What I Have I Hold, Gentlemen...!
Country
CzechoslovakiaCopyright
1980Production year
1980Premiere
26 December 1980Runtime
84 minDirector
Petr SchulhoffCategory
filmGenre
comedy, satireTypology
featuretheatrical distributionlongOriginal title
Co je doma to se počítá, pánové...Czech title
Co je doma to se počítá, pánové...English title
What I Have I Hold, Gentlemen...!Summary
Two cinematic families from one Prague building – the Bartáčeks and the Nováks – were reunited in 1980 after a successful debut in the comedy Zítra to roztočíme, drahoušku…! (We’ll Kick Up a Fuss Tomorrow, Darling...). In the first film from 1976, screenwriter-director Petr Schulhoff moved his characters from an old tenement to a new prefabricated building. The feuding families whose lives were flavoured with spite and malice are now neighbours who are both trying to get rich quick without any effort. This is primarily down to their relatives – Grandpa Novák and Rose, a rich aunt who has come from America to visit her family. However, the plans of these crafty wiseacres ultimately backfire… Like the first film, this is also a gentle small-community comedy, which humorously charts the vapid lives of people focusing on their vision of a “classy” existence. The Novák and Bartáček’s dream of wealth divests them of all their moral inhibitions. This time, the Novák’s son, Renek, is also involved in the action. He works as a taxi driver specialising in foreign clients…Set in the hard-line socialist reality of the 1980s, the film’s plot borrows the superficial notion of an affluent foreign capitalist country, but the calculating relatives end up being undermined by their equally devious American aunt. Naturally, the filmmakers didn’t name the roots of real problems in a society warped by socialism. Despite the fact that the sequel doesn’t scale the same heights of the first film, it is at least entertaining thanks to high-quality acting performances. In the role of Evžen Novák, Miloš Kopecký was replaced by Jiří Sovák. As Renek, Luděk Sobota moves away from playing scatter-brained ingénu roles, whose prototype was the protagonist in the comedy Jáchyme, hoď ho do stroje! (Joachim, Put Him into the Machine!, 1976). Stella Májová appears as Aunt Rose. In the previous film, she had played a completely different character – Ms Kočabová, who worked in a casting agency.
Synopsis
In a prefabricated house at the housing estate there live the Nováks and the Bartáčeks. The members of both families lack spiritual values altogether. The highest life aim is to gain as much money as possible and to show the others that they are more "posh". Renek, son of the Nováks, a taxi-driver who drives only foreigners with the western currency invents for his parents a plan: he founds a club of the Nováks and every Novák is to send an enrolment fee of 5 crowns to the address of the grandfather of the Nováks who lives in a small house. During the action they move him to their flat under the pretext of cleaning up. They success, the swindle returns thirteen thousand crowns. The Bartáčeks, for a change, pretend their poverty to their auntie Rosa who has come from America to visit them. For this opportunity they borrow from the Nováks the grandfather's small house. Rosa wants to help her poor relatives by giving them often dollars. The Bartáčeks keep the dollars and pay for auntie's visit in the Czech crowns, including the purchase of brilliant jewels. The Nováks reveal their initiation and want to buy dollars too. The Bartáčeks agree and a part of money, that auntie needed to exchange, sell them. After satisfied auntie leaves the Bartáčeks and the Nováks find out that auntie bluffed them. Their dollars were false. In addition both couples get a good thrashing of the fictive members of the club of the Nováks. It is only Renek and Naďa, niece of the Bartáčeks, planning a wedding, that take French leave.
