Jiří Lír
Popularity:0.1878
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1923-06-19
Place of Birth:Skrýsov by Pelhrimov, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
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Also Known As:J. Lír , Jirí Lír, Jiri Lir

A Story of Love and Honor (1978)
A story of love and honor that takes place during the mid-nineteenth century during revolutions, as well as economic, political, and social...

The Moravian Land (1978)
The reason for making this film is clear: it was to cover up Vojtěch Jasný's famous chronicle "All the Good Natives", an account of the...

Šestapadesát neomluvených hodin (1977)
Two young, inexperienced students, dissatisfied with the demands of their teachers and the mentoring of their parents, try to cross illegally into...

Oddechový čas (1978)
The drama of a man for whom work has become the only meaning of life. His cold and impersonal manner arouses the disapproval of his colleagues and...

Quiet American in Prague (1978)
In the era of normalization, even seemingly buried agent stories came back. This one takes place in the immediate post-war years and tells the story...

Vítězný lid (1978)
February 1948. The struggle of decisive social forces for the heart of Europe.

My Sweet Little Village (1985)
The movie's main storyline follows the life of Otík, a young man, in a tight-knit village community. The sweet-tempered Otík works as...

Ledoví muži (1961)
An official of a declining hockey club has a tip for a prodigy shooter: a young teacher Havranek is famous for his hits in a fairground shooting...

Koncert pro mantinely (1977)
A musical and entertaining féerie based on the contrast between the world of classical music with its musicians and the world of sports with...

Pumpaři od Zlaté podkovy (1979)
A petrol pump is run by a permanent team: the manager Vávra, a former civil engineer ing. Stejskal, a smug crook named Karafa, and an old man,...

Trasa (1979)
Experiences of a Tatra factory driver during demanding load tests of Tatra 148 trucks in extremely harsh climatic conditions during the construction...

Skandál v Gri-Gri baru (1979)
Two young returnees from the First World War face a difficult future because they cannot find work. One eventually finds a job as an electrician, the...

The Young Man and Moby Dick (1979)
Good-looking Edita Beningerová (Jana Brejchová) arrives at a chemical factory in the North Bohemian town of Ústí nad...

Když kluci drží basu (1978)
A telephone mechanic secretly pursues his passion for hunting, deceiving his wife and enlisting friends to cover for him. After a successful hunt, he...

Čas pracuje pro vraha (1980)
Vera, wife of the plumber Simandl (Josef Somr), is found murdered in the cinema next to the IDOC (Information and Documentation) agency where she...

Hodinářova svatební cesta korálovým mořem (1980)
This wacky musical comedy builds on absurd ideas, parodic humour and many variously subverted references to famous...

Hon na kočku (1980)
Bláža is a bland-looking student who is eager for her first love experience. Even though experienced men are interested in her, she doesn't...

Love Between the Raindrops (1980)
Set in Prague during the years leading up to World War II, this family saga tells the story of a cobbler named Vincenc Bursik (Vladimir Mensik), who...

Pan Vok odchází (1980)
The former reputed lover and bon vivant Petr Vok from Rožmberk was widowed at the age of sixty-three. The loss of his much younger wife is hard to...

Julek (1980)
The future communist journalist Julius Fučík had a stimulating childhood and youth in a working-class environment, when his moral maturity...

The End of Agent W4C (1967)
The invincible agent Cyril Juan Borguette alias W4C has been assigned a mission to go to a hotel in Prague, get hold of a saltcellar with a plan for...

O chudém královstvíčku (1979)
The mischievous princess Anka annoys her father and her surroundings with her original tricks. So as punishment, the devil Haramáš...

Prípad Platfus (1985)
The main character of the story is a former biology teacher named Montelík, who ends up in court when he loses his temper and hits his former...

Blázni, vodníci a podvodníci (1981)
A crazy comedy, turning into a grotesque with a number of absurd elements, tells the tangled story of the over-the-top siblings Zuzana and Petr,...

Dům na Ořechovce (1959)
The growing conflict between the unruly owner of the villa and his lodger ends up in court. The cohabitation ends in bodily harm - and the film...

