Marek, reich mir die Feder!

Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (Czech: Marečku, podejte mi pero!) is a 1976 Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Oldřich Lipský. The film gained de facto cult status, many of its phrases and sentences becoming idiomatic in Czech language, e.g. “–Jak to chodí? –Chodí to výborně, ale neseje to” (“–How does it work? –It works great, but it doesn't sow.”) about a sowing machine.

Jiří Kroupa (Jiří Sovák) is a man in his forties who is a team leader in a factory manufacturing agricultural machinery. He has an opportunity for promotion, but for that he needs to obtain a highschool graduation diploma. Kroupa resists vehemently, but is finally persuaded to enroll in the evening classes at a highschool where he is joined by a motley group of men and women of the same age group. Having found themselves in school again, the middle-aged Kroupa and his fellow students soon start acting like teenagers and with this and the teachers who find themselves instructing people their senior in the evenings and their children during the day, situation quickly gets out of hand.

Geographical mentions: The movie often refers to a region Bohemian-Moravian highland. Plha is from Kojčice - a small village near Pelhřimov (district town). Another famous fictitious person - which is mentioned many times - but never appears in the film is Hliník (alluminium - Al). He never starts school as he moved to Humpolec - a bigger town in the same region as the above-mentioned. Quite a number of comical situations are based on Hliník name's similarity to the metal aluminium. The phrase "Hliník moved to Humpolec" became very popular and led to the creation of Hliník's museum and memorial plaque to the most famous citizen of Humpolec. People often bring aluminium subjects to his memorial plaque.