Summary
Director Karel Kovář (1944–1987) made three feature films before his untimely death aged just 43. The first of these was the drama Boty plné vody (Shoes Full of Water, 1976); this was followed by the crime thriller Past na kachnu (The Duck Trap, 1978). Kovář’s final film, the unassuming poetic comedy Tím pádem (That’s Why, 1979) is based on a script by Jan Fleischer. The lead character is a village daydreamer, postman Amadeus Macků, who keeps his neighbours constantly on edge with his attempts to construct a man-powered flying machine. The villagers, considerably more interested in receiving their post on time than in tolerating the recurrent accidents of their postman, even establish an association tasked with preventing Amadeus from flying… The lead role in this unfairly neglected motion picture goes to Josef Hrubý. The part of the likeable young female physician, who eventually chooses the “village lunatic” over a more promising urban suitor (Josef Abrhám), is played by Zuzana Cigánová.
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