Karel Dostal
- Title: Karel Dostal
- Popularity: 1.123
- Known For: Acting
- Birthday: 1884-03-14
- Place of Birth: Podebrady, Austria-Hungary
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- Also Known As: Карел Достал, Karel Bartolomějský Jan Dostal
6 1939 HD
When Vilem appears in the road with an unconscious young woman, it disturbs the peaceful life of three generations of the Balvínova family.
6.7 1942 HD
6.3 1941 HD
A writer of pulp crime novels is drawn into a series of real crimes. This film was one of the first Czech attempts on a genre parody.
6 1939 HD
Venice Film Festival 1939
6.8 1937 HD
In a country whose people have just been successfully persuaded of their superiority and the justification for military expansion by the fiery speeches of a dictator, the bacillus of a highly destructive form of leprosy has spread. It is called morbus Tshengi, or popularly „white disease“. The only one who has developed an effective cure for it is a physician of the poor named Galén. But he refuses to reveal the secret of his cure as long as the powerful destroy human lives through wars.
6.5 1938 HD
A morally questionable lord comes to the aid of a working class man who is to be executed for speaking out about thieving rich scoundrels sticking it to the poor.
5 1939 HD
Venice Film Festival 1940
6.5 1948 HD
People are afraid of the usurer Chazaj and are convinced that he is the bearer of evil. One day Chazaj pays a visit to the poor artist Simon Jordán and asks him to paint his portrait. Simon agrees but as he progresses with the work his mind conjures up terrible thoughts and in the end he commits suicide. The portrait looks lifelike and Chazaj is content with the results. After Chazaj's death the picture changes hands and brings misfortune to all who own it. The last victim is the young painter Roman who buys Chazaj's portrait in a bazaar. He finds a treasure in the frame and begins to live well off it. The comfortable life suits him so well that he rejects his original artistic aims and becomes a painter of fashionable kitsch.
8.1 1941 HD
9 1941 HD
Rudolf Bartoš, the owner of a farm, quarry and factory, is extremely rich, however, he is unapproachable and irritable, and the dread of his employees. One day he falls down a steep slope by a river and hurts himself. The quarryman Fábera finds him groaning in pain and takes him to his cottage.
6.5 1948 HD
In early 20th century Czechoslovakia, a gravely ill chemist recalls his discovery of a powerful explosive and how it landed in the hands of anarchists.
6.9 1937 HD
7 1943 HD
5 1931 HD
6.8 1937 HD
One of the few European films of the 30s to criticize the Nazis, even if they couldn't be directly named due to censorship: Gangsters with gray hats stir up trouble in what is obviously the Sudetenland.
3.5 1934 HD
6 1945 HD
5 1943 HD
1 1934 HD
1 1943 HD
5.5 1934 HD
5.5 1941 HD
5 1940 HD
1 1935 HD
7 1940 HD
6 1947 HD
5 1952 HD
7.5 1946 HD
Leopold Kohák married a rich widow a long time ago and now has nothing to do compared to his energetic wife. He's growing old and troubled by the fact that he betrayed his first love Emča and his beloved river Sázava where he spent his childhood and youth. A visit from an old friend Lebeda brings it all back to him. After a nervous breakdown Leopold secretly visits his home instead of going to the spa. A wandering tramp suggest Leopold should bathe in the magical waters of the Sázava, and slowly his youth returns to him.
6.3 1947 HD
1 1949 HD
Year of the Revolution 1848
5 1955 HD
Venice Film Festival 1955
1 1935 HD
8 1935 HD
5 1951 HD
1 1938 HD
6 1941 HD
7 1945 HD
Prague, the beginning of the 17th century. Rozina falls in love with Italian glass worker Nikolo, but after returning home, she gets a message that will never come to Prague. She falls for the promise of an older man to marry her, but when Nikolo does return, the tragic fate of Rozina is sealed.
6 1951 HD
5 1961 HD