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The Pipes

This three-part Austrian/Czech comedy stretches the boundaries of what is considered to be humorous. Part one finds a silent film actor upset because of a rival actor's attention to the former's wife. When he kills his rival, it is only when he is strapped to the electric chair that he realizes that this is his last live scene. The second episode has the wife of an elderly British nobleman having an affair with the young gamekeeper of their estate. Part three finds a peasant woman taking a lover when her husband goes off to fight the war.

Top Cast

  • Walter Giller

    Walter Giller

    George Randy

  • Gitte Hænning

    Gitte Hænning

    Mary Randy

  • Juraj Herz

    Juraj Herz

    William Poker

  • Václav Lohniský

    Václav Lohniský

    Director

  • Jaroslav Štercl

    Jaroslav Štercl

    Jurs

  • Karel Effa

    Karel Effa

  • Josef Hlinomaz

    Josef Hlinomaz

  • Vladimír Hrubý

    Vladimír Hrubý

  • Stanislav Litera

    Stanislav Litera

Overview

This three-part Austrian/Czech comedy stretches the boundaries of what is considered to be humorous. Part one finds a silent film actor upset because of a rival actor's attention to the former's wife. When he kills his rival, it is only when he is strapped to the electric chair that he realizes that this is his last live scene. The second episode has the wife of an elderly British nobleman having an affair with the young gamekeeper of their estate. Part three finds a peasant woman taking a lover when her husband goes off to fight the war.

Rating

6.0 / 10
3 Reviews
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Cutting It Short

Francin, manager of a small-town brewery, has a charming wife whose abundant blonde locks are an adornment to the town. Maryska looks ethereal but loves meat and beer, while Francin is an ascetic. The strict members of the brewery board of directors come to audit the accounts, but are diverted from concentrating on Francin's detailed reports by Maryska, who has organized a pig-killing feast and is ably assisting the butcher. When she invites the old curmudgeons on the board to enjoy the fresh pork, they are too happy to agree. Francin doesn't know whether he is going to get a permanent contract. To make things worse his brother Pepin - eccentric, noisy and garrulous - turns up on an indefinite visit.

Cutting It Short

7.1 1981