Bolek Polívka — Actor (22)
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Réveillon (2023) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
A máme, čo sme chceli
director: Michal Kunes Kováč actor: Bolek Polívka / Eva Holubová …
other title: A máme, čo sme chceli
What was supposed to be a joyful celebration over the dissolution of Czechoslovakia turns chaotic when the Varchal family discovers that their father betrayed both country and family by working for the secret police. The family members turn against each other.
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Angels of Everyday (2014) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Andělé všedního dne
director: Alice Nellis actor: Marián Labuda / Bolek Polívka …
other title: Andělé všedního dne / Angels
Based on a best-selling novel by Michal Viewegh, Angels of everyday focuses on a few intimate family members: a recently widowed young doctor Ester; a school canteen cook and her son; a driving instructor, his wife, and their closest relatives.
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The Gentlemen's Club (2022) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Pánský klub
director: Matěj Balcar actor: Kristýna Hrušínská / Jiří Mádl …
other title: 紳士俱樂部 / 绅士俱乐部 …
A comedy about erotically addicted men is therapy for everyone, especially those who think they don't need therapy. At a session for erotically addicted men, Eda, the owner of a bicycle repair shop, meets Cyril, a history and physical education teacher; GIGI, an aging rocker; Přemek, a retired screenwriter; and Martin, a young IT specialist. The therapy is led by Linda, a recent graduate and single woman, for whom meeting this group of diverse male characters becomes a fateful step not only in her professional career.
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To the Woods (2012) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Cesta do lesa
director: Tomáš Vorel actor: Tomáš Vorel / Anna Kameníková …
other title: Cesta do lesa
Honza Marak has long since abandoned a career in IT and has bought a cottage on the outskirts of a small village, where he’s settled in with his wife Marketa, daughter Anyna and son Sayen. He works in the woods as a forest labourer repairing roads and enclosures, cutting wood to sell and assisting the foresters. Marketa earns a living as a masseuse and alternative healer, making use of various mind-altering plants and mushrooms, which leads to conflict with the old inhabitants and eventually with drug enforcement. Daughter Anyna attends a distant school where her grades deteriorate as she wanders the woods learning from nature rather than from her textbooks.
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I'm All Good (2008) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
U mě dobrý
director: Jan Hřebejk actor: Bolek Polívka / Jiří Schmitzer …
other title: U mě dobrý
This Hrebejk’s comedy is set in Prague, four years after the democratic “Velvet revolution” of 1989. This was an era of sudden freedom, transition and confusion. Most people got carried away, quickly abandoning the old values and uncritically accepting the new. Some people just took a break…
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Gump (2021) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Gump – pes, který naučil lidi žít
director: F. A. Brabec actor: Ivan Trojan / Bolek Polívka …
other title: Gump - Una Lección de Vida / 浪浪回家路 …
A story told through the eyes of a stray dog called Gump . On a journey to find his way home to his owner, Gump encounters many challenges, meets new people, and makes a few canine friends along the way. A story about the devotion of a dog, who without hesitation will give his own life for the life of its beloved owner.
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The Jester and the Queen (1988) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Šašek a královna
director: 维拉·希蒂洛娃 actor: Bolek Polívka / Chantal Poullain …
other title: Šašek a královna / Der Narr und die Königin
The movie is a satirical look at foreign occupation - a medieval Czech jester entertains a German king and his French wife, or a modern Czech villager helps a Bavarian hunter and his French wife find wild boar in Bohemia - the story switches back and forth between the two plots and time-periods.
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Pleasant Moments (2006) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Hezké chvilky bez záruky
director: 维拉·希蒂洛娃 actor: Jana Janěková / Jana Krausová …
other title: 대책 없는 인생 / Hezké chvilky bez záruky …
Hana is a psychologist and a thoroughly independent woman. Her unemployed husband, jealous of his wife, finds a younger girlfriend, but their teenage son Honzik is frustrated; everyone ignores him. Hana's patient Eva, an attractive middle-aged woman, is having problems with her 25-year-old son; she is in love with her son's friend and her son is offended by her behavior. To complete the circle, he falls in love with Hana and Honzik is utterly disgusted by their affair. Another of Hana's patients is Dub, a millionaire who can have pretty much anything, or anyone, he wants. He wants Hana. But he can't have her.
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Operation Danube (2009) [Movie] Douban
Operace Dunaj
director: Jacek Glomb actor: Jirí Menzel / Zbigniew Zamachowski …
other title: 多瑙河行动 / Operace Dunaj …
“多瑙河行动”是1968年8月华沙条约组织军队入侵捷克斯洛伐克时的任务代号。
波兰的坦克部队中，有一辆老坦克叫做“瓢虫”，它最后一个离开军营，不小心迷了路。拂晓时分，坦克在捷克边境小镇出了故障，无法前进。当地居民立即表现出对占领军的反感。然而，当大家意识到每个人其实都是局势的受害者之后，双方化干戈为玉帛，友谊和爱情之花渐渐开放。
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The Inheritance or Fuckoffguysgoodbye (2005) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Dědictví aneb kurvahošigutntág
director: Vera Chytilová薇拉·齐蒂洛娃 actor: Bolek Polívka / Miroslav Donutil
other title: 遗传或者同志滚蛋 / Dědictví aneb kurvahošigutntág …
A true Czech classic. After the fall of communism in the Czech Republic a lumberjack in a small Czech village inherits a lot of money and properties (all of these was taken from his father after the War). How will Bohus manage this new situation? The very best comedy (?) I've ever seen, very highly recommended!
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Forgotten Light (1996) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Zapomenuté svetlo
director: Vladimír Michálek actor: Bolek Polívka / Veronika Žilková …
other title: 被遗忘的光 / Zapomenuté svetlo …
Father Holy, a village priest, battles against the state and religious bureaucracies of 1980s Czechoslovakia in his fight to raise money for a new church roof. Permeated by his love for the villagers, his encounters are marked by his good humor. In his losing battle against Church and State, Holy is ordered to be transferred away from his parish and his allies. The Czech-American, Milena Jelinek, adapted this moving story from the the novel The Forgotten Light, by the 1930s Czech writer/poet and Catholic priest Jakub Deml. (1934)