Petra Černocká at the mythical Woman on a Broom: The Secret of the Dress!

How lengthy have you ever been seeing each and every different?

OWNED: Honza and I nonetheless see each and every different as a result of I play with him on the Na Jezerce Theatre.

JAN: That is proper, in two performances: Praskni do bot a From the lifetime of Čapek.

And when was once the final time we noticed each and every different, Petro?

PETRA: It is been a very long time, we almost definitely remembered someplace A lady on a broomstick. (laughter)

Do you watch her on TV?

PETRA: I by no means omit it, as a result of all of the pals I meet within the morning whilst strolling the canine inform me: “Nowadays it is going to be, nowadays it is going to be Saxana.” (laughs)

So will you let her pass?

Only for data, I am surely now not gazing the entire film. I am a horrible spectator, once the lads get started riding automobiles they usually become other Santa Clauses, I do not revel in it. I am a woman, I need a tale, and it is all of sudden shattered through those movements. However I am more than happy to look the tip. How are we going there with Honza? The 2 good-looking younger folks…

JAN: (laughter)

PETRA: And I am dressed in a yellow get dressed, take note?

JAN: This kind of mini.

PETRA: Sure, I stitched them myself, they have been my very own. I by no means had sufficient self-confidence about my legs, I all the time concept that I may have them just a bit bit longer, however with the solid it come what may combined properly, that I’ve a cultured, excellent impact of myself. To not point out Honzo, he was once even a little more youthful and cuter than me.

How are you doing with the discharge? Plate the remainder of you?

JAN: I almost definitely would not give all of it. That is the film we have now noticed essentially the most instances in our lives – when it premiered, we spent all the summer season gazing it after fairs.

OWNED: That was once the Staff’ Movie Competition.

JAN: Yeah, it is been a sexy wild summer season.

OWNED: I have noticed it such a lot of instances at the ones fairs that once they display it on TV, I should not have the nerve to look at it anymore.

JAN: It even came about to me as soon as that I had the TV on in a resort in Austria and all of sudden it seemed there Woman on a broomstick in German. No longer so, I stated to myself and switched to every other channel. And there it went How princesses get up. (laughter)

PETRA: I’m as soon as with Saxanou she was once in Mexico, did not they take you guys there?

JAN: They did not take, they drove the beautiful ladies there. (laughter)

Petro, you have not performed the director Vorlíček prior to so did she win?

PETRA: He stated he appreciated me in Semaphore, he noticed me in The Witcher, and it impressed him then. When deciding, now not all votes have been for me, however Vorlíček reversed it. What? He stated to them: “Wait, she’ll be a excellent birthday party woman.”

And was once she, gents?

PETRA: To inform the reality, gents, I regarded down on them a little. They have been nonetheless such ears, Kraus he was once very small.

OWNED: He was once the oldest amongst us.

JAN: That is true. I used to be fifteen, I had my 16th birthday all the way through the filming.

OWNED: And I used to be a 12 months older than you. However we went to the conservatory in combination.

PETRA: Neatly, I used to be twenty-one.

OWNED: Our bunch of dangerous guys did not do a lot with you. However we stayed for approximately a fortnight in the most productive resort in Pardubice.

PETRA: It was once very good, it was once convenience.

HONZA: It was once high-quality. And also you have been essentially the most well-known folks again then because of making a song.

PETRA: Jojo, you notice, I already had a couple of songs and I did live shows with the band.

Did you glance down on guys as a result of that too?

PETRA: No, I used to be simply older. In the end, it is any such distinction when a boy is fifteen or 16 and a woman is twenty. It is a totally other global.

JAN: We made it up after that, smartly. (laughter)

PETRA: However the ones guys have been all really nice. Moreover, I say sorry, I must have paid extra consideration to you. (everybody laughs)

Mr. Hrušínský, did you in point of fact like Petra?

JAN: I feel possibly we have been all platonically in love together with her again then.

PETRA: The 2 folks more or less knew each and every different, I feel.

JAN: I feel everybody could be shocked if it wasn’t.

PETRA: I took you extra significantly after that. All the ones guys have been extremely smart, you must communicate to them, it was once a clique.

JAN: We had a large beat band again then with the lads, see, Vlastík.

OWNED: However we by no means were given off.

JAN: And also you, Petro, as soon as concept that we’d carry out in combination. However I knew how we performed, so it by no means came about. (laughter) And we have now by no means acted in combination in a film both, that is bizarre. On the identical time, you performed in Slovakia.

PETRA: Sure, the Slovaks understood me, they gave me the principle function in a single movie and likewise in a single sequence. However in our nation they all the time simplest gave me the jobs of better halves, which do not say a lot. A minimum of they selected great guys for me, I performed with Jiří Kodet, for instance. However, Hon, hope dies final. I might play with you till I cry.

JAN: Truly?

PETRA: As a result of you realize what is fascinating? How smartly we all know each and every different through the years. We observe each and every different, I do not know any person as carefully as you. I do know what you stated, wrote, what you assume. So possibly you’ll be able to get a hold of one thing in commonplace.

PETRA: He would get a hold of it, he would give me a bark, however I’ve a horrible reminiscence, I might have studied the textual content for 2 years after which you could possibly have got rid of it from the repertoire. (laughter)

Mr. Vorlíček noticed Petra within the theater, however how did he select you, gents?

JAN: We have been in our first 12 months and I feel the entire conservatory was once at that casting.

OWNED: I heard that the director selected from 3 other portions which one he would use finally. And we were given alongside highest with him. Your classmates have been additionally performed through Jan Kraus, who sadly may just now not attend our assembly, and likewise Michal Hejný.

Did you observe his subsequent destiny?

OWNED: He additionally went to the conservatory with us after which were given to DAMU, within the 12 months with Simona Stašová and Jana Paulová. However there he did some p***er someplace within the elevator after which he emigrated by means of Austria to Hollywood. He sought after to behave in motion pictures there.

PETRA: He had this gorgeous obsession with Barbra Streisand. And he even met her!

JAN: I do not even know that. He totally disappeared from my sight. All I do know is that he emigrated to The usa and died there. It was once as a result of his emigration that Mr. Vorlíček needed to minimize him out of the headlines, do you know that?

OWNED: Significantly?

PETRA: I do not even know that. Neatly, the timing was once dangerous.

JAN: I wasn’t allowed to shoot at keen on about 3 years after that, as a result of my dad was once blacklisted. It was once sufficient to be known as Hrušínský. So that they minimize me out of all of the motion pictures, I could not do anything else. Simplest Jirka Menzel broke it years laterwho insisted that I act in his movie Who’s searching for the golden backside. And possibly that’s the reason for the massive good fortune of the movie Woman on a broomstick.

What do you imply?

JAN: It was once filmed and had its premiere in 1971, it was once in point of fact an absolutely inflexible normalization, the rustic was once occupied through the Russians and folks did not have a lot reason why to chortle. Possibly that is why the cinemas have been totally packed and there have been queues for tickets. As a result of they sought after to get out of it a minimum of for the not up to two hours. On the time of filming, the censors had already begun to rampage on Barrandov, this was once one of the vital final standard motion pictures, which it sounds as if handed because of the truth that it was once apolitical.

PETRA: I all the time concept it was once fascinating that the communists let aliens and the opposite house move via, for the reason that instances did not need one thing like that. I assume they did not wager.

JAN: I do not know if it was once already identified on the time when it was once being licensed that the Germans have been desirous about it. The communists have been satisfied to promote the movies that have been banned right here, as a result of they made cash from them.

PETRA: This is conceivable. They knew it might achieve success outdoor.

JAN: And it was once, finally, this movie went in all places the arena.

PETRA: I feel that was once additionally the margin, as a result of this comedy is for each kids and adults. You performed with actual icons there…

JAN: … František FilipovskýJan Libíček, Jana Drbohlavová…

OWNED: …Jaromír Spal…

JAN: …Míla Myslíková, Lubomír KostelkaVladimír Menšík. And it was once nice that shall we meet, for instance, Meda Valentová, who performed my grandmother. In the end, she already performed within the film You do not know Hadimrška with Vlasta Burian. Neatly, did you’re taking it as a privilege even whilst you have been 16?

JAN: Almost certainly later.

PETRA: me too Additionally, it was once unattainable to expect prematurely how in style the movie could be. It was once such a lot amusing for those guys, I think like they have been looking ahead to a extra vital film, identical to I have been looking ahead to a extra vital tune all my existence. However then once I upload, I’ve to sing Bet who kissed me nowadays, mother.

Did you might have doubts whilst you learn the script?

PETRA: Yeah, I had my doubts too, I could not believe what the brackets that stated “She Takes Off” and so shape. I assumed he was once loopy, that he was once loopy.

JAN: I take note how excited and attractive we have been when the movie premiered all the way through filming in Pardubice Sir, you’re a widow! To these days, I in point of fact like this film and imagine it one of the vital highest Vorlíček motion pictures. After which I had a large number of amusing gazing folks on the premiere Ladies after which even at the ones fairs they laughed that they authorized it and that it stuck on. In the end, the movie was once noticed through two and a part million audience in its first 12 months. Nowadays, this can be a good fortune if a movie has 100 thousand audience.

PETRA: Yeah, that was once a small miracle. To be truthful, the ones filming stipulations have been sumptuous again then. We shot it for 3 or 4 months. From June to September, all summer season.

JAN: In my view, the good fortune additionally lies in the truth that Vorlíček and a variety of administrators of that point weren’t afraid to solid implausible actors even in small roles. Imagine that Václav Trégl, František Filipovský and Jan Libíček very regularly performed small roles, and you continue to take note them. That is extraordinarily underestimated nowadays, for monetary causes everybody performs it, after which the movies are price not anything.

