Josef Zíma
Acting
Biography
Josef Zíma is a Czech actor , singer and moderator. Apart from pop music, he is known as the singer of a brass band . He is often referred to as the unruly king of Czech brass band music . He is married to the actress Eva Klepáčová . After studying in Prague , he studied acting , he also privately taught singing . From 1948 to 1951 he was a member of the Conservatoire 's Folk Ensemble, and since 1950 he sang in solo with the Jaroslav Ježek Orchestra . After completing his studies he gained his first actor engagement in Benesov near Prague , where he worked in the years 1953-1955 . From 1955 to 1957 he served in the Army. After military service he entered the Theater of Satire (today's ABC Theater at the U Nováků palace). In 1958 he sang 'Blues for you', it was the first record on which the first song was released by Jiří Suchý as the author. In 1959 he caused an accident . The singer and chanterist Judita Čeřovská , Alena Pánková, himself and director Jiří Jungwirth, who was later died in the hospital, were seriously injured. From 1962 to 1992 , so for 30 years, he was engaged in the Prague Chamber Theater (which was a theater that belonged to a group of theaters belonging to the Prague Municipal Theaters). He played at the Na Fidlovačce Theater in Prague Nusle , the Music Theater in Karlín and the Chamber Theater in Pilsen . Along with the theater, his career as a pop music singer unfolded . At the beginning he began to play with his songs on the television, and that is why he became famous in the rest of the country as a musician. His most famous songs include Gina, Lovers in Texas, Green Plains, or White Crow. Later he sang a number of other well-known songs, including also with singer Pavlína Filipovská , Jana Petrů and others. In his life he recorded about 200 songs and won three Gold and one Platinum album. Josef Zíma is a singer with a not too vocal voice in the tenor range, but the voice is very pleasant, cultivated, well-groomed and capable of expressing many different moods and emotions. In Czech Radio he has been conducting a series of musicals for musicals for many years.
Known For
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
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Stopy života
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Klapzubova jedenáctka
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Čechovi
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Bejvávalo
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Kam zmizel ten starý song
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Příběhy českého jazzu
Depiction of Czech students in the 1950s. The kids are less interested in communism than in rock n’ roll. Czech authorities deemed the work decadent and subversive, which led to the director being kicked out of film school.
An Easy Life
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Pražský písničkář
In the morning twilight of Prague, the dead body of the safe-breaker Toufar is found floating on the river Vltava with a knife in his back. Police inspectors visit Toufar's lover, the prostitute Anna Kulatá (Jirina Bohdalová), nicknamed Umbrella, and it is apparent that the moment before she opened the door of her flat, someone fled through the window. Umbrella is summoned for examination to the head of the criminal police - Police Councilman Vacátko Jaroslav Marvan, but although shocked by the photograph of the dead man, she does not confess to anything. Before Toufar, Umbrella lived with the safe-breaker Penicka (Radoslav Brzobohatý), who loved her very much and made her quit her street trade. But when he was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, Umbrella began to live with the brute Toufar, who chased her to street again. In the case of the murder, Penicka is therefore the prime suspect.
Burglar and Umbrella
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Karel je Gott
A Czech fairy tale about a princess named Lada who runs away from home in a mouse fur disguise in order to escape an unwanted and forced marriage.
The Princess with the Golden Star
Miss Nováková reports to Major Tuma (Karel Höger) from the police about the disappearance of her roommate, the model Zuzana. Shortly afterwards, a film director named Konrád (Otomar Krejca) asks Tuma to cooperate on a new cinéma-vérité film describing the story of Zuzana's disappearance.
Alibi on the Lake
Tram driver Marie has far too much to do after her shift is over. But she likes to do it all since she loves her husband Václav sincerely. One day she spots him on the Lesser Town Square in Prague, kissing an attractive blonde good-bye. It seems to Marie that her small comfortable world has collapsed and she walks out of the tram in tears. But her sadness does not last long. She wipes off the tears and begins to act. She withdraws all the money from their savings books and buys off all the latest models from the Fashion Works. The visit to the beauty salon then completes her transformation into a lady.
Lady on the Tracks
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Měsíčník zajímavostí a dobré pohody
Explores young adults' fears of being conscripted by the communist government into working outside of Prague, a relative oasis of creativity and freedom of thought. From an early script by Milos Forman.
Puppies
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Trik aneb Jak dámu okouzlit aneb Jak manžela oblafnout
Getting into the popular music spotlight is not easy, as even an enthusiastic amateur, an overconfident young man whose singing career soon fails, will find out... A tantalising insight into the backstage of the entertainment industry, neither the musical passages nor the unexpectedly massive participation of the singing stars of the time succeeded.
Bylo čtvrt a bude půl
Together with a group of temporary workers, a group of experienced labourers is building a land reclamation system to turn the South Bohemian marshes into a "Seventh Continent" of fertile soil.
Sedmý kontinent
A live, semi-documentary TV broadcast investigates why former prisoner Dr. Benet collapsed after defeating world chess champion Mirko Čentovič aboard the ship Victoria. The crew stages a detailed reconstruction of the fateful game on deck, interviews witnesses to piece together events, and deliberately blurs fact and fiction to draw viewers into Benet’s psychological unraveling and the deeper mysteries behind his victory.