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Marecek, Pass Me the Pen!
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Wikipedia article
'Marecek, Pass Me the Pen!' is a 1976 Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Oldich Lipsk. The film gained de facto cult status, many of its phrases and sentences becoming idiomatic in Czech language, e.g. Jak to chod? Chod to vborn, ale neseje to (How does it work? It works great, but it doesn't sow.) about a sowing machine.
Plot
Ji Kroupa (Ji Sovk) is a man in his forties who is a team leader in a factory manufacturing agricultural machinery. He has an opportunity for promotion, but for that he needs to obtain a highschool graduation diploma. Kroupa resists vehemently, but is finally persuaded to enroll in the evening classes at a highschool where he is joined by a motley group of men and women of the same age group. Having found themselves in school again, the middle-aged Kroupa and his fellow students soon start acting like teenagers and with this and the teachers who find themselves instructing people their senior in the evenings and their children during the day, situation quickly gets out of hand.
Geographical mentions:
The movie often refers to a region Bohemian-Moravian highland. Plha is from Kojice - a small village near Pelhimov (district town). Another famous fictitious person - which is mentioned many times - but never appears in the film is Hlink (alluminium - Al). He never starts school as he moved to Humpolec - a bigger town in the same region as the above-mentioned. Quite a number of comical situations are based on Hlink name's similarity to the metal aluminium.
The phrase "Hlink moved to Humpolec" became very popular and led to the creation of Hlink's museum and memorial plaque to the most famous citizen of Humpolec. People often bring aluminium subjects to his memorial plaque.
Cast
* Ji Sovk - Ji Kroupa
* Iva Janurov - Tfov
* Vclav Lohnisk - Hujer
* Mla Myslkov - Kroupov
* Josef Kemr - Plha
* Ladislav Smoljak - Tuek
* Zdenk Svrk - lajs
* Frantiek Kovak - Prof. Hrbolek
* Josef Abrhm - Teacher enk Janda
* Ji Schmitzer - Ji Kroupa jr.
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