A grandfather with magic powers drives the action of Já už budu hodný, dědečku! (I’ll Be Good, Old Man!, 1978), a modern fairytale by screenwriter and director Petr Schulhoff. Popular actor Ladislav Pešek plays the grandfather and the fairytale is little more than a device for meting out well-deserved retribution on Theodor Bergner, a pompous and intolerant actor from Prague. Although Bergner is successful and presents himself as a model of human courtesy, he insults everyone around him with gusto (especially women) and deliberately arouses altercations. After the magical grandfather intervenes, however, the wrongdoings that Bergner has committed in the past begin to haunt him – assisted by the reappearance of characters he has previously hurt. Humiliated and defeated the actor finally promises to behave himself... Besides Ladislav Pešek the other starring role in this comedy of morals was played by Miloš Kopecký. The parts of the offended women went to Dagmar Veškrnová, Nelly Gajerová and Alena Vránová.
To the intolerant and bloody-minded Prague actor Bergner is the lead in Moliere's Misanthrope which he is studying now as tailor-made. On top of that he is malicious and he advises to the new actress Helenka in such a way that she upsets the theatre director. If Bergner accuses somebody of a mischief and he is wrong, he never apologizes. When he almost crashes an older elegant lady by his car on the zebra crossing, instead of an apology he calls her an old ballet dancer... But in Brno's TV he takes part in a discussion on manners and he gives himself as an example of good manners and grace. In the train he meets a magic old man who warns him and admonishes him to change his behaviour. After he arrives to Prague the old man's threat comes true. A jealous neighbour of his lover beats him up by mistake. His wife's aunt came for the first time from abroad to visit them and she brought him a longed-for tape-recorder. But she takes the tape-recorder again when she sees that Bergner is the mucker who almost run her over. Bergner is attacked by troubles always related to people which he hurt before. Then he wakes up in the train - everything was just a dream... At home his wife blindfolds him and she takes him to the room where he shall wait for a present to his name day and she leaves to the kitchen. Bergner doesn't know that the room is full of his colleagues from theatre and he shifts to his pyjamas in front of the astonished congratulants. In the end everybody covers the flub by laughter. The laughing Bergner is shouting to the street: I will be good, old man!
herec Theodor Bergner zvaný Dóďa
Olga, Bergnerova žena
kouzelný dědeček
psychiatr MUDr. Maudr/metař
herec Bašta
drbna
drbna
teta Dita
ředitel divadla Josef Kábrt
herečka Helenka Tichá
inspicient Kubíček
kostymérka Anička
sekretářka Marcelka
divadelní režisér
soused Pikl
Piklova žena
růžolící muž na nádraží
Máňa, manželka růžolícího muže
Alena Šulcová, dcera Bergnerových
Emilek, vnuk Bergnerových
opilý muž v tramvaji
mladý muž u telefonní budky
žena u telefonní budky
stařenka
průvodčí ve vlaku
žárlivec Bambas
moderátor brněnské televize
filmový režisér
pomocný režisér
skriptka
kameraman
maskérka
asistent režie
zdravotní sestra u psychiatra
tlustý muž
laborantka, kolegyně Aleny
nápověda
revizor
revizor
strážmistr VB
žena u tramvaje
nájemnice v paneláku
nájemnice v paneláku
nájemník v paneláku
nájemník v paneláku
nájemnice/družstevnice
žena s nákupem
žena v županu
žena v zástěře
uklízečka v bistru
číšník
předseda JZD
družstevník
družstevník
družstevník
družstevník
herečka
herečka
herec
muž v džínovém oblečení u přechodu
dubl za Miloše Kopeckého
dubl za Miloše Kopeckého
Josef Dvořák, Oldřich Halaza, Richard Staněk
Jaroslav Smola, Jiří Radil
Boris Nakladov
Hana Hebrová (klapka), Vladimír Souček (fotograf)
Ludwig van Beethoven (Symfonie č. 9 d moll /Óda na radost/), Franz Lehár (Paganini /Líbám, ženy, vás tak rád/)
FISYO (Music Conducted by Štěpán Koníček)
Song Composer Franz Lehár
Singer Miloš Kopecký
„Já už budu hodný, dědečku!“
„Já už budu hodný, dědečku!“
I’ll Be Good, Old Man!
film
featuretheatrical distribution
comedy, satire
Czechoslovakia
1978
1978
literary Screenplay approved 18 November 1977
start of filming 6 February 1978
technical Screenplay approved 1 March 1978
end of filming 12 July 1978
projection approval 25 July 1978
withdrawal from distribution 30 June 1990
premiere 27 July 1979 /suitable for youths/
Dramaturgická skupina Drahoslava Makovičky, Drahoslav Makovička (vedoucí dramaturgické skupiny)
feature film
86 min
2 350 meters
16mm, 35mm
1:1,66, 1:2,35
colour
sound
mono
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech
Festival: 30. filmový festival pracujících – léto ´79
1979
62 měst / Czechoslovakia