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.
Unfortunately the movie Those Wonderful Movie Cranks is not yet available on HBO Max.
Directing | Jiří Menzel | Director |
Editing | Eva Horázná | Assistant Editor |
Camera | Jitka Radová | Clapper Loader |
Camera | Jiří Kučera | Still Photographer |
Production | Jaroslav Bouček | Unit Production Manager |
Costume & Make-Up | Zuzana Máchová | Costumer |
Costume & Make-Up | Eva Hlušáková | Costumer |
Production | Rudolf Mos | Unit Production Manager |
Sound | Jiří Šust | Original Music Composer |
Writing | Miloš Brož | Creative Producer |
Art | Michael Poledník | Assistant Production Design |
Editing | Rimma Stejskalová | Assistant Editor |
Writing | Jiří Šust | Lyricist |
Writing | Oldřich Vlček | Story |
Art | Ladislav Rada | Set Decoration |
Art | Jiří Forst | Set Decoration |
Costume & Make-Up | Theodor Pištěk | Costume Design |
Directing | Dobroslav Zborník | Assistant Director |
Production | Jan Šuster | Production Manager |
Camera | Jiří Ondráček | Assistant Camera |
Crew | Věra Kalábová | Dramaturgy |
Editing | Jiří Brožek | Editor |
Directing | Hana Hanušová | First Assistant Director |
Directing | Magda Vodičková | Assistant Director |
Writing | Oldřich Vlček | Screenplay |
Costume & Make-Up | Alena Šedová | Makeup & Hair |
Sound | František Belfín | Conductor |
Writing | Jiří Menzel | Screenplay |
Art | Jaroslav Lehman | Set Decoration |
Camera | Jaromír Šofr | Director of Photography |
Costume & Make-Up | Vladimír Petřina | Makeup & Hair |
Sound | Milan Novotný | Sound |
Costume & Make-Up | Miroslav Buhr | Makeup & Hair |
Camera | Richard Valenta | Camera Operator |
Art | Zbyněk Hloch | Production Design |
Production | Miloslav Doležal | Assistant Production Manager |