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Ivan Pokorný
Ivan Pokorný (born in 1952 in the Czech Republic) is an actor.
He graduated in Acting from the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Fine Arts and in 1976-1983 and worked as an actor in various Czech theatres. He also had several roles in film and on television. In 1983 he emigrated to Austria, worked as a lecturer at the Vienna Conservatory and in 1984-1998 as a director in Austrian and German theatres. In 1995 he decided to return to the Czech Republic and has been working mainly as a director of TV-films since then. He also makes documentaries and is particularly interested in themes connected with the cultural history of his country. In some projects he takes part as a producer or co-producer.
Filmography
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Amadeus
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic...
Malý pitaval z velkého města
Nejmladší z rodu Hamrů
The Three Veterans
It is a story of three veterans released from the army. During one night spent camping in the country they one...
Joachim, Put It in the Machine
A sincere provincial young man, Frantisek Koudelka leaves to work in Prague. For the trip he buys a computer ma...
Run, Waiter, Run!
A comedy concerning a down on his luck bookshop owner with a penchant for women who decides to make some money...
Konečná stanice
The story takes place in a retirement home and creates a mosaic of the lives of old people who are trying to fi...
The Medal
The trenches of World War I provide for a captivating backdrop to the drama of Corporal Hoferik. In his devotio...
Hotel Pacific
Set in the early 1930s, a young man finds a job as a dishwasher in a hotel and quickly works his way up the lad...
Polojasno
Únos domů
Libor is a teenager who, in a matter of minutes, finds himself transported from the exclusive world of today's...
Monstrum
Concert
Rock concerts used to be suspicious. They were supposed to attract all sorts of strange individuals who meant n...
Sugar House
In the final days of the Second World War in 1945 Frantisek Pribyl is killed during a shoot-out with the German...
Don Juan
Bulldogs and Cherries
The dreaded Italian mafioso, Marian Labuda, will also be convinced. Mafioso Carmello was guilty of the principl...
Oddělení zvláštní péče
Pomsta
Dlouhý podzimní den
A Valley of Beautiful Frogs
A fifteen years old Jana escapes summer camp wearing nothing but bikini...
Lost in Paradise
Evžen lives a bohemian life in Prague. An unexpected trip back to his homeland Switzerland confronts him with t...
Cold Sunday
A seemingly harmless fit of jealousy between two lovers brings about an increasingly sinister entanglement of e...
God's Sin
Hrích boha (God's Sin) is Agnieszka Holland's poetic vision of the world as a trap, based on the novel by Isaak...