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.
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.
kapitán vltav. paroplavby Adam Korkorán
Irena Svobodová
kantinská na parníku Broniková
majitel detektivního ústavu Dlouhý
inspektor paroplavební společnosti
pokojská v hotelu Kamila
penzionovaný admirál Piacci
Heda, Piacciho neteř
tajemník paroplavební společnosti
topič Vojta
ředitel paroplavební společnosti
letecký konstruktér Vláďa, syn Bronikové
portýr v hotelu
strojník na parníku Balvan
plavčík
ředitel hotelu
lodník Konstantin
host v krčmě
učitel
krejčí
lodník
úředník v lázeňské informační kanceláři
mluvčí kroužku stálých lázeňských hostů
mluvčí sboru dobrovolných hasičů
mluvčí svazu Probouzejících se Poděbradek
host v lázních
host v lázních
host v lázních
zaměstnanec hotelu
Josef Dobeš (Kapitán Korkorán – píseň), Josef Dobeš (Když jsem sloužil u maríny – píseň), Josef Dobeš
Jaroslav Mottl (Kapitán Korkorán – píseň), Jaroslav Mottl (Když jsem sloužil u maríny – píseň)
Vlasta Burian (Kapitán Korkorán – píseň), Setleři (Kapitán Korkorán – píseň), Vlasta Burian (Když jsem sloužil u maríny – píseň)
Hrdinný kapitán Korkorán
The Heroic Captain Korkorán
film
feature
comedy
Czechoslovakia
1934
1934
24 August 1934
long
94 min
Czech