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Ivan Franěk
Born: 17th Jun 1964 Plzeň, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Dept: Acting
Ivan Franěk (born June 17, 1964) is a Czech actor. After relocating from former Czechoslovakia to France in 1989, he has been active mainly in French and – particularly – Italian film & TV industry. His breakthrough role was lead Tobias Horvath in the Italian romance drama Brucio nel vento (2002), directed by Silvio Soldini and based on the novel Hier by Ágota Kristóf.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 89
Film: 67 (75%)
Television: 22 (25%)
Remaining genres not in graph: War, Family, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, TV Movie, Soap
Filmography
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Emma, a curious and imaginative nine-year-old girl, loves unicorns, spaceships, and Christmas trees. She lives with her quirky family: her mother Sara ... view
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Original title: Zablácene boty
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An elderly Jewish woman, who was a teenager during the outset of the Holocaust and was forced to choose between her own life and her younger brother's ... view
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Ivan
2025
In 1547, young knight Petr Pětipeský is sent to the remote village of Urbach to oversee the construction of a bridge that promises access to ‘hidd ... view
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2025
In late 15th-century Eastern Europe, Prince Vlad II’s bride is brutally murdered. As a result, he renounces God and damns Heaven itself. Cursed with ... view
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Elisabeta's Captain
2025
Love takes many forms, and Albert, Kateřina, and Gábina are not afraid to go to extremes in their pursuit of it. They fully enjoy casual sex and the ... view
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Albert
May 2024 (first aired)
The heroes fight in the seemingly idyllic setting of the Karkonosze Mountains, against which the international drug trade takes place. Who will suppor ... view
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Eda (3 ep.)
Original title: Dvě slova jako klíč
2023
Stories about parent-child relationships, fate, and the unknown forces that guide our steps unfold across several continents. A Japanese businessman w ... view
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Tomáš
2023
Monika, a woman in her fifties, feels that she has reached all the important milestones in her life. Her child is grown up and she is very successful ... view
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Igor Spišák
Original title: Les Trois Mousquetaires : D'Artagnan
2023
D'Artagnan, a spirited young Gascon, is left for dead after trying to save a noblewoman from being kidnapped. Once in Paris, he tries by all means to ... view
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Ardanza
Jan 2022 (first aired)
Christian lives in a "city-palace" where he earns his living doing dirty work for LINO, the criminal boss of neighborhood. When stigmata appear on his ... view
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Padre Klaus (8 ep.)
Original title: OSS 117 : Alerte rouge en Afrique noire
2021
1981. Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, aka OSS 117, is back. For this new mission – more delicate, more dangerous and more torrid than ever – he is fo ... view
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Kazimir
2021
Anton is, or rather was, a famous theater actor, but cruel life began to put treacherous obstacles in his way. For example, a chair or a hole, which y ... view
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Ohnivák
Original title: Una nuova prospettiva
2020
Early one morning, in an unspecified and seemingly far off time, a 12 year old boy, together with some friends, is searching a thick forest for objec ... view
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Girl's father
Mar 2020 (first aired)
Astrid Nielsen works in the library of the judicial police. She has Asperger's syndrome. With an incredible memory, she excels at analyzing files of ... view
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Zakhar (1 ep.)
2020
Take an irascible dwarf whose surname is Piccolo, with an easy trigger and an immoderate passion for Pupo and his songs. Then add an undercover police ... view
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Igor Makarovitch
2019
Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared gov ... view
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Mossan
Original title: Guarda in alto
2018
During a break on a rooftop, Teco, a young baker, notices the intriguing fall of a strange bird. He decides to venture to the next roof to have a clos ... view
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Joe
Original title: Úsměvy smutných mužů
2018
A writer gets into a rehab where he meets a lot of successful men who destroyed their lives with alcohol. ... view
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Tomáš
Original title: Il ragazzo invisibile - Seconda generazione
2018
Three years later Michele (The Invisible boy) meets his mother and his twin sister. Both have stories and superpowers but their intentions may not be ... view
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Andreij
2017
A hieratic Count sits in his elegant mansion finishing his writings - Alphonse, a young Waloon officer, rides through the Murgia to reach his regiment ... view
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Thibaud
Original title: Il permesso: 48 ore fuori
2017
The story of four inmates during their 48 hours furlough, of their reality and how it has brought them behind bars. The characters are described with ... view
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Goran
Original title: Le Jeune Karl Marx
2017
26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son, who h ... view
Character:
Bakunin
Feb 2017 (first aired)
Leonardo Cagliostro, a policeman, dies and decides to stay on Earth in order to find out more about the circumstances of his death and to save his wif ... view
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Emin Vesna (12 ep.)
2016
Anna, a French journalist at the peak of her career, drops everything to pursue a small story. A mad and creative theater figure who died in the 1980s ... view
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Edin
Original title: Orecchie
2016
A man wakes up one morning with an annoying ringing sound in his ears. A note on the fridge says: "Your friend Luigi has died. P.S. I took the car". T ... view
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Nikolaj
Original title: Sangue del mio sangue
2015
In the Middle Ages, Federico, a soldier, visits the convent in Bobbio, where Sister Benedetta is facing charges of witchery for seducing Fabrizio, Fed ... view
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Rikalkov
Original title: Cloro
2015
Seventeen-year-old Jenny dreams of becoming a synchronized swimmer. Family events turn her life upside down and she is forced move to a remote area to ... view
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Ivan
Original title: La buca
2014
Ambulance-chasing lawyers takes on the case of a convicted murderer who, just being released after doing 27 years in jail, claims he was innocent. ... view
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Tito
Original title: Noi 4
2014
James prepares for his eighth grade oral exams while his family is going through different times. ... view
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Milos Weiss
2013
As World War II rages on, Villi and Colette are captured and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp. Imprisoned within separate compounds, the lovers mu ... view
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Original title: La Marque des anges - Miserere
2013
Paris, December. A conductor of a choir is found mysteriously murdered, with burst eardrums. Lionel Kasdan, a police inspertor the verge of retirement ... view
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Vargos
Original title: La grande bellezza
2013
Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks ... view
Character:
Ron Sweet
Original title: Ritual - Una storia psicomagica
2013
The fragile Lia suffers from a deep depression. Her relationship with her boyfriend Viktor is getting worse and worse and in the last desperate attemp ... view
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Viktor
2013
A married couple unexpectedly find themselves witness to a murder. The perpetrators pay them to remain silent, but also turn them into the main suspec ... view
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Ing. Jan Zeman, hoteliér
Original title: Tulpa
2012
Lisa Boeri is at the top of her corporate career. At night she frequents the notorious Club Tulpa, owned by a mysterious Tibetan guru. Unshackled from ... view
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Stefan
Original title: Isole
2011
Ivan, a drifting immigrant in search of work and dignity, lands on an Italian island only to be met with cruelty and betrayal. Just as hope fades, he ... view
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Ivan
Original title: Noi credevamo
2010
1828. After witnessing the brutal repression of revolutions in monarchist South, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's patriotic cause, seeking ... view
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Simon Bernard
Original title: Captifs
2010
Somewhere in Eastern Europe. Carole is a young nurse with a humanitarian aid group that has reached the end of its mission. But just then, the young w ... view
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Ferrailleur 1
Original title: Due vite per caso
2010
You're 20 years old and life is full of endless possibilities. But, on a rainy evening, you bumps into another car and life hasn't been the same anymo ... view
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Ivan Janacek
Original title: L'Armée du crime
2009
This gripping historical drama recounts the story of Armenian-born Missak Manouchian, a woodworker and political activist who led an immigrant laborer ... view
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Narek Tavkorian
Original title: Hodinu nevíš...
