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Ball Lightning

1979 film directed by Ladislav Smoljak and Zdeněk Podskalský
Movie film Q4851207

Facts

26 properties
Instance of
film
Director
Ladislav Smoljak, Zdeněk Podskalský[2][3]
Genre
comedy film[8]
Publication date
1979
Screenwriter
Zdeněk Svěrák, Ladislav Smoljak, Zdeněk Podskalský[4][5][6]
Producer
Karel Kochman
Duration
+82
Cast member
Rudolf Hrušínský, Josef Abrhám, Daniela Kolářová, Zdeněk Svěrák, Ladislav Smoljak, Karel Kalaš, Bedřich Prokoš, Zita Kabátová, Milada Ježková, Karolina Slunéčková, Jaroslav Vozáb, Petr Brukner, Vlasta Žehrová, Vít Olmer, Zdeněk Srstka, Pavel Vondruška, Marie Málková, Mari Kiss, Dana Vávrová, Karel Engel, Jaroslav Weigel, Miloslav Štibich, Václav Kotek, Ivan Šlapeta, David Smoljak, Josef Koudelka, Josef Střecha, Filip Smoljak, Rudolf Vodrážka, Zora Božinová, Karel Bélohradsky, Hana Jirková, Petr Drozda, Jiří Flíček, Alice Pinková, Vera Kalendová-Nejezchlebová, Karel Hovorka, Jan Cmíral, Vít Pešina, Bohumil Koška, Václav Syřiště, Jaroslav Klenot, Rudolf Pechan, Oldřich Semerák, Josef Koudelka Bergstein, Emilie Zíchová, Alexandra Korytová, Zdena Pavlátová, Erich Fichtner, Zdena Lukášová, Tibor Kiss, Daniel Beran, Hana Jírková, Z. Petrová, V. Prášilová, Eliška Moulisová[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]
Color
color
Composer
Zdeněk Lukáš[7]
Costume designer
Jitka Moravcová, Helena Vondrušková
Country of origin
Czechoslovakia
Director of photography
Ivan Šlapeta
Distributed by
Ústřední půjčovna filmů
Film editor
Jiří Brožek
Filming location
Prague
Main subject
relocation
Named after
ball lightning[9]
Narrative location
Prague
Original language of film or TV show
Czech
P14449
205359
P14821
77821
Production company
Barrandov Studios
Production designer
Boris Moravec
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Sound designer
Jiří Lenoch
Title
Kulový blesk
🏷️ Also known as
en Ball Lightning en Kulový blesk de Aktion Kugelblitz de Kulový blesk fa گوی آذرخش (فیلم) nl Ball Lightning
🔖 Identifiers · 27
EIDR content ID
10.5240/23F1-9CFD-461A-46BE-F737-X
ElFilm film ID
77637
FilmAffinity film ID
704402
FilmPolski ID
7513
Filmovamista.cz film ID
118
Filmová databáze film ID
8233
Filmový přehled film ID
397202
Freebase ID
/m/0cmd0w6
IDU literary work ID
2023
IMDb ID
tt0077821
Kinobox film ID
10984
Kinopoisk film ID
51497
Show all 27 identifiers +15
LUMIERE film ID
27865
LdiF ID
54844
Letterboxd film ID
ball-lightning
MovieMeter film ID
301997
Moviepilot.de film ID
aktion-kugelblitz
NL CR AUT ID
unn20251279644
OFDb film ID
66597
PORT film ID
80663
Plex media key
5d7768685af944001f202208
Rotten Tomatoes ID
m/kulovy-blesk-ball-lightning
TMDB movie ID
36414
TheTVDB movie ID
30987
Trakt.tv ID
movies/ball-lightning-1979
Trakt.tv film ID
23132
ČSFD film ID
8542

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Cast member 16
Josef Koudelka, Zdeněk Svěrák, Dana Vávrová, Josef Abrhám, Rudolf Hrušínský, Daniela Kolářová, Ladislav Smoljak, Zita Kabátová +8 more
Screenwriter 3
Zdeněk Svěrák, Ladislav Smoljak, Zdeněk Podskalský
Director 2
Ladislav Smoljak, Zdeněk Podskalský
Composer 1
Zdeněk Lukáš
Country of origin 1
Czechoslovakia
Created notable works 1
Jiří Brožek
Film editor 1
Jiří Brožek
Filming location 1
Prague
Genre 1
comedy film
Instance of 1
film
Main subject 1
relocation
Named after 1
ball lightning
Narrative location 1
Prague
Original language of film or TV show 1
Czech
Production company 1
Barrandov Studios
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Summary

Ball Lightning is a film[1].

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Authorship and Creation

Ball Lightning was produced by Karel Kochman[26].

Publication

Ball Lightning was released on January 1, 1979[27]. The original language of it was Czech[28].

Related Entities

Barrandov Studios Czechoslovakia film

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  1. 9w ago · MsMorale · 2026-08-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14821 → 77821
    Filmová databáze film ID → 8233
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  2. 19w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Main subject → relocation
    Aliases → —
    Production designer → Boris Moravec
    Sound designer → Jiří Lenoch
    + 28 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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