Hroch

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Hroch

1973

1h 35m

3.0(2 votes)

Comedy

Fantasy

Overview

The bank officer Bedrich Hroch is sent by the bank director to the zoo, which asked an allocation of one and half kg of gold for a gold tooth for a hippo. During the check up of the hippo's teeth Bedrich is swallowed by the hippo. The man does not die in the hippo's guts and he chats quite happily with his frightened wife Dása. Journalist Pip Karen, his friend is also present to the dialogue and he has immediately an idea how to use this special situation. He tells to the new minister Borovec and his opponent professor Fibinger that there is a hippo in the zoo which can speak. He also tells them how to use this situation for a political propaganda.

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83 members

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Oldo Hlaváček

Bedřich Hroch

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Helga Čočková

Dáša

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Svatopluk Matyáš

Pip Karen

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Helena Blehárová

Soňa

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Miroslav Homola

ministr Borovec

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Zdena Hadrbolcová

Plašilová

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Eduard Dubský

prof. Fibinger

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Jiří Lír

ošetřovatel

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Slávka Budínová

Majka

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Josef Větrovec

ředitel zoo

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Jiří Holý

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Oldřich Velen

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Jan Skopeček

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Josef Kobr

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Miloš Willig

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Tomáš Sedláček

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Josef Hlinomaz

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Karel Hábl

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Ivana Bílková

Bláža

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Jan Pohan

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Jiří Jelínek

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Bert Schneider

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Vladimír Hrubý

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Karel Hovorka

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Jaroslav Cmíral

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Josef Bádal

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Milan Mach

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Miloš Vavruška

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Jana Sedlmajerová

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Eduard Pavlíček

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Viktor Maurer

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Vladimír Bičík

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Jiřina Zemanová

Woman with a Dog

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Martin Vrabec

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Jiří Šulc

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Miloslav Svoboda

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Oldřich Hoblík

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Miroslav Laňka

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Petr Kučera

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Jiří Ondroušek

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Dagmar Štursová

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Vratislava Jelínková

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Václav Luks

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Renata Bauerová

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Vlastimila Vlková

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Jiří Kasík

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Milan Kindl

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Otakar Rademacher

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Zdeněk Srstka

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Jaroslav Tomsa

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Olga Fleischerová

Dancer

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Tomáš Hanták

Dancer

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Anna Hantáková

Dancer

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Marie Libigerová

Dancer

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Lubomír Mohyla

Dancer

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Běla Sobotková

Dancer

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Václav Štádler

Dancer

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Jiří Vrzal

Dancer

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Václav Zahradník

Orchestra Conductor

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Karel Bejlek

Musician

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Vladimír Brož

Musician

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Miloslav Bureš

Musician

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Vít Clar

Musician

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Petr Fleischer

Musician

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Emanuel Hrdina

Musician

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Vladimír Hruška

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Viktor Hynčica

Musician

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Zdeněk John

Musician

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Otto Kotýnek

Musician

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Mirko Krebs

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Václav Matouš

Musician

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Luboš Nývlt

Musician

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Jiří Pelikán

Musician

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Jan Pospíšil

Musician

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Petr Smolík

Musician

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Petr Šprunk

Musician

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Jaroslav Tichý

Musician

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Vlastimil Voňavka

Musician

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Miloš Vychytil

Musician

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Blažena Holišová

Bláža (voice)

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Věra Kalendová

Woman with a Dog (voice)

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Mirko Musil

Various Voices (voice)

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Antonín Jedlička

Parrot (voice)

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