Marecek, Pass Me the Pen!

1976 Czechoslovak comedy film

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Ladislav Smoljak

Zdeněk Svěrák

Produced byJaromír LukášStarring

Jiří Sovák

Iva Janžurová Václav Lohniský

CinematographyJiří Macák

Running time

93 min

Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (Czech: Marečku, podejte mi pero!) is a 1976 Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Oldřich Lipský.^[1] The film gained de facto cult status, many of its phrases and sentences becoming idiomatic in Czech language, e.g. “–Jak to chodí? –Chodí to výborně, ale neseje to” (“–How does it work? –It works great, but it doesn't sow.”) about a sowing machine.

Plot

Jiří Kroupa (Jiří Sovák) is a man in his forties who is a team leader in a factory manufacturing agricultural machinery. He has an opportunity for promotion, but for that he needs to obtain a highschool graduation diploma. Kroupa resists vehemently, but is finally persuaded to enroll in the evening classes at a highschool where he is joined by a motley group of men and women of the same age group. Having found themselves in school again, the middle-aged Kroupa and his fellow students soon start acting like teenagers and with this and the teachers who find themselves instructing people their senior in the evenings and their children during the day, situation quickly gets out of hand.