Jan Kehár

Acting
1972-05-22

Known For & Full Filmography16 Titles

#1The Three Veterans

Movie - 1984, 2h 15m as Boy

7.8 / 10
FamilyFantasyComedy

It is a story of three veterans released from the army. During one night spent camping in the country they one by one wake up and meet three elvish brothers. Each of the veterans is given a magic item - one gets magic harp that provides him with servants by wish, other one endless pouch of gold and the last one owns magic hat that can create all the staff excluding money and people.

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#2Ahoj, sídliště

Drama Series - 1988, 16 episodes as Bořík

8.8 / 10
Family

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#3Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.2 / 10
Comedy

Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Ladislav Smoljak, about the fictional national hero Jára Cimrman (universal genius, inventor, sportsman, criminalist, poet, writer and philosopher).

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#4Advokát ex offo

Drama Series - 1989, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

8.0 / 10
Drama

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#5Ceremoniář

Movie - 1996, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

9.0 / 10
ComedyDrama

Who is this confident man who, with unusual elegance and surprising professionalism, began working at the reception desks of the highest government and party leaders one day? Where did he come from, what are his tasks, and who entrusted him with them? These questions will be pondered in the film by members of the secret services, important and insignificant minions of the powerful, who are convinced that they know every link in the ingeniously opaque chain of relationships and competences of a centrally controlled state. Before the surprising revelation of the mysterious master of ceremonies living a double life, he manages to pull off one last stunt: a monstrous hoax whose consequences can only be tragic.

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#6The Canary Connection

Movie - 1993, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

4.0 / 10
ComedyCrime

An interesting attempt at a postmodern crazy comedy with elements of parody. The plot turns on the search for the recipe of a liqueur made by the film’s financial backer.

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#7Fools and a Girl

Movie - 1988, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.3 / 10
DramaComedy

A coming of age drama about a young boy Jirka who lives in Prague.

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#8Hotýlek v srdci Evropy

Movie - 1994, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

3.3 / 10
ComedyDrama

This comedy starring Miroslav Donutil tells the story of an American of Czech origin who returns to his homeland in the 1990s. At his parents' request, he is supposed to take over the family hotel in Prague and find a Czech bride. However, he has no idea what he will have to endure in the atmosphere of the 1990s, what condition he will find the property in, or what tragicomic situations he will have to go through before someone deprives him of his property. But in the end, he finds a girl who, unbeknownst to her, comes from the same background as him.

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#9The Krakonos and the Skiers

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m as Josífek

4.8 / 10
ComedyFamily

Matej and Jenda, two of the eight children of the poor Pelc family in the Giant Mountains, help in a glass works where the oldest brother Francek works. They hide into a tub not to be seen by supervisors checking on the ban of children labor. They miss the Epiphany carol (songs and treats door-to-door) and all neighbor village boys again on them in all the neighbor houses. On their way home they are passed by a fast moving big man with a large backpack. The boys send the customs officers, who are pursuing the strange man, to the opposite direction. The man then thanks them and rewards them the next day. Based on fairy-tales and legends the boys think the man is Krakonos (the giant living and ruling in the Giant Mountains).

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#10Kamarád do deště II. – Příběh z Brooklynu

Movie - 1992, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

4.8 / 10
DramaCrime

The main characters left their original professions of waiter and taxi driver and rented a thriving disco Brooklyn. However, their peaceful life is disrupted by the con man Kadlec, who has not forgotten that it was they who put him behind bars two years ago. All this time, all he's been thinking about is revenge. The formerly petty crook, with the help of his accomplices, his son-in-law Buresh and fellow prisoner "The Engineer", joins the drug trade and begins his revenge. Michal is arrested for the rape of a girl he has never seen in his life, and it doesn't take much for Tomas to figure out that Kadlec is behind it all. What Tomas also doesn't realise for a long time is that the sympathetic Ivana, who has joined their business and with whom he has fallen in love, also works as a luxury prostitute and was put into the business by Kadlec.

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#11The Gentle Barbarian

Movie - 1990, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.0 / 10
ComedyDrama

A commemorative and essayistic meditative piece on the Prague quarter Libeň during the 1950s.

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#12The Glass House

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.0 / 10
DramaFamily

A story about a life of a group of children in the foster home.

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#13Dívka a kouzelník

Movie - 2009, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

4.0 / 10
DramaTV Movie

During the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the main characters of the story meet in a village pub. A traveling magician performs his variety show there with his assistant and current lover, with whom the local innkeeper had an affair in the past. The assistant would like to settle down, as she is tired of the traveling life. However, after an argument, the magician kicks her out. Hiding in the tavern's cellar is a young 16-year-old girl, half-Jewish, who is fascinated by the magician's performance. The innkeepers have been hiding her there somewhat against their will. When the girl runs away with the magician, they feel somewhat relieved. But only until they realize what would happen if the girl revealed where she was hiding.

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#14Žiletky

Movie - 1994, 2h 15m as Inmate

4.8 / 10
Drama

A Czech-French existential tragicomedy. Its (anti)hero is a young man named Andrej (played by Filip Topol, leader of the Czech underground band Psí vojáci). The story turns on his fateful love for the powerfully attractive though superficial Kristyna (Markéta Hrubesová).

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#15Passage

Movie - 1997, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.7 / 10
Comedy

Michail Forman, a successful business manager, gets stuck in a traffic jam. The weather is lousy, his car breaks down and he forgot to buy a present for his 5th wedding anniversary. He jumps out of his car and finds some shelter in the entrance of a shopping mall. Attracted by a little girl he enters the mall, but once he's in, time and reality are no longer something to rely on.

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#16Mystery of the Puzzle

Movie - 1993, 2h 15m as Mažňák

5.9 / 10
FamilyAdventure

A group of teenagers are trying to solve a mystery of a puzzle created and left to them by the dead boy.

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