Josef Somr
Popularity:0.2536
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1934-04-15
Place of Birth:Vracov, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
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Also Known As:J. Somr

Closely Watched Trains (1966)
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity....

Hele, on letí! (1986)
The eighteen-year-old young man will one day make a living as a shoemaker, but his greatest love is hang gliding, for which he is willing to...

Kaviár jen pro přátele (1970)
A comedy about four "friendly" couples whose honesty, sincerity and also selfishness are put to an unexpected test. One of them, František,...

Já jsem Stěna smrti (1979)
An aging street stuntman plans new equipment to make his motorcycle stunts even more impressive, but his daughter wants to end his nomadic life in a...

Proč nevěřit na zázraky (1978)
Wartime events from a child's perspective were a popular theme during the previous regime - here it is a twelve-year-old village boy who experiences...

Radost až do rána (1979)
A psychological story about dissatisfied individuals who despise the stereotypes of others, but create their own. Kazan, a vagabond through life, and...

Pytláci (1982)
Emigrants rarely do well abroad, which is why they often return to their homeland. At least, that's what the film The Poachers claims. But the long...

Brontosaurus (1980)
Tomás lives in a very small Czech town and is a nature lover and a birdwatcher. He struggles to keep the forests he loves clean and constantly...

Začátek dlouhého podzimu (1990)
The film about curious children who discover a sunken statue of Masaryk in a disused well was interfered with by the events of November and the...

The Snowdrop Festival (1984)
This movie is based on texts of Bohumil Hrabal, world-known Czech prosaic. It's a story (in a form of a mosaic of short episodes and pictures) about...

Čestné kolo (1989)
The theme is inspired by the real life stories of Czechoslovak cyclists Jan Vesely and Jan Kubro. It offers us a look behind the scenes of big races,...

The Three Veterans (1984)
It is a story of three veterans released from the army. During one night spent camping in the country they one by one wake up and meet three elvish...

Postavení mimo hru (1979)
The psychological story of a young top athlete - hockey player, showing the downside of the all-round care that top athletes enjoy. On the one hand,...

Dva muži hlásí příchod (1975)
An only son, Jirí Valenta (Jaromír Hanzlík), has been drafted to the army. At the barracks he acquires the nickname Seamstress...

Angel (2005)
An angel who ruins everything he touches is sent to Earth to learn about love, forgiveness and selflessness -- and he has just one day to do it.

Of Parents and Children (2008)
On a walk through Prague, a 40-year-old son's conversations with his septuagenarian father reveal complexities that both strain and sustain their...

How Poets Are Enjoying Their Lives (1988)
While Kendy returns to his hometown as an assistant director to film a thirteen-part series with a television crew, Štěpán...

A Nice Plate of Spinach (1977)
The heroes of this absurd comedy, full of confusion and humor are Dzharda Zemanek and Frantisek Liska.

I'm All Good (2008)
This Hrebejk’s comedy is set in Prague, four years after the democratic “Velvet revolution” of 1989. This was an era of sudden...

Svatba na bitevním poli (2008)
In the small Moravian town of Zvěstov, all the men live for historical battles. They represent the French army, led by their mayor Touchyn (Bolek...

Morgiana (1972)
Jealous of her vapidly "good" sister's popularity, poisonous Viktoria doses pretty Klara's tea with a slow-acting fatal substance. As the latter...

Něco je ve vzduchu (1981)
The urn supposedly containing the remains of Alice's grandfather falls out of the window and breaks. To Alice's great surprise, the urn is empty and...

How the World Is Losing Poets (1982)
Inseparable friends Štěpán and Kendy are students in their final year of high school. When they are in the principal's office after...

Konec básníků v Čechách... (1993)
Dr. Štěpán, dismissed for his outspokenness, returns to his hometown determined not to bend his ethical principles to the ruthless new...

How Poets Are Losing Their Illusions (1985)
A story about a young medical school student and his adventures.

The Poets Never Lose Hope (2004)
After his mother's death, a man tries to sort out his declining relationship, live-in best friend, a career opportunity and a potential new romance.

The Devil Knows Why (2003)
A good king rules this land, but still things are going from bad to worse. The point is that the greedy Minister of State has an interesting pact...

