12. Lubomír Lipský: Lemonade Joe or The Horse Opera (Limonádový Joe aneb Koňská opera, 1964)


10 December



Screenplay: Jiří Brdečka, Oldřich Lipský, based on the novel by Jiří Brdečka. Director of
photography: Vladimír Novotný. Music: Jan Rychlík, Vlastimil Hála. Set designer: Karel Škvor. Cast:
Karel Fiala (Lemonade Joe), Rudolf Deyl (Doug Badman), Miloš Kopecký (Horác – Hogofogo), Květa
Fialová (Tornádo Lou), Olga Schoberová (Winnifred), Waldemar Matuška, Josef Hlinomaz, Vladimír
Menšík. 87 min.



Not only the auteur films directed by protagonists of the new wave were made in the sixties but the
excellent genre films too. One of the most popular “cult movies” in Czech cinema is Lemonade Joe,
the crazy musical western parody. Almost then four and half millions people attended this
box-office hit.



Assigned reading


Hames, Peter. “Way out west” Kinoeye. October 7, 2002.