Czech Film Center

Synopsis

The famous stage production of A Walk Worthwhile by legendary writing duo Jiří Suchý & Jiří Šlitr was
created for Semafor Theatre in 1965. Several generations of audiences grew up on the original music of
Jiří Šlitr, the poetic texts of Jiří Suchý and the entire Semafor ensemble. Miloš Forman and Ján Roháč shot
A Walk Worthwhile in 1966 as a television film. The new premiere of the theatre production was held in
Prague’s National Theatre in 2007, directed by Miloš Forman in association with his sons, director Petr
Forman and stage designer Matěj Forman; and this also gave rise to a new film version of the exquisitely
staged, comic jazz opera. Uli and Vanilka are getting a divorce. They are in the middle of sorting out snags
in the divorce proceedings with the Advocate when the Postman delivers two mysterious telegrams from
Liverpool. Rich Auntie has decided to bequeath to Vanilka’s future child one million pounds. In the wake
of this news, Vanilka, Uli, the Advocate, Auntie and the Postman engage in various wily amorous capers
with the aim of securing this untold wealth for themselves. In the end, however, like Auntie and the kindly
Postman, it all turns out to be just an illusion, a stage phantom.  (source: catalogue IFF Karlovy Vary)