Jana Janěková
Acting
Biography
Doc. Jana Janěková, born Válková (* June 5, 1955 Zlín), is Czech actress, director, photographer and theater pedagogue, sister conductor Roman Válka. He comes from an artistic family, his father was a musician, a choirmaster and a pedagogue, a well-known musician is her younger brother Roman. At the Prague Conservatory in 1976, he studied music and drama. During her studies she was guest in the E. F. Burian and J. Wolker Theaters. Her first theatrical engagement became East Bohemian Theater in Pardubice, where she worked in 1976-1978, then she played shortly in Hradec Králové. In the years 1979-1981 she played in the Oldřich Stibor Theater in Olomouc, from 1980 to 1985 in Ostrava Bezruč Theater. There was a long-standing engagement at the State Theater in Brno (today's National Theater Brno), where she worked as an actress and director from 1987 to 2005. In the film and on TV, she appeared sporadically at the beginning, mostly in minor or episodic roles, and later she often performed mainly in Ostrava and Brno studios, where many of the TV productions of Czechoslovak television played key figures. She won her first major role in the first Czech TV sitcom, TV Nova Novác, in 1995, and later starred in other TV series. For the time being, the only significant film role was psychologist Hana in the Czech film director Věra Chytilová. He co-operates with radio, occasionally dubs, and in addition to acting and theater direction, he has been teaching pedagogical activities at JAMU in Brno since 1991, where he leads a separate atelier of musical acting. She is also active in the field of artistic photography. (Wikipedia)
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Cesty domů
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Bakaláři
Thirty Cases of Major Zeman is a Czechoslovak action-drama television show intended as a political propaganda to support the official attitude of the communist party. The series were filmed in the 1970s. Each episode encompasses one year, and investigations are stylized to that year. Most are inspired by real cases. The series follows the life of police investigator Jan Zeman during his career from 1945 to 1975.
Thirty Cases of Major Zema
The misadventures of the Nováci family.
Nováci
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4teens
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Love Lost
Stories from a daily life of children attending a regular school.
We All Are Required to Attend School
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Světla pasáže
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Velké sedlo
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Záhadné případy
33-year-old Roman decides to tackle his drug addiction by undergoing group therapy as part of a community holed up on an isolated farm in the Šumava mountains. Twelve people, men and women of varying ages and social status, voluntarily subject themselves to a tough regime under the supervision of three therapists. Many of them have stared death in the face already – overdoses, suicide attempts, and aggression heightened by the use of hard drugs, outwardly affecting even the strongest of them. Each brings something of his past into the group, which he has to experience again, both for himself and for those assembled. Past anguish, wrongs and guilt give rise to new problems: in this thickening atmosphere of suspicion and lies, who can still be trusted? This intimate psychological drama deliberately sets out to break up the tight narrative form through retrospectives in which we learn about the past life of each individual.
Rules of Lies
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Jitřní záře
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Boží pole s.r.o.
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Logaritmus lásky
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Bráškové
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Agras 01
This story from the time of the occupation tells how the students of the teachers' institute decided to hold a traditional ball despite the ban. However, they had to cope with conditions more than threatening: the presence of Nazi thugs who intend to execute captured partisans as a warning...
Poslední ples na rožnovské plovárně
Sixteen-year-old students of a grammar school are supposed to write essays on "Love". The class best student Andrea (Jaroslava Schallerová) writes about a patriotic love to a country as she has no experience with a partner love. She has been living alone with her divorced pretty mother Eva (Milena Dvorská), a dentist, for many years. Recently, however, Eva met her former school-days love at a graduates' party, nowadays a famous hockey goalkeeper Brukner (Frantisek Velecký). Also his marriage fell apart; he leaves the national team and decides to leave Prague for his home town and to share flat with Eva. He takes with him his son Petr (Oldrich Kaiser), in Andrea's age, who gets his last chance to finish a grammar school in the town.
Love
The elements that rule Earth - Air, Fire, Earth and Water - are in their "regular inspection tour". We are following Water, in the form of the Rain Fairy. Traversing the land dressed like a poor woman, she learns that people really have begun focusing mainly on money and that love and goodness are disappearing.
The Rain Fairy
The psyche of a ruthless secret agent in Cold War Czechoslovakia begins to unravel when he obsesses over the girlfriend of a suspected subversive he is tracking. This taut political thriller is a bleak and potent rendering of the emotional destruction wreaked by totalitarianism.