Don't Make Grandpa Angry

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1934

Production year

1934

Premiere

21 December 1934

Runtime

77 min

Director

Karel Lamač

Category

film

Genre

comedy

Typology

featuretheatrical distributionlong

Original title

Nezlobte dědečka

Czech title

Nezlobte dědečka

English title

Don't Make Grandpa Angry

Synopsis

Eman Vovísek turns to drink when his love Liduška marries his cousin, the industrialist Daněk. Because Eman becomes aggressive when he drinks, he is taken to a sanatorium specialising in nervous disorders where he meets his uncle Hanibal. Hanibal had a nervous breakdown after his wife Matylda left him. Matylda wanted her freedom so she could marry her first love, uncle Jonathan, who was supposed to come over from America. Jonathan sends a telegram that he will be detained in Paris. Daněk is annoyed at this turn of events since he was counting on Liduška spending her time with her visitor from America while he would meanwhile go off with his lover. He therefore visits Vovísek and persuades him to pretend to be Jonathan. When Matylda discovers Jonathan is already in Prague, she starts following him. Jealous Hanibal escapes from the sanatorium intending to kill the person he believes to be Jonathan. Finally the real Jonathan appears amid all the chaos and tells them that he came only to announce to everyone that he is engaged to a young American girl. Matylda goes back to Hanibal and Vovísek turns his affections towards Josefinka, a secretary, who had loved him for a long time.

Note

Vlasta Burian is listed in the role of Eman Vovísek, but in the plot he is called as Eman Pípa.

Cast

Vlasta Burian

Eman Pípa/strýc Jonathan

Čeněk Šlégl

továrník Adolf Daněk, Emanův bratranec

Adina Mandlová

Liduška, žena továrníka Daňka

Theodor Pištěk

Hanibal, Vovískův strýc v nervovém sanatoriu

Mariana Hellerová

teta Matylda, bývalá Hanibalova žena

Hana Vítová

Josefinka, sekretářka u továrníka Daňka

Václav Trégl

Václav, sluha u továrníka Daňka

Jan W. Speerger

zahradník u továrníka Daňka

Ljuba Hermanová

tanečnice Káťa

Antonín Vaverka

snoubenec tanečnice Káti

Máňa Hanková

přítelkyně tanečnice Káti

Jaroslav Marvan

MUDr. Karner, ředitel nervového sanatoria

Antonín Holzinger

lékař v nervovém sanatoriu

Mario Karas

majitel konfekce

Karel Postranecký

strážník/konzulární úředník amerického konzulátu

František Říha

kočébr v hospodě

Květa Horská

komorná u továrníka Daňka

Fred Bulín

konzulární úředník amerického konzulátu

Karel Němec

zřízenec nervového sanatoria

Antonín Jirsa

ošetřovatel v nervovém sanatoriu

Eduard Šimáček

blázen-meteorolog

Václav Menger

blázen-Kryštof Kolumbus

Jiří Hron

blázen s játrovými knedlíčky

Jarka Pižla

host v hospodě

Leopold Horešovský

host v hospodě

Crew and creators

Director

Karel Lamač

Based on

Emil Artur Longen (V tlamě velryby – divadelní hra)

Director of Photography

Otto Heller

Production Designer

Štěpán Kopecký

Set Designer

Arnold Reimann

Film Editor

Jan Kohout

Sound Designer

Josef Zora

Production Manager

František Jerhot

Cooperation

Willy Ströminger (fotograf)

Music

Music Composed by

Eman Fiala

Songs

Jednou se musíme rozejít

Song Composer Eman Fiala
Writer of Lyrics Karel MelíšekJaroslav Mottl
Singer Ljuba Hermanová

Dobrou noc, good night

Song Composer Eman Fiala
Writer of Lyrics Karel MelíšekJaroslav Mottl
Singer Vlasta Burian

Production info

Original Title

Nezlobte dědečka

Czech Title

Nezlobte dědečka

English Title

Don't Make Grandpa Angry

Category

film

Typology

featuretheatrical distribution

Genre

comedy

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1934

Production Year

1934

Production specifications

start of filming 27 November 1934 (ateliéry)
date of censorship 12/1934
end of filming 11 December 1934 (ateliéry)
date of censorship 11/1940 (konec povolení k promítání 31. 3. 1942)
date of censorship 15 June 1942 (konec povolení k promítání 30. 6. 1943)

Premiere

premiere 21 December 1934 /unsuitable for youths/ (kina Adria /3 týdny/ a Hvězda /5 týdnů/, Praha)
renewed premiere 11/1940 /suitable for youths/

Production

Meissner

Copyright Holders

Národní filmový archiv

Distribution

Meissner (původní 1934), Vladimíra Socháňová (obnovená 1940)

Technical info

Duration typology

feature film

Duration in minutes

77 min

Original length in metres

2 179 meters

Distribution carrier

35mm

Aspect ratio

1:1,19

Colour

black & white

Sound

sound

Sound system/format

Tobis – Klang

Versions

Czech

Dialogue languages

Czech, English

Subtitles languages

without subtitles

Opening/End credits languages

Czech