Oldřich Nový - collection 1. (4DVD) - DVD

Věra the Lawyer
directed by: Martin Frič, 1937, 78 min.
The protagonist of the story is Věra Donátová, who has just graduated from law school. Her father decides to help her financially but gives her one condition. If she isn't successful within a year, she must marry the son of Consul Raboch. Věra agrees to her father's proposal and opens her own practice. However, clients are not exactly flocking to her. This leads her to meet a prisoner named Petr Kučera, also known as 'Tiger'. Věra manages to secure his release. She employs him in her office, and together they begin to explore the criminal underworld.
Starring: Truda Grosslichtová, Růžena Šlemrová, Theodor Pištěk, Oldřich Nový, Bedřich Veverka, L. H. Struna, Bohuš Záhorský, Jaroslav Marvan, František Filipovský
SUBTITLES: Czech for the hearing impaired

Kristian
directed by: Martin Frič, 1939, 95 min.
Many people consider the first of the month to be the most wonderful day. The first is also a special day for the staff of the modern 'Orient Bar', as it is the day a mysterious, elegant gentleman arrives, about whom no one knows anything other than his name is Kristian. In reality, he is Alois Novák, a humble clerk at a travel agency. However, the end of his double life is fast approaching.
Starring: Oldřich Nový, Nataša Gollová, Raoul Schránil, Bedřich Veverka, Adina Mandlová, Jára Kohout, Jaroslav Marvan, Čeněk Šlégl, Anna Steimarová, František Filipovský
BONUS FEATURES: a word from a historian, photographs, biography and filmography, contemporary documentation, The Perfect Gentleman
SUBTITLES: Czech for the hearing impaired, English

A Charming Man
Directed by: Martin Frič, 1941, 86 min.
Editor Viktor Bláha is a man full of imagination who delights in ruffling the calm waters of social relationships with fabrications he releases into the world, gleefully watching as his masterful lies spread among the gullible. At the wedding of his classmate Molenda, he meets Polda, who possesses the same vivid imagination as he does.
Starring: Oldřich Nový, Nataša Gollová, Ladislav Pešek, Theodor Pištěk, Jaroslav Marvan, Lída Chválová, Raoul Schránil, Ella Nollová, František Filipovský, Světla Svozilová, Karel Hašler, Ferenc Futurista
BONUS FEATURES: a word from a historian, photographs, biography and filmography, contemporary documentation
SUBTITLES: Czech for the hearing impaired, English

Saturday
directed by: Václav Wasserman, 1944, 89 min.
Helena Málková finds her life boring. Her husband is often away from home, and to escape the greyness of her days, she starts helping out in her brother's flower shop, where she meets Richard Herbert. He completely sweeps her off her feet, and Helena decides to move into his studio flat. However, during a dinner at a luxurious restaurant, an unpleasant surprise awaits her. After filming this movie, Oldřich Nový was sent to a concentration camp, and Adina Mandlová never acted in another Czech film again.
Starring: Oldřich Nový, Adina Mandlová, František Hanus, Hana Vítová, Ladislav Boháč, Jiřina Štěpničková, Růžena Šlemrová, Bedřich Veverka, Karel Dostal, Ela Šárková
SUBTITLES: Czech for the hearing impaired