Heavy traffic prevents Claudie's mother from getting to the airport on time to pick up her daughter. Claudie has a little money and so she takes a taxi. The taxi driver is very annoyed because he could have picked up a rich foreigner instead of Claudie, and so at the first opportunity he throws Claudie out of the car. Only little figurine of Mr Tau is still there on the back seat. The taxi man's behaviour doesn't go unpunished: the feathers start jumping out of the upholstery of his car, smoke starts to pour out and in the end the taxi collides with a car taking a bride to her wedding. It is all the work of Mr Tau. To make sure that the bride doesn't suffer for the sins of the furious taxi driver, the little Tau transforms himself into human size and takes the bride to the town hall. The taxi driver now realizes that the lifeless little doll with the bowler hat is responsible for his misfortunes. He throws it out of the window, but only manages to destroy a policeman's booth. His subsequent drastic attempts to destroy the doll fare no better. In the end, he tries to throw it onto hot asphalt or under a steam roller. His car immediately explodes. Just then, the taxi driver gets a glimpse of the weary Claudie. He runs up to her and returns the Tau doll. When he turns round, he sees his car undamaged and Claudie leaving hand in hand with a man who looks exactly like the little doll that had been sitting in his car.
The story Mr Tau and a Taxi Driver was distributed in cinemas in a block with two other stories: Search for Mr Tau and Mr Tau and Thousand Spells.
pan Tau
Claudie, Violova vnučka
taxikář
řidič cholerik
Claudiina maminka
dopravní policista
dopravní policista
nevěsta
nevěstin otec
pasažér
řidič
letuška
zelinář
řezník
Jiří Potsch, Robert Vacík, Pavla Marková
Jaroslav Tuzar, Vladimír Malík (loutková část)
Stanislav Látal (loutková část)
Jan Petrů, Václav Pošta, Jiří Žůček
Dana Dudová, Jan Syrový, Martin Baroch
Lucie Hertlová
Dagmar Ševčíková, Josef Vítek, Růžena Hejsková
FISYO (Music Conducted by František BelfínMilivoj Uzelac),
Pan Tau a taxikář
Pan Tau a taxikář
Mr Tau and the Taxi-Driver
Pan Tau fährt Taxi
Claudie a taxikář / Pan Tau 4.
film
featuretheatrical distribution
children
Czechoslovakia, Federal Republic of Germany, Austria
1971
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
33 min
919 meters
35mm
Czech