Jan Svěrák — Director (12)

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What a Way To Go (2026)
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other title: Pět švestek
Five old friends. One last voyage. Fed up with being written off — dismissed by their children, care homes looming, invisible to the world - they decide to defy expectations and take a sailing boat for one last adventure. No itinerary, no carers. Just open waters, old bonds and a bumbag or recreational drugs. Determined to prove that life, at any stage, is what you make of it.

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Three Brothers (2014)
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other title: 삼형제 / Trois frères …
Three brothers leave their home to see the world. During their journey, young men as by miracle enter into famous fairy tales (Little Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Twelve Months) and face traps, unexpected moments and even love in a story full of humor and songs.

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Accumulator 1 (1994)
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★ 7.2 5 ratings
扬·斯维拉克 actor: 彼得·福曼 / 兹旦内克·斯维拉克 …
other title: 光纤电人 / Akumulátor 1 …
In this movie, TV sets are full of life. If a person is in TV (e.g. because it was filmed on the street) it has a double that's right in the TV set. This double needs energy from the true character to survive. Each time, the real human watches TV, his Double will pull life energy from him. So there's a mysterious Death-serial. Many persons die in front of their TV set and nobody knows why. Olda, the main character, is one of the persons, that get more and more weak. He is near death, till Fisarek, the natural healer appears. He teaches Olda how he can resist this magic force and how he can fight it.

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Dark Blue World (2001)
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★ 6.9 9 ratings
扬·斯维拉克 actor: 翁德雷·维特希 / 克里斯托弗·哈德克 …
other title: 烈日长虹 / Tmavomodrý svet …
Lt. Franta Slama is a top pilot in the Czech Air Force who is assigned to train a promising young flier, Karel Vojtisek, and they soon become friends. When Nazi Germany invades Czechoslovakia in 1939, they both reject the authority of their new leaders and escape to England where they join other Czech exiles in the RAF. While flying a mission over England, Karel crash lands and happens upon the farmhouse of Susan, a young woman whose husband is in the Navy. Karel soon falls head over heels for Susan but, while they enjoy a brief fling, in time Susan decides she prefers the company of the older and more worldly Franta. As Franta and Karel struggle to maintain their friendship despite their romantic rivalry.

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Oil Gobblers (2001)
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扬·斯维拉克 actor: 卢博米尔·贝奈斯 / Ivo Kaspar …
other title: 油火鸡 / Ropáci …
It's a wonderful spoof documentary following a team on its quest for the oil gobbler, an animal that has evolved to be the perfect denizen of a polluted world. Loathed by the locals for its voracious habit of eating anything plastic, from wellington boots to the protective sleeves farmers put round their saplings to prevent them being eaten by other animals, the ropaci is an elusive specimen and has the team - and thus the audience - intrigued. Finally, they catch it on film - and then manage to capture a young one that they want to take back home with them. The perils of their journey from the pollution-ridden Bohemian basin back through the clean, fresh air of the forest prove too much for the little creature and they come up with an ingenious way of saving it.

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The Ride (1998)
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★ 6.8 5 ratings
other title: 旅行 / Jízda …
Two guys bought a car and travelled through the country untill they met a lonely girl on the road. So they begin to travel together having so much fun. And there is another guy who has a better car and who is looking for the girl because he is her lover, he is her first one. What is going on inside of this girl? Nobody knows, until the end.

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赤足 (2017)
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扬·斯维拉克 actor: 扬·特日斯卡 / 奥德里奇•凯瑟 …
other title: Po strnisti bos
八岁的艾达和父母在城市过着安逸的生活,由于父亲拒绝与入侵捷克斯洛伐克的纳粹军队往来,全家人被迫搬到了父亲的乡下老家。二战对成人来说意味着痛苦与死亡,而在艾达和他的朋友们眼中,战争似乎距离他们很远。随着军队入侵乡村,艾达全家有了面对战争的勇气,成人和孩子的世界由此交织在一起。

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Kolja (1996)
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★ 7.9 33 ratings
扬·斯维拉克 actor: 兹旦内克·斯维拉克 / 安德列·查利蒙 …
other title: 给我一个爸 / 游子 …
After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly take responsibility for her son. However, it’s not long before the communication barrier is broken between the two new family members.

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Empties (2007)
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★ 8.2 29 ratings
扬·斯维拉克 actor: 兹旦内克·斯维拉克 / 塔蒂亚娜·维尔赫莫娃 …
other title: 布拉格练习曲 / Vratné lahve …
Czech literature teacher Josef Tkaloun, who is past retirement age, realises one day that he no longer understands his pupils, and so he quits… dramatically. What he does not predict is that in doing this he will lose his sense of place in society.

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Kooky (2010)
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★ 7.8 10 ratings
扬·斯维拉克 actor: 兹旦内克·斯维拉克 / 帕沃·里斯卡 …
other title: 玩具熊回家路 / Kuky se vrací …
Young Ondra has asthma and so his parents throw away his favourite toy: a musty old stuffed bear named Kooky. That night Ondra dreams that Kooky is determined to find his way back home from the dump. In the boy's fantasy, the bear gets lost in a forest occupied by strange animals and remarkable beings that he never heard of while living on the toy shelf in Ondra's room. And of course even in this small imaginary world, true good exists as does real evil, which Kooky must face up to in order to become a real hero.