František Bohdal

A comedy about two bumbling policemen investigating an alleged rape in a small Czech town. One of the alleged rapists is supposed to get married the day he's locked up.

In the morning twilight of Prague, the dead body of the safe-breaker Toufar is found floating on the river Vltava with a knife in his back. Police inspectors visit Toufar's lover, the prostitute Anna Kulatá (Jirina Bohdalová), nicknamed Umbrella, and it is apparent that the moment before she opened the door of her flat, someone fled through the window. Umbrella is summoned for examination to the head of the criminal police - Police Councilman Vacátko Jaroslav Marvan, but although shocked by the photograph of the dead man, she does not confess to anything. Before Toufar, Umbrella lived with the safe-breaker Penicka (Radoslav Brzobohatý), who loved her very much and made her quit her street trade. But when he was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, Umbrella began to live with the brute Toufar, who chased her to street again. In the case of the murder, Penicka is therefore the prime suspect.

Saxony, devastated by the Thirty Years' War, is led by the comedy troupe of the principal Fortunato. The student Vavrinec has fled Bohemia and greatly values the text of Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet, which he has acquired on his wanderings around the world.

Czechoslovak counter-espionage intercepts a coded message from the West German secret service ordering death for an unknown person on Czech territory.

Âgé de douze ans, Jirka, un orphelin passe son enfance à la campagne chez son grand-père qui sous sa rudesse apparente, aime profondément son petit-fils. Celui-ci passe beaucoup de son temps dans la nature luxuriante au milieu de laquelle ils habitent. Dans la rivière, la Přivoznik, à l'eau limpide qui coule non loin de leur maisonnette, Jirka trompe sa solitude en pêchant et en observant les poissons et surtout un qu'il appelle en cognant une pierre sur un rocher pour lui donner à manger avec la main. Mais ce dernier est menacé par un énorme brochet qu'il décide de capturer. Tout d'abord ses camarades du village se moquent de lui car ce n'est pas simple; il va casser sa ligne, se fâcher avec son grand-père, se réfugier chez son oncle qui est bûcheron dans une forêt voisine. Mais le moment venu, son grand-père va lui prêter une autre ligne pour capturer le gros prédateur et ses camarades seront là pour l'aider.