Directed by:
Evald SchormCinematography:
Václav HanušComposer:
Jan KlusákCast:
Jan Kačer, Bohumil Šmída, Jan Libíček, Květa Fialová, Josef Bek, Bohumil Švarc st., Luba Skořepová, Josef Němeček, Vladimír Jedenáctík (more)Plots(1)
From a bird's eye view, the camera approaches a little village with its bustle. Village fool Josef gives away his things to his niggardly neighbours. A bus arrives to the village, carrying a group of travelling actors who begin to perform passion plays from the Bible. Editor Alena, lover of one of the actors, Baritone [Baryton], comes to see him. An electricity power failure interrupts the performance. Podgy, spiteful Joker [Srandista] spurs his friends to start spreading news of some kind of imminent danger that no one can escape except inside the wagons that have suddenly turned up at the station. The train dispatcher's wife misses her husband. In the darkness of the night, villagers yield to panic fuelled by the malicious Joker. Some people are bullied by others. A committee is organized, presided over by President [Předseda]. It begins to take decisions on who should be evacuated, since there will not be enough room for everybody in the wagons. That same night, the committee members organize a pig slaughter and, after getting dead drunk, they brutally rape the actress playing Mary. In the meantime, the villagers have boarded the wagons. The local teacher beats to death the train dispatcher with a shovel. Chaos breaks out by the train... Josef the village fool comes to the station. The wagons have dissapeared, and the only sign of the people are the belongings they left behind. A shrill sound accompanies the aerial view of the village with the solitary man. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
![Jan Kačer](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/268/268666_f9ae76.jpg)
Jan Kačer
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Král Lear (2003) (theatrical recording)
The Valley of the Bees (1967)
Death Is Called Engelchen (1963)
![Bohumil Šmída](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/271/271574_90b47d.jpg)
Bohumil Šmída
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Partie krásného dragouna (1970)
Girl with a Seashell (1980)
If a Thousand Clarinets (1964)
![Jan Libíček](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/271/271362_265fe9.jpg)
Jan Libíček
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Men About Town (1969)
Three Wishes for Cinderella (1973)
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1961)
![Květa Fialová](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/268/268312_e7d36c.jpg)
Květa Fialová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Charleyova teta (1969) (theatrical recording)
Vajíčko (1968) (TV movie)
Three Wishes for Cinderella (1973)
![Josef Bek](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/268/268676_c413b4.jpg)
Josef Bek
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Men About Town (1969)
Láska jako trám (1967) (TV movie)
The White Lady (1965)
![Bohumil Švarc st.](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/271/271613_5904fc.jpg)
Bohumil Švarc st.
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Vajíčko (1968) (TV movie)
Sňatky z rozumu (1968) (series)
Dařbuján a Pandrhola (1959)
![Luba Skořepová](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/647/161647181_394c1a.jpg)
Luba Skořepová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Kočičí hra (1982) (theatrical recording)
Higher Principle (1960)
Sňatky z rozumu (1968) (series)
![Josef Němeček](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/275/275750_eb02b8.jpg)
Josef Němeček
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Adelheid (1969)
The Seventh Day, the Eighth Night (1969)
Five Girls Around the Neck (1967)
![Vladimír Jedenáctík](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/275/275712_f2ca6f.jpg)
Vladimír Jedenáctík
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Once Upon a Time, There Was a King... (1954)
Oil Lamps (1971)
Shadows of a Hot Summer (1977)
![Jaroslav Wagner-Klenka](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/166/583/166583237_d729c5.jpg)
Jaroslav Wagner-Klenka
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Adela Has Not Had Her Supper Yet (1978)
Bratranec Pons (1973) (TV movie)
Go Back to Your Grave! (1989)
![Jana Marková](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/165/127/165127718_900ebb.jpg)
Jana Marková
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
Forbidden Dreams (1986)
All My Compatriots (1968)
Lenin, Lord and Mother (1990)
![Václav Špidla](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/276/276099_6ac5d7.jpg)
Václav Špidla
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (1976)
Kam slunce nechodí... (1971) (TV movie)
Hostinec „U kamenného stolu“ (1948)
![Vladimír Ptáček](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/078/964/78964377_d4dcbd.jpg)
Vladimír Ptáček
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
All My Compatriots (1968)
Gentlemen Boys (1975)
Larks on a String (1969)
Eva Řepíková
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Svatba jako řemen (1967)
Hope (1963)
The End of a Priest (1968)
![Václav Trégl](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/268/268144_b1f8f7.jpg)
Václav Trégl
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (1976)
Těžká Barbora (1960) (theatrical recording)
Secluded, Near Woods (1976)
![Jaroslav Mareš](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/271/271373_c98f47.jpg)
Jaroslav Mareš
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Naši furianti (1983) (theatrical recording)
Ubohý pan Kufalt (1981) (TV movie)
Sňatky z rozumu (1968) (series)
![Jiří Hálek](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/165/047/165047353_42143c.jpg)
Jiří Hálek
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (1976)
The Cremator (1968)
Revizor (1971) (theatrical recording)
![Nina Divíšková](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/268/268300_2e99ee.jpg)
Nina Divíšková
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Příběhy obyčejného šílenství (2009) (theatrical recording)
Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping (1983)
Podivné odpoledne Dr. Zvonka Burkeho (1991) (theatrical recording)
![Karel Hovorka st.](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/275/275705_643e4d.jpg)
Karel Hovorka st.
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Jako kníže Rohan (1983) (TV movie)
The Cremator (1968)
Secluded, Near Woods (1976)
![Karel Bělohradský](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/819/159819096_cff1f8.jpg)
Karel Bělohradský
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
Witchhammer (1969)
Ball Lightning (1978)
Adelheid (1969)