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Overview
Trivia:
Brother of Josef Capek.NewsDesk:
(2 articles)
Concept teaser for Czech adaptation VÁLKA S Mloky (War With The Salamander) (From QuietEarth. 27 April 2009, 4:57 PM, PDT)
Classic 'R.U.R.' Restaged in Chicago
(From Comicmix. 8 October 2008, 7:27 PM, PDT)
Filmography
Writer:
- Svatá noc (2001) (TV) (story)
... aka Holy Night (International: English title) - Na zámku (2000) (TV) (story)
- Lotrando a Zubejda (1997) (stories)
... aka Ruffiano and Sweeteeth (International: English title) - Retsept yeyo molodosti (1983) (novel "The Makropoulos secret")
... aka Рецепт её молодости (Soviet Union: Russian title)
... aka Recipe of Her Youth - Plaché pribehy (1982) (book)
- Hordubal (1980) (book)
- Temné slunce (1980) (novel "Krakatit")
... aka Cerne slunce
... aka Dark Sun (International: English title)
... aka The Black Sun - La misma vieja historia (1977) (writer)
- Vodnická pohádka (1973) (story)
- Rekordi (1973) (story)
... aka Record (International: English title: informal literal title) - Tulácká pohádka (1972) (story)
- Ein Mordanschlag (1971) (TV) (story)
- De dichter (1964) (TV) (story)
- Postácká pohádka (1964) (story)
- Cintamani & podvodník (1964) (book)
... aka Chintamans and Marriage Swindler
... aka Chintamens
... aka Povídky z první republiky (Czechoslovakia: Czech title)
... aka The Chintamani Carpet and a Swindler (International: English title)
... aka The Oriental Carpet - Loupeznická pohádka (1964) (story)
- Doktorská pohádka (1963) (fairytale)
... aka Doctor's Fairytale (International: English title) - "Pakinateatteri" (1 episode, 1962)
- Runoilija (1962) TV episode (writer) - "BBC Sunday-Night Play" (1 episode, 1960)
- Twentieth Century Theatre: The Insect Play (1960) TV episode (play "Ze zivota hmyzu") - Psí pohádka (1959) (story)
- První parta (1959) (novel)
- O vecech nadprirozených (1958) (book)
- Historia pewnego listu (1957) (story)
- "Broadway Television Theatre" (1 episode, 1953)
- R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) (1953) TV episode (play) - "BBC Sunday-Night Theatre" (1 episode, 1950)
- The Insect Play (1950) TV episode (play "Ze zivota hmyzu") - R.U.R. (1948) (TV) (play)
- Capkovy povidky (1947) (books)
... aka Capek's Tales (USA) - Krakatit (1947) (novel "Krakatit")
- The Insect Play (1939) (TV) (writer)
- R.U.R. (1938) (TV) (play)
- Hordubalové (1938) (novel) (screenplay)
- Bílá nemoc (1937) (play)
... aka Skeleton on Horseback (USA)
... aka The White Disease (literal English title)
... aka The White Sickness (literal English title) - Loupezník (1931) (play)
- Zlatý klícek (1922) (story)
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World fame was his for two plays, "R.U.R." (in which he coined the word "robot") and "The Insect Play," and the allegorical novel representing Nazi and Fascist expansion as that of salamander-like creatures, "War With the Newts." moreMessage Boards
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