A Little Lupin's Investigation
Country
CzechoslovakiaCopyright
1960Production year
1960Premiere
7 April 1961Runtime
73 minDirector
Václav VorlíčekCategory
filmGenre
detective, childrenTypology
featuretheatrical distributionlongOriginal title
Případ LupínekCzech title
Případ LupínekEnglish title
A Little Lupin's InvestigationSynopsis
In a wooden hut used as a canvassing centre, members of a pioneer puppet-theatre group are rehearsing for a production about a journey to the Moon. The goings-on inside the hut and outside are being closely followed by amateur detective Pepík Barnabáš. He, however, is the first to be under suspicion when a trunk containing puppets goes missing. The children follow him but, when they catch up with him, they discover he hasn't got it. Pepík offers to help them in their search. The children accept his help and so the little detective gradually embarks upon the trail of two boys from their school, then to the hospital, to old Mrs Březinová, to a refuse incinerator and then to the gallery. To Pepík's great dismay suspicion also falls on his great friend - the apprentice Jirka - since he had sold one of the lost puppets to another friend. It turns out that Jirka had found the puppet trunk on the rubbish dump and, thinking that someone had thrown it out, he had taken it. Everything ends happily and Pepík and Jirka become new members of the theatre group.
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Cast
Martin Švehla
Pepíček Barnabáš
Karel Michálek
Pavel
Zuzana Tůmová
Helenka
Michal Pelikán
Honza
Jindřich Pulec
Sláva Pulec
Jan Křtitel Sýkora
Martin Janeček
Viktor Vaněček
Milan Souček
Jan Klozar
Zrzek
Ota Sklenčka
železničář Eliáš, vedoucí loutkářského kroužku
Eva Danielová
učitelka Marie, Eliášova dcera
Marie Brožová
Anastázie Březinová
Vojtěch Červenka
Voice by Jan Šmíd
učedník Jirka
Vítězslav Černý
autoopravář
František Miroslav Doubrava
závozník Národní galerie
Josef Hlinomaz
vrátný v nemocnici
František Jirásek
řidič
Běla Jurdová
zdravotní sestra
Helena Karbanová
primářka
Luďa Marešová
zdravotní sestra
Milan Neděla
ošetřovatel v ZOO
Svatopluk Skládal
pokladník na zámku
Světla Amortová
domovnice
Jan Skopeček
popelář
Josef Svátek
primář
Luděk Škuta
učitel
František Kovářík
průvodce Šnobl
Monika Lankašová
holčička
Zuzana Vrbová (2)
Dáša Součková, Milanova sestra
Antonín Šindler
tlustý kluk
Eva Culková
Alenka
Václav Wasserman
muž s králíkem v tašce
Jiří Zajíček
kluk
Crew and creators
Director
Second Unit Director
Assistant Director
Věra Plívová-Šimková, Drahomíra Reňáková, Viktor Karásek, Marie Hejzlarová
Screenstory
Screenplay
Shooting Script
Director of Photography
Camera Operator
Production Designer
Set Designer
Vladimír Huja, Karel Lukáš
Costumes
Make-Up Artist
Film Editor
Sound Designer
Production Manager
Unit Production Manager
Ludmila Tikovská, František Jaderník
Cooperation
Miroslav Pešan (fotograf)
Music
Music Composed by
Music Performed by
FISYO (Music Conducted by František Belfín)
Songs
Jednou nebudeme malí
Song Composer Svatopluk Havelka
Writer of Lyrics Josef Brukner
Singer dětský sbor
Production info
Original Title
Případ Lupínek
Czech Title
Případ Lupínek
English Title
A Little Lupin's Investigation
Category
film
Typology
featuretheatrical distribution
Genre
detective, children
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1960
Production Year
1960
Production specifications
literary Screenplay approved 2 March 1960
technical Screenplay approved 3 May 1960
start of filming 7 June 1960
end of filming 27 October 1960
projection approval 5 December 1960
withdrawal from distribution 31 August 1976
withdrawal from distribution 31 December 1992
Premiere
premiere 7 April 1961 /suitable for youths/ (kino Belvedere /1 týden/, Praha)
premiere 7 April 1961 /suitable for youths/ (celostátní)
renewed premiere 1 September 1990 /suitable for youths/
Production
Copyright Holders
Distribution
Ústřední půjčovna filmů (původní 1961 a obnovená 1990)
Creative Group
Tvůrčí skupina Hanuš – Pavlíček, Ladislav Hanuš (vedoucí výroby tvůrčí skupiny), František Pavlíček (vedoucí dramaturg tvůrčí skupiny)
Technical info
Duration typology
feature film
Duration in minutes
73 min
Original length in metres
2 083 meters
Distribution carrier
16mm, 35mm
Aspect ratio
1:1,37
Colour
colour
Sound
sound
Sound system/format
mono
Versions
Czech
Dialogue languages
Czech
Subtitles languages
without subtitles
Opening/End credits languages
Czech
Awards
Vítěz
Event: Umělecká soutěž k 15. výročí osvobození Československé republiky a zrodu lidově-demokratické ČSR
1960
Praha / Czechoslovakia
Josef Brukner
Vítěz
Event: Umělecká soutěž k 15. výročí osvobození Československé republiky a zrodu lidově-demokratické ČSR
1960
Praha / Czechoslovakia
Václav Vorlíček
