''The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians'' ( cs, Tajemství hradu v Karpatech) is a 1981 Czech comedy film directed by

Oldřich Lipský Oldřich Lipský (4 July 1924 – 19 October 1986) was a Czechs, Czech film director and screenwriter, brother of actor Lubomír Lipský. All his films were comedies, frequently employing themes of Dadaism, farce and magical realism. He was a fr ...

. It is based on Jules Verne's novel '' The Carpathian Castle''.

Production

The film marks Lipský's third and final collaboration with screenwriter Jiří Brdečka. Props were created by artist

Jan Švankmajer Jan Švankmajer (; born 4 September 1934) is a Czech filmmaker and artist whose work spans several media. He is a self-labeled surrealist known for his stop-motion animations and features, which have greatly influenced other artists such as Ter ...

Cast

Michal Dočolomanský Michal Dočolomanský (25 March 1942 in Niedzica – 26 August 2008 in Bratislava Bratislava (, also ; ; german: Preßburg/Pressburg ; hu, Pozsony) is the capital and largest city of Slovakia. Officially, the population of the city is abo ...

as Count Teleke z Tölökö * Jan Hartl as Vilja Dézi *

Miloš Kopecký Miloš Kopecký (22 August 1922 in Prague – 16 February 1996 in Prague) was a Czech actor, active mainly in the second half of the 20th century. Biography He was born into the family of a furrier; his mother was a hatter. From childhoo ...

as Baron Robert Gorc of Gorcena *

Rudolf Hrušínský Rudolf Hrušínský (17 October 1920 – 13 April 1994) was a Czech actor. He was one of the most popular Czech actors. Many of his movies such as ''The Good Soldier Švejk'', ''The Cremator'' or '' Capricious Summer'' are considered classics of ...

as Professor Orfanik *

Vlastimil Brodský Vlastimil Brodský (15 December 1920 – 20 April 2002) was a Czech actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films, and is considered a key figure in the postwar development of Czech cinema. One of his best-known roles was as the title charac ...

as Butler Ignác * Jaroslava Kretschmerová as Myriota * Evelyna Steimarová as Primadona Salsa Verde * Augustín Kubáň as Servant Zutro aka Tóma Hluchoněmec * Jan Skopeček as Frik

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* 1981 comedy films 1981 films Films directed by Oldřich Lipský Czech science fiction comedy films Jan Švankmajer Films based on works by Jules Verne Films with screenplays by Jiří Brdečka Czechoslovak science fiction comedy films 1980s Czech films Czech parody films {{1980s-comedy-film-stub

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