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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Like Lemonade Joe, it turns an old-fashioned adventure into a knowingly artificial Czech spectacle, blending deadpan comedy, songs, romantic derring-do and exuberant visual invention.
02
Why this pick
Its escalating small-town ceremony has Lemonade Joe’s comic precision and satirical bite: a cheerful public ritual gradually exposes vanity, incompetence and collective absurdity.
03
Why this pick
Oldřich Lipský applies the same rapid-fire, stylised parody to crime thrillers—packed with visual gags, genre clichés, broad performances and a buoyantly unreal comic world.
04
Why this pick
Another Lipský carnival of spoofed genre conventions, lavish sets and playful contraptions; it has the same affectionate mock-heroic spirit, musicality and boldly theatrical imagery.
05
Why this pick
Its gothic setting is different, but its mock-serious genre play, choreographed slapstick, stylised period world and elegant visual jokes make it a close tonal cousin.
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01 / THE STORY
In the frontier town of Stetson City, Arizona, in 1885, business is booming at the Trigger Whisky Saloon. Tornado Lou, the local chanteuse, regales the saloon-goers with a sultry ballad ("Když v báru houstne dým"), while the saloon owner Doug Badman tries in vain to woo her. Two evangelism, Ezra Goodman and his daughter Winnifred, enter the bar attempting to drum up interest in their temperance movement, but the saloon's hard-drinking cowboys scorn them. Into the fracas steps a stranger: Lemonade Joe, a lone cowboy singing the praises of Kolaloka, a non-alcoholic soft drink (in Czech, ''limonáda'', hence the name). His superior gunfighting skill quickly convinces the saloon-goers of the benefits of teetotalism. Before long, Joe and the Goodmans have joined forces, Joe has begun courting Winnifred, and all the cowboys in Stetson City have transferred their loyalty to the cathedral-like God Bless Kolaloka Saloon ("Arizóna, to je pravých mužů zóna").
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Horác Badman alias "Hogofogo"
Grimpo
