Četníci z Luhačovic (2017)

Directed by

Peter Bebjak, Biser Arichtev, Dan Wlodarczyk

Genre

comedy film, crime film, historical film

Country

Czech Republic

Length

1 season, 12 episodes

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1919, two young policemen work in the spa town of Luhacovice. They solve crimes with a light touch in the early days of Czechoslovakia.

lightheartednostalgicgentle humorperiod atmosphereeasygoingwhimsicalrelaxedbreezy

What happens

Četníci z Luhačovic (Policemen of Luhačovice) is a Czech crime television series. Its creative producer was Jan Maxa, the author of the project and main scriptwriter Petr Bok, Tomáš Feřtek also participated in the scripts. Directed by Biser A. Arichtev, Peter Bebjak and Dan Wlodarczyk. The plot of the series takes place in 1919. The central pair of young First Republic policemen were portrayed by Robert Hájek and Martin Donutil. The premiere of the first part took place on 6 January 2017. The series loosely followed on from the successful series Četnické humoresky. However creative producer of the Czech Television, David Ziegelbauer stated it is a separate project, which is related to the humorous series only by its setting. Czech Television originally planned second season called Četníci ze Znojma (Policemen of Znojmo) to release in 2021 which would see protagonists to relocate to Znojmo but it was cancelled due to lack of finances. Situation changed in 2023 when Jan Souček (director of Brno studio which is responsible for the series) was elected new Director-General of Czech Television stated that he wants to revive the series. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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