The Joke (1969)
In the 1950s, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he...

Mature Wine (1981)
A loose sequel to the 1976 comedy Stormy Wine. The screenwriters and the director recreate on screen a number of characters from the South Moravian...

Můžeš mi odpustit? (1982)
In the hall of the Central Station, by a coincidence of unpleasant circumstances, the couple meet. They were both supposed to be somewhere else at...

Velká sázka o malé pivo (1982)
The year is 1946 and the story takes us to a great bar among the characters of Prague's gallery. A professional conman, commonly known as "The...

The Last One Will Go to Hell (1982)
A historical film that takes place on the eve of the thirty year war combines aspects of fairy-tales with historical dramas, fencing with a child...

Oldies but Goldies (2012)
A bitter-sweet comedy about two people who wish to live life to the full despite their age. Ota is a retired high-school teacher and at this point in...

Angel in a Devil's Body (1984)
In a chateau near Prague there is a chantry and brothel Riviera, designed for the clientele from the higher circles. Mrs. Gábi...

Attention, Rounds! (1982)
A story about an everyday life of an inflectional department of Prague hospital.

Kinoautomat (1971)
Kinoautomat was the world's first interactive movie, conceived by Radúz Činčera for the Czechoslovak Pavilion at Expo '67 in Montreal. At...

A Man Who Rose in Price (1968)
Mr. Benda, a married father of two children, works for a company that liquidates old banknotes. After one drunken party, he is visited by a painter...

Piknik (1968)
Pacific Island - 1945. Five American soldiers were sent to reconnoiter the Japanese rear. Surrounded by unpredictable jungle and terrible heat, they...

Spravedlnost pro Selvina (1968)
The fate of the insignificant poet Leonard Undene is transposed into the media atmosphere of the late 1960s. An ironic image of the times, a black...

Prague Nights (1969)
A stuffy middle-aged foreigner, a businessman named Fabricius, lonely and looking for a night's diversion, finds it in the form of a mysterious...

Královský slib (2001)
Our story begins years later. A grand engagement is being planned in the kingdom. The prince has come of age. The time has come for him to marry the...

Skřivánčí ticho (1990)
The hero of the story is a forty-something intellectual, a sensitive composer of classical music. His exclusive profession, his work, which is...

Adelheid (1970)
In the aftermath of World War II, a soldier takes charge of a manor formerly owned by a German family and falls in love with the daughter, now a...

Fools and a Girl (1988)
A coming of age drama about a young boy Jirka who lives in Prague.

Waiting for the Rain (1978)
It’s a hot holiday season in the city and Alena is pretty much left to her own little self, fantasizing and running her personal daily rituals,...

Svědkyně (1991)
Mrs Hrabětová is exactly the type of person who is called a "woman of the people". A bit of a housekeeper, a bit of a do-gooder. She suffers...

Granny (1971)
A tale based on novel by Czech writer Bozena Nemcova.

Halt, Or I'll Miss! (1998)
It is April 1945, spring begins and ends the war. German transport heading away from Bohemia.

Oil Lamps (1971)
In 1900, Stepha, the vivacious 30 year old daughter of a wealthy couple, agrees to marry her cousin Paul, who has accumulated large debts as an...

The Death of Black King (1972)
Prague in the 1930s. A young, pretty girl gets on a crowded tram. She immediately catches the attention of a young man who not only appreciates the...

Blázni, vodníci a podvodníci (1981)
A crazy comedy, turning into a grotesque with a number of absurd elements, tells the tangled story of the over-the-top siblings Zuzana and Petr,...

Touha Sherlocka Holmese (1972)
Sherlock Holmes likes to play violin and expects a great career in music. He gets a place in a spa orchestra, but he is again and again distracted by...

A Star Is Falling Upwards (1975)
Švand, a room painter from Strakonice, begins a dizzying career as a pop music star, but he soon discovers that fame is not the most important...

Lucky Loser (2012)
Young Filip is cursed with terrible luck ever since his father dared to outwit Lady Fortune herself, and to make matters worse, Filip falls...

The Blacksmith from Woodham (2013)
The story takes place in the small town of Podlesie, which was once invaded by the Turks. The good fairies were - in good faith - asked for help, but...

