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Despite all the condemnations and criticism, Vilém Neubauer's original novel was very successful. That was not the case for the film, which was a flop.

A very funny late silent comedy of a coarser grain, which, although it took a step backward in its format, also allowed us to smoothly reverberate a great era and became the penultimate silent film to be released in Czechoslovakia.

It’s very cheap, but also very funny.

Egon Erwin Kisch and his works had been projected into film in various forms since the 1910s. This is a very successful film, and the shift in narrative possibilities and the overall more thoughtful work of all involved stand out even more compared to the older version of the film. Fuetterer is ably seconded by Czech actors - Rovenský and Svobodová as his parents, the charming Ly Corelli (who reads a newspaper with Anny Ondra on the cover), and the wonderful Zdena Listová and the lovely Lili Šturmová as his girls. Antonie Nedošinská then repeated her role as the brothel owner in Tonka of the Gallows the very next year, each time performing a very interestingly varied etude. Saša Dobrovolná was only routine, and the same goes for Vladimír Majer. Interestingly, the misfortune that first inspired Kisch happened in 1898, with the first novella published in a newspaper in 1911, and the novel version in 1914. The filmmakers, as they often did, adjusted the time of the story to their own present. It is a historical misfortune that the premiere of the film was not set until May 1930, when the sound film was already in full swing.

When I compare this and the audio version, I find that they are both great. That doesn't happen often, but I'm glad for it. And Anita Janová really deserves increased attention, and it's a shame that so many of her films are trapped in the National Film Archive.

It gets one star for its historical value, while the second star is for the shocking fact that it was not filmed in Prague, nor in Brno, and not even in Stáňa’s home region. I’d like to watch it again.

This is one of two (or three) Czech silent films that literally disgusted me. Calling it repulsive amateur shit is too weak because the main character is glad that she had a miscarriage and Zdeněk Štěpánek is trying to play a glassblower... and unfortunately, because of him, this film is getting increased attention, though completely undeserved.

Machatý's return to Czech cinema after his first stay in Hollywood was recorded in the history of Czech silent films with unprecedented intensity. In this film, it is extraordinary to see Jan W. Speerger, the giant of Czech cinema, in a great dramatic role, or Máňa Ženíšková, who was soaring to the imaginary peak of her own career in those years.

It is a beautiful musical melodrama based on the performances of the star couple Jarmila Novotná and Gustav Fröhlich and features exteriors filmed in Istanbul, Turkey. Jarmila is incredibly cute and very sexy. Gustav first falls in love with her voice and then with her completely. Their meeting with the help of a fallen slipper is unparalleled. "Anna, you tickle me... Anna?" Magnificent, beautiful, perfect. Another great love couple also tries to communicate with each other in Istanbul first in English, Spanish, Swedish (him), French, Italian, and Russian (her), only to find out that after kissing properly, German is, in fact, their mother tongue.

This is a famous post-war story that has great significance for the Czechs thanks to the participation of Jarmila Novotná (for whom it was her only role in the 1940s) and the Oscar-winning Ivan Jandl, thanks to whom the Czech language is heard in the film. These facts aside, this is an extremely tear-jerking film that pushes the envelope so hard that one can't help but think of "the roar of our tears." Robert Blum's music leaves nothing to chance, and if perhaps the image is not moving and eloquent enough, it will drive the viewer to the brink of a nervous breakdown. Shortly before their departure to the concentration camp, the Malík family behaves like a showroom of the National Revival... The mom is a professional singer and the words of songs flow sweetly from her lips - in fact, the whole household makes music - and after the war, this simple doctor's wife explains her excellent English with a simple reference to reading English books. I am not disputing the necessity of The Search in its time, it is just that Hollywood once again did not deny itself again and nothing will change the fact that Honza Masaryk was also present when Novotná decided to accept the role.