A motorcade of limousines drives up to Mr Viola's castle, bringing members of the board of directors of a firm who are listening to an antique music machine with a little bird, the last very successful product of Viola's company. The important question of increasing production is to be discussed. Viola's grand-daughter Claudie in Red Indian costume attacks the interlopers with arrows and firework squibs. The valet and maid supply her with ammunition. Viola refuses to negotiate with the board of directors and prefers to play marbles with Claudie - they have holes drilled into the parquet flooring. When flying a kite in the park Viola tells his granddaughter about his childhood dream - a trip round the world. It occurs to him that he could now fulfil this dream. At a travel agency, he orders a sumptuous trip by boat and plane, and even specifies how many polar bears should be in the Arctic Circle and how many camels in the desert. He requires that his own bed should be taken with him everywhere. Claudie doesn't like her grandfather's plan, and would prefer just to wander free, hitch-hiking and even perhaps sleeping in a haystack. Mr Viola secretly changes his order and the agency is instructed to arrange a "tramp" trip in accordance with Claudie's ideas. Mr Tau appears and without a word promises to arrange everything, but in the morning Viola and Claudie do not get into the vehicle prepared by Mr Tau, but into an ox cart that happens to be passing. The adventure begins.
The tale was presented as part of the compilation Mr Tau and a Trip around the World together with the tales Mr Tau in the Circus and Mr Tau and a Trip around the World.
pan Tau
bohatý pan Viola
Claudie, Violova vnučka
rada Müller
vedoucí výzkumu
stěhovák
stěhovák
úředník cestovní kanceláře Globus
komorník
sluha James
muž z koncernu
muž z koncernu
muž z koncernu
muž z koncernu
sekretářka
úředník cestovní kanceláře Globus
ředitel prodeje
služebná
děda s vozem
komorná
služebná
řidič mercedesu
osobní řidič
Jiří Potsch, Robert Vacík, Pavla Marková
Jaroslav Tuzar, Vladimír Malík (loutková část)
Stanislav Látal (loutková část)
Václav Pošta, Jan Petrů, Jiří Žůček
Dana Dudová, Jan Syrový, Martin Baroch
Lucie Hertlová
Dagmar Ševčíková, Josef Vítek, Jana Šimůnková, Miloslava Kostková
Pan Tau to zařídí
Mr Tau will Arrange it
Pan Tau packt die Koffer
film
feature
children
Czechoslovakia, Federal Republic of Germany, Austria
1972
1972
14 April 1972
medium
33 min
Czech