''Pension pro svobodné pány'' is a 1968

Czechoslovak Czechoslovak may refer to: *A demonym or adjective pertaining to Czechoslovakia (1918–93) **First Czechoslovak Republic (1918–38) **Second Czechoslovak Republic (1938–39) **Third Czechoslovak Republic (1948–60) **Fourth Czechoslovak Repub ...

comedy film directed by

Jiří Krejčík Jiří Krejčík (; 26 June 1918 – 8 August 2013) was a Czech film director, screenwriter and actor. Born in 1918 in Prague, he began his film career as an extra for Barrandov Studios, during World War II. He then began creating short films an ...

. It is based on

Seán O'Casey Seán O'Casey ( ga, Seán Ó Cathasaigh ; born John Casey; 30 March 1880 – 18 September 1964) was an Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes. ...

's 1951 short play ''Bedtime Story''.

Plot

Visits by women are strictly prohibited at Miss Mossierová

pension A pension (, from Latin ''pensiō'', "payment") is a fund into which a sum of money is added during an employee's employment years and from which payments are drawn to support the person's retirement from work in the form of periodic payments ...

for bachelors. Nevertheless, some of the younger tenants cannot resist the temptation and sometimes try to sneak a young lady to their room. The landlady, however, stands guard all night. Bernard Mulligan manages to get his mistress, Andela, to his room and into his bed. But morning is coming and Halibut, Mulligan's roommate, is soon to return home from a party. Mulligan does his best to wake the girl up and get her out. The sleepy Andela, however, instantly grasps that all her lover's tenderness is gone, and begins to torture him maliciously.

Cast and characters

Josef Abrhám Josef Abrhám (14 December 1939 – 16 May 2022) was a Czech film and theatre actor. Biography He originally began studying acting at Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava and later moved to Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts i ...

as Mulligan *

Iva Janžurová Iva Janžurová (born 19 May 1941) is a Czech actress. She attended school in České Budějovice and in 1963, she graduated from the Faculty of Theatre at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. In 1964, she became the main member of Vinohra ...

as Anděla * Jiří Hrzán as Halibut *

Věra Ferbasová Věra Ferbasová (21 September 1913 – 4 August 1976) was a Czechoslovak film actress. Selected filmography * '' In the Little House Below Emauzy'' (1933) * '' Man in Demand on All Sides'' (1934) * '' A Woman Who Knows What She Wants'' (1934) * ...

as Miss Mossierová *

Pavel Landovský Pavel Landovský (11 September 1936 – 10 October 2014), nicknamed Lanďák, was a Czech actor, playwright, and director. He was a prominent dissident under the communist regime of former Czechoslovakia. Biography Landovský was born in Havl ...

as tenant

References

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* 1968 films Czechoslovak comedy films 1968 comedy films Films based on works by Seán O'Casey Czech comedy films 1960s Czech-language films 1960s Czech films {{1960s-comedy-film-stub