Dinner for Adele

Dinner for Adele
Directed by	Oldřich Lipský
Produced by	Barrandov Studios
Written by	Jiří Brdečka
Starring	Michal Dočolomanský Rudolf Hrušínský Miloš Kopecký Ladislav Pešek Naďa Konvalinková Květa Fialová
Music by	Luboš Fišer
Cinematography	Jaroslav Kucera
Distributed by	Dimension Pictures Inc.
Release date(s)	1977
Running time	102 minutes
Language	Czech

Dinner for Adele (Czech: Adéla ještě nevečeřela) is a 1977 Czechoslovak comedy detective film directed by Oldřich Lipský. Alternative titles were Adele Hasn't Had Her Dinner Yet, Nick Carter in Prague and Adele Hasn't Had Her Supper Yet.

Plot

Its the turn from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century. The Prague police commissar Ledvina asked the famous New Yorker detective Nick Carter who is on a visit to Prague for assistance to solve the strange case of a missing dog. Mysterious murder cases happenened during the investigations, done by the malicious botanist Baron von Kratzmar and his carnivorous plant Adele. Von Kratzmar kidnapped his victims, bound them and whenever he played a gramophone with the melody "Schlafe mein Prinzchen" ^[1] (a lullaby by Bernhard Flies but previously associated with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) it is the time for Adele to awake and eat her victims to dinner. Baron von Kratzmar considered himself as misjudged genius and he wanted to take revenge on one of his former professors. He called himself "the Gardener" a notorious criminal, of whom Nick Carter had thought that he had died in the swamps years ago. With the help of bizarre inventions Ledvina and Carter succeeded to catch von Kratzmar and deliver him to the legal authorities.

Reception

It combines the major idea of The Little Shop of Horrors by Roger Corman with the adventures of the literary character Nick Carter. It was directed by Oldřich Lipský with Rudolf Hrušínský, Michal Dočolomanský, and Miloš Kopecký in the leading roles. The bizarre gadgets were created by Jan Švankmajer, a famous Czech artist. The film was created in the style of a melodrama from the silent movie era including the beautifully animated intertitles between the real sequences.

Accoladess

• 1980: Saturn Award for Best Foreign Film
• 1980: Saturn Award Nomination for Best Fantasy Film

Footnotes

1. ^ Princi můj malinký spi - ukolébavka (Czech)

External links

• Dinner for Adele at the Internet Movie Database
• Pictures from the film