''Utrpení mladého Boháčka'' is a

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comedy film written by Eduard Verner and directed by

František Filip František Filip (26 December 1930 – 9 January 2021) was a Czech film and television director. Biography During his studies at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in the 1950s, he filmed his first documentar ...

. It was released in 1969.

Plot

Thirty-year-old Tonda Boháček works as a tractor driver in

Čečelice Čečelice is a municipality and village in Mělník District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, and historically known as Bohemia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The ...

. He lives with his mother, who constantly urges him to find a girl, and one day even posts a classified ad on his behalf. From the responses he gets, Mrs. Boháček selects Jana, and pressures her son to go meet her in the neighbouring town of

Úvaly Úvaly () is a town in Prague-East District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 7,500 inhabitants. Etymology The name means 'valleys' in Czech. It was originally used in the singular, but was gradually changed to th ...

. Tonda goes off, and on the way, he stops at a coffeehouse. In his reluctance to change his lifestyle and get married, he decides to write a letter, ostensibly from Jana herself, indicating she does not wish to see him a second time. Still at the coffeehouse, he meets a bunch of travellers, one of whom is Květa Lesecká. Tonda leaves the bar and heads off to meet Jana. The encounter is awkward and ends in mutual embarrassment, and Tonda returns home. On the way, he picks up a hitchhiker, who is none other than Květa Lesecká from the bar. Remembering that he had promised his mother to bring Jana home for supper, he invites Květa to join him instead. Tonda quickly falls for the young lady, whom he finds down-to-earth and easy to talk to, despite his natural timidness.

Cast and characters

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 Hav ...

as Tonda Boháček *

Stella Zázvorková Stella Zázvorková (14 April 1922 – 18 May 2005) was a Czech actress from Prague. Zázvorková, an alumnus of Prague's theatre school of E.F. Burian, appeared in more than a hundred films and series. She was married to the actor Milo� ...

as Mother * Regina Rázlová as Květa Lesecká * Jorga Kotrbová as Jana Pazderková *

Jaroslav Satoranský Jaroslav Satoranský (born 17 December 1939 in Prague) is a Czech actor. He belongs to famous Czech stage players and also to film actors. Biography Jaroslav Satoransky finished his study of DAMU in 1961. After this he performed in a Kladno T ...

as Petr Stárek

References

External links

* 1969 films Czechoslovak comedy films 1969 comedy films Czech comedy films 1960s Czech films 1960s Czech-language films {{1960s-comedy-film-stub