10 Nov 1993
Warren Oates: Across the Border
A retrospective of the work of the late actor Warren Oates, with clips from his films and interviews with cast and crew members who worked with him.
Televise bude!
Flexible, powerful, and naive. The fates of three men intersect at the launch of Czechoslovak television broadcasting. Ambitious actor František Filipovský has no idea that his casual improvisation on the theme of "the miser" will go down in history. For Minister of Information Václav Kopecký, it is a moment of great nervousness: will he convince his comrades that television broadcasting is the golden goose of communist propaganda? A young television technician is fascinated by the "remote transmission of images and sound" – he has a job he never dreamed of. But can a person fulfill their dreams in communist Czechoslovakia in the 1950s without getting involved with the regime?
2014
Top Billed Cast
Braňo Holiček TV Technician
Pavel Nečas Václav Kopecký
Martin Matejka František Filipovský
Petr Jablonský František Filipovský (voice)
Daniel Šváb Camera Operator
Jakub Štěpán Camera Operator
Jakub Albrecht TV Technician No. 2
Mikuláš Čížek Sound Technician
Peter Chmela Assistant Director
Jiří Havelka Gentleman
Pavla Dostálová Young Woman
Miloš Kameník Committee Member
Radomír Kokeš Committee Member
Pavlína Míčová Committee Member
Jakub Blažek Child
Anna Sára Borzová Child
Anna Ilievová Child
Daniel Iliev Child
Jiří Iliev Child
Mária Ilievová Mother
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