Jiří Ornest
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1946-09-27
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Also Known As:Jirí Ornest, Jiri Ornest

Meeting in July (1978)
A romantic story about Jakub, a student in the summer camp, and his teacher Klara.

Champions (2004)
Ice hockey is a Czech national obsession, and the country's victory over Russia in the 1969 World Championships, the year following the Soviet...

Big Beat (1993)
A period musical comedy set in a quiet Prague quarter at the end of the fifties. Using the western plot device of the "man from nowhere" a generation...

A Place in the Crowd (1964)
A film in five episodes, all based on an attempt to show the life of young people today, their feelings and relationships, their behaviour in public...

The Sheriff Behind Bars (1966)
A dramatic story from the setting of a youth de tention center. Youngster Jakub, out of delusory solidarity, gets convicted of theft and goes to...

How to Get Rid of Helenka (1968)
Radio announcer Petrícek reads the evening news in a studio. Viki, the female editor of a woman's program, is annoyed by the stereotypical...

A Matter of Days (1969)
Françoise, a French sociology student, moves to Czechoslovakia to write her thesis. She falls in love with Pavel, a professor. But the events...

Hanele (1999)
Based on an autobiographical novella by Ivan Olbracht, the film tells the story of Hanele Safarová, who grows up just after the First World...

Nevěsta (1970)
The female employees of the poultry-processing factory find relief from their monotonous work in chatting about weddings and marriages. The very...

Dostal jsem nápad udělat kočku (1967)
Day in the life of teenagers.

Pleasant Moments (2006)
Hana is a psychologist and a thoroughly independent woman. Her unemployed husband, jealous of his wife, finds a younger girlfriend, but their teenage...

The Little Man (2015)
The Little Man lives happily in his little house in the Hollow Mountain. His peaceful life ends once he begins to have dreams about a mysterious...

Boty plné vody (1976)
Three short stories ("Zelenáči 1945", "Silvestr 1948" and "Zimní vítr 1951") about members of the SNB units guarding the...

The Little Mermaid (1976)
The little mermaid rescues a prince from drowning and falls in love with him. To be with him, she makes a deal with the evil sorceress: her beautiful...

Where the Early Bird Catches the Worm (1987)
A clever but often teased boy, is able to clone himself thanks to a stolen formula from a scientist. Time to take revenge on those bullies.

A Prominent Patient (2017)
In 1939, Czech diplomat Jan Masaryk flees to the United States to escape his recent past: Germany has invaded Czechoslovakia and he is now a man with...

The Infinity Castle (1984)
Technical school student Pavel Brychta, arrives at a youth correctional facility located within a chateau in Konečno. He is an atypical, but not...

Out of the City (2000)
A computer programmer and his son are going out of the city for vacation.

The World Knows Nothing (1988)
The story takes place in the Czech-German border region in 1938. The hero Tomás Jakl marries but the marriage is not very lucky and falls...

30 Maidens and Pythagoras (1977)
A musical starring Jiří Menzel (whose part is sung by Achilles Michailidis) as a math and physics teacher employing innovative teaching...

Afghánská Šangrila – Pan doktor a jeho král (2004)

The Golet in the Valley (1995)
In 1930s Ukraine, the desecration of a sacred bath disrupts the sex lives of Jewish villagers.

My Mother's Courage (1995)
The deportation of 4000 Jews from Budapest to Auschwitz in July 1944, as told by George Tabori, and how the narrator’s mother escaped it, owing...