1 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:09,589 Central Film Distribution presents 2 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:17,429 MAN ABOUT TOWN 3 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:27,549 Idea and Screenplay Literary Adviser 4 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:33,269 Music by 5 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:39,952 Played by the Film Symphonic Orchestra conducted by 6 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:41,996 Vocalists 7 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:53,189 Film Editor 8 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:58,549 Sound 9 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:01,388 Make-up Stage Design 10 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:03,869 Costume Design Costumes by 11 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:08,549 Assistant Director Continuity 12 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:11,108 Deputy Production Manager 2nd Cameraman 13 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:19,790 The Cast - Life is drab and grey 14 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:22,829 tapestry 15 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:27,239 and some people don't mind. 16 00:01:27,320 --> 00:01:31,313 I am different! 17 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:34,956 My hot blood makes me resist 18 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:38,834 it forces me to act. 19 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:42,589 If you want to live in a rut 20 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:46,870 I don't! 21 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:52,551 When the lights go on in Prague 22 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:55,752 I hear the neons call: 23 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:58,514 I can't help it. 24 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:01,752 I hear them call, 25 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:04,589 I slip into my Sunday suit 26 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:07,759 put on my best shirt 27 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:10,873 and like a bumble-bee 28 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:13,839 I have to taste some fun! 29 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:23,716 As if she were my bride 30 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:28,111 I court the town of Prague 31 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:33,393 and what I encounter that night 32 00:02:33,920 --> 00:02:37,629 all Paris would envy me! 33 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:42,300 Prague is a great big city 34 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:46,433 and I make every effort 35 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:51,197 to visit bars and beer-halls 36 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,276 to live it up! 37 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,788 When the lights go on in Prague 38 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:03,749 I hear the neons call: 39 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:06,276 I can't help it: 40 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:09,634 I hear them call, 41 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:11,911 I slip into my Sunday suit 42 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:14,677 put on my best shirt 43 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:17,989 and like a bumble-bee 44 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:21,868 I have to taste some fun. Tam-ta-da-da, bim bam bim, bang bang. 45 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:30,279 Stage sets 46 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:35,388 Production Manager - Till Friday man is nothing 47 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:38,517 but a machine for work 48 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:42,398 Director of Photography - he strains his tired body 49 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:47,234 he works to meet the plan! 50 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:50,438 Directed by - On Saturday his soul awakens 51 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:54,833 he drinks his fill - and more! 52 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:59,380 Produced in the Barrandov Film Studios - He visits bars and beer-halls 53 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:01,390 and lives it up! 54 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:02,394 - Processed in the Prague Film Laboratories 55 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:04,152 holder of the Order of Merit Production Unit the Karel Feix - Miroslav Broz 56 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:08,518 When the lights go on in Prague 57 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:10,278 I hear the neons call 58 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:11,793 I can't help it 59 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:13,433 I hear them call! 60 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:16,592 I put on my Sunday best shirt 61 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:19,592 and like a bumble-bee I have a taste of fun! 62 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:22,753 Let's have a shot of rum it's late in the day 63 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:26,320 Let's have a glass of wine 64 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:29,153 come and visit us come every day not only once a week 65 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:34,190 will the girls greet you with a smile. 66 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:48,790 The Milky Way overhead 67 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:53,829 and a pint of spirits inside 68 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:58,509 I'm going to embrace my Prague 69 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:03,956 Saturday's I am the master! 70 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:07,630 Prague is a great big city 71 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:12,148 and I make every effort 72 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:17,196 to visit bars and beer-halls 73 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:21,476 to live it up! 74 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:25,516 - Leave it here, somewhere. For Christ's sake. 75 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:27,790 - I'm not fool! 76 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:33,394 - Will you check your coats? Gentlemen? - Sure, love. 77 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:40,949 Don't call the lady,, Iove". - Here... 78 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:05,598 When the lights go on in Prague 79 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:10,118 I hear the neons call 80 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:13,996 I can't help it, 81 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:19,310 I hear them call. 82 00:06:19,280 --> 00:06:20,952 - Bloody hell! 83 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:23,110 - Don't say bloody hell in a place like this. 84 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:25,839 - Why don't you shut up? We've come to have some fun. 85 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:27,399 - A table for three, gentlemen? 86 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:29,914 - Three for the moment, later perhaps six. 87 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:31,753 - Certainly, sir. 88 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:04,113 I'll sit at the back. 89 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:18,360 Coffee! - Eh... not coffee... coff... 90 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:22,790 We'll have mineral water! For two. 91 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:23,995 - With the bottle? - Two. 92 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:24,876 - For the time being! 93 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:28,637 I slip into my Sunday best 94 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:32,958 put on my best white shirt 95 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:38,392 and like a bumble-bee 96 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:41,438 I have to taste some fun! 97 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:43,913 - Stop it! 98 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:46,430 I tell you, stop it! - What's wrong? 99 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:48,553 - Stop it, I tell you. 100 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:50,876 Watch the waiter, he'll soon show us the door. 101 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:52,592 So quick it will make your head spin! 102 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:54,995 - Go on now... Stop that! 103 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:57,276 I didn't know you were so prim... What's the matter? 104 00:07:57,360 --> 00:07:59,476 - What an idea to bring your own booze 105 00:07:59,920 --> 00:08:01,717 to a joint like this! - Why not? 106 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:03,319 I can do whatever I like. 107 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:06,598 - I don't understand you, man, here you see a few foreigners and all your 108 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:10,152 patriotism is gone! Where's your pride? 109 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:13,593 He'll think it's mineral water! - He'd have to have hay fever 110 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:15,631 to think it's mineral water! 111 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:17,597 I bet you can smell the stuff in the next street! 112 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:19,392 It stinks, cover it with your hand, that's the least you can do. 113 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:21,232 - I'll hold my hand over it, you old fuss-pot. 114 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:24,233 Do you want to spend your whole wage-pocket? 115 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:25,833 Do you realize what the charge? 116 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:29,755 It would take 360 spoons of mortal to buy you a single glass of rum! 117 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:31,959 We'd have to have more than one pair 118 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:33,553 of hands to be able to afford to get stoned here. 119 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:35,558 - For Christ's sake... do you see him? 120 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:41,198 The crazy bum. For Christ's sake...! 121 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:47,919 That's what we call,, a cow's dose"! 122 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:06,279 What's the matter? - Why did I have to bring you? 123 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,878 Why do I go around with such... What was that? 124 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:11,793 - Nothing. We were introducing ourselves. 125 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:13,359 - And why did they laugh? 126 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:16,512 - The baldie has such a funny name. Salvator Dali. 127 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:22,152 - I think they are making fun of us. 128 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:25,471 - Tony, Tony, behave yourself! - What do you mean? 129 00:09:25,560 --> 00:09:27,471 I'll bash his teeth in! What will be that! 130 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:31,599 What? 131 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:39,637 Slip under the table and put the bottle straight. 132 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:45,479 - It's dark here... 133 00:09:53,680 --> 00:09:55,113 Damn it! 134 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:58,510 - Let's get out of here before we get into hot water! 135 00:10:01,680 --> 00:10:03,352 Follow me! Follow me! 136 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:10,633 Your hats, gentlemen! 137 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:13,476 - Don't bother about your hats, you idiots! 