Run, Waiter, Run!
1981 · Movie · 88 min · ★ 7.2 · 92% critics
A cash-strapped bookshop owner with a weakness for romance stumbles into an easy hustle: posing as a waiter and pocketing payments from unsuspecting diners. As the scheme spreads from restaurant to restaurant, the lies pile up, the situations get more tangled, and the comedy builds into a fast-moving farce.
Also known as Waiter, Scarper!
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Details
- Original title
- Vrchní, prchni
- Years
- 1981
- Release date
- 1981-01-09
- Language
- CS
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Critic score
- 92/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.2/10 (48 votes)
About
If you enjoy clever farce, escalating mix-ups, and a lovable rogue scraping by, this Czech comedy should land well; Not for you if you dislike scams-as-humor, subtitles, or older, reference-heavy comedies like Kolya.
Pros: inventive gags; clever writing; joyful momentum | Cons: puzzling opening; culture-specific references; brief nudity
Cast & crew
Josef Abrhám
as Dalibor Vrána
Libuše Šafránková
as Helenka Vránová
Zdeněk Svěrák
as Pařízek
- DB
Daniela Bakerová
as Pařízková
Eliška Balzerová
as prodavačka Věra
Jiří Kodet
as Rudy
Dagmar Patrasová
as Manuela
Karel Augusta
as Ludva
Zuzana Fišerová
as Douchová
Jiří Hálek
as profesor Přikryl
Directed by Ladislav Smoljak