Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977)

Jan is a decent, boring man, living a decent, boring life as a rocket designer. When his adventurous twin brother dies in a breakfast accident, Jan decides to impersonate him, unwittingly becoming a part of a Nazi time travel conspiracy.

Director:

Jindrich Polák

Writers:

Josef Nesvadba (story), Milos Macourek (screenplay)

Stars:

Petr Kostka, Jirí Sovák, Vladimír Mensík

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Petr Kostka	...	Jan Bures / Karel Bures
Jirí Sovák	...	Klaus Abard
Vladimír Mensík	...	Rolf Kraus
Vlastimil Brodský	...	Ing. Bauer
Marie Rosulková	...	Shirley White
Otto Simánek	...	Patrick White
Valerie Chmelová	...	Helena
Slávka Budínová	...	Kroupová
Josef Vetrovec	...	Kroupa
Zuzana Ondrouchová	...	Eva
Frantisek Vicena	...	Adolf Hitler
Marie Drahokoupilová	...	Markéta Nolová
Josef Bláha	...	Rousek
Frantisek Peterka	...	Robert Nol
Ota Sklencka	...	Dr. Kryl

Storyline

Former Nazi Klaus Abard survives to the 1990s by taking anti-aging pills. He plans to use a time travel trip to return to Germany in 1944 and present Hitler with a hydrogen bomb, so that he can win the war. Unfortunately the pilot, woman-chasing Karel Bures, dies on the morning of the trip and his earnest twin brother Jan impersonates him, without knowing about the plot. The plot goes wrong when they lose the bomb and land near Hitler's bunker in 1941, at a time that the Nazis sense victory. Bures, with two of the plotters, escape capture by the Nazis and make it back to the time machine. Bures programs the machine to return one day before they left, because he figures he can then save his brother and foil the plot.

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Plot Keywords:

time travel | twin brother | dark comedy | adolf hitler character | nazi | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance | Sci-Fi | War

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Did You Know?

Trivia

The Universum hallways were filmed in the newly built subway system in Prague.

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Quotes

Shirley White: Patrick, it's Hitler! Yes it is Hitler! Patrick, you must take a picture of me with him!

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Connections

Referenced in Ferat Vampire (1982)

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Soundtracks

Tango Notturno
Written by Hans-Otto Borgman
Performed by Pola Negri

User Reviews

Still fun after all these years

Like many people here, I first saw this film when the BBC showed it back in the eighties. It also turned up at an SF convention in England in the early nineties when one of their guests was Josef Nesvadba who wrote the original story. Then last year I found out it was available on DVD in the Czech Republic and found someone who knew someone that was going there for Christmas. I saw it again last night, and it is still fun.

The special effects might not be very special, but it handles the time paradoxes very well, in a way that appeals to me as a fan primarily of written SF. The scenes in the corridors of the time travel company where the tour guides are all done up in historical costumes are hilarious. The best time travel farce I've ever seen.

Incidentally, Josef Nesvadba died in 2005. Isn't about time his date of death was added to his page?

Details

Country:

Czechoslovakia

Language:

Czech

Release Date:

1 August 1977 (Czechoslovakia)

Also Known As:

Zítra vstanu a opařím se čajem

Company Credits

Production Co:

Filmové studio Barrandov

Technical Specs

Runtime:

93 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color