Rudolph II, the Holy Roman Emperor, does not have a simple life. And yet he manages to complicate it even more with his frequent outbursts of anger. Read More »
Tag Archives: Jan Werich
At Home in Kocourkov / U nás v Kocourkove (1934) Miroslav Cikán, Jan Werich, Jindrich Plachta, Václav Trégl
At Kocourkov railway station, an escaped fraudster Ferdinand Kaplan arrives and is welcomed Read More »
When the Cat Comes / Az prijde kocour (1963) Vojtech Jasný, Jan Werich, Emília Vásáryová, Vlastimil Brodský
Some people with a strange cat arrive in a small village. The cat wears glasses, and when someone takes Read More »
The Good Soldier Schweik / Dobrý voják Svejk (1954) Jirí Trnka, Jan Werich
Adapting Jaroslav Hasek’s raucous satirical novel, and also bringing Josef Lada’s Read More »
Heave Ho! / Hej-rup! (1934) Martin Fric, George Voskovec, Jan Werich, Helena Busová
A Milk-Cannery baron, Jakub Simonides, is broken by the Canned Milk-Trust and Read More »