Vlastimil Brodský

Vlastimil Brodský

December 15, 1920 · 105 years old

Known For

9 titles
1
Closely Watched Trains

Closely Watched Trains

1966 · 1h 32m · Movie

An apprentice train dispatcher looks for love while aiding his colleagues in their resistance against the Nazis.

7.6
2
Larks on a String

Larks on a String

1969 · 1h 34m · Movie

Set in the late 1940s, the film concerns the treatment of suspect "bourgeois elements", a professor, a saxophonist, and a milkman, who are put to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation.

7.3
3
When the Cat Comes

When the Cat Comes

1963 · 1h 44m · Movie

People arrive in a small village with a strange cat wearing glasses. When someone takes them off, he can color people, according to their nature and mood. Adults consider him dangerous; children love him.

7.2
4
Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea

Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea

1977 · 1h 33m · Movie

Jan is a decent, boring man, living a decent, boring life as a rocket designer. When his adventurous twin brother dies in a breakfast accident, Jan decides to impersonate him, unwittingly becoming a part of a Nazi time travel cons...

7.1
5
Jacob the Liar

Jacob the Liar

1974 · 1h 40m · Movie

A Jewish ghetto in central Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making slow by steady progress towards central Europe. In order to keep his companion in misf...

7.1
6
All My Good Countrymen

All My Good Countrymen

1969 · 2h 0m · Movie

Various scenes in the life of a tight-knit community in Czechoslovakia exploring the human spirit in the backdrop of the political changes that they experience.

7.5
7
Kazdy den odvahu

Kazdy den odvahu

1965 · 1h 25m · Movie

Jarda Lukás (Jan Kacer), a worker from a big machine-tool plant, enjoyed a rather decent career after the Communist putsch in February 1948. As one of the pioneers of the youth-movement of stakhanovites, he skilfully engaged himse...

6.4
8
Touha

Touha

1958 · 1h 35m · Movie

Four stories, four seasons of the year, four periods from the human life

6.8