The Galoshes of Happiness
Galoše šťastia
Release: 1987-04-01
·Runtime: 83m
·★ 6.5
Family
Fantasy
The Slippers of Happiness is another film made by the Slovak Film Production in co-production with West German companies based on classic world fairy tales. After Slovak folk tales [The Greatest Peck in the World, Salt Over Gold] and the works of German fairy tale writers Wilhelm Hauff [The False Prince] and the Brothers Grimm [The Land of the Thrush's Beard, Perinbaba], screenwriter Alex Koenigsmark and director Juraj Herz were inspired by the famous fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. It tells the story of slippers that the Fairy of Fortune enchanted so that they would fulfill every human wish and thus bring people happiness. The filmmakers humorously transferred the plot from Copenhagen to old Prague.
Production Countries
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Austria
Production Companies
Omnia Films
Slovenská filmová tvorba
MR TV-Film
ZDF
ORF
Cast
Július Vašek
Václav Knop
Zora Kolínská
Jiří Pleskot
Vlastimil Bedrna
Tomáš Turek
Milan Šteindler
Andrej Hryc
as Major
Sylvia Turbová
Nela Boudová
Zdeňka Sajfertová
Gabriela Wilhelmová
Jiří Krytinář
Marek Brodský
as Student
Tereza Pokorná-Herzová
as Mina
Karol Čálik
Dušan Blaškovič
Jan Přeučil
Ivan Vyskočil
Stanislav Tříska
Vladimír Javorský
as Schreiber
Jan Hrušínský
as Junger Leutnant,
Renata Mašková
Towje Kleiner
as Assistenzarzt
Miroslav Donutil
as Kapitän
Jana Oľhová
Michael Kocáb
Jan Szymik
Jana Brejchová
as Glücksfee/Sorgenfee
Vlado Müller
as Kutscher
Juraj Herz
Elena Petrovická
José Luis López Vázquez
as Schulrat
