Les Têtes de chiens

Adaptations of Alois Jirásek’s works became popular in nationalized Czechoslovak cinema and the optimistic versions of The Lantern, the magnificent Dog's Heads, the classical Vojnarka, and the serious History of Philosophy, were slowly built upon. In the mid-1950s, Frič began to work on a proven substance, although he added only aided a work refreshed by mere technical development, in every way beholden to the most bombastic examples of films with a revolutionary maintext. Naturally, the acting is very routine and interchangeable thanks to Kurandová, Smolík, Průcha, Kopecký, and others. An honorable exception is the episodic participation of Marta Fričová, Frič's stepdaughter, who after the war was given a total of three etudes by Martin in Steel Town, in this film, and in Today for the Last Time. (21/02/2009)

"Tuten Lomikar turned it around nicely. We have lamented and now to defend ourselves..." Jářek, it was good here, I like this patriotism. If it weren't for Vladimír Ráže, Miloš Nedbal, the cruelly negative Miloš Kopecký, a very good production design and the Bedřich Smetana-inspired music by E. F. Burian, I wouldn't have had so much fun. (17/11/2012)