Andula Won

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1938

Production year

1938

Premiere

2 December 1938

Runtime

85 min

Category

film

Genre

comedy

Typology

featuretheatrical distributionlong

Original title

Andula vyhrála

Czech title

Andula vyhrála

English title

Andula Won

Synopsis

Wealthy bachelor Pavel Haken attempts with the assistance of his trustworthy valet to escape the wooings of single women itching to get married. These women have meetings at a lady's social club. In the buffet there the saucy Andula, daughter of a poor taxi driver, helps her aunt. Haken longs for peace and therefore has a weekend villa built in a secluded area. The short-lived quiet, which had set in after the departure of his mother, is disturbed by the female occupants of a campsite. The women from the club have put to use Mrs. Hakenová's proposal and have bivouaced on their land. Andula is helping out in the camp's kitchen. As she is going for a swim early one morning she meets Haken. Both are taken by this unconventional meeting. The young man visits her in the camp and after his departure the insulted women propose to Andula a lucrative bet that even she will not win him. The couple looks for pretexts to go off together and the relationship ends in marriage. The life of happy newlyweds ends, however, when Haken is informed of the bet out of revenge. Andula leaves. After a time Haken's mother visits her and discovers that her enterprising daughter-in-law has become the owner of a prosperous perfume business and the mother of twins - her grandsons. Deeply moved, she sends Haken after Andula and the couple is reconciled over the baby carriage containing their sons.

Cast

Věra Ferbasová

Andula Mráčková

Hugo Haas

továrník Pavel Haken

Růžena Šlemrová

Pavlova matka

Václav Trégl

sluha u Hakenů Václav

Saša Rašilov

taxikář Mráček, otec Anduly

Stanislav Neumann

Tonda, bratr Anduly

Milada Smolíková

kuchařka Kristýnka, teta Anduly

Anna Steimarová

ředitelka ženského klubu

Gustav Hilmar

ředitel Richard Kalous

Marie Grossová

Kalousova žena

Eva Prchlíková

Gisela, dcera Kalousových

Vlasta Hrubá

Sylvie Šímová

Milada Gampeová

Sylviina matka

Dagmar Vondrová

přítelkyně Sylvie

Milena Velíšková

přítelkyně Sylvie

Procházková

přítelkyně Sylvie

Bolek Prchal

taxikář

Elsa Vetešníková

Mráčkova sousedka

Marie Oliaková

divačka ohňostroje

Vlasta Kasalická

miminko-dvojče

Jitka Kasalická

miminko-dvojče

Crew and creators

Assistant Director

Antonín Kubový

Director of Photography

Ferdinand Pečenka, Karel Degl

Production Designer

Štěpán Kopecký

Set Designer

František Nestler

Film Editor

Antonín Zelenka

Titles Designed by

Lorenc

Production Manager

Jan Sinnreich

Cooperation

Willy Ströminger (fotograf)

Music

Music Composed by

Jiří Fiala, Jára Beneš

Music Performed by

Orchestr F.O.K. (Music Conducted by Jiří Fiala)

Songs

Kapitáne, kapitáne!

Song Composer Jára Beneš
Writer of Lyrics Josef NeubergJaroslav Mottl
Singer Fanda MrázekStanislav NeumannLadislav Janeček

Trampský pochod

Song Composer Jára Beneš
Writer of Lyrics Josef NeubergJaroslav Mottl

Toužím a nevím, proč to skrývám

Song Composer Jára Beneš
Writer of Lyrics Josef NeubergJaroslav Mottl
Singer Vlasta Hrubá

Když jsme se loučili

Singer Věra FerbasováMilada Smolíková

Production info

Original Title

Andula vyhrála

Czech Title

Andula vyhrála

English Title

Andula Won

Category

film

Typology

featuretheatrical distribution

Genre

comedy

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1938

Production Year

1938

Production specifications

start of filming 9 September 1938
end of filming 29 October 1938
date of censorship 12/1938
projection approval 07/1947 (jako retrospektiva)

Premiere

premiere 2 December 1938 /unsuitable for youths/ (kina Blaník /1 týden/ a Světozor /2 týdny/, Praha)
renewed premiere 18 July 1947 /suitable for youths/

Production

Moldavia

Copyright Holders

Národní filmový archiv

Distribution

Moldavia (původní 1938), Státní půjčovna filmů (obnovená 1947)

Technical info

Duration typology

feature film

Duration in minutes

85 min

Original length in metres

2 415 meters

Distribution carrier

35mm

Aspect ratio

1:1,37

Colour

black & white

Sound

sound

Sound system/format

Tobis – Klang

Versions

Czech

Dialogue languages

Czech

Subtitles languages

without subtitles

Opening/End credits languages

Czech