The Troubles of a Theatre Director

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1920

Production year

1920

Category

film

Genre

comedy

Typology

featuretheatrical distribution

Film state

lost film

Original title

Trampoty divadelního ředitele

Czech title

Trampoty divadelního ředitele

English title

The Troubles of a Theatre Director

Parallel title

Trampoty ředitele Mastibulky

English parallel title

The Troubles of Director Mastibulka

Synopsis

Actors in a provincial theatre company get drunk to such an extent that they are unable to perform. In order to save the performance, the director's daughter persuades the choirmaster to help. The director and his wife manage to engage the services of other "actors" a cattle driver who at that moment is bringing manure out of the courtyard, a barrel-organ grinder and a procession reciter.

Note

The film was banned by the censors for the following reason: "...since it contains a number of vulgar scenes whose public screening would go against decency and good morals" (quotation from the censorship certificate), "drunken theatre society – crude acting performed by new ´actors´, where their backsides play an important part." (Bulletin of the Interior Ministry of the Czechoslovak Republic 5, 1923, č. 1, s. 28) The film materials are believed lost.

Cast

Josef Špatenka

divadelní ředitel Mikuláš Mastibulka

Lola Pospíšilová

Mastibulkova dcera Lili

Miroslav J. Krňanský

herec a cedulář Augustin Labuška

Rudolf Halm-Holmes

válečný invalida Adolf Uzlíček

Jaromír Kroupa

domovník Matouš

Sláva Pospíšil

krejčí Matěj Lahoda

Emanuel Hříbal

švec Pavel Buchal

Crew and creators

Production info

Original Title

Trampoty divadelního ředitele

Czech Title

Trampoty divadelního ředitele

English Title

The Troubles of a Theatre Director

Parallel Title

Trampoty ředitele Mastibulky

English Parallel Title

The Troubles of Director Mastibulka

Category

film

Typology

featuretheatrical distribution

Film state

lost film

Genre

comedy

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1920

Production Year

1920

Production specifications

date of censorship 15 September 1922 (neschváleno do distribuce)

Premiere

premiere neproběhla

Production

Jaromír Kroupa

Copyright Holders

Národní filmový archiv

Distribution

La Tricolore

Technical info

Distribution carrier

35mm

Aspect ratio

1:1,33

Colour

black & white

Sound

silent

Versions

Czech

Dialogue languages

without dialogue

Subtitles languages

without subtitles

Intertitles languages

Czech

Opening/End credits languages

Czech