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Bolek Polívka is a Actor, Scriptwriter and Director of Photography Tchèque born on 31 july 1949 at Vizovice

Bolek Polívka

Bolek Polívka
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Nationality Republique tcheque
Birth 31 july 1949 (75 years) at Vizovice

Boleslav Polívka (born 31 July 1949 in Vizovice) is a Czech film and theatre actor, mime, playwright and screenwriter. Polívka played in more than 40 films.

Best films

Divided We Fall
Divided We Fall
(2000)
(Actor)

Usually with

Věra Chytilová
Věra Chytilová
(5 films)
Tomáš Vorel
Tomáš Vorel
(2 films)
Ondřej Trojan
Ondřej Trojan
(5 films)
Jan Hřebejk
Jan Hřebejk
(4 films)
Eva Holubová
Eva Holubová
(5 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Bolek Polívka (24 films)

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Actor

Men in Hope
Men in Hope (2011)
, 1h55
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Bolek Polívka, Jiří Macháček, Vica Kerekes, Jitka Čvančarová
Roles Rudolf
Rating70% 3.5051953.5051953.5051953.5051953.505195
Rudolf, bon vivant dans sa soixantaine en est convaincu. "La femme doit se battre pour toi, faire tous les efforts possibles. Très cher, quand une femme s'ennuie, c'est mauvais signe." Il a appliqué sa théorie durant des années, et la naïveté de son beau fils Ondrej, qui met tout en œuvre pour être un époux prévenant, ne fait que l'exaspérer. Qui plus est, cette prévenance l'empêche de voir que sa femme Alice s'ennuie. Rudolf décide alors de donner quelques conseils à Ondrej pour redonner vie à son mariage. Après tout, il ne fait ça que pour sa fille .
Bathory: Countess of Blood
Bathory: Countess of Blood (2008)
, 2h20
Directed by Juraj Jakubisko
Origin Slovaquie
Genres Drama, Biography, Fantasy, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Serial killer films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Anna Friel, Karel Roden, Hans Matheson, Vincent Regan, Franco Nero, Bolek Polívka
Roles Monk Petr
Rating56% 2.84982.84982.84982.84982.8498
The film is based on the story of Erzsébet Bathory, a Hungarian countess in the 16th and 17th centuries. Her story takes place in a part of the Kingdom of Hungary that is now Slovakia. In this retelling, the Countess is a healer who conducts medical experiments and rudimentary autopsies in a "hospital" beneath her castle. She forms a relationship with a reputed witch, Darvulia, who saves her from poisoning. The witch promises Erzsebet a son and eternal beauty. In return, Erzsebet must sacrifice both love and her reputation. Darvulia becomes Erzsebet's companion. Meanwhile, maidens in the area have been dying of seemingly unrelated causes, and Erzsebet is seen bathing in a large tub of red liquid as the girls' now-mutilated corpses are buried nearby. Two monks later conclude that the water is not blood but is simply colored red by herbs.
Pleasant Moments
Pleasant Moments (2006)
, 1h53
Directed by Věra Chytilová
Origin Republique tcheque
Genres Drama
Actors Bolek Polívka, Věra Kubánková
Roles Dub (as Boleslav Polívka)
Rating58% 2.9049052.9049052.9049052.9049052.904905
L'histoire de la psychologue Hana entrecoupée des récits de ses patients.
Something Like Happiness
Something Like Happiness (2005)
, 1h50
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Anna Geislerová, Tatiana Vilhelmová, Bolek Polívka, Zuzana Kronerová
Rating70% 3.54053.54053.54053.54053.5405
Radiographie d'un groupe de voisins habitant un quartier populaire d'une petite ville tchèque qui porte les cicatrices de l'industrialisation : une jeune femme espère rejoindre son fiancé émigré en Amérique, son ami d'enfance est secrètement amoureux d'elle, une mère abandonnée délaisse ses enfants en attendant que son amant quitte sa famille pour s'engager avec elle.
Pupendo
Pupendo (2003)
, 2h
Directed by Jan Hřebejk
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Bolek Polívka, Eva Holubová, Zuzana Kronerová
Roles Bedřich Mára
Rating71% 3.591083.591083.591083.591083.59108
Pupendo shows the difficulty of life in Czechoslovakia during the 1980s. Artist Bedřich Mára (Bolek Polivka) is unable to find much secure work due to his public antagonism toward the ruling Communist Party. He has a wife and two children. Life begins to change when art historian Alois Fábera (Jiři Pecha) begins working on a piece about Bedřich, leading to a job offer from a Party official. Things are looking up, until the wrong people hear portions of the historian's writing.
Expulsion from Paradise
Expulsion from Paradise (2001)
, 2h4
Directed by Věra Chytilová
Origin Republique tcheque
