Station Master (1941)
April 12, 1941Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Vlasta Burian
Černý pasažér a přednosta Ťopka
Antonín Zacpal
Zita Kabátová
Jaroslav Marvan
Čeněk Šlégl
Růžena Šlemrová
Václav Trégl
Theodor Pištěk
Marie Norrová
Darja Hajská
František Černý
strážník
André Mouézy-Éon
Writer
Nicolas Nancey
Writer
Jan Sviták
Director
Otakar Sedláček
Production Manager
Václav Wasserman
Screenplay / Story
Jaroslav Tuzar
Director of Photography
Antonín Rambousek
Sound
Antonín Zelenka
Editor
Bohumil Heš
Production Design
Ina Kubová-Žáková
Set Decoration
Ivo Novák
Assistant Director
Ladislav Brom
Lyricist
Miloš Mastník
Unit Production Manager
Jára Beneš
Original Music Composer
Dalibor Pták
Vojta Merten
Alois Dvorský
Emanuel Kovařík
Ada Dohnal
F. X. Mlejnek
Bolek Prchal
Zdeněk Martínek
Karel Postranecký
Jaroslav Hradčanský
Karel Veverka
Miloslav Svoboda
Lída Borovcová
Václav Švec
Milan Sviták
Details.
Release DateApril 12, 1941
Original NamePřednosta stanice
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 28m
Genres
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Station Master (Original Czech-language title: Přednosta stanice) is a 1941 Czech language film, starring the then star comedian Vlasta Burian. It has a running time of 88 minutes and was directed by Jan Sviták.It deals with an unpaying passenger escaping the General Inspector of railroads after sleeping in his special wagon. He is then by circumstances forced to adopt the persona of master of the local railroad station. He then is forced to act at this duty before the General Inspector, committing a number of blunders due to his lack of experience and knowledge of railroad administration.
The plot also involves the absent real railroad master's wife being constantly eyed by the General Inspector, as well as a local landowner.
The movie ends with the real railroad master returning and the General inspector being scorned for his courting of the man's wife by Burian.
The movie starred Vlasta Burian in the main role, Jaroslav Marvan as the General inspector. The other actors are Čeněk Šlégl, Růžena Šlemrová, Václav Trégl, Theodor Pištěk Sr, Marie Norrová, Darja Hajská, František Černý, Karel Postranecký, J. Hradčanský, Bolek Prchal, Emanuel Kovařík, Ada Dohnal, Lída Borovcová, Zdeněk Martínek, Míla Svoboda, Karel Veverka, Dalibor Pták, Vojta Merten, Alois Dvorský, F. X. Mlejnek, Václav Švec, Antonín Zacpal and Zita Kabátová.