Bohuš Stejskal lives in a tiny Moravian village, in an old, falling down house. Like many others, he either spends his time at work or in the pub. However, one day his life is changed – an attorney arrives in the village to announce that through restittution Bohuš will receive an enormous estate from his father. Bohuš becomes a millionaire... However, the sudden change is not free of complications; the new situation is not so easy for him at the beginning. But the events come one after another faster and faster as it almost seems that they take place independently of Bohuš's will...
The village lad Bohuš Stejskal lives in a shabby cottage inherited from his parents. He works as a lumberjack, but doesn’t overexert himself at work. He spends his leisure time with his buddies in a pub and makes love to the innkeeper Vlasta from time to time. One day he learns from attorney Ulrich that he has inherited the brickworks and several houses in the town. Bohuš is thrilled and immediately starts to live in grand style. He pays for his friends; he buys a satellite and an expensive car with a telephone. He also visits a “massage” salon with his long-time neighbour Košťál. Excited by the service of the prostitute Irena, he falls in love with her and offers her to move in with him. He builds a pool by the cottage before her arrival and gives her an ostrich for her birthday. This makes Vlasta angry. Irena and Bohuš go on a big shopping spree. Irena is startled by Bohuš’s country bumpkin nature and leaves him. The disappointed man searches for comfort with Vlasta who speedily moves in to his cottage. But Irena also realizes that she has lost a profitable financial security by parting with Bohuš, and she returns to him. The two girls first start to fight but they eventually both remain in the house and concordantly waste Bohuš’s funds. Bohuš pays for the village gas connection and buys a carousel for the children, but he nevertheless faces the envy and acquisitiveness of the villagers. When the attorney tells Bohuš that he was only a stepson, and thus does not inherit anything, everybody turns away from Bohuš. An angel appears to the drunken Bohuš, but he does not reveal to him what to do. But another attorney, resembling the angel from the dream, arrives at the pub. It is lawyer Strážný (Guardian) and tells him that his true father left behind an inheritance in Argentina: ten million dollars. Bohuš does not jump for joy; he only claims that this time, he is going to buy “everyone of them”.
dřevař Bohuš Stejskal
JUDr. Jarin Ulrich
Bohušova teta
hostinská Vlasta
masérka Irena Fojtíková
dřevař Lojza, Bohušův kamarád
dřevař Francek, Bohušův kamarád
dřevař Jura, Bohušův kamarád
listonoš Košťál, Bohušův řidič
hajný, Bohušův kamarád
invalida Arnošt, Bohušův kamarád
nádražák
starosta
JUDr. Široký
anděl/doktor Strážný
Liduna, Franckova žena
MUDr. Regina Ulrichová, Jarinova žena
on sám, zpěvák
vrchní ve Slávii
Igor, majitel masážního salónu Lady Marion
vrchní v Luxusu
prodavačka v potravinách
Volák
Vavruška
traktorista Pavel
Věruša, Lojzova žena
Maruša, Pavlova žena
tlustá žena v plavkách
Anička, sekretářka u JUDr. Širokého
prodavačka textilu
Bohušův černý kamarád, syn krále
Bohušův černý kamarád, bratranec z Prahy
muž v hospodě
ředitel cihelny
Irenin přítel v Luxusu
pianista v Luxusu
muž u pípy
Libor Brůha, Petr Kasík (služba u kamery)
M+M (dodání rekvizit), Pavel Outrata (rekvizitář), Evžen Petr (rekvizitář), Richard Staněk (rekvizitář), Milan Šefrna (rekvizitář), Milan Šveňha (rekvizitář)
Zuzana Máchová (vedoucí kostymérka), Mária Hubáčková, Marta Jenčová
Jan Mattlach, Karolína Průšová (střih negativu)
Zbyněk Mikulík, Ivo Špalj (mix zvuku), Jitka Zvirocká (zvukové efekty)
Ivana Kvapilová, Aneta Valášková (ekonomka)
Jana Veselá, Svatava Bumanová (pokladní), Zuzana Červenková
Jitka Hrdličková (klapka), Josef Heuler (vrchní osvětlovač), Pavel Dias (fotograf), Ivan Frössl, Helena Hovorková, Ondřej Ježek, Jan Kacian, Libuše Kocholatá, Petr Zenkl, L. Dostál, K. Hanák, M. Chovancová, L. Kohout, O. Maderová, R. Piskáček, V. Šplíchalová, M. Šulc
Moravská muzika Luďka Šáchy, Kateřina Vaníčková, M. Beránek, L. Bartoň, B. Páč, Jiří Bulis
Song Composer lidová píseň
Writer of Lyrics Danuše Košíková
Singer Jiří BulisM. BeránekL. BartoňB. PáčKateřina Vaníčková
Song Composer Zdeněk Marat
Writer of Lyrics Zdeněk Borovec
Singer sbor
Song Composer Vadim Petrov
Writer of Lyrics Jaroslav Wykrent
Singer sbor
Singer sbor
Song Composer lidová moravská píseň
Singer sbor
Song Composer Sláva Emanuel Nováček
Song Composer Jiří Šlitr
Song Composer Sláva Emanuel Nováček
Song Composer lidová píseň
Singer mužský sbor
Song Composer lidová píseň
Singer sbor
Song Composer lidová píseň
Singer mužský hlas
Song Composer lidová píseň
Singer sbor
Song Composer Jan Malát
Song Composer lidová píseň
Singer sbor
Song Composer tradicionál
Singer Boleslav Polívkasbor
Song Composer lidová píseň
Dědictví aneb Kurvahošigutntag
Dědictví aneb Kurvahošigutntag
The Inheritance or Fuck off, Boys, Guten Tag
Štěstí je krásná věc
film
featuretheatrical distribution
comedy
Czechoslovakia
1992
1992
premiere 14 December 1992 /recommended for 15 and over/
A new Moravian comedy created under the proven co-operation of director Věra Chytilová and Bolek Polívka. A film telling a story of how a man can be changed by sudden good luck.
feature film
120 min
35mm
1:1,37
colour
sound
mono
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech
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