The Lord and his Butler
Country
CzechoslovakiaCopyright
1938Production year
1938Premiere
30 September 1938Runtime
86 minDirector
Walter SchorschCategory
filmGenre
comedyTypology
featuretheatrical distributionlongOriginal title
Pán a sluhaCzech title
Pán a sluhaEnglish title
The Lord and his ButlerSynopsis
Ladislav Tůma, a clerk at a Prague savings bank, has unexpectedly inherited one and a half million crowns from a wealthy uncle who lived in Africa; there is, however, a condition attached to the inheritance, namely that he must employ his trusted butler Vlastimil Chytráček for a year. The sinister Ševčík, Tůma's colleague from an amateur sports club, has his eye on the latter's girlfriend Hana and he has Tůma thrown out of the club under suspicion of being a professional. Tůma is fired from the savings bank since it is the belief that, if a clerk has a butler, he must be an embezzler to have that amount of money. Ševčík also finds out about the will and its condition. Hana urges Tůma to sack Chytráček. Ševčík offers the unusual butler a job as manager in his pressing shop. Tůma discovers that he must "have the status of an employed person" with Chytráček for one year so he accepts the position of apprentice at the pressing shop, thus fulfilling the conditions of the will. He becomes friends with the former butler and tells him that he will share his inheritance with him after the year is up. Ševčík is too late. Chytráček even helps Tůma patch things up with Hana who had left him because of Ševčík's intrigues.
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Cast
František Krištof-Veselý
úředník záložny a sportovec Ladislav Tůma
Jindřich Plachta
komorník Vlastimil Chytráček
Václav Trégl
krejčí a básník Václav Mourek
Eva Gerová
Hana Karlíková, Tůmova snoubenka
Rudolf Deyl st.
JUDr. Karlík, prezident sportovního klubu, Hanin otec
Vítězslav Boček
Ing. Josef Ševčík, člen sportovního klubu
Raoul Schránil
sportovec Baloun
František Roland
notář Pazdera
Bedřich Veverka
ředitel záložny Kopecký
František Kreuzmann
pokladní v záložně
Milada Smolíková
Josefa Kadeřábková, Tůmova bytná
Jarmila Beránková
sekretářka notáře Pazdery
Sláva Grossmann
elegán
Jan W. Speerger
opilý zákazník
Fráňa Vajner
nosič
Jaroslav Bráška
zákazník záložny Josef Kebrle
Štefan Munk
novinář
Ladislav Janeček
novinář
Jiří Schreinzer
novinář
Josef Kotalík
kustod klubu
Karel Fořt
člen klubu
Miroslav Kryštof-Kutina
člen klubu
Slávka Doležalová
člen klubu
Vilém Pruner
člen klubu
Eva Prchlíková
členka klubu
Karel Veverka
psychiatr
Antonín Jirsa
ošetřovatel z blázince
Jaroslav Sadílek
zaměstnanec kanalizační služby
František Filipovský
zaměstnanec kanalizační služby
Bolek Prchal
fanda na kopané
Josef Steigl
fanda na kopané
Kamil Běhounek
akordeonista v orchestru
Crew and creators
Director
Assistant Director
Screenstory
Screenplay
Director of Photography
Production Designer
Set Designer
Costumes
Make-Up Artist
Film Editor
Sound Designer
Production Manager
Cooperation
Antonín Frič (fotograf)
Music
Music Composed by
Music Performed by
Orchestr F.O.K. (Music Conducted by Roman Blahník)
Songs
Směj se jen /Zpívám si/ (foxtrot)
Song Composer Roman Blahník
Writer of Lyrics Antonín ČejkaKarel Kozel
Singer Arnošt Kavka
Zní píseň přírody, mládí a svobody /Zní píseň přírody/ (pochod)
Song Composer Roman Blahník
Writer of Lyrics Antonín ČejkaKarel Kozel
Singer Jindřich Plachta [dab]sbor
Production info
Original Title
Pán a sluha
Czech Title
Pán a sluha
English Title
The Lord and his Butler
Category
film
Typology
featuretheatrical distribution
Genre
comedy
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1938
Production Year
1938
Production specifications
start of filming 12 April 1938
end of filming 25 April 1938
date of censorship 08/1938
withdrawal from distribution 1 June 1940
date of censorship 06/1940 (neschváleno do distribuce)
date of censorship 7 May 1947 (konec povolení k promítání 7. 5. 1948)
withdrawal from distribution 7 May 1949
Premiere
premiere 30 September 1938 /suitable for youths/ (kina Letka /1½ týdne/ a Máj /2 týdny/, Praha)
renewed premiere 30 May 1947 /unsuitable for youths/ (kino Máj /4 týdny/, Praha)
Production
With support
Copyright Holders
Studio
Laboratories
Distribution
AB (původní 1938), Státní půjčovna filmů (obnovená 1947)
Technical info
Duration typology
feature film
Duration in minutes
86 min
Original length in metres
2 447 meters
Distribution carrier
35mm
Aspect ratio
1:1,37
Colour
black & white
Sound
sound
Sound system/format
Tobis – Klang
Versions
Czech
Dialogue languages
Czech
Subtitles languages
without subtitles
Opening/End credits languages
Czech
