Music for Two

A symposium on laughter in film is about to take place at the chateau Zemeč. Doctor Lorenz (Vladimír Krška) selects some apt examples from the archives of older Czech films and driver Jonáš (Václav Sloup) sets out for Zemeč with the footage. But his path is crossed by a charming hitch-hiker (Zlata Adamovská). The girl, who goes by the nickname of “Little Song”, continuously sings, and also messes up the card index for the film excerpts. There’s little time left to get things sorted out, but Jonáš and Lorenz may have a ready solution – to ask Little Song for help. With her exceptional skills, surely she can recognise which films are in which box... This musical comedy from the pre-digital era (specifically, 1979) is in fact cut from segments that film director Zdeněk Míka took from an extensive list of films including Chyťte ho! (Catch Him!, 1924), Život je pes (Life Is a Dog, 1933), Eva tropí hlouposti (Eva Fools Around, 1939), Kristian (1939), U pokladny stál… (He Stood at the Till..., 1939), Přednosta stanice (Station Master, 1941), Právě začínáme (We Are Just Beginning, 1946), Císařův pekař – Pekařův císař (The Emperor’s Baker – The Baker's Emperor, 1951), Hrátky s čertem (Playing with the Devil, 1956), and Kam čert nemůže (Where the Devil Cannot Get, 1959).