138 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:23,478 When the lights go on in Prague 139 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:28,549 I hear the neons call I can't help it 140 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:31,872 I hear them call: 141 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:36,670 I slip on my Sunday suit put on my best white shirt 142 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:38,519 - And I took him, Mr. Dolezal, 143 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:40,830 what would we do in the Giant Mountains for Easter! 144 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:45,551 - And like a bumble-bee I have to taste some fun! 145 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:56,839 To the Petriny housing-estate! - Why to Petriny? 146 00:10:56,920 --> 00:10:57,955 - Shut up, for heaven's sake! 147 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:01,991 And what was that bit about the Gians Mountains? 148 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:05,238 The night are getting warmer? 149 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:07,999 Why warm nights? 150 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:09,798 - Because of the mushrooms. 151 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:33,559 Hovorka! 152 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:40,798 What's up? 153 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:43,758 - You asleep? I can't. 154 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:46,720 It's half pas twelve and I haven't had a minutes sleep. 155 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:49,630 I keep thinking of the old woman. How she's getting on without me. 156 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:53,590 - Jesus... To wake me up, at half past twelve just 157 00:11:53,680 --> 00:11:55,716 to tell you're missing your old woman? 158 00:11:55,920 --> 00:11:57,433 Nut! 159 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:01,839 Here he comes. 160 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:04,359 - What's the time? 161 00:12:04,680 --> 00:12:06,636 - Two o'clock. - Exactly! 162 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:09,275 - One minute off two, Gustav. 163 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:12,354 - Thank God, at least that's settled. 164 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:19,356 I've prepared the wood for the morning, Gustav. 165 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:37,670 I shoudn't have taken that booze, I grand you. 166 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:40,360 - Sure, we could have brought the bottle, that was okay, 167 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:43,750 but you were crazy to crawl under the table with a candle knowing 168 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:45,913 that 80-proof Slivovitz had spilled all over. 169 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:47,952 - I wouldn't have crawled under the table 170 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:49,268 if you hadn't kicked the bottle over! 171 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:50,873 - I didn't kick over the bottle! - You did! 172 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:52,313 You don't see your feet because of your big fat tummy! 173 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:53,435 Damn it, don't you dare say that to me! 174 00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:55,670 How could I have kicked it... it stood near your foot! 175 00:12:56,320 --> 00:12:58,959 - It was me who kicked the bottle over. - There you are. 176 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:03,700 - When a bottle is hidden under a table in a first class joint, 177 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:06,380 you can't expect anything else than for someone to kick it over. 178 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:09,551 Aren't you being high and mighty, both of you. All of a sudden! 179 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:12,518 Here, you gobble your foot straight from the pot like a dog 180 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:15,876 and now you expect me to throw ashes on my head for having started a fire! 181 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:20,352 - I am not blaming you for the fire. That was the natural outcome. 182 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:23,594 - What are you writing? - I'm listing our mistakes. 183 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:28,380 All our mistakes. This has been a good lesson. 184 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:30,955 - I took the Slivovitz along mainly for him! 185 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:34,789 Just look at him! Do you know what it would cost to get him stoned? 186 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:38,192 And besides, he agreed. - Yes, and that was the first mistake! 187 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:41,830 When out of three people only one has brains, 188 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:43,917 you can't take a vote. 189 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:46,435 - It's a fact. We must have looked suspicious with that bottle. 190 00:13:46,560 --> 00:13:48,118 - We looked suspicious from the moment 191 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:50,111 he called the cloakroom attendant,, Iove". 192 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:53,710 A woman who works in such a classy joint must be the widow 193 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:57,350 of a banker from pre-war times. She has to know some languages. 194 00:13:57,440 --> 00:14:01,194 Who'd call a lady,, Iove"? You practically tell people 195 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:04,113 who you are... That you are a hick from hick town. 196 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:07,317 - I am proud to be from Velhartice, as it happens. 197 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:10,278 - I know, you... you are... ...a good bloke, I know. 198 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:11,793 - OK now. OK I said! 199 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:15,111 What else have you got? - The third mistake: Bloody hell! 200 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:17,949 - Bloody hell what? - Bloody hell. When you saw 201 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:20,793 all the elegance, you said: ,, BIoody hell"! 202 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:23,992 And everybody could see that your experience 203 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:26,953 of night life is the railway-station restaurant in Susice! 204 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:30,676 - Sure. He's right. In such a situation you can't say,, bloody hell"! 205 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:36,118 - But the worst, the worst was when you wanted to dance. 206 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:41,435 Did you notice... did you notice, that she was a lady? 207 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:44,799 How did you asked her for a dance? 208 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:48,954 - The usual way... I said: Want to have a hop with me? 209 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:52,391 - Hop. - Hop. And wasn't she eager. 210 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:54,915 - Now wait a moment, Gustav, I'd like to say something on his behalf here. 211 00:14:55,520 --> 00:14:58,800 I'd like to know why, in this republic, 212 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:00,676 a neat and shaved plasterer shoudn't ask 213 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:03,753 an intellectual for a dance. Watch you step, Gustav! 214 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:05,876 - Sure. He could, he could. But he has to behave 215 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:08,349 in such a way that the lady doesn't consider dancing 216 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:09,953 with him a socialist duty... 217 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:12,237 I saw you, man... you dragged her all over 218 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:14,390 the dance floor like a fiddler his contrabass! 219 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:17,597 - Well, it looks as though only two of us are fools. 220 00:15:17,760 --> 00:15:19,239 - Yeah, mainly. 221 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:23,669 But I am one too, I made the biggest mistake, 222 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:26,318 I was frightened. - What? 223 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:29,116 - I was frightened. 224 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:30,952 - If you want to spend an evening in a joint 225 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:33,873 where a shot of rum costs as much as a whole bottle in a shop, 226 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:36,315 you must feel at home there. 227 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:39,631 And to feel at home you have to be rigged out properly. 228 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:41,751 - Do you mean 229 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:44,593 my wedding suit isn't good enough? 230 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:47,119 - When did you get married? 231 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:48,633 - When? When was it? 232 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:50,199 In 1952. 233 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:51,998 - He is a nut, that's what he is. 234 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:53,793 - Who is a nut? - And how! 235 00:15:53,880 --> 00:15:55,359 Go on! 236 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:57,790 - Rigged out properly 237 00:15:57,160 --> 00:16:00,197 that means a shirt with a fashion-able collar and the right kind of shoes 238 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:02,516 - Not one of the snobs in the night-club 239 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:04,596 wore boots! 240 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:07,433 We'll even have to change to briefs! 241 00:16:07,520 --> 00:16:09,317 Just look at what you are sleeping in! 242 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:11,829 - So what? It's underwear! 243 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:14,832 And it's warm! - That's a whole trouble! 244 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:16,952 - And you'll go on a diet. 245 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:20,510 So they stop calling us the long, and short and the fat! 246 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:23,194 - Look here, sweet friends, I don't give a damn. 247 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:25,271 That has never been a problem. 248 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:28,677 If a girl didn't like it she could lump it! 249 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:30,876 A girl that really cared for me didin't mind... 250 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:32,553 And anyway... Next year, I'm going to be foreman 251 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:35,632 and now I'm going to bed. - He'll be foreman next year, so... 252 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:38,834 I'm fed up. Do you think I ever had to impress 253 00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:40,751 a girl with nylon underwear? 254 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:43,713 Not me! - Let's forget it then, it wasn't doing 255 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:46,116 all this for my own sake. 256 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:16,756 - Good morning. - Good morning. 257 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:18,319 - Good morning. - Good morning, hello! 258 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:20,433 What shall it be? 259 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:22,278 - No... - Well, we'd like... 260 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:23,959 - Some clothes. - Clothes... 