Cirkus bude!
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Oldřich LipskýDrehbuch:
Ivan OsvaldKamera:
Ferdinand PečenkaBesetzung:
Jaroslav Marvan, František Filipovský, Rudolf Deyl ml., Irena Kačírková, Josef Kemr, Lubomír Lipský st., Miloš Kopecký, Rudolf Hrušínský (mehr)Inhalte(1)
A few busloads of holidaymakers from the agricultural cooperative on a day trip arrive to see the show at the Slavia Circus. But, they have bad luck. It is Monday, the day on which the employees have their extra day off. The only person, Bláha, the leader of the group finds in the empty circus is the stage manager Liška and the box-office girl Maria. In a heated discussion, Bláha proves to Liška that the holidaymakers have reserved and paid their tickets for that night three months ago. Unfortunately, in the meantime, the extra day off was moved from Friday to Monday. Nobody remembered that one Monday performance was already booked. After a shorter argument with Bláha, Liška decides that the holidaymakers will have their show. He sends Maria to get the circus artists from all the different places around Prague - from the artists' exercising arena, from their flats, from the Lucerna Palace, and even from the Central Hotel, where one of the female artists is just getting married. They all understand the situation and show up in the circus ring. The success of the evening is even assisted by the always complaining wardrobe man Rudolfek. Only the bureaucratic manager Ostrý, who is trying to halt the performance, is booed out of the circus. (Verleiher-Text)
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So schlimm ist es nicht… Oldřich Lipský ist es gelungen, die Ideologie einigermaßen vernünftig im Griff zu behalten. Der Film hat viele witzige und nette Momente. Die Leistungen der meisten Künstler sind wirklich bewundernswert. Die Schauspielbesetzung ist sympathisch. Die ständigen Bemerkungen der Herren Trégl und Záhorský werden aber im Laufe der Zeit langweilig, ganz zu schweigen von den Gesprächen von Rudolf Hrušínský und Rudolf Deyl jr. Jaroslav Marvan ist in der Rolle des energischen Inspizienten genauso unwiderstehlich wie die tolle Clown-Nummer von Miloš Kopecký und Lubomír Lipský.
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It's interesting to see how the circus milieu, which is inherently extravagant, enclosed, and a bit "Western decadent", meets here with the knowledge that the circus itself is actually the ideal leisure reward for the working class, because it is entertainment without any intellectual pretensions, and it's within this framework that the film tries to blend the two worlds. Well, it tries; it's clear here that the film serves more as a stage to showcase the various circus acts, which still raise a lot of eyebrows (especially with how much it's possible to let animals degenerate). Here Lipský introduces his directorial method of gradually accelerating the plot into surreal mania, and it's bizarre to see the young Kopecký, Kemr, Hlinomaz, Sovák, Hrušínský, and even Věra Čáslavská as one of the acrobats. František Filipovský, with his hair here, has unwittingly created a model for J. Jonah Jameson.
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