The Great Unknown (1970)
Three detective stories, three different views of life and death... Collection of three horror short stories.

Návraty (1972)
A psychological film about the sense of self-fulfillment of a divorced couple over 30 who feel that life is slipping through their fingers. While...

Půlnoční kolona (1973)
A group of soldiers is supposed to ensure the smooth nighttime passage of the military convoy through Prague, but things turn out differently....

Vodník a Karolínka (2010)
When Jonáš, a water sprite, and Karolínka, the miller's daughter, fall in love, they don't have it easy. Jonáš's...

Days of Betrayal (1973)
This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot),...

The Liberation of Prague (1977)
On 20th of April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germany and Hitler decides to commit suicide. In...

Love Your Enemies (2005)
The story of a Swiss woman and a Czech man, who changed hundreds of lives.

The Valley of the Bees (1968)
Cast out by his father, young Ondrej joins the Order of the Teutonic Knights, where he is raised by strict monk Armin. After years of hardship,...

Smoke on the Potato Fields (1977)
In this character study by Czech director Frantisek Vlacil, a stout middle-aged physician whose marriage has come apart establishes a practice in a...

Kačenka a zase ta strašidla (1993)
This time, the eight-year-old girl must fight to keep her parents from turning the House of Horrors, which she received as a gift from her...

Poslední ples na rožnovské plovárně (1975)
This story from the time of the occupation tells how the students of the teachers' institute decided to hold a traditional ball despite the ban....

Boys Will Be Boys (1976)
Three friends - Tomás, Hubert and Jozka - are boys growing up in a little town. Tomás lives with his aunt Apolena and uncle...

Half a House Without a Groom (1981)
The Francs with their daughters Olina and Jirina are building a villa in the village of Rezkovice. Father Franc (Vladimír Mensík)...

Murder in the Excelsior Hotel (1971)
In Vražda v hotelu Excelsior, the interwar period homicide detective squad from Prague investigates the murder of a wealthy woman, Mrs...

Hamlet (1986)
The production of Shakespeare's Hamlet with František Němec in the title role (premiered at the Smetana Theatre in 1982) was far from...

Akáty bílé (1997)
Two itinerant performers in a timeless, unnamed land rescue an abandoned infant. As they care for the child, they clash with the realm’s...

Na konci světa (1975)
In the 1950s, selected basic soldiers in a small border unit guard the western border with devotion, fighting intruders and uncovering their network...

Plavení hříbat (1976)
The holidays of Vince Adamek, a student of the agricultural school in his native village in South Moravia, are purely working. He likes his job as a...

Miss Golem (1973)
It is the 1920's. The good-looking hostess Věra demonstrates household robots to visitors of the Futurum exhibition. Young inventor Petr comes to...

Pomerančový kluk (1976)
A quarrel between divorced waitress Mája and her fifteen-year-old son Petr ends with the boy physically attacking his mother, and he is sent...

Max, Sally and the Magic Phone (2001)
Max and Sally, the heroes of popular Czech animated series are leaving the TV in order to become a regular boy and girl.

Sebechlebskí hudci (1975)
Two Sebechleby musicians, Peter and Jakub, and their guardian Klimo set out in the mid-17th century to rescue the noblewoman Dóciová,...

Ghosts of the Dormers (1988)
A tale about a young girl whose grandfather has built a garden of horrors.

The End of Old Times (1990)
Czechoslovakia 1918. The newly formed National Assembly has made Stoklasa the administrator of the Kratochvile Castle. Although with no aristocratic...

Kdo se bojí, utíká (1987)
In a school somewhere in the border region, a young teacher is trying to integrate Romani children into the classroom. But their families remain...

Modré z nebe (1984)
The fantastic world of little Thomas, who conjured up beauty and happiness.

Smrt mouchy (1977)
Seventeen-year-old student Milan wants to get rid of his morbid fear of flies, which originated sometime in his childhood. Only then will he feel...

Summer with a Cowboy (1976)
The main characters are a young psychologist Doubravka and a village youth, Honza Macháček. He is a tractor driver who temporarily lost his...

Monkey's Playtime (1978)
The fisherman Fuksa fishes in the creek an old bottle and he sells it to innkeeper Merta. When Merta opens it, a genie appears, who can fulfill all...

