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How to Drown Dr. Mracek, the Lawyer (1975)
Directed by Václav Vorlíček
Comedy, Fantasy · 2h 00m
There are still water spirits among us. One group lives in Prague, led by Mr. Wassermann, who is using his wife's family as a servants. All they need is their old house near the river. But the house is to be demolished. They have to stop it. And the only way is to drown Dr. Mrácek, who is responsible for the demolition. But he falls in love with Wassermann's niece Jana. He changes to fish, is mistaken for water spirit from Germany, is drowned and revived again. The other problem is the flour with ears... and so on...
Cast
Libuše Šafránková
Jana Vodičková
Jaromír Hanzlík
JUDr. Jindřich Mráček
František Filipovský
správce půjčovny loděk, Bertík Vodička
Miloš Kopecký
hlavní český vodník Wassermann
Vladimír Menšík
Karel Vodička, plavčík
Zdeněk Řehoř
potápěč Alois Vodička, Janin otec
Stella Zázvorková
doc. Mráčková, Jindřichova matka
Eva Trejtnarová-Hudečková
Polly, Wassermannova dcera
Čestmír Řanda
Míla Myslíková
Matylda, Wassermannova žena
Vlastimil Hašek
chirurg Honza, Jindřichův kamarád
Jiří Hrzán
vodník Thomas
Crew
- Director
- Václav Vorlíček
- Screenplay
- Petr Markov, Václav Vorlíček, Miloš Macourek
- Director of Photography
- Vladimír Novotný
- Original Music Composer
- Vítězslav Hádl
- Editor
- Miroslav Hájek
Details
- Original title
- Jak utopit dr. Mráčka aneb Konec vodníků v Čechách
- Release date
- 1975-03-01
- Runtime
- 2h 00m
- Genres
- Comedy, Fantasy
- Original language
- CS
- Spoken languages
- Czech
- Countries
- Czechoslovakia
- Production
- Filmové studio Barrandov