261 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:25,314 - A suit? - A suit. 262 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:26,759 - Made to measure? - Yes. 263 00:17:26,840 --> 00:17:27,511 - Yes, made to measure... - That's right, made to measure, 264 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:28,271 wait a sec... how... 265 00:17:28,360 --> 00:17:30,749 - We'll take your order. - I know. 266 00:17:31,360 --> 00:17:32,395 - We are a first class establishment, you know. 267 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:34,278 - Nonsense, next try the shop next door. 268 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:37,199 - I know! Are you the most expensive? 269 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:39,392 - In Prague? I should think so! 270 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:41,158 - That's all right then. We'd like to order 271 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:42,878 three dark suit. 272 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:45,700 - Why three? Let's try one first 273 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:47,310 and we'll see. - Something comfortable for me. 274 00:17:47,120 --> 00:17:48,758 - Three dark suit. 275 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:51,559 For the boys, and for me. And the best. 276 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:53,433 - Certainly. 277 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:56,199 420, 278 00:17:57,080 --> 00:18:00,550 530, and 618. 279 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:03,598 - Right. This one... for all three suits. 280 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:07,269 - No, no. Different one for each or we'll look like the Allan-Sisters! 281 00:18:07,360 --> 00:18:08,793 - That's all you have? 282 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:10,552 - Sorry, that's all there is right now. All right. 283 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:12,553 - You'll have this one. - Sure... 284 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:14,238 - Are you crazy? Do you know what it will cost 285 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:16,277 in his size? It's like dressing a whole circus! 286 00:18:16,360 --> 00:18:17,349 - Four meters. - Take it. 287 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:19,590 - There. I'll take this. 288 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:22,750 - For you, the length of a towel will do. 289 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:23,593 - Two eighty. - See? 290 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:25,875 - I'll take this one. - I have to warn you, gentlemen, 291 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:28,275 you'll have pay for the material advance. 292 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:31,397 - Hey, they don't trust us, let's get out of here. 293 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:32,959 - Naturally, if that's the custom here. 294 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:35,835 Will 2.500 be enough? 295 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:38,317 We'll want waist-coast too. 296 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:40,831 - Waist-coast aren't the fashion this year. 297 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:42,752 - Jesus! 298 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:45,677 Everybody knows that waist-coast 299 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:48,195 are out of fashion this year, you idiots! 300 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:49,913 Isn't that so, no waist-coat. 301 00:18:50,040 --> 00:18:52,508 - Don't call me the names in a place like this! 302 00:18:56,440 --> 00:18:58,874 - Tell Mr. Vasut to come down as soon as possible. 303 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:00,913 He'll be taking the measurements of three new customers. 304 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:07,112 Where are we going? - Upstairs. 305 00:19:07,280 --> 00:19:09,953 - I can see that. I hope they aren't up to any tricks. 306 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:12,548 - I'm going to check. - Boys, do you mean they are 307 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:13,755 going to pin the stuff to our bodies and cut it to measure? 308 00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:16,998 - Only on you. - Kindly take your coats off, gentlemen. 309 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:22,730 - Here you are, take your coats off! 310 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:24,590 - Why should I go first? - Because you are a party-member. 311 00:19:24,720 --> 00:19:26,597 - Hurry up! In there... Come over here! 312 00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:30,672 - Hey there, come here, come here, come here! 313 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:33,360 You can't get out of in now?! We've paid already. 314 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:36,318 So there's no point. - That was all the money 315 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:38,470 we had saved for our trip to Prague. - Please. 316 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:40,750 Don't make scenes in a place like this! 317 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:44,436 - Oh! My God! 318 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:46,351 - You could have kept your trousers on, sir. 319 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:51,280 - Have you never been to a tailor's before or what? 320 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:53,392 - Dear me, has she never seen a man before? 321 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:55,279 I thought me asked us to undress completely! 322 00:20:05,120 --> 00:20:07,350 Well... aren't you going to ask what they charge for making the suits? 323 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:09,192 - 112. - Crowns? 324 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:12,638 That's not too bad. - No, sir, that's the trouser-length. 325 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:14,797 - It comes to 1.400. 326 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:16,877 - What? Crowns? - Yes. 327 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:19,770 - No... that's your waist-size! 328 00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:30,517 So they've started on my jacket 329 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:35,519 so they've sharpened pins and needles 330 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:37,756 and now all I'm waiting for 331 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:39,956 is the day I'll have to pay for it. 332 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:43,672 The day I'll put my new suit on 333 00:20:44,120 --> 00:20:47,271 I'll be a different person 334 00:20:48,360 --> 00:20:52,239 and all the bright young ladies 335 00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:56,718 "will call me,, Bel Ami" 336 00:20:57,160 --> 00:21:00,550 that's what my new suit will do for me! 337 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:04,636 Not too much grease, ma... 338 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:07,948 Hovorka, their highnesses have arrived! 339 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:10,752 - It's a quarter pas ten! 340 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:12,913 - We have toothache! 341 00:21:13,120 --> 00:21:14,553 - All three of you? 342 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:16,756 - No, one tooth for each of us, you idiots! 343 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:18,751 - Don't worry, We'll make up for the loss. 344 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:23,639 So the ladies will tumble 345 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:27,156 they'll forget their men and lovers, 346 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:31,794 when I promise them a night of passion 347 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:36,193 when I take them out to dinner? 348 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:39,517 So they've started on my jacket 349 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:44,473 of the very best of cloth 350 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:48,873 against your protests I'm going 351 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:53,149 to wear it and never look back. 352 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:03,358 Let's scram! 353 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:07,832 Fine gentlemen ou are! 354 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:11,397 Breaking a window like urchins and running away! 355 00:22:12,360 --> 00:22:15,557 Who is going to repair it? - The glazier! 356 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:18,200 - That's likely! - Don't shout, lady, our firm will six 357 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:21,158 it for you. - Yeah, the firm 358 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:24,710 I could wait a hundred years! I want it fixed right now 359 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:26,279 and you'll be responsible. 360 00:22:26,360 --> 00:22:29,158 No, he is responsible. - The old pussy could call herself lucky 361 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:30,355 that we are going to replaster her shack! 362 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:32,192 - Who's an old pussy? 363 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:38,432 Do you know who I am? I am the widow... - Sure, of a retired banking 364 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:42,350 clerk! Madam! Aren't you? We met a lady just like you as cloakroom... 365 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:44,628 ...attendant in a night... 366 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:49,951 - Sure. Gentlemen, I think we've met before. 367 00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:51,917 - Jesus, hurry... - Madam... 368 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:53,149 - Follow me! - Madam! 369 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:54,514 - Madam, let me explain...! - Why can't you keep 370 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:55,749 your big mouth shut? 371 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:59,152 We'll repair your window, but give us a chance. Give us a chance to explain, 372 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:00,832 madam. - There's nothing to explain...? 373 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:05,357 - We'll go back personally to your night-club to repair the damage. 374 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:07,715 - That fire was simply the result of certain circumstances. 375 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:10,553 - Surely, madam, you wouldn't want to sue us for a few hundred crowns. 376 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:12,955 We'll go back to your night-club to spend twice as much, but this time 377 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:16,390 like real gentlemen. - We are all family men. 378 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:20,390 - So you gentlemen are married... All three of you... 379 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:22,592 - What the hell is going on here? 380 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:25,350 - I've just invited these gentlemen for a cup of coffee. 381 00:23:25,120 --> 00:23:28,590 We must look after the people who come to repair our city. 382 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:33,593 Just a moment. 383 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:38,950 I'll be back in a second. 384 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:42,199 Where did she go? - Where could she have gone... 385 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:43,156 to fetch the Apfelstrudel! 386 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:46,272 - Don't say,, Apfelstrudel", for Christ's sake, say apple-pie! 387 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:48,795 - Why should I say apple-pie if it's Apfelstrudel? 388 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:50,632 I just wonder whether she didn't go to make a phone call! 389 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:54,231 - Who would she be calling? - Maybe the police. 390 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:56,197 - She is a lady if that means anything to you. 391 00:23:56,360 --> 00:23:59,750 - Yeah, a lady. A lady can be a bitch too, if you want to know. 392 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:02,115 - Hell, not so loud! 393 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:05,234 - This is embarrassing. 394 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:07,380 I should have put a newspaper on the chair. 395 00:24:07,360 --> 00:24:08,952 - What it... she's coming back! 396 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:13,758 Relax, gentlemen! 397 00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:17,690 Sit down, 398 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:23,798 what were you saying... Mister... 399 00:24:24,360 --> 00:24:26,191 - Prouza. Gustav Prouza. 400 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:28,794 - Pleased to meet you. I like what you said. 401 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:30,996 I think I understand. 402 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:34,438 My late husband... 403 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:35,999 - Is that him? 404 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:38,997 - No, that's Smetana the composer. 405 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:40,991 - He was something like Dvorak. 406 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:43,913 - My late husband always used to said: 407 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:46,959 Better go to Monte Carlo once in your life than spend a month 408 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:50,676 every year at the nearest lake. - Exactly. 409 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:53,553 - You said it, madam. We've just been at the tailor's, Salon Adam 410 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:56,592 you know... and we've ordered some suits. 411 00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:59,433 - Show her the material, show her. 412 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:02,910 - Here you are. The orders... sample... 413 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:07,119 - That's splendid. Splendid, 414 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:08,952 but it's the most expensive tailor in Prague! 415 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:12,919 - Why, sure. You know, madam, when a man spends the whole week 416 00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:16,356 - What I am saying... his whole life in overalls... 417 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:18,516 he wants to took good once in a white. - And what's more... 418 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:22,832 You live in a trailer, like a hermit, you drink weak beer 419 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:26,629 and with the wages you earn as an expert plasterer nowadays, 420 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:28,312 madam, how much you think 421 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:31,119 three of us earn in a week? 422 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:34,838 - Let's see... well... a thousand? 423 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:37,758 - Three... - Easily! 424 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:40,513 - Five thousand, madam! 425 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:42,552 - But you have to buy your own material? 426 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:46,952 - No, we can afford to spend that in an evening. 427 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:52,434 - That's right... that's our little weakness, madam. 428 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:55,740 Oysters to start with, and if we decide to eat peacock with anissed 429 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:57,628 as a main course, then peacock it must be, 430 00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:00,290 even if they had to go and get it at the zoo! 431 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:05,390 - Believe me, I understand you. And if you add to this the company 432 00:26:05,120 --> 00:26:07,350 of some, well, some intelligent ladies... 433 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:09,320 ...women... 434 00:26:09,120 --> 00:26:12,317 - No! Oh no! - Women? No... not women. 435 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:16,309 In our situation... from the family's point of view. It wouldn't do, would it? 436 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:19,273 - What are you thinking of?! 437 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:22,995 Personally... I'd be very glad if we could attract the attention 438 00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:24,911 of some, so to speak: Intellects... 439 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,150 intelligent ladies. - Yeah, that would be good... 440 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:29,993 - There are you... and you wouldn't believe how many... 441 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:34,870 Women doctors, scientists, let alone artists 442 00:26:35,360 --> 00:26:39,672 come to seek a bit of diversion in our night-club every night. 443 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:44,790 All they want is a bit of innocent fun... 444 00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:46,836 - Innocent! That's a word! - Well. 445 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:49,700 Aren't you going to do any more work, you intellectuals? 446 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:50,718 - Old fusspot! 447 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:54,873 - Bye, bye. And thanks very much for everything. 448 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:57,793 - Don't say,, good bye", gentlemen, we are practically neighbours after all. 449 00:26:58,120 --> 00:27:02,193 Come in for coffee anytime you feel like it! 450 00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:05,232 See? And you called her a bitch! 451 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:07,280 What is it? 452 00:27:07,120 --> 00:27:10,715 We'll need a 500 Volt bulb and a lampshade. 453 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:14,831 So we can work after dark, see? 454 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,440 You'll soon see what plasterers can do! 455 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:29,392 Mrs. Trckova, I need the key for tonight 456 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:31,948 I've got a wonderful sucker from Jaromer. 457 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:33,753 - Hm, wait, there's no hurry! Where's the fire? 458 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:37,873 - Where will be a fire... tonight... All according to plan. 459 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:40,554 He loves his wife what harm is there if two people... 460 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:42,358 - Walk over the window! 461 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:44,313 - Why? - Do what I say. 462 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:45,879 - Why should I? 463 00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:52,154 Listen! A miniskirt is really not lady like. 464 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:54,391 - Am I supposed to be a lady? 465 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:56,556 - Well, we'll see. 466 00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:59,879 - We'll see... What about the keys? 467 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:01,638 - To late, love, Bozenka already got them. 468 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:15,278 Well, what am I, Bozenka? 469 00:28:16,360 --> 00:28:18,320 My fiery tiger! 470 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:20,550 - No, no, no... no... say it properly! 471 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:23,354 - My big great giraffe that bites! 472 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:26,633 - Bite, bite, but I want to hear it! 473 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:30,595 - You are my teddy bear! 474 00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:32,557 - Teddy bear... 475 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:39,750 We'll fall off. Teddy bear isn't sweet. 476 00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:42,118 What's he like? - Jerry? Sweet... 477 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:44,236 - Teddy bears aren't sweet? 478 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:48,740 - No, he's drunk! - That too. But mainly furry. 479 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:49,878 - Furry... And what's furry 480 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,753 little drunk teddy bear going to do to Bozenka? 481 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:56,672 - Boo, boo. - Don't let's play duckie... 482 00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:59,350 You're all dirty! 483 00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:00,997 - That's nothing, come over here. - But Jerry, you can't walk 484 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:02,513 like that, you know - Come here. 485 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:07,435 - We'll clean up our boy's jacket. He'll be a neat and clean little boy... 486 00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:10,340 - Now, that's this? Hell... 487 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:12,915 - Let's take a picture! Say cheese! 488 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:14,838 My sweet little bottom... 489 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:18,112 - That's my bottom! - My beautiful... little... bottom... 490 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:21,758 Wait, wait! If I am a sweet furry 491 00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:23,751 teddy bear what shall we do? 492 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:25,876 - What are we going to do? Come here! 493 00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:28,110 - My God... My husband! - What shall we do? 494 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:29,912 - It's my husband! - What husband? 495 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:31,228 - What shall we play at? 496 00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:32,116 - Let go! - It's my... 497 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:35,330 You never told me! I thought... Help! 498 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:38,752 - Jesus... 499 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:42,118 - Bozenka! 500 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:45,590 - I'll go mad! I'll kill myself! Do something! 501 00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:46,954 - Do you happen to have a storage-cupboard? 502 00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:50,237 - No, we haven't. - Jerry! The window! 503 00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:50,832 - What? - The window! 504 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:52,558 - You must be crazy! I don't want to get killed! 505 00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:55,918 - There is a scaffolding! - Scaffolding? Hurry, hurry! 506 00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:58,268 - Hey, wait a minute... - What is it? 507 00:29:58,360 --> 00:29:59,873 - Bozenka, is that the museum over there? 508 00:29:59,960 --> 00:30:01,439 - Yeah. 509 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:10,476 From Hodonin. 510 00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:13,637 - Married? - Yes. Two children. 511 00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:17,674 - Papers? - I left them in his pocket. 512 00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:20,638 - Good thing he's married. 513 00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:25,669 He'll never dare to come back. 514 00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:33,874 Put your clothes on. You'll catch cold. 515 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:38,109 I'll make some coffee. - Hey, great! 516 00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:44,555 I tell you... I played the innocent so 517 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:47,753 well he was quite beside himself. 518 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:51,555 Three to two would be fair. 519 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:56,670 - Fifty-fifty dear, because the idea has to be paid for too. 520 00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:58,638 - All right, I was just trying. 521 00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,598 - It was my idea. Here you are. 522 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:06,330 - Thanks. You are a true friend! 523 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:08,870 - That scaffolding is a gold mine. 524 00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:11,510 Touch wood... 525 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:16,517 Listen, I've got something for you. 526 00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:19,435 - What? - You'd have to pretend to know 527 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:23,519 something about the arts. 528 00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:26,880 - Well, I do read... now and then. 529 00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:36,516 May I? - Careful. 530 00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:39,114 You are a clumsy bloke. - Look! Let's take her down and put up 531 00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:42,950 Alois Jirasek the writer. - Couldn't we have Bozena Nemcova? 532 00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:45,952 She wrote too. - Yes, she looked smart enough. 533 00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:47,508 - Instead of whom? - Instead of this. 534 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:49,670 - Wait, mine is a much better piece. 535 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:51,950 - We don't care for this type, you know. 536 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:56,477 Prague is full of emancipated intellectuals neglected 537 00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:58,638 by their husbands and you want us to knuckle under... 538 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:01,550 - He's right, we know by heart 539 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:03,756 what a woman looks like, but what to tell her, 540 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:05,950 that's the question. - That's the problem. 541 00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:07,559 After all the financial sacrifices we made, 542 00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:09,437 I won't let the whole thing break down 543 00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:13,678 because we don't know how to talk with an educated woman. 544 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:17,875 Tomorrow, we'll have some compulsive reading. 545 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,873 You'll buy a book! - What? I buy a book? 546 00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:23,674 You must be... he is mad, squander our money again? 547 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:25,711 To buy a book. What for? We'll borrow one 548 00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:28,149 from a student. - No, no, we have to buy one 549 00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:33,350 because we'll need it for references all the time. And we'll go 550 00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:35,509 to the College Library. 551 00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:38,160 - To the library? What the hell for? 552 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:41,755 If we are going to have a book of our own... You are quit hysterical. 553 00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:49,700 Those that do not know their grammar 554 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:52,596 can't even be called clever 555 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,515 in this nuclear age 556 00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:59,996 one must learn page after page. 557 00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:04,280 Study, study, study, study! 558 00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:07,271 Those that do not know their grammar 559 00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:11,229 can't even be called clever 560 00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:14,796 in this nuclear age 561 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:18,549 one must learn page after page. 562 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:22,349 One must learn page after page. 563 00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:25,876 Sigmund Freud, Hanzelka, Chopin, 564 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:29,515 Goldstücker and Karajan 565 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:34,949 get their names into your head 566 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:38,392 before you dare to go to bed! 567 00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:41,836 Having studied most of the day 568 00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:45,476 you can rest... happy and gay, 569 00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:48,632 Happy and gay. Happy and gay. 570 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:53,232 When you've learned to understand 571 00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:58,269 what Camus, Picasso and Beckett meant, 572 00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:03,750 may those names stick in your mind, may you always the right answer find, 573 00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:07,756 when your head with culture rings sing, sing, sing... 574 00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:11,351 Keep up with seeking knowledge you don't have to go to college 575 00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:15,350 to be smart at conversation 576 00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:18,671 with the ladies... 577 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:37,310 Salvator Dali. The one with the moustache. 578 00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:40,758 Great, isn't he? 579 00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:46,360 - Quite, comrades. People study here. 580 00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:47,913 - What? - There are people 581 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,878 seriously studying here. - And what do you think we are doing!? 582 00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:54,157 - A lot of noise. I shall have to ask you to leave... 583 00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:55,753 ...the study room. 584 00:34:55,880 --> 00:35:00,431 - Don't be tough on us, comrade, aren't we all 585 00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:02,317 intellectuals. I think we can find 586 00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:04,557 a solution quietly... You know what you can do... 587 00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:06,798 ...go to hell! 588 00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:10,509 - That's a rude suggestion, comrade! - Senile old idiots! 589 00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:12,553 - If it weren't for the masons from the country, 590 00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:14,119 your beautiful library would collapse! 591 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,560 - Are you refusing me? Who comes from a family with thirteen children, 592 00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:20,277 a chance to get a proper education? 593 00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:21,839 - Tony, please... 594 00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:25,675 The defendants state as their excuse 595 00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:27,671 that only after having come to the capital, 596 00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:30,911 surrounded by the treasures of national culture, did they realise 597 00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:34,239 how shallow their everyday life had been and decided 598 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:39,949 to catch up on their education. Is that correct? 599 00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:44,290 - It is, but this comrade wouldn't let us explain and... 600 00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:45,678 ...and you slapped his face. 601 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:48,798 - I did, in his own very best interest. 602 00:35:49,720 --> 00:35:51,278 - What do you mean, in his interest? 603 00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:54,678 - Because I noticed than comrade Skopec was getting ready to hit him. 604 00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:56,830 That's why I had to act quickly. 605 00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:59,798 To avoid a catastrophe! Tony, show him your hand. 606 00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:02,553 - I don't intend to argue with him. All you talk of is revolution... 607 00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:05,360 And when it comes to blows, you get hysterical! 608 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:07,513 - Wait a minute... 609 00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:09,279 You didn't hit him in excitement, without premeditation. 610 00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:13,398 You tore his clothes 611 00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:16,275 and threw him among the books. Did you or didn't you? 612 00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:21,355 - We are prepared to replace the comrade's work suit. 613 00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:24,671 - Don't demean yourself! Let me tell you, comrade. 614 00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:28,512 For you to be able to wear this kind of clothing, I almost got myself killed 615 00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:30,272 twice during the revolution! You are here 616 00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:33,193 to protect me, not to pester me! 617 00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:34,755 You don't belong to our time... 618 00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:35,909 you ought to have been an Austro-Hungarian cop! 619 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:38,355 You should be wearing a sabre and feathers on your helmet! 620 00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:40,790 - Now would someone kindly tell me what all this is about? 621 00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:42,710 - Yeah, yeah! - Well? 622 00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:45,516 - Yes, yes, your people in this Socialist Republic 623 00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:49,469 arrested three overworked plasterers 624 00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:51,357 only because they tried to improve their education! 625 00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:54,159 Well, what did I ever get out of life? 626 00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:56,558 What? I had no youth to speak of, 627 00:36:56,640 --> 00:37:00,110 as I had to support my feeble parents from the age of fourteen. 628 00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:03,790 No childhood either... there were eleven of us at home. 629 00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:06,317 I couldn't even go to school in winter! 630 00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:08,510 - Because you had to lend each other the only pair of shoes! 631 00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:10,713 - Sometimes only wooden clogs! 632 00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:14,392 - I understand. My name happens to be Kraus. 633 00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:18,631 I used to sit in the front row near the window, second bench behind yours. 634 00:37:18,720 --> 00:37:20,597 - I'll be damned! - Yes. 635 00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:22,957 - You were still an only child at the age of fifteen 636 00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:26,396 and your father was as strong as an ox. Strong enough to lift a loaded cart. 637 00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:28,755 Now tell me why you made up that story about the one pair of shoes. 638 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:34,392 - Comes from Jindrich Simon Baar's book: ,, For the sake of a cow". 639 00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:36,876 - Gustav... 640 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:38,433 - Tell me the whole story 641 00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:40,590 or I'll have you locked up for deceiving the authorities. 642 00:37:40,720 --> 00:37:44,349 - Well, Jerry, I mean comrade Captain... 643 00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:45,953 - What is it all about? 644 00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:50,790 - It's about a single evening in a night club 645 00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:54,915 where the waiters serve you on silver platters wearing tails... 646 00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:56,912 - Wait! Don't take this down. 647 00:37:57,600 --> 00:37:59,989 And we'd sit there and no one would know... 648 00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:03,470 - No one would even guess we are only plasterers. 649 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:07,309 Yes, grubby up to our ears until a few hours ago. 650 00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:11,837 Look, these two hands handled so much mortar over the years 651 00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:15,550 you could cover the other side of the moon with it! 652 00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:20,629 Don't I have the right to pick up a girl 653 00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:22,279 for once... a girl who d know the rules 654 00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:23,998 of spelling? 655 00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:26,514 - I get you. 656 00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:28,750 Thick wall - to - wall carpeting, 657 00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:31,836 champagne pops from the bottle, 658 00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:34,589 candles in gilded candelabras and 659 00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:38,434 Gustav Prouza with only an elementary education 660 00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:41,838 glides over the polished dance floor 661 00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:45,709 with a glamorous lady whispering sweet nonsense 662 00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:47,950 into his ear her eyes filled with admiration! 663 00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:52,240 Christ, did you take it that seriously you had to start a fight 664 00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:54,380 in the College Library? 665 00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:56,594 - Yes, we did. - That's nonsense! 666 00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:58,831 Boys, look at yourself! 667 00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:01,119 Everybody can see you are hicks from hick town! 668 00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:02,189 - Our suits are being made by the best tailor in town. 669 00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:03,713 We are being fitted next week. 670 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:07,231 - Your hands look like shovels! We'll have them manicured. 671 00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:09,914 We are prepared for anything, Jerry. 672 00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:12,316 - We are even going to buy briefs tomorrow. 673 00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:15,352 - You walk like sailors! - Yeah, and you look smart! 674 00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:17,159 - You'll never make it. 675 00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:20,710 - If I may say something, comrade. I am a former dancing master 676 00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:23,792 and teacher of social graces. 677 00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:25,552 I'd take care of them... 678 00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:27,870 - It's a deal! - And I'd like to withdraw 679 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:31,720 my complaint if that's possible. 680 00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:33,350 - Do you think it can be done, professor? 681 00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:36,790 - Comrade, these people know what they want. 682 00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:40,990 That's why I dare say I can turn them into gentlemen within three months. 683 00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:43,829 Gentlemen that would great even 684 00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:48,758 at a reception given by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs! 685 00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:54,730 Look, gentlemen, these are my pupils of the autumn course 686 00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:58,872 at Sophia's Island in 1924. 687 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:00,797 And this is 688 00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:04,551 the dancing class of the Economy School 689 00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:08,110 in 1926. 690 00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:09,919 I can't say that everyone of them was a success, 691 00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:14,869 but I turned hundreds of young scoundrels into gentlemen 692 00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:16,951 and thousands of fidgety young girls into young ladies, 693 00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:19,554 that could have passed anywhere. 694 00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:23,995 Unfortunately the year 1948 brought 695 00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:26,150 my promising career to an abrupt end. 696 00:40:26,240 --> 00:40:30,995 It was pleasure but unfortunately dancing was in to great 697 00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:33,594 demand then. It was very painful for me 698 00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:36,752 to watch some of my best pupils - 699 00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:39,700 graduates from my later eat 700 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,560 a whole dinner with a spoon. 701 00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:49,197 - All we want to know, course, 702 00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:51,794 is whether you think you'll manage 703 00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:54,917 - I think movement won't be a problem, professor, 704 00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:56,991 I also think 705 00:40:57,080 --> 00:40:58,559 - if you know what I mean - with us. 706 00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:01,690 We aren't exactly stupid... not stupid, 707 00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:03,993 we simply have a different kind of memory. 708 00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:07,834 As we had to rely on our hands for most of our lives, 709 00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:10,718 our heads aren't used to... 710 00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:13,352 - You won't have to. 711 00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:16,398 Let's be honest with each other. Look this is my library. 712 00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:19,794 Most of the books I haven't read... Really, most of them... 713 00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:23,915 Take Picasso, for instance. 714 00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:26,830 That they call him ,, The father of cubism" and that's all. 715 00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:29,191 And that has been enough till now. 716 00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:31,197 I think that experts 717 00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:35,671 on all sorts of culture aren't even popular 718 00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:38,513 in high society because 719 00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:40,989 they tend to embarrass people too often. 720 00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:45,370 But there are some really educated people 721 00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:48,950 take old professor Stech whom you surely know from television. 722 00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:52,197 - Stuchal, I know. - Professor Vaclav Vilem Stech 723 00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:55,330 must have read his way through dozens of such libraries, 724 00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:59,791 but you won't meet him in Diplomat Grill. 725 00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:05,116 Boys, it's a quarter to five. 726 00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:08,356 You are stupid! 727 00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:12,914 - Beuf á la mode, omelette surprise, 728 00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:15,878 chateaubriand, 729 00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:20,158 - The existence of outer space civilisations is a scientific hypothesis 730 00:42:20,240 --> 00:42:24,279 that can neither be proved nor excluded. 731 00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:29,720 The terraces at Baal beck, for instance, 732 00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:32,436 or the Aztec calendar called Venusians etc. Etc. 733 00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:35,314 - Salvador Dali is an eccentric genius 734 00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:38,551 whose dadaistic ideas, 735 00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:41,552 shock snobs, bourgeois snobs! 736 00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:44,516 Salvador Dali - an eccentric genius... 737 00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:46,677 Well, madam, when you pull the shed down, 738 00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:48,870 you may as well kill the goat. We've hired a professor 739 00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:51,360 and we are taking lessons. - And what are you studying? 740 00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:53,509 - Everything. Literature, the arts, astro-physics. 741 00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:55,596 - Don't you get confused with all these subjects? 742 00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:58,560 - We've divided them up. - Divided them up? 743 00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:02,155 - Of course. The professor said that he managed with Pinkaso all his life? 744 00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:04,750 - With whom? - Oh, he means Pisaco! 745 00:43:05,240 --> 00:43:06,309 On the other hand, 746 00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:08,470 madam, if you look at it from another side 747 00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:12,356 the better educated a man is the more dangerous he becomes. 748 00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:14,591 - Some had to be locked up. - Some still are. 749 00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:18,630 - Yes, but you have to know something. 750 00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:21,593 - Yes, but only a few things and one has to repeat them all the time. 751 00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:24,560 - The main thing is that no one should understand what you're talking about. 752 00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:27,380 - That has advantages. 753 00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:30,712 People are awed by you and don't dare to interrupt. 754 00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:35,471 - For instance, I study the UFO, Tony studies absurd theatre... 755 00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:37,916 ...and I study Salvador Dali. - What? 756 00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:42,236 - Salvador Dali. - That's great! 757 00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:44,311 - Yes. The professor is bright. 758 00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:48,234 - We'll have to go now. We are having a lesson. 759 00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:50,949 - If you are having a lesson, I can't keep you. 760 00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:54,437 See you later, gentlemen. - We'll be seeing you! 761 00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:00,876 I wish I had looked at the name on the door. 762 00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:03,276 - Are you looking for someone? - What? Of course 763 00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:05,157 I am looking for someone. 764 00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:07,380 Listen... you don't happen 765 00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:10,398 to have a daughter called Bozka? - I don't. Why? 766 00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:12,272 - Look, be honest. You don't? That's all right. 767 00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:19,679 Well, young lady... Christ! Hello! 768 00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:21,433 Hello! - Hello! 769 00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:23,793 - Are you the mother or the mother-in-law? 770 00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:27,471 - I am a childless widow, dear sir. What can I do for you? 771 00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:29,636 - Childless? What do you mean, I am... 772 00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:31,318 Hello. I am Mr. Novak from Hodonin. 773 00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:32,879 Last night I was in this apartment... 774 00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:34,999 ...last night? - Yes. 775 00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:38,834 - You must be mistaken. I haven't had a visitor at night for. 776 00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:40,433 - Wait, madam. I didn't come to visit you... but quite 777 00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:42,317 some time now... I have been... may be not on this floor... 778 00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:43,833 I am not quite sure but I think it was in this apartment... look, 779 00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:46,992 to put it plainly. I have no money for the fare and my train is leaving... 780 00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:49,716 - You'll have to hitch - hike, then. 781 00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:53,313 - There's no traffic, madam... 782 00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:59,632 Good manners are put to the test at the table. 783 00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:02,748 Start, please. Keep your handy under the table. 784 00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:05,318 No, come on, up! Underneath, you put... 785 00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:08,119 It won't work, professor. Don't put your hands up! 786 00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:10,509 As if someone was aiming a gun at you! - But he said to... 787 00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:13,359 - Elbows close to the body, elbows close to the body! 788 00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:15,874 - To your own body! Is this how it's done? 789 00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:17,956 - Relax, relax! 790 00:45:18,720 --> 00:45:20,438 - Don't you feel foolish? 791 00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:24,117 - I know it. That's the people that turn every place into a cantina! 792 00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:25,633 "- You must say,, canteen"!" 793 00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:28,189 - I know it isn't easy but I am sure you 794 00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:29,952 will master it. 795 00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:32,190 Well - let's see - while waiting for an apéritif 796 00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:34,995 you spend you time in light conversation. 797 00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:37,960 Come on, gentlemen 798 00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:43,110 - Let's have some light conversation! I'm waiting gentlemen. I'm listening. 799 00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:45,597 - I heard you. But what is it? 800 00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:48,354 - A dialogue. It means that we should talk to each other. 801 00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:51,876 Lightly... that's what I mean... 802 00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:55,834 - Shut up! Don't I know what a dia... a dialogue is? 803 00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:03,557 My help put so much water in the mortar 804 00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:06,390 yesterday it kept falling back on my ladle. 805 00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:10,720 - How right you are... only a short time ago 806 00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:12,875 I said that what you don't do yourself 807 00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:16,340 is a damned... Is a mess! 808 00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:20,834 - He needs to be told again and again... I keep telling him: 809 00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:23,236 ,, Not so much water, my boy, not so much water!" 810 00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:26,480 - This is wrong, gentlemen. Not in form, 811 00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:28,730 but as to the contents. 812 00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:31,436 The subject of the conversation should always be indifferent. 813 00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:35,351 Well, it may be my fault. Let's skip conversation today 814 00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:36,998 and let's start... - How can we skip it? 815 00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:39,640 We've already skipped the ordering of the menu! 816 00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:43,276 - As soon as you learn to pronounce ,, Tournedos á la reine" the way I do, 817 00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:46,352 we won't have to skip anything. I agree, professor. 818 00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:50,274 - Yes, gentlemen, let's start with the apéritif. Wait a moment. 819 00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:56,954 Well, the waiter comes and serves the apéritif. 820 00:46:57,040 --> 00:46:59,952 Here you are. Cinzano bitter or Campari? 821 00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:02,753 - I don't care. That's a mistake! The second one... 822 00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:05,110 - Go on, kick him, your feet are smaller. 823 00:47:05,240 --> 00:47:07,231 - And that's the third! - Not him. Stupid! 824 00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:09,710 - What are you yelling for, ass? - The fourth... And the fifth... 825 00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:13,190 - You are the that has to have manners looking the way you do. 826 00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:17,234 - Gentlemen, that's a row of mistakes! Small transgressions against the Bon Ton 827 00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:22,349 are to be ignored. Never hit or kick anyone, 828 00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:26,637 Mr. Prouza, even a simple raising of the eyebrows is a transgression 829 00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:29,633 against the Bon Ton, Mr. Prouza. 830 00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:31,552 - See? You make mistakes yourself and keep admonishing us! 831 00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:34,916 - Well now, that beats everything. No harsh words gentlemen. 832 00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:36,873 Nothing but mistakes... 833 00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:42,312 That would be the worst mistake, gentlemen. Never argue! 834 00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:47,349 Gentlemen can never be vulgar! Remember 835 00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:50,870 that a gentleman tries to avoid anything 836 00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:52,439 that could affect his companions unfavourable 837 00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:56,437 or that would cause an unfavourable impression! 838 00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:00,959 Secondly, a gentleman knows how to behave 839 00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:06,549 so the feelings of others are never, under any circumstances, offended. 840 00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:11,832 You don't know what it is to have to live with someone 841 00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:16,630 who doesn't understand you! We should have met sooner! 842 00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:19,599 I've known you for only half a day 843 00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:22,516 and it seems as if I'd known you for ever. 844 00:48:22,720 --> 00:48:25,632 - Fate has dealt us a cruel deal, my friend. 845 00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:29,719 - You are beautiful. Inside and outside! 846 00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:34,749 - I hope you won't mind my sansouci? 847 00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:38,356 - It's an honour! I'd like to kill that husband of yours! 848 00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:41,916 I'd like to kill him. He has no right to have a job that takes him out of town 849 00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:44,195 and to expose you to Ioneliness! 850 00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:46,631 - Don't you want to make yourself comfortable too? 851 00:48:46,720 --> 00:48:48,199 - Yeah... 852 00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:58,829 - No! Not here... I prefer the couch. 853 00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:03,330 - I am sure you understand the continuity... 854 00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:06,470 - You must have touched the wall. May I brush your jacket for you? 855 00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:11,475 You know how women love to use a brush! 856 00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:16,390 - That hen of mine thinks of nothing but whether her hens lay enough eggs! 857 00:49:17,080 --> 00:49:21,390 That's her milieu! Where I could have been 858 00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:23,512 had I met you sooner... 859 00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:28,518 Where I could have been... 860 00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:30,272 I could have had a job in the county administration. 861 00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:32,476 - At least you'd have earned more. 862 00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:37,795 Christ, are you really crying? 863 00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:39,996 And you call yourself a man? 864 00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:43,398 - The things I could have done 865 00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:45,718 if I had a woman... 866 00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:47,677 - Lord! - Like you! 867 00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:51,435 - That's my husband! - I could have been a county official! 868 00:49:51,720 --> 00:49:53,233 - My husband's here! What shall we do? 869 00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:54,753 - What are we going to do? 870 00:49:54,840 --> 00:49:57,195 - I am afraid you'll have to get away through the window! 871 00:49:57,680 --> 00:49:59,318 - Through the window? Through? 872 00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:02,909 - Yes. Thanks God. No, no, no, that one! 873 00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:09,677 - Here? What floor are we on? 874 00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:12,991 - There's a scaffolding outside! We are lucky. You'll come to no harm... 875 00:50:13,720 --> 00:50:15,392 - How do I get to the number 14 tram? 876 00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:16,959 - To the left. - To the left? 877 00:50:17,040 --> 00:50:20,715 - No! There! Bye, bye! 878 00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:27,319 - Everything all right? - He went down as if he worked 879 00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:29,914 in the fire-brigade! - Mrs. Trckova has something for us. 880 00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:32,757 - And how! He is from Bilovice in the Podborany 881 00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:35,752 "A bus tour to see,, Mamsell Nitouche"!" His wife stayed home. 882 00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:37,273 - So what? - That's the rouble! 