Helimadoe (1993)
A lyrical story from the beginning of 20th century, with the atmosphere of a small-town environment, distinctive characters, and a subtle analysis of...

Zvonící meče (2001)
This loose sequel to the fairy tale Crossed Swords reunites you with the clever and brave Princess Alexandra, who is now accompanied by her loyal and...

Zázračné meče (2002)
The third and final installment of the fairy-tale fencing comedies Crossed Swords and Ringing Swords. Once again, they are full of intrigue and...

Zkřížené meče (1998)
A fairy tale full of intrigue, duels, and love. The very title of this fairy tale suggests that there will be fighting. What else could it be but a...

Evropa tančila valčík (1989)
Otakar Vávra dedicated his latest film to events accompanying the devastation of the first World War. It takes place in representative centers...

Paper Sleeve (1993)
The title character of this somewhat bitter comedy is Klára Zárubecká, a saleswoman at a train station buffet, a resolute and...

Hřbitov pro cizince (1991)
A tragicomic story from a tragicomic time - this is how one could characterize Jiří Hubac's play, which premiered in May 1991. The drama of...

Indians from Vetrov (1979)
In the frontier village Vetrov boys from the children's home called Indians lead a bitter "war" with the local Símáks. Before a battle...

Windstorm (1967)
A worker steals bits and pieces of building materials from work to construct a new home for himself and his girlfriend. When he discovers that...

One of Them Is the Murderer (1971)
Marek (Jirí Holý), formerly a driver of a long-distance lorry, has served his term for smuggling art works abroad and is released from...

Hubert the Smart Boy (1985)
Hubert Hrabe, known as Smart Boy, is a Prague dandy who is always skirting the edge of the law. Like every likable rogue, he has a worthy adversary -...

Funeral Ceremony (1969)
Matylda (Jaroslava Ticha), who lives in the Czech countryside, is trying to arrange burial plans for her dying husband, Jan (Ludvik Kroner). While...

The Oddsockeaters (2016)
Oddsockeaters are small invisible creatures, responsible for socks that go missing when we only have one left from a pair. But unlike them,...

The Giants (1970)
A blue dwarf and a red dwarf get into a vicious argument. Each ultimately calls upon a matching giant to protect them, with unexpected results.

Konecná stanica (2004)
A Slovak film adaptation of the eponymous play Radošina Naive Theatre. Time stood still at a small and neglected Slovak railway station. The...

The Motive for Murder (1975)
A short story film depicting the three different faces of crime. In the short story "The Weekend", Karas kills a woman he raped some time ago in...

Zelňačka (1996)
Czech TV adaptation of the french novel "La Soupe aux choux", previously adapted for the cinema in France, with De Funès ("Cabbage Soup",...

Young Wine (1986)
Third wine session, this time with a computer. The film was made in direct relation to the audience success of the previous two: "Stormy Wine" and...

Hotel for Strangers (1967)
A gifted poet checks into a Gothic hotel in hopes of meeting the woman with whom he has long been enamored. He is surrounded by a variety of offbeat...

The Secret of Steel City (1979)
The film is a metaphor for the Cold War. It depicts two neighbouring nations: peace loving Fortuna and the not so peaceful land of the Steel City.

Black Barons (1992)
Life of Czechoslovak soldiers in a military unit for the so called "politically unreliable" - the Technical auxiliary battalions, aka "the black...

My Sweet Little Village (1985)
The movie's main storyline follows the life of Otík, a young man, in a tight-knit village community. The sweet-tempered Otík works as...

Vrtkavý král (1975)
The historical television play was written based on Vančura's Pictures from the History of the Czech Nation and takes place against the backdrop of...

Bankrot (2003)
A black comedy about suicides. Good old England, 1937—a spooky night scene on the moors, silhouettes of trees, the distant silhouette of a...

Little Witch on a Broomstick (2011)
Three hundred years after she fled the Witch Academy for love, Saxána has settled into a comfortable human life with her husband and daughter,...

Spravedlivý Bohumil (1998)
A childless royal couple begs God in vain for a child. The impatient king then asks the devil himself. Soon after, the queen gives birth to a...

