The Inspector General (Czech: Revizor) is a 1933 Czech historical comedy film directed by Martin Frič and starring Vlasta Burian, Jaroslav Marvan and Václav Trégl. It is an adaptation of the 1836 play The Inspector General by Nikolai Gogol.Goble p.928 The director Martin Frič considered it one of his best movies.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Štěpán Kopecký. It was shot in studios in Prague.
Plot summary
Cast Vlasta Burian as Ivan Alexandrovic Chlestakov Jaroslav Marvan as Mayor Anton Antonovich Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky Václav Trégl as Servant Josef Josef Vošalík as Pyotr Ivanovich Bobchinsky Alois Dvorský as Pyotr Ivanovich Dobchinsky Josef Rovenský as Postmaster Ivan Kuzmich Shpekin Frantisek Cerný as The Innkeeper Theodor Pištěk as Judge Amos Fyodorovich Lyapkin-Tyapkin Frantisek Hlavatý as School Commissioner Zdeňka Baldová as Anna Andreyevna Skvoznik-Dmukhanovskaya Ella Nollová as Prayer Josef Gruss as Mayor's servant Ferdinand Jarkovský as Waiter Eman Fiala as Greengrocer Jan Marek as Teacher Jan W. Speerger as Chief of Police Václav Menger as School guardian Chlopov Truda Grosslichtová as Maria Antonovna Skvoznik-Dmukhanovskaya
See also The Inspector General (1949 film)
References
Bibliography Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
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