Oldřich Daněk (Writer)

Little is known about Oldřich Daněk, a figure with a modest footprint in Writer. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.

Works

Poutníci

Release Date1989-04-01

Charactersd Oldřich Daněk

Vote Count1

The Plain Old Maid

At the end of the 1950s, some filmmakers attempted to escape the ideological dictates by turning to psychological drama. We watch as an aging, uptight, strict woman who has come to inspect a regional publishing house literally blossoms and snows. A few days of comfort and happiness, however, are capped by a bitter epiphany: the man who had so charmed her has indeed embezzled the money entrusted to him.

Release Date1959-06-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobFirst Assistant Director

Vote Count3

Agentura Pepa

Three pensioners, three Josephs, living on a housing estate, are bored. They have nothing to do, so they make up all sorts of alliterations and tease each other. When one of them is approached by a neighbour, he asks if he can find out who is borrowing her bicycle from the carriage shop. He finds out it's a little boy who doesn't have a dad, and his mom doesn't have money for a bike. So he borrows the bike and always leaves it somewhere on the estate. The pensioners feel sorry for the boy, so one of them takes the blame and offers to be the boy's mum's surrogate grandparents.

Release Date1976-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Bankovní dům Daubner

Release Date1989-03-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Spanilá jízda

In the Hussite times, religious truth was sifted even on the tips of weapons. When in 1430 the Hussites set out on a raid to Nuremberg, the so-called Spanila Cavalry, to defend their doctrine, the young commander of the cavalry, the landowner Keřský, whose bride had once been kidnapped by a vicious crusader, saw it as an opportunity for personal revenge. Although Oldřich Daněk has tried to establish a distinctive interpretation of historical events, he reflects on where the blinded desire to punish a bad deed with further cruelty leads, but his version seems too thesis-like and lifeless, it does not rise above the descriptively illustrated scenes from old Czech chronicles...

Release Date1963-09-06

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count1

Release Date1968-12-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Břetislav a Jitka

Oldřich Daňek's play tells a love story from our ancient times about the beautiful convent inmate Jitka and the brave Břetislav, the son of the Bohemian prince Oldřich and the simple laundress Božena. This witty apocryphal uses semi-historical, semi-legendary material in a modern way.

Release Date1974-11-17

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Záviš a Kunhuta

Release Date1984-07-04

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Pohled do očí

Olga Valentová, whose father was a communist resistance fighter and died during the occupation, works in the export department of Tatrovka. The young woman recapitulates her life and returns to her father's ideals.

Release Date1961-09-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Španělé v Praze

A brilliant dialogue between the aging Spanish ambassador and the widowed Maria of Pernštejn, born Manriquez de Lara. The ambassador tries to moralize the young widow and mitigate any unpleasant consequences of her behavior. After all, it is really not appropriate for a Catholic noblewoman, and a Spanish one at that. And the young widow is not only charming, but also quick-tongued.

Release Date1988-07-31

DepartmentWriting

JobAuthor

Vote Count1

Pilát Pontský onoho dne

Release Date1991-09-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Dnes v jednom domě

Release Date1980-05-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count9

Byl jednou jeden dům

Release Date1975-01-05

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count5

Vote Count5

Z hříček o královnách

Release Date1994-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count7

Vote Count1

The End of Agent W4C

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 the military exploitation of Venus hidden in it, and hand it over to the beautiful agent Alice. He will have to compete for the saltcellar with other agents working for the world's various greater and smaller powers. The head of the Prague counter-intelligence unit gets news of agent W4C's mission. Deficient in personnel, he nominates accountant Foustka as agent 13B. Mr Foustka takes his dog Pajda with him and the two head for the airport. Pajda helps him track down agent W4C in a classy hotel that becomes the battleground for the interests and plans of the secret agents from different countries, each trying to get hold of the precious saltcellar.

Release Date1967-10-06

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count12

Královský omyl

The High Royal Chamberlain is accused of treason and imprisoned. Even if the suspicion proves to be unfounded, the prisoner finds his life in danger, because the royal majesty must not admit error. If the unfortunate man had confessed, he could have been pardoned, but the Vice-Chamberlain refuses such a solution as a matter of principle... This historical story, which aspires to the dimension of a parable, takes place at the dawn of the reign of John of Luxembourg.

Release Date1968-12-27

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count1

Dva na koni, jeden na oslu

The musical version of the successful play of Oldřich Daněk was transferred to the screen by director Jiří Sequens in 1986. It takes place in the 14th century in Bohemia during the reign of King Wenceslas IV. Heroes of the story are three mercenaries who always fight on the wrong side and are always beaten, but they are moral winners of all conflicts and skirmishes.

Release Date1987-02-01

DepartmentWriting

JobTheatre Play

Vote Count2

Prosím, nebudit

If a girl has such an uninteresting occupation that she sells flowers, she likes to indulge in daydreaming, where she can experience unsuspected adventures. But a real suitor who courts a girl is more attractive...

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 where he works as an accountant. He is finally allowed in where he explains to the members of the directorate that he wants to work at the Institute, since he graduated in cybernetics and, besides, he has invented a machine for forecasting time of death. When the conniving research manager learns that their director is going to die in two days, he hopes to rise to his position.

Release Date1965-04-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Druhá první dáma

Release Date1980-05-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Příští léto v Locarnu

Release Date1973-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Opouštět Petrohrad

Release Date1991-03-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Taková láska

A student commits suicide out of unhappy love to a married man; story is recounted in retrospective by a "judge" who asks the audience to decide who is the guilty party.

Release Date1959-10-02