Josef Čihák

Josef Čihák (born 19 March 1963) is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic who competed for Czechoslovakia. He now works as a tennis coach at TK Sparta Praha.

Career

Čihák was most successful as a doubles player, reaching two doubles finals in the 1989 Grand Prix, at Båstad and Saint-Vincent, winning the latter. He had previously made doubles semi-finals at Prague and Palermo in 1987 and also Prague and Munich in 1988. As well reaching those two finals in 1989, Čihák was also a semi-finalist at the Athens Open, in the singles.

At Grand Slam level he lost all of his four singles matches. The toughest opponent he came up against was Mats Wilander in the 1988 French Open, the number three seed who went on to win the tournament. He lost two five setters in 1989, at Roland Garros and Wimbledon. In doubles he won four of his 10 matches, but never made it past the second round, which he reached on four occasions, three times with countryman Cyril Suk as his partner.

Josef

Josef is a variant of the masculine given name Joseph. People so named include:

  • Josef Abrhám (born 1939), Czech film and stage actor
  • Josef Ludwig von Armansperg (1787-1853), Bavarian government minister, Regent and Prime Minister of Greece
  • Josef Bühler (1904–1948), German Nazi government official executed for crimes against humanity
  • Josef Dietrich (1892-1966), German World War II Waffen-SS general and war criminal
  • Josef Doležal (1920–1999), Czechoslovak race walker
  • Josef Ertl (1925-2000), German politician
  • Josef Frank (architect) (1885–1967), Austrian-born architect, artist, and designer
  • Josef Fritzl (born 1935), Austrian sex offender
  • Josef Gočár (1880–1945), Czech architect
  • Josef Hladký (born 1962), Czech-German retired medley swimmer
  • Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956), Austrian architect and designer of consumer goods
  • Josef Hügi (1930-1995), Swiss footballer
  • Josef Imbach (disambiguation)
  • Josef Košťálek (1909-1971), Czech footballer
  • Josef Lontscharitsch (born 1970), Austrian former road cyclist
  • Josef (film)

    Josef is 2011 Croatian drama and war film directed by Stanislav Tomić depicting war story of Austrian-Hungarian Croat soldier during World War I in 1915 in Galicia.

    In the film, stress is given to effective photos, music, violence and sex.

    The film is written by Mario Marko Krce.

    Opening song of the film, "Josef", is composed and played by Marko Perković.

    Critics were very positive. Critics especially praised costumes and scenography, even though film was produced with low budget and in an independent production.

    The film won the Golden Arena for Best Special Effects at the 2011 Pula Film Festival.

    Plot

    In 1915, during World War I in Galicia, Croatian soldiers serving in the Austro-Hungarian Army were sent on Eastern Front to fight against Russian Army and Circassian bandits. An Austrian-Hungarian soldier who has survived the battle, a Croat, takes uniform and identification tag from a dead NCO. A problem occurs when Austrian-Hungarian officer finds out that the soldier is not the one he claims to be.

    Final Fantasy II

    Final Fantasy II (ファイナルファンタジーII Fainaru Fantajī Tsū) is a fantasy role-playing video game developed and published by Square (now Square Enix) in 1988 for the Family Computer as the second installment of the Final Fantasy series. The game has received numerous enhanced remakes for the WonderSwan Color, the Sony PlayStation, the Game Boy Advance, the PlayStation Portable, and multiple mobile and smartphone types. As neither this game nor Final Fantasy III were initially released outside Japan, Final Fantasy IV was originally released in North America as Final Fantasy II, so as not to confuse players. The most recent releases of the game are enhanced versions for the iOS and Android, which were released worldwide in 2010 and 2012, respectively.

    The game's story centers on four youths whose parents were killed during an army invasion by the empire of Palamecia, who are using hellspawn to conquer the world. Three of the four main characters join a rebellion against the empire, embarking on missions to gain new magic and weapons, destroy enemy superweapons, and rescue leading members of the resistance. The Game Boy Advance remake adds a bonus story after the game is completed.

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