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Štěpán Kopecký
Štěpán Kopecký (1901–1956) was a Czech art director.Bergfelder, Harris & Street p.214 He designed the sets for more than eighty films during his career. Selected filmography * '' The Inspector General'' (1933) * '' Annette in Paradise'' (1934) * '' Polish Blood'' (1934) * ''Volga in Flames'' (1934) * '' Hero for a Night'' (1935) * ''Grand Hotel Nevada'' (1935) * '' The Eleventh Commandment'' (1935) * '' Delightful Story'' (1936) * '' Port Arthur'' (1936) * '' Three Men in the Snow'' (1936) * '' Cause for Divorce'' (1937) * ''Thunder in the Hills'' (1946) * '' Just Getting Started'' (1946) * '' The Heroes Are Silent'' (1946) * '' Sign of the Anchor '' (1947) * ''Border Street ''Border Street'' () is a 1948 Polish drama film directed by Aleksander Ford and starring Mieczysława Ćwiklińska, Jerzy Leszczyński (actor), Jerzy Leszczyński, Jerzy Złotnicki and Władysław Godik. The film depicts the Nazis' purge of Warsa ...'' (1948) References Bibliography * Bergfelder, Ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prague
Prague ( ; ) is the capital and List of cities and towns in the Czech Republic, largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia. Prague, located on the Vltava River, has a population of about 1.4 million, while its Prague metropolitan area, metropolitan area is home to approximately 2.3 million people. Prague is a historical city with Romanesque architecture, Romanesque, Czech Gothic architecture, Gothic, Czech Renaissance architecture, Renaissance and Czech Baroque architecture, Baroque architecture. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia and residence of several Holy Roman Emperors, most notably Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, Charles IV (r. 1346–1378) and Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II (r. 1575–1611). It was an important city to the Habsburg monarchy and Austria-Hungary. The city played major roles in the Bohemian Reformation, Bohemian and the Protestant Reformations, the Thirty Years' War and in 20th-century history a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Arthur (film)
''Port Arthur'' (French: ''Port-Arthur'') is a 1936 war film, war drama film directed by Nicolas Farkas and starring Anton Walbrook, Danielle Darrieux and Charles Vanel. It was a Co-production (media), co-production between France, Czechoslovakia and Germany. Separate versions were produced in French-language, French and German-language, German, with Walbrook starring in both versions. The film was based on a novel of the same title by Pierre Frondaie.Goble p.168 It was shot at the Barrandov Studios in Prague. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alexandre Lochakoff, Stepán Kopecký and Vladimir Meingard. It premiered at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin on 7 December 1936 and had its Paris opening four days later. Cast French version * Anton Walbrook as Boris Ranewsky * Danielle Darrieux as Youki, Boris's wife * Charles Vanel as Commander Vassidloff * Jean-Max as Ivamoura, Youki's brother * Jean Worms as Commander Novitzki * Foun-Sen as La servante * Jean Appert * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1956 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan after 57 years. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, are killed for trespassing by the Waorani people of Ecuador, shortly after making contact with them. * January 16 – Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser vows to reconquer Palestine (region), Palestine. * January 25–January 26, 26 – Finnish troops reoccupy Porkkala, after Soviet Union, Soviet troops vacate its military base. Civilians can return February 4. * January 26 – The 1956 Winter Olympics open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. February * February 2 – Austria and Israel establish diplomatic Austria–Israel relations, relations. * February 11 – British Espionage, spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean (spy), Donald Maclean resurface in the Soviet Union, after being missing for 5 years. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1901 Births
