How should you go to Dr. Drown Mráček? or The end of the Aquarians in Bohemia
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| German title | How should you go to Dr. Drown Mráček? or The end of the Aquarians in Bohemia |
| Original title | Jak utopit doktora Mráčka aneb Konec vodníků v Čechách |
| Country of production | ČSSR |
| original language | Czech |
| Publishing year | 1975 |
| length | 88 (original 96) minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Václav Vorlíček |
| script | Miloš Macourek , Petr Márkov and Václav Vorlíček |
| production | Barrandov film studio |
| camera | Vladimír Novotný |
| cut | Miroslav Hájek |
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How should you go to Dr. Drown Mráček? or The End of the Aquarians in Bohemia is a Czechoslovak film comedy in the form of a modern fairy tale film from 1975.
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The last seven Bohemian Aquarius men live in Prague , in a house on the banks of the Vltava River : Mr. Wassermann, his wife Matilda Wassermanová and his daughter Polly. There are also Matilda's three brothers Bertík, Karel and Alois Vodička (in the dubbed version: Wässerchen), who are in a not very pleasant servant relationship with the Wassermanns, and Alois' daughter Jana.
At first sight they look like normal citizens, but they are immortal. Her passion is collecting the souls of drowned people in small porcelain pots . The more potties, the higher the standing in the Aquarian community.
Alois Wässerlein works as a diver in Prague in the 1970s. Because of his merits, you want to do him a favor: you know that he lives with his family in a very damp apartment and you want to assign him a new, dry apartment. However, when the decision to move from the city official Dr. Jindřich Mráček arrives at Wässerleins' house, the annoyance is great, after all, the apartment was ideal for her, located directly on the Vltava . Since Dr. Mráček cannot be convinced, he must be removed, of course by drowning. Dr. Mráček's boat is capsized on the Vltava, but the mermaid Jana saves him and falls in love with him.
In the meantime, Mr. Wassermann is going to an international congress in Hamburg , at which he is expressly advised of the impending extinction of Aquarius in Bohemia. Two young Hamburg Aquarians, Thomas and Rolf, should therefore be paired up with Jana and Polly so that the line of Bohemian Aquarians is not extinguished.
That goes pretty wrong. Through contact with blood (in an accidental blood transfusion in a hospital) or an affair with a human woman (whom they believe to be the Aquarius daughter Jana), the two boys become ordinary mortals.
When Dr. Mráček also falls in love with the Wasserman daughter Jana and, when inspecting the apartment to be demolished, is mistakenly mistaken for one of the foreign watermen and marriage candidates, when Matilda is turned into a bag of flour and served as a cake at Dr. Mráček's mother ends and has to be freed, and when Karel finally does everything to become a person, the chaos is perfect.
Others
- The theme song ( Znala panna pána ) for the film was sung by Helena Vondráčková and Václav Neckář , it also forms the main theme in some scenes in the film. Another singer named in the opening credits is Valérie Čižmárová .
- The Prague of the 1970s, especially the Vltava, served as the backdrop for the film, and much is reminiscent of everyday life in Prague at that time.
- At the congress in Hamburg, the representatives of the great rivers of Eastern and Western Europe sit next to each other without any recognizable separation, the Cold War apparently plays no role in the empire of the Aquarius.
- The Bohemian Herr Wassermann, whose role is that of an old Bohemian nobleman, and Herr Bach also have the German names Wassermann and Bach in the original. The Watersleins, on the other hand, which finally fully integrate into human (Czechoslovak) society, have Czech names.
- The original version is 96 minutes long, the German version is approx. 88 minutes.