all her splendor at the American stages. But in Europe there rages war and she decides to return...

30 Maidens and Pythagoras (1977)
A musical starring Jiří Menzel (whose part is sung by Achilles Michailidis) as a math and physics teacher employing innovative teaching...

Comrades (1971)
Chytilová was not allowed to direct films between 1969 and 1976. The sole exception was the made-for-TV film Kamarádi, now virtually...

Dům U Zlatého úsvitu (2009)
Magic and spells in the peaceful town of Jack-o'-lantern, which you will not find on any map. A funny story telling you how a magician's visit can...

Čas pracuje pro vraha (1980)
Vera, wife of the plumber Simandl (Josef Somr), is found murdered in the cinema next to the IDOC (Information and Documentation) agency where she...

Those Wonderful Movie Cranks (1979)
Returning home to Prague, the magician Pasparte, an owner of a circus caravan, meets his dying colleague who entrusts his beautiful daughter Aloisie...

Kam nikdo nesmí (1979)
Lucie Rýdlová is found dead at a destroyed car after a night accident. The seat position shows that she cannot have been driving, and...

Dilino a čert (2009)
"Why is my son stupid?" laments the poor Roma coal miner. His son Dilino is a nice boy, but he still causes his parents a lot of worry. He hasn't...

Defendant (1964)
Managers at the construction of a big hydro plant are accused of having embezzled money.

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...

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.

Travis (1997)
Tv movie based on a story by J. Hanák.

Rainbow Kulick (1985)
Little boy Milan is going to visit his grandfather in the countryside - for a first time.

Where the Early Bird Catches the Worm (1987)
A clever but often teased boy, is able to clone himself thanks to a stolen formula from a scientist. Time to take revenge on those bullies.

An Angel Seduces the Devil (1988)
Musical comedy.

Společník (2003)
Teacher Mikuláš Mysliveček has a considerably small salary at the music school. However, he also has a dominant fiancée,...

Nemocnice na kraji města po dvaceti letech (2003)

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...

Případy detektivní kanceláře Ostrozrak (2000)

The Flying Cestmir (1984)
Young boy Cestmir finds a magic rock which allows him to bring the seeds of the flowers which allow flying from Blue Planet...

Nemocnice na kraji města (1978)
Hospital at the End of the City is a popular television series first released in Czechoslovakia in 1977, it featured an ensemble cast and received...