Ladislav Rychman — Playwright (3)

Movie

Grandmothers Recharge Well! (1984)
„Babičky dobíjejte přesně!“ WikiData IMDb TMDB
other title: „Babičky dobíjejte přesně!“ / Babičky dobíjejte přesně!
A family purchases a home robot designed to look like a grandmum. Their neighbours immediately buy a more expensivve model as the two families always try to up the other one. Both grandmums start to "terorize" their families because they were set up to ensure the mums exercise, the kids study etc. Apart from that they start causing problems to the other family ... cut ropes with hanging clothes, pierced tires, etc. Once they get to killing each other family's pets the parents get really worried about the safety of their kids. The grannys later destroy each other while fighting and the families decide that they'll be better off without any robots. (It's some time since I saw this so the details may be off.) Mainly thanks to the design of the robots it's rather a comedy than a horror. Unless you are ten. And a rather good comedy!

Movie

The Hop Pickers (1964)
Starci na chmelu Douban
Ladislav Rychman actor: Libuse Havelková / Irena Kacírková …
other title: 啤酒花采集者 / Starci na chmelu
This Czech musical deals with adolescent morality and bureaucracy without being heavy handed. Under school supervision, a group of pre-teen boys and girls are busy picking hops. One boy who seeks privacy builds a secret hideaway in an attic. When a schoolgirl finds him in his retreat, innocent puppy-love blossoms, but a jealous classmate tells the teacher about the two friends, and they are suspended from school. The boy and girl accept their punishment and form an even stronger bond. The two leave the school together while their classmates ostracize the jealous informant. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide