Direction: Martin Fric

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Martin Fric. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Baron Munchhausen

1940 · Movie · 99 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Martin Fric

Cast Vlasta Burian · Antonin Mikulic · Meda Valentová · Zorka Janu

Plot Arnost Benda gets a job in the baron Prasil's family as he is secretly married to baron's daughter Karlicka. The baron takes Arnost for his illegitimate son. The grotesque chaos...

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Auntie's Fantasies

1941 · Movie · 78 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Martin Fric

Cast Rùzena Nasková · Ferenc Futurista · Frantisek Smolík · Theodor Pistek

Plot Rich spinster Berta celebrates her sixtieth birthday. Her faithful admirer Dr. Jelinek proposes. But Berta can not forget Eduard, the great love of her life, and refuses the offer. Meanwhile...

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Journey into the Depth of the Student's Soul

1939 · Movie · 88 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Martin Fric

Cast Jindrich Plachta · Jaroslav Marvan · Frantisek Vnoucek · Milos Nedbal

Plot Small stories from a grammar school.

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Hotel Modrá hvezda

1941 · Movie · 89 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Martin Fric

Cast Natasa Gollová · Oldrich Nový · Adina Mandlová · Ella Nollová

Plot The young Zuzana (Natasa Gollová) becomes the heiress of the Modrá hvězda hotel. After an initial error with a luxury hotel of the same name, you arrive at the correct...

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Chudá holka

1930 · Movie · 82 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Martin Fric

Cast Suzanne Marwille · Blanka Svobodová · Karel Fiala · Antonie Nedosinská

Plot The illegitimate child, Marie Ruzová, grows up in the family of the miller Borický. She spends her childhood and youth with Borický's son, Klement. Klement studies law, becomes a lawyer...

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Business in Distress

1931 · Movie · 89 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Martin Fric · Karel Lamac

Cast Vlasta Burian · Meda Valentová · Otto Rubík · Marie Grossová

Plot Finnicky efficiency expert is sent to straighten out business management problems at a jazz club, finds self being drawn into the swingin' scene.

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The Twelve Chairs

1933 · Movie · 66 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Martin Fric · Michal Waszynski

Cast Vlasta Burian · Adolf Dymsza · Zula Pogorzelska · Zofia Jaroszewska

Plot The barber by name of Ferdinand Suplátko learns that the late aunt has left him it all her money and house. He immediately goes to Warszawa for inheritance, but there...

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Kristian

1939 · Movie · 95 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Martin Fric

Cast Oldrich Nový · Natasa Gollová · Raoul Schránil · Bedrich Veverka

Plot A common clerk from a travel agency has an uncommon avocation. Each month he saves his small salary so he can spend it in an expensive bar and experience a...

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Varúj...!

1947 · Movie · 85 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Palo Bielik · Martin Fric

Cast Palo Bielik · Jirina Stepnicková · Július Pántik · Arnold Flögl

Plot In Slovakia, soon before the WWI, shepherd Ondrej Muranica flees the tyranny of Hungarian landowners to America. But a mining accident destroys his dreams and hopes of a better and...

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Recipe for a Crime (TV)

1967 · Movie · min. · Czechoslovakia

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Heave Ho!

1934 · Movie · 99 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Martin Fric

Cast George Voskovec · Jan Werich · Helena Busová · Josef Skrivan

Plot A Milk-Cannery baron, Jakub Simonides, is broken by the Canned Milk-Trust and, in his wanderings with a worker, Filip Kornet, he discovers he still owns a half-finished apartment-house. They rally...

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A Charming Man

1941 · Movie · 86 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Martin Fric

Cast Oldrich Nový · Ladislav Pesek · Natasa Gollová · Lída Chválová

Plot Viktor Blaha is a newspaper man addicted to lying. Since he is known as a charming fellow, his old friend Molenda invites him to a wedding party to amuse his...

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Valentin the Good

1942 · Movie · 97 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Martin Fric

Cast Oldrich Nový · Hana Vítová · Milada Gampeová · Ladislav Pesek

Plot The hardworking and careful clerk Valentin Plavec works in an insurance company. He is very good-hearted and naive, so he often becomes a victim of pranks made by his colleagues...

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Hvezda zvaná Pelynek

1965 · Movie · 81 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Martin Fric

Cast Jirina Bohdalová · Vlasta Matulová · Rudolf Deyl · Jirí Sovák

Plot Depicts the events of 1918 mutiny of Czech soldiers serving in the Austro-Hungarian army in Rumburk garrison.

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Jánosik

1936 · Movie · 80 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Martin Fric

Cast Palo Bielik · Zlata Hajdúková · Andrej Bagar · Theodor Pistek

Plot Janosik is one of the heroes of Czechoslovakian history and appears to occupy a position something equivalent to our more legendary Robin Hood. Living in the early eighteenth century, he...

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Morality Above All Else

1937 · Movie · 80 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Martin Fric

Cast Hugo Haas · Svetla Svozilová · Adina Mandlová · Jirí Hlinomaz

Plot A professor known for his motto "Morality Above All Else" receives an unexpected and unwelcome visit from his illegitimate daughter.

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The Princess with the Golden Star

1959 · Movie · 80 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Martin Fric

Cast Frantisek Smolík · Martin Ruzek · Marie Kyselková · Josef Zíma

Plot 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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School Is the Foundation of Life

1938 · Movie · 90 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Martin Fric

Cast Theodor Pistek · Frantisek Smolík · Frantisek Kreuzmann · Jaroslav Marvan

Plot One of students from the seventh form of Grammar School Privlaky anonymously distributes a satiric paper about the school staff. One day the crawler Krhounek hand on the paper to...

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Capek's Tales

1947 · Movie · 106 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Martin Fric

Cast Jaroslav Prucha · Jaroslav Marvan · Lída Chválová · Frantisek Kovárík

Plot Five crime stories connected by the narration of police superintendent Bartosek.

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Life Is a Dog

1933 · Movie · 84 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Martin Fric

Cast Hugo Haas · Theodor Pistek · Adina Mandlová · Svetla Svozilová

Plot Young music composer Viktor Honzl in vain looks for work. He is prevented from committing suicide by a technician of the gasworks who shortly beforehand has disconnected his gas due...

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