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Jan Tříska

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Jan Triska or Jan Tříska (4 November 1936 – 25 September 2017) was a Czech actor, most notable for portraying Captain Henry Wirz in the American television film Andersonville. [1]

71 relations: Alfréd Radok Awards, Andersonville (film), Anton Chekhov, Apt Pupil (film), Arms and the Man, Arsenic and Old Lace (play), Art (play), Želary, Blizzard (film), Brno, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Charles Bridge, Charter 77, Connecticut Critics Circle, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, Don Juan, Faust, František Hrubín, Guthrie Theater, Henry Wirz, Highlander: The Raven, Highlander: The Series, Idiot's Delight (play), Iolaus, Jan Hřebejk, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Karel Čapek, Karel Hynek Mácha, King Lear, Kladno, Largo desolato, Long Wharf Theatre, Martin Huba, Maryša, Máj, Miloš Forman, Molière, National Theatre (Prague), Oedipus, Oedipus Rex, Otomar Krejča, Peter Hyams, Prague, Prague Castle, Romeo and Juliet, Ronin (film), Rudolf Hrušínský, Sophocles, ..., Spiš Castle, Stanley Kubrick, Summer Shakespeare Festival, The Elementary School, The Hairy Ape, The Karate Kid Part III, The Master and Margarita, The Osterman Weekend, The People vs. Larry Flynt, The Seagull, The White Disease, Three Sisters (play), Up and Down (film), Velvet Revolution, Vltava, Yale Repertory Theatre, Yasmina Reza, Zastrozzi, Zdeněk Štěpánek, 2001: A Space Odyssey (film), 2010: The Year We Make Contact. Expand index (21 more) »

Alfréd Radok Awards

The Alfréd Radok Awards (Ceny Alfréda Radoka) were presented annually by the Endowment for the Alfréd Radok Awards in collaboration with the Aura–Pont agency and the magazine Svět a Divadlo (The World and Theatre) for achievements in Czech theatre.

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Andersonville (film)

Andersonville is a 1996 American television film directed by John Frankenheimer about a group of Union soldiers during the American Civil War who are captured by the Confederates and sent to an infamous Confederate prison camp.

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Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (ɐnˈton ˈpavɫəvʲɪtɕ ˈtɕɛxəf; 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history.

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Apt Pupil (film)

Apt Pupil is a 1998 American thriller film directed by Bryan Singer and starring Ian McKellen and Brad Renfro.

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Arms and the Man

Arms and the Man is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw, whose title comes from the opening words of Virgil's Aeneid, in Latin: Arma virumque cano ("Of arms and the man I sing").

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Arsenic and Old Lace (play)

Arsenic and Old Lace is a play written by American playwright Joseph Kesselring, written in 1939.

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Art (play)

Art is a French-language play by Yasmina Reza that premiered in 1994 at Comédie des Champs-Élysées in Paris.

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Želary

Želary is a 2003 Czech/Slovak film directed by Ondřej Trojan, starring Anna Geislerová.

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Blizzard (film)

Blizzard is a 2003 American/Canadian Christmas-themed family film directed by LeVar Burton, and stars Brenda Blethyn, Christopher Plummer, Kevin Pollak, and Whoopi Goldberg.

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Brno

Brno (Brünn) is the second largest city in the Czech Republic by population and area, the largest Moravian city, and the historical capital city of the Margraviate of Moravia.

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Brooklyn Academy of Music

The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is a performing arts venue in Brooklyn, New York City, known as a center for progressive and avant garde performance.

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Charles Bridge

Charles Bridge (Karlův most) is a historic bridge that crosses the Vltava river in Prague, Czech Republic.

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Charter 77

Charter 77 (Charta 77 in Czech and in Slovak) was an informal civic initiative in communist Czechoslovakia from 1976 to 1992, named after the document Charter 77 from January 1977.

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Connecticut Critics Circle

The Connecticut Critics Circle is an organization of reviewers, feature writers, columnists, and broadcasters throughout Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York.

