Acting
Karel Effa
Karel Effa, originally named Karel Effenberger (May 23, 1922 in Prague - June 11, 1993 in Prague), was a Czech actor.
As a professional soldier during World War II, he served in the Government Army during the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, which was deployed to Italy. Here he later ran to the Czechoslovak troops fighting on the side of the Western Allies. After the war, he remained in the army with the rank of sergeant, playing and singing for two years in the newly formed Army Art Ensemble of Vít Nejedlý. From there he went to the Theater of Satire, from there to the Theater of State Film, from there to the Music Theater in Karlín, from where he briefly jumped to the ABC Theater to return to the Karlín Theater. He has been a member of the Semafor Theater since 1979.
Karel Effa was a very prominent comedian who created 71 smaller and episodic film roles during his life - such as the villain Pancho Kid in the Czech comedy Lemonade Joe or Horse Opera, the black Gustav in Zeman's famous film The Stolen Airship, or the treasure keeper in the fairy tale film Proud princess. Karel Effa worked for many years as a member of the Czechoslovak State Film Ensemble, resp. Film studio in Barrandov, he also performed in the Theater in Fidlovačka, or in the former musical theater in Prague's Nusle, he also worked in the post-war Theater of Satire.
In addition to performing in theater and film, he has given six thousand touring performances during his lifetime, where he has used his folk humor, playing the guitar and singing tramp songs. He also remained a hiker all his life, he went to Brdy, often to the settlement of Ztracenka.
In 1964, he became a founding member of the Department of Friends and Supporters of Slavia, which aimed to save and lift football Slavia, which at the time lived in the Second Football League.
Filmography
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Amadeus
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic...
Thirty Cases of Major Zema
Thirty Cases of Major Zeman is a Czechoslovak action-drama television show intended as a political propaganda t...
Pan Tau
Pan Tau always had a gentle expression and a friendly smile, he was elegantly dressed in a stroller, with an um...
Nemocnice na kraji města
Hospital at the End of the City is a popular television series first released in Czechoslovakia in 1977, it fea...
The Flying Cestmir
Young boy Cestmir finds a magic rock which allows him to bring the seeds of the flowers which allow flying from...
Dnes v jednom domě
Klapzubova jedenáctka
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
A 20th century man lands on the Moon and discovers that Baron Munchausen has beaten him to it, accompanied by C...
When the Cat Comes
While old Oliva tells a group of children about his life as a sailor and how he met Diana and her cat with sung...
Circus in the Circus
To Moscow have arrived the participants of the international conference of the zoophilologists and also the int...
Lemonade Joe
A satire of the Great American Way, with Lemonade Joe a "clean living" gunfighter who drinks only Kola-Loca Lem...
Secret of the Chinese Carnation
Professor Wilkens has invented a formula for a new type of fuel and puts it on a microfiche that he sends to hi...
The Feather Fairy
A fairy-tale about an old lady who takes care of snow and Jakub who does not fear death. It reflects the idea o...
Ze staré drogerie
Distant Journey
Prague, during World War II. Hana Kaufmann, a Jewish ophthalmologist, marries Dr. Antonín Bureš, a Christian ma...
On the Comet
When a comet passes the Earth very closely, it pulls a small part of North Africa, and a small swathe of humani...
A Great Road Ahead
About the great Czech satirist Jaroslav Hašek, who was captured by the Russians during the First World War. Not...
Florián
A mobile chapel of St. Florian is moved every week between the villages of Zbořov and Spáňovice. The farmer Flo...
The Princess with the Golden Star
A Czech fairy tale about a princess named Lada who runs away from home in a mouse fur disguise in order to esca...
A Night at Karlstein
No Woman is allowed into Karlstejn Castle! Yet the enamoured Daniele Kolářová and the equally enamoured Jana Br...
The Terribly Sad Princess
Like a fairy tale, King Henry and King Good-thought decided long ago that their only children should marry and...
Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet
When famous detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in strange case of a missing dog and even...
The Stolen Airship
Five young people take off in a lighter-than-air machine at the Prague Centennial Exhibition. A live-action/ani...
May Stars
May 1945. On the outskirts of Prague, ordinary people meet Soviet soldiers-liberators with tears of joy in thei...
Barrandovské nokturno aneb Jak film tančil a zpíval
The 50th anniversary of the Barrandov studios was celebrated with a spectacular show: many directors and other...
Who Wants to Kill Jessie?
In this zany Czechoslovakian comedy, a scientist invents a machine that projects a sleeping person's dream on a...
Long Live Ghosts!
A trespassing gang of boys encounter a ghost in the ruins of a castle. When they rescue the ghost who is caught...
The Jester's Tale
An anti-war black comedy set during the Thirty Years' War. It follows ploughman Petr, recruiter Matěj and count...
Hasek’s Tales from the Old Monarchy
Four short stories by the greatest Czech satirist Jaroslav Hašek. "Soup for Poor Children" tells the story of h...
The Pipes
This three-part Austrian/Czech comedy stretches the boundaries of what is considered to be humorous. Part one f...
Four Murders Are Enough, Darling
Two criminal gangs are ruthlessly fighting for a 1-million dollar check that, purely by chance, got into the fl...
Pochodně
Prague in the 1870s. Work in Smolík's sulphur factory is hard and dangerous to health. The poorly paid workers...
The Lost Photography
A young boy from Prague is trying to find a Soviet soldier from the old 1945 picture.
The Ninth Heart
Martin, a poor student, volunteers to go on a quest to find a cure for the princess Adriana, who is stricken wi...
Old Ironside
At the end of the war, the old train driver Matys saves his beloved locomotive Líza from depth charges. However...