Summary
An academic education is not entirely useless – why it can even be effective in the fight against saboteurs being mounted by a small border patrol unit. And look, it is the autumn of 1950 and new lance corporal Maryška, a scholar of Latin and Greek, is arriving. The scenario he faces is thus: It turns out that the new innkeeper Šebek is providing assistance to the cussed, evil-minded agents from the other side of the border. Maryška considers the testimony of a detained butcher from Karlovy Vary. As an expert on the philosopher Diogenes, he astutely discovers that the agents are being transported in empty beer barrels... The theme of “sophistication” was brought into this forgettable 1975 Ivo Novák motion picture by Drahoslav Makovička, who cooperated in several detective story film productions as the screenwriter and supervisor of dramaturgy. The vigilant border patrol members are played by Oldřich Vízner, Jiří Krampol and Bronislav Križan. The wretched innkeeper who is eventually crushed by the iron hand of the law is portrayed by Jiří Zahajský.
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