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Cyprus

Cyprus (Κύπρος; Kıbrıs), officially the Republic of Cyprus (Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία; Kıbrıs Cumhuriyeti), is an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean and the third largest and third most populous island in the Mediterranean.

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Czech Republic

The Czech Republic (Česká republika), also known by its short-form name Czechia (Česko), is a landlocked country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west, Austria to the south, Slovakia to the east and Poland to the northeast.

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Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia, or Czecho-Slovakia (Czech and Československo, Česko-Slovensko), was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until its peaceful dissolution into the:Czech Republic and:Slovakia on 1 January 1993.

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Don Juan

Don Juan (Spanish), also Don Giovanni (Italian), is a legendary, fictional libertine.

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Faust

Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend, based on the historical Johann Georg Faust (c. 1480–1540).

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František Hrubín

František Hrubín (17 September 1910 – 1 March 1971) was a Czech poet and writer.

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Guthrie Theater

The Guthrie Theater, founded in 1963, is a center for theater performance, production, education, and professional training in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Henry Wirz

Heinrich Hartmann Wirz, better known as Henry Wirz (November 25, 1823 – November 10, 1865), was a Swiss-born American officer of the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.

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Highlander: The Raven

Highlander: The Raven was a short-lived spin-off from the television series Highlander, continuing the saga of a female Immortal.

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Highlander: The Series

Highlander: The Series is a Canadian-French fantasy science fiction action-adventure television series featuring Duncan MacLeod (Adrian Paul) of the Scottish Clan MacLeod, as the eponymous "Highlander".

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Idiot's Delight (play)

Idiot's Delight is a 1936 play written by American playwright Robert E. Sherwood.

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Iolaus

In Greek mythology, Iolaus (Ἰόλαος Iólaos) was a Theban divine hero, son of Iphicles and Automedusa.

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Jan Hřebejk

Jan Hřebejk (born 27 June 1967) is a Czech film director.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and statesman.

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Karel Čapek

Karel Čapek (9 January 1890 – 25 December 1938) was a Czech writer of the early 20th century.

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Karel Hynek Mácha

Karel Hynek Mácha (16 November 1810 – 5 November 1836) was a Czech romantic poet.

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King Lear

King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare.

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Kladno

Kladno (Kladen) is a city in the Central Bohemian Region (Středočeský kraj) of the Czech Republic.

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Largo desolato

Largo Desolato is a semi-autobiographical play by Václav Havel about a political dissident, Leopold Nettles (originally in Czech Kopřiva), who fears being sent to prison for his writing.

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Long Wharf Theatre

Long Wharf Theatre is a nonprofit institution in New Haven, Connecticut, a pioneer in the not-for-profit regional theatre movement, the originator of several prominent plays, and a venue where many internationally known actors have appeared.

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Martin Huba

Martin Huba (born 16 July 1943 in Bratislava) is a Slovak actor and director on stage and in film.

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Maryša

Maryša (English: Marysha) is a Czech stage drama from 1894, written by brothers Alois Mrštík and Vilém Mrštík.

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Máj

Máj (archaic Czech for the month May) is a romantic poem by Karel Hynek Mácha in four cantos.

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Miloš Forman

Jan Tomáš "Miloš" Forman (18 February 1932 – 13 April 2018) was a Czech American film director, screenwriter, actor and professor who, until 1968, lived and worked primarily in the former Czechoslovakia.

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Molière

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière (15 January 162217 February 1673), was a French playwright, actor and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and universal literature.

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National Theatre (Prague)

The National Theatre (Národní divadlo) in Prague is known as the alma mater of Czech opera, and as the national monument of Czech history and art.

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Oedipus

Oedipus (Οἰδίπους Oidípous meaning "swollen foot") was a mythical Greek king of Thebes.

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Oedipus Rex

Oedipus Rex, also known by its Greek title, Oedipus Tyrannus (Οἰδίπους Τύραννος IPA), or Oedipus the King, is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed around 429 BC.

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Otomar Krejča

Otomar Krejča (23 November 1921 - 6 November 2009) was a Czech theater director and dissident.

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Peter Hyams

Peter Hyams (born July 26, 1943) is an American film director, screenwriter and cinematographer, known for directing Capricorn One, the 1981 science fiction thriller Outland, 2010 (the sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey), the 1986 action/comedy Running Scared, the comic book adaptation Timecop, the action film Sudden Death (both starring Jean-Claude Van Damme), and the horror films The Relic and End of Days.

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Prague

Prague (Praha, Prag) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, the 14th largest city in the European Union and also the historical capital of Bohemia.

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Prague Castle

Prague Castle (Pražský hrad) is a castle complex in Prague, Czech Republic, dating from the 9th century.

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Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families.

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Ronin (film)

Ronin is a 1998 American action thriller film written by John David Zeik and David Mamet (using the pseudonym Richard Weisz) and directed by John Frankenheimer.

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Rudolf Hrušínský

Rudolf Hrušínský (17 October 1920 - 14 April 1994) was a Czech actor.

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Sophocles

Sophocles (Σοφοκλῆς, Sophoklēs,; 497/6 – winter 406/5 BC)Sommerstein (2002), p. 41.

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Spiš Castle

The ruins of Spiš Castle (Spišský hrad.,; Szepesi vár; Zipser Burg) in eastern Slovakia form one of the largest castle sites in Central Europe.

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Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.

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Summer Shakespeare Festival

The Summer Shakespeare Festival (Czech: Letní shakespearovské slavnosti, Slovak: Letné shakespearovské slávnosti) takes place in the courtyard of Burgrave Palace at Prague Castle.

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The Elementary School

The Elementary School (Obecná škola) is a 1991 Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Jan Svěrák.

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The Hairy Ape

The Hairy Ape is a 1922 expressionist play by an American playwright Eugene O'Neill.

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The Karate Kid Part III

The Karate Kid Part III is a 1989 American martial arts drama film and the second sequel to The Karate Kid (1984).

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The Master and Margarita

The Master and Margarita (Ма́стер и Маргари́та) is a novel by Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940 during Stalin's regime.

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The Osterman Weekend

The Osterman Weekend is a thriller novel by Robert Ludlum.

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The People vs. Larry Flynt

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The Seagull

The Seagull (translit) is a play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, written in 1895 and first produced in 1896.

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The White Disease

The White Disease (Bílá nemoc) is a play written by Czech novelist Karel Čapek in 1937.

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Three Sisters (play)

Three Sisters (translit) is a play by the Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov.

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Up and Down (film)

Up and Down (Horem pádem) is a 2004 Czech comedy film directed by Jan Hřebejk.

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Velvet Revolution

The Velvet Revolution (sametová revoluce) or Gentle Revolution (nežná revolúcia) was a non-violent transition of power in what was then Czechoslovakia, occurring from 17 November to 29 December 1989.

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Vltava

The Vltava (Moldau) is the longest river within the Czech Republic, running southeast along the Bohemian Forest and then north across Bohemia, through Český Krumlov, České Budějovice and Prague, and finally merging with the Elbe at Mělník.

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Yale Repertory Theatre

Yale Repertory Theatre at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut was founded by Robert Brustein, dean of Yale School of Drama, in 1966, with the goal of facilitating a meaningful collaboration between theatre professionals and talented students.

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Yasmina Reza

Yasmina Reza (born 1 May 1959) is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter best known for her plays 'Art' and God of Carnage.

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Zastrozzi

Zastrozzi: A Romance is a Gothic novel by Percy Bysshe Shelley first published in 1810 in London by George Wilkie and John Robinson anonymously, with only the initials of the author's name, as "by P.B.S.". The first of Shelley's two early Gothic novellas, the other being St. Irvyne, outlines his atheistic worldview through the villain Zastrozzi and touches upon his earliest thoughts on irresponsible self-indulgence and violent revenge.

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Zdeněk Štěpánek

Zdeněk Štěpánek (22 September 1896 – 20 June 1968) was a Czech actor.

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2001: A Space Odyssey (film)

2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick.

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2010: The Year We Make Contact

2010, often styled with its promotional tagline 2010: The Year We Make Contact, is a 1984 science fiction film written, produced and directed by Peter Hyams.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Tříska

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