František Filip

František Filip (26 December 1930 – 9 January 2021) was a Czech film and television director. During his studies at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in the 1950s, he filmed his first documentary film. After graduation, he joined Czechoslovak Television in 1954, where he remained until his retirement. However; even after retirement he still continued to work in television. During the span of his career, he directed about 600 film and television programs of various genres for viewers of all ages. In 2017, he was awarded the Thalia Award.

Works

Bakaláři

Release Date1972-02-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

Tři chlapi v chalupě

Release Date1961-10-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

Vote Count1

GENUS

Release Date1995-01-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Kat nepočká

In 1944, the popular film actress Hlínová is arrested by the Gestapo for sheltering a Resistance man. A film producer uses his connections with the Nazis to promote her in order to finish the film. Just before the last day of filming, actress Hlínová realizes that she is under constant guard and wants to escape. However, she is arrested again.

Release Date1972-03-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Cirkus Humberto

Release Date1988-12-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count12

Vote Count5

Prípad Platfus

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 student, who is the son of a prominent family. The professor finds a kindred spirit during the trial in a young aspiring lawyer who, despite the reluctance of those around her, tries to save the honor and dignity of the old professor.

Release Date1985-09-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Ze staré drogerie

Release Date1983-04-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count3

Nebát se a nakrást

The inventor and owner of the company "Neprasklo" (Unbreakable), Ing. Sýkora, wants to launch a revolutionary new product – unbreakable glass. However, his two greedy deputies have other plans – they eliminate Sýkora in the African waterfalls and attempt to sell the company to a foreign corporation. They replace the director with his doppelganger, the unsuspecting and unsuccessful extra Fanda Pažout. However, the villains have no idea that Sýkora is alive and returning.

Release Date1999-05-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Byl jednou jeden dům

Release Date1975-01-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count5

Vote Count5

Náhrdelník

Release Date1993-04-14

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count1

Pra Pra Pra...

Release Date2000-09-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count13

Sňatky z rozumu

Sňatky z rozumu was a Czechoslovak television programme which was first broadcast in 1968. The programme was directed by František Filip.

Release Date1968-10-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count5

Vote Count2

F. L. Věk

Release Date1971-09-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count13

Vote Count4

Dnes v jednom domě

Release Date1980-05-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count9

Ve znamení Merkura

Release Date1979-01-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count5

Vote Count1

Přísahám a slibuji

Release Date1990-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Rozpaky kuchaře Svatopluka

Release Date1985-01-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count13

Vote Count1

Bližní na tapetě

Release Date1970-02-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Chalupáři

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

Release Date1975-11-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count11

Vote Count11

Dobrá Voda

Release Date1983-01-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count7

Vote Count1

Eliška a její rod

Release Date1966-02-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count9

Paper Sleeve

The title character of this somewhat bitter comedy is Klára Zárubecká, a saleswoman at a train station buffet, a resolute and energetic woman who, with enviable enthusiasm, attempts to restore her family's reputation and thus ensure a happy future for her younger brother. In her everyday life, when Klára forces her customers to buy kittens, rejects a persistent admirer nicknamed Funebrák, and saves money for a large, albeit somewhat neglected villa, her stepbrother Fanda arrives with his girlfriend Erika, and her stepfather Viktor arrives with his mistress, wanting to borrow money from her, as he has done so many times before.

Release Date1993-08-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Bohoušův syn

Konvalinka, a notorious betting man, has become the scourge of the establishment. He can turn anything into a bet. During one such bet, when he is not ashamed to take advantage of the manager to win, he is noticed by the owner's brother, Bohus, who is visiting a friend. After finding out who Konvalinka really is, he decides to shake the bettor down. Since he works as the manager of a small South Bohemian pub, he sets up a big operation to punish Konvalinka. He is seconded in this plan by his cougar father-in-law and Bohouš's St. Bernard son Pepa.

Release Date1976-12-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

Děkuju, pane profesore

Release Date1983-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Egyptologové

Comedy, 1974 (Czech Republic) : The movie takes place in England. A group of married middle-aged gentlemen have founded a pretense amateur Egyptology society to maintain some degree of freedom from their wives. The elaborate trick gradually escalates into more and more tangled web of lies and tricks, until they have no option but to disband the society for good.

