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The main hero of the story is Philip, a boy dogged by bad luck ever since his birth. All because his father tried to outwit Fortune herself, thus calling her wrath down on himself and – what´s worse – on his son as well. To make things even worse, Philip falls in love with Fortune´s lost daughter Hanička (Hannie). In an effort to win her love, and also in order to shake off the bad luck with which he´s bedevilled, Philip sets out into the wide world. Of fateful importance is his encounter with a man suffering from a strange addiction: lying. He has lied his way through life so far that he has forgotten his name, and calls himself Anybody. Surprisingly it is this funny crony who helps Philip win the uneven struggle for his sweetheart.
HD | 100´ | © 2012
director(s): Jiří Strach
producer(s): Czech Television
scriptwriter(s): Marek Epstein
director of photography: Martin Šec
cast: Filip Cíl, Martina Zábranská, Ivan Trojan, Jiří Dvořák, Jiřina Bohdalová, Dagmar Havlová, Ondřej Vetchý, Lenka Vlasáková, Josef Somr and others
rights available: TV, Video, Internet
original language: Czech
subtitles available: English
other data: Awards: 45th Ota Hofman Children’s Film and Television Festival, Ostrov 2013: - the best work for the under-12-years category; - the Specialist Jury‘s Special Award for the film with the most pronounced moral message; - Filip Cíl – the Golden Hoopoe Children Jury’s Award for the best boy actor