Those Wonderful Movie Cranks

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Those Wonderful Movie Cranks (1979)

Directed by Jiří Menzel

Comedy · 1h 25m

Returning home to Prague, the magician Pasparte, an owner of a circus caravan, meets his dying colleague who entrusts his beautiful daughter Aloisie to his care. In Prague they all take up their lodgings at the house At Blue Fish in which they intend to arrange the programs. The firm is owned by widow Evzenie with whom Pasparte shares flat and bed. Evzenie is jealous of Aloisie therefore Pasparte sends Aloisie as a housewife to the single man Jakub Kolenatý who earns his living by photographing and wants to record the revived pictures of Prague. Pasparte wants to found in Prague the first permanent Czech movie theatre in which there would be projected also the original Czech films.

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Cast

Crew

Director
Jiří Menzel
Screenplay
Jiří Menzel, Oldřich Vlček
Director of Photography
Jaromír Šofr
Original Music Composer
Jiří Šust
Editor
Jiří Brožek

Details

Original title
Báječní muži s klikou
Release date
1979-08-03
Runtime
1h 25m
Genres
Comedy
Original language
CS
Spoken languages
Czech, German
Countries
Czechoslovakia
Production
Filmové studio Barrandov