Release Date1974-09-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Young Bohácek's Sufferings

Tóna Bohácek has been a great worry to his mother, Mrs Bohácková. All his friends equal in age are already married and some of them even have children - only Tóna still has nothing. Mother Bohácková thus publishes an ad in the Lonely Hearts column on behalf of her son. From among the girls who responded, she picks out Janicka, a girl from the neighboring village, and then forces Tóna to go to have a look at her and bring her home. The date of the two young people, however, does not turn out well due to the embarrassment on both sides, and Tóna returns home drowning in the feeling of ridiculousness. On the way, he picks up hitchhiker Kveta from Prague. Only then, he realizes that the mother with her festive dinner is waiting for him and Janicka at home and thus asks Kveta to substitute for the girl from the ad.

Release Date1969-07-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count6

Bandité

Release Date1985-04-05

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

The Dear Departed

When Jan Werich wakes up as his seemingly deceased grandfather, he discovers that all the survivors are only interested in his property. That's why he decides to get married.

Release Date1964-12-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Lucerna

A host of actors in the classic national fairy tale by A. Jirásek. Jirásek's "Lucerna" is the best-known and most performed of his plays. It was also used by television producers. In the second half of the 1960s, a successful transcription was created with a remarkably well-captured atmosphere of the realistic-fairytale motif of the original. The film captures the acting mastery of Jan Pivec in the role of the castle's headmaster, the musicians played by Bohuš Záhorský and Vladimír Menšík, Zdeněk Štěpánek and Josef Kemr in the roles of the watermen Ivan and Michal. The television version of Lucerna premiered on Christmas Eve 1967, and each rerun only confirms that it is an excellent production.

Release Date1967-12-24

DepartmentWriting

JobAdaptation

The Hero Is Afraid

Honza Vavrinec (Rudolf Hrusínský) works in the investment department of a large office. One day he gets involved in the case of an unjustly convicted worker who mistakenly considers him a parliamentary deputy. Honza as a "deputy" interferes in the case and helps the worker. Encouraged by the success and possibly also out of love for the beautiful secretary Svatava (Blanka Bohdanová), the then shy and fearful Honza stands up for the chief of the department, Hofmánek (Ladislav Pesek), who has been removed from his position.

Release Date1966-06-24

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Ubohý pan Kufalt

Release Date1981-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count1

Hvězdy nad Syslím údolím

Release Date1986-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count3

Lucerna aneb Boj o lípu

The castle is preparing for the arrival of the princess who inherited the estate, the miller is in love with Hanička, as is the water sprite from the millrace, the teacher wants to complain to the authorities about his poverty, and the musician Klásek is running away from his wife. Seemingly everything is like something out of Jirásek. But that would be impossible if Josef Dvořák were playing the steward, the bailiff, the water sprite Michal, and Klásek. Hanička couldn't be missing parts of her underwear, the butler Franz couldn't have a suspicious fondness for his baroque outfit, and the princess (who got the estate back through restitution) shouldn't fall into unintentional (and unacted) fits of laughter.

Release Date1994-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Tři cesty k domovu

Release Date1983-12-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count3

Curious Donkey

It tells the story of a young man who was turned into a donkey by curiosity and a fatal mistake. While the hero despairs and does not know how to return to human form, we can observe through his eyes the society that surrounds him. The television fairy tale of screenwriter Jiří Bednář and director František Filip alternates dramatic tension with comic moments.

Release Date1997-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Bohyně krásy

The pre-Christmas period in a household with four small, temperamental children creates a comedy in itself. But when problems with the password lock are added to the confusion, the fun is guaranteed. A busy father of a family buys one of these ingenious gadgets. This invention is supposed to make it impossible for his children to constantly search for Christmas presents. The tense atmosphere and the interplay of random circumstances mean that even trivial problems begin to take on completely different dimensions in the mother's eyes. The previously trusting wife interprets her husband's chess training, mysterious phone calls.... And to make matters worse, the father forgets the password to the lock. Everything culminates when the wife discovers a present under the tree that was probably intended for another woman. However, the mysteries are not solved until New Year's Eve, when - surprise surprise - the mother-in-law intervenes in the story.