The Ninth Heart (1979)
Martin, a poor student, volunteers to go on a quest to find a cure for the princess Adriana, who is stricken with a strange illness. Unknown to...

Nikola Šuhaj loupežník (1978)
The merging of reality with legend, the image of reality (Ruthenian Verkhovyna in the 1920s) and its reflection in people's minds - this is what...

Tažní ptáci (1984)
The sequel to the film Icarus focuses on the further fates of pianist Kára, who decided to fight the demon of alcohol. With the support of his...

Povodeň (2005)
It was a fateful August, and devastating floods ravaged Bohemia. Mrs. Gabriela lived alone in a spacious apartment near Prague. Perhaps she just...

Vyvraždění rodiny Greenů (2002)
A detective story set in New York in the 1920s.

The Divine Emma (1979)
The opera lady singer Ema Destinnová is in all her splendor at the American stages. But in Europe there rages war and she decides to return...

30 Maidens and Pythagoras (1977)
A musical starring Jiří Menzel (whose part is sung by Achilles Michailidis) as a math and physics teacher employing innovative teaching...

Silvestr svobodného pána (1979)
How will the irresistible darling of women, the seducer and the eternal philanderer cope when several of his "loves" unexpectedly appear in his...

Comrades (1971)
Chytilová was not allowed to direct films between 1969 and 1976. The sole exception was the made-for-TV film Kamarádi, now virtually...

Švédská zápalka (1983)
The aging police commissioner, who has a twenty-five-year-old fiancée, Olga, is disturbed at his sixtieth birthday party by the news from the...

Dům U Zlatého úsvitu (2009)
Magic and spells in the peaceful town of Jack-o'-lantern, which you will not find on any map. A funny story telling you how a magician's visit can...

Probuzená skála (2004)
A poor girl named Sanchika longs to find a mysterious treasure hidden in the rocks. In the end, she realizes that the greatest treasure, love, can be...

Čas pracuje pro vraha (1980)
Vera, wife of the plumber Simandl (Josef Somr), is found murdered in the cinema next to the IDOC (Information and Documentation) agency where she...

Velký případ (2000)
Based on the novel by French writer Jean Labord, who was a long-time court reporter for the Paris newspaper France-Soir, Jiří Hubač wrote a...

Zvláštní případ (1971)
Lieutenant Vasátko is spending Christmas vacation in a mountain cabin where a diverse group of people have gathered. The painter Horác...

Those Wonderful Movie Cranks (1979)
Returning home to Prague, the magician Pasparte, an owner of a circus caravan, meets his dying colleague who entrusts his beautiful daughter Aloisie...

Kam nikdo nesmí (1979)
Lucie Rýdlová is found dead at a destroyed car after a night accident. The seat position shows that she cannot have been driving, and...

Dilino a čert (2009)
"Why is my son stupid?" laments the poor Roma coal miner. His son Dilino is a nice boy, but he still causes his parents a lot of worry. He hasn't...

Dvě z policejní brašny (1997)
Two short stories in which novice detective Sergeant Zahrádka is tasked with carrying out trivial orders, which he fails to do due to his...

Defendant (1964)
Managers at the construction of a big hydro plant are accused of having embezzled money.

Na zámku (2000)
Olga, a young and sensitive governess, comes to an impoverished aristocratic family full of ideals and determination to love the children entrusted...

Eugene among Us (1990)
Young Eugene from the provinces travels to Prague in search of fame. Once there he gets an offer to write engagé lyrics for pop songs...

Long White Yard (1970)
The relationship between a mother and daughter living in a village, the confrontation of two lives - the life that is ending and the life that is...

Fruit of Paradise (1970)
An experimental retelling of the story of Adam and Eve which then progresses into an allegorical depiction of the loss of innocence.

Pamětnice (2009)
Former classmates meet after sixty years at a school reunion, undoubtedly their last, face to face with their classmate Miluška...

Povídka Malostranská (1981)
A young man studying law finds a place to stay with a young conductor, thinking that he will find an idyllic Lesser Town atmosphere here and will be...

Maharal – Tajemství talismanu (2007)
The thrilling and fantastic story of three Prague children, Alena, David, Ondra, and the charismatic treasure hunter Aaron Cohen, takes us to the...

