Directed by:
Jindřich PolákScreenplay:
Ota HofmanCinematography:
Emil SirotekComposer:
Angelo MichajlovCast:
Pavel Zedníček, Dagmar Havlová, Milan Šimáček, Žaneta Fuchsová, Boris Rösner, Miroslav Macháček, Josef Bláha, Oldřich Kaiser, Kateřina Lojdová (more)Plots(1)
Seven-year Honzík and his nine-year-old sister Eva head out with their parents on a not-quite-fun vacation to Portugal. They fail to see a ban on swimming at beaches affected by oil spills and the whole family gets arrested when the go swimming. The parents have another reason to argue and the children take home two mysterious objects from the beach, which reform into two little octopuses. They're unaware that the stuff is alive and has fled from the scientific research ship of Professor George, whose team discovered it in the depths of the sea. And because this stuff is not only alive, but also speaks, is extremely curious, and unexpectedly responsive to electricity, strange things begin to happen around the Holan house. It gets worse when George and his people trace the mysterious material to Prague's the Holan family's neighborhood. (Zlín Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Pavel Zedníček
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Tažní ptáci (1983) (TV movie)
Bratři Karamazovi (1981) (theatrical recording)
Silent Pain (1990)
Dagmar Havlová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Gazdina roba (1992) (theatrical recording)
Noc pastýřů (1993) (TV movie)
Hřbitov pro cizince (1991) (TV movie)
Milan Šimáček
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Who's That Soldier? (1987)
What's Up Doc? (1984)
Poločas štěstí (1984)
Žaneta Fuchsová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Počítání oveček (1981) (TV movie)
Lucy, Terror of the Street (1983)
The Octopuses from the Second Floor (1986)
Boris Rösner
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Hamlet (1986) (theatrical recording)
Waiter, Scarper! (1980)
Poslední dopis (1973) (TV movie)
Miroslav Macháček
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Hamlet (1986) (theatrical recording)
Sňatky z rozumu (1968) (series)
The Valley of the Bees (1967)
Josef Bláha
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Cyrano z Bergeracu (1986) (theatrical recording)
Jako kníže Rohan (1983) (TV movie)
Ubohý pan Kufalt (1981) (TV movie)
Oldřich Kaiser
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
U Tlučhořů (2010) (theatrical recording)
Rozčarovaní (1982) (TV movie)
Přišel na večeři (1981) (theatrical recording)
Kateřina Lojdová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Octopuses from the Second Floor (1986)
Merry Christmas Octopus (1986)
Sun, Hay and a Few Slaps (1989)
Vladimír Kratina
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Methanol (2018) (TV movie)
Brakýři (1983) (TV movie)
Přítelkyně z domu smutku (1992) (series)
Jan Kanyza
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Lekár umierajúceho času (1983) (series)
Young Bohácek's Sufferings (1969)
Lovec (1980) (TV movie)
Otto Šimánek
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Vajíčko (1968) (TV movie)
Men About Town (1969)
Invention for Destruction (1958)
Jaroslava Kretschmerová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Give the Devil His Due (1984)
Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping (1983)
Waiter, Scarper! (1980)
Jiřina Bohdalová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Dům na nebesích (1984) (theatrical recording)
Těžká Barbora (1960) (theatrical recording)
Pohádky pod sněhem (1985)
Nina Divíšková
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Příběhy obyčejného šílenství (2009) (theatrical recording)
Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping (1983)
Podivné odpoledne Dr. Zvonka Burkeho (1991) (theatrical recording)
Jaroslav Moučka
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Men About Town (1969)
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1977)
Sňatky z rozumu (1968) (series)
František Filipovský
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Hamlet (1986) (theatrical recording)
Lišák Pseudolus (1960) (TV movie)
Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (1976)
Vlastimil Brodský
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Tažní ptáci (1983) (TV movie)
Secluded, Near Woods (1976)
Men About Town (1969)
Ondřej Havelka
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Saturnin (1994)
Strach má velké oči (1980) (TV movie)
Lekár umierajúceho času (1983) (series)
Martin Šotola
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping (1983)
Zlá krev (1986) (series)
Melichar the Boot (1983)