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František Čáp
Writer 1913 - 1972

František Čáp

Celákovice, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]

František Čáp (7 December 1913 – 12 January 1972), also known as Franz Cap in Germany, was a Czech and later a Yugoslav film director and screenwriter. He directed 32 films between 1939 and 1970. Having created Slovene film classics such as Vesna, Ne čakaj na maj and Our Car,... Read full bio →

Filmography

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Ne cakaj na maj

Ne cakaj na maj

František Čáp 1957 1h 50m

A young girl Vesna goes on a skiing vacation to Slovenian Alps, where she is being looked after by her aunt. Her family gets worried when they meet Vesna's boyfriend, and try to marry the couple thinking that she may be pregnant with him.

Vesna

Vesna

František Čáp 1953 1h 36m

Samo, Sandi, and Krištof are preparing for their final exams. They come up with a plan to get hold of the math exam questions with the help of the professor's daughter, nicknamed Hyperbola. Since they don't know her real name, they call her Vesna (Spring). Unexpectedly, the professor's real daughter, the attractive Janja, shows up on a date.

Nocní motýl

Nocní motýl

František Čáp 1941 1h 23m

Venice Film Festival 1941

Ohnivé léto

Ohnivé léto

František Čáp, Václav Krška 1939 1h 29m

This romantic story turns on a stirring infatuation that takes hold of three young people under the influence of Simon, a Prague student. After the study year, 18 year-old Julio returns to his parental home, a little chateau on the Otava river. There he converges with his childhood friend Petr and the young boatman's daughter Klárka.

Panenství

Panenství

Otakar Vávra 1937 1h 23m

The doomed love of a city girl caught in the vise of poverty is detailed in Vavra’s fluid, romantic work, one of the most elegant creations of the Czech Modernist era...

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