Directed by:
Jan NěmecCinematography:
Jaromír ŠofrComposer:
Karel MarešCast:
Helena Pejšková, Jana Prachařová, Zdena Salivarová-Škvorecká, Pavel Bošek, Karel Mareš, Evald Schorm, Jan Klusák, Jiří Němec, Ivan Vyskočil, Dana Němcová (more)VOD (1)
Plots(1)
It is a summer day. Several people in good humour are having a snack on a meadow. Josef is meticulously polite, Karel sips wine and keeps praising democracy, František proves to be a good companion, Eva and Marta are jolly girls. The only married couple is a talkative blonde and her taciturn and a bit withdrawn husband. After the snack, the company makes up, changes into cocktail dress and sets off to attend the birthday party of a high functionary. On a forest path, they are surrounded by a group of weird men. Rudolf, the leader of the gang, is seemingly sincere but in fact rather arrogant and aggressive. He divides the men and women into two groups and launches some kind of interrogation. Josef turns servile, Karel protests a little, becoming the target of Rudolf's assaults and minor violence. The host appears in between the trees in a white tuxedo, shouting Rudolf down but at the same time claiming him as his adopted son. All the visitors tenaciously pretend that everything was just a joke and seat themselves by set-up tables. The blonde weeps because her husband has left. He did not enjoy the company where no one likes anybody. The host feels offended. Rudolf decides to make everything right and sends his men headed by a dog-hunter to find the husband, arming himself with a gun. The subsequent man-hunt involves most of the guests. Those who remain put the candles off, sit by the tables in puzzlement and listen to the increasingly loud barking of a dog. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Helena Pejšková
Best movies:
A Report on the Party and Guests (1966)
The Fifth Horseman Is Fear (1964)
Svatá hříšnice (1970)
Jana Prachařová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Adela Has Not Had Her Supper Yet (1978)
A Report on the Party and Guests (1966)
The Fifth Horseman Is Fear (1964)
Zdena Salivarová-Škvorecká
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
A Report on the Party and Guests (1966)
The End of a Priest (1968)
Martyrs of Love (1966)
Pavel Bošek
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)
A Report on the Party and Guests (1966)
The End of a Priest (1968)
Karel Mareš
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Larks on a String (1969)
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)
A Report on the Party and Guests (1966)
Evald Schorm
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
A Report on the Party and Guests (1966)
The Joke (1968)
Krajina s nábytkem (1986)
Jan Klusák
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
A Report on the Party and Guests (1966)
Daisies (1966)
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
Jiří Němec
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
All My Compatriots (1968)
Long Live Ghosts! (1977)
A Report on the Party and Guests (1966)
Ivan Vyskočil
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Haprdáns (1988) (theatrical recording)
A Report on the Party and Guests (1966)
Wild Flowers (2000)
Dana Němcová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Miloň Novotný
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Closely Watched Trains (1966)
A Report on the Party and Guests (1966)
Crime in the Night Club (1968)
Josef Podaný
Best movies:
Antonín Pražák
Best movies:
The Valley of the Bees (1967)
Closely Watched Trains (1966)
A Report on the Party and Guests (1966)
Josef Elis
Best movies:
Josef Hrbek
Best movies:
Oil Lamps (1971)
A Report on the Party and Guests (1966)
Days of Betrayal II. (1973)
Oldřich Lepšík
Best movies:
A Report on the Party and Guests (1966)
Sign of the Cancer (1966)
Jiří Macháně
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
Zdeněk Mošnička
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Proud Princess (1952)
A Report on the Party and Guests (1966)
Sign of the Cancer (1966)
Alois Mottl
Best movies:
The Ear (1970)
A Report on the Party and Guests (1966)
...and Give My Love to the Swallows (1972)
Stanislav Partl
Best movies: