Pan Tau (1970)
Pan Tau (1970)





Plot.
Where to Watch.


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Streaming in:🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Cast & Crew.

Jindřich Polák
Creator / Screenplay / Story / Director / Story / Screenplay

Ota Hofman
Creator / Screenplay / Story / Story / Screenplay

Karel Škop
Production Manager

Jan Šuster
Production Manager

Jaroslav Bouček
Unit Production Manager

Ivana Nevolová
Script

Zdena Lukášová
First Assistant Director

Milan Novotný
Sound

Zuzana Máchová
Costumer

Theodor Pištěk
Costume Design

Ladislav Winkelhöfer
Set Decoration

Vladimír Petřina
Makeup & Hair

Josef Vaniš
Director of Photography

Jiří Rumler
Special Effects

Zdeněk Stehlík
Editor

Karel Höger
Narrator

Jiří Hlupý
Set Designer

František Belfín
Conductor

Vlastimil Hála
Original Music Composer

Jiří Bažant
Original Music Composer

Jiří Malásek
Original Music Composer

Jan Petrů
Set Decoration

Miroslav Hrachovec
Set Designer

Stanislav Látal
Art Designer / Art Direction / 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

Martin Baroch
Unit Production Manager

Jan Syrový
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

Zdeněk Kryzánek

Jan Pohan

Ella Bouřilová

Pavel Landovský

Karel Mareš

Ivo Gübel

Vladimír Hrabánek

Jaroslav Moučka

Zuzana Ondrouchová

Václav Neckář
Vocals

Bohumil Švarc

Petr Pospíchal

Petr Skarke

Marta Kaňovská

Zdena Hadrbolcová

Jiří Kodet

Vladimír Horka

Milan Neděla

Oldřich Musil

Milena Zahrynowská

Miloš Kopecký

Hana Hátleová

Jana Skřivánková

Josef Somr

Zdeněk Dítě

Viktor Maurer

Otto Budín

František Husák

Petr Čepek

Mahulena Bočanová

Marie Rosůlková

Julie Jurištová

David Kopřiva

Tomáš Vacek

Marie Štiková

Jan Cmíral

Vladimír Stach

Radka Dulíková

Milan Rybák

Jaromír Kozák

Milena Dvorská

Bedřich Šetena

Beda Lak

Věra Tichánková

Věra Ferbasová

Jana Sedlmajerová

Karel Effa

Václav Kotva

Miloš Nesvadba

Hana Čížková

Vlastimil Hašek

Jindřich Narenta

K. Hiniová

Laděna Kumperová

Vladimír Hlavatý

Josef Dvořák

Robert Vrchota

Vít Olmer

Martina Červená

Zdeněk Martínek

M. Šolc

Pavel Stránský

Josef Hlinomaz

František Filipovský

Jiřina Bohdalová

Lenka Pekárková

L. Slepičková

Ladislav Krečmer

Ladislav Potměšil

Lubomír Kostelka

Josef Vondráček

Václav Hladík

Miloš Vavruška

Stanislav Fišer

Václav Lohniský

P. Sýkora

Miroslav Homola

Eliška Velímská

Rudolf Kalina

Jiří Hrzán

Lubomír Lipský

František Kovářík

Jaroslav Štercl

Jiří Vala

Žofie Veselá

Miroslav Rovenský

Jiří Vondráček

Ema Skálová

Jarmila Smejkalová

Václav Trégl

Eduard Dubský

Jiří Bruder

Dagmar Jelínková

Karel Meister

Zdeněk Srstka

Jana Brejchová

Helena Růžičková

J. Štenberk

Stanislava Coufalová

Karel Augusta

Josef Bláha

Jan Skopeček

Eliška Sirová

Petr Nárožný

Michael Hofbauer

Jan Libíček

Raoul Schránil

Elena Strupková

Dagmar Patrasová

Stanislav Vyskočil

Vladimír Menšík

Gustav Bubník

Jaroslav Ševčík

Magdalena Šebestová

Veronika Helcelová

Jan Werich

Jan Víšek

Mirko Musil

Slávka Budínová

Vladimír Hrubý

Jan Sedláček

Josef Beyvl

Blanka Krátká

Karel Pavlík

Josef Kemr

Karel Polišenský

Antonín Krčmář

Svatopluk Beneš

František Hanus

Jan Krafka

Vlasta Jelínková

Josef Bek

Nelly Gaierová

Vlastimil Brodský

Jana Hlaváčová

Josef Filip

Milan Riehs

Alena Jirešová

I. Kryšeník

František Peterka

Lenka Termerová

Miroslav Vydlák
Media.

Details.
Release DateDecember 13, 1970
StatusEnded
Seasons3
Episodes33
Running Time30m
Genres
Last updated:
This TV Show Is About.
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 plot of each episode was generally comical 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. Pan Tau was a popular children's 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 viewers to 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 the German singer Nena's 1990 music video for Du bist überall ("You Are Everywhere", from her 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. Unlike the original, the 2020 reboot was filmed in English.
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