During the 1970s normalisation era, films for children and teenagers became safe, conflict-free terrain for many filmmakers. One such person was director Radim Cvrček, who had actually been making children’s films as far back as 1967’s Táňa a dva pistolníci (Tanya and the Two Sharp-Shooters), a feature-film comedy about the friendship between a young Soviet girl and two Czech village boys. Cvrček – a teacher by training – is known for often adding a slight fantastical element to his family stories. In this 1969 comedy, 11-year-old Míša dreams that he has become a grown-up. But despite the youngster’s expectations, adulthood is revealed to not merely be a state of absolute freedom; it can also bring many unpleasant encounters. The light-hearted film features director Cvrček in two roles, as the grown-up Míša, and also as Doctor Dvořák.
Eleven-year old Míša has the temperament of a proper boy and endless problems with the grown-ups. It is no wonder that he longs to become an adult without further delay. Míša keeps house together with his father and has various duties. After a failed attempt at dish-washing he goes off to the research institute where his father is working on an important invention. He is trying to produce a substance that would make poultry and other animals bigger and thus help the struggle against famine in the world, but so far he has only managed to produce a shrinking substance. After his father leaves the laboratory, Míša mixes up different ingredients and makes the growth substance. He drinks it and instantly becomes an adult. His father, conversely, turns into a toddler after drinking the shrinking substance with his beer by mistake. Míša is delighted by his new condition at first, but finally learns that adult life is not all about privilege. He has to look after his toddler-father and this is no simple matter, even with the help of Olinka, his energetic friend from school. Míša attempts to return to childhood, but only succeeds in attracting the attention of unsuspecting journalists at the institute, who pursue him asking for an interview. The desperate boy keeps running away from them until his father wakes him up from his frightening dream. And his mother, who has just returned from the hospital, shows him his little baby brother.
žák páté třídy Míša Dvořák
dr. Dvořák, Míšův otec/žák páté třídy Míša Dvořák jako velký
kamarádka Olinka Hudečková
správcová
sousedka Eva
ředitel školy
vrátný výzkumného ústavu
příslušník SNB
tatínek jako batole
ředitel výzkumného ústavu
zahradník Ryčl
rozhodčí v ringu
Evin nápadník zvaný Tlusťoch
novinář
hlas televizní hlasatelky
František Santarius, Šťovíček Josef st.
Radomír Koutek, Bohumír Brunclík (zvukové efekty)
T. Hašková, D. Šindelářová, B. Adamcová, Z. Černý
Song Composer Harry Macourek
Writer of Lyrics Pavel Vrba
Singer Pavlína Filipovská [dab]Naďa Urbánková
Song Composer lidová píseň
Writer of Lyrics lidová píseň
Singer Radim Cvrček
Song Composer Harry Macourek
Writer of Lyrics Pavel Vrba
Singer Radim CvrčekVěra Štěpánová
Song Composer Bedřich Smetana
Writer of Lyrics Eliška Krásnohorská
Singer Radim Cvrček
Dospěláci můžou všechno
Dospěláci můžou všechno
Adults Are Allowed Everything
Dospěláci
film
featuretheatrical distribution
children
Czechoslovakia
1969
1969
literary Screenplay approved 02/1969
start of filming 03/1969
end of filming 06/1969
projection approval 29 December 1969
withdrawal from distribution 31 December 1986
premiere 3 April 1970 /suitable for youths/ (celostátní)
premiere 9 April 1970 /suitable for youths/ (kina Slavia /1 týden/ a Tatra /1 týden/, Praha)
feature film
83 min
2 360 meters
16mm, 35mm
1:1,37
black & white
sound
mono
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech
Exhibition: 10. celostátní přehlídka filmů pro děti a mládež Gottwaldov
1970
Zlín / Czechoslovakia