Pan Tau (1970)
Pan Tau (1970)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Currently Pan Tau is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: Amazon Video, Freevee
Streaming in:🇬🇧 United Kingdom
This TV Show Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Jindřich Polák
Creator / Director / Story / Screenplay / Story / Screenplay
Ota Hofman
Creator / Story / Screenplay / Story / Screenplay
Otto Šimánek
Pan Tau
Ladislav Winkelhöfer
Set Decoration
Theodor Pištěk
Costume Design
František Filipovský
Grandfather Urban
Zuzana Máchová
Costumer
Milan Novotný
Sound
Zdena Lukášová
First Assistant Director
Jiřina Bohdalová
Helene Urban
Ivana Nevolová
Script
Jaroslav Bouček
Unit Production Manager
Jan Šuster
Production Manager
Vladimír Menšík
Josef Urban
Karel Škop
Production Manager
Vladimír Petřina
Makeup & Hair
Gustav Bubník
Boy
Jiří Rumler
Special Effects
Josef Vaniš
Director of Photography
Karel Höger
Narrator
Jiří Malásek
Original Music Composer
Magdalena Šebestová
Káta
Jiří Bažant
Original Music Composer
Vlastimil Hála
Original Music Composer
Veronika Helcelová
Claudie
František Belfín
Conductor
Vlastimil Brodský
Málek
Jiří Hlupý
Set Designer
Zdeněk Stehlík
Editor
Jan Werich
Pan Viola
Jan Petrů
Set Decoration
Miroslav Hrachovec
Set Designer
Stanislav Látal
Art Direction / Art Designer / Animation
Stanislava Procházková
Art Designer / Animation
Vladimír Malík
Camera Operator
Jaroslav Tuzar
Director of Photography
Miloš Petrolín
Camera Operator
Jiří Šafář
Camera Operator / Special Effects
Milan Novák
Makeup & Hair
Jan Kropáček
Costume Design
Růžena Plašilová
Makeup & Hair
Pavla Marková
Script
Marcela Pittermannová
Dramaturgy
Vlasta Pospíšilová
Special Effects / Animation
Frank Towen
Choreographer
Josef Sandr
First Assistant Director
Vladimír Zelenka
Co-Director
Elmar Kloss
First Assistant Director
Josef Dobřichovský
Editor
Gustav Rohan
Production Manager
Martin Baroch
Unit Production Manager
Jan Syrový
Unit Production Manager
Dana Dudová
Production Manager / Unit Production Manager
Jiří Kejř
Sound
Jaromír Svoboda
Sound
Adolf Böhm
Sound
Magda Hrnčířová
Vocals
Ivo Fischer
Lyricist
František Husák
Petr Čepek
Otto Budín
Viktor Maurer
Beda Lak
Marie Rosůlková
L. Slepičková
P. Sýkora
Věra Tichánková
Věra Ferbasová
Stanislav Vyskočil
Jan Sedláček
Josef Filip
Michal Hofbauer
Zdena Hadrbolcová
Jiří Kodet
Milena Zahrynowská
Miloš Kopecký
Hana Hátleová
Jana Skřivánková
Zdeněk Dítě
Miroslav Homola
Milivoj Uzelac
Conductor
Luděk Kopřiva
Josef Hlinomaz
Vladimír Stach
Josef Dvořák
Václav Kotva
Jan Cmíral
Zuzana Ondrouchová
Rudolf Kalina
Václav Neckář
Vocals
Bohumil Švarc
Miloš Nesvadba
Hana Čížková
Vlasta Jelínková
Josef Bek
Nelly Gaierová
Bohumil Šmída
Petr Nárožný
Elena Strupková
Milan Riehs
Marta Kaňovská
Martina Červená
Zdeněk Martínek
Dagmar Patrasová
Pavel Landovský
Karel Mareš
Ivo Gübel
Vladimír Hrabánek
Jaroslav Moučka
Jarmila Smejkalová
Ema Skálová
Eliška Velímská
Lorna Vančurová
Jiří Vondráček
František Kovářík
Jaroslav Štercl
Jiří Vala
Jiří Hrzán
Jaroslav Ševčík
František Peterka
Stanislav Fišer
Milan Neděla
Oldřich Musil
Josef Somr
Jana Hlaváčová
František Hanus
Svatopluk Beneš
Václav Lohniský
Julie Jurištová
David Kopřiva
Tomáš Vacek
Marie Štiková
Lenka Pekárková
Antonín Krčmář
Ivana Trump
Zuzana Řepová
Laděna Kumperová
Vladimír Hlavatý
Jana Sedlmajerová
Jan Skopeček
Eliška Sirová
Vladimír Horka
Mahulena Bočanová
Karel Effa
Ladislav Krečmer
Ladislav Potměšil
Lubomír Kostelka
Josef Vondráček
Václav Hladík
Jiří Lábus
Tomáš Murdych
Lubomír Lipský
Lenka Termerová
Miroslav Vydlák
Leoš Suchařípa
Raoul Schránil
Jindřich Narenta
Karel Polišenský
Slávka Budínová
Jiří Sovák
Media.
Details.
Release DateDecember 13, 1970
StatusEnded
Seasons3
Episodes33
Running Time30m
Genres
Wiki.
Pan Tau (Czech for "Mr. Tau") is a character created for a children's television series. There were 33 episodes in 3 series made by the Czechoslovak Television (ČST) in cooperation with Barrandov Studios and the West German TV network Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR). A pilot film was shot in 1966, and 33 episodes were made from 1970 until 1979. The project ended with a feature film in 1988.
The protagonist Pan Tau, who generally didn't speak and communicated through pantomime, was played by Otto Šimánek (1925–1992). The series was written by Ota Hofman and directed by Jindřich Polák. The stories were generally funny but contained some kind of problem for a child, and here Pan Tau found the way to solve the problem.
Pan Tau always had a gentle expression and a friendly smile, he was elegantly dressed in a stroller, with an umbrella and a white carnation in the lapel. Foremost, he was famous for his magic bowler hat. By tapping on his hat, Pan Tau was able to change his appearance into a puppet, to conjure up miscellaneous objects or to do other magic. His most characteristic behaviour is that he would help children who were experiencing some sort of difficulties in-between their dreams and reality, like finding a place for skiing, settling family problems on Christmas, and even give a boy a good time at a fair when he is supposed to have piano lessons. To adults, he usually remained invisible.
Although Czechoslovakia then was under a Communist regime, this never was very obvious for the viewers. And Pan Tau was a popular children program in several countries at both sides of the Iron Curtain (such as in both West and East Germany and also in the Scandinavian countries), which also appealed to the adult parents in a certain degree.
Theodor Pištěk designed the costumes for the series.
Ten years after the end of the series, Šimánek again appeared as Pan Tau in a 1988 cinema film. He was also featured in Nena's 1990 music video for Du bist überall ("You Are Everywhere", from the Wunder gescheh'n studio album), which was shot in Prague.
In 2020 a reboot with Matt Edwards as Pan Tau produced by German broadcaster ARD was broadcast.