This 12 months marks sixty years because the Czechoslovak movie musical, stuffed with singing stars and timeless hits, noticed the sunshine of day. If a thousand clarinets nonetheless remind us that every of us can discover our good self inside ourselves.
They’ve musical devices and should not afraid to make use of them. The troopers within the movie If there have been a thousand clarinets don’t struggle with weapons, however with devices, or music. The musical is predicated on a easy anti-war story a few army crew whose weapons are become musical devices. At first there’s the skilled soldier Schulze (J. Menzel), who’s disgusted by the army drill. He finds refuge within the spa city, the place a celebration is about to be held to mark the revealing of the JS Bach statue. Tv additionally arrived on the celebration, however ultimately, the complete report will tackle a totally totally different dimension. There shall be a army raid on Schulze within the city and it seems to be like he will not escape from the military. However the musical nice Bach helps him, and by a mystical miracle all of the troopers’ weapons flip into musical devices.
A flop grew to become an immortal blockbuster
After the outstanding success of the primary Czechoslovak movie musical Starci na chmelu, it was anticipated that the movie based mostly on the screenplay by Jiří Suchý and Ján Roháč If a thousand clarinets would have not less than the identical response. Sadly, this didn’t occur and the movie was acquired with embarrassment at first. The opinions have been cruel and the movie generated quite a lot of dialogue. Ultimately, nonetheless, greater than 4 million film theaters overcame every little thing! Regardless of the preliminary embarrassment, ultimately the movie If there have been a thousand clarinets was an outstanding success and to today it is without doubt one of the most profitable movies ever made on this style in our nation.
Everybody who had a voice sang within the movie: Karel Gott, Waldemar Matuška, Eva Pilarová, Pavlína Filipovská, Jana Malknechtová, Jiří Suchý, Jiří Šlitr, Hana Hegerová and others. Star subsequent to star. And other people sang hits like Babetta, Touching the Stars, Captain, The place’s the Ship Going, Glory, So You Know or final however not least, Teresa.
Matuska’s double
Throughout the filming of the movie, the singer Waldemar Matuška was so busy with different work alternatives that his double was invited to the filming. They have been as comparable as egg to egg, which the doppelgänger didn’t hesitate to make use of even exterior the set. Vladimír Nerušil aka Matuška went wild within the large metropolis, so there was no scarcity of drunken tales. The true Matuska was unpleasantly shocked when he later realized what his double was doing the place. And so the rumor started to flow into about what sort of lavish life the singing star lives.
Revenge of the regime
Throughout filming, Karel Gott, Eva Pilarová and Waldemar Matuška bought into an disagreeable state of affairs. It’s speculated that it was an try and weaken their recognition, which was slowly falling out of favor with the then authorities. A rumor unfold that the three had urinated on the balcony the place they have been staying on the Soviet delegation. A ban adopted, Gott and Pilar weren’t allowed to seem on tv for a 12 months, and their songs weren’t allowed to be performed on the radio. Matuska was additionally banned from giving concert events. The reality solely got here out in 2009.
