Eighteen-year-old factory worker's daughter Věra Janáková is head over heels in love with the famous pilot Jiří Málek. She only knows him from a photograph, but that's enough for her to run away from the boarding house and set out to find him. There, she discovers that the old Málek family are expecting the arrival of a girl from the orphanage, from whom they intend to raise Jiří's future wife. Enterprising Věra doesn't hesitate and quickly disguises herself as a thirteen-year-old frog...
Acting
Věra Ferbasová committing fully to 'adult pretending to be child pretending to be frog'
Direction
Slavínský keeping opera-based farce cinematic, not stagey
Costume
The actual frog disguise — you need to see this
Director
Vladimír Slavínský
Věra Ferbasová
Věra Janáková
František Krištof-Veselý
Bobík
Jindřich Plachta
továrník Vydra
Zdeňka Baldová
Vydrova žena
Helena Bušová
Bessy
Ladislav Pešek
tajemník Holub
Světla Svozilová
sekretářka
Jiří Dohnal
Jiří Málek
Oldřich Nový
hrabě Moretti
Jára Kohout
komisař
Čeněk Šlégl
Alexander Michajlovič
Růžena Šlemrová
vychovatelka
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Bedřich Smetana's 1866 opera 'The Bartered Bride' — this film swaps folk setting for modern factory-girl mobility.
Věra Ferbasová was 24 playing 18 playing 13; the age compression gets wilder when you do the math.
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