The Undertaker

Classic Karel Lamač on the road. He drew this shoot among the better and more expensive films he had out there (or rather the best he did with Anny Ondra in Weimar), and he essentially left Burian to do what he needed to do and the film was made. He had fun, he relaxed, and before you could say shoemaker, he was back on the train. How can we evaluate a group of friends and acquaintances performing together? Baarová appeared here thanks to her role in Lelicek in the Services of Sherlock Holmes, but from then on Nina Burianová banned her from her husband's films, as well as from appearing in his theater. Jan Richtr slowly drank himself to death, Betty Kysilková did her good routine in a bigger way and for example Růžena Šlemrová at 46 years old presented a hysterical newlywed. In the end, even these things can be the ingredients for a good comedy. (02/14/2009)