Him and His Sister
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| Directed by | Karel Lamač Martin Frič |
| Written by | Václav Wasserman Bernhard Buchbinder (play) |
| Starring | Vlasta Burian |
| Cinematography | Otto Heller |
| Edited by | Karel Lamač |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | Czechoslovakia |
| Language | Czech |
Him and His Sister (Czech: On a jeho sestra) is a Czech comedy film directed by Karel Lamač and Martin Frič.[1] It was released in April 1931,[2] and was ninth in the top-ten list of films shown in Prague cinemas that year.[3] The film adapts a play by Bernhard Buchbinder.[4] The film has a German version (Er und seine Schwester) released the same year, by the same director but with a partially different cast.[5]
Cast
[edit]- Vlasta Burian as Jarda Brabec, a postman
- Anny Ondra as Anny Brabcová, his sister, Sabina's maid
- Otto Rubík as Bernard
- Olga Augustová as Sabina Veldenová, operetta soubrette[6]
- Jan Sviták as Burda, Sabina's friend
- Theodor Pištěk as postmaster general
Reception
[edit]The interpretation of Vlasta Burian and Anny Ondra in the film has been called "brilliant".[6] The film was a commercial success,[7] which, in 2013, Robert Rohál commented: "Lamač actually managed to do the seemingly impossible – to put a male and female clown in front of the camera."[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "On a jeho sestra". csfd.cz. Retrieved 23 January 2011.
- ^ "Historie psaná šelakem - Edice Esta 2 / 1931". Czech Radio (in Czech). 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
- ^ Szczepanik, Petr (2013). "Hollywood in Disguise: Practices of exhibition and reception of foreign films in Czechoslovakia in the 1930s". In Biltereyst, Daniel; Meers, Philippe; Maltby, Richard (eds.). Cinema, Audiences and Modernity: New Perspectives on European Cinema History. Taylor & Francis. p. 177. ISBN 9781136642005. Retrieved 1 March 2025.
- ^ Goble, Alan (8 September 2011). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-095194-3.
- ^ Montalbán, José L. Martínez (2002). La novela semanal cinematográfica (in Spanish). Editorial CSIC - CSIC Press. ISBN 978-84-00-08060-0.
- ^ a b "Slečna učitelka se stala ideálem ženské krásy němé éry. Chtěla ale především zpívat. Tajnosti slavných". Krajské Liisty (in Czech). 27 May 2022. Retrieved 1 March 2025.
- ^ a b Rohál, Robert (20 May 2013). Lesk a bída slavných českých žen. Nakladatelství Petrklíč. ISBN 978-80-7229-445-9.
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