Family comedy Můj brácha má prima bráchu (My Brother has a Marvellous Brother, 1975) was a box office success that led to the release of a sequel three years later. Both films were directed by Stanislav Strnad. The protagonists of this relaxing motion picture are, as in the initial film, the likable rogue Martin, now 15 years-old, and his older brother Honza – who has had a daughter with his lover – now wife – Zuzana. However, jealousy threatens to destroy their marriage and divorce is only avoided thanks to the resourceful Martin and his friend Magda. Meanwhile, Martin also manages to ensure that their parents let him fulfil his own dream – to become a zoologist. Apart from child actor Roman Čada, veterans Jan Hrušínský and Libuše Šafránková appear in the film. It offers proof that good casting means that the range of traditional Czech films of quality for young audiences even includes movies from the 1970s.
Honza and Zuzana are very young husband and wife. They have a little daughter of whom willingly occasionally take care the grandparents and Honza's fifteen-year-old brother Martin. Zuzana continues studying and Honza devotes all weekends as an amateur competitor to the motor-cycles at the speedway. Zuzana is not interested in motor-cycles. Martin holds responsible for his brother's marriage and at the advice of his friend Magda, who is of the same age, invites her sister-in-law to the club of Hucul horses so that she does not feel bored. But by misfortunes and unexplained quarrels both young husband and wife start being jealous of one another and Honza returns to his parents. Martin for the sake of love to horses wants to become a cattle-breeder but his parents do not agree with it. The enterprising lad find his way to minister of agriculture who some time ago gave him a lift when the lad thumbed his car. Minister arranges for him an excursion to the farmers'cooperative and too, as if "by chance", puts a word for the lad at father Pavelka. The break of the young intensifies and the marriage heads for divorce. Therefore Martin takes away the pram with their child, standing in front of a shop, to Magda. There the little girl plays with a tube of pills and she seems to swallow them up. Martin and Magda call in a doctor. It is he that persuades them that it is not possible to solve problems by kidnapping and helps also settle things with the police. Worries about the child really put Zuzana and Honza together and they both get to know what is important for their relationship.
Martin Pavelka zvaný Prcek
Magda Morávková, Martinova kamarádka
opravář televizorů Honza, Martinův bratr
Zuzana, Janova manželka
František Vrána, Zuzanin otec
Vránová, Zuzanina matka
Josef Pavelka, otec Jana a Martina
Slávinka Pavelková, matka Jana a Martina
Martina, dcera Jana a Zuzany
MUDr. Navrátil
právník JUDr. Kulík
nadporučík VB
závodník Jiří Křížek
Jiřina, Křížkova sestra
pokladní v samoobsluze
Jan Maštalíř, předseda JZD Záře
televizní redaktor
trenér
ministr zemědělství
vrátný v televizi
účetní JZD Záře
Jeřábek, člen JZD Záře
Tonda, člen JZD Záře
Věra Kohoutková, Zuzanina spolužačka
Ing. Kohoutek, Věřin manžel
vrátný na ministerstvu
Voice by Jiří Němeček
poručík VB
družstevní kuchařka Lída
žena před obchodem
Eva z Hucul klubu
zdravotní sestra
Petřík, Martinův kamarád
Břéťa, Martinův kamarád
sekretářka u ministra
lékař
lékař
taneční mistr
partnerka tanečního mistra
spolužák Zuzany
klavírista
sousedka Kautská
fanoušek
starší žena
příslušník VB
pořadatel
pořadatel
sekretář
televizní cvičitelka
televizní cvičitelka
Marie Ryšlinková
MUDr. Karel Bečka
Helena Matušková (klapka), Miloslav Mirvald (fotograf)
FISYO (Music Conducted by František Belfín), Orchestr Karla Vlacha
Brácha za všechny peníze
Brácha za všechny peníze
What a Brother I Have
film
featuretheatrical distribution
comedy
Czechoslovakia
1978
1978
start of filming 23 January 1978
end of filming 12 September 1978
projection approval 26 September 1978
withdrawal from distribution 31 May 1993
premiere 23 March 1979 /suitable for youths/ (kino Sevastopol, Praha)
premiere 25 May 1979 /suitable for youths/ (celostátní)
Dramaturgická skupina Vladimíra Kaliny, Vladimír Kalina (vedoucí dramaturgické skupiny)
feature film
83 min
2 380 meters
16mm, 35mm
1:1,66
colour
sound
mono
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech