What a Brother I Have
Country
CzechoslovakiaCopyright
1978Production year
1978Premiere
25 May 1979Runtime
83 minDirector
Stanislav StrnadCategory
filmGenre
comedyTypology
featuretheatrical distributionlongOriginal title
Brácha za všechny penízeCzech title
Brácha za všechny penízeEnglish title
What a Brother I HaveSummary
Family comedy Můj brácha má prima bráchu (My Brother has a Marvellous Brother, 1975) was a box office success that led to the release of a sequel three years later. Both films were directed by Stanislav Strnad. The protagonists of this relaxing motion picture are, as in the initial film, the likable rogue Martin, now 15 years-old, and his older brother Honza – who has had a daughter with his lover – now wife – Zuzana. However, jealousy threatens to destroy their marriage and divorce is only avoided thanks to the resourceful Martin and his friend Magda. Meanwhile, Martin also manages to ensure that their parents let him fulfil his own dream – to become a zoologist. Apart from child actor Roman Čada, veterans Jan Hrušínský and Libuše Šafránková appear in the film. It offers proof that good casting means that the range of traditional Czech films of quality for young audiences even includes movies from the 1970s.
Synopsis
Honza and Zuzana are very young husband and wife. They have a little daughter of whom willingly occasionally take care the grandparents and Honza's fifteen-year-old brother Martin. Zuzana continues studying and Honza devotes all weekends as an amateur competitor to the motor-cycles at the speedway. Zuzana is not interested in motor-cycles. Martin holds responsible for his brother's marriage and at the advice of his friend Magda, who is of the same age, invites her sister-in-law to the club of Hucul horses so that she does not feel bored. But by misfortunes and unexplained quarrels both young husband and wife start being jealous of one another and Honza returns to his parents. Martin for the sake of love to horses wants to become a cattle-breeder but his parents do not agree with it. The enterprising lad find his way to minister of agriculture who some time ago gave him a lift when the lad thumbed his car. Minister arranges for him an excursion to the farmers'cooperative and too, as if "by chance", puts a word for the lad at father Pavelka. The break of the young intensifies and the marriage heads for divorce. Therefore Martin takes away the pram with their child, standing in front of a shop, to Magda. There the little girl plays with a tube of pills and she seems to swallow them up. Martin and Magda call in a doctor. It is he that persuades them that it is not possible to solve problems by kidnapping and helps also settle things with the police. Worries about the child really put Zuzana and Honza together and they both get to know what is important for their relationship.
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Cast
Roman Čada
Martin Pavelka zvaný Prcek
Magda Reifová
Magda Morávková, Martinova kamarádka
Jan Hrušínský
opravář televizorů Honza, Martinův bratr
Libuše Šafránková
Zuzana, Janova manželka
Vladimír Menšík
František Vrána, Zuzanin otec
Blažena Holišová
Vránová, Zuzanina matka
Josef Bláha
Josef Pavelka, otec Jana a Martina
Slávka Budínová
Slávinka Pavelková, matka Jana a Martina
Alice Fialková
Martina, dcera Jana a Zuzany
Zdeněk Řehoř
MUDr. Navrátil
Jan Kanyza
právník JUDr. Kulík
Oldřich Velen
nadporučík VB
Jindřich Hinke
závodník Jiří Křížek
Lenka Kořínková
Jiřina, Křížkova sestra
Valentina Thielová
pokladní v samoobsluze
Jiří Bruder
Jan Maštalíř, předseda JZD Záře
Lubomír Kostelka
televizní redaktor
Jan Cmíral
trenér
Václav Fišer
ministr zemědělství
Miloslav Homola
vrátný v televizi
František Husák
účetní JZD Záře
Vladimír Krška
Jeřábek, člen JZD Záře
Ivo Niederle
Tonda, člen JZD Záře
Dana Homolová
Věra Kohoutková, Zuzanina spolužačka
Josef Kubíček
Ing. Kohoutek, Věřin manžel
Vladimír Hlavatý
vrátný na ministerstvu
Karel Urbánek
Voice by Jiří Němeček
poručík VB
Ludmila Roubíková
družstevní kuchařka Lída
Darja Hajská
žena před obchodem
Danuše Klichová
Eva z Hucul klubu
Jana Viščaková
zdravotní sestra
Miroslav Vladyka
Petřík, Martinův kamarád
Josef Vytasil
Břéťa, Martinův kamarád
Alena Kreuzmannová
sekretářka u ministra
Vít Pešina
lékař
Karel Bečka
lékař
František Karas
taneční mistr
Helena Karasová
partnerka tanečního mistra
Martin Kolár
spolužák Zuzany
František Kubíček
klavírista
Jiřina Zemanová
sousedka Kautská
František Vláčil ml.
fanoušek
Dagmar Hachová
starší žena
Vladimír Pospíšil
příslušník VB
Karel Hovorka
pořadatel
Karel Chromík
pořadatel
Rudolf Kalina
sekretář
Vlasta Šimáková
televizní cvičitelka
Lenka Valentová
televizní cvičitelka
Crew and creators
Director
Second Unit Director
Assistant Director
Continuity
Screenstory
Screenplay
Shooting Script
Dramaturg
Director of Photography
Second Unit Photography
Production Designer
Assistent Production Designer
Set Designer
Costume Designer
Costumes
Make-Up Artist
Film Editor
Sound Designer
Production Manager
Unit Production Manager
Unit Production Manager
Marie Ryšlinková
Consultant
MUDr. Karel Bečka
Cooperation
Helena Matušková (klapka), Miloslav Mirvald (fotograf)
Music
Music Composed by
Music Performed by
FISYO (Music Conducted by František Belfín), Orchestr Karla Vlacha
Production info
Original Title
Brácha za všechny peníze
Czech Title
Brácha za všechny peníze
English Title
What a Brother I Have
Category
film
Typology
featuretheatrical distribution
Genre
comedy
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1978
Production Year
1978
Production specifications
start of filming 23 January 1978
end of filming 12 September 1978
projection approval 26 September 1978
withdrawal from distribution 31 May 1993
Premiere
premiere 23 March 1979 /suitable for youths/ (kino Sevastopol, Praha)
premiere 25 May 1979 /suitable for youths/ (celostátní)
Production
Copyright Holders
Distribution
Creative Group
Dramaturgická skupina Vladimíra Kaliny, Vladimír Kalina (vedoucí dramaturgické skupiny)
Technical info
Duration typology
feature film
Duration in minutes
83 min
Original length in metres
2 380 meters
Distribution carrier
16mm, 35mm
Aspect ratio
1:1,66
Colour
colour
Sound
sound
Sound system/format
mono
Versions
Czech
Dialogue languages
Czech
Subtitles languages
without subtitles
Opening/End credits languages
Czech