Travis (1997)
A horror film cut almost in the British style, with the very English František Němec, the grumpy coachman Josef Somr, an abandoned country...

O chytrém Honzovi (1985)
A fairy tale about Hansel, who liked to lie on the stove for days, but in the end, with the help of fairy-tale creatures, he defeated the dragon.

Dobří holubi se vracejí (1989)
The film is a concert of well-known actors from an alcohol rehab where a middle-aged man has taken refuge to get rid of his addiction. In the rehab,...

Zatykač na královnu (1974)
Captain Záruba investigates after an anonymous tip flags the seemingly extravagant lifestyle of Chemotex technician Dagmar...

Vinobraní (1982)
In a South Moravian wine-growing village in the early 1970s lives an old man who cannot accept the attitude of the younger generation towards nature...

Zálety koňského handlíře (1991)
Boccaccio's famous Decameron brings ten beautiful stories that were told to pass the time by those who escaped from certain death from Florence when...

Jasnovidec (1981)
The story of the chief prosecutor Dr. Klapka - a self-confident, cold-blooded, calculating man who lives in the comfort befitting his position - and...

Krásná paní ševcová (1974)
The cheerful farce tells the story of the charming wife of an Andalusian shoemaker, a charming beauty who attracts the eyes of a crowd of cavaliers....

Bianka Braselli, dáma s dvěma hlavami (1986)

Zdivočelá země (1997)
After World War II, fighter pilot Antonín Maděra returns from England to his native village in the Ore Mountains to forget the hardships and...

Malvína (2007)
The fairy queen banished the young fairy from her court forever. A young lieutenant finds her abandoned on a moor. He is enchanted by her beauty, and...

Lesní panna (1973)
The innkeeper Barnabáš and the teacher Isidor Slovíčko succumb to the lure of old Moreles, to whom the young Taussig sends...

Rainbow Kulick (1985)
Little boy Milan is going to visit his grandfather in the countryside - for a first time.

Čas jeřabin (1997)
Life in a rural retirement home is peaceful, with long-standing friendships and rivalries. One day, the residents find a bedraggled, exhausted person...

Where the Early Bird Catches the Worm (1987)
A clever but often teased boy, is able to clone himself thanks to a stolen formula from a scientist. Time to take revenge on those bullies.

Můj hříšný muž (1987)
A Czech film about love and marital crisis as a work injury.

An Angel Seduces the Devil (1988)
Once again, you can take a look behind the scenes of the Riviera Chateau on the Prague periphery, where a brothel for the socialites is hidden under...

Kačenka a strašidla (1993)
Jindrich Polák's modern fairy tale comedy tells the story of a girl who unexpectedly inherits a fairground amusement - a haunted house from...

Jak se Matěj učil čarodějem (1998)
The robber Voděra had a son named Matěj, whom he sent to learn from his grandfather Dobroděd. He wanted him to grow up to be a decent person....

Třetí táta (1988)
A holiday story about how little Jakub found the right man for his mother. An advertisement in which Mr. Vlk offers free accommodation at his country...

Společník (2003)
Teacher Mikuláš Mysliveček has a considerably small salary at the music school. However, he also has a dominant fiancée,...

Nemocnice na kraji města po dvaceti letech (2003)

Pan Tau (1970)
Pan Tau always had a gentle expression and a friendly smile, he was elegantly dressed in a stroller, with an umbrella and a white carnation in the...

Thirty Cases of Major Zema (1976)
Thirty Cases of Major Zeman is a Czechoslovak action-drama television show intended as a political propaganda to support the official attitude of the...

Případy detektivní kanceláře Ostrozrak (2000)

The Flying Cestmir (1984)
Young boy Cestmir finds a magic rock which allows him to bring the seeds of the flowers which allow flying from Blue Planet...

Nemocnice na kraji města (1978)
Hospital at the End of the City is a popular television series first released in Czechoslovakia in 1977, it featured an ensemble cast and received...

Ďáblova lest (2009)
Sumara, the head of the criminal investigation department, is investigating the case of a girl who was found covered in snake blood. Coincidentally,...

Ďáblova lest (2009)
Sumara, the head of the criminal investigation department, is investigating the case of a girl who was found covered in snake blood. Coincidentally,...