PETRA: I hadn’t considered that, that is a excellent level. He is occupied with it! (laughter)

Let’s take note the well-known bards who’re now not with us. How did they deal with you?

PETRA: I had horrible appreciate and most popular to not means. (laughter)

JAN: I feel they handled us very properly, it was once an excessively pleasant surroundings.

PETRA: That is true.

JAN: Typically, it almost definitely applies that after persons are excellent at one thing, they do not wish to exalt themselves over any person, they behave properly and decently, and the similar was once the case with the actors we see in A lady on a broomstick.

PETRA: I drove those previous bards after the revolution, when there was once not anything to do, in all places the republic, we did a chat display in combination, amongst them was once Vlastimil BrodskýMiroslav HorníčekMiloš Kopecký… They have been very humble, humorous and good folks. Simplest Horníček pissed off me as a result of he rather disparaged humorous girls, he felt {that a} lady can’t be totally humorous. However I will be able to boast, finally there are not more witnesses, that he then took it again and stated that I used to be a tight passer. (laughter)

What was once Vladimír Menšík like, who performed the vampire janitor? I regularly listen that he was once an entertainer even off digital camera.

JAN: For approximately twelve years I spent a large number of time with him, we in truth did so much in combination, and I should say that he should were a perfect and excellent particular person. He had the ambition to entertain folks even in moments when he himself was once now not feeling smartly. He all the time made certain that everybody round him was once in a excellent temper. And he succeeded. He did not must pressure himself into anything else, it was once herbal for him to entertain the corporate, so cleverly and wittily that everybody burst out giggling. I feel that is why the administrators additionally appreciated him, he created a excellent temper at the set, it was once great to shoot with him.

PETRA: I in my view assume it helped him too. As a result of if you do not really feel smartly, and also you pressure your self to make the folks round you chortle anyway, your well being will in an instant fortify. Regardless of how again and again I force someplace a ways, I am offended at the manner and perhaps even have some sickness, I put out of your mind about it on level. In different phrases, Vladimír compensated for the truth that he was once nonetheless now not totally wholesome. He was once superb. On the time of filming Plate he already had an issue with bronchial asthma. It wasn’t even filmed for at some point as a result of he was once being taken to the health facility.

JAN: You might be proper, they have been giving him some oxygen. I do know that at the moment he abstained, didn’t drink in any respect and drank heat milk with honey. However he persisted to smoke, smoking a carton in two days, a few hundred cigarettes an afternoon. He was once getting worse and worse, I take note he was once wearing a bag filled with drugs, I even gave him an injection a number of instances, the sort underneath the surface, now not in a vein. I assume he did not have all of it that straightforward.

OWNED: I in my view don’t have any revel in with Mr. Menšík, however then I went from Pardubice to his cottage, the place he forgot one thing. I went there, it was once stunning, there was once a move within the lawn. At the moment, his daughter Martina was once about six, she was once appearing us the painted stones.

And the way do you take note Václav Vorlíček? Was once he in point of fact telling you, Petro, what to do?

PETRA: Jojo, he needed to play it for me so I may just upload it. I am not an actress, and when an emotional scene comes up, I think shy (laughter) However once he confirmed it to me, I in point of fact added.

JAN: He was once very humorous, extraordinarily clever, and really easy going. He knew his price, he had excellent self-confidence, so he did not wish to exalt himself over any person.

OWNED: I used to be very happy with it, when he presented to the touch me, I assumed: It is a dude. I in point of fact liked it.

Now I remembered that you simply and Jan Kraus and Michal Hejný had plush ears. What did they glue it to you?

OWNED: Mastixem.

PETRA: This was once a sexy brutal eyelash and beard glue that needed to be peeled off.

OWNED: Then I could not get it out of the ones ear folds. Imagine that they paint it on you each day, it simply wasn’t conceivable.

JAN: However we have now for sure stated this all over. (laughter) So I’m hoping that a minimum of one thing was once unique at our Christmas assembly.

JAN: Surely the banquet. (laughter) One for us to bear in mind A lady on a broomstick no person has ready but. (common laughter)

During the eyes of the writer

Reminiscing in regards to the filming and the bards that each one 3 of our pretty visitors met, the living room of the Beranka eating place, the place the lunch happened, once in a while was once stuffed with at ease laughter. Whilst Petra spewed out her reminiscences and Jan ably seconded her, Vlastimil relatively listened and crammed in his previous pals right here and there. However he additionally left our commemorative Christmas lunch with a grin on his face. Thanks very a lot for all 3 of you to take part, it was once an honor to be part of it.

Petra Černocká in a yellow get dressed on the finish of the movie Woman on a Broom

Creator: Jan Tůma, TV Nova, State Cinematography Fund, Blesku archive