December 13 of this year is the beginning of signed 32-bit computing, 32-bit Unix time, and is scheduled to end in Year 2038 problem, January 19, 2038. Summary Political and military 1901 started with the Federation of Australia, unification of multiple Crown colony, British colonies in Australia on January 1 to form the Australia, Commonwealth of Australia after a 1898–1900 Australian constitutional referendums, referendum in 1900, Subsequently, the 1901 Australian federal election, 1901 Australian election would see the first Prime Minister of Australia, Australian prime minister, Edmund Barton. On the same day, Nigeria became a Colonial Nigeria, British protectorate. Following this, the Victorian era, Victorian Era would come to a end after Queen Victoria died on January 22 after a reign of 63 years and 216 days, which was List of monarchs in Britain by length of reign, longer than those of any of her predecessors, Her son, Edward VII, succeeded her to the throne. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Border Street
''Border Street'' () is a 1948 Polish drama film directed by Aleksander Ford and starring Mieczysława Ćwiklińska, Jerzy Leszczyński (actor), Jerzy Leszczyński, Jerzy Złotnicki and Władysław Godik. The film depicts the Nazis' purge of Warsaw Jews by following the fates of five families, representative of the various social, political, and ethnic strata in Warsaw, through the war, and culminates in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Ford did not provide viewers a happy ending because he wanted "the viewer who watches it to realize that the issue of fascism and racial oppression is not over." It won the Gran Prix at the 1948 Venice Film Festival. The film's sets were designed by the art director Stepán Kopecký. Plot In Poland in the summer of 1939 there was the deepest peace. The place of action is initially an ordinary Warsaw apartment building. The tenants are of different nature and social background. There is, for example, the enterprising Bronek, then young Władek, son of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sign Of The Anchor
''Sign of the Anchor'' (Czech:''Znamení kotvy'') is a 1947 Czech drama film directed by František Čáp and starring Hana Vítová, Zdeňka Baldová and Vlasta Fabianová. The film's art direction was by Štěpán Kopecký. Cast * Hana Vítová as Pavla Marková aka Miss Camilla * Zdeňka Baldová as Pavla's mother * Vlasta Fabianová as Prostitute Černá Fanka * Eduard Kohout as Maestro Lascari * Zdeněk Štěpánek as Captain Troska * Július Pántik as Wheelsman Franta Hojdar * Ladislav H. Struna as Wheelsman Hojdar * Jarmila Smejkalová as Seamstress Růža * Vladimír Salač as Cabin boy Lojza Brůha * Josef Maršálek as Greaser Toník Truneček * Jan W. Speerger as Boatman * Jaroslav Zrotal as Vojta * Karel Effa Karel Effa (born Karel Effenberger; 23 May 1922 – 11 June 1993) was a Czechoslovak character actor who appeared in some 65 films. Selected filmography * ''Uloupená hranice'' (1947) - Závodcí * ''The Last of the Mohicans'' (1947) * ''Pa ... as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Heroes Are Silent
''The Heroes Are Silent'' () is a 1946 Czechoslovak war drama film directed by Miroslav Cikán and starring Ladislav Boháč, Zdeněk Dítě and František Filipovský. The film's sets were designed by the art director Štěpán Kopecký. It was one of a large number of films portraying Czech wartime resistance made in the years after the conflict had ended.Wohl & Păcurar p.348 Synopsis After his brother is killed by the German occupiers, a publisher joins the Czech resistance and destroys a railway bridge in a bid to rescue hostages from execution. Cast * Ladislav Boháč as Vojtéch Tomek * Zdeněk Dítě as Jan Tomek * František Filipovský as Vilém Kolta * Josef Pařízek as Vítek Dolina * Jarmila Smejkalová as Eva Matoušková * Sylva Langová as Marta Vondrová * Marie Blažková as Anna Frýbová * Jindřich Plachta as teacher Josef Frýba * Vítězslav Vejražka as Kurt Seppke * Bohuš Hradil as Peitsch * František Vnouček as Franz Wessely * Josef Kotapiš ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Just Getting Started (1946 Film)
