Those Wonderful Movie Cranks
1979, Czech. Directed by Jiří Menzel.
Returning home to Prague, the magician Pasparte, an owner of a circus caravan, meets his dying colleague who entrusts his beautiful daughter Aloisie to his care. In Prague they all take up their lodgings at the house At Blue Fish in which they intend to arrange the programs. The firm is owned by widow Evzenie with whom Pasparte shares flat and bed. Evzenie is jealous of Aloisie therefore Pasparte sends Aloisie as a housewife to the single man Jakub Kolenatý who earns his living by photographing and wants to record the revived pictures of Prague. Pasparte wants to found in Prague the first permanent Czech movie theatre in which there would be projected also the original Czech films.
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Czech
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- Released
- 3 August 1979
- Original title
- Báječní muži s klikou
- Country
- Czechoslovakia
- Written by
- Oldřich Vlček, Jiří Menzel
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Those Wonderful Movie Cranks runs 85 minutes (1h 25m).
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Those Wonderful Movie Cranks isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 3 August 1979. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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If you liked Those Wonderful Movie Cranks, try Why Worry?, Taking Care of Business, Secluded, Near Woods.
Who directed Those Wonderful Movie Cranks?
Those Wonderful Movie Cranks (1979) was directed by Jiří Menzel and stars Rudolf Hrušínský, Vladimír Menšík, Jiří Menzel.