Jan Kanyza
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Birthday:1947-10-25
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Vánoce u Matěnů (1976)
The central characters of this comedy with a criminal plot are the members of the seemingly normal Matěn family - we have dad Karel, a designer with...

Zlaté rybky (1978)
Police discover Eva Nejtková dead in her apartment and her husband Zdeněk unconscious from a shotgun wound. Captain Hora leads the...

Focusing on the Turquoise Mountain (1978)
It tells about the collaboration of Mongolian-Czech geologists who are discovering treasure deposits in Mongolia, and shows the events that happen to...

Trasa (1979)
Experiences of a Tatra factory driver during demanding load tests of Tatra 148 trucks in extremely harsh climatic conditions during the construction...

Brother for All the Money (1979)
Honza and Zuzana are very young husband and wife. They have a little daughter of whom willingly occasionally take care the grandparents and Honza's...

The Young Man and Moby Dick (1979)
Good-looking Edita Beningerová (Jana Brejchová) arrives at a chemical factory in the North Bohemian town of Ústí nad...

Nechci nic slyšet (1978)
An 11-year-old boy is the only survivor of a tragic car accident in which both parents are killed. It's not until he meets a travelling student...

Jménem krále (2009)
Píše se 13. století. Království českému a markrabství moravskému vládne Přemysl...

Tvář za sklem (1979)
Alienation between the closest relatives is always a serious disorder of family judgment. Father and son not only do not see each other, but one does...

Kouzelníkův návrat (1985)
Although the title would suggest it, this film has nothing to do with fairy tales at all: it takes place in the North Moravian border region just...

Cesty mužů (1972)
Experienced StB investigators in the 1950s dismantle a terrorist action against the collectivisation of a village in the foothill village of...

Rukojmí v Bella Vista (1980)
The film thematically follows the stories of the TV series "30 cases of Major Zeman". We can meet Major Zeman again with Lieutenant Colonel Zitny,...

Dark Sun (1980)
A remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit. Engineer Prokop creates the devastating explosive “Krakatit” and soon...

Zlatá slepice (1981)
This fairy tale tells of a magical hen who lays golden eggs. When an enterprising taxi driver (greedy, of course) learns of such a miracle, he...

Malé letní blues (1968)
A holiday story about first tentative love, set in a romantic cottage village on the banks of a river. There, a 15-year-old girl feels lonely and...

Young Bohácek's Sufferings (1969)
Tóna Bohácek (Pavel Landovský) has been a great worry to his mother, Mrs Bohácková (Stella...

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...

Five Men and One Heart (1971)
In modern hospitals are carried out intensive cardiac surgery. Daily operations individually comments attendant Cajthaml ... Stylized ,, dream "scene...

Death Chooses (1973)
Radek Simek, the driver of a postal car, is shot dead on his regular route. The Investigators give up initial suspicions of robbery, because he...

Dream City (1973)
A married couple of artists move to a utopian town known for its absolute freedom, but behind the surface perversion and violence are spreading.

Počkám, až zabiješ (1973)
During World War II, dogs were trained in special centres for guard duty in concentration camps. However, one of the prisoners domesticates a female...

Let the Princess Stay with Us (1981)
Modern version of Snowhite fairytale. Girl Katka is frustrated and restless. She escapes from home and find herself in the orphanage. Seven orphan...

Horolezci (1973)
The true story of a Czechoslovak mountaineering expedition that set out in 1969 to conquer one of the most challenging peaks in the Himalayas. In a...

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...

Město nic neví (1976)
Three detective stories from industrial Ostrava. Police search in vain for a missing 16-year-old girl, but succeed in finding a mentally disturbed...

Kam zmizel kurýr (1981)
A mysterious man named Michael Allan Jones arrives in Prague to search for his ancestors. Specifically, he is interested in the year 1611, when a...

Hot autumn with the smell of mango (1984)
A tragic event in the life of a film director searching on two continents for the traces of Jawaharlal Nehru.

Smrt na černo (1977)
Webs of Prague's post-war underworld.

Noc klavíristy (1977)
The problematic protagonist is the head designer of a housing association who wants to make a profit at any cost. His unwitting opponent is a bar...

Radical Cut (1984)
Detective Weiner probes the death of Tomáš Ruml, found in a ruined house. Son of the architect behind a planned gypsy-quarter...

The Secret of an Old Attic (1984)
During a summer holiday, two boys discover an anti-gravity cannon in an old attic.

The Halftime of Happiness (1985)
Fifty-year-old Ondřej Bozděch delivers coal around Prague's Žižkov district and he loves it more than anything. He has spent his whole life here...

Escape Home (1980)
A twelve-year-old is looking for his biological parents after discovering the fact that he was adopted.

Příliš velká šance (1985)
A dedicated biologist, Dr. Petr Gabriel accidentally kills a child in a hit-and-run and, fearing the ruin of his career, hides the body and shifts...

Ants Bring Death (1986)
The biggest threat to a successful crackdown on drug traffickers and consumers is the international hitman Barták, sent to the Czech Republic...

Princezna Duše (1991)
Greek mythology has always inspired creators of various artistic genres. No wonder, for Greek myths offer countless dramatic tales of strength,...

Nexus 2.431 (1994)
This international co-production, shot at Barrandov Studios with international cast including Czech actors is an attempt to create a sci-fi fantasy...

The Octopuses from the Second Floor (1987)
While on vacation with their bickering parents, young Eva and her little brother Johnny find in a polluted lake two strange friendly sentient...

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...

The Secret of a Great Narrator (1972)
The life of the famous French writer Alexander Dumas the Elder. Screenwriter Jaroslav Dietl did not hide his admiration for this literary giant, and...

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

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...

Kdo je kdo (1974)
Two young men, indistinguishably alike, decide to swap. But with one a popular singer and the other a car mechanic, fitting into their new "life...

Jak se naučit švédsky (1979)
The protagonist is supposed to go to a graduation reunion and, because she is ashamed to reveal that she is still lonely and unmarried, she makes up...

Zatykač na královnu (1974)
Captain Záruba investigates after an anonymous tip flags the seemingly extravagant lifestyle of Chemotex technician Dagmar...

How to Dupe a Lawyer (1980)
Attorney Horic is a specialist for cases connected with motoring. He approaches to his work unconventionally, he does not hesitate to search for...

Nevěsta k zulíbání (1981)
A love story of a couple of mature people of completely different characters, who lived and worked side by side for years only as colleagues, but...

Znásilnění (2001)
A career woman's struggle and fight against a male dominated society.

Svědek umírajícího času (1991)
At the beginning was the Slovak television series Lekár umierajúceho czasu (Doctor of Dying Time), dedicated to the Rudolphine-era...

Merry Christmas Octopus (1987)
Eva and her younger brother Johnny own two sentient octopuses made out of strange matter. Will their parents divorce and ruin Christmas? Will a...

The Octopuses from the Second Floor (1986)
While on vacation with their bickering parents in Portugal, Eva and her little brother Johnny find two strange clots of clay on a polluted beach, who...

Hospoda (1996)
Hospoda is a Czech television comedy series which premiered on TV Nova. From 1996 to 1997, 52 episodes were aired.

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...

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...

The Physician of a Dying Time (1984)
Series about the life of Renaissance anatomist, scholar and politic Johannes Jessenius. Already legendary series today, was produced by Czechoslovak...