Jiří Vršťala
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1920-07-31
Place of Birth:Liberec, Czechoslovakia
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Also Known As:Иржи Врстала, Иржи Врштяла

The Story of a Murder (1965)
In the mid-1950s, mayor Zwischenzahl is killed on the day of his inauguration in a West German town. The killer is Ruth Bodenheim, a Jewish woman,...

Just a Joke (1961)
The grey hero of grey workdays, the divorced cashier of a cinema who is always willing to sacrifice herself for others, Etelka, is awarded a...

Transport from Paradise (1963)
Czechoslovakian Zbynek Brynych directs this psychological drama set in World War II Terezin ghetto. A dark, visual portrayal of the trials and...

Fortress on the Rhine (1962)
During the Second World War, an old fortress is transformed into a detention camp for arrested allied generals who the Germans provide with every...

Assassination (1965)
In autumn 1941, Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich’s brutal rule in occupied Bohemia and Moravia fuels Czech resistance. In spring 1942, the...

Bubny (1965)
An anthology in three jazz-infused tales: an idealistic student’s romance with a pragmatic trumpeter; a vibraphonist’s urgent journey...

The Five Sinners (1964)
The short story explores the often tragic impact of prejudice or suspicion that relies on the appearance of the human face. Guests in a remote pub...

The Sons of Great Bear (1966)
As American settlers encroach on the lands of the Lakota people, Tokei-ihto witnesses the murder of his father at the hands of Red Fox, who wanted...

Der kleine und der große Klaus (1971)
The clever but poor farmer Klaus infuriates the rich big Klaus with his mischief. But little Klaus always manages to get out of the most difficult...

Dialogue 20-40-60 (1968)
"Using the same, three times repeating dialogue – dramatic conversation between man and woman – Jerzy Skolimowski from Poland, Slovak...

The Fifth Horseman Is Fear (1965)
In Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, a doctor-turned-warehouse employee reluctantly agrees to treat a gravely wounded political fugitive, putting himself...

I, Justice (1968)
At the year 1946, the time of the Nuremberg Process. One of the main actors of the Second World War, who reportedly committed suicide, Adolf Hitler...

Clown Ferdinand and the Rocket (1963)
When Clown Ferdinand enters an abandoned city in his wagon he ends up on a space rocket where he meets a robot that can turn invisible. This film...

Ants Bring Death (1986)
The biggest threat to a successful crackdown on drug traffickers and consumers is the international hitman Barták, sent to the Czech Republic...

Frozen Flashes (1967)
In November of 1939, the British consulate in Norway receives documents saying that the Nazis are conducting secret rocket research in...

Clown Ferdinand will schlafen (1963)
Clown Ferdinand travels to Berlin under adventurous conditions. Unfortunately, he has forgotten to book a hotel room in time. And so he puts himself...

A Face of an Angel (1971)
Story of 11-year old Tadeusz, a prisoner in a children's concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.

The Criminal on Vacation (1965)
The plot takes place in a picturesque Montenegrin islet of Sveti Stefan. The local authorities investigate the murder of a tourist, which background...

Der Weihnachtsmann heißt Willi (1969)
Five-year-old Peter and his older brother Hans drop the Christmas present for their parents in the middle of the road and it gets flattened by a car....

Plavecký mariáš (1953)
In the past, most of the wood from the mountain forests was transported to the sawmills by river. The rafters were gradually replaced by trucks and...

Death Behind a Curtain (1967)
Members of an organised group smuggling heroin from France to Italy send a new shipment of the drug via Sweden, the GDR and Czechoslovakia. A new...

Die Nacht im Grenzwald (1968)
1936 in a small town near the Czechoslovakian border. Albert and Fritz are close friends. Albert lives with his aunt, who is loyal to the Nazis. His...

Flucht ins Schweigen (1966)
During construction work in a small town in Thuringia, the burial of an unidentified man in an SS uniform with gunshot wounds is discovered. Taking...

The Devil's Trap (1962)
A small town is one day visited by a priest who is there on a secret mission. He is a member of the Inquisition sent to investigate the activities of...

Veliká příležitost (1950)
An optimistic collective drama from the life of the workers on the construction site of the Youth Track. An amnestied prisoner wants to atone for his...

Anna the Proletarian (1953)
The movie describes proletarian life in the Czech Lands after World War I.

Comedians (1954)
The story of a traveling comedy family that ends up in court, where young Fricek is charged with attempted murder because he protected his sister...

Severní přístav (1954)
A spy film about how saboteurs obtain important data about the activities of a key company, while also trying to thwart the plan and undermine work...

The Best Man of All (1954)
A Czech satirical comedy set around 1900. The inhabitants of the small town of Pětice are excited by a mysterious package that is to be delivered to...

From My Life (1955)
The film, in individual episodes, captures the fate of Bedřich Smetana from 1856 until the end of his life, from his young years until the moment...

Ikarie XB 1 (1963)
The year is 2163. Starship Ikaria XB 1 embarks on a mission deep into space in search of alien life. During their perilous journey the crew confront...

Veselý souboj (1951)
A young company doctor will awaken interest in active and regular sports activities among employees of repair shops of Prague transport companies....

Výstraha (1954)
In the last days of the war, American planes bomb a synthetic gasoline plant in the Sudetenland. The workers are then faced with the enormous task of...

Ztracená revue (1961)
The music and dance revue about the clown and the girl from the poster takes place in the streets of Prague, in the quiet corners of the Old Town,...

Mordová rokle (1952)
A new owner of the estate, Konrád Ritter von Schiess, arrives in the Czech village of Sluky. On his orders, the inhabitants of the village are...

Na konci města (1955)
Captain Jirák of the SNB is searching for the perpetrator of the murder of the former owner of an apartment building on the outskirts of town,...

Můj přítel Fabián (1955)
The story of a gypsy named Fabian, who came to work in Kunčice, and his son. Their lives change fundamentally on the great construction site of...

Muž v povětří (1956)
Mr. Čap is an inventor who disturbs the peace of the town of Krásnov with his experiments. During his attempts to discover the eternal match,...

Punta and the Four-Leaf Clover (1955)
A film about a boy who is protective of a runaway dog and the dog, who is protective of the boy.

Páté oddělení (1961)
An American spy agency located in West Germany is interested in information concerning Czechoslovak commercial activities in the Middle East. Agent...

Narozeniny režiséra Z. K. (1988)
A directors autobiography about his debut during the rise of socialism.

Schatten über Notre Dame (1966)
One evening, crime reporter Jaques Batissier makes the acquaintance of a drunken stranger who tells him his version of the murder of the anti-fascist...