''Jánošík'' is a 1935 Czechoslovak

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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 Slovakia, Slovak film director, screenwriter and actor. He was one of many notable personalities in the beginnings of Slovak cinematography. Life He was born in ...

as Juraj Jánosík * Zlata Hajdúková as Anka * Andrej Bagar as Master Sándor * Theodor Pištěk as Count Andre Markusovský * Filip Davidik as Janicko, shepherd boy * Kudo Bachlet as A Janosik "Brigand" * Mirko Eliás 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 as A Janosik "Brigand" *

Jan Sviták Jan Sviták (23 December 1898 – 11 May 1945) was a Czechs, 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 Prague uprising, l ...

as A Janosik "Brigand" *

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

Reception

Writing for ''

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'' in 1936,

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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