Summary
Director Martin Frič's first independent collaboration with Vlasta Burian was a hilarious play in which the popular comedian portrayed a musical instrument maker who is to be imprisoned for insulting the imperial majesty. Anton Spelec did not receive the coveted decoration from the Sharpshooters' Association, got blatantly drunk and did not keep his mouth shut. He decides to send his employee to prison instead, but he sends a sick vagrant behind bars... The farce, which returns to the Austro-Hungarian period, was based on a 1932 play by Emil Arthur Longen, whose other subject had already inspired Burian's popular comedy C. After the success of Anton Špelc, Martin Frič was one of Burian's court directors for several years: together they made His Highness' Adjutant, A Hero of a Night, Three Eggs in the Glass, Catacombs and Baron Prášil.
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