Summer cinema— How to Get Dad Into Reform School

SUM­MER CIN­E­MA IN THE KASÁR­NA COURT­YARD IS BACK!
 

How to Get Dad into Reform School
Marie Poledňáková — Czecho­slo­va­kia — 1978 — 91 min­utes — CZ + ENG subtitles

At the pre­mière of the sequel to her now-famous com­e­dy about lit­tle Vašek and his par­ents, How to Pull Out a Whale’s Tooth, writer and direc­tor Marie Poledňáková explained: ​“The sec­ond part, or rather a loose con­tin­u­a­tion, was actu­al­ly writ­ten before How to Pull Out a Whale’s Tooth was even released. So it wasn’t inspired by the suc­cess of the first film, but by the fact that its final scenes cre­at­ed a very inter­est­ing sit­u­a­tion. The actors cap­tured this as well, and dur­ing the last phase of film­ing they began invent­ing scenes them­selves, imag­in­ing the future of their char­ac­ters; grad­u­al­ly the entire crew joined in this process. And the cen­tral idea? At first glance, it may seem like a light, amus­ing sto­ry. But if we think more deeply about the issue of an incom­plete fam­i­ly and its pos­si­ble rebuild­ing, we dis­cov­er far more inter­est­ing insights. Luboš and Anna, Vašek’s par­ents, find them­selves in a com­pli­cat­ed sit­u­a­tion. They try to under­stand each oth­er, to respect their dif­fer­ences — ini­tial­ly main­ly for the sake of their child. And the path to rebuild­ing a rela­tion­ship that has already been bro­ken once is any­thing but easy. The sit­u­a­tion is quite unusu­al: two peo­ple, a man and a woman, meet again after eight years and must get to know each oth­er anew. That was what drew me to the sto­ry — as well as the child’s world, with its dreams and desires, a world that sim­ply refus­es to accept any­thing that doesn’t align with its notions of good­ness and jus­tice.” A won­der­ful sum­mer com­e­dy which, as the author her­self says, is not just about humor. Made more than twen­ty years ago, it still con­tin­ues to enter­tain audi­ences today.

Prac­ti­cal information:
—sound will be trans­mit­ted via headphones
—we’re hap­py to lend you blan­kets on site
—in case of rain, the screen­ing will be can­celed; tick­ets will remain valid and a new date will be announced in time
—tick­et capac­i­ty: 300
—tick­et price: 150 CZK