The sensational celebrity of Circus Europe is Tarzan - half-monkey and half-human. One of the circus visitors, anthropologist Forejt, is intensely interested in the weird creature. He meets a young attractive woman named Regina Smithová, who introduces herself as Tarzan's fiancé. Tarzan, however, is in fact German Baron Wolfgang von Hoppe, whose father left for Africa with his wife and a very little Wolfgang in 1904. Soon afterwards, the news about their death arrived. The vast family property is now managed by nephew Heinrich. After thirty years, Wolfgang was discovered as a wild forest savage living with apes. He was recognized and taken back to Europe. The English Regina was hired as his governess, supposedly to civilize him. Heinrich, afraid to lose the inheritance, offers Regina a rich reward if the education fails. The woman, however, has plans of her own and, in several months, Wolfgang turns into a refined gentleman. Regina has managed to convince the naive savage that all-encompassing love reigns among people. Wolfgang has no idea that oil was found on his estates in Africa. He is alarmed by the cruel fight that breaks out between the English, headed by Regina, and Heindrich's German soldiers, and finds out that it is worse to live among people than in the jungle. He runs away and seeks sanctuary in the circus. When Regina discovers him there, Tarzan realizes that she, too, is worse than the jungle animals, and, in despair, commits suicide.
Tarzan´s Death was distributed along with the film Idiot from Xeenemünde.
baron Wolfgang von Hoppe zvaný Tarzan
guvernantka Regina Smithová
Heinrich von Hoppe, Wolfgangův bratranec
antropolog docent Forejt
ředitelka cirkusu Evropa
komorník
důstojník SA
dáma, členka komise
baronesa, členka komise
Reginin šéf
dáma, členka komise
vědec, člen komise
vyvolávač na pouti
německá nevěsta
kominík
farář
klaun
Eva v pouťovém představení
prodavač tureckého medu
příslušník SA
příslušník SA
příslušník SA
Voice by Mirko Musil
úředník
člen komise
rváč
rváč
rváč
rváč
rváč
rváč
rváč
rváč
rváč
rváč
rváč
hudebník
hudebník
hudebník
hudebník
hudebník
pochop
pochop
pochop
krotitelka
kapelník
bubeník
Angličan
Angličan
uvaděčka
kluk-klaun
Dagmar Nováková, Marie Kaplanová
Josef Nesvadba (Tarzanova smrt – povídka ze sbírky Tarzanova smrt)
Ivo Černý, Vladimír Mácha, Jiří Široký
Adolf Široký, Josef Mathauser
Angelika Hanauerová (klapka)
FISYO (Music Conducted by František Belfín), Orchestr Karla Krautgartnera (Music Conducted by Karel Krautgartner)
Song Composer Evžen Illín
Writer of Lyrics Pavel Kopta
Singer Jan Tříska
Tarzanova smrt
Tarzanova smrt
Tarzan's Death
Džungle
film
featuretheatrical distribution
slapstick, satire, tragicomedy
Czechoslovakia
1962
1962
literary Screenplay approved 19 February 1962
technical Screenplay approved 28 February 1962
start of filming 26 March 1962
end of filming 30 July 1962
projection approval 23 October 1962
withdrawal from distribution 1 September 1974
preview 18 January 1963 (kino Sevastopol /1 týden/, Praha)
premiere 25 January 1963 /unsuitable for youths/ (kina Pasáž /3 týdny/, Arbes /1 týden/, Bystrica /1 týden/, Kyjev /1 týden/, Mír /1 týden/, Revoluce /1 týden/, Cíl /1 týden od 1. 2./, Oko /1 týden od 1. 2./, Radost /1 týden od 1. 2./, Eden /1 týden od 8. 2./, Odboj /1 týden od 8. 2./, Sokolovo /1 týden od 8. 2./ a Dukla /1 týden od 15. 2./, Praha)
premiere 1 February 1963 /unsuitable for youths/ (celostátní)
Tvůrčí skupina Novotný – Kubala, Bedřich Kubala (vedoucí dramaturg tvůrčí skupiny), Ladislav Novotný (vedoucí výroby tvůrčí skupiny)
feature film
68 min
1 944 meters
16mm, 35mm
1:1,37
black & white
sound
mono
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech
Festival: 5. festival českých a slovenských filmů Ústí nad Labem
1963
Ústí nad Labem / Czechoslovakia