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A successful, typically French farce (it is not difficult to imagine it being made into a film with Belmondo in the lead role), whose biggest star for me is surprisingly neither Vlastimil Brodský nor Jiřina Jirásková, but Josef Bláha, who, especially in the second act, performs 100% comedy and simply outshines everyone.
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Zelenka's significantly newer television adaptation charmed me a few years ago, and even more so I was looking forward to the recording of the play, which was performed by the legendary comedic actors of their generation. It was supposed to be a sure bet, but it turned out exactly the opposite. Zelenka's play is more civil and restrained. The Vinohrady Theater probably got much closer to Georges Feydeau's vision, but for me, it's too farcical, naive, and exaggerated. Josef Bláha is great, and Vlastimil Brodský and Vladimír Krška are very decent, but overall they do not lift it higher than an overall impression of 65%. Where the play was supposed to be strongest, it generated in me slight feelings of awkwardness and overacting.
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