Dinner for Adele
Dinner for Adele is a 1977 Czechoslovak comedy detective film directed by Oldřich Lipský. Alternative titles were Adele Hasn't Had Her Dinner Yet, Nick Carter in Prague and Adele Hasn't Had Her Supper Yet.
Plot
It is the turn from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. The Prague police commissar Ledvina asked the famous New York detective Nick Carter, who is on a visit to Prague, for assistance to solve the strange case of a missing dog. Mysterious murder cases happen during the investigations, done by the malicious botanist Baron von Kratzmar and his carnivorous plant Adele. Von Kratzmar kidnapped his victims, bound them and whenever he played a gramophone with the melody "Schlafe, mein Prinzchen" (a lullaby by Bernhard Flies but previously associated with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) it is the time for Adele to awaken and eat her victims for dinner. Baron von Kratzmar considered himself a misjudged genius and wanted to take revenge on one of his former professors. He called himself "the Gardener" a notorious criminal, who Nick Carter thought had died in the swamps years ago. With the help of bizarre inventions, Ledvina and Carter succeed in catching von Kratzmar and delivering him to the legal authorities.
Cast
- Běla Jurdová
- František Němec
- Hana Brejchová
- Helena Růžičková
- Jana Prachařová
- Jaroslav Tomsa
- Jiří Brdečka
- Jiří Šašek
- Jitka Zelenohorská
- Karel Effa
- Karel Engel
- Květa Fialová
- Ladislav Lahoda
- Ladislav Pešek
- Libuše Švormová
- Lorna Vančurová
- Martin Růžek
- Michal Dočolomanský
- Milan Mach
- Milivoj Uzelac
- Miloš Kopecký
- Mirko Musil
- Miroslav Dvořák
- Myrtil Frída
- Naďa Konvalinková
- Olga Schoberová
- Petr Brukner
- Petr Jákl, Sr.
- Rudolf Hrušínský
- Václav Lohniský
- Václav Štekl
- Vladimír Hrabánek
- Vladimír Hrubý
- Zdeněk Dítě
- Zdeněk Srstka
More details
| author | Jiří Brdečka Oldřich Lipský |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Prague |
| director | Oldřich Lipský |
| genre | comedy |
| keywords | bernhard flies carnivorous plant gramophone kidnap lullaby murder case new york nick carter phonograph want wolfgang amadeus mozart |
| musicBy | Lubos Fiser |
| producer | Barrandov Studios |
| publisher | Dimension Pictures |
| recordedAt | Prague |
| theme | black comedy parody police comedy |