Release Date1984-12-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Šibalství Scapinova

Release Date1961-07-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Čtverec mizení

Release Date1982-10-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Noc na Karlštejně

A little-known adaptation of Jaroslav Vrchlický's play is returning to the television screen, full of humorous plots, telling the story of the courage of two women in love who, because of their love, infiltrated Karlštejn Castle, where women are forbidden to enter by order of the monarch. It was created with a number of star actors eight years before the now legendary film adaptation by Zdeněk Podskalský. When it premiered in 1965, it aroused a stormy, positive and negative response. Quite naturally, because Filip's concept of this classic play, albeit in the authentic setting of Karlštejn Castle, was completely new and unconventional at the time. This adaptation of the classic original uses the melodies of popular Czech and foreign hits with lyrics by P. Kopta. For example, the ruler's arrival at the castle was announced by the melody of the popular song Jó, třešné zrály. However, professional singers mostly sing for the actors here.

Release Date1965-06-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Podnájemníci

The first part of a loose trilogy about the travails of two orphaned siblings, thirteen-year-old Alenka and twenty-three-year-old Zbyněk, is based on the peculiar situation of a family in which the siblings must replace each other's parents. The brother would like to get married, but is prevented by his sister, who is jealous of everything around him. So he brings his girlfriend Katherine, whom he likes, to the flat as a lodger...

Release Date1976-12-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Druhý příběh mého přítele štvance

In the continuation of the story of the friend of the bandleader, entertainer and singer Milda Vaculík, the narrator returns to his favorite pub in a small town. They have just replaced the director of the largest local establishment, and everyone panics when they learn that he intends to come among them. Milda and the entire orchestra try to please the director with the power of mermo. After a wild dance with the singer, he orders ten bottles of red wine and the fun continues. The director shocks everyone with his immediacy and sincerity.

Release Date2023-12-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Utopím si ho sám

The difference in personalities and lifestyles is the core of Zdeněk Svěrák's hilarious comedy. The story of two elderly gentlemen begins in a hospital, where they are both hospitalized. Former tram driver Havlík discovers that his new acquaintance Chouň does not have an apartment and offers him that he can temporarily live with him. The latter happily accepts the offer and soon changes Havlík's proper and honorable life as a widower. The old conductor realizes that he can also live differently: cheerfully and carefree. The idyll is ruined when Chouň robs Havlík...

Release Date1989-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Otec nebo bratr

The second part of the free comedy cycle about the orphaned siblings Alice and Zbyněk Kučero further develops Zbyněk's relationship with Kateřina, the "lodger" from the previous comedy. After all is revealed and Alice has given her "blessing" to their relationship, she begins to consider the possibility that after Zbynek's wedding, Kate's parents will enter her life. What will they be like? A curious Alice goes "exploring" just as Zbynek starts to introduce his future mother-in-law and father-in-law...

Release Date1978-08-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Naši furianti

Release Date1983-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Skrýše a skála

Shortly before his death, bassist Eduard Haken (1910–1996) recorded Antonín Dvořák's "Biblical Songs" with the organ at St. James' Church. Despite his advanced age, he was in top vocal form. The music program entitled Skrýše a skála (Hiding Place and Rock) – enriched with quotations from the Bible interpreted by Marek Eben and Radovan Lukavský – was then realized in a sublime artistic form on Czech Television by director František Filip (1930–2021).

Release Date1995-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Ticket to the Memorial

Ing. Kalin is already seventy years old, but he does not recognize old age. He travels, even learns Arabic. He returns to his hometown because he once made a promise to his former love, Bětuška Jarošová, that he would return for her. He is not alone, he is accompanied by his sister, who anxiously watches over him and conducts him. Everything in the town has long been different, although Kalina would like to see it in his old age...

Release Date1975-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

The Bartered Bride

Frantisek Filip film version of the Smetana opera.

Release Date1982-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Až já budu velká

Release Date1981-06-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Klobouk plný deště

Release Date1973-10-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Hříšníci

Release Date1972-02-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Ikarův pád

Game Hubač George, honored at Golden Prague 1977 and the MTF Monte Carlo 1978, one of the most original works of Czech Television production. The dramatic story of a father, son and entire family addresses a serious social problem that brings with it dangers of alcoholism.

