Pan Tau (1970)
Pan Tau (1970)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Currently Pan Tau is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: Amazon Video, Freevee
Streaming in:🇬🇧 United Kingdom
This TV Show Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Jindřich Polák
Creator / Director / Story / Screenplay / Screenplay / Story
Ota Hofman
Creator / Story / Screenplay / Screenplay / Story
Ladislav Winkelhöfer
Set Decoration
Theodor Pištěk
Costume Design
Zuzana Máchová
Costumer
Milan Novotný
Sound
Zdena Lukášová
First Assistant Director
Ivana Nevolová
Script
Jaroslav Bouček
Unit Production Manager
Jan Šuster
Production Manager
Karel Škop
Production Manager
Vladimír Petřina
Makeup & Hair
Jiří Rumler
Special Effects
Josef Vaniš
Director of Photography
Karel Höger
Narrator
Jiří Malásek
Original Music Composer
Jiří Bažant
Original Music Composer
Vlastimil Hála
Original Music Composer
František Belfín
Conductor
Jiří Hlupý
Set Designer
Zdeněk Stehlík
Editor
Jan Petrů
Set Decoration
Miroslav Hrachovec
Set Designer
Stanislav Látal
Art Direction / Art Designer / Animation
Stanislava Procházková
Art Designer / Animation
Vladimír Malík
Camera Operator
Jaroslav Tuzar
Director of Photography
Miloš Petrolín
Camera Operator
Jiří Šafář
Camera Operator / Special Effects
Jan Kropáček
Costume Design
Milan Novák
Makeup & Hair
Růžena Plašilová
Makeup & Hair
Pavla Marková
Script
Marcela Pittermannová
Dramaturgy
Vlasta Pospíšilová
Special Effects / Animation
Frank Towen
Choreographer
Josef Sandr
First Assistant Director
Vladimír Zelenka
Co-Director
Elmar Kloss
First Assistant Director
Josef Dobřichovský
Editor
Gustav Rohan
Production Manager
Jan Syrový
Unit Production Manager
Martin Baroch
Unit Production Manager
Dana Dudová
Unit Production Manager / Production Manager
Jiří Kejř
Sound
Jaromír Svoboda
Sound
Adolf Böhm
Sound
Magda Hrnčířová
Vocals
Ivo Fischer
Lyricist
Otto Šimánek
Pan Tau / Pan Tau / Alfons
Vladimír Hlavatý
Miroslav Homola
Jaromír Kozák
Milena Dvorská
Bedřich Šetena
Beda Lak
Věra Tichánková
Věra Ferbasová
Jana Sedlmajerová
Karel Effa
Václav Kotva
Rudolf Kalina
Jan Cmíral
Vladimír Stach
Zdeněk Kryzánek
Jan Pohan
Ella Bouřilová
Pavel Landovský
Karel Mareš
František Kovářík
Milena Zahrynowská
Miloš Kopecký
Mahulena Bočanová
Marie Rosůlková
Julie Jurištová
David Kopřiva
Tomáš Vacek
Marie Štiková
Lenka Pekárková
L. Slepičková
Jan Víšek
Miloš Vavruška
Mirko Musil
Slávka Budínová
Jiří Sovák
Václav Štekl
Jiří Kúkol
Milivoj Uzelac
Conductor
Luděk Kopřiva
Josef Hlinomaz
Josef Dvořák
František Filipovský
Jiřina Bohdalová
Ivo Gübel
Vladimír Hrabánek
Jaroslav Moučka
Zuzana Ondrouchová
Václav Neckář
Vocals
Bohumil Švarc
Miloš Nesvadba
Hana Čížková
Vlastimil Hašek
Jiří Hrzán
Petr Pospíchal
S. Červená
Zuzana Řepová
Jana Brejchová
Helena Růžičková
J. Štenberk
Stanislava Coufalová
Karel Augusta
Josef Bláha
Jan Skopeček
Eliška Sirová
Ladislav Krečmer
Ladislav Potměšil
Lubomír Kostelka
Josef Vondráček
Václav Hladík
Jiří Lábus
Tomáš Murdych
Ivana Trump
Lubomír Lipský
Lenka Termerová
Miroslav Vydlák
Leoš Suchařípa
Jaroslav Štercl
Jiří Vala
Žofie Veselá
Miroslav Rovenský
Jiří Vondráček
Lorna Vančurová
Eliška Velímská
Ema Skálová
Jarmila Smejkalová
Jan Libíček
I. Kryšeník
Jiří Bruder
Laděna Kumperová
Vlastimil Brodský
Vladimír Menšík
Gustav Bubník
Jana Hlaváčová
Magdalena Šebestová
Veronika Helcelová
Jan Werich
Stanislav Fišer
František Peterka
Jaroslav Ševčík
Vladimír Hrubý
Jan Sedláček
Josef Beyvl
Blanka Krátká
Karel Pavlík
Josef Kemr
Zdena Hadrbolcová
Jiří Kodet
Vladimír Horka
Milan Neděla
Oldřich Musil
Media.
Details.
Release DateDecember 13, 1970
StatusEnded
Seasons3
Episodes33
Running Time30m
Genres
Wiki.
Pan Tau (Czech for "Mr. Tau") is a character created for a children's television series. There were 33 episodes in 3 series made by the Czechoslovak Television (ČST) in cooperation with Barrandov Studios and the West German TV network Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR). A pilot film was shot in 1966, and 33 episodes were made from 1970 until 1979. The project ended with a feature film in 1988.
The protagonist Pan Tau, who generally didn't speak and communicated through pantomime, was played by Otto Šimánek (1925–1992). The series was written by Ota Hofman and directed by Jindřich Polák. The stories were generally funny but contained some kind of problem for a child, and here Pan Tau found the way to solve the problem.
Pan Tau always had a gentle expression and a friendly smile, he was elegantly dressed in a stroller, with an umbrella and a white carnation in the lapel. Foremost, he was famous for his magic bowler hat. By tapping on his hat, Pan Tau was able to change his appearance into a puppet, to conjure up miscellaneous objects or to do other magic. His most characteristic behaviour is that he would help children who were experiencing some sort of difficulties in-between their dreams and reality, like finding a place for skiing, settling family problems on Christmas, and even give a boy a good time at a fair when he is supposed to have piano lessons. To adults, he usually remained invisible.
Although Czechoslovakia then was under a Communist regime, this never was very obvious for the viewers. And Pan Tau was a popular children program in several countries at both sides of the Iron Curtain (such as in both West and East Germany and also in the Scandinavian countries), which also appealed to the adult parents in a certain degree.
Theodor Pištěk designed the costumes for the series.
Ten years after the end of the series, Šimánek again appeared as Pan Tau in a 1988 cinema film. He was also featured in Nena's 1990 music video for Du bist überall ("You Are Everywhere", from the Wunder gescheh'n studio album), which was shot in Prague.
In 2020 a reboot with Matt Edwards as Pan Tau produced by German broadcaster ARD was broadcast.