Directed by:
Ladislav SmoljakScreenplay:
Zdeněk SvěrákCinematography:
Ivan ŠlapetaComposer:
Jaroslav UhlířCast:
Josef Abrhám, Libuše Šafránková, Eliška Balzerová, Zuzana Fišerová-Svátková, Zdeněk Svěrák, Dáda Patrasová, Jiří Kodet, Karel Augusta, Bedřich Prokoš (more)Plots(1)
Film follows the adventures of a twice-divorced bookseller who is addicted to womanising and struggling to find the resources to support the army of children he has fathered. A case of mistaken identity leads him to hit upon a cunning plan to boost his income: posing as a waiter in the bars and cafes of Prague, taking the customers’ cash and then making a sharp exit. As you would expect, these leads to all kinds of comic hi-jinx. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Jan Hraběta
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
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Ivan Pokorný
Czechoslovakia
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Jiří Knot
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Jiří Lír
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Jaroslav Weigel
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The Conquest of the North Pole (1987) (theatrical recording)
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Pavel Havránek
Czechoslovakia
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Hana Čížková
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Pavel Vondruška
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Miroslav Vladyka
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Ivan Wiesner
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František Olšovský
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Jan Prokeš
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Stanislava Bartošová
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Ilona Vaňková
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Filip Smoljak
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Aleš Jánský
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Lucie Horová
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David Smoljak
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Ladislav Smoljak
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Josef Koudelka Bergstein
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