Release Date1977-09-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Broučci

Release Date1958-10-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count7

Pohádka o Faustovi

The legend of Doctor Faust tells of man's desire for knowledge and fulfillment in life.

Release Date1995-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Favorit

Release Date1964-05-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Domácí víno

Release Date1964-01-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Kulihrášek a zakletá princezna

A cheerful fairy tale about how love can grow all the way to heaven... An enchanted princess and the brave young man who rescues her, cowardly princes and a confused king, scary robbers and an ugly sorcerer who has his eye on half the kingdom, and above all on the princess's hand.

Release Date1995-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Zkouška

MUDr. Pěnička, an incorruptible and honest dentist, constantly has problems passing his driving test. In vain, his wife Boženka looked forward to a trip in a new car. Pěnička did not overcome his nervousness this time either and failed the driving test at the driving school again. When he is alone with an instructor behind the wheel, he drives like a top, but when someone else is sitting behind him, he is nervous and all his skills and knowledge are gone...

Release Date1981-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Prsten a řetěz

Prince Dominik torments his father with his aversion to marriage so much that the king has him locked up in an old tower. In prison, the prince is discovered by the water nymph Aneta, who is enchanted by the young man's beauty. She boasts about her latest discovery to her friend, the genie Létavec. However, he objects to the nymph, saying that the most beautiful creature is the emperor's daughter, Princess Budúr, who rejects all suitors. The magical beings bring their favorites together so they can compare their charms. However, they have no idea that this fateful meeting will cause Prince Dominik and Princess Budúr to fall in love.

Release Date1996-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Kateřina zlé pověsti

Release Date1976-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

S Pydlou v zádech

The character of a simple folk smart guy who gets involved in a chess game between the powerful provides the excellent Josef Dvořák with space for a series of brilliant clownish acts.

Release Date1985-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Odvážná slečna

JUDr. Kroupa will take over as President of the Civil Court from his colleague who is retiring. His job description is mostly to judge married couples who are divorcing and arguing over alimony, with the very least concern for the welfare of their children. With his new job, Kroupa "inherits" a handsome but peculiar secretary, Zdenka, who takes a liking to him. However, his attempts at courtship are occasionally thwarted by strange events...

Release Date1970-04-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vysoké činžáky

Release Date1959-10-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Tlouštík

Release Date1961-12-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Nezralé maliny

A story about a meeting of high school graduates from Písek, a story about the enduring power of friendship, love, honesty and duty.

Release Date1982-04-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Polská krev

Release Date1979-12-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Tažní ptáci

The sequel to the film Icarus focuses on the further fates of pianist Kára, who decided to fight the demon of alcohol. With the support of his family, he enters an alcohol treatment center. He decided to undergo treatment voluntarily. He did not want to continue to torment his family, who care so much about him. In the treatment center, he gradually gets used to the new environment and the harsh daily routine. He also meets several patients, and perhaps the closest he gets to know is the alcoholic Fendrych. The man's struggle to gain new self-esteem and restore damaged relationships with his surroundings begins.

Release Date1984-01-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Tři chlapi po roce

Release Date1964-10-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Na psí knížku

Jarmila Kukačková commutes to a Prague hospital from the countryside, where she has been living for twenty years "on the sly" with Pepa Padrnos, a garbage dump worker, and his mother. Jarmila is a cleaner at the hospital, and everyone there calls her "Kukačka" (Cuckoo). Kukačko, go get this, Kukačko, bring that... What's more, Josef's mother, with whom Padrnos still lives, does not like Jarmila very much and makes this very clear. What kind of miraculous woman is she and how does she manage to be so kind and always smiling? Where does she get her energy from? How does she manage to live her life with such ease?

Release Date2003-06-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Ferda Mravenec

Release Date1960-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count5

Noční jízda

Stanek, a truck driver, is working on a large construction site far from Prague. He hasn't been home for several weeks and is tormented by the idea that his wife is unfaithful. So he sets off to Prague underground and has many adventures along the way. He is stopped by a policeman just outside the building and gives a lift to a group of young people, where he is attracted by a charming girl, a single mother... At home, however, he does not find his wife Ruzena and finally succumbs to the seductions of a neighbour whose husband has left for the night shift. On his way back to the building site on a foggy night, he meets a broken-down ambulance, in which the girl from the youth group who attempted suicide is a patient...

Release Date1973-02-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Český koncert

Release Date1960-12-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Story of Souls

The dramatization of the Old Prague short story by the writer Ignát Herrmann is an acting concert by Jan Pivec. In this film from 1964, the actor let all registers of his mature acting sound, from outright comical positions to tones sounding with tragic undertones. And although the character of Vavřinec Konopka clearly dominates in this story, the great actor disciplinedly left enough space for his teammates, especially Jaroslav Marvan, Dana Medřická (her poisonous Petronila is an excellent figure), the modest Libuša Havelková and the bohemian Josef Kemr and everyone else. The director František Filip was actually the conductor here, who got a beautifully coordinated orchestra of soloists at his disposal... But let's go back to the century before last. Where is the dignified and rather burly official Mr. Konopka peláší? And even runs with a jet and without a hat…

Release Date1965-04-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Španělská paradentóza

Release Date1987-01-01

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JobDirector

Den, kdy unesli papeže

The news that frames the two days in which the whole story takes place is bad. At first glance, these don't seem like the happiest two days. And yet, they are filled with comedy that is so entertaining and full of twists and turns. What's more, it's a comedy that finds strength in the hope that there is kindness and a deep desire for understanding and openness hidden in each of us. It's a story of our times (as the radio news reports quoted suggest), and yet it transcends our times; after all, it's not every day that the pope is kidnapped.

Release Date1995-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Tichá domácnost

Release Date1986-10-09

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JobDirector

Paličova dcera

Release Date1977-05-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Jestli jednou odejdu

Release Date1985-12-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Sáňkování není povoleno

Release Date1989-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Ústřední loutkové divadlo

Release Date1954-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Magdalena Dobromila Rettigová

The story of a Czech national revivalist, writer and author of a famous cookbook... The story takes us to Litomyšl in 1836. The local bourgeois society, which does not fail to interject a German word into their conversation as proof of good upbringing and better origin, slanders Mrs. Rettigová. "Rettička" not only fights for standard Czech, is a patriot, but also attracts young girls and students to her and lends them Czech books. She simply disrupts the good old order. Another sensation in the town is caused by the announcement of a planned wedding. Maiden Lenka will marry old doctor Plavec. When Mrs. Rettigová finds out about it, she invites both fiancés to her, each separately. The hunter Valenta, Lenka's former admirer, who had been abroad with his master for a long time, asked her to help him get Lenka back...

Release Date1961-04-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Dopis psaný španělsky

Zbyněk and Kateřina have become husband and wife, and Alenka is a beautiful young lady. Mothers and fathers know best how difficult this period in a family's life begins. The young lady begins to discover a hitherto unknown world in which former unbearable boys turn into quite tolerable young men. However, most of them have qualities that do not seem entirely ideal to their parents. If Zbyněk is a brother with the duties of a father, then with Alenka's adulthood he stands on the threshold of worries that will really confuse him...

Release Date1980-12-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Láska jako trám

An elderly couple is planning a big family gathering. The husband is thinking about what he can do to make his wife happy. While walking around town, he meets an old friend and they have a few drinks together. After a dose of alcohol, the man trades his brand-new coat for a fox-head fur coat for his wife, thinking it will please her. But his wife doesn't like the gift at all and gets angry with the man. The couple argue, exchange insults, and finally decide to cancel the celebration. The man wants a divorce "due to insurmountable resistance"...

Release Date1968-01-01

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JobDirector

Vote Count1

Spravedlnosti se meze nekladou

Release Date1966-01-12

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JobDirector

O bojácném Floriánkovi

Release Date1999-10-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Záhady aneb S Karlem Čapkem v soudní síni

Release Date1960-01-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Kočár nejsvětější svátosti

Jan Werich, as the Spanish viceroy in Lima, Peru, at the end of the eighteenth century, is not only afflicted with gout but also doubts about the fidelity of his mistress, an actress of the local theatre, with whom he intends to settle his scores very firmly...

Release Date1963-10-18

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count2