Krvavý román (1969)
The television adaptation of Jaroslav Hašek's satirical short story.

Morgiana (1972)
Jealous of her vapidly "good" sister's popularity, poisonous Viktoria doses pretty Klara's tea with a slow-acting fatal substance. As the latter...

Požáry a spáleniště (1981)
Antonín Kachlík wanted to make committed films about the moral dilemmas of the working class, but in the era of normalisation, he could...

Rukojmí v Bella Vista (1980)
The film thematically follows the stories of the TV series "30 cases of Major Zeman". We can meet Major Zeman again with Lieutenant Colonel Zitny,...

I Survived Certain Death (1960)
Telling the prisoners of a death camp. Boxer Tony Majer, who got into a concentration camp for a fight with the Gestapo, remembers the murderous work...

Každému jeho nebe (1982)
The life of cabaret and theater actress Xena Longenová.

Basically Normal (1982)
The film follows Karel Novák, who is appointed as the head of a research institute's new department. His ambitious wife, Eva, sees this as an...

Velká sázka o malé pivo (1982)
The year is 1946 and the story takes us to a great bar among the characters of Prague's gallery. A professional conman, commonly known as "The...

Lucie (1964)
The leader of the fast-track workers' party is appointed worker director of the unprofitable Lucie mine. The wrong decisions he makes to increase...

Hearty Greetings from the Globe (1983)
Two aliens stir up trouble on Earth in order to study humans. Misunderstandings ensue.

Zelená vlna (1982)
A short film about Prague, Prague residents, and the beginning of the weekend.

Lucy, the Menace of Street (1984)
A first part of a funny adventures of six years old Lucie and her two magic dolls.

Do We Match Each Other, Darling? (1975)
Marta (Jana Brejchová) and Viktor (Vlastimil Brodský) celebrate the tenth anniversary of their wedding half-heartedly. They both think...

'Okay, Boss...!' (1978)
Láda Pitras (Ludek Sobota) and Oto Vacák (Petr Nározný) founded in the company Pragokov a Research department of...

Bulldogs and Cherries (1981)
The dreaded Italian mafioso, Marian Labuda, will also be convinced. Mafioso Carmello was guilty of the principles of his organization when he tried...

Králi, já mám nápad (1984)
The king is comfortable and does not want to be ruled, so he announces a competition for inventors. He wants them to invent something that will make...

If a Thousand Clarinets (1965)
A military base. An awkward soldier. A statue of Bach. And suddenly all guns in the area change into music instruments. Great mystery is immediately...

Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (1966)
In this zany Czechoslovakian comedy, a scientist invents a machine that projects a sleeping person's dream on a screen; disaster soon follows when...

When You Have a Holiday Dominique (1967)
Eight-year old Dominique has a name-day. Her parents have a gift for her, but only give it to her in the evening, when everybody has come home from...

The Limping Devil (1968)
A baleful limping man walks through Prague. He is Asmodeus (Juraj Herz), the fiend of lustfulness, entertaining himself by putting together by magic...

Payment in Kind (1980)
In an unusual, apolitical approach, director Jaromil Jires has fashioned a standard drama that features an older lawyer with failing health who goes...

A Nice Plate of Spinach (1977)
The heroes of this absurd comedy, full of confusion and humor are Dzharda Zemanek and Frantisek Liska.

Four Murders Are Enough, Darling (1971)
Two criminal gangs are ruthlessly fighting for a 1-million dollar check that, purely by chance, got into the flat of shy high school teacher George...

Přehlídce velím já! (1969)
A cunning plan to deprive an "illegal millionaire" of his ill-gotten wealth. But the catch is that someone else has an even more subtle plan...

Slasti Otce vlasti (1969)
The young Prince Charles (Jaromír Hanzlík), the future King of his country Charles IV, is being educated at the French court in the...

Witchhammer (1970)
In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imaginary witchery, and engages in brutal...

I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen (1970)
This futuristic science fiction comedy features an atomic bomb blast that causes women to grow beards and lose the ability to have children. A summit...

Rekviem za rytierov (1970)
A tragicomic tale of the wondrous adventures of two medieval Sitnian knights who venture into the twentieth century with the intent to banish the...

Lítost (1970)
The popular folk singer Jaro Zárubecký, a former waiter, follows the motto "A man is not what he is, but what people think of him", and...

Svatby pana Voka (1971)
Czech nobleman Petr Vok of Rozmberk (Milos Kopecký) is no longer so young, but his amatory adventures continue to arouse the envy of men and...

The Girl on the Broomstick (1972)
A teenage witch, Saxana (Petra Černocká), frozen in time as a punishment for 300 years, finds herself in a modern world.

Five Men and One Heart (1971)
In modern hospitals are carried out intensive cardiac surgery. Daily operations individually comments attendant Cajthaml ... Stylized ,, dream "scene...

Carlsbad Ponies (1971)
Angelika, a ten years old daughter of a spa visitor Bachmann is terribly bored in Karlovy Vary spa. Her father enjoys different spa procedures,...

Straw Hat (1972)
Slacker Maurice Fadinar wasted his whole inheritance and the only way out of this situation, as it seems, to marry Helen Nonankur - daughter of a...

Kam slunce nechodí... (1971)
Sometimes a person faces a difficult decision. Morality is on one scale, money is on the other. A theoretically easy equation for an honest man. But...

Konečně si rozumíme (1977)
After a few months at the spa, 14-year-old Pavel discovers that his love, his classmate Zuzana, has outgrown him. In addition, she has found a new...

Affairs of my Wife (1973)
Doctor Adéla Neradová, a medical doctor, has succumbed to the desire to uncover a criminal and become a kind of Sherlock Holmes in...

Legenda, the Robber (1973)
It is 1905. The police director gets Jindrich Legenda (Eduard Cupák) shadowed as, yet Legenda had served his sentence for a burglary, the...

Svět otevřený náhodám (1972)
An unemployed young man in the second half of the 1930s, he tries various ways of making a living and, under the influence of a group of communist...

Silvestr na přání aneb Čí jsou hory Kavčí (1977)

Silvestr budiž pestr aneb Do půlnoci mnoho času nezbývá (1972)

Love (1973)
Sixteen-year-old students of a grammar school are supposed to write essays on "Love". The class best student Andrea (Jaroslava Schallerová)...

A Night at Karlstein (1974)
No Woman is allowed into Karlstejn Castle! Yet the enamoured Daniele Kolářová and the equally enamoured Jana Brejchová manage...

Tři nevinní (1974)
The car thief Halama, the shy groom Poupě, the divorcing jealous Pic and the mustachioed cinema projectionist Vlk are suspected of robbing the...

A Valley of Beautiful Frogs (1974)
A fifteen years old Jana escapes summer camp wearing nothing but bikini...

Zatykač na královnu (1974)
Captain Záruba investigates after an anonymous tip flags the seemingly extravagant lifestyle of Chemotex technician Dagmar...

Almost King (1977)
A fairy tale about how those who have a heart and are not stingy will not fail. The most popular hero of Czech fairy tales, besides the brave prince...

A Star Is Falling Upwards (1975)
Švand, a room painter from Strakonice, begins a dizzying career as a pop music star, but he soon discovers that fame is not the most important...

Na startu je delfín (1975)
The teenage hero tries his best to meet the nomination limit for important races, but his coach's insensitive approach causes him to temporarily lose...

Televize v Bublicích aneb Bublice v televizi (1974)
The news that the television is going to make a film about the cooperative's leisure activities leads the locals to extraordinary social and sporting...

Akce v Istanbulu (1975)
A communist agent, who has successfully caught on with the stupidly gullible American secret services, does not have it easy - he is threatened with...

Borisek (1976)
The ten-year-old orphan Borisek is fathered by the entire military unit. The boy serves there with determination as a medic. When he and the soldiers...

Hotel Pacific (1975)
Set in the early 1930s, a young man finds a job as a dishwasher in a hotel and quickly works his way up the ladder. Loosely based on the novel by...

A Girl Fit to Be Killed (1976)
The waitress Gita from the hotel "Bobí vrch" approaches her lover who has not left his wife yet and gives him an ultimatum: if he does not do...

