Summary
Television was the particular devotion of director Václav Vorlíček during the 1980s. But among those films he devised for the large screen we find the comedy Já nejsem já (It’s Not Me, 1985) shot according to the screenplay of Václav Nývlt. Its fantasy plot derives from one of Vorlíček's favourite narrative situations – a change of identity. One full moon, marriage conman Majer finds himself in the body of Záruba, an elderly foreman. On the other hand, Záruba, a tidy sour-ball of a character, takes the body of the younger man. Both men continue with their old ways in their new bodies, but finally the only real consequence of the body swap is that the indecisive Záruba ends up getting wed... The film was much based on casting Petr Nárožný and Oldřich Kaiser, both then popular among audiences, in the main roles. The partners of the two different protagonists are played by Eva Jakoubková (the loving interpreter Kamila) and Jana Švandová (the sexual vixen Drahuše).
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