Jiří Hubač
Writing
Biography
Jiří Hubač (27 August 1929 Prague - 27 September 2011 Prague) was a Czech playwright and screenwriter. He began his career as a playwright in Czechoslovak Television as a playwright after 1961, and since 1974 he has been a freelance professor. He has worked with Jaroslav Dietl before, and his own significant success has been achieved by Ikarův pád (1977) and Ripe Raspberries (1981). His effort was to create custom-made roles for selected actors, he had the support of his approach in his close collaborator, director František Filip. Also, his television series Dobra Voda (1982) and Sanitka (1985) recorded great acclaim. He has drafted a number of novels, such as King Krysa from James Clavell or The Chime ringing from Ernest Hemingway. In 1989 he was appointed a deserving artist and in 2000 he was featured in the TV Hall of Fame at the TYT Awards. He also received the Trilobit Prize and the Vladislav Vančura Prize. Jiří Hubač is buried at the Kyjov cemetery in Prague 9. (Wikipedia)
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GENUS
Sanitka was a Czech television, drama series, first broadcast in 1984 and eleven episodes were made. It starred Jaromír Hanzlík, Tomáš Juricka and Zlata Adamovská among others.
Sanitka
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Dobrá Voda
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Útek zo zlatej krajiny
Sňatky z rozumu was a Czechoslovak television programme which was first broadcast in 1968. The programme was directed by František Filip.
Sňatky z rozumu
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Tři chlapi v chalupě
A painter, whose art and views diverge considerably from the conventional society of a small American town, is suspected of murdering his wife. When passions are unleashed against him during a local election, he saves his life by fleeing to a cave in the nearby forest and from there, with the help of children whose trust he has gained, he organizes a successful search for the real murderer in the form of a children's game.
Muž v osidlech
Told from the perspective of man reflecting on his childhood in Prague in the early years of World War II and the eventual destruction of his family as the Nazis rise to power. The storyline focuses heavily on Jewish-Czech Silberstein family members. Drama was filmed on the real events as a tribute to Mr. Nicholas Winton, the British humanitarian who organized the rescue of 669 children, most of them Jewish, from Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War in an operation later known as the Czech Kindertransport from German-occupied Czechoslovakia and likely death in the Holocaust.
All My Loved Ones
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Eliška a její rod
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Arrowsmith
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Vyhnanství
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Studentská balada
A special story about love, dance, and immortality takes place in the late 1940s. A young man, dance master Mayer, arrives at a pulmonary sanatorium. His diagnosis is serious—tuberculosis. However, he does not give in to his illness and begins to actively fight it with dance and optimism. Gradually, he wins over other patients who had previously resigned themselves to their fate. Soon, however, his illness breaks out in full force and insidiousness. Facing death, he embodies human courage and a positive attitude towards life.
Učitel tance
The story of an ordinary family, which leaves no doubt that it is moving from the private sphere to the social landscape, to the absurdities of an era dominated by totalitarian power...
Vyloženě rodinná historie
A tragicomic story from a tragicomic time - this is how one could characterize Jiří Hubac's play, which premiered in May 1991. The drama of two friends who fought in England as Czech airmen during the war and had to live through the well-known martyrdom after returning home is a story about the power of friendship, the courage to transcend oneself in the face of violence and the right to preserve human memory. The television film by director Jaroslav Dudek, who cast Jiří Bartoska and Josef Dvořák in the lead roles, was honoured with the prestigious Prix Europe international award in Reykjavik.
Hřbitov pro cizince
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Půlpenny
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Konfrontace
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Buřič Jejího Veličenstva
Ing. Kalin is already seventy years old, but he does not recognize old age. He travels, even learns Arabic. He returns to his hometown because he once made a promise to his former love, Bětuška Jarošová, that he would return for her. He is not alone, he is accompanied by his sister, who anxiously watches over him and conducts him. Everything in the town has long been different, although Kalina would like to see it in his old age...
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