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Jan Svěrák
Writer 61 years old

Jan Svěrák

Žatec, Protektorát Čechy a Morava [now Czech Republic]

Jan Svěrák (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjan ˈsvjɛraːk]) (born 6 February 1965 in Žatec) is a Czech film director. He is the son of screenwriter and actor Zdeněk Svěrák. He studied documentary filmmaking at FAMU. He and his films have received many awards, including the Academy... Read full bio →

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Kuky se vrací

Kuky se vrací

Jan Svěrák 2010 1h 35m 10.0

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.

Jízda

Jízda

Jan Svěrák 1994 1h 30m

Two guys buy a car and travel through the country until they meet a lonely girl on the road. They begin travelling together, having fun, enjoying life. But then there is another guy who has a better car and who is looking for this girl because he is her lover, her first one. What is going on inside the mind of this girl?

Akumulátor 1

Akumulátor 1

Jan Svěrák 1994 1h 42m 7.0

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.

Ropáci

Ropáci

Jan Svěrák 1988 20m

A zoologist and a biochemist go out into an oilfield with a cameraman and filmmaker to observe and study the elusive oil gobblers.

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