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Josef Zíma

Josef Zíma

Josef Zíma is a Czech actor , singer and moderator. Apart from pop music, he is known as the singer of a brass band . He is often referred to as the unruly king of Czech brass band music .

He is married to the actress Eva Klepáčová .

After studying in Prague , he studied acting , he also privately taught singing . From 1948 to 1951 he was a member of the Conservatoire 's Folk Ensemble, and since 1950 he sang in solo with the Jaroslav Ježek Orchestra . After completing his studies he gained his first actor engagement in Benesov near Prague , where he worked in the years 1953-1955 . From 1955 to 1957 he served in the Army. After military service he entered the Theater of Satire (today's ABC Theater at the U Nováků palace). In 1958 he sang 'Blues for you', it was the first record on which the first song was released by Jiří Suchý as the author.

In 1959 he caused an accident . The singer and chanterist Judita Čeřovská , Alena Pánková, himself and director Jiří Jungwirth, who was later died in the hospital, were seriously injured.

From 1962 to 1992 , so for 30 years, he was engaged in the Prague Chamber Theater (which was a theater that belonged to a group of theaters belonging to the Prague Municipal Theaters).

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Movies Starring Josef Zíma (28)

Pocta Karlu Gottovi (2022)

A celebration of Czech music. This is a concert featuring the biggest names on the domestic pop scene. Dozens of singers paid tribute to Karel Gott, a musical legend loved not only in our country. You will hear many of his beautiful and famous songs, inclu ...

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Pamětnice (2009)

Former classmates meet after sixty years at a school reunion, undoubtedly their last, face to face with their classmate Miluška Bínová. Bínová, once the most popular classmate, returns to her hometown after many years, determined to find out which of ...

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Pocta V+W (2005)

Jiří Suchý recalls two of the most prominent artistic and creative figures in Czechoslovak culture of the last century: Jiří Voskovec and Jan Werich. ...

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Plaváček (1986)

At Plavaček's cradle, fortune-tellers predict his fate for a princess wife, the king's daughter. ...

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Zvony pana Mlácena (1973)

A certain Mr. Mlácen is brought to the asylum, wanting to sell two church bells. He first offers them to merchants in an inn. He claims that he received them as an inheritance from his uncle, but he doesn't know what to do with them. But no one wants to b ...

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Burglar and Umbrella (1971)

In the morning twilight of Prague, the dead body of the safe-breaker Toufar is found floating on the river Vltava with a knife in his back. Police inspectors visit Toufar's lover, the prostitute Anna Kulatá (Jirina Bohdalová), nicknamed Umbrella, and it ...

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Bylo čtvrt a bude půl (1968)

Getting into the popular music spotlight is not easy, as even an enthusiastic amateur, an overconfident young man whose singing career soon fails, will find out... A tantalising insight into the backstage of the entertainment industry, neither the musical ...

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Ta naše písnička česká (1967)

The Haszler songs of Prague, so popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, have not aged. They are still sung in pubs and on construction sites, in short, everywhere. They also have their place in the love stories from old Prague, so bea ...

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Never Strike A Woman... Even with A Flower (1967)

Shortish forty-year old Ludvík Podzimek, lute and flute player in a Prague orchestra, is far from being an attractive man. He is nevertheless generally considered a great 'Don Juan'. Women take up with him out of a certain motherly compassion and Ludvík' ...

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Lov na mamuta (1965)

A young man tries to enter the building of the Mammoth Cybernetic Supermachines Research Institute again and again but each time the doorkeeper spots him and kicks him out. The youth finally arrives with all his friends and a huge live bear from the circus ...

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Šach mat (1964)

A live, semi-documentary TV broadcast investigates why former prisoner Dr. Benet collapsed after defeating world chess champion Mirko Čentovič aboard the ship Victoria. The crew stages a detailed reconstruction of the fateful game on deck, interviews wit ...

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Sedmý kontinent (1961)

Together with a group of temporary workers, a group of experienced labourers is building a land reclamation system to turn the South Bohemian marshes into a "Seventh Continent" of fertile soil. ...

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Balada z hadrů (1960)

Jan Werich and Miroslav Horníček in the legendary play of the Liberated Theatre. ...

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The Young Lady from the Riverside (1959)

The young worker Helena Pokorná and her widowed father are employed in the same factory. The father is spending his holidays at home in Prague and is looking forward to work. Helena is to go to the seaside for a rewarding holiday. On a hot July day, the g ...

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The Princess with the Golden Star (1959)

A Czech fairy tale about a princess named Lada who runs away from home in a mouse fur disguise in order to escape an unwanted and forced marriage. ...

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Páté kolo u vozu (1958)

Although the emancipated editor of a women's magazine proclaims that grandparents in particular should not be abused by their adult children, she accepts without scruple the fact that her mother, still a sprightly pensioner, works in her household as a jac ...

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Puppies (1958)

Explores young adults' fears of being conscripted by the communist government into working outside of Prague, a relative oasis of creativity and freedom of thought. From an early script by Milos Forman. ...

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An Easy Life (1957)

Depiction of Czech students in the 1950s. The kids are less interested in communism than in rock n' roll. Czech authorities deemed the work decadent and subversive, which led to the director being kicked out of film school. ...

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Movies Made By Josef Zíma (2)

Lady on the Tracks (1966)

Tram driver Marie has far too much to do after her shift is over. But she likes to do it all since she loves her husband Václav sincerely. One day she spots him on the Lesser Town Square in Prague, kissing an attractive blonde good-bye. It seems to Marie ...

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Alibi on the Lake (1966)

Miss Nováková reports to Major Tuma (Karel Höger) from the police about the disappearance of her roommate, the model Zuzana. Shortly afterwards, a film director named Konrád (Otomar Krejca) asks Tuma to cooperate on a new cinéma-vérité film describi ...

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