Name: Fimfarum Jana Wericha
Genre: Adaptation, Comedy, Fantasy, Foreign
Released: 2002
Duration: 1 min 42 s
Cast: Ota Jirak, Jan Werich

Brief Synopsis

Cast & Crew

Aurel Klimt

Director

Ota Jirak

Jan Werich

Film Details

Also Known As

Jan Werich's Fimfarum

Genre

Adaptation

Comedy

Fantasy

Foreign

Release Date

2002

Distribution Company

Falcon

Technical Specs

Duration

1h 42m

Synopsis

A series of five stories: "Miserly Barka" revolves around the efforts of various persons to dispose of the body of a miserly old woman; "When the Oak Leaves Fall" tells of how a drunken peasant makes a deal with the devil, whom that man subsequently outwits; "Fearless Franta" relates how the father of a young man who is afraid of nothing arranges for his son to spend a night in a tavern where the spirits of the dead gather to gamble and cavort; "A Dream Fulfilled" is about an elderly farmer who squanders his money playing the lottery, and "Fimfarum" centers on a blacksmith with a scheming, unfaithful wife who is forced to perform a variety of impossible tasks.