In the 1930s, Czechoslovakian films were a glorious lot — delirious, adroitly made and sumptuously filmed on location. One such dazzler is the 1934 comedy masterpiece Hej-Rup! (Heave-Ho!) from director Martin Fric (the Czechs’ grand old man of the movies, he started his career in 1919). What gives this movie…
