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Christian (Czech: Kristián) is a 1939 Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Martin Frič. The film is based on a French play by Yvan Noé.
It is in the style of American screwball comedies such as The Lady Eve and The Awful Truth.




Plot


Alois Novák is an uninspired clerk married to Marie. He lives a boring life and wants to feel adventure. Once in a month he attends Orient bar disguised as a rich traveller Kristian and seduces beautiful and elegant women and then leaves them broken-hearted. One day he meets Zuzana. She sees through his game and doesn't let herself be fooled. She starts to search for him which leads to many comical situations. She eventually finds him and makes Novák to return to reality. Novák leaves his Kristián persona but becomes a more confident person and more loving husband for his wife.




Cast


Oldřich Nový as Alois Novák alias Kristián
Nataša Gollová as Marie Nováková
Raoul Schránil as Fred
Bedřich Veverka as Petr
Adina Mandlová as Fred's fiancée Zuzana Rendlová
Jára Kohout as Travel agent Josef Novotný
Anna Steimarová as Marie's aunt
Jaroslav Marvan as Travel agency manager Král
Čeněk Šlégl as Dandy with a handkerchief
Josef Belský as Manager of the "Orient" bar
František Paul as Waiter Robert
Jan W. Speerger as Barman




Production


The film is based on a play by Yvan Noé. Shooting of the film took 23 days and cost 675,000 Kčs. The film premiered on 8 September 1939. In real life, the actresses who played Zuzana and Novák's wife were friends, and during World War II they competed for the affections of the producer Willy Söhnel.




Release


The film premiered on 8 September 1939. It remained in cinemas for 5 weeks. The film was re-released in theatres in 1951, but all scenes featuring Jára Kohout were cut from the film, because he emigrated in 1948.
Oldřich Nový wanted to collaborate with Martin Frič on a sequel called Christian Returns. Nový even wrote a screenplay with his wife.




References






External links


Christian at IMDb

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