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Screenplay:
Hugo HaasCinematography:
Otto HellerComposer:
Julius KalašCast:
Hugo Haas, Adina Mandlová, Erna Ženíšková, Světla Svozilová, Leopolda Dostalová, Ladislav Boháč, Jiří Dohnal, Karel Jičínský, Stanislav Neumann, Jan Pivec (more)Plots(1)
Emanuel Pokorný lives in modest circumstances in a boarding house in the suburbs because he does not have a job. Roubal, a former fellow student, recommends Emanuel for the post of teacher at a provincial girl's boarding school. Single mother Lidka has found work and has asked her ex-lover and the father of the child, Jiří, to look after it for a few days. Jiří, who lives in the same boarding house as Emanuel, prizes his freedom and wants to get rid of the baby. So he puts it in Emanuel's bed and disappears. Emanuel, surprised, does not have time to go searching for the child's parents because he is busy looking after it. The next day he goes to the girls' school for an interview. Because of his spotless record, he gets the teaching job. He smuggles the baby secretly into his quarters in a basket. The students he teaches get the impression that he does not live alone. His secret is discovered by Vlasta who is secretly in love with Emanuel. The girls decide to help Emanuel. But the principal finds out about it and Emanuel is dismissed. At the last moment the baby's mother Lidka appears, and everything is explained. But Emanuel finds he cannot live without the baby, so he asks for Lidka's hand and she gladly accepts. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Reviews (2)
A film that has a script so suspiciously flimsy and hastily cobbled together that practically anything could happen in it, from a volcanic eruption to an alien invasion, and I probably wouldn't find it strange. On the contrary, it would probably make Girls, Stand Fast! a little more interesting. However, Hugo Haas is traditionally good - this distracted position has always suited him perfectly.
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A Huge Haas variation on a popular film theme that has always worked; in the 1920s there was the story of Chaplin's The Kid, a decade later Léonide Moguy made Forty Little Mothers, which Haas' film mirrors. And in the 1940s, the theme continued again in another version of Forty Little Mothers. It's too bad that marginalia like the debutant Vilém Pruner sticks to cinema to a large extent today. Because otherwise, it is an excellent 1930s comedy with a classic humanism message. The ladies include several pleasant actresses: Jiřina Steimarová, Sylva Langová, Zorka Janů, Majva Červená and, of course, Adina Mandlová with her spicy bangs.
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