Drvoštěp
Réalisation:
Karel LamačPhotographie:
Otto HellerActeurs·trices:
Karel Lamač, Theodor Pištěk, Anny Ondráková, Josef Rovenský, Vladimír Majer, Jan W. Speerger, Joe Jenčík, Ferry Seidl, Karel Fiala (plus)Résumés(1)
Bank director Karel Svansen, at the recommendation of his uncle, a doctor, decides to take a holiday out in the open air. In his club he bets with his friends that he will do manual work for a whole month. He starts a job as a lumberjack at a farm owned by the landowner Mosovský. He makes the acquaintance of Annie, his daughter, whom her father wishes to marry their wealthy neighbour Goron. Annie, however, keeps trying to postpone the wedding. Karel makes friends with Josef, another lumberjack and his son Jiřík. Annie loses a little medallion with a picture of her mother on it so Karel goes with Jiřík to look for it. While doing so, they come across a workshop where counterfeit money is being made. The head of the shop Goron fears that he will be found out so he decides to flood the workshop. Jiřík goes for help but Karel is captured by the counterfeiters and tied up in one of the rooms which is quickly filling up with water. Help comes at the last moment. Karel gives Annie the lost medallion and goes back to the city. He wins the bet in the club and finds Josef a job. Josef and Jiřík prepare to move to the city and Annie goes with them. They are surprised by the social standing of the former lumberjack. Annie finally gladly accepts Karel's offer of marriage. (texte officiel du distributeur)
(plus)Critiques (1)
A Czech adventure film inspired by American extremely well-attended productions. The theme was later modified in Czech cinema, for example in the variations of Grandhotel Nevada (1934) or Wild Girl (1936). Karel Lamač, with an unusually youthful appearance, plays Karel Svansen, the Czech version of Mirek Dušín/Jarek Metelka. He is overworked, and in the circle of better company, he makes a bet - like Phileas Fogg - to live a month as a lumberjack, and so he does. In the countryside, he meets a nuclear man (Josef Rovenský), a comely girl (the traditionally adorable Anny Ondra), a lying rival, and other typical characters of the countryside - a bright boy and an opportunistic landowner. It's hard to believe, the divine Kája showed a lot of courage in the end, he also revealed his manly chest, but in the end, I was rooting for the marriage of convenience, which the money-loser Vladimír Majer was eyeing with sweet Anny. The authentic gendarmes and the final denouement with the lift boy were also fascinating. In short, The Lumberjack is yet another Czech silent film that is virtually unknown, and if it is, only misconceptions are known about it. The reality is a pleasant surprise. As well as the fact that Disney can go to hell with its Snow White because it is not even half as good as the cuteness of Anny and the donkey.
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