Fandy, oh Fandy!

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1983

Production year

1982

Premiere

1 December 1983

Runtime

87 min

Category

film

Genre

comedy

Typology

featuretheatrical distributionlong

Original title

Fandy ó Fandy

Czech title

Fandy ó Fandy

English title

Fandy, oh Fandy!

Working title

Fandy

Summary

In this tale of a young man who has perfectly messed up his life, the renowned director Karel Kachyňa took a humorous look at the system of “one hundred percent employment” in the socialist state. The victim of these practices is 18-year-old František Vodrážka, who after arduously graduating from university is compelled to work in a factory. After a dreary stint in the design office, the offer of a place in the laboratory appeals to him, but in the end he can’t stick with that either – much like he couldn't stick with his girlfriends Jára and Vlasta and the earlier promise of a rowing career. František, nicknamed Fandy, is thus a prototype of the internally unattached, lazy outsider, whose good heart gets him nowhere. The film’s title role was taken by the now forgotten Bohumír Starý, while Dana Medřická bid farewell to her professional career in the role of Fandy’s mother.

Synopsis

František Vodrážka, nicknamed Fandy by his friends, gets through his A levels only by a whisker. His father died and he lives with his mother who would love to see him work and earn money as soon as possible. But František wants to savour freedom for a while. He spends some time in a rowing club with his friend Pepa, rowing a double skiff with him. The two then set off to a small camp site by the river to meet the girls Jára and Vlasta. Fandy fancies Jára, but she came to prefer Pepa. Fandy does not like to pay much attention to Vlasta. Jára and Pepa must get a job and Fandy would rather start in a factory with them. His boring engagement in a construction office is followed by a job in a laboratory which he begins to enjoy. Jára is pregnant by Pepa who, however, does not want to marry. Fandy offers to marry her, but Jára chooses an abortion anyway. She calls Fandy from the hospital at night and the boy sets off to see her although he should record the results of an important experiment during his night shift. In hospital, he is told that the surgery is already over. He returns to the lab and records the measurements only by estimate, thus distorting the entire experiment. He does not plead guilty and cowardly runs away from the factory. Jára is back home from hospital and invites Fandy to visit her in the evening. But Fandy meets his friend Béďa on the way to her place and gets drunk with him. He arrives at Jára's late at night, dirty and barefoot. In the morning, he understands that he has lost the girl. He also loses his membership in the rowing club because he cannot perform properly due to his hangover. His meeting with Vlasta does not turn out well for him, either. The girl has already found herself another boyfriend. He cannot even return to the laboratory because he does not have a permit. He climbs over the fence but jumps into the back of a truck that is heading out of the factory.

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Cast

Bohumír Starý

Voice by Vladislav Beneš
František Vodrážka zvaný Fandy

Dana Medřická

Fandyho maminka

Zuzana Hradecká

Voice by Zuzana Bydžovská
zdravotní sestra Vlasta

Čestmír Řanda ml.

Pepa Rejcha, Františkův kamarád

Ondřej Vetchý

Béďa Unčovský, Františkův spolužák

Jiří Menzel

vedoucí laboratoře Ing. Růžička

Luděk Kopřiva

kreslič Berka

Václav Vydra

kreslič Liška

Bořivoj Navrátil

Ota Sluníčko, vedoucí v továrně

Pavel Zedníček

vedoucí kreslírny Ing. Nachtman

Svatopluk Skládal

vrátný v továrně

Jiří Růžička

kreslič Urban

Jiřina Třebická

kreslička Suchá

Zuzana Talpová

žena na kolečkových bruslích

Vlastimil Bedrna

trenér veslování

Alena Jánská

sekretářka

Blanka Lormanová

zdravotní sestra

Luďa Marešová

žena v bílém

Karel Linc

homosexuál Jiří

Otakar Sedláček

kulatý muž

David Suchařípa

maturant Pospíšil

Zdeněk Srstka

politý muž u Fleků

Jiří Kopta

maturant Botka zvaný Ráčkovec

Jan Polívka

stavbyvedoucí

Ladislav Gerendáš

prodavač ovoce

Michal Roneš

Lubošek Vávra, Vlastin nový přítel

Viktor Maurer

předseda maturitní komise

Vladimír Hrabánek

kreslič Vaněk

Irena Tužová-Vopatová

kreslička

Aleš Morávek

kreslič

Jaroslav Veselý (2)

kreslič

Miriam Brochová

komediantka

Jan Cmíral

člen komise

Karel Chromík

člen komise

Karel Fořt

člen komise

Miloš Švarc

člen komise

Táňa Kumprechtová

vysoká žena

Ladislav Pixa

vysoký muž

Vladimír Jánoš

startér

Tomáš Vacek

maturant Turek zvaný Brýlovec

Svatopluk Mohapl

maturant-šprt

Jakub Šíla

maturant

Pavel Vítek

maturant

Jan Žáček

maturant

Jan Kuželka

opilec na parníku

Slávka Hamouzová

babička v okně

Eva Pixová

slečna od Fleků

Miroslav Smolík

dubl za Bohumíra Starého

Vladimír Kaiser

dubl za Čestmíra Řandu ml.

Crew and creators

Second Unit Director

Zeno Dostál

Assistant Director

Ivo Musil

Screenstory

Milan Ležák

Director of Photography

Jan Čuřík

Camera Operator

Jan Carda, Pavel Nečesal

Production Designer

Bohumil Pokorný

Assistent Production Designer

Olga Rosenfelderová

Costume Designer

Šárka Váchová

Film Editor

Jiří Brožek

Assistant Film Editor

Věra Flaková, Eva Horázná

Sound Designer

Pavel Jelínek

Assistant Sound Designer

Tomáš Potůček

Special Effects

Petr Rychetský (pyrotechnik)

Production Manager

Oldřich Mach

Unit Production Manager

Tomáš Baloun, Vojtěch Panáček, Iva Šetková

Unit Production Manager

Vojtěch Panáček

Consultant

Jaroslav Tomsa, Vladimír Jánoš

Cooperation

Z. Augustová (klapka), Zdeněk Vávra (fotograf)

Music

Music Composed by

Luboš Fišer

Music Performed by

FISYO (Music Conducted by František Belfín)

Songs

Fandy ó Fandy

Song Composer Luboš Fišer
Writer of Lyrics Pavel Kopta
Singer Naďa Urbánková

Production info

Original Title

Fandy ó Fandy

Czech Title

Fandy ó Fandy

English Title

Fandy, oh Fandy!

Working Title

Fandy

Category

film

Typology

featuretheatrical distribution

Genre

comedy

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1983

Production Year

1982

Production specifications

literary Screenplay approved 1 February 1982
start of filming 1 March 1982
technical Screenplay approved 16 March 1982
end of filming 29 September 1982
projection approval 24 June 1983

Premiere

premiere 1 December 1983 /unsuitable for youths/

Creative Group

5. dramaturgicko-výrobní skupina, Miloslav Vydra (vedoucí 5. dramaturgicko-výrobní skupiny)

Technical info

Duration typology

feature film

Duration in minutes

87 min

Original length in metres

2 437 meters

Distribution carrier

16mm, 35mm

Aspect ratio

1:1,37

Colour

colour

Sound

sound

Sound system/format

mono

Versions

Czech

Dialogue languages

Czech

Subtitles languages

without subtitles

Opening/End credits languages

Czech