''Tři vejce do skla '' (Three Eggs in a Glass) is a
Czech comedy film
A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...
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, Fri ...
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It was released in 1937...Vincenc Babočka, a meaningless employee of police station, thinks he is a detective with exceptional abilities. Holiday in Karlovy Vary gives him an opportunity to prove to everyone what he is really worth. He is mistakenly considered to be international and police prosecuted adventurer Leon Weber. He decides to take advantage of the confusion and tries to find Leon's accomplice that are getting ready to steal diamonds belonging to Maharaja of Yohir. According to Weber plan, he meets Maharaja in disguise for Prince Narishkin. Everything is going according to the plan until the real Weber appears...
Cast
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Vlasta Burian as Vincenc Babočka / Leon Weber / Prince Narishkin
* Antonín Novotný (actor) as Van Houden
* Helena Bušová as Sandra, secretary
* Míla Reymonová as Jiřina, Weber's lover
* Bohuš Záhorský as Alois, accomplice of Weber
* Rudolf Kadlec as Yohir, false maharaja
* Karel Dostál as the secretary of the false maharaja
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Jaroslav Marvan
Jaroslav Marvan (11 December 1901 – 21 May 1974) was a Czech actor. He was born in Prague. He was married since the 1920s with Marie Marvanová and had a daughter (Alena Marvanová) with Alena Jančaříková.
He passed his school-leaving ...
as a doctor
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Theodor Pištěk as a police commissioner
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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 Woman ...
as a client of Babočka
References
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1937 films
1930s Czech-language films
Czechoslovak black-and-white films
Films directed by Martin Frič
Czech crime comedy films
Czechoslovak crime comedy films
1930s crime comedy films
1937 comedy films
1930s Czech films
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