Which Czechoslovak director made the 1964 film Lemonade Joe?

Oldřich Lipský directed the 1964 Czechoslovak film Lemonade Joe.

Its Czech title is Limonádový Joe aneb koňská opera, or Lemonade Joe, or The Horse Opera. The film is a Western musical parody centered on a clean-living gunfighter who promotes Kolaloka, a non-alcoholic soft drink, while battling whiskey-drinking cowboys.

Lipský worked from a story, stage play, and screenplay connected with writer Jiří Brdečka, who created the character in a 1940 serial. The film satirizes American Western conventions, commercial advertising, and the cultural fascination with the American frontier in Central Europe. Its visual style borrows from silent comedy, animation, and classic singing-cowboy movies.

Lemonade Joe was released in Czechoslovakia in October 1964 and became one of the country’s most popular films of the decade. The title character’s name is a pun involving the Czech word limonáda, meaning a soft drink. Miloš Forman and Jiří Menzel were prominent Czech filmmakers, but neither directed this film.