Cinema
C. a k. polní maršálek
Karel Lamač · 1930
Synopsis
A retired captain of the Austro-Hungarian army finds himself, through a combination of circumstances, taken for a field marshal. In a remote garrison, he is lodged, saluted, presented with the troops, and he takes on the role with growing aplomb, sowing around him a disorder that no one dares to report to an officer of such high rank.
Context
The film is based on a comedy by Emil Artur Longen, adapted for the screen by Václav Wasserman. It was shot at the same time in a German version, K. und K. Feldmarschall, with the same comic actor, Vlasta Burian; the success of the latter in Germany persuaded the producers to make a French version the following year, Monsieur le maréchal, played by French actors. Longen supplied the cinema of those years with several other subjects drawn from his own comedies.
Who it is for
Ninety-one minutes, built around the comic actor Vlasta Burian, whom the author of the play had called the king of comedians as early as 1927.
Prizes and reception
Regarded as the first sound film in the Czech language; its German version was a great success in Germany.