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Section: Czechoslovakian Cinema: Ota Hofman 90
The Cat Prince (1978)
As a family moves because of work, the children's fantasies transform the landscape they pass through into in fairy-tale land. When their truck is stuck in a snowstorm, their magical grandfather comes by sleigh and takes them to a castle where they meet a mysterious rider on a black horse. He's the castle renovator, Albert, who doesn't like cats. When their cat Liza has kittens, Albert takes them out of the castle, but the children save them. Radek then goes at night to a magical land behind the mirror to find the water of life to resurrect the drowned Liza.
| Country | Czechoslovakia, Germany |
|---|---|
| Year | 1978 |
| Duration | 80 min |
| Rating | 8 |
| Language | Czech |
| Subtitle | No subtitles |
| Directed by | Ota Koval |
| Screenplay | Ota Hofman |
| Director of Photography | Andrej Barla |
| Music | Luboš Sluka |
| Contact | Národní filmový archiv |
Biography
A film director and screenwriter. He mainly directed films for children. In his time he was an innovator in working with child actors. He debuted with the comedy Lucy and the Miracles (1970). Of his other works, we’ll mention The Three of Us and a Dog from Petipsy (1971), Jakub (1976), Cat Prince (1978) and Oof - They Are Here (1988).