The Canary Connection
Typology
featureCzech title
Kanárská spojkaRuntime
118Country
Czech RepublicCopyright
1993Production year
1993Premiere
08.09.1993Language version
CzechDirector
Ivo TrajkovSynopsis
Don Giovanni is camping with his camel, Kamil, in the desert. He starts to tell his life story. When he was 17, he learned from his black mother that he was born in the Prague Motol hospital. This left traces on him, and now he is a manager of the Czech singer Michal Penk. The crook, Omar, organizes a theft of the famous Becherovka liquor recipe for his father, Don Juan. The thieves don't anticipate that the Slovak mafia from Bratislava is monitoring them. The Becherovka operation is followed also by the mafia man, Don Padre, with his daughter, Teresa, and further by Dona Lucia, Don Giovanni and the police. The recipe is stolen and the connections gradually hand over the precious goods. In the end, the recipe is put in a doll. Don Giovanni falls in love with Lucia and he promises her that he will get the recipe for her. But it is not easy. The recipe is circulating from one to another. Having no scruples, everybody just follows his own profit, either because of material reasons or as a bribe to get love and understanding. After many peripeties, the family relations among the interested persons in the recipe are cleared out: except for the Slovaks, all are in a family with incestual relations. The recipe gets Teresa, who works for police. She let them arrest all her relatives. She just spares her father, to whom she gives the recipe for his collection. Don Giovanni wakes up in the morning in the desert and finds out that his camel was stolen. In the sand he finds the bound singer Penk. Don Giovanni states that it might be a hard day.
Photos
Cast
Karel Roden
Don Giovanni
Ivana Chýlková
Dona Carmen
Miloš Kopecký
mafiánský kmotr Don Padre
Martin Huba
Don Juan
Lucie Zedníčková
Dona Lucia
Miroslav Táborský
Don Omar
Petronela Vančíková
Teresa, dcera Dona Padreho
Michal Penk
zpěvák
Július Satinský
šéf slovenské mafie
Marián Labuda
zástupce šéfa
Milan Lasica
muž z Chicaga
Josef Vinklář
právník Áron
Jiří Krytinář
člen ochranky
Petr Drozda
člen ochranky
Jan Saudek
fotograf
Robert Kodym
hudební hvězda
Jan Kehár
šéf celního oddělení
Zdeněk Srstka
velitel policejní jednotky
Karel Zima
zahraniční expert Vomáčka
Marian Roden
muž s anténou
Monika Novotná
sekretářka mafie
Roman Holý
reportér
Yveta Dufková
trojbarevná dívka
Vlado Štancel
psycholog
Simona Jáklová
sebevražedkyně
Roman Skamene
liftboy
Jakub Wehrenberg
choreograf
Martina Marešová
manekýna
Kateřina Suligánová
manekýna
Simona Voráčková
manekýna
Petra Menschiková
manekýna
Simona Czinová
manekýna
Petr Koutecký
řidič u Dona Omara
Jiří Záviš
ředitel Becherovky
Jana Havrdová
sekretářka ředitele
Radim Špaček
kamelot
Útvar rychlého nasazení /URNA/
policejní jednotka
Petr Jákl
tajný
Alena Dlouhá
jeptiška
Jan Doboš
Kristus
Eliška Kasanová
celnice
Štorkán Karel (2)
pilot
Michal Cingroš
copilot
Mária Hriadelová
letuška
Daniela Kaňoková
maminka v letadle
Arnošt Janeček
muž s kyticí
Jaroslava Hanušová
žena s kufrem
Miroslav Dubský
homosexuál
Filip Sychra
laborant
Miroslav Kasan
bachař
Gabriela Čanigová
žena v pekárně
Elen Barčišová
dívka v paláci kultury
Fefík
saniťák
Vilas
saniťák
Sára Saudková
asistentka fotografa
Eva Šlosárová
turistka v monokinách
Petr Rožánek
režisér
Alexis Guerrero
kanárský policista/muž s walkmanem
Marek Dušák
kameraman/spojka/beduín
Aleksandar Kolevski
kanárský policista/spojka/beduín
Crew and creators
Director
Second Unit Director
Lenka Cingrošová
Assistant Director
Vlasta Šalbabová, Andrea Rožánková
Screenstory
Vladislav Kučík, Ivo Trajkov, Aleksandar Kolevski
Screenplay
Camera
Second Unit Photography
Camera Operator
Jan Ročňák
Production Designer
Set Designer
Jakub Čermák, Miroslav Fára, Pavel Svoboda
Costumes
Make-Up Artist
Film Editor
Sound Designer
Special Effects
Trilobit AB Barrandov, Pavel Kryml
Production Manager
Unit Production Manager
Unit Production Manager
Marek Dušák
Consultant
Miroslav Šnábl
Cooperation
Monika Marková, Adriana Jánská, Josef Pokorný
Music
Music Composed by
Songs
Proč jsi zlá
Songwriter
Michal Penk (Proč jsi zlá)
Writer of Lyrics
Oto Klempíř (Proč jsi zlá)
Singer
Michal Penk (Proč jsi zlá)
Technical info
Versions
Czech
Awards
Vítěz
Event: 1. Český lev za rok 1993
1994
Praha / Czech Republic