Catalogue of Czech Television Programmes
The series entitled Čapek´s Pockets represents a novel and unique student project in which talented young directors and experienced scriptwriters came together to produced their rendering of Tales from One Pocket and Tales from the Other Pocket by the outstanding Czech writer Karel Čapek. Rather than experimenting with the model, its authors sought to „put new life“ into the classical piece of literature, and commemorate Čapek´s great mastery as a writer and thinker. The tales with crime plots of a humorous slant are situated in the 1920s and 1930s, and their protagonists are not big criminals but petty thieves or little crooks. And the detective is an ordinary man, too. The main focus is always on capturing the diversity of personality types - people whom their life situation forces to deal with things the way they do.
HD | 12 x 19´- 41´ | © 2011
director(s): Jan Chramosta, Vojtěch Moravec, Jan Těšitel, Martin Kopp, Jan Mika jr., Slobodanka Raduň, Daniel Maráky, Rozálie Kohoutová, Jan Vejnar, Zdeněk Durdil, Josef Tuka, Jana Boršková
producer(s): Czech Television
scriptwriter(s): Václav Šašek, Věra Šašková, Ivan Klíma, Karel Čabrádek, Martin Šafránek
director of photography: Asen Šopov, Martin Šec, Marek Dvořák, Jan Hubač, Karel Fairaisl, Jan Cabalka, Lukáš Hyksa, Jan Drnek, Petr Koblovský, Branislav Pažitka, Daniel Souček
cast: František Němec, Jan Hrušínský, Tomáš Töpfer, Petr Nárožný, Viktor Preiss, Josef Somr, Ljuba Skořepová, Naďa Konvalinková, Jan Hartl and others
rights available: TV, Video, Internet
original language: Czech
subtitles available: English (parts 1, 3)
other data: Parts can be broadcasted separately.