The owner of a fashion factory, Rafael Klučina, is desperately looking for an imaginative advertising campaign that would attract the public and raise the profile of his business. However, the head of his advertising department, Filip Muška, seems unable to come up with one. In the end, they are helped by the model Boženka Smolíková and her talent for perfect disguises and masks. The unusual advertising campaign involves Boženka traveling around the country for fourteen days in model clothes, and whoever recognizes her will win a prize of fifty thousand crowns...
Costume
Boženka's rapid-fire disguises are genuinely impressive pre-CGI magic.
Acting
Věra Ferbasová carries the whole film with elastic physical comedy.
Director
Vladimír Slavínský
Věra Ferbasová
Božena Smolíková
František Krištof-Veselý
Filip Muška
Jindřich Plachta
Rafael Klučina
Stanislav Strnad
Jan Marten
Eva Gerová
Daisy Brožová
Theodor Pištěk
Jan Marten
Světla Svozilová
Maruška Martenová
Jan W. Speerger
Jakub Sesle
Ferenc Futurista
Nehasil
Josef Bělský
Želva
Eliška Pleyová
Jiřina Sedláčková
Zdeňka
Jarmila Beránková
Anča
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Franz Lehár's operetta 'Die lustige Witwe,' but stripped of aristocratic Vienna for working-class Czechoslovak energy.
Věra Ferbasová was Czech cinema's biggest star in the 1930s; this role cemented her 'girl next door with chaos' persona before the war ended her career.
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