The Pike in a Fish Pond
Country
CzechoslovakiaCopyright
1951Production year
1951Premiere
14 March 1952Runtime
73 minDirector
Vladimír ČechCategory
filmGenre
comedyTypology
featurelongOriginal title
Štika v rybníceCzech title
Štika v rybníceEnglish title
The Pike in a Fish PondSynopsis
Two young men - mason Franta and worker Béla - meet two girls - Mařka and Vlasta, on a picnic. The young men don't suspect that these are two trainees from the nearby masonry boarding-school for girls. They are all very surprised when they meet after a while on a building site where the girls begin working as trained masons. Franta really likes the beautiful and hard-working Mařka and their relationship slowly grows into love. It happens that Mařka works in the group of Franta's father, mason Doubrava. He doesn't like the innovations which the girl would like to introduce in their work. Still, Doubrava is a reasonable man. He manages to improve the work of an excellent but very lazy mason, Bureš. He also handles well his daughter Žofka's decision to train at the boarding-school to become a mason. When he sees how building "in threesomes" helped them finish the work on the thirteenth group of houses that was getting behind schedule, old Doubrava grows pleased with the innovations. The old and the young start working together with joy, looking forward to their future.
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Cast
Jaroslav Vojta
zednický mistr František Doubrava
Ludmila Vendlová
zednička Mařka Dudková
Josef Pehr
Franta, Doubravův syn
Eman Fiala
zedník Alois Bureš
Jana Hrdličková
Žofka, Doubravova dcera
Táňa Hodanová
Marie, Doubravova žena
Otakar Vážanský
svažeč cikán Béla
Lydie Filová
Vlasta Cachová, Mařčina přítelkyně
Marie Brožová
Mařčina teta Dufková
Ota Motyčka
zedník Hora
Miloš Patočka
svažeč Láďa Jiráček
Josef Kemr
valcíř Chaloupka
Fanda Mrázek
holič
Květa Fialová
zednička Lída
Marie Axlerová
zednička Eva
J. O. Martin
polír Sýkora
Bohuš Hradil
předseda závodní rady
Bedřich Prokoš
instruktor Souček
Augustin Lanča
hlídač na stavbě
Emanuel Appelt
lékař
Jindřich Doležal
majitel vily
Lubor Tokoš
rozhlasový reportér
Jindra Hermanová
manželka zedníka Bureše
Jan S. Kolár
inženýr
Dagmar Frýbortová
vedoucí interátu
Vlasta Vlasáková
zednička z internátu
František Klika
zahradník Datel
Josef Najman
starý zedník
Jaroslav Prokop
zedník-mistr
Anna Kadeřábková
žena obsluhující vrátek
Arna Pekárková
starší žena
Dagmar Hyková
Adlerová
Brabencová
Čermáková
Hlinková
Holečková
Julišová
Olga Komárková
Anna Konvičková
Kovařovicová
Lebedová
Linhartová
Landovská
Nová
Ludmila Naarová
Obrovská
Dagmar Pecháčková
Samohelová
zednička
Tikalová
zednička
Tobischová
zednička
Vavrušková
zednička
Helena Veselá
zednička
Zemanová
zednička
Žitná
zednička
Crew and creators
Director
Assistant Director
Anna Holá
Based on
Karel Stanislav (Stavěli zedníci – divadelní hra)
Screenplay
Camera
Camera Operator
Jaroslav Kupšík, Bedřich Baťka
Production Designer
Set Designer
Costumes
Make-Up Artist
Film Editor
Sound Designer
Production Manager
Unit Production Manager
Antonín Dekoj, Jaroslav Prokop, Ctibor Novotný
Consultant
Music
Music Composed by
Music Performed by
Music Conducted by
Otakar Pařík (FISYO), Jan Kühn (Český pěvecký sbor)
Songs
Zednická polka, Hejsa hopsa
Songwriter
Jaroslav Křička (Zednická polka)
Writer of Lyrics
František Hrubín (Zednická polka)
Singer
sbor (Zednická polka), ženský sbor (Hejsa hopsa)
Production info
Original Title
Štika v rybníce
English Title
The Pike in a Fish Pond
Category
film
Typology
feature
Genre
comedy
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1951
Production Year
1951
Premiere
14 March 1952
Production
Copyright Holders
Distribution
Technical info
Lenght
long
Runtime
73 min
Versions
Czech