Jan Pivec
Popularity:0.2388
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1907-05-19
Place of Birth:Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
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Also Known As:Ян Пивец

Dům na Ořechovce (1959)
The growing conflict between the unruly owner of the villa and his lodger ends up in court. The cohabitation ends in bodily harm - and the film...

Hasek’s Tales from the Old Monarchy (1952)
Four short stories by the greatest Czech satirist Jaroslav Hašek. "Soup for Poor Children" tells the story of how Prince Robert himself cooked...

Mstitel (1960)
Kaspar Len returns home after three years in the army. He vainly searches for the mason Kryštof’s family where he had lived before he...

Lucerna (1967)
A host of actors in the classic national fairy tale by A. Jirásek. Jirásek's "Lucerna" is the best-known and most performed of his...

The Blue Star Hotel (1941)
It all begins when Zuzanka, the new young owner, arrives at the dilapidated Blue Star Hotel. Determined to put the declining inheritance back on its...

Láska jako trám (1968)
An elderly couple is planning a big family gathering. The husband is thinking about what he can do to make his wife happy. While walking around town,...

Divá Bára (1949)
This is a romantic story about a brave, self-made girl, despised daughter of a shepherd. She is not afraid of anything - neither night nor swimming....

Jsem jen inženýr chemie aneb Z českých barů (1972)

History of Philosophy (1937)
A student rebellion precedes revolutionary events in Prague.

Rozina the Love Child (1945)
Prague, the beginning of the 17th century. Rozina falls in love with Italian glass worker Nikolo, but after returning home, she gets a message that...

Armored Car (1930)
An unknown gang has again broken into a van containing money from the European bank. Banker Sam Hamilton decides to use an armoured car for the next...

Dnes neordinuji (1948)
The main character is a newly appointed associate professor MUDr. Jakub Johánek, a psychiatrist and timid teetotaler, who decides to celebrate...

Ves v pohraničí (1948)
The family of Prague greengrocer Pavlas was among the first immigrants to settle in the border village of Severov. Together, the new residents manage...

Zaostřit prosím! (1956)
A Czech satirical comedy, filmed according to a script by the State Prize laureate Jiří Marek based on several of his satirical short...

The House of the Five Squirrels (1944)
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...

Poznej svého muže (1940)
You can see for yourself that finding the right one is not easy in this Czech comedy film. The gullible daughter of a bankrupt landowner would never...

Příklady táhnou (1939)
A comedy about a grandmother who raises her granddaughter Jarmila according to the rules of the old days. Only her second granddaughter, a university...

Girls, Stand Fast! (1937)
Emanuel Pokorný, a bachelor, is to join a rural church school as a professor. Before leaving, however, he finds an infant abandoned in his...

Pantáta Bezoušek (1941)
Country man Josef Bezoušek has gone to Prague for an extended visit to his lawyer son's family. His son, daughter-in-law and granddaughters...

Camel Through The Eye Of A Needle (1937)
Slightly ironic comedy of wretches, who come to understand the rich and are able to accept charity, and also about how love and work prevail over the...

Story of Souls (1965)
The dramatization of the Old Prague short story by the writer Ignát Herrmann is an acting concert by Jan Pivec. In this film from 1964, the...

The World Where One Goes Begging (1938)
The smooth narration, corresponding to the requirements of a light comedy, develops the smiling and optimistic story of the "one-armed" beggar...

Tanečnice (1943)
The bourgeois family does not forgive, from her point of view, inappropriate behavior - contempt overtakes both the girl who decides to dedicate her...

Preludium (1941)
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...

Rozkošný příběh (1937)
Poor saleswoman Helena accepts a theater ticket from a stranger who has left over the ticket after a disagreement with his fiancée Eva. The...

Puppies (1958)
Explores young adults' fears of being conscripted by the communist government into working outside of Prague, a relative oasis of creativity and...

Okouzlená (1942)
In the garden of Hojtaš's estate, local dignitaries gather to watch a theatrical performance starring the author of the play, Dr. Pavel...

Muži nestárnou (1942)
In 1911, Stáňa Járský was giving music lessons to little Jiřina Horníková and fell passionately in love with his...

Štěstí pro dva (1940)
The famous operetta singer Jarmila Kšírová tries to hide her marital status from the sensationalist public. The heroine of the...

Nevíte o bytě? (1947)
A comedy about the post-war housing crisis in Prague, which several young people are struggling with. The young puppeteer Josef lives in a sublet...

Kasaři (1958)
A detective comedy about ex-cashiers who - except for one - have improved and lead a proper and peaceful life and mostly desperately resist the...

Jestřáb kontra Hrdlička (1953)
A story about the conditions in Bohemia in the second half of the nineteenth century, when small-town officials, such as Hrdlička, succumbed to the...

Zlatá kaplička nad Vltavou /Národní divadlo/ (1940)

Story of the Bass Cello (1949)
"Román s basou" is another short by master a stop-motion puppet-animator Jiri Trnka. The story is based on Anton Chekhovs story "Roman s...

Vina Vladimíra Olmera (1956)
Vladimír Olmer is a student at the Faculty of Medicine. His father, a famous Prague surgeon, is rightly proud of him. One day, Vladimír...

The Case Is Not Yet Closed (1957)
From a scientific enterprise, a large sum of money has been stolen, in addition, research protocols have been photographed...

Against All (1957)
After the battle of Sudoměř the Hussite teaching spreads through the whole country and people start leaving their homes to help build the...

Průlom (1946)
A small Czech town in the 1860s. The townspeople once made a fortune from the proceeds of gold mines that are now flooded. However, they do not want...

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...

Jan Hus (1955)
The first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", completed with Jan Žižka (1955) and Proti všem (Against All Odds, 1957). The film...

Jan Žižka (1956)
The second part of the revolutionary Hussite trilogy takes place in the years 1419-1420.

Neporažená armáda (1938)
A young farmer, Jan Aleš, is drafted from his native Pošumaví to join the army. Since he likes his new environment, he stays...

Magdalena Dobromila Rettigová (1961)
The story of a Czech national revivalist, writer and author of a famous cookbook... The story takes us to Litomyšl in 1836. The local...

Blbec z Xeenemünde (1963)
A tragicomedy set in wartime Germany. The protagonist is 16-year-old Bruno, who is considered by everyone to be an uneducated goofus. But he hates...

Hlavní výhra (1959)
A comedy about a young salesman Havelka, who gets his life's wish. He wins his dream car Spartacus in a lottery. So together with his fiancée,...

Povodeň (1958)
The construction of the new dam deprived the ferryman Ryba of his trade. The new dam replaced the ferry. However, Ryba's ancestors were ferrymen and...