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Martin Frič
Writer 1902 - 1968

Martin Frič

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

Martin Frič was a Czech film director, screenwriter and actor. He had more than 100 directing credits between 1929 and 1968, including feature films, shorts and documentary films. Throughout his life, Frič struggled with alcoholism.

Filmography

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Císaruv pekar - Pekaruv císar

Císaruv pekar - Pekaruv císar

Martin Frič 1952 2h 24m 10.0

The Emperor's mismanagement of his country is provoking some in his court to plot to overthrow him.

Teticka

Teticka

Martin Frič 1941 1h 19m

Rich spinster Berta celebrates her sixtieth birthday. Her faithful admirer Dr. Jelinek proposes. But Berta can not forget Edward, the great love of her life, and refuses the offer…

Hotel Modrá hvezda

Hotel Modrá hvezda

Martin Frič 1941 1h 29m

It all begins when Zuzanka, the new young owner, arrives at the dilapidated Blue Star Hotel. Determined to put the declining inheritance back on its feet, she starts chasing three young men, including the composer Jirka, who, dressed in a waiter's tailcoat, is to work off his debt to the new owner.

Svet patrí nám

Svet patrí nám

Martin Frič 1937 1h 30m

One of the few European films of the 30s to criticize the Nazis, even if they couldn't be directly named due to censorship: Gangsters with gray hats stir up trouble in what is obviously the Sudetenland.

Mravnost nade vse

Mravnost nade vse

Martin Frič 1937 1h 15m

Professor Karas is widely known as enthusiastic propagator of the motto "Morality Above All Else". He guides his students as well as his own family to live a morally decent life. One day he has an unexpected visit. It's his illegitimate daughter Vera, who is proof of his thoughtless youth.

Jánosik

Jánosik

Martin Frič 1936 1h 15m

Jánošík has been topic of many Slovak and Polish legends, books and films. According to the legend, he robbed nobles and gave the loot to the poor. The legend were also known in neighboring Silesia, the Margraviate of Moravia and later spread to the Kingdom of Bohemia.

At zije neboztík

At zije neboztík

Martin Frič 1935 1h 22m

Wealthy and ill Petr Kornel (Karel Hašler) is not pleased with the carousing lifestyle of his nephew. He stops supporting him financially and demands that he change his name. Out of gratitude Kornel bequeaths a substantial sum of money to his nurse Alice (Adina Mandlová) with the condition that she marries.

Hej-rup!

Hej-rup!

Martin Frič 1934 1h 43m

A Milk-Cannery baron, Jakub Simonides, is broken by the Canned Milk-Trust and, in his wanderings with a worker, Filip Kornet, he discovers he still owns a half-finished apartment-house. They rally the workers and complete the building for use as a collectivist dairy.

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