In 1989, beloved comedy director Marie Poledňáková combined a relationship and generational-based story with some very cute animal protagonists – the inhabitants of a zoo, where certain unfair practices are afoot. Twins Honza and Martin (siblings Jan and Martin Morávek) find themselves in an environment full of adventures. For fun, the lads pretend that just one of them – Martin – has arrived for a visit. But their grandfather Montelík is nowhere near as exuberant. He is battling against a greedy zoo management that wants to raise funds by selling off certain animals. Intern Emilka won’t accept such an outcome – and so the boys start subtly “helping out”. Miroslav Macháček and Jiřina Jirásková, most often seen by the public in more serious roles, play grandfather and grandmother Montelík.
When a giant gorilla demolishes the equipment of the zoologist Monty's house, his wife Josefína moves from the ZOO to her sister living in a prefab flat. Monty is fine with that, he got used to her leaving "forever". Their daughter leaves for a tour with her husband and brings over their two restless twins, Honza and Martin, for babysitting as agreed. The grandmother forgot about this before her quick departure and the granddad does not know anything about any such agreement. He is busy in the ZOO and also ocassionaly works as a vet for the neighbourhood. Monty would take one boy at maximum and the twins thus begin to pretend that only one is staying with him. There is a lot of disorder in the ZOO, but the young intern Emilka does not want to accept it. She secretly hides a young orang-utang Amos so that the incompetent and greedy management could not sell it. Josefína recalls babysitting her grandsons but she meets only Martin in front of the school. She takes him to her sister's but the boy runs away to the ZOO at night. The boys alternate at school and also alternate their results. Frantiek Krouil returns from jail where he was sentenced for fighting in a pub caused by his pointless jealousy of his wife. Emilka writes a complaint to the ministry because the ZOO director wants to sell more animals. The boys read Emilka's letter and begin helping the animals. Their interventions are, however, rather unlucky. The grandfather finds out that both boys are in the ZOO. Josefína returns home. Frantiek is shocked at discovering the orang-utang Amos in the pram instead of his son; the child was of course replaced by the twins. The ZOO faces a mass escape of the animals but the boys will hopefully bring them back.
zoolog Montelík zvaný Monty
Josefína, Montyho žena
dvojče Honza
dvojče Martin
maminka
Voice by Zlata Adamovská
inženýrka Emilka
ošetřovatel Jára
ošetřovatel Šimon
ošetřovatel Evžen
ředitel ZOO
hlavní zooložka
krmička Burdová
Veruna, dcera Burdové
Květa Kroužilová
recidivista František Kroužil, Květin manžel
družstevník Valda
listonoška Růžena
poručík VB
družstevnice v hřebčinci
Voice by Miloslav Štibich
družstevník v hřebčinci
režisér
Voice by Eva Jiroušková
učitelka Mráčková
Voice by Simona Stašová
kuchařka Jiřina Součková
příslušník VB
nadstrážmistr VB
řidič VB
sestra v jeslích
ošetřovatel Pepino
sekretářka
orangutan Ámos
Jan Vaculík, Jan Drbohlav
Tomáš Dosoudil, Karel Kočí, Milan Šefrna
Jiří Kříž, Antonín Jedlička (zvukové efekty)
Ivo Houf, Radek Houf, Milan Zajíček, Helena Štáchová
Tomáš Baloun, Vlasta Synkulová
Rudolf Jelínek, Bára Jelínková
Ing. Josef Vágner, CSc., RNDr. Ing. Ivana Hašková, Bořek Voráč, RNDr. Dana Holečková, Ing. Zdena Jeřábková, MVDr. Josef Šafařík, MVDr. Petr Skalka, MVDr. Jiří Váhala, MVDr. Martin Ptáček
Ivana Mrázová (klapka), Alice Sotonová (klapka), Miroslav Jirsa (fotograf), Rudolf Friesz, Milan Ťoupalík, Roman Siegel, Pavel Svitalský, Jiřina Beránková (práce se zvířaty – ošetřovatelka orangutanů), David Nečas (práce se zvířaty – ošetřovatel slůňat), Pavel Král (práce se zvířaty – ošetřovatel nosorožců), Miroslav Kachelmaier (práce se zvířaty – ošetřovatel nosorožců), Jaroslav Kaňa (práce se zvířaty – ošetřovatel medvíďat), Tomáš Weber (práce se zvířaty – ošetřovatel pštrosa), Dana Holečková (práce se zvířaty – ošetřovatelka gepardů), Zora Špinková (práce se zvířaty – ošetřovatelka dogy), Libuše Vrabcová (práce se zvířaty – ošetřovatelka gorily), Ivan Ringel (práce se zvířaty – ošetřovatel tygra), Olga Ringelová (práce se zvířaty – ošetřovatelka hrocha), Jiří Děd (práce se zvířaty – ošetřovatel zebry), Jiří Červinka (práce se zvířaty – ošetřovatel divokého prasete)
Song Composer Petr Hapka
Singer Petr Muk
Song Composer Petr Hapka
Writer of Lyrics Michal Horáček
Singer Hana HegerováPetr Hapka
Dva lidi v zoo
Dva lidi v zoo
Season at the ZOO
film
featuretheatrical distribution
children, comedy
Czechoslovakia
1989
1989
withdrawal from distribution 30 June 1995
premiere 1 September 1990 /suitable for youths/
gala premiere 5 September 1990 (kino Lucerna, Praha)
2. tvůrčí skupina, Josef Císař (vedoucí 2. tvůrčí skupiny)
feature film
89 min
2 572 meters
16mm, 35mm
1:1,37
colour
sound
mono
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech