Zdeněk Mahler (Writer)

Amadeus

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Salzburger composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Release Date1984-09-19

DepartmentSound

JobMusic Consultant

Charactersd Cardinal (uncredited)

Vote Count4868

Ano, Masaryk

Release Date1997-10-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Narrator

Episode Count3

Největší Čech

Release Date2005-05-05

Charactersd Advocate for T. G. Masaryk

Episode Count1

The fate of talent in Bohemia

The painter Alfons Mucha and his Slovanská epopej are the subject of a story by Zdeněk Mahler. After long debates and disputes, the work is currently on display at the National Gallery, in the Trade Fair Palace in Prague.

Release Date1996-07-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd

Golden Sixties

Television series Golden Sixties examines new insights into Czech and Slovak cinema of the 1960s and the role of the Czechoslovak New Wave. Each episode focuses on a different filmmaker.

Release Date2009-01-03

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

The Strauss Dynasty

A dramatization of two generations of the Viennese Strauss family, whose dance music and operettas dominated much of Europe and beyond for most of the 19th century.

Release Date1991-12-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

The Butcher of Prague

Czechoslovakia, 1941. As the war continues, Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich arrives in Nazi-occupied Prague and establishes a regime of terror that will force freedom fighters to act. But the price to pay will be too high.

Release Date2011-06-02

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count35

The Divine Emma

The opera lady singer Ema Destinnová is in all her splendor at the American stages. But in Europe there rages war and she decides to return home to Bohemia.

Release Date1979-12-21

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count11

Ta slepička kropenatá

Release Date1971-02-03

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Flirt se slečnou Stříbrnou

At the centre of the story is Miss Lenka Stříbrná. An attractive, but a little strange young woman. The gym teacher Vasek is shy and very clumsy with women. So he asks his friend, the editor Karel, for help. The experienced seducer willingly seizes the opportunity and tries to win Lenka for himself, but all his efforts fail due to her stubbornness. Gradually, this comedy-tinged love etude gives way to drama. It culminates at an editorial party at the Slap Dam, where all the characters in the story meet unexpectedly and editor Leden finally understands what Miss Silver's flirtation was all about.

Release Date1969-09-19

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count2

The Unfortunate Bridegroom

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 day he's locked up.

Release Date1967-06-30

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count11

How to Get Rid of Helenka

Radio announcer Petrícek reads the evening news in a studio. Viki, the female editor of a woman's program, is annoyed by the stereotypical information he provides as well as by the speaker's melodious voice and his heart-felt performance. Then she gets an idea for a prank. She calls the speaker from the neighboring room on the phone and pretends to be an unhappily married woman who draws all her strength to live from Petrícek's voice.

Release Date1968-01-12

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count2

The Seventh Day, the Eighth Night

An allegory set in an archetypal Czech village, it tells the story of what happens when a series of mysterious events take place, including the disappearance of the station master. While everything has a rational explanation, collective paranoia takes over and everyone's worst instincts are unleashed. Interrogations, disenfranchisement, and the search for scapegoats ultimately lead to murder. The movie was completed in 1969, but it was banned and not released till 1990, Evald Schorm who died in 1988 never saw it completed.

Release Date1990-06-01

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count12

Riders in the Sky

The story of Czech pilots in RAF service during the Battle of Britain, and the ongoing aerial battle in Northern Europe. It tells the story of the crews of the RAF’s No. 311 Squadron, which was mainly crewed by escaped Czech airmen, and their bombing raids during the Second World War.

Release Date1968-12-20

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count10

Slečna Guru

Oldřich Brůna always had a soft spot for women, but when he met Ljuba Pelíšková, he immediately realized that he had encountered an extraordinary personality. She is intelligent, educated, beautiful, knowledgeable about alternative medicine, works with auras, gives massages, and treats people with herbs. Oldřich is thrilled, and Ljuba becomes his guru—his spiritual teacher.

Release Date2006-04-16

DepartmentArt

JobSet Decoration

Concert at the End of Summer

A docudrama about four weeks in the life of famous Czech composer Antonin Dvorak. The drama - filled with many of Dvorak's compositions - begins when the composer suddenly decides to cut a concert in London and return home. While on the train, flashbacks reveal his relationship to his wife Anna and her sister Josefina. Both women gave him inspiration, yet Dvorak is clearly troubled in some way as musical excerpts come and go in his creative mind.

Release Date1980-02-15

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count6

This Is How Love Begins...

Two hilarious short stories set in the milieu of apprentice youth, depicting the amorous travails of teenage boys. In the first story, "The Sorrows of the Devil's Apprentice", we see a talkative storekeeper who is constantly advising his charges on how they should behave, unaware that one of the young men has fallen in love with his daughter. Overcoming shyness is also depicted in the second of the stories, entitled "May I Beg, Helen?"

Release Date1975-10-31

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count2

Wolfgang A. Mozart

When rumors spread about a "child prodigy" among the Mozarts in Salzburg, the archbishop orders an investigation in which the seven-year-old Wolfgang has to demonstrate his talent before a committee of scholars. Soon afterwards, Leopold Mozart and his son are traveling all over Europe to play for patrons and admirers. The new Archbishop of Salzburg, Count Colloredo, is not very enthusiastic about Mozart and dismisses him. Mozart marries Constanze Weber, settles in Vienna and has his first successes, earning him commissions and the goodwill of Josef II. In the last years of his life, his situation worsens; Mozart runs into financial difficulties and health problems, but still works incessantly.

Release Date1991-12-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Píšťalka pro dva

Release Date1975-04-27

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

My Pragues Understand Me

A fictional story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's stay in Prague. The film, in no case, claims any historical facts. It only tries to evoke the spirit of that time by connecting Mozart's music with the architecture of Prague and by pointing up the changes in Prague during Mozart's two-hundred absence in the Czech metropolis.

Release Date1991-12-04

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count2

Rytíř

Release Date1975-10-30

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Long White Yard

The relationship between a mother and daughter living in a village, the confrontation of two lives - the life that is ending and the life that is beginning. The daughter is not a mere observer of her mother's life, but rather watches it, criticizes it, warns her mother against loving a person who does not deserve her. But her actions are futile and her mother's life, her mother's fate, becomes a warning to the daughter.

Release Date1970-01-01

DepartmentCrew

JobDramaturgy

Vote Count3

Kdo je kdo

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 roles" is not easy. They experience more than one humorous situation and cause confusion. And how did it all start? Popular singer Vaclav Dubsky goes with his friend to meet his female fans. In a village inn, where he stops for lunch, he meets his perfect double - Joska, a car mechanic. Who wouldn't want to take advantage of this resemblance? Especially for the tired and bored Vasek, it's an opportunity to enjoy anonymity at least for a while. And so the young men swap...

Release Date1974-06-23

DepartmentCrew

JobDramaturgy

Vote Count1

Don't Look Back, There Is a Horse Behind Us

Postwoman Mrs Skorepa, her husband the ambulance driver Mr Skorepa and their eleven-year-old twins Petr and Pavel live in Prague in Malá Strana (Lesser Town), one of the Prague's historical and oldest quarters. The boys are crazy about cars and everything linked to them. They don't share their father's love of classical music. On the other hand, they are crazy about the newly announced scrap yard competition for paper collection. The lottery tickets awarded for every ten kilograms of old paper collected could win them a go-kart.

Release Date1981-01-02

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count6

Lásky hra osudná

Release Date1974-06-22

DepartmentCrew

JobDramaturgy

Kráska a zvíře

An impoverished merchant, decided to sell a precious painting of his deceased wife, wanders into a fairy-tale castle at night, where he loses his painting and is given lavish gifts of clothes and jewelry for his two vain daughters. He then picks a rose himself for his youngest, Beauty. He is caught by the lord of the castle, a terrible monster, who sets a condition that the merchant either returns or one of his daughters voluntarily comes as a sacrifice for his father.

Release Date1972-12-25

DepartmentCrew

JobDramaturgy

Vote Count1

Forget Mozart

In the dead of night, a few hours after Mozart's death, the usual suspects are summoned to Mozart's room by Count Pergen, head of the secret police, who considered Mozart a potential revolutionary. Over the corpse, he interrogates them, trying to discover the true cause and significance of Mozart's demise.

Release Date1985-09-12

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count7