Luďa Marešová

Acting
1930-05-29
Břeclav, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]

Known For & Full Filmography33 Titles

#1Thirty Cases of Major Zema

Drama Series - 1976, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

7.4 / 10
DramaCrime

Thirty Cases of Major Zeman is a Czechoslovak action-drama television show intended as a political propaganda to support the official attitude of the communist party. The series were filmed in the 1970s. Each episode encompasses one year, and investigations are stylized to that year. Most are inspired by real cases. The series follows the life of police investigator Jan Zeman during his career from 1945 to 1975.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#2Straw Hat

Movie - 1972, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.6 / 10
Comedy

Slacker Maurice Fadinar wasted his whole inheritance and the only way out of this situation, as it seems, to marry Helen Nonankur - daughter of a wealthy farmer. At the last meeting with his mistress in a nearby forest Fadinar's horse eats straw hat which belongs to a married lady, spending time in the company of young and hot Lieutenant Emil. Emil literally puts a knife to Maurice throat - or the lady will get back the exact same hat immediately, or he will arrange such a scandal that no wedding will not happen ...

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#3The Visitors

Drama Series - 1983, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

7.5 / 10
Sci-Fi & FantasyFamilyComedy

It's the year 2484 and the Earth is threatened by a rogue comet which could fatally change its orbit. The solution is surprising - Adam Bernau, the greatest genius of 20th century developed 500 years ago an ingenious formula for easy transporting of continents and even worlds. Unfortunately, he made this discovery at the age of 11 and the exercise book containing it was destroyed in the fire. But this is not a challenge to Academic Filip who decides to send an expedition back in time to retrieve the precious exercise book from the fire. But everything is not so simple as it seems...

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#4The Train of Childhood and Expectation

Drama Series - 1989, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

9.0 / 10
FamilyDrama

A story of a little girl Verka and her life during the beginning of WWII. Based on Vera Sládková novels.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#5Hearty Greetings from the Globe

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.9 / 10
ComedySci-Fi

​Two aliens stir up trouble on Earth in order to study humans. Misunderstandings ensue.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#6Love Between the Raindrops

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.4 / 10
RomanceComedyDrama

Set in Prague during the years leading up to World War II, this family saga tells the story of a cobbler named Vincenc Bursik (Vladimir Mensik), who uproots his clan from the country to the city, only to suffer the loss of his wife and the failure of his shoe business within months. When his daughter moves away to go live with a wealthy businessman as his mistress, Vincenc is left to take care of his two sons, who spend their days in a secret garden vying for the affections of a teenage girl.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#7How to Drown Dr. Mracek, the Lawyer

Movie - 1975, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.5 / 10
ComedyFantasy

There are still water spirits among us. One group lives in Prague, led by Mr. Wassermann, who is using his wife's family as a servants. All they need is their old house near the river. But the house is to be demolished. They have to stop it. And the only way is to drown Dr. Mrácek, who is responsible for the demolition. But he falls in love with Wassermann's niece Jana. He changes to fish, is mistaken for water spirit from Germany, is drowned and revived again. The other problem is the flour with ears... and so on...

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#8When the Cat Comes

Movie - 1963, 2h 15m as Grey Wife (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
ComedyFantasy

While old Oliva tells a group of children about his life as a sailor and how he met Diana and her cat with sunglasses, a strange circus arrives in town.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#9How Poets Are Enjoying Their Lives

Movie - 1988, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.3 / 10
Comedy

While Kendy returns to his hometown as an assistant director to film a thirteen-part series with a television crew, Štěpán Šafránek, equipped with his mother's advice after graduation, takes up his first position - as an intern at the local hospital. However, his inadaptability to local conditions and his sense of ethics in his chosen profession do not suit his other established colleagues. While they are amused by his zeal and responsibility, Štěpán has increasing problems with his superiors, until he is finally transferred to the position of rural district doctor, which everyone rejects. In Bezdíkov, however, he meets a new, perhaps permanent and reciprocated love, with whom he eventually decides to live and work in northern Bohemia.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#10The End of Agent W4C

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.1 / 10
Comedy

The invincible agent Cyril Juan Borguette alias W4C has been assigned a mission to go to a hotel in Prague, get hold of a saltcellar with a plan for the military exploitation of Venus hidden in it, and hand it over to the beautiful agent Alice. He will have to compete for the saltcellar with other agents working for the world's various greater and smaller powers. The head of the Prague counter-intelligence unit gets news of agent W4C's mission. Deficient in personnel, he nominates accountant Foustka as agent 13B. Mr Foustka takes his dog Pajda with him and the two head for the airport. Pajda helps him track down agent W4C in a classy hotel that becomes the battleground for the interests and plans of the secret agents from different countries, each trying to get hold of the precious saltcellar.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#11Who Wants to Kill Jessie?

