The amusing family film Daddy, Buy Me a Puppy by the deceased director Milan Vošmik captures with insight the worries of news editor Hlavsa (Miroslav Horníček), who must take care of his three children after his wife leaves for business training. His plan to take the children and their grandmother to the cottage meets with the grandmother's advice that it would be a good idea to get a dog for the safety of the cottage in the middle of the woods. Most of the exteriors were filmed in Kytlice near Česká Kamenice in North Bohemia.
The summer school holiday begins and editor Hlavsa is looking forward to having a calm and peaceful house as soon as he takes his three children and grandmother to the summer cottage. The editor-in-chief, however, takes him by unpleasant surprise, asking him to write feature-articles from the life of children, which are to be regularly published in the summer time. The grandmother is a little scared in the countryside and, imprudently, expresses her wish to the children that they should have a dog to guard them. The children love animals, and thus agree happily. Hlavsa first resists but then arrives with a kitten at least. The children are not satisfied with that and go on longing for a dog. The whole matter serves Hlavsa as the subject for his first column, which meets unexpected success. The editor-in-chief gives him a puppy for the children. Hlavsa is looking forward to surprising the children on Saturday - but there is a surprise waiting for him instead. In the cottage, he is welcomed by eleven dogs of various races and sizes which either arrived as gifts from people who had read Hlavsa's articles or the children got themselves.
redaktor Hlavsa
babička
Hlavsova žena
Milan, syn Hlavsových
Franta, syn Hlavsových
Olga, dcera Hlavsových
šéfredaktor
Tonina
Holina
Holinova žena
Honza, syn Holinových
hajný Jakoubek
redaktor
výpravčí
redaktor
sekretářka v redakci
muž v plášti
Honza
tiskař v redakci
praporčík VB Karel, Honzův švagr
průvodčí autobusu Vaňha
hostinský
Jakoubková
starší žena v Povlčíně
lékařka
průvodčí tramvaje
správcová
chlapec hrající na saxofon
Drahomíra Reňáková, Zdena Kracíková, Zdena Švarcová
Jaroslav Ciboch, Karel Lukáš, Marta Měřínská
Stanislav Vondraš, Bohumír Brunclík (zvukové efekty)
Jiřina Brandejsová (klapka), Antonín Stránský (fotograf)
FISYO (Music Conducted by Štěpán Koníček)
Song Composer Svatopluk Havelka
Writer of Lyrics Pavel Kopta
Singer Rudolf Pellar
Song Composer Svatopluk Havelka
Writer of Lyrics Pavel Kopta
Singer dětský hlassbor
Táto sežeň štěně
Táto sežeň štěně
Daddy, Buy Me a Puppy
film
featuretheatrical distribution
children, comedy
Czechoslovakia
1964
1963
literary Screenplay approved 20 May 1963
technical Screenplay approved 4 July 1963
start of filming 29 July 1963
end of filming 18 December 1963
projection approval 18 March 1964
withdrawal from distribution 31 August 1976
premiere 4 June 1964 /suitable for youths/ (kino Vesna, Praha)
premiere 6 November 1964 /suitable for youths/ (celostátní)
Tvůrčí skupina Švabík – Procházka, Jan Procházka (vedoucí dramaturg tvůrčí skupiny), Erich Švabík (vedoucí výroby tvůrčí skupiny)
feature film
76 min
2 174 meters
16mm, 35mm
1:1,37
colour
sound
mono
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech
Exhibition: 4. celostátní přehlídka československých filmů pro děti a mládež Gottwaldov
1964
Zlín / Czechoslovakia
Festival: 16. mezinárodní filmový festival pro děti a mládež Benátky
1964
Benátky / Italy