Summary
This bizarre 1976 sci-fi comedy represents something of an oddity within director Jaromil Jireš’s filmography. Jireš co-wrote the film with Mária Rudlovčáková, who also assisted in his adaptation of a novel by author Vladimír Páral, Mladý muž a bílá velryba (The Young Man and the White Whale, 1977). Vlastimil Brodský plays road repairer Huba, who is distracted from his work by an interest in the cosmos. Though at odds with his job, the hobby proves useful when an alien spaceship crash lands at the city dump. The aliens quickly assimilate into human society. The humanoid alien BA-HU falls in love with the beautiful Maryna; his colleague, professor LU-PU, helps Huba repair the roads in exchange for his helping to repair the ship’s chronometer... Cleverly avoiding the need for any special effects, this feature sees Luděk Sobota playing BA-HU. Iva Janžurová, Dana Medřická and Jan Tříska also appear.
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