''Irca's Romance'' (Czech: ''Irčin románek'') is a 1936 Czech

romance film Romance films or movies involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typically their journey ...

directed by Karel Hašler and starring Jiřina Steimarová,

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and Theodor Pištěk. It was one of several Czech films of the 1930s to involve a trip to an Adriatic resort.Engelen & Van Heuckelom p.124 A separate German-language version ''

Escape to the Adriatic ''Escape to the Adriatic'' (German: ''Flucht an die Adria'') is a 1937 Austrian-Czech drama film directed by Eugen Schulz-Breiden and starring Rolf Wanka, Willi Volker and Rózsi Csikós. In Germany it was released in 1939 under the title ''Spru ...

'' was made in a co-production with Austria. It was shot at the

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Cast

as Lexa Hora * Jiřina Steimarová as Irča Minovská * Theodor Pištěk as Tomáš Minovský * František Paul as Ing. Harry Peters * Truda Grosslichtová as Singer Lola * Antonie Nedošinská as Šulcová *

Čeněk Šlégl Čeněk Šlégl (30 September 1899 – 17 February 1970) was a Czech film actor. He appeared in 68 films between 1919 and 1941. Selected filmography * ''Never the Twain'' (1926) * ''Prague Seamstresses'' (1929) * '' Sin of a Beautiful Woma ...

as Engineer * Jan W. Speerger as Kraus * Jan Sviták as Private detective * Eliška Pleyová as Bar Lady * Ella Nollová as Landlady * Běla Tringlerová as Boarding school student * Eva Prchlíková as Boarding school student * Milka Balek-Brodská as Director * Rudolf Maria Mandée as Pianist * Bohumil Hes as Tourist

References

Bibliography

* Leen Engelen & Kris Van Heuckelom. ''European Cinema after the Wall: Screening East-West Mobility''. Rowman & Littlefield, 2013.

External links

* 1936 films Czech romantic drama films 1936 romantic drama films 1930s Czech-language films Films directed by Karel Hašler Films shot at Barrandov Studios Czechoslovak multilingual films Czechoslovak romantic drama films Czechoslovak black-and-white films 1936 multilingual films 1930s Czech films {{1930s-CzechRepublic-film-stub