Mr Tau is imprisoned in the Lost and Found shop. The shopkeeper has realized what the bowler hat can do and has made a comfortable life for himself with it. He has modernized the shop, magicked up a luxury car, and now lives in a castle. He has even bet a great deal of money on an outsider in a horse race and made sure by magic that the horse wins. But he is still obsessed with his money; he sleeps on it and guards it with a loaded rifle. The children organize a search to save Mr Tau. A clever little dog Žerýk gets into the castle during the night and with the help of other canine friends manages to switch the magic bowler hat with an ordinary one. In the morning, the shopkeeper wakes up on a dustheap. His money and all the things he has acquired using the magic bowler have disappeared. The children free their beloved Mr Tau and joyfully take to the Prague streets with him.
The story Mr Tau and Thousand Spells was distributed in cinemas in a block with two other stories: Search for Mr Tau and Mr Tau and a Taxi Driver.
pan Tau
bohatý pan Viola
Claudie, Violova vnučka
Claudiina maminka
vousáč, vedoucí Ztrát a nálezů
Emil
kluk-cvalík
vlasatý kluk
pihovatý kluk
mechanik Václav
dívka s mašlí
dívka
dívka
kluk
kluk
dívka
dívka
starší pán hledající klíče
dubl za M. Kopeckého
Jiří Potsch, Robert Vacík, Pavla Marková
Jaroslav Tuzar, Vladimír Malík (loutková část)
Stanislav Látal (loutková část)
Václav Pošta, Jan Petrů, Jiří Žůček
Dana Dudová, Martin Baroch, Jan Syrový
Lucie Hertlová
Dagmar Ševčíková, Josef Vítek, Růžena Hejsková
Songwriter Jiří MalásekJiří BažantVlastimil Hála
Writer of Lyrics Ivo Fischer
Singer Václav Neckář
Songwriter Jiří MalásekJiří BažantVlastimil Hála
Writer of Lyrics Ivo Fischer
Singer Miloš Kopecký
Pan Tau a tisíc kouzel
Pan Tau a tisíc kouzel
Mr Tau and a Thousand Spells
Pan Tau ist wieder da
Ať žijí zázraky
film
featuretheatrical distribution
children
Czechoslovakia, Federal Republic of Germany, Austria
1972
1969—1971
literary Screenplay approved 4 March 1969
start of filming 28 July 1969
end of filming 26 September 1971
projection approval 18 February 1972
premiere 5 May 1972
Dramaturgická skupina Oty Hofmana, Ota Hofman (vedoucí dramaturgické skupiny), Výrobní skupina Ericha Švabíka, Erich Švabík (vedoucí výrobní skupiny)
medium length film
36 min
1 026 meters
35mm
Czech
