Despite its title, this 1990 film from director Vít Olmer is entirely unrelated to the song showcase film Ta naše písnička česká (The Good Old Czech Tunes, 1967) from director Zdeňek Podskalský. The title song by Karel Hašler is only heard at the very end of this tragicomedy, which charts 20 years of the life of a violinist forced, instead of playing quality music, to only perform either what others request, or what will make him some money. After 1968, Jan Rošetský (Jan Hartl) ends up working in a boiler room, only occasionally able to return to his beloved violin. Rošetský’s life-long nemesis becomes Karel (Bronislav Poloczek), the manipulative head of a music agency. But the relaxation of the rigid (political) climate comes too late for the violinist. But for Olmer’s film these very events offered salvation – the filmmakers were in production for so long, that the 1989 Velvet Revolution enabled them to complete the project with a free hand.
The songs of Prague by Karel Hašler, so popular at the end of the 19th and in the beginning of the 20th centuries, do not grow old. There are still sung everywhere from pubs to construction sites. They also have their place in the love stories from old Prague, which maiden Veronika can tell so nicely. Their heroine is the maiden Stázi, who first did not have luck in her love with student Tadeáš, but then fell in love with three gentlemen at once – shy Mr Alois, jolly Mr Franc and Mr Johanes who seduced her behind the Horse Gate. Eventually, however, she threw them all over for an old but wealthy landlord. The three abandoned gentlemen almost take their lives under the Stone Bridge. However, their sadness soon stops hurting and they find their feet in marriages richly blessed by cute kids. And maiden Stázi? She ran away from the old man and returned to Mr Franc upon his return from military service. And all that happened in just one old house in the Lesser Town district in Prague, the city to which the composer Hašler declared his love in a song: "That is my beautiful one, the white princess. The only I know in the world. That is my love, that is my dear one which I am never going to leave."
The movie was filmed on the basis of fourty pages of material in which the director Vít Olmer summarized his own experience from the peculiar practices of the music agency Pragokoncert.
houslista Jan Rošetský
ředitel Oldřich
Eva, Janova manželka
Vašek, muž s příčeskem
zpěvačka
violista
violoncellista Václav
houslista Jarek
spisovatel Tomáš
houslista Michal
Janova matka
Pavel, Janův syn, jako dítě
Pavel jako mladík
Honza, Janův syn, jako dítě
Honza jako mladík
náměstek Karel
nový náměstek
sekretářka ředitele
sekretářka u Vaška
ředitelův řidič
zpěvačka, ředitelova milenka
sekretářka
topenář Franta
šéf topenářů
členka rekvalifikační komise
členka rekvalifikační komise
člen rekvalifikační komise
člen rekvalifikační komise
člen rekvalifikační komise
člen rekvalifikační komise
zřízenkyně krematoria Marie
ředitelova manželka
lékař
úřednice v Paláci kultury
úřednice v Paláci kultury
on sám, imitátor
on sám, herec
ona sama, herečka
on sám, herec
vedoucí oddělení z ÚV KSČ
zpěvačka dechovky
artistka
artista
holka od ředitele
Jan Křížek, Jaroslav Hykl
Marie Beránková
Milan Furman
Michal Erazim, Jiří Matějka, Eva Slívová
František Příhoda, Božena Došlá, Zdenka Prchlíková, Tereza Kolihová
Lenka Jandová, Jiří Synek, Dagmar Pitráková
Pavel Bačkovský, Adolf Hickl, Vladimír Švestka
Dvořákovo kvarteto, Jaroslav Řeřicha, František Pišinger, Jaroslav Foltýn, Pavel Kudelásek, Karel Bárta, Milan Býček, Růžena Hejsková, Jiří Bělík, Jiří Kubita, Tomáš Hrazděra, Vratislav Novotný, Marta Šímová, Daniela Humlová, Jiří Zahrádka
Richard Wagner (Lohengrin /Svatební chór/), Bedřich Smetana (Z mého života), Johann Sebastian Bach (Ciaccona d moll z Partity č. 2), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Smyčcový kvartet C dur), Joseph Haydn (Smyčcový kvartet C dur), Joseph Kreutzer
Jan Beneš (/výběr populární hudby/), Jaroslav Ruis (/výběr klasické hudby/)
Songwriter Karel Hašler
Writer of Lyrics Karel Hašler
Singer dětský hlasmužský sbor
Songwriter Ondřej Soukup
Songwriter Isaak Dunajevskij
Singer Tomáš TöpferJan Hartl
Singer Zorka Kohoutová
Songwriter Jan Smolka
Writer of Lyrics Jan Smolka
Singer Josef Štágrsbor Planety
Songwriter Mojmír Smékal
Writer of Lyrics Hana Čiháková
Singer Jana MatysováHelena Vrtichová
Songwriter tradicionál
Writer of Lyrics Luděk Nekuda
Singer Jana MatysováHelena VrtichováFrantišek Havlíček (2)sbor Severky
Songwriter lidová píseň
Singer Bronislav Poloczek
Songwriter lidová píseň
Singer Bronislav Poloczek
Songwriter lidová moravská píseň
Singer Bronislav Poloczek
Songwriter Anatolij Novikov
Writer of Lyrics Jakov Švedov
Singer Pavel Liška (2)
Songwriter Dean Reed
Writer of Lyrics Jiří Aplt
Singer Jiří ŠtědroňJana MatysováHelena Vrtichovásbor Severky
Ta naše písnička česká II
Ta naše písnička česká II
Our Czech Song II
film
featuretheatrical distribution
tragicomedy
Czechoslovakia
1990
1990
start of filming 02/1990
end of filming 08/1990
premiere 1 December 1990 /unsuitable for youths/
Barrandov
2. tvůrčí skupina, Josef Císař (vedoucí 2. tvůrčí skupiny), Ivana Dortová (vedoucí produkce 2. tvůrčí skupiny)
feature film
100 min
35mm
1:1,66
colour
sound
mono
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech
Event: Prémie Českého literárního fondu v oblasti filmové tvorby za rok 1989
1990
Praha / Czechoslovakia
Ivana Kačírková