Highest rated movie: Marketa Lazarová (1967)
Lowest rated movie: Shameless (2008)
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Movies starring Pavel Landovský have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 67%.
Marketa Lazarová - released in 1967 - is Pavel Landovský's highest rated movie, with a score of 81% based on 31 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Pavel Landovský is Shameless - released in 2008 - with a score of 45% based on 1 reviews.
Pavel Landovský (September 11, 1936 – October 10, 2014) was a Czech actor, playwright and director. He was a prominent dissident under the communist regime of former Czechoslovakia.
Landovský was born in German Brod and studied at the Faculty of Theatre in Prague and then played in regional theaters in Teplice, Šumperk, Klatovy and Pardubice. The first play that he wrote, the Hour-long hotelier, premiered at the Drama theater on 11 May 1969. In 1971 the communist regime banned him from film and television. He continued acting at The Drama Club and other theatres. Landovský was one of the initiators of the human rights' petition Charter 77. He was then banned from working at the theater. Constantly harassed by the secret police (State security), during the winter of 1978-79, Landovský was accosted at night by an agent and severely beaten and had his leg broken. Feeling compelled to leave for his safety, when was offered a position in the ensemble of the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria, he accepted.
After the Velvet Revolution in 1989, he was able to return to Prague in January 1990. There he was able to act again, playing one of the lead characters in the play the Audience at club Drama - a play written by his friend Václav Havel 16 years earlier, and who had recently been elected president of then Czechoslovakia. The play was directed by Jiří Menzel.
He died on October 10, 2014 from a heart attack in Kytín, aged 78.
Pavel Landovský has acted in films with Jan Budař, Oto Ševčík, Jiří Macháček and Samuel L. Jackson.
Pavel Landovský has worked with these film directors: František Vláčil, Miloš Forman, Philip Kaufman and Jan Svěrák.
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