The Heroic Captain Korkorán
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featureCzech title
Hrdinný kapitán KorkoránRuntime
94Country
CzechoslovakiaCopyright
1934Production year
1934Premiere
24.08.1934Language version
CzechDirector
Miroslav CikánScreenstory
Emil Artur LongenSummary
Miroslav Cikán made his forceful debut as a director in 1933, and as soon as the following year he had created five feature films. This comedy featuring Vlasta Burian – one of the popular actors regularly cast by Cikán – was one of those five. In the feature, the popular comedian embodies the captain of a ferryboat on the Vltava river, Adam Korkorán, who sees his dream come true during a visit to a spa resort: he has always desired to be the rich commanding officer of a transoceanic ship. The risky game that sees a common Czech man pretending to be a man of the world – a habitual theme in Burian’s films – leads to Korkorán’s ascent on the social scale, rather than ending up in disaster. Jiřina Štěpničková, Theodor Pištěk and Burian’s favourite adversary, Jaroslav Marvan, also appeared in this Cikán’s motion picture.
Synopsis
Adam Korkorán, the captain of a Prague boat company, lives in his dreams of commanding ocean-going vessels although in reality he travels only with a small steamer along the Vltava. The company's director has continual problems with him, and therefore when Korkorán refuses to go into retirement he sends him at least to a spa. At the train station in Poděbrady, however, an attendant of the most expensive spa hotel mistakenly carries off his suitcase with the luggage of a wealthy lady. And so it happens that Korkorán is taken for the captain of a corvette and a wealthy man. The man, bedazzled by the luxury, makes friends with a retired admiral and begins to play-act with the spa guests and with himself. He is even proclaimed the most favourite guest of the season. When he runs low on money he writes his housekeeper to send him all of his savings. The fearful woman decides to go to Korkorán and thus the truth comes to light. The crushed captain goes home and waits for a dismissal notice from work, but it turns out that the owner of the company is his friend the admiral. Korkorán is named chief inspector and he marries his housekeeper.
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Vlasta Burian
kapitán vltav. paroplavby Adam Korkorán
Jiřina Štěpničková
Irena Svobodová
Milada Smolíková
kantinská na parníku Broniková
Theodor Pištěk
majitel detektivního ústavu Dlouhý
Jaroslav Marvan
inspektor paroplavební společnosti
Světla Svozilová
pokojská v hotelu Kamila
Čeněk Šlégl
penzionovaný admirál Piacci
Helena Scharffová
Heda, Piacciho neteř
Ladislav Hemmer
tajemník paroplavební společnosti
Eman Fiala
topič Vojta
Josef Kotalík
ředitel paroplavební společnosti
Bohumil Mottl
letecký konstruktér Vláďa, syn Bronikové
Karel Němec
portýr v hotelu
Karel Postranecký
strojník na parníku Balvan
Jan W. Speerger
plavčík
Josef Waltner
ředitel hotelu
F. X. Mlejnek
lodník Konstantin
Jan Marek
host v krčmě
Václav Menger
učitel
Josef Vošalík
krejčí
Věkoslav Satoria
lodník
Karel Šilhánek
úředník v lázeňské informační kanceláři
Alois Dvorský
mluvčí kroužku stálých lázeňských hostů
Antonín Holzinger
mluvčí sboru dobrovolných hasičů
Anna Švarcová
mluvčí svazu Probouzejících se Poděbradek
Nita Romanečová
host v lázních
Oldřich Kovář
host v lázních
Bohdan Lachman
host v lázních
Doďa Pražský
zaměstnanec hotelu
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Music
Music Composed by
Josef Dobeš (Kapitán Korkorán – píseň), Josef Dobeš (Když jsem sloužil u maríny – píseň), Josef Dobeš
Music Performed by
Writer of Lyrics
Jaroslav Mottl (Kapitán Korkorán – píseň), Jaroslav Mottl (Když jsem sloužil u maríny – píseň)
Singer
Vlasta Burian (Kapitán Korkorán – píseň), Setleři (Kapitán Korkorán – píseň), Vlasta Burian (Když jsem sloužil u maríny – píseň)
Production info
Original Title
Hrdinný kapitán Korkorán
English Title
The Heroic Captain Korkorán
Copyright
1934
Production Year
1934
Premiere
24.08.1934
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