2009
Hynek Michánek wants to study medicine but fails his entrance exams five times. He starts a job as an orderly in a district hospital where one of the ... view
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MUDr. Valencik
Original title: T.M.A.
2009
A man leaves his busy city life for the peace of the country home where he spent his early childhood. His new life is soon disturbed by strange events ... view
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Marek
2009
Rome, Paris and Helsinki right after the Madrid bombings. Three stories about people who, for different reasons, are afraid of others – the eponymou ... view
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Elena's father
Mar 2009 (first aired)
Fighting a modern, fragmented and brutal Mafia, the Sicilian Anti-Mafia Squad seeks to crush the criminal network that holds a death grip on the regio ... view
Character:
Isaac Brodan (2 ep.)
Original title: Pour elle
2008
Lisa and Julien are married and lead a happy uneventful life with their son Oscar. But their life radically changes one morning, when the police comes ... view
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Dragan
Original title: Tajnosti
2007
Julie is a woman who seemingly has everything. A handsome husband, teenage daughter and a thriving, undemanding job as a translator and now even a new ... view
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Karel
Original title: Notturno Bus
2007
Valerio Mastandrea is Franz, a night bus driver on the airport route who owes a lot of money from poker debts. He's stumbled upon by the variously nam ... view
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Andrea
2007
Italy, XIII century. The story of friendship between two young people who dedicated their lives to God and others: St. Francis and St. Clare of Assisi ... view
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Federico
Dec 2006 (first aired)
Anthology crime series penned by some of the foremost contemporary Italian noir writers (Camilleri, Faletti, De Cataldo, Carofiglio, Lucarelli, Fois.. ... view
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Vitas (1 ep.)
Original title: Le Pressentiment
2006
A Parisian lawyer moves to a working-class neighborhood in an attempt to shed his social conditioning and bourgeois values. ... view
Character:
Thomas Jozic
2006
The upper-class secret agent teaming up accidentally with an easily-corrupted, sly interpreter... ... view
Character:
Victor Zilenko
Original title: Provincia meccanica
2005
A mentally unstable woman loses her daughter's custody to her mother. Things get even more complicated when her husband has a car accident and befrien ... view
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Rosso
Original title: 36 quai des Orfèvres
2004
In Paris, two cops are competing for the vacant job of chief of police, in the middle of the search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is direct ... view
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Bruno Winterstein
2003
In a remote, isolated Yazidi Kurdish village in post-Soviet Armenia, Hamo, a widower with a pitiful pension and three worthless sons, travels daily to ... view
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Dilovan
Original title: Les marins perdus
2003
Based on a novel by Jean-Claude Izzo, this melancholic movie focuses on three sailors being the last remaining crew members on their ship which is agr ... view
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Le Marocain
Original title: Sulla mia pelle
2003
On My Skin (Italian: Sulla mia pelle, also known as Upon My Skin) is a 2003 Italian crime-drama film written and directed by Valerio Jalongo. It was s ... view
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Tony
Original title: La guerre à Paris
2002
In Paris, in 1943, Jules, a 19-year-old Jew, lived without an ideal, tossed about by circumstances. He becomes in turn a traitor then a hero. Thomas, ... view
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Léon
2002
For ten years, immigrant Tobias has worked at a Swiss clock factory and, in the relentless ticking, he saw life go by without much expectation. One da ... view
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Tobias Horvath
2001
A bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into their lives. Hounded down, beaten up, threatened, s ... view
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Touki
2000
In Paris in 1935, a young Jewish woman married to an anti-fascist activist befriends her neighbor who is dating a far-right supporter. ... view
Character:
Lesa Zimmermann
Dec 1991 (first aired)
The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth. ... view
Character:
Vladimír (1 ep.)
Original title: Čekání na Patrika
1990
Helenka, a textile industrial student, invents an ideal man who is the envy of all her friends. The dreamy and delusional Helenka resists her complexe ... view
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