Summary
The last entry in Oldřich Lipský’s rich filmography is this 1986 madcap comedy, completed after the director’s death by Zdeněk Podskalský. The film is essentially a feature-length commercial for an exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of the nationalisation of the Czechoslovak film industry, to be held at the Prague U Hybernů venue. The protagonists of the piece are comedians Oldřich Kaiser and Jiří Lábus, who are set to accept an award from Japanese television representatives at the exhibition. At the same time, five gangsters plot to seize a revolutionary invention devised by professor Suzuki – a super holograph, which enables any figure from television to be transported in the flesh into the real world, and vice-versa. The adventure also relies on the exploits of another comedy double act – moneychanger Král (Kaiser) and his retarded worker-helper Lambas (Lábus). Many Czechoslovak actors appear in the film in their most popular on-screen incarnations; for example Rudolf Hrušínský is seen as the bath-keeper from Rozmarné léto (Capricious Summer, 1967).
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