Frank Towen
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Frank Towen.
Born: October 27, 1912
Known For
Goodbye, Medeo
The director and choreographer from Prague are preparing a show performance "Oriental Fairy Tale" - a ballet on ice with the participation of vocal and instrumental ensembles and pop singers. They are shooting their picture in Kazakhstan at the Medeo high-altitude skating rink.
Každému jeho nebe
The life of cabaret and theater actress Xena Longenová.
Man in Outer Space
An upholsterer who is preparing a rocket for takeoff accidentally jettisons himself into space and returns to Earth 500 years later with an alien companion who wishes to learn more about the human race.
The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun
A bachelor named Faun with a Don Juan complex, seized with a hypochondriac's fear of the ineluctable approach of death, enters a race against time's passage. Faun's sexual love is imbued with the narcissistic vanity of a self-satisfied bacchant who even towards old age can't manage to forgo his lifelong pose as an irresistable seducer of women. He desperately searches for meaning in superficial, fleeting sex.
Černá punčocha
An elderly tailor strangles young women with a black stocking. Inspired by a true crime.
Kouzelné dobrodružství
The story of the friendship between František and Gustav, which fades over the years, as well as the memory of a magical, almost dreamlike experience...
Zpívající film
An editing film made from older Czech music films, in which Waldemar Matuska searches for a lost song of the sad Helena Vondráčková...
Filmography
as Actor - Grandfather
as Pierot
as Senior Choreographer