Photos
Cast
Jiří Sovák
Evžen Novák
Iva Janžurová
Alena Bartáčková
Stella Zázvorková
vedoucí skladu Božena, Evženova manželka
Luděk Sobota
Renek, syn Novákových
František Peterka
Karel Bartáček, Alenin manžel
František Filipovský
děda Novák
Stella Májová
teta Rosa Bartack
Dagmar Veškrnová
Naďa, neteř Bartáčkových
Helena Růžičková
uklízečka Hortenzie
Zdeněk Dítě
Karel Novák
Jiří Lír
Quido Novák
Jindřich Narenta
rakouský turista
Jiří Šašek
zpěvák dechovky
Lucie Žulová
zpěvačka dechovky
Václav Štekl
pokladník ve směnárně
Vladimír Hrubý
odmítnutý Renkův zákazník
Eva Trunečková
odmítnutá zákaznice/uklízečka
Milada Ježková
babička odmítnutých zákazníků
Luba Skořepová
Hermína Nováková
Vlastimil Bedrna
řidič u benzinové pumpy
Vítězslav Jandák
chuligán
Jan Kraus
chuligán
Vítězslav Černý
konferenciér
Mirko Musil
dělník
Jiří Růžička
Harry Novák, syn Hermíny
Nina Popelíková
listonoška Háblová
Oto Ševčík
francouzský turista
Gabriela Osvaldová
úřednice v inzerci
Jiřina Bílá
Nováková
Slávka Hamouzová
Nováková
Ronald Heller
Novák
Miloš Horanský
Novák
Jana Altmannová
Nováková
Rudolf Kalina
Novák
Bohumil Koška
Novák
Václav Kotva
Novák
Jindra Kvardová
Nováková
Marie Landová
Nováková
Ludmila Neumannová
Nováková
Svatava Smoláková
Nováková
Josef Střecha
Novák
Oldřich Velen
Novák
Gustav Vondráček
Novák
Libuše Zátková
Nováková
Olga Světelská
servírka
Jan Cmíral
vrchní
Miloslav Homola
strážný
Karel Vavřík
strážný
Milan Kindl
Fanda, manžel uklízečky Hortenzie
Dagmar Krausová
učitelka
Jiří Med
taxikář
Vlastimila Vlková
kolegyně uklízečky Hortenzie
Štěpán Alexa
hudebník
L. Čadek
hudebník
František Domín
hudebník
František Hřídel
hudebník
Josef Chábek
hudebník
K. Jenčík
hudebník
J. Kadlec
hudebník
J. Kahánek
hudebník
Ladislav Karda
hudebník
Josef Kencl
hudebník
A. Kuchař
hudebník
J. Pavlišta
hudebník
Miroslav Podval
hudebník
Karel Vízner
hudebník
Jaroslav Vocílka
hudebník
L. Zdeněk
hudebník
Crew and creators
Director
Second Unit Director
Assistant Director
Zdeněk Pazdírek
Continuity
Screenstory
Screenplay
Shooting Script
Dramaturg
Director of Photography
Second Unit Photography
Camera Operator
Production Designer
Assistent Production Designer
Set Designer
Bedřich Čermák, Josef Müller, Bohuslav Varhaník
Costume Designer
Costumes
Make-Up Artist
Film Editor
Assistant Film Editor
Sound Designer
Production Manager
Unit Production Manager
Milan Brabec, Jaroslav Smola
Unit Production Manager
Jiří Potsch
Cooperation
Zuzana Plecerová (klapka), Miloš Schmiedberger (fotograf), Otakar Fuka
Music
Songs
Já čekám telegram
Song Composer Milan Dvořák
Writer of Lyrics Petr Schulhoff
Singer Dagmar Veškrnová [dab]Jana Robbová
Večer když celičký
Song Composer Milan Dvořák
Writer of Lyrics Petr Schulhoff
Singer Lucie ŽulováJiří Šašek
The Star-Spangled Banner /několik tónů americké hymny Hvězdami posetý prapor/
Song Composer John Stafford Smith
When the Saints Go Marching In
Song Composer tradicionál
Production info
Original Title
Co je doma to se počítá, pánové...
Czech Title
Co je doma to se počítá, pánové...
English Title
What I Have I Hold, Gentlemen...!
Category
film
Typology
featuretheatrical distribution
Genre
comedy, satire
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1980
Production Year
1980
Premiere
premiere 26 December 1980 /suitable for youths/
Production
Copyright Holders
Studio
Distribution
Creative Group
Dramaturgická skupina Drahoslava Makovičky, Drahoslav Makovička (vedoucí dramaturgické skupiny)
Technical info
Duration typology
feature film
Duration in minutes
84 min
Original length in metres
2 391 meters
Distribution carrier
16mm, 35mm
Aspect ratio
1:1,37
Colour
colour
Sound
sound
Sound system/format
mono
Versions
Czech
Dialogue languages
Czech
Subtitles languages
without subtitles
Opening/End credits languages
Czech