Hudba kolonád (1975)
The International Festival of Magicians in Karlovy Vary: one of the performances is stylized as a memory of the eskamotero Vili Brod, who also...

Zrcadlo pro Kristýnu (1976)
The 19-year-old volleyball player has been bedridden for a long time due to a spinal injury. The self-confident and energetic girl has time to recap...

Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (1976)
This comedy is about one average family. The father works as master in the factory and his son is studying on high school. One day father must start...

Wine Working (1976)
It is the summer of 1968 and also in South Moravian Pálavice appear political clashes. The so far peacefully farming Unified farmers'...

Čas lásky a naděje (1976)
A colour-printed melodramatic selanca from the beginnings of the organised labour movement in Bohemia... Antonín Zápotocký, the...

Náš dědek Josef (1977)
Set in a 1950s Moravian wine village, an elderly Josef, guided by his quirky life philosophy and humor, recalls key moments from his past. Across...

Dům Na poříčí (1977)
The film was based on the novel "Milión" by Karel Štorkán. The book and the film depict the events surrounding the great...

Ratili (1984)
Dreaming of creating a Czech musical theater, not recognized in his homeland, Josef Navratil, under the pseudonym of Iosif Ratili, one day comes on...

Our Gang (1977)
Energetic Dr. Alice Váňová becomes the pit doctor at Mír Mine and spearheads a silicosis prevention study requiring miners to...

Barrandovské nokturno aneb Jak film tančil a zpíval (1985)
The 50th anniversary of the Barrandov studios was celebrated with a spectacular show: many directors and other important people gathered in the...

Hubert the Smart Boy (1985)
Hubert Hrabe, known as Smart Boy, is a Prague dandy who is always skirting the edge of the law. Like every likable rogue, he has a worthy adversary -...

Čertův švagr (1984)
An evil and calculating stepmother chases her stepson out of the house. Petr tries in vain to find a job, but he is sent to hell everywhere. So he...

Amadeus (1984)
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young...

The Cremator (1969)
In 1930s Prague, a Czech cremator who firmly believes cremation relieves one from earthly suffering is drawn inexorably to Nazism.

Prince and the Evening Star (1979)
A wonderful fairytale about looking for love, defeating evil and learning some valuable moral lessons on the way. The story begins with the young...

Podivná přátelství herce Jesenia (1986)
Dramatic fates of people hidden behind a theatrical mask.

To byla svatba, strýčku (1977)
Alfons is invited by his brother-in-law to his niece's wedding. The uncle arrives in his luxury car. However, the wedding guests ignore his anxious...

Circus in the Circus (1976)
To Moscow have arrived the participants of the international conference of the zoophilologists and also the international jury which is to elect for...

I'll Be Good, Old Man! (1979)
To the intolerant and bloody-minded Prague actor Bergner (Milos Kopecký) is the lead in Moliere's Misanthrope which he is studying now as...

How to Wake a Princess (1978)
At long last, King Dalimil and Queen Eliška have produced an heir, Princess Růženka. Consumed with envy, Eliška’s sister...

The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians (1981)
In 1897, in a castle near the town of Werewolfville in the Carpithians, a slightly deranged Professor Orfanik experiments with his new inventions...

Men About Town (1969)
Three blue collar workers have a night out in big city Prague.

How to Drown Dr. Mracek, the Lawyer (1975)
There are still water spirits among us. One group lives in Prague, led by Mr. Wassermann, who is using his wife's family as a servants. All they need...

Zlatá flétna (1988)
The fairy tale tells the story of two musicians, Princess Clara and the magician Manetti. Tomáš and Jakub free the princess from the...

We'll Kick Up a Fuss Tomorrow, Darling... (1976)
Mr. Novak tells a lie to his neighbor Mrs. Bartackova that her husband is unfaithful to her and that is how it all started.

Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977)
Former Nazi Klaus Abard survives to the 1990s by taking anti-ageing pills. He plans to use a time travel trip to return to Germany in 1944 and...

Co je doma to se počítá, pánové... (1980)
For the Novák and Bartáček families, money is king, and they'll do just about anything to get it. While René Novák...