''Just Getting Started'' () is a 1946 Czech comedy film directed by Vladimír Slavínský and starring Jaroslav Marvan, Jindřich Plachta and Meda Valentová. It was shot at the Radlice Studios in Prague. The film's sets were designed by the art director Štěpán Kopecký.https://www.csfd.cz/film/8512-prave-zaciname/prehled/ Cast * Jaroslav Marvan as Bohouš Vosáhlo * Jindřich Plachta as František Diviš, marketer * Meda Valentová as Sidonie, Vosáhlo's wife * Josef Kotapiš as Karel Rabas * Eman Fiala as Eman * Antonín Mikulič as Pepík Strnad, Diviš's step-son * Eva Bartáková as Eliška, curious girl * Ludmila Buresová as Melková, housekeeper * Václav Trégl as Kacaba * Slávka Procházková as Koudelková * Jindra Hermanová as Rabas' fiancee * Ela Trousilová as Elvíra, snake charmer * Jindřich Láznička as Sekvenc, joiner * Vladimír Hlavatý as Josef Havlík, baker * Ferdinand Jarkovský as clerk of Probate Court * Eduard Dubský as lawyer * Bohuš Hradil as r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thunder In The Hills
''Thunder in the Hills'' (Czech: ''V horách duní'') is a 1946 Czech war drama film directed by Václav Kubásek and Josef Mach and starring Jaroslav Průcha, Marie Vásová and Miroslav Homola. It was shot at the Barrandov and Radlice Studios in Prague and on location around Brno and Svratka. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Štěpán Kopecký and Alois Mecera. Synopsis During the Second World War, Czech resistance fighters in a village shelter a downed RAF pilot from the German occupiers. However they begin to fear that they have an informer in their midst. Cast * Jaroslav Průcha as Jakub Skýva * Marie Vásová as Tereza Crhová * Miroslav Homola as Kurt Sowak * Theodor Pištěk as Výmola * Oldrich Lipský as Karel * Libuše Bokrová as Mayor's Wife * Terezie Brzková as Rebounová * Gustav Hilmar as Mayor Suchdolak * Zdenek Hora as Villager * Karel Jelínek as Glogar * Jiří Kačer as Karel Koran * Eva Klenová as Jelena * Lubomí ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cause For Divorce
''Cause for Divorce'' () is a 1937 Czech-German comedy drama film directed by Karel Lamač and starring Anny Ondra, Jack Trevor and Robert Dorsay Robert Dorsay (16 August 1904 – 29 October 1943) was a German actor, dancer, and singer who was executed in October 1943 for defeatism and defamation of National Socialism. Life The only son of the opera singer Paul Stampa and the soprano .... It was Ondra's last film to be directed by Lamač.Bock & Bergfelder p. 347 Cast References Bibliography * External links * 1937 films Czech comedy-drama films Films of Nazi Germany German comedy-drama films 1937 comedy-drama films 1930s German-language films Films directed by Karel Lamač German films based on plays German black-and-white films Czechoslovak black-and-white films Czechoslovak comedy-drama films 1930s German films German-language comedy-drama films {{1930s-Germany-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Men In The Snow (1936 Film)
''Three Men in the Snow'' (Czech: ''Tři muži ve sněhu'') is a 1936 Czech comedy film directed by Vladimír Slavínský and starring Hugo Haas, Věra Ferbasová and Jindřich Plachta. It is based on the novel of the same title by Erich Kästner.Goble p.252 The film's sets were designed by the art director Štěpán Kopecký. Cast * Hugo Haas as Továrník Eduard Bárta * Věra Ferbasová as Vera Bártová * Jindřich Plachta as Jan Náprstek * Zdeňka Baldová as Julie Hubácková * Vladimír Borský as Dr. Obch. véd. Jaroslav Hájek * Ella Nollová as Jeho matka * František Paul as Reditel hotelu * Theodor Pistek as Vrátný v Imperialu * Míla Reymonová as Pani Kasperová * Vlasta Hrubá as Paní Severová * Jaroslav Marvan as Director of Barta's Works See also * ''A Rare Bird'' (1935) * ''Paradise for Three ''Paradise for Three'', titled ''Romance for Three'' in the United Kingdom, is a 1938 American romantic comedy film starring Frank Morgan as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delightful Story
''Delightful Story'' () is a 1936 Czech operetta film directed by Vladimír Slavínský and starring Věra Ferbasová, Zita Kabátová and Frantisek Kristof-Veselý.Opěla p.296 The film's sets were designed by the art director Štěpán Kopecký. Cast * Věra Ferbasová as Helena Veselá * Zita Kabátová as Miluska Kovárová * František Kristof-Veselý as JUDr. Jára Nerad * Oldřich Nový as Jaroslav Nerad * Růžena Šlemrová as Ema Neradová * Jan Pivec as Karel Dobes * Theodor Pistek as Ferdinand Nerad * Ladislav Pešek as Ferdinand Nerad * Stanislav Neumann as Fred Penkava * Adina Mandlová as Eva Randová * Baletni Soubor Tylova Divadla as Dancers * Julius Batha as Bookkeeper * Josef Fuksa as Dancer * Milada Gampeová as Eva's Mother * Jiří Hron as Customer * Iska Kostalova as Dancer * Oldřich Kovár as Singer * František Krejci as Porter * Ota Motycka as Nerad's Servant * Alois Peterka as Shopkeeper * A. Pilsova * S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
