Vladimír Sommer Princ Bajaja (1971) (The Pantomime and Trip to the Dragons Liar)

Kachlík´s czecho-slovak fairytale, again with excellent music by Vladimír Sommer w/FISYO Prague and František Belfín.

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• Vladimír
• Sommer
• czech
• slovak
• fairytale
• movie
• 70´s
• Němcová
• Božena
• pantomime
• Vášaryová
• Palúch
• FISYO
• Bajaja
• Princ
• rozprávka
• Belfín

[MartaEzis]

@GregOpera: and find the evil prince there. They chase him and his goons out together, thus proving their love is strong and they've learned to cooperate. And we see the weasel running around. So despite it being a fairy tale, it's a deep, realistic and psychological story of a relationship and of a man growing up. Pavlíček then wrote Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella as a story of a woman growing up and achieveing happiness.But he wasn't allowed to go public then, so he isn't in the credits.

[MartaEzis]

@GregOpera: He's being a bit vague about his dream but it's clear that it isn't getting a beautiful princess, it's more about achieving happiness by growing up. And yet when he find out his happiness is the princess, and he gets the opportunity to grow up and achieve happiness, when he has to follow the narrower path (= to act poor and not to talk), he doesn't want to, like most people :-) And in the end, the film omitted a scene where Bajaja and the princess go to his home castle

[MartaEzis]

@GregOpera: Which is funny because even the original script by František Pavlíček was much longer, too. For example, at the beginning, according to the oroginal script, the prince was supposed to save a weasel from being teased by some goons, thus proving his love for animals. When talking to the horse at the river, he tells him a story of his life-long dream of achieving something, but he doesn't know what exactly he wants to achieve and where his happiness lies.

[szabadtuzon]

When I was a kid this film came on the television several times but I forgot its title so it took almost one year broswsing and googling until I found it.

Now I have the original DVD straight from Czech.

My favourite part is the dragon fight and the knightly tournament. Great movie!

[KnusperhexeRosmer]

Thank You! It is such a dark atmosphere. I was very frightened as a child - although they cut many scenes at german TV. I did rememebr the sinister soundtrack. Especially the motif of the dragon lair and i always longed for a talking horse like this one;-)

[GregOpera]

It is a shame - in Germany, they cut many scenes from the original czech version.