Movies on Stránov

Drama – Czech Republic, 2007, 57 min
Directed by Monika Elšíková-Le Fay
Subject: Monika Elšíková-Le Fay (book)
Screenplay: Monika Elšíková-Le Fay
Music by Ivan Acher

Cast: Karel Roden, Zuzana Bydžovská, Paulíno Svoboda, Ján Sedal, Simona Babčáková, Ruben Peguero, Marie Ludvíková, Kamila Kalousová, Monika Elšíková-Le Fay

William Edwin Demeter, called Bubu, is a boy who likes to make things up and run away. Bubu – played brilliantly by little Paulino Svoboda – one day finds himself in an orphanage against his will because his Roma mother and black father are not interested in him. In fact, no one is interested in him – only a random passer-by, Dora (Zuzana Bydžovská), who finds him sitting on the street at night. Dora is a governess in an orphanage, and lives in a childless marriage with a lawyer, Karel (Karel Roden), whose first wife and children have left him. Dora is full of energy and desire to help all the children and animals in the world, while Karel is withdrawn, soberly sensible, and doesn’t want to experience any more emotional turmoil in his life. And into their lives – at first indirectly, accidentally – intervenes little Bubu, who is anything but the cute little baby that adopters are fighting over.

Czech Republic

Filmed in: 2007
Length: 57 min
Directed by Ondřej Kepka

Starring: Filip Tomsa, Ivana Chýlková, Jana Paulová, Svatopluk Skopal, Roman Štabrňák, Anna – Marie Valentová, Marika Šoposká, Jindřich Nováček, Miroslav Babuský, Petr Halíček

For those who like romantic fairy tales with mysterious magic and witchcraft, the story of Princess Mařinka and the young man Černoočka began filming in June. The two secretly meet in the woods near the castle and dream of a future together. Their love, however, is a thorn in the side of Czernoočka’s grandmother, the witch Curlyfoot, who would prefer her grandson to forget about Mařinka and take up the witchcraft. Therefore, she takes the opportunity when Prince Hubert comes to the castle for a courtship, deliberately arousing Czernooček’s jealousy and hoping that he will abandon Marinka. But Czernoočko secretly turns into a bird with the help of a complicated spell and flies to the castle to see for himself what is happening. He discovers that he suspected Marinka wrongly, but he cannot turn back into a human. Not even Crookedfoot can help him, so out of grief he curses Gretel as the cause of all evil and strips her of her memory. Gretel loses interest in everything that happens around her, finding comfort only in the company of the sad bird. But she is wasting away day by day, and there is only one spell that could save everyone… (official distributor text)

Country of origin: the Czech Republic

Filmed in 2003
Length: 78 min
Director: Jiri Chlumský

Cast: Klára Issová, Milan Bahul, Božidara Turzonová, Pavel Kříž, Jiří Štěpnička, Radek Holub, Pavel Landovský, Zdena Herfortová, Klára Jandová, Šárka Ullrichová, Otmar Brancuzský, Veronika Gajerová, Jan Hraběta, Michal Zelenka, Michael Hofbauer, Václav Procházka

This romantic fairy tale plays with the idea that everyone’s destiny is the same as their deeds. This seems to be true even for the quarrelsome princess Svatava, who causes her sister Lada and her grandmother all the trouble. After one argument, the rebellious Svatava disappears. The queen grandmother, who is raising both sisters after the death of their parents, is worried about Svatava. But when Svatava’s Fate appears to her and assures her that even if she has obstacles, she will accompany her granddaughter on her journey through the world, the grandmother calms down. She knows that Svatava must try to make amends herself.
The romantic castle of Stránov u Boleslav, Houska Castle and the village of Dobřeň.

Country of origin: Czechoslovakia
Filmed in: 2002
Length: 6 min
Director: Karel Punčoch

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1Qbv8d4sWA

Country of origin: Czechoslovakia

Filmed in 1933
Length: 70 min
Director: Miroslav Cikán

Cast: Karel Hašler, František Smolík, Jiřina Šejbalová, Bedřich Vrbský, František Kovářík, Jan Sviták, Miroslav Svoboda, Antonín Novotný, Jaroslav Marvan, Helena Sedláková, Milada Smolíková, Jan W. Speerger, Rudolf Žák

There is a room in Count Hellford’s castle where several people have mysteriously lost their lives. Hellford’s daughter Irena has three friends who decide to get to the bottom of the mystery. One by one, they all agree to spend the night in the blue room. The first of them, Tom, disappears during the night without a trace. The second, Frank, is found dead the next morning. At that moment, the police intervene in the case, revealing that Earl Hellford is not Irene’s father, but her uncle, who has taken her in. The girl’s real father left the family twenty years ago. But he’s closer than everyone thinks… (official distributor text)

Romantic / Drama
Czechoslovakia, 1924
Directed by Václav Kubásek
Ivan Klicpera (book)
Screenplay: Josef Kokeisl, Václav Kubásek
Director of photography: Josef Kokeisl

Cast: Mary Jansová, Gitta d’Amaro, František Havel, Marie Fingerová, Jan W. Speerger, Eduard Malý, Karel Fiala, Marie Černá, Jiří Sedláček, Ruda Nížkovský

Jindra, the daughter of the factory owner Jarýn, returns from Vienna with her cousin Amálka after two years. She meets her brothers’ teacher Vojtěch Lípa. While Amálka finds a crush on him, the feelings Lípa has for Jindra are not reciprocated. Offended, Lípa wants to leave, but when the careless Jindra falls into the river, Lípa rescues her and Jindra develops tender feelings for him. Jindra’s father is elected to the provincial assembly. After a factory fire, he is in a predicament from which he could extricate himself at the cost of resigning, which Jindra refuses. Jindra asks Count Ostrovín for financial help. However, he asks for her hand in return. Jindra refuses, for she loves Linden. In the end, however, she is forced to consent. After some time, she bears the Count a son, but dies soon afterwards. Lípa is then approached by her father with his grandson Jaroslav and a last message from Jindra, who begs Lípa to raise her son well.