The Beggar's Opera (1991)
Unlike any other opera, the so-called Beggar's Opera is not just one composition, but a lineage of adapted compositions, beginning with the original...

My Brother Has a Cute Brother (1975)
Honza Pavelka (Jan Hrusínský) wins the junior motorbike speed races. His thirteen-year-old brother Martin (Roman Cada), his assistant...

On the Comet (1970)
When a comet passes the Earth very closely, it pulls a small part of North Africa, and a small swathe of humanity, along with it.

You Are a Widow, Sir (1971)
After a soldier cuts off the arm of king's cousin, king decides to deactivate the army. Of course, generals don't like it at all and they try to kill...

Rumburak (1984)
In this fairy-tale comedy, a clumsy second-rate wizard, Rumburak, gets stuck in the world of humans. He has forgotten the spell that allows him to...

O nejchytřejší princezně (1987)
The princess had been proclaiming herself to be the smartest of them all for so long that the people in the castle had to believe it. Only the prince...

Run, Waiter, Run! (1981)
A comedy concerning a down on his luck bookshop owner with a penchant for women who decides to make some money by pretending to be a waiter and...

The Unfortunate Bridegroom (1967)
A comedy about two bumbling policemen investigating an alleged rape in a small Czech town. One of the alleged rapists is supposed to get married the...

Terrible Woman (1965)
A doctor of social sciences - a specialist in failing marriages - becomes jealous. He imagines his skater wife in various situations, but always on...

The Last Butterfly (1991)
Stage mime Antoine Moreau is compelled by the Gestapo to put on a performance for the children of Terezin, a "model" concentration camp, to convince...

The Fate of Baron Leisenbohg (1991)
The 35-year-old ministry official Baron Leisenbohg had the stage career ten years ago as the cast of the "Queen of the Night", opera that promoted...

Chief, It's Amazing (1982)
Criminal comedy, a first movie from the "Chief" series.

Zlatá svatba (1972)
At the beginning of normalisation in the 1970s, the appearance of ideologically tinged stories intensified, but there were also attempts to create...

Komedie s Klikou (1964)
On the train to Prague, the bride-to-be Zuzana Vítová accidentally meets the clerk Dr. Karel Jánský. Upon arriving in...

Hroch (1973)
The bank officer Bedrich Hroch is sent by the bank director to the zoo, which asked an allocation of one and half kg of gold for a gold tooth for a...

Black and White Sylva (1962)
A character from a musical film falls into the real world in this short, predating similar films by Woody Allen (The Purple Rose of Cairo) and...

Dogs and People (1971)
The first short story "Naked in the Thorns" tells the story of a man whose clothes were taken away by a dog during his bath in the river. In the...

This Is How Love Begins... (1975)
Two hilarious short stories set in the milieu of apprentice youth, depicting the amorous travails of teenage boys. In the first story, "The Sorrows...

Rambling Engelbert (1973)
Rambling Engelbert: 1973 Czechoslovakian T.V. movie musical

Kdo je kdo (1974)
Two young men, indistinguishably alike, decide to swap. But with one a popular singer and the other a car mechanic, fitting into their new "life...

Tod am Mississippi (1974)
USA 1964: Three young men are arrested on suspicion of speeding. As it turns out, they are employees of a civil rights center in Mississippi who are...

Jak se naučit švédsky (1979)
The protagonist is supposed to go to a graduation reunion and, because she is ashamed to reveal that she is still lonely and unmarried, she makes up...

Kat nepočká (1972)
In 1944, the popular film actress Hlínová is arrested by the Gestapo for sheltering a Resistance man. A film producer uses his...

Mikoláš Aleš (1952)
A biographical film about the famous Czech painter Mikoláš Aleš, portrayed as part of the vanguard of the working class and a...

Lemonade Joe (1964)
A satire of the Great American Way, with Lemonade Joe a "clean living" gunfighter who drinks only Kola-Loca Lemonade and convinces everyone else in...

The Hero Is Afraid (1966)
Honza Vavrinec (Rudolf Hrusínský) works in the investment department of a large office. One day he gets involved in the case of an...