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Bolek Polívka, Milan Šteindler
Roles Director Rosta / Doctor
Rating52% 2.616552.616552.616552.616552.61655
Wild Flowers
Wild Flowers (2000)
, 1h21
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Horror
Actors Linda Rybová, Zuzana Bydžovská, Bolek Polívka, Klára Sedláčková, Karel Roden, Jiří Schmitzer
Roles Polednice
Rating70% 3.5435953.5435953.5435953.5435953.543595
A Film Story playing from spring to winter and covering 80 years of human life. Seven dramatic human life stories that may play anywhere and in any century. They tell the everlasting story of passion, love desire, obsession and selfiness.
Divided We Fall
Divided We Fall (2000)
, 2h
Directed by Jan Hřebejk
Origin Republique tcheque
Genres Drama, War, Comedy
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Bolek Polívka, Jiří Kodet
Roles Josef Cízek
Rating75% 3.796043.796043.796043.796043.79604
The film opens in 1939 Czechoslovakia. Horst, a Czech-German Nazi collaborator married to a German woman and co-worker of Josef, brings food to the invalid Josef and his wife Marie, who are Czechs. Josef hates the Nazis. When Josef finds David, who had escaped a concentration camp in occupied Poland after first being sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in northern Bohemia, Josef and Marie decide to hide him in their apartment. Horst makes an unannounced visit, bringing presents as usual. Marie is ambivalent about their secret: On one hand she never misses an opportunity to blame her husband for bringing in the Jew, but on the other she is merciful and sympathetic with the poor kid locked in the closet day and night. She suggests that Josef accepts Horst's job offer evicting Czech Jews from their homes, so as to get more protection and deflect possible suspicions. Josef accepts and is considered a collaborator by the neighbor Franta (who had tried to give David over to the Nazi authorities, when he first escaped from a concentration camp). Marie spends the days learning French from David and getting more and more tender toward him. Horst's visits become more frequent, and one afternoon, he attempts to rape Marie.
Out of the City
Out of the City (2000)
, 1h44
Directed by Tomáš Vorel
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Tomáš Hanák, Bolek Polívka, Eva Holubová, Milan Šteindler, Tomáš Vorel, Ondřej Trojan
Roles Ludva Papoš
Rating65% 3.2886653.2886653.2886653.2886653.288665
A programmer named Honza decides to clear his head over the weekend from his hectic job, picks up his ex-wife's son, and together they set off on a trip into the countryside. Their civilization is highlighted in the film using mobile phone, laptop and digital camera. They become familiar with a charming country girl named Markéta and her grandmother, who live in a house with scented herbs and homemade liqueurs. A weekend trip stretches to several weeks stay in the small village. Honza and his son spend the most beautiful and gayest moments of their life in the country. The film is a parade of quirky rural characters. Honza's absence from work and his son from school is not without consequences, and father and son are forced to return to civilization. But Honza cannot forget his weeks in the country, or the girl Margaret.
Cosy Dens
Cosy Dens (1999)
, 1h55
Directed by Jan Hřebejk
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Christmas films
Actors Miroslav Donutil, Emília Vášáryová, Jiří Kodet, Bolek Polívka, Stella Zázvorková, Kristýna Nováková
Roles Strýc
Rating80% 4.046394.046394.046394.046394.04639
Pelíšky is a bittersweet coming-of-age story set in the months from Christmas 1967 leading up to the ill-fated 1968 Prague Spring. Teenager Michal Šebek (Michael Beran) has a crush on his upstairs neighbor, Jindřiška Krausová (Kristýna Nováková). Michal's family is headed by a stubborn army officer who is a firm supporter of the communist system and who believes that communist technology will eventually triumph over western imperialist capitalism, while Jindřiška's father is an ardent foe of the Communists and a war hero, who has been imprisoned several times because of his outspoken opposition to the regime; he believes that "the Bolsheviks have a year at most, maybe two". In contrast, the younger generation couldn't care less for politics. Instead, Michal sports a Beatles mop-top while Elien (Ondřej Brousek), the local hipster whose parents live in the USA, runs a local film group specialising in Hollywood and pre-war French films, while Jindřiška becomes Elien's girlfriend. After a wedding that unites the families, the film ends with the news breaking of the invasion of the Warsaw Pact.