Summary
At the dawning of the period of “normalisation” in Czechoslovakia, a crazy comedy was released. Quite deliberately, it had nothing to do with the reality in the country at the start of the 1970s. The screenplay, turning on the battle of two beautiful women for a man, came from the experienced screenwriter Jaroslav Dietl, based on an idea from the main characters, Jana Brejchová and Vlastimil Brodský, who played the couple Dagmar and the elegant genius and senior lecturer Dr. Kostohryz. Dagmar is like Ester (Iva Janžurová) an energetic assistant to Kostohryz. Zdeněk Podskalský, the director, let his black humour flow, shooting a relaxing entertainment with some of the acting elite of the times. It is clear that even the leading characters plainly enjoyed the shooting. Brodský and Brejchová also starred in two other Podskalský films: Ženu ani květinou neuhodíš (You Don’t Strike a Woman Even with a Flower, 1966) and Noc na Karlštejně (Night at Karlštejn, 1973).
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