| Šíleně smutná princezna | |
|---|---|
 Czech Poster | |
| Directed by | Bořivoj Zeman |
| Written by | František Vlček, Bořivoj Zeman |
| Starring | Helena Vondráčková, Václav Neckář |
| Music by | Jan Hammer ml. |
| Cinematography | František Valert |
Production company | |
Release date | 7 June 1968 |
Running time | 86 minutes |
| Country | Czechoslovakia |
| Language | Czech |
Šíleně smutná princezna (The Incredibly Sad Princess) is a 1968 Czechoslovak film starring Helena Vondráčková and Václav Neckář. It was directed by Bořivoj Zeman . The film also starred Jaroslav Marvan and Josef Kemr. [1] Songs in the movie were composed by Jan Hammer.
Czechoslovakia, or Czecho-Slovakia, was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until its peaceful dissolution into the Czech Republic and Slovakia on 1 January 1993.
Helena Vondráčková is a Czech singer whose career has spanned five decades.
Václav Neckář is a Czech singer and actor. He is best known for his performance as Miloš Hrma in Closely Watched Trains. Between 1978 and 1979 he cooperated with Polish singer Anna Jantar during their performances in Poland and ČSSR. In 2007, he was accused of being an StB collaborator since 1978.
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It was televised in the United Kingdom by the BBC as The Madly Sad Princess with Gary Watson voicing a narration over the original Czech dialogue; like many such series it was bought in by Peggy Miller. [2]
The United Kingdom, officially the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland but more commonly known as the UK or Britain, is a sovereign country lying off the north-western coast of the European mainland. The United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the United Kingdom that shares a land border with another sovereign state—the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border, the United Kingdom is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, with the North Sea to the east, the English Channel to the south and the Celtic Sea to the south-west, giving it the 12th-longest coastline in the world. The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland. With an area of 242,500 square kilometres (93,600 sq mi), the United Kingdom is the 78th-largest sovereign state in the world. It is also the 22nd-most populous country, with an estimated 66.0 million inhabitants in 2017.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters are at Broadcasting House in Westminster, London, and it is the world's oldest national broadcasting organisation and the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees. It employs over 20,950 staff in total, 16,672 of whom are in public sector broadcasting. The total number of staff is 35,402 when part-time, flexible, and fixed-contract staff are included.
Gary Watson is a retired British television actor who started out as a stage actor most notably acting in Friedrich Hebbel's 1962 play Judith at Her Majesty's Theatre in London, England with Sean Connery. He was however best known for his appearances in British ITC productions of the 1960s including The Avengers, The Saint and Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) in 1969 in the last episode The Smile Behind the Veil. In 1966 he played in all 10 episodes of The Three Musketeers as Aramis starring alongside Brian Blessed and Jeremy Young. He also appeared in the 1967 Doctor Who serial The Evil of the Daleks. He appeared alongside Anthony Hopkins in the 1972 Television series War and Peace. He played the semi-regular character of Det. Insp. Fred Connor in the long running BBC police drama Z-Cars between 1972 and 1974. In 1974 he played George Vavsor for 5 episodes in The Pallisers which also featured Jeremy Irons. In 1977, he played the role of Ross in the BBC series Murder Most English and also appeared in the 1970 Thames Television adaptation of Macbeth playing MacDuff. He was also much employed as a reader and narrator, featuring in dozens of commercials throughout the 1970s and 1980s, particularly noted for his work in British Transport Films, Lloyds Bank and Nescafé adverts.
