Mr Viola agrees to his grand-daughter Claudie's wish that they should set out into the wide world without a penny in their pockets, hitch-hike with lorries, and sleep in haystacks. Mr Tau is pleased that Claudie has cheered up and decides to help Viola ensure that everything will be just as she wants it. Viola believes Mr Tau to be a travel agency employee who is making all the necessary arrangements for the two globetrotters. Mr Tau does his best, but sometimes things go awry and he has hands full to get things back on track. Claudia and her grandfather set out, getting lifts on an ox-wagon and then a removals van, and then catching fish and sleeping in a haystack. Viola wants to eat in an inn and escape without paying, but before that he is supposed to vanquish over a gang of tough lads. Mr Tau arranges it all, but Viola and Claudie go to a different inn, where they get lots of good food and drink. When they try to make a furtive exit they have to move fast to escape the innkeeper and his locals. But they manage to jump onto a little train, and so evade their pursuers.
The tale was presented as part of the compilation Mr Tau and a Trip around the World together with the tales Mr Tau in the Circus and Mr Tau Will Arrange It.
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
bohatý pan Viola
Claudie, Violova vnučka
děda s vozem
hlídač v zahradě
řidič rozviklaného nákladního auta
chlapeček v neckách
hospodský
hospodský
myslivec
myslivec
řidič stěhovacího vozu
řidič stěhovacího vozu
závozník stěhovacího vozu
závozník stěhovacího vozu
zaměstnanec Globusu
zaměstnanec Globusu
babička s trakařem
pořez
surovec
štamgast
štamgast
štamgast
štamgast
štamgast
štamgast
hlas slepice
Jiří Potsch, Robert Vacík
Jaroslav Tuzar, Vladimír Malík (loutková část)
Stanislav Látal (loutková část)
Jan Petrů, Václav Pošta, Jiří Žůček
Dana Dudová, Jan Syrový, Martin Baroch
Dagmar Ševčíková (klapka), Josef Vítek (fotograf)
FISYO, Orchestr Karla Vlacha (Music Conducted by František Belfín)
Song Composer Jiří MalásekJiří BažantVlastimil Hála
Writer of Lyrics Ivo Fischer
Singer Veronika Renčová [dab]Magda HrnčířováJan Werich
Pan Tau a cesta kolem světa
Pan Tau a cesta kolem světa
Mr Tau and a Trip Round the World
Pan Tau geht auf Reisen / Pan Tau geht auf Reisen
Cestujte s panem Tau / Pan Tau VI
film
featuretheatrical distribution
children
Czechoslovakia, Federal Republic of Germany, Austria
1972
1971
start of filming 27 January 1971
end of filming 13 October 1971
projection approval 11 January 1972
withdrawal from distribution 30 June 1995
premiere 14 April 1972 /suitable for youths/ (celostátní)
premiere 20 April 1972 /suitable for youths/ (kino Hvězda, Praha)
Dramaturgická skupina Oty Hofmana, Ota Hofman (vedoucí dramaturgické skupiny), Výrobní skupina Ericha Švabíka, Erich Švabík (vedoucí výrobní skupiny)
medium length film
33 min
951 meters
16mm, 35mm
1:1,37
colour
sound
mono
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech