Vlasta Burian

Vlasta Burian
Total Credits at Criticker: 20 (Actor), 1 (Writer)
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C. a k. polní marsálek
One of the first Czech films to be made completely with sound... This movie was a huge success... (czech.cz)
To neznáte Hadimrsku
Finnicky efficiency expert is sent to straighten out business management problems at a jazz club, finds self being drawn into the swingin' scene. (imdb)
Anton Spelec, ostrostrelec
Early Czech wartime comedy
Lelícek ve sluzbách Sherlocka Holmese
Frantisek Lelicek's Ve sluzbach Sherlocka Holmese - In the Services of Sherlock Holmes was filmed in 1932 with Vlasta Burian. The role of Sherlock Holmes is minor there but he went on to appear in many more stories and novels... (radio.cz)
Hrdinný kapitán Korkorán
Early Czech wartime comedy
Duchácek to zarídí
Early Czech wartime comedy
U pokladny stál
Comedic effort from 1930s Czechoslovakia
Byl jednou jeden král...
A king banishes banishes salt from his kingdom because his daughter tells him she "loves him like salt" when he asks her how much she loves him
Milenky starého kriminálníka
Factory owner Pardon, meets Olga, daughter of clairvoyant Stefanie Lesczynska at a ball. Their brief acquaintance is interrupted when Olga and her mother have to leave. Fifi Hrazánková has her sights set on the elligible Pardon. Pardon asks his Uncle Cyril Ponděliček if the girl could take over his position at work so that she may be dissuaded of her amorous intentions. Fifi seduces Pondělíček. (imdb)
Lásky Kacenky Strnadové
The film depicts the adventures of Kacenka (Zdena Kavková) and Vincek (Vlasta Burian), two innocent country bumpkins who live in a Czech small town, and the various jobs that Kacenka has once she moves to Prague, that beautiful capital city. Our heroine will have to bear difficult working conditions and to make things worse, she falls in love with a fake aristocrat. Fortunately her companion, Vincek who is also in Prague, has an unrequited love for her. (imdb)
U snedeného krámu
The gullible buyer Žemla Martin finally opened his dream shop. After a while, you get a lot of friends. Especially the former captain Kyllijána, who come to him to drink brandy debt and sit on a bag of peas, where he talks nonsense. Its debt is starting to grow nicely. Later dupe marry an evil Pavlina Šustrová. It can also bring their calculating mother, widow Catherine Šustrová. These two together with a bun Kyllijánem use, but outside him are friendly.
Falesná kocicka
The film depicts the troubles of Herr Verner ( Herr Karel Hasler ), a middle-aged bachelor dentist who wants to marry.
Baron Prásil
Fifty years old Baron von Fibberg lives at The Fibberg Castle with his wife Olga and daughter Charley. Besides the delight in hunting, Baron is very enthusiastic about truth. Although he can't withstand any falsehood of others, he keeps his own intimate secrets from his wife. Charley seems to be an innocent girl at first glance, but she has a little secret too. She fell in love with a young fop Ernest Benda and married him in secret.
Katakomby
The title refers to the office of records in the basement of a large company... sort of the place where a troublesome employee may be dumped in a dead end job. If fact, the story is a simple romantic comedy, with Burian as the kindly old stick-in-the-mud who helps the young man to sort out his romance with the daughter of the company's owner.
Funebrák
Undertaker Pleticha gets a phone call from his superior. He has to buy a wedding gift and deliver it to the bosses relatives. The address given is for organizing a funeral. When he realizes his mistake Pleticha in return for entertainment showcase wedding guests with songs and dances of various nations. His exploits continues....
Revizor
Vlasta Burian appears in a town of Czarist Russia impersonating an Inspector General, and he is entertained lavishly by the local political-hacks and peasants seeking his favor for whatever they are advocating or need fixed. Burain is involved in a series of comical situations as he takes everything he can gets his hands on while the peasants, who must plead for the betterment of their conditions, are left on the outside-looking-in. (imdb)
Dvanáct kresel
The Twelve Chairs is a classic satirical novel by the Odessan Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov. The novel has inspired twenty adaptations in Russia and abroad. The first cinema adaptation of the novel was the joint Polish-Czech film Dvanáct k?esel (1933). The original plot was considerably altered yet many following adaptations were primarily based on this film rather than on the novel itself.
Tri vejce do skla
It's a detective comedy, total Czech classic, with the legendary Czech actor Vlasta Burian, filmed by legendary Czech director Martin Fric. In the story Burian acts in three different roles (good private detective, bad adventurer and Russian duke), meets with Nick Carter and indian maharajah and protects precious diamonds from robbers. It is considered as one of the best first republic comedies.
The Hen and the Sexton
Cooperative members are harvesting crops, trying to get new water piping installed and preparing to plough away the field boundaries in autumn. Local kulak Voznica (Vladimír Repa) doesn't like any of this so he forces sexton Kodýtek (Vlasta Burian) to help him sabotage their efforts.
Nezlobte dedecka
Továrník Daněk had a report for the milenkou, by the late brother Emanuela Vovíska, who had been sent to the sanatorium for nervous breakdowns to bring Jonas out of America. Jonah sent a telegram, saying that he was in Paris, and that the situation did not go well. It was said that his wife Lydda would marry Jonah. And it came to pass, that as he made an end of speaking all these words unto Jonah, he wrote unto him.