Žena, která ví, co chce

Czech film had no experience with contemporary operettas by Oscar Strauss. It is therefore very easy to misunderstand this great narrative film. Czech film of the 1930s had a hard time finding its relationship to operetta; the original film operetta was written by Piskáček and the most popular pieces were the ones that were the most human. It was therefore natural for someone who had always felt cosmopolitan to turn to the latest international piece, which premiered in Berlin in the autumn of 1932. And indeed, within two years, two simultaneous language versions of A Woman Who Knows What She Wants were released. Binovec cast one of his many delicate discoveries, Markéta Krausová, in the lead role. We can only regret that she preferred the theater, as this way, we are left with only a fraction of her art in cinema. (14.03.2020)