Ingrid Timkova Movies
Slovak actress Ingrid Timkova has appeared in a handful of films since 1990, when she began working with the Slovak National Theater in the Slovakian capital, Bratislava. ~ Rovi
The often uncomfortable bonds of family intersect with the wary political and social allegiances of the Czech Republic following the collapse of the U.S.S.R. and the end of Soviet occupation in this drama from director Jan Hrebejk and screenwriter Petr Jarchovsky. Goran and Milan (Zdenek Suchy and Jan Budar) are criminals who, while ferrying a truckload of illegal aliens into the Czech Republic, discover that one of their cargo has misplaced a baby; looking to turn a profit wherever they can, they sell the lost child to Lubos and Eman (Marek Daniel and Pavel Liska), two petty thieves who run a black-market adoption agency. Among Lubos and Eman's clients are Miluska and Frantisek (Natasa Burger and Jiri Machacek), a barren and lonely couple who are unable to adopt due to Frantisek's criminal record, which amounts to a bout of drunken foolishness during a soccer game. Meanwhile, Martin Horecky (Petr Forman) is a Czech expatriate living in Australia who comes home for a visit following the death of his father, who abandoned the family before Martin was born. Circumstances prove not to be especially welcoming for Martin; his mother (Emilia Vasaryova), who has become poisoned with race hate, invites two guests for his homecoming dinner, a half-sister he's never met (Kristyna Liska-Bokova) and her mother, who was once Martin's girlfriend (Ingrid Timkova). ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Petr Forman, Emilia Vasaryova, (more)
- 1999
Jan Poutnik (Vladimir Pucholt) was born in Czechoslovakia but has emigrated to the United States, where he teaches film courses at a New York college. Pampeliska (Ingrid Timkova), a young widow from Jan's home town of Bystre, has come to America to visit, and has brought with her a pocket watch once owned by Jan's father, which she presents to him. Jan introduces Pampeliska to his close friend Adam (Adam Davidson), and soon Adam finds himself falling in love with the widow, while Jan finds his mind filled with thoughts of Bystre, some nostalgic and some poisoned by the horrors of war. In time, both Jan and Adam pay a visit to the Czech Republic, though their reactions are very different. The original Czech title of Navrat ztraceneho raje / Which Side Eden translates roughly into English as Return of Paradise Lost. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Vladimir Pucholt, Ingrid Timkova, (more)
- 1994
This Central European costume melodrama tells the tale of an affair between a POW and an officer's wife. Anezka is the wife who comes to visit her husband, a major, in Stryj, a town in the midst of a war. The major is dying after he sustained third-degree burns during a recent attack perpetrated by the wife of an executed terrorist. That he had been in a brothel at the time did nothing to prevent him from receiving a hero's accolades. Anezka is not impressed. She gets a job as a nurse in a military hospital. There she meets the handsome prisoner and falls in love. Her love is not enough to give the POW hope and he refuses to escape even though she has provided him with the means. Tragedy ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Ingrid Timkova, Juraj Simko, (more)
