''Jánošík'' is a 1935 Czechoslovak

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...

directed by

Martin Frič Martin Frič (29 March 1902 – 26 August 1968) was a Czech film director, screenwriter and actor. He had more than 100 directing credits between 1929 and 1968, including feature films, shorts and documentary films. Throughout his life, F ...

Cast

Paľo Bielik Paľo Bielik (December 11, 1910 – April 23, 1983), also known as Ján Bukva, was a Slovak film director, screenwriter and actor. He was one of notable personalities in the time of beginnings of Slovak cinematography. Life He was born in Ban ...

as Juraj Jánosík * Zlata Hajdúková as Anka *

Andrej Bagar Andrej Bagar (29 October 1900 – 31 July 1966) was a Slovak film and theatre actor and theatre director. He appeared in 16 films between 1935 and 1965. Nitra's theatre, previously known as , took his name, becoming the Andrej Bagar Theatre ...

as Master Sándor * Theodor Pištěk as Count Andre Markusovský * Filip Davidik as Janicko, shepherd boy * Kudo Bachlet as A Janosik "Brigand" *

Mirko Eliás Mirko (Cyrillic script: Мирко) is a masculine given name of South Slavic origin. By Slavic etymology, the name is composed of the root ''mir'' (meaning peace) and hypocoristic suffix ''-ko'' usual in South Slavic languages, which together m ...

as A Janosik "Brigand" * Martin Hollý as A Janosik "Brigand" *

Jindřich Plachta Jindřich Plachta, born Jindřich Šolle (1 July 1899 – 6 November 1951) was a Czechoslovak film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1926 and 1951. Selected filmography * '' The Lovers of an Old Criminal'' (1927) * '' Fathe ...

as A Janosik "Brigand" * Jan W. Speerger as A Janosik "Brigand" *

Ladislav H. Struna Ladislav is a Czech, Slovak and Croatian variant of the Slavic name Vladislav. The female form of this name is Ladislava. Folk etymology occasionally links ''Ladislav'' with the Slavic goddess Lada. Spellings and variations In Bulgarian ...

as A Janosik "Brigand" *

Jan Sviták Jan Sviták (23 December 1898 – 11 May 1945) was a Czech actor and film director. He was an important exponent of Czechoslovak film in the interwar period and during World War II. Sviták was murdered shortly after the liberation of Prague in 1 ...

as A Janosik "Brigand" * Kudo Uhlar as A Janosik "Brigand" * Otto Zahrádka as A Janosik "Brigand"

Reception

Writing for ''

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'' in 1936,

Graham Greene Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading English novelists of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquir ...

gave the film a poor review. Noting that the theme of robbing the rich to give to the poor "should retain its appeal until the Millennium", Greene found that the "romantic rollicking tuneful" beginning jarred sharply with the film's conclusion which sees the robber's "cruel death, hung like butcher meat with a spike in his ribs". As Greene sardonically observes, "Romance and robber tunes and lyrical shots of a long-legged Fairbanks hero don't go with the spike." (reprinted in: )

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* 1935 films 1930s adventure drama films 1930s Czech-language films Czechoslovak black-and-white films Films directed by Martin Frič Czech adventure drama films Czech historical adventure films Czechoslovak drama films 1930s historical adventure films 1935 drama films 1930s Czech films {{1930s-drama-film-stub