The pupil Emil excels at school. No one knows that he is helped by the puppet of Mr Tau who solves everything for him, including homework. Even during the lesson of physical training, Emil is the only one in the class able to climb up to the ceiling on a rope. The puppet, however, falls out of his pocket during the climb and the teacher confiscates it till the end of the school year. The puppet, however, doesn't fit into drawer thus he takes it home. The teacher is a short, bald man and a cactus enthusiast. Mr Tau wants to make him happy and begins to fulfil his wishes. First, he conjures up a new car right in the midst of his flat. Moreover, new hair begins to grow on the teacher's head. One of the cactuses gets enveloped, too, but that is just because the teacher, by mistake, watered it with his hair-growth tonic. The schoolmaster is a cactus lover, too, and the teacher invites him for a visit. The car, however, is in the way and the teacher cannot let the visitor in, using an illness as an excuse. He rather goes to bed, hoping that everything will return to the beaten path in the morning and that it all was just a dream.
The film was distributed to Czech cinemas as part of the series Mr Tau Goes to School along with the feature film Mr Tau and Cold! and the cartoon film Puzzle (1970; directed by Zdeněk Seydl and Ludvík Kadleček).
The first (I.) series of thirteen medium-length films about Mr Tau was created in the years 1969–1972. It was first launched in cinemas, in series composed of two parts and accompanied by a cartoon movie (1. Mr Tau Arrives, 2. Mr Tau Gives Presents, 3. Mr Tau at the Mountains, 4. Mr Tau and Sunday, 5. Mr Tau Goes to School, 6. Mr Tau and Cold!, 7. Mr Tau and Claudia, 8. Mr Tau Will Handle It, 9. Mr Tau and Trip around the World, 10. Mr Tau in Circus, 11. Mr Tau and the Taxi Driver, 12. Mr Tau Wanted, 13. Mr Tau and a Thousand Miracles). In the Czechoslovak Television, the series was first introduced in December 1972. Due to its success, another thirteen parts (II.) were filmed in 1973–1975, this time intended exclusively for television (1. Mr Tau Returns, 2. Mr Tau and Robinson, 3. Mr Tau and Too Big Balloon, 4. Mr Tau and Dog Goaty-Dog, 5. Mr Tau and Family Celebration, 6. Mr Tau Goes to Work, 7. Mr Tau and Five Pears and Three Apples, 8. Mr Tau and Black Umbrella, 9. Mr Tau and Big Dog, 10. Mr Tau and Tree-Frog. 11. Mr Tau and Alladin Lamp, 12. Mr Tau and Golden Suitcase, 13. Mr Tau Leaves). The third (III.) and last (seven-part) series was filmed in the years 1977 and 1978 (1. Alert in the Sky, 2. Elephant Hunt, 3. Night at Safari, 4. Mr Tau and Woman-Magician, 5. Mr Tau at Pioneer Camp, 6. Mr Tau – And Which Is the Right One?, 7. No Magic from Tomorrow). On TV, the third series was introduced as a series in the original form and was edited for the film distribution into two feature films Alert in the Sky and No Magic from Tomorrow. The popular bowlered hero last appeared in the feature film Mr Tau, created by a German-Czechoslovak co-production in 1988.
pan Tau
Emil
třídní učitel
ředitel školy
inspektor
učitel-sportovec
domovnice
kluk
kluk-cvalík
Marta Křesinová, Vilém Kijonka
Jaroslav Tuzar, Vladimír Malík (loutková část)
Stanislava Procházková (loutková část)
Václav Pošta, Jan Petrů, Procházková Stanislava /lout.č., Augustin Valko
Jan Syrový, Karel Prchal, Martin Baroch
Zorka Chrastinová (klapka)
FISYO (Music Conducted by František Belfín), Orchestr Karla Vlacha
Vokální soubor Jiřího Linhy
Pan Tau jde do školy
Pan Tau jde do školy
Mr Tau Goes to School
Pan Tau geht in die Schule / Pan Tau geht in die Schule
Pan Tau I / Pan Tau ve škole
film
featuretheatrical distribution
children
Czechoslovakia, Federal Republic of Germany, Austria
1969
1969
start of filming 1 April 1969
projection approval 29 December 1969
the first film copy approved 29 December 1969
end of filming 30 December 1969
withdrawal from distribution 1992
premiere 30 April 1971 /suitable for youths/ (celostátní)
premiere 28 October 1971 /suitable for youths/ (kino Tatra, Praha)
renewed premiere 1 July 1989 /suitable for youths/
Ústřední půjčovna filmů (původní 1971 a obnovená 1989)
Tvůrčí skupina Švabík – Hofman, Ota Hofman (vedoucí dramaturg tvůrčí skupiny), Erich Švabík (vedoucí výroby tvůrčí skupiny)
medium length film
36 min
1 025 meters
16mm, 35mm
1:1,37
colour
sound
mono
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech