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Those Wonderful Movie Cranks

1979 · 85 min Comedy
6.2 / 10 · TMDB

Returning home to Prague, the magician Pasparte, an owner of a circus caravan, meets his dying colleague who entrusts his beautiful daughter Aloisie to his care. In Prague they all take up their lodgings at the house At Blue Fish in which they intend to arrange the programs. The firm is owned by widow Evzenie with whom Pasparte shares flat and bed. Evzenie is jealous of Aloisie therefore Pasparte sends Aloisie as a housewife to the single man Jakub Kolenatý who earns his living by photographing and wants to record the revived pictures of Prague. Pasparte wants to found in Prague the first permanent Czech movie theatre in which there would be projected also the original Czech films.

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📋 Film Details

Original Title Báječní muži s klikou
Year 1979
Country Czechoslovakia
Genre Comedy
Director Jiří Menzel
Runtime 85 min.
Rating TMDB: 6.2/10 (13 votes)

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The film constructs a light, almost vaudevillian plot where a romantic quadrangle serves as a framework for gentle humor and nostalgia for old Prague. The director relies on circus aesthetics and the magic of early cinema as a metaphor for art that can revive the past and connect hearts.

Those who tire of cynical comedies will find a charming, slightly surreal tale where confusion of feelings resolves not in drama, but in sincere laughter and belief in wonder. What lingers after viewing is a pleasant lightness — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Jiří Menzel

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Watch on a sunny afternoon or at dusk with a glass of light wine, soaking in the atmosphere of old Prague.

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