This 1967 debut feature from director Radim Cvrček tells the story of a lost Russian girl, who experiences an unexpected adventure with two Czech boys. Travelling with her parents, little Táňa Berkosovová accidentally departs a sleeper train headed for Brno. Pepa and Lojzík help the lost foreigner, dressed in her pyjamas, finding her some proper clothes and seeing her off to Brno. En route, the trio, hiding from the police, experiences a number of extraordinary adventures. But in the end, the police take custody of Táňa… Non-actress Dáša Pazderková assumes the leading role in this undemanding feature. The duo of young “sharp-shooters” is played by Vladimír Zátka and Ivo Strangmülller – the latter’s role as Pepík kicking off a successful acting career. Popular actor and impersonator Antonín Jedlička shines in the role of a German magician.
A little Russian girl named Táňa travels to Brno with her parents in a sleeping wagon. A cow standing on the track stops the train and Táňa gets off along with several other nosy Parkers. All of a sudden, the train begins to move and the girl, dressed only in pyjamas, is left alone in an unknown landscape. Fortunately, she meets two boys who are playing at Indians and have decided to sleep in a tent nearby the railway track. They want to help the girl to get to Brno. First, they find her cloth, unfortunately rather old-fashioned, and then secretly get on a dairy car. By unfortunate accident, the car's trailer, fully loaded with cheeses and curds, gets loose, ending up in a ditch. The children run away and continue to travel very carefully, afraid that the police might pursue them. In the meantime, the police search for Táňa has been launched. The children manage to escape for long, hiding from any uniform they see, but eventually are discovered. Táňa must say farewell to her cavaliers and the police patrol takes her to her parents.
The children´s book on which the story of the film is based was written by Jan Zábrana in cooperation with Josef Škvorecký (according to Škvorecký´s own testimony given in the interview with Jan Lukeš).
Voice by Táňa Jamborová
Táňa Berkosovová
Pepík Loučka
Lojza Vařecha
strážmistr SNB Nohejl
kouzelník z Německa
řidič Laktosu
Voice by Lubomír Kostelka
řidič staré tatřičky
uhlíř
velitel SNB
Voice by Josef Hlinomaz
stěhovák
muž s čokoládou
dívka v bikinách
Jan Zábrana (Táňa a dva pistolníci – povídka)
Arne Parduba
Orchestr Karla Krautgartnera (Music Conducted by Štěpán KoníčekJosef Vobruba)
Song Composer lidová píseň
Writer of Lyrics lidová píseň
Singer Miroslav Moravec
Táňa a dva pistolníci
Táňa a dva pistolníci
Tanya and the Two Sharp-Shooters
film
featuretheatrical distribution
children, comedy
Czechoslovakia
1967
1967
projection approval 17 May 1967
withdrawal from distribution 30 June 1991
premiere 23 June 1967 /suitable for youths/ (celostátní)
premiere 6 October 1967 /suitable for youths/ (kino Klub /2 týdny/, Praha)
feature film
68 min
1 947 meters
16mm, 35mm
1:1,37
black & white
sound
mono
Czech
Czech, Russian
without subtitles
Czech
Event: 8. mezinárodní setkání filmů pro mládež Cannes
1969
Cannes / France
Event: 8. mezinárodní setkání filmů pro mládež Cannes
1969
Cannes / France
Festival: 2. mezinárodní festival filmů pro děti a mládež Gottwaldov
1967
Zlín / Czechoslovakia
Festival: 1. mezinárodní festival dětských filmů při V. mezinárodním filmovém festivalu Moskva
1967
Moskva / Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Festival: 2. mezinárodní festival filmů pro děti a mládež Gottwaldov
1967
Zlín / Czechoslovakia
Radim Cvrček
Festival: 2. mezinárodní festival filmů pro děti a mládež Gottwaldov
1967
Zlín / Czechoslovakia