The Inspector-General

The Inspector-General

Comedy | Sept. 29, 1933

Vlasta Burian appears in a town of Czarist Russia impersonating an Inspector General, and he is entertained lavishly by the local political-hacks and peasants seeking his favor for whatever they are advocating or need fixed. Burain is involved in a series of comical situations as he takes everything he can gets his hands on while the peasants, who must plead for the betterment of their conditions, are left on the outside-looking-in. He makes his escape just as the real Inspector General is set to appear, but those-in-need will be no better off when the real McCoy shows up then they were with Burian.

The Inspector-General

Comedy | Sept. 29, 1933

The Inspector-General
Vlasta Burian appears in a town of Czarist Russia impersonating an Inspector General, and he is entertained lavishly by the local political-hacks and peasants seeking his favor for whatever they are advocating or need fixed. Burain is involved in a series of comical situations as he takes everything he can gets his hands on while the peasants, who must plead for the betterment of their conditions, are left on the outside-looking-in. He makes his escape just as the real Inspector General is set to appear, but those-in-need will be no better off when the real McCoy shows up then they were with Burian.
IMDb rating 6.9
Producers Meissner Film Prague
Original title Revizor
Directors Martin Frič
Writers Václav Menger, Jaroslav Mottl, Nikolai Gogol, Václav Wasserman

Cast

Vlasta Burian

as úředník z Petrohradu Ivan Alexandrovič Chlestakov a falešný revizor

Václav Trégl

as Chlestakovův sluha

Jaroslav Marvan

as hejtman Anton Skvoznik Dmuchanovský

Zdeňka Baldová

as hejtmanova žena Anna Andrejevna

Truda Grosslichtová

as hejtmanova dcera Marie

Theodor Pištěk

as soudce Lapkin Ťapkin

Václav Menger

as školní dozorce Chlopov

František Hlavatý

as dozorce dobročinného ústavu Zemljanika

Josef Rovenský

as poštmistr Špekin

Josef Vošalík

as statkář Petr Ivanovič Bobčinský

Alois Dvorský

as statkář Petr Ivanovič Dobšinský

František Černý

as hostinský