Wolfgang A. Mozart (1991)
When rumors spread about a "child prodigy" among the Mozarts in Salzburg, the archbishop orders an investigation in which the seven-year-old Wolfgang...

Deset malých běloušků (1993)
Ivan Mládek's detective parody takes us to a private birthday party, which an eccentric count livens up for his own amusement by inviting the...

Martin and Nine Fools (1966)
Captain Martin from the police's child department and his colleague Kraus are called to Znojmo to help solve a case regarding stolen toys found in...

Výhra admirála Kotrby (1981)
Former sailor Kotrba, nicknamed the Admiral, has one dream, to take his own ship to sea. He's been building it for five years and now it's finished,...

Svatební cesta aneb Ještě ne, Evžene! (1966)
After a night of partying together, the groom-to-be and his friend wake up to find that the wedding is taking place today. The movers are already...

Trik aneb Jak dámu okouzlit aneb Jak manžela oblafnout (1964)

Hodinář (1988)
The story takes place in Prague in the 1930s. An old trickster watchmaker named Sakař fakes an illness to get into the hospital. A young doctor from...

Bohyně krásy (1984)
The pre-Christmas period in a household with four small, temperamental children creates a comedy in itself. But when problems with the password lock...

Posel úsvitu (1951)
A biographical film about a Czech mechanic and designer who was the first in the Czech lands to construct a steam car.

Příště budeme chytřejší, staroušku! (1982)
This satirical comedy depicts the fate of two con artists who constantly encounter sharper and more experienced rivals. In their quest for easy...

Přísně tajné premiéry (1968)
A crime writer is accused of being too imaginative and his ideas unworkable, but everything changes when an international criminal demands his...

Tobě hrana zvonit nebude (1975)
At the end of August, a young woman is chased by an angry mob of hooligans under the windows of a bus because she decides to tear down a poster...

The Good Soldier Švejk (1957)
Good-natured and garrulous, Schweik becomes the Austrian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of World War I --...

Vintage Car (1957)
The history of motoring in Bohemia begins when Laurin and Klement founded a factory for the production of motorcycles. In 1904, the first motorcycle...

The End of a Priest (1969)
A verger, who likes to dress as a priest, is invited, by one of the villagers, to be the pastor at a vacant church. The atheist teacher resents the...

The Seventh Day, the Eighth Night (1990)
An allegory set in an archetypal Czech village, it tells of what happens when a sequence of mysterious events take place, including the disappearance...

Etudes for Piano Students (1987)
Films for children gradually fell into the grip of expressive and content sterility, succumbing to exhortative, educational tendencies. This is also...

The Octopuses from the Second Floor (1987)
While on vacation with their bickering parents, young Eva and her little brother Johnny find in a polluted lake two strange friendly sentient...

On a Wayward Princess (1987)
Princess Julia doesn't want to marry an old prince Hubert so she runs away from home. She meets two old magicians and join the circus, where she...

Zuřivý reportér (1988)
Josef Laufer portrays Egon Erwin Kisch in two daring journalistic adventures: in “Zuřivý reportér,” Kisch goes undercover...

An Angel Seduces the Devil (1988)
Once again, you can take a look behind the scenes of the Riviera Chateau on the Prague periphery, where a brothel for the socialites is hidden under...

Horká kaše (1989)
In the 1980s, a number of films were made about teenagers. At first they dealt with the confusing search for life orientation, the difficult entry...

The End of Old Times (1990)
Czechoslovakia 1918. The newly formed National Assembly has made Stoklasa the administrator of the Kratochvile Castle. Although with no aristocratic...

Arabela (1980)
Arabela was a children's television series produced in Czechoslovakia which aired from 1979 to 1981. The series has 13 episodes and is in the Czech...

Pan Tau (1970)
Pan Tau always had a gentle expression and a friendly smile, he was elegantly dressed in a stroller, with an umbrella and a white carnation in the...

Thirty Cases of Major Zema (1976)
Thirty Cases of Major Zeman is a Czechoslovak action-drama television show intended as a political propaganda to support the official attitude of the...

Chalupáři (1975)
Chalupáři is a Czechoslovak comedy TV series filmed in 1974 and 1975 by František Filip.