Václav Kotva
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1922-01-20
Place of Birth:Radnice, Czechoslovakia
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Those Wonderful Movie Cranks (1979)
Returning home to Prague, the magician Pasparte, an owner of a circus caravan, meets his dying colleague who entrusts his beautiful daughter Aloisie...

The Secret of Steel City (1979)
The film is a metaphor for the Cold War. It depicts two neighbouring nations: peace loving Fortuna and the not so peaceful land of the Steel City.

Love Between the Raindrops (1980)
Set in Prague during the years leading up to World War II, this family saga tells the story of a cobbler named Vincenc Bursik (Vladimir Mensik), who...

Co je doma to se počítá, pánové... (1980)
For the Novák and Bartáček families, money is king, and they'll do just about anything to get it. While René Novák...

Just Whistle a Little (1981)
Several big-city teenagers are falsely accused of vandalizing a valuable organ, casting light on the hypocrisy of the adult world.

The Secret of the Devil's Pocket (1981)
How it will end? Let's just tell you that on one side of the mountain, the stream that had run before it dries up, and on the other side of the...

Run, Waiter, Run! (1981)
A comedy concerning a down on his luck bookshop owner with a penchant for women who decides to make some money by pretending to be a waiter and...

That Instant, That While (1981)
Autumn 1944. A doctor is accused in the collaboration with the Nazis and found guilty...

The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians (1981)
In 1897, in a castle near the town of Werewolfville in the Carpithians, a slightly deranged Professor Orfanik experiments with his new inventions...

Attention, Rounds! (1982)
A story about an everyday life of an inflectional department of Prague hospital.

The Story of the Voyages (1983)
In this fantasy with dragons and flying machines, 10-year-old Marta is determined to find her brother who was kidnapped at Christmastime by a fake...

The Last One Will Go to Hell (1982)
A historical film that takes place on the eve of the thirty year war combines aspects of fairy-tales with historical dramas, fencing with a child...

Closely Watched Trains (1966)
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity....

Hotel for Strangers (1967)
A gifted poet checks into a Gothic hotel in hopes of meeting the woman with whom he has long been enamored. He is surrounded by a variety of offbeat...

The Fair Is Here (1974)
Children from the village Bystrá are awaiting a nice and thrilling weekend. On Saturday they will play the championship football match with...

Private Torment (1967)
A worker steals bits and pieces of building materials from work to construct a new home for himself and his girlfriend. When he discovers that...

The Unfortunate Bridegroom (1967)
A comedy about two bumbling policemen investigating an alleged rape in a small Czech town. One of the alleged rapists is supposed to get married the...

A Nice Plate of Spinach (1977)
The heroes of this absurd comedy, full of confusion and humor are Dzharda Zemanek and Frantisek Liska.

The End of Agent W4C (1967)
The invincible agent Cyril Juan Borguette alias W4C has been assigned a mission to go to a hotel in Prague, get hold of a saltcellar with a plan for...

A Man Who Rose in Price (1968)
Mr. Benda, a married father of two children, works for a company that liquidates old banknotes. After one drunken party, he is visited by a painter...

The End of a Priest (1969)
A verger, who likes to dress as a priest, is invited, by one of the villagers, to be the pastor at a vacant church. The atheist teacher resents the...

Crime in the Night Club (1968)
A black comedy set in a Prague cabaret.

Looking Back (1969)
Young script-writer Frantisek (Petr Cepek) is hired to write a film script based on the successful novel Looking Back. He meets with the novel's...

A Ridiculous Gentleman (1969)
When a noted professor receives a new treatment for his heart ailment, his outlook on life changes. Despite doctor's orders, he is determined to live...

Prague Nights (1969)
A stuffy middle-aged foreigner, a businessman named Fabricius, lonely and looking for a night's diversion, finds it in the form of a mysterious...

You Are a Widow, Sir (1971)
After a soldier cuts off the arm of king's cousin, king decides to deactivate the army. Of course, generals don't like it at all and they try to kill...

Devilish Honeymoon (1970)
Black comedy about a genius inventor and two young, smart and beautiful women. Both of them putting all their effort into getting the one man. This...

Svatby pana Voka (1971)
Czech nobleman Petr Vok of Rozmberk (Milos Kopecký) is no longer so young, but his amatory adventures continue to arouse the envy of men and...

Granny (1971)
A tale based on novel by Czech writer Bozena Nemcova.

Touha Sherlocka Holmese (1972)
Sherlock Holmes likes to play violin and expects a great career in music. He gets a place in a spa orchestra, but he is again and again distracted by...

Inn At the Flying Dragon (1972)
Joseph Sheridan le Fanu's tale, "Inn at the Flying Dragon," brings dark fantasy, ghostly apparitions, and mysteries to the TV screen. It's part of...

Fandy ó Fandy (1983)
Little kids, little worries, big kids, big worries, sighs many a parent often. This is no different for the mother of eighteen-year-old Frantisek,...

Six Bears and a Clown (1972)
The owner of a circus decides to swap his trained bears for trained pigs, and fires clown Cibulka. The clown gets a job at a local school, bears...

The Gambler (1972)
This lavish Soviet/Czech co-production is based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's famous novel, The Gambler, which tells the story of a Russian living in...

Days of Betrayal (1973)
This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot),...

A Valley of Beautiful Frogs (1974)
A fifteen years old Jana escapes summer camp wearing nothing but bikini...

