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Marek vimr5/19/2023 ![]() The film is less effective in its entirety than in its details. ![]() But the music is more traditional and the dance is not inseparably linked to the conduct of individual characters. The story is still propelled by songs and spectacular dance numbers, some of them choreographed on location throughout Prague. While The Hop Pickers addressed mainly young audiences, The Lady of the Lines turned to an older generation. The film opens and closes with the image of her husband embracing another woman. Her small human tragedy is exactly as it was before. The eventual return to the everyday comes as a bitter punch line: only within her dream did our heroine change into a lady and manage to fight for her husband. The film is almost entirely set in Maria’s fantasy world, and the passage between dreams and reality is not clearly marked. Screenwriter Vratislav Blažek penned the film specifically for Jirˇina Bohdalová, an actress of great comedic and dramatic talent who incarnated the character of the frustrated Marie with all the strength of her personality. ![]() The Lady of the Lines tells the story of a married female tram driver, who dreams of sweet vengeance against her cheating husband by imagining herself an elegant lady, who spends painfully accumulated family savings. As a creator of the first successful Czech musical ( The Hop Pickers, 1964), two years later, he led the same team of collaborators to another film in the same genre. ![]() Originally an actor, screenwriter and director of ethnographic films and documentaries on Czech and Slovak artists, Ladislav Rychman began making features in 1956. ![]()
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