The slim gentleman with a smile on his face, dressed in a cutaway with a flower in his lapel and wearing a bowler on his head, flies in a red rocket marked Tau-01 through the infinite universe. The cry of a child attracts him to the Earth. Upon his landing on a children's playground in Prague, he finds a little girl who has received a new sledge but cannot enjoy it since most of the snow has already melted. With the help of his magic bowler, Mr Tau makes a pile of the remaining snow and in it, a tunnel into which he invites both the girl and the other children from the neighbourhood. Arriving at the end of the tunnel, the children find themselves in mountains covered with snow, where everybody can enjoy sledge-riding lavishly. At the end of the day, the children return home through the same tunnel and with them runs also a snuggling dog who found a glove the boy Emil lost. Mr Tau, out of curiosity, visits the dog beauty salon with the snuggling dog and yet another one who had joined them on the way. There, however, the new visitors cause great confusion. The alarm brings over a man from the animal prison who takes the two dogs away. But Mr Tau jumps on the footboard of his car and after confusing the guard, he frees not only the new prisoners but also all the other animals. The mongrel is put by Mr Tau on the balcony of the flat where little Emil lives with his parents, grandfather and sister.
The film was distributed to Czech cinemas as part of the series Mr Tau Arrives along with the feature film Mr Tau Gives Presents and a cartoon puppet film What Blew Up? (directed by Břetislav Pojar and Miroslav Štěpánek). For more information about the series, see the note to the movie Mr Tau and Claudia.
pan Tau
Emil
tatínek
maminka
dědeček
Renáta, Emilova sestra
vedoucí salonu pro psy
muž chytající psy
vlasatý kluk
kluk
kluk-cvalík
holka s mašlí
holčička
tanečnice-zaměstnankyně salonu
tanečnice-zaměstnankyně salonu
tanečnice-zaměstnankyně salonu
tanečnice-zaměstnankyně salonu
tanečnice-zaměstnankyně salonu
tanečnice-zaměstnankyně salonu
tanečník-krejčí
Vilém Kijonka, Pavla Marková
Jaroslav Tuzar, Vladimír Malík (loutková část)
Stanislav Látal (loutková část)
Václav Pošta, Jan Petrů, Jiří Žůček
Martin Baroch, Karel Prchal, Jan Syrový
Lucie Hertlová
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Figarova svatba)
FISYO (Music Conducted by František Belfín), Orchestr Karla Vlacha
Singer František Filipovskýsbor
Pan Tau přichází
Pan Tau přichází
Mr Tau Arrives
Pan Tau tritt auf
Pan Tau II
film
featuretheatrical distribution
children
Czechoslovakia, Federal Republic of Germany, Austria
1970
1970
technical Screenplay approved 11 February 1969
start of filming 3 January 1970
end of filming 3 July 1970
the first film copy approved 29 October 1970
projection approval 7 December 1970
premiere 19 March 1971
Tvůrčí skupina Švabík – Hofman (příprava), Ota Hofman (vedoucí dramaturg tvůrčí a vedoucí dramaturgické skupiny), Erich Švabík (vedoucí výroby tvůrčí a vedoucí výrobní skupiny), Dramaturgická skupina Oty Hofmana, Výrobní skupina Ericha Švabíka
short film
26 min
741 meters
35mm
1:1,37
colour
sound
mono
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech