Three Men Travelling

The origins of this 1973 comedy stretch back more than 10 years to a 1962 television series. That series, Tři chlapi v chalupě (Three Men in a Countryhouse), spurred the creation of a 1963 film of the same name, directed by Josef Mach. Tři chlapi na cestách (Three Men Travelling) is billed as a loosely related sequel to that motion picture. In the director’s chair on this occasion was that experienced creator of comedies, Oldřich Lipský. He also co-wrote the screenplay with Jiří Dietl. Tři chlapi na cestách sees our country protagonists set out from their family nests in the village of Ouplavice into the big wide world. Grandpa Potůček, (Lubomír Lipský) and his son Václav (Jan Skopeček) take part in the cooperative’s excursion to spa town Karlovy Vary, a Pilsen brewery and some agricultural enterprises in western Bohemia. During the course of a series of misunderstandings and merrymaking, grandfather Potůček decides he will not let problems with sick calves unsettle him, and that he will persevere in his role as the leader of the cooperative... Lubomír Lipský was not old enough to play the role of the wise old man in the initial film, but under the direction of his brother he this time takes his chance to create another of his full-blooded, folksy characters.