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
Vlasta Žehrová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (1976)
Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping (1983)
Run, Waiter, Run! (1980)
Jan Vávra
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Run, Waiter, Run! (1980)
Calamity (1980)
Kam doskáče ranní ptáče (1987)
Gabriela Wilhelmová
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
Run, Waiter, Run! (1980)
Forbidden Dreams (1986)
How to Drown Dr. Mracek, the Lawyer (1974)
Jiří Pokora
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Run, Waiter, Run! (1980)
Igrok (1972)
Rozpaky kuchaře Svatopluka (1984) (series)
Vladimír Hrabánek
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Give the Devil His Due (1984)
Semafor - Největší hity (2005) (video compilation)
Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (1976)
Alexej Pyško
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Sluha dvou pánů (2000) (theatrical recording)
Run, Waiter, Run! (1980)
Paní Marjánka, matka pluku aneb Ženské srdce (1980) (TV movie)
Vladimír Žižka
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Run, Waiter, Run! (1980)
If a Thousand Clarinets (1964)
Lovers in the Year One (1973)
Věra Kočišová
Best movies:
Run, Waiter, Run! (1980)
Václav Kotva
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (1976)
Jako kníže Rohan (1983) (TV movie)
The Cremator (1968)
Bohumil Fišer
Best movies:
Run, Waiter, Run! (1980)
Rudolf Svěcený
Best movies:
Run, Waiter, Run! (1980)
Slávka Hamouzová
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Run, Waiter, Run! (1980)
The Good Soldier Schweik 2: Beg to Report, Sir (1957)
Půlpenny (1974) (TV movie)
Václav Eisenhamer
Best movies:
Run, Waiter, Run! (1980)
Kateřina Smoljaková
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping (1983)
Run, Waiter, Run! (1980)
An Uncertain Season (1987)
Alžběta Smoljaková
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping (1983)
Run, Waiter, Run! (1980)
An Uncertain Season (1987)
Karel Engel
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
Run, Waiter, Run! (1980)
Lemonade Joe (1964)
Adela Has Not Had Her Supper Yet (1978)
Martin Velda
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Run, Waiter, Run! (1980)
Královský život otroka (1992) (TV movie)
Starožitníkův krám (1980) (TV movie)
Ivo Gübel
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Run, Waiter, Run! (1980)
Four Murders Are Enough, Darling (1970)
Romeo, Juliet and Darkness (1959)
Běla Jurdová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Men About Town (1969)
Run, Waiter, Run! (1980)
Adela Has Not Had Her Supper Yet (1978)
Dagmar Smoljaková
Best movies:
Run, Waiter, Run! (1980)