Summary
Starting in 1957, screenwriter Jaroslav Dietl began to gain considerable experience in television – and this medium remained his chief domain. But Dietl’s ambitions to make a silver screen breakthrough surfaced in his collectivisation-themed drama Cesta hlubokým lesem (Passing Through a Thick Forest, 1963), followed one year later by Einstein kontra Babinský (Einstein contra Babinský), another Dietl opus ill-suited to a small screen adaptation. In this satirical comedy, director Zdeněk Podskalský accommodated Dietl’s emphatic wish to pursue a more experimental form of storytelling. A group of friends from varying backgrounds are joined together through common experiences; the film playfully combines elements of silent film slapstick, civilism, and a piece of political agitprop. Josef Bek and Lubomír Lipský – actors with highly contrasting backgrounds – star as an honest inventor and a cunning crook.
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