Him and His Sister

Him and His Sister is a Czech comedy film directed by Karel Lamač and Martin Frič. It was released in April 1931, and was ninth in the top-ten list of films shown in Prague cinemas that year. The film adapts a play by Bernhard Buchbinder. The film has a German version released the same year, by the same director but with a partially different cast.

Cast

Vlasta Burian as Jarda Brabec, a postman
Anny Ondra as Anny Brabcová, his sister, Sabina's maid
Otto Rubík as Bernard
Olga Augustová as Sabina Veldenová, operetta soubrette
Jan Sviták as Burda, Sabina's friend
Theodor Pištěk as postmaster general

Reception

The interpretation of Vlasta Burian and Anny Ondra in the film has been called "brilliant". The film was a commercial success, which, in 2013, Robert Rohál commented: "Lamač actually managed to do the seemingly impossible – to put a male and female clown in front of the camera."