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

7.0 / 10
ComedySci-Fi

In this zany Czechoslovakian comedy, a scientist invents a machine that projects a sleeping person's dream on a screen; disaster soon follows when the machine malfunctions and the cartoon-like dream characters become very real!

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#12The Terribly Sad Princess

Movie - 1968, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

7.4 / 10
MusicComedyFamily

Like a fairy tale, King Henry and King Good-thought decided long ago that their only children should marry and so prevent war arising between their kingdoms ever again. But the young prince is wary of marrying anyone he doesn’t know.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#13Murder Czech Style

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

4.3 / 10
Comedy

The protagonist (Rudolf Hrusinsky) is a dull, fat, shy government clerk indulging in voyuerism and ego fantasies. In love with another clerk (Kveta Fiolova), he is urged on in his pursuit by a commiserate executive. The story is told in a flashback sequence as the cuckolded Hrusinsky attempts suicide by gassing himself in his bathtub. The "Murder" of the title is not a murder as such, rather the murder that Hrusinsky remembers planning upon discovering his wife's unfaithfulness with his supposed friend and advisor. Both plots failing in his mind, he loses himself in fantastic reveries of his funeral and of hypocritical mourners. ' Deciding (perhaps) that this is not the way out either, he gives up the attempt and imagines a life of reconciliation and eventual affluence.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#14Odvážná slečna

Movie - 1970, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

9.0 / 10
Comedy

JUDr. Kroupa will take over as President of the Civil Court from his colleague who is retiring. His job description is mostly to judge married couples who are divorcing and arguing over alimony, with the very least concern for the welfare of their children. With his new job, Kroupa "inherits" a handsome but peculiar secretary, Zdenka, who takes a liking to him. However, his attempts at courtship are occasionally thwarted by strange events...

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#15You Are a Widow, Sir

Movie - 1971, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.8 / 10
Sci-FiComedy

After a soldier cuts off the arm of king's cousin, king decides to deactivate the army. Of course, generals don't like it at all and they try to kill the king. The assassin should be artificial body in the shape of actress Evelina Keleti and with brain of psychotic serial killer Fany Stubová. They also manage to kill king's astrologer Stuart Hampl, who warns the king. Accidentally, Hampl's brain is implanted into assassin's body, actress Keleti is killed and chaos begins.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#16The Infinity Castle

Movie - 1984, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

4.3 / 10
Drama

Technical school student Pavel Brychta, arrives at a youth correctional facility located within a chateau in Konečno. He is an atypical, but not hopeless case for the institution. Pavel comes from a well-off family and his antisocial behaviour on the verge of criminality was some kind of response to his difficult relationship with his authoritative father. However, it takes quite some effort for Pavel to find his place in this environment of bullying, and also diverse methods from the tutors

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#17Attention, Rounds!

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.8 / 10
DramaComedy

A story about an everyday life of an inflectional department of Prague hospital.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#18A Girl Fit to Be Killed

Movie - 1976, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.0 / 10
CrimeComedy

The waitress Gita from the hotel "Bobí vrch" approaches her lover who has not left his wife yet and gives him an ultimatum: if he does not do all according to her wish, she will announce to the police his machinations with foreign currency.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#19Lady on the Tracks

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.8 / 10
ComedyMusic

Tram driver Marie has far too much to do after her shift is over. But she likes to do it all since she loves her husband Václav sincerely. One day she spots him on the Lesser Town Square in Prague, kissing an attractive blonde good-bye. It seems to Marie that her small comfortable world has collapsed and she walks out of the tram in tears. But her sadness does not last long. She wipes off the tears and begins to act. She withdraws all the money from their savings books and buys off all the latest models from the Fashion Works. The visit to the beauty salon then completes her transformation into a lady.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#20The Girl on the Broomstick

Movie - 1972, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

7.0 / 10
ComedyFamilyFantasy

A teenage witch, frozen in time as a punishment for 300 years, finds herself in a modern world.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#21Fandy ó Fandy

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

4.6 / 10
Comedy

Little kids, little worries, big kids, big worries, sighs many a parent often. This is no different for the mother of eighteen-year-old Frantisek, who has just graduated from high school without much glory and is about to start his first job. Fandy is still full of boyish dreams, yearns for a career as a rowing representative, competes with a friend for the favor of an admiring girl and is generally stubbornly opposed to taking life seriously.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#22Jak se krade milión

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m as Lejskova

6.3 / 10
CrimeComedy

The exemplary accountant Antonín Safránek lives his orderly life as a citizen of a small town. His wife Eliska brings up their three children and desperately tries to get by on her husband's low salary every month. At the same time, she sadly watches the luxurious life of their neighbor and other people like him who have no qualms about improving their standard of living by cheating. One day, the infallible Safránek makes a mistake in the cash clearance and there are nine one-hundred Crown bills left in the safe. An unexpected company control carried out the next day passes without problems and the account is closed. The temptation is too strong. The insufficient control enables Safránek to gradually steal one million Crowns.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#23Čtyři v kruhu

Movie - 1968, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

9.0 / 10
Crime

This drama with a criminal plot is a study of the intricately intertwined relationships of four people whose lives have been interrupted by the violent death of a loved one. The story begins almost classically: when a visitor rings the doorbell of a prominent scientist's villa, there is an explosion. The owner is found poisoned by gas in the demolished room. Everything suggests that he committed suicide. But then a major twist comes and the seemingly obvious suicide becomes a well thought out and carefully prepared crime...

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#24Waiting For Patrick

Movie - 1990, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

4.3 / 10
Comedy

Helenka, a textile industrial student, invents an ideal man who is the envy of all her friends. The dreamy and delusional Helenka resists her complexes with an imaginary lover, her more realistic friend Zuzka would also prefer the dreamy Patrik, but in the end she will probably be happy with the less ideal Honza, and the self-confident vulgar nymphomaniac Sylva flies from one lover to another like a butterfly, finally as she was the only one waiting for her dream Patrick.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#25The Witches of the Suburbs

Movie - 1991, 2h 15m as Old Teacher

8.0 / 10
ComedyFamilyFantasy

Two little girls get ahold of magic and hijinks ensue.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#26Sign of the Cancer

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

4.6 / 10
CrimeDrama

When Dr. Hahn is found murdered in the hospital’s inspection room, investigators question several suspects: his colleague and longtime lover Dr. Marie Nováková (whom he cheated on with nurse Jiřina), the nurse herself, Dr. Petera (whose career he stymied), a senile patient named Zima, and the inept clinic head. As police sift through truthful and deceptive testimonies, complex professional rivalries and personal entanglements among the hospital staff come to light.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#27The King of Colonnades

Movie - 1991, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.5 / 10
DramaHistory

In May 1945, a broken violinist lies drunk by a creek, haunted by memories of his life before and during WWII. Once the celebrated first violin in spa orchestras, he married Jewish nurse Róza and dreamed of fatherhood, only to face brutal anti-Jewish persecution. Relegated to second violin, he spirals into alcoholism and betrayal, while Róza and their daughter are deported. Cast out by colleagues and lovers, he descends into madness, murdering a vagrant with his violin case. In a final psychotic haze, he tends a roadside Christ statue before collapsing, his shattered life a testament to love, loss, and atrocity.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#28Smích se lepí na paty

Movie - 1987, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.7 / 10
ComedyDrama

Sixty-year-old Joska Platejz, a peculiar jack of all trades, lives in a cottage in the Giant Mountains. He cooks wonderfully for a group of woodcutters. He has brought a mountain stream to his cottage and set up a set of tanks (one of which he keeps trout in). He also has a wind turbine, a wood-burning cable car, air-conditioning in the cottage and a mannequin of a man called Albert, who scares away unknown visitors. Joska is a man who claims that it is best to be alone, yet he constantly tries not to be alone. He is friends with a gamekeeper, a teacher, he tries to get his children to visit him regularly and therefore easily succumbs to a middle-aged lady. She doesn't take long to persuade him and soon comes to his cottage. A great love seems to be born...

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#29Nobody Will Laugh

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.8 / 10
DramaComedy

A successful art historian who has trouble telling people difficult truths, finds himself in an inescapable situation when a small lie quickly gets out of hand.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#30Počkám, až zabiješ

Movie - 1973, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

7.0 / 10
Drama

During World War II, dogs were trained in special centres for guard duty in concentration camps. However, one of the prisoners domesticates a female German Shepherd, which saves his life during his escape.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#31The Lupinek Case

Movie - 1961, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.0 / 10
FamilyCrime

In a wooden hut used as a canvassing center, members of a children's puppet-theatre group are rehearsing for a production about a journey to the Moon. The goings-on inside the hut and outside are being closely followed by amateur detective Pepik Barnabás. He, however, is the first to be under suspicion when a trunk containing puppets goes missing. The children follow him but, when they catch up with him, they discover he hasn't got it. Pepík offers to help them in their search.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#32Panter čeká v 17,30

Movie - 1972, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

7.0 / 10
Drama

Teenage Peter doesn't get along with his strict father. And when his father sells his beloved bitch Irina, he feels lonely. Therefore, he easily falls under the influence of an older young man, Panter, who gets his money by fraud and theft. He also involves Peter and little Fenek in his nasty tricks.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#33Chicken on Travels

Movie - 1962, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

7.0 / 10
Family

The story of a childhood dream come true. Schoolchildren discover an abandoned poultry farm with an artificial hatchery and agree to raise their own chicks. They devote all their energies to it and wait anxiously for the little chicks to come into the world. Before that happens, they face many obstacles...

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details