The Valley of the Bees (1968)
Cast out by his father, young Ondrej joins the Order of the Teutonic Knights, where he is raised by strict monk Armin. After years of hardship,...

Egyptologové (1974)
Comedy, 1974 (Czech Republic) : The movie takes place in England. A group of married middle-aged gentlemen have founded a pretense amateur Egyptology...

Katapult (1984)
Adaptation of Vladimir Paral's comic novel, which criticizes consumerism as an attitude of life.

Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (1976)
This comedy is about one average family. The father works as master in the factory and his son is studying on high school. One day father must start...

Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping (1983)
Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Ladislav Smoljak, about the fictional national hero Jára Cimrman (universal genius, inventor, sportsman,...

...and again that Lucy! (1984)
A second part of a funny adventures of six years old Lucie and her two magic dolls.

The Brave Blacksmith (1984)
Young blacksmith Mikeš sets out into the world for an adventure, accompanied by the miller's assistant Matěj and the boy Ondra. On their...

The Liberation of Prague (1977)
On 20th of April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germany and Hitler decides to commit suicide. In...

Jacob (1977)
The 11-year old Jakub is living in a children's home, when he is picked up by his father. The father has been "away" for four years, the boys mother...

The Cremator (1969)
In 1930s Prague, a Czech cremator who firmly believes cremation relieves one from earthly suffering is drawn inexorably to Nazism.

Hubert the Smart Boy (1985)
Hubert Hrabe, known as Smart Boy, is a Prague dandy who is always skirting the edge of the law. Like every likable rogue, he has a worthy adversary -...

Bergman a Bergman, detektivní kancelář (1984)

Three of Us and Dog from Petipas (1972)
The summer holidays are approaching and the children are bragging about all the exciting places they are going to visit during the long-awaited two...

Chief, Let's Go! (1985)
Criminal comedy, a third movie from the "Chief" series.

Bičianka z doliny (1981)
The comedy based on the novel of Zuzka Zguriška whose story takes place at the Myjavske Kopanice.

Wolz – Life and Transfiguration of a German Anarchist (1973)
Soldier Ignaz Wolz returns from WWI with an immeasurable hatred of capitalist war profiteers. He decides to start his own revolution, but tries to...

Snow White (1992)
A queen is so vain she needs the magical mirror the Black Knight forged to tell her daily she's the belle of the realm. When it adds Snowwhite, the...

Joachim, Put It in the Machine (1974)
A sincere provincial young man, Frantisek Koudelka leaves to work in Prague. For the trip he buys a computer made horoscope with biorhythms charts,...

The Divine Emma (1979)
The opera lady singer Ema Destinnová is in all her splendor at the American stages. But in Europe there rages war and she decides to return...

Kam zmizel kurýr (1981)
A mysterious man named Michael Allan Jones arrives in Prague to search for his ancestors. Specifically, he is interested in the year 1611, when a...

The Uninvited Guest (1991)
A run-of-the-mill family is terrorized by strangers dressed in military garb who invade their private realm.

Svatá hříšnice (1970)
In the Prague Old Town and the adjoining streets there is always plenty of life. Housewives shop, beggars arouse sympathy, the Salvation Army tries...

Pan Tau – der Film (1988)
Pan Tau, the friend of all children, now also helps the adults. A movie producer is in trouble and decides to shoot another Pan-Tau movie. But the...

Šílený kankán (1983)
During the First World War, the crooks Scholef and Krumka sell weapons on the black market. After the collapse of the monarchy they try their hand at...

Princess Goldilocks (1973)
A princess was so beautiful and had such golden hair that she was known as Pretty Goldilocks. A neighboring king fell in love with her from her...

Cutting It Short (1981)
Francin, manager of a small-town brewery, has a charming wife whose abundant blonde locks are an adornment to the town. Maryska looks ethereal but...

The Seventh Day, the Eighth Night (1990)
An allegory set in an archetypal Czech village, it tells of what happens when a sequence of mysterious events take place, including the disappearance...

My Daughter's Operation (1987)
A car accident occurs and Dusan's teenage daughter Milena gets very seriously injured. To add insult to injury, Dusan is unable to donate a kidney...

Swedish Package Holiday (1989)
Three intertwined stories about Serbian truck driver who is involved into drug trafficking without knowing, Czech family who live by the road which...

Arabela (1980)
Arabela was a children's television series produced in Czechoslovakia which aired from 1979 to 1981. The series has 13 episodes and is in the Czech...

Pan Tau (1970)
Pan Tau always had a gentle expression and a friendly smile, he was elegantly dressed in a stroller, with an umbrella and a white carnation in the...

Thirty Cases of Major Zema (1976)
Thirty Cases of Major Zeman is a Czechoslovak action-drama television show intended as a political propaganda to support the official attitude of the...

Chalupáři (1975)
Chalupáři is a Czechoslovak comedy TV series filmed in 1974 and 1975 by František Filip.

The Physician of a Dying Time (1984)
Series about the life of Renaissance anatomist, scholar and politic Johannes Jessenius. Already legendary series today, was produced by Czechoslovak...

Sanitka (1984)
Sanitka was a Czech television, drama series, first broadcast in 1984 and eleven episodes were made. It starred Jaromír Hanzlík,...

The Train of Childhood and Expectation (1989)
A story of a little girl Verka and her life during the beginning of WWII. Based on Vera Sládková novels.