Everybody against Everybody
Country
CzechoslovakiaCopyright
1977Production year
1976—1977Premiere
11 November 1977Runtime
87 minDirector
Karel SteklýCategory
filmGenre
comedyTypology
featuretheatrical distributionlongOriginal title
Všichni proti všemCzech title
Všichni proti všemEnglish title
Everybody against EverybodySummary
One of actor Vladimír Šmeral’s final major roles came in this satirical comedy written and directed in 1977 by long-serving filmmaker Karel Steklý. The protagonist of this tragicomedy is old art restorer Prusík, who has collected paintings throughout his life. When Prusík finds himself in hospital following a heart attack, his greedy family tries to persuade him to sign over his potential fortune. Prusík’s friend, Father Ostatek, devises a scheme to teach the scheming relatives a lesson – but it does little to improve the old man’s relationships with family members... Jiřina Bohdalová and Stanislava Bartošová play the two greedy and grasping daughters, for whom their father merely serves as an instrument of profit. Actor Vladimír Ráž takes on a rare villainous role as a roguish lawyer.
Synopsis
An old restorer Prusík has been buying fine art works for a part of his earnings without his family knowing about it. He rents an apartment to place the paintings away from home. Once he finds out that the landlady offered the apartment to another tenant. He becomes angry and gets a heart attack. When staying in the hospital, his greedy daughters and sons-in-law gather around him, trying to make him sign the last will. Prusík refuses, leaving the keys to the apartment with the paintings his granddaughter Zuzana. However, Prusík's daughters find out the paintings, seizing them all. When the old man comes back from the hospital, he has nowhere to stay. It is only his old friend Father Ostatek who helps him to find an asylum in a home for nuns. He makes plans to punish the mean Prusík's relatives. Father Ostatek informs them that the millions worth paintings are actually the property of the state and Prusík has been just taking care of them. The relatives are furious, but don't dare sell any of them. Prusík likes living at Ostatek's, he restores old paintings in the chapel. He decides to sell his collection to the National Gallery, enjoying the money. On one day, when putting a restored painting on the wall, he falls off a ladder and gets killed. Even at such a tragic moment his relatives do not take care of him - they rush to their father's room to look for the paintings, but there is nothing left from them.
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Cast
Vladimír Šmeral
kunsthistorik a restaurátor Prusík
Eduard Dubský
páter F. X. Ostatek
Jiřina Bohdalová
Hermína, Prusíkova dcera
Vladimír Ráž
JUDr. Jindřich Metelka, Hermínin manžel
Stanislava Bartošová
Olga, Prusíkova dcera
Josef Vinklář
fotograf Fredy Dedera, Olžin manžel
Kateřina Macháčková
Zuzana, dcera Metelkových
Břetislav Slováček
taxikář Michal
Marie Vášová
abatyše máter Cherubína
Marie Motlová
jeptiška sestra Agáta
František Filipovský
Komrs
Jiřina Štěpničková
Rakovcová
Milan Neděla
řidič Pěkný
Adolf Filip
Ing. Stocký, podnájemník Rakovcové
Vladimír Leraus
profesor Hlavica
Pavel Spálený
pracovník galerie Podešva
Karel Hábl
advokát Stolař, Metelkův kolega
Jan Pohan
příslušník VB
Jaroslava Keslová
Čiháková
Zita Kabátová
jeptiška sestra Beata
Jiřina Bílá
jeptiška sestra Beatrice
Blažena Slavíčková
jeptiška sestra Kalista
Daniela Šrajerová
jeptiška sestra Crescencie
Magda Maděrová
jeptiška sestra Gabriela
Zora Doubková
jeptiška sestra Elekta
Margit Harníčková
jeptiška sestra Anunciata
Anita Jassiková
jeptiška sestra Florentina
Gabriela Najmanová
jeptiška sestra Honorata
Jiřina Zemanová
jeptiška sestra Patricie
Roman Hemala
ředitel Plavý
Ivana Bílková
Kopečková, Dederova sestra
Josef Braun
Hansi z Vídně, hluchý muž
Věra Kalendová
zdravotní sestra
Jan Kuželka
balonista
Stanislav Litera
balonista
Vít Pešina
balonista
Dagmar Mikulínová
prodavačka
Vladimír Pospíšil
Horák
Gabriela Wilhelmová
Horáková
Ela Šárková
zákaznice
Václav Svěrák
lékař
Anna Štrosová
mistrová švadlen Holečková
Josef Střecha
sklenář
Miroslav Jíra
dubl za Vladimíra Šmerala
Milan Rada
dubl za Vladimíra Šmerala – jízda autem
Crew and creators
Director
Second Unit Director
Assistant Director
Continuity
Screenstory
Screenplay
Shooting Script
Dramaturg
Director of Photography
Second Unit Photography
Camera Operator
Production Designer
Assistent Production Designer
Set Designer
Jiří Matějka, Marcel Kříž, Eva Slívová
Costume Designer
Costumes
Make-Up Artist
Film Editor
Assistant Film Editor
Sound Designer
Special Effects
Production Manager
Unit Production Manager
Jaroslav Bouček, Karel Prchal
Unit Production Manager
Václav Veruněk
Cooperation
Kateřina Koňasová (klapka), Dagmar Pitráková (klapka), Vladimír Souček (fotograf)
Music
Music Composed by
Selected Music
Charles Gounod (Ave Maria), Johann Sebastian Bach (Ave Maria), Oskar Nedbal (Polská krev /sbor Jednadvacet/)
Music Performed by
FISYO (Music Conducted by František Belfín)
Production info
Original Title
Všichni proti všem
Czech Title
Všichni proti všem
English Title
Everybody against Everybody
Category
film
Typology
featuretheatrical distribution
Genre
comedy
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1977
Production Year
1976—1977
Production specifications
literary Screenplay approved 27 April 1976
start of filming 1 June 1976
technical Screenplay approved 1 July 1976
end of filming 10 January 1977
projection approval 2 February 1977
Premiere
premiere 11 November 1977 /suitable for youths/
Production
Copyright Holders
Studio
Distribution
Creative Group
Dramaturgická skupina Karla Copa, Karel Cop (vedoucí dramaturgické skupiny)
Technical info
Duration typology
feature film
Duration in minutes
87 min
Original length in metres
2 508 meters
Distribution carrier
16mm, 35mm
Aspect ratio
1:1,66, 1:2,35
Colour
colour
Sound
sound
Sound system/format
mono
Versions
Czech
Dialogue languages
Czech
Subtitles languages
without subtitles
Opening/End credits languages
Czech
