Jiří Sovák
Popularity:0.2308
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1920-12-27
Place of Birth:Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
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Also Known As:Jirí Sovák, Jiri Sovak, Jirí Schmitzer, Иржи Совак, Йиржи Совак

Mapa zámořských objevů (1979)
A story about the problems of an aging high school history professor, Barchánek, and his teenage son. Barchánek teaches at a technical...

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...

Čert a dráha (1989)
A railway fairy tale about how the devil fell in love with Bětuška and the machines... The young devil Fadrius is supposed to pass the...

Pane králi, jdeme z dáli (1990)
The King is very worried. His kingdom is not exactly brimming with wealth, and he has three daughters to marry. So he's going to solve both problems...

Long Live Ghosts! (1977)
A trespassing gang of boys encounter a ghost in the ruins of a castle. When they rescue the ghost who is caught in a trapset, they become allies in a...

The End of Agent W4C (1967)
The invincible agent Cyril Juan Borguette alias W4C has been assigned a mission to go to a hotel in Prague, get hold of a saltcellar with a plan for...

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...

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

How to Wake a Princess (1978)
At long last, King Dalimil and Queen Eliška have produced an heir, Princess Růženka. Consumed with envy, Eliška’s sister...

Men About Town (1969)
Three blue collar workers have a night out in big city Prague.

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...

Probuzení (1960)
Delinquent youths wander aimlessly and commit mischief. Few, however, manage to break free from the influence of such a gang. One of the lucky ones...

Sny na neděli (1959)
In the pulmonary sanatorium, patients live out their small fates. But not everyone takes a responsible approach to their illness. For example, a...

Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (1976)
This comedy is about one average family. The father works as master in the factory and his son is studying on high school. One day father must start...

Valčík pro milión (1961)
A girl from a dance ensemble from Uherské Hradiště and an amateur jazz musician from Strakonice will meet at the II. National...

Hledá se táta! (1961)
It all starts when two men arrive at the asylum. Mr. Houdek, who goes to see little Honzik Slavata, the illegitimate child of his colleague, whom he...

OK 12 startuje (1961)
The parents of twins Petr and Pavel are leaving for Afghanistan to build a dam. They entrust their offspring to their uncle Podlipný in...

Ceiling (1962)
The young Marta has made a break in her medical education to fully invest in her career as a model. We follow her for a day in her life, almost...

Darbujan and Pandrhola (1960)
A poor miner, Kuba Dařbuján, cares for his wife Markýtka and eleven children. When a newborn arrives, he seeks a godfather and,...

Bohous (1968)
Alois, manager of a remote mountain inn, loses his maid when she can’t stand his oversized Saint Bernard, Bohouš. When a ravenous guest...

90° in the Shade (1965)
In a Prague shop, an assistant has been carrying on an affair with the dishonest, married manager. An emotionally repressed auditor with domestic...

The Pipes (1966)
This three-part Austrian/Czech comedy stretches the boundaries of what is considered to be humorous. Part one finds a silent film actor upset because...

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...

Return to Paradise Lost (1999)
A professor reunites with an old friend who inspires him to return to Czechoslovakia for the first time since he emigrated years ago.

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...

Death in the Saddle (1959)
On the state stud-farm, Tomás (Rudolf Jelínek) is preparing to become a jockey together with other boys. He loves to read cowboy...

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...

I Survived Certain Death (1960)
Telling the prisoners of a death camp. Boxer Tony Majer, who got into a concentration camp for a fight with the Gestapo, remembers the murderous work...

The Song of the Grey Pigeon (1961)
An unusual children's film set during World War II in Czechoslovakia, this compelling drama unfolds five different segments that present the war...

When the Cat Comes (1963)
While old Oliva tells a group of children about his life as a sailor and how he met Diana and her cat with sunglasses, a strange circus arrives in...

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 Best Woman in My Life (1968)
Ordinary man making his dirty actions in the small town and his coming to the right side.

Silvestr 79 aneb Hrajeme si jako děti (1979)
A New Year's Eve television variety show from late 1979.

Silvestr 1978 (1978)
A New Year's Eve television variety show from late 1978.

Člověk není sám (1972)
A dedicated chairwoman of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in cooperation with a StB major clears a politically immature researcher of the...

Co je doma to se počítá, pánové... (1980)
For the Novák and Bartáček families, money is king, and they'll do just about anything to get it. While René Novák...

Čintamani & podvodník (1965)
Two short stories by Karel Čintamani a ptáci An avid collector of carpets, MUDr. Vitásek discovers a unique piece in Mrs....

When the Woman Butts In (1960)
Miroslav Hornicek is a deluded young man who is convinced he is Faust incarnate. This turn of mind leads to some ludicrous situations, such as when...

Six Bears and a Clown (1972)
The owner of a circus decides to swap his trained bears for trained pigs, and fires clown Cibulka. The clown gets a job at a local school, bears...

Plavení hříbat (1976)
The holidays of Vince Adamek, a student of the agricultural school in his native village in South Moravia, are purely working. He likes his job as a...

You Are a Widow, Sir (1971)
After a soldier cuts off the arm of king's cousin, king decides to deactivate the army. Of course, generals don't like it at all and they try to kill...

Among Us Thieves (1964)
The story of a trio of released criminals that even prison re-education did not reform. They intend to "bankrupt" a farming cooperative, but soon...

The King of Kings (1963)
During his work assignment in Tamani Kingdom, Czech worker Lojza saves a local man from dying in the desert. Two years later, it turns out the saved...

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...

Chicken on Travels (1962)
The story of a childhood dream come true. Schoolchildren discover an abandoned poultry farm with an artificial hatchery and agree to raise their own...

Mature Wine (1981)
A loose sequel to the 1976 comedy Stormy Wine. The screenwriters and the director recreate on screen a number of characters from the South Moravian...

Magnetické vlny léčí (1965)
Detective Biddle arrives in a small American town to warn the local mayor Banks about a fraudulent healer. Together, they agree on how to convict the...

Young Wine (1986)
Third wine session, this time with a computer. The film was made in direct relation to the audience success of the previous two: "Stormy Wine" and...

Circus in the Circus (1976)
To Moscow have arrived the participants of the international conference of the zoophilologists and also the international jury which is to elect for...

The Frog Prince (1991)
When a young princess, instead of being fully dedicated to her love, persists in running around like a tomboy and roaming the forests with her gang,...

Vltavská víla (1988)
Many corners of Prague are perfect for fairy tales. They thrive the most in Kampa, but there is one in Podskalí too. The ferryman's son...

Chudák muzika (1981)
When three wandering musicians met the Lord of the Forest, they hardly thought of what good it would do them. They certainly began to prosper from...

Terrible Woman (1965)
A doctor of social sciences - a specialist in failing marriages - becomes jealous. He imagines his skater wife in various situations, but always on...

Bill, Please (1956)
The director of the company Restaurants and Canteens arrives to attend a screening of a film made in various restaurants. A group of villagers come...

We Want to Live (1950)
Poetic story of a proletarian couple's relationship in the years of economic crisis and unemployment.

Florián (1961)
A mobile chapel of St. Florian is moved every week between the villages of Zbořov and Spáňovice. The farmer Florian Jírovec, who has...

Zlatá svatba (1972)
At the beginning of normalisation in the 1970s, the appearance of ideologically tinged stories intensified, but there were also attempts to create...

Egyptologové (1974)
Comedy, 1974 (Czech Republic) : The movie takes place in England. A group of married middle-aged gentlemen have founded a pretense amateur Egyptology...

The Circus Will Be (1954)
A few bus-loads of holidaymakers from the agricultural cooperative on a day trip arrive to see the show at the Slavia Circus. But, they have bad...

Kolya (1996)
After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly take responsibility for her son. However, it’s...

Tenkrát o vánocích (1958)
A Czechoslovak battalion, led by Captain Hloušek, conquers a Slovak mountain village two days before Christmas Eve 1944. Christmas and...

Tears the World Can't See (1963)
Three friends from a wet neighbourhood come back from the pub properly stoned and decide to continue partying at the home of one of them, because he...

Spadla s měsíce (1961)
A story about the uproar caused by the arrival of a new, young and, by local standards, too energetic zookeeper in a village JZD. Her name is Maya...

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...

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...

Talisman (1991)
Titus is unlucky in life. His handicap is his red hair, which prevents him from finding a job. He ends up in a brewery, where he claims to be the son...

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...

Tři nevinní (1974)
The car thief Halama, the shy groom Poupě, the divorcing jealous Pic and the mustachioed cinema projectionist Vlk are suspected of robbing the...

The Hour of Blue Elephants (1971)
Two days before Christmas. Zuzanka and Tomás, friends from a kindergarten wander off during a walk. They admire toys and decoration in...

Jaroslav Hasek's Exemplary Cinematograph (1956)

Občan Brych (1959)
František Brych, a principled lawyer, refuses to back the new Communist regime at his factory and grows increasingly alienated, even as his...

The Hero Is Afraid (1966)
Honza Vavrinec (Rudolf Hrusínský) works in the investment department of a large office. One day he gets involved in the case of an...

Today for the Last Time (1958)
Concert master Karel Mašek is a drunk, as well as engineer Danda and other regular guests of the pub U Kroců. Mašek returns from the...

Archimedov zákon (1964)
Contemporary satire denounces careerism, dictatorial ways, sycophancy and servility. An inconspicuous official Javorník pretends to have saved...

Miroslav Donutil v Lucerně (1996)
On Saturday, October 12, 1996, Miroslav Donutil welcomed a sold-out crowd to Prague's Lucerna Hall, bringing his guests and friends onto the stage...

Kdo chce kam... (1981)
About a shy history professor and his difficulties in finding a partner through personal ads. Although women are interested in Professor Hrstka, he...

The Man from London (1974)
A British citizen by the name of George Reiner (Jirí Sovák) arrives at Prague airport. He was once a Czech safe-breaker, and has now...

Listonošky (1998)
The bachelor's thesis tells an original story about how children have great imaginations and their playfulness can cause all sorts of fun things to...

Prodej (1971)
Two cronies, Brument and Cornu, are on trial. They are accused of attempting to murder Brumant's wife. The woman's interrogation reveals that both...

Přísně tajné premiéry (1968)
A crime writer is accused of being too imaginative and his ideas unworkable, but everything changes when an international criminal demands his...

Chlap jako hora (1960)
We learn that the greatest virtue of socialist competition is collective cooperation. This is what the young, physically fit assembler refuses to...

September Nights (1957)
The commander of the military training camp, newly promoted Major Cibulka, keeps his subordinates in line. Because of an unexpected emergency, he...

Jahrgang 21 (1958)
At the beginning of the Second World War, Czech music student Honsik comes to Germany from Prague to join a "foreign worker company". After rescuing...

To byla noc (1957)
On his first business trip in a new place, driver Rudo has an accident. A drunken truck driver dented the fender of the tatraplane and drove off...

Zpívající pudřenka (1960)
A children's adventure spy film from a time when the radio telephone was science fiction.

Mezi nebem a zemí (1958)
Working in the city office is a bitter clerk who believes he has only 14 days to live and so he bravely stands up to his bureaucratic director.

Divoké pivo (1995)
A classic Czech comedy about the privatization of a small South Bohemian brewery. In a series of comical situations, good Czech police officers...

Silvestr 79 aneb Hrajeme si jako děti (1979)

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

Arabela (1980)
Arabela was a children's television series produced in Czechoslovakia which aired from 1979 to 1981. The series has 13 episodes and is in the Czech...

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...

Territory of the White Kings (1991)
The story centers around a group of children, led by Leontinka and Olda. Father of Leontinka manages the local Deer Park with an invaluable breed of...

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...

We All Are Required to Attend School (1984)
Stories from a daily life of children attending a regular school.