883 00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:40,955 Only a hundred and a cleaner's ticket! It's in the bathroom, under the boiler! 884 00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:42,632 - We can't always strike it rich. 885 00:50:42,720 --> 00:50:44,631 Sometimes it's less and sometimes more, with God's help. 886 00:50:44,720 --> 00:50:48,235 - I am satisfied. - So am I. I think it's fun. 887 00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:50,276 - Except that I've had enough hicks to last me all my life! 888 00:50:50,360 --> 00:50:52,316 They are so dull! 889 00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:54,598 I grew up among artists! 890 00:50:54,720 --> 00:50:56,199 - Yes, I know. You posed naked 891 00:50:56,280 --> 00:50:57,713 in the Art School for seven crowns an hour! 892 00:50:58,200 --> 00:51:00,350 - Marcela, I want to see you walk! 893 00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:04,309 ...How crumpled. What? - What? 894 00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:06,596 - So what? You need a bra! 895 00:51:06,720 --> 00:51:08,950 - I'm working, aren't I? You couldn't... you wouldn't 896 00:51:09,040 --> 00:51:10,871 make a living. - Christ, isn't she rude! 897 00:51:10,960 --> 00:51:12,951 - Well, girls, Susan is right. 898 00:51:13,040 --> 00:51:14,758 I have something for you. 899 00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:21,750 Three gentlemen with excellent positions. 900 00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:25,352 - I could... may be I could wear the lurex blouse with the low neckline. 901 00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:28,340 - Three gentlemen in excellent positions 902 00:51:28,120 --> 00:51:29,678 ...and lurex... with a low neckline? - We'll have to discuss that in detail. 903 00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:32,690 - But the three gentlemen are not to know 904 00:51:32,880 --> 00:51:35,189 that this is your 905 00:51:35,720 --> 00:51:37,278 how shall I put it... - Hobby. 906 00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:39,720 - What? - Our hobby, I said. 907 00:51:39,720 --> 00:51:41,756 Well. As if you had never been in good society... 908 00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:43,956 - I am scared. I must admit I've only been to the Diplomat Grill 909 00:51:44,040 --> 00:51:45,473 when they needed vacuuming the place. 910 00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:47,357 - You've been the Luxor, you... - I don't mind your being scared. 911 00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:50,113 Point one: Put on Eau de Cologne 912 00:51:50,200 --> 00:51:52,270 - I can lend that to you... Well... let's see... while waiting for. 913 00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:54,391 - Don't lend it to her. Throw it away, that one is impossible. 914 00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:57,119 - You are making a fuss, Mrs. Trckova, as if those three were diplomats. 915 00:51:57,200 --> 00:51:59,794 - A fuss? - Well, if they are diplomats... 916 00:51:59,880 --> 00:52:02,633 - It all depends... 917 00:52:02,720 --> 00:52:04,358 - Well then it's whose, what, who. 918 00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:06,675 - On whom? - We don't know, but Mrs. Trckova does. 919 00:52:06,760 --> 00:52:08,273 - Don't yell at me! 920 00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:10,874 - Wait! These gentlemen 921 00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:13,309 are men of the world... 922 00:52:13,440 --> 00:52:16,790 - I'll wait and see. - Gentlemen - diplomats. 923 00:52:16,160 --> 00:52:18,469 - Shut up when Mrs. Trckova... Well then, 924 00:52:18,560 --> 00:52:21,154 I don't know what he's saying! - You are unbearable! 925 00:52:21,240 --> 00:52:22,798 - You are unbearable! You are... 926 00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:26,839 Christ Almighty, Mrs. Trckova, 927 00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:33,155 do you see what they are doing to me? 928 00:52:34,960 --> 00:52:38,157 Well, gentlemen, for the seventh, and I hope for the last time. 929 00:52:39,080 --> 00:52:42,914 The apéritif. What do you want? Cinzano bitter or Campari? 930 00:52:43,560 --> 00:52:46,233 - I prefer the first. 931 00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:48,380 - At your service. 932 00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:51,712 - Well, friends, what do you say now? 933 00:52:53,800 --> 00:52:57,190 - All right, I also prefer Cinzano. 934 00:52:59,280 --> 00:53:02,397 - So do I. As a long drink. 935 00:53:03,320 --> 00:53:04,833 A few more ice-cubes for me... 936 00:53:07,080 --> 00:53:08,559 - Well. 937 00:53:09,720 --> 00:53:12,473 Cheers, dear friends! 938 00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:17,389 I'll be damned! It's the right thing! - But it's good. 939 00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:19,711 - So what? - I thought it was raspberry lemonade! 940 00:53:19,800 --> 00:53:22,837 You bums! You alcoholics! Are you trying to ruin me?! 941 00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:25,669 I won't let you spend money on training! 942 00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:27,352 Give it back, give it back... 943 00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:31,917 - Hell! Why is there a fire everywhere we go? 944 00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:33,428 Hurry up! 945 00:53:37,520 --> 00:53:39,556 What are you doing? - A bit of spring-cleaning. 946 00:53:40,200 --> 00:53:41,679 Some people spend their nights in pubs, 947 00:53:41,760 --> 00:53:44,690 others try to improve their surroundings. 948 00:53:44,240 --> 00:53:46,196 - If you don't go out with the gang sometimes, 949 00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:48,953 they'll knock your teeth in! 950 00:53:51,520 --> 00:53:52,589 - Damn it to hell. 951 00:53:52,680 --> 00:53:54,352 - Why don't you use both hands, you fool? 952 00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:56,317 You are twice my size. I can hardly keep my eyes open 953 00:53:56,400 --> 00:53:58,231 and the birds are going to start singing in a few minutes! 954 00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:04,149 - If it wasn't for me, gentlemen - as a voluntary fire-man, 955 00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:08,837 we'd have gone up in flames! We'd have gone up in smoke like 956 00:54:08,920 --> 00:54:11,275 fireworks! The stupid idea of trying to quench thin 957 00:54:11,360 --> 00:54:13,316 paper with your jacket! 958 00:54:13,520 --> 00:54:16,318 The draft you caused made the fire! 959 00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:18,436 - Swell... Do something, damn you, and don't make me mad! 960 00:54:20,320 --> 00:54:23,392 - Idiots, if we do this every time 961 00:54:23,480 --> 00:54:24,993 we take a lesson... 962 00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:26,752 our expenses have gone up to 550 crowns! 963 00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:31,720 We could have gone to Roxford! 964 00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:41,516 Have you chosen yet, comrade Captain? 965 00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:43,433 - That's only a pretext. - Is it? 966 00:54:49,080 --> 00:54:51,389 - I came to ask you whether they are making any progress. 967 00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:55,359 Have they given up yet? - You don't have to be ashamed of them. 968 00:54:55,760 --> 00:54:59,360 Comrade Captain, that's all I can say. 969 00:54:59,800 --> 00:55:03,588 I never had pupils like them. 970 00:55:07,720 --> 00:55:10,234 This is a bit extravagant. 971 00:55:11,200 --> 00:55:13,395 - Extravagance is only on elaboration 972 00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:15,516 of things already in existence. 973 00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:17,790 - Yes, I am sure you are right. 974 00:55:17,560 --> 00:55:21,838 - Take then problem of the UFO - some scientists declare it to be the result 975 00:55:21,920 --> 00:55:25,515 of unverified hypotheses reasoning, 976 00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:28,319 that the existence of civilisations in outer space 977 00:55:28,600 --> 00:55:30,158 cannot be proved. 978 00:55:31,640 --> 00:55:36,555 - I am afraid I don't quite understand. 979 00:55:37,240 --> 00:55:39,196 - Well, it's quite simple. 980 00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:42,915 A serious scientist is obliged to study even hypotheses 981 00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:44,877 that cannot be excluded, isn't he? 982 00:55:45,600 --> 00:55:48,717 - Yes. - Yes. 983 00:55:49,240 --> 00:55:51,834 - Of course, Martha... Martha dear, 984 00:55:52,800 --> 00:55:54,279 the ties, please. 985 00:55:54,400 --> 00:55:57,198 - I do not object to absurd theatre 986 00:55:57,320 --> 00:56:01,518 but nevertheless I don't believe that this form of theatre can encompass 987 00:56:01,640 --> 00:56:05,997 modern man in his full extent and depth... 988 00:56:06,760 --> 00:56:09,479 - I agree. But please, keep your arm up. 989 00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:15,151 - Those boys only pretend to have invented something new. 990 00:56:17,160 --> 00:56:19,549 If you ignore Kafka, Beckett, Ionesco 991 00:56:19,840 --> 00:56:22,559 you will find the roots way 992 00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:24,756 back in Shakespeare! 993 00:56:26,440 --> 00:56:27,873 - Yes, yes. 994 00:56:31,120 --> 00:56:32,758 - I'll take this one. This one. 995 00:56:32,840 --> 00:56:35,513 The colours remind me of some visual 996 00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:38,751 objective impression from the well known 997 00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:41,752 paranoiac composition 998 00:56:41,840 --> 00:56:45,710 of that genius Salvador Dali. 999 00:56:45,240 --> 00:56:48,550 Don't you think so, madam? - I do. 1000 00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:50,950 - I see, so you gentlemen are in culture? 1001 00:56:51,160 --> 00:56:55,392 - Friends, my hobbies are astronomical physics and parapsychology. 1002 00:56:56,080 --> 00:56:58,469 We'll have a chance to discuss that next time. 1003 00:56:59,560 --> 00:57:01,516 - Be sure not to miss Beckett! 1004 00:57:01,600 --> 00:57:03,750 - I hope I won't have to... - Shall we go now? 1005 00:57:03,840 --> 00:57:05,558 - We'll be seeing you, ladies. 1006 00:57:05,720 --> 00:57:08,750 - Au revoir, gentlemen! My compliments... 1007 00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:10,111 - Au revoir! - Good bye! 1008 00:57:10,200 --> 00:57:10,916 - So long! 1009 00:57:13,200 --> 00:57:15,873 I wonder what obstacle we could stumble over... 1010 00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:17,757 - Exactly. 1011 00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:29,991 - I've found things that will please you 1012 00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:32,111 in many highbrow books and mind you, 1013 00:57:32,200 --> 00:57:34,668 it's no sin 1014 00:57:34,760 --> 00:57:36,716 to consult highbrow books. 1015 00:57:36,800 --> 00:57:39,750 The same as flowers bloom in the sun 1016 00:57:39,160 --> 00:57:41,116 that also causes freckles in nature sin 1017 00:57:41,200 --> 00:57:43,760 is natural in nature, 1018 00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:45,910 sin is no sin! 1019 00:57:47,280 --> 00:57:48,793 I sin, you sin, 1020 00:57:49,040 --> 00:57:50,678 we sin 1021 00:57:50,880 --> 00:57:54,190 and what's wrong with sinning 1022 00:57:54,600 --> 00:57:57,239 when it gives men pleasure 1023 00:57:57,320 --> 00:58:00,995 and they ask for it? 1024 00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:10,312 She's been married for years and he has a wife too 1025 00:58:10,760 --> 00:58:14,753 for both of them life is nothing but pleasure. 1026 00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:19,632 Till a sinful woman grabs him holds him in her arms 1027 00:58:19,760 --> 00:58:24,470 But only till the morning, madam, tomorrow you can have him back! 1028 00:58:25,560 --> 00:58:27,357 I sin, you sin, 1029 00:58:27,440 --> 00:58:32,389 we sin and what's wrong with sinning? 1030 00:58:32,920 --> 00:58:35,718 When it gives men pleasure and they 1031 00:58:35,800 --> 00:58:39,759 ask for it? 1032 00:58:44,400 --> 00:58:46,550 The man goes back to his family back 1033 00:58:46,640 --> 00:58:48,676 to his wife and children 1034 00:58:48,800 --> 00:58:53,396 back to a life of innocence, loving them even better. 1035 00:58:53,520 --> 00:58:55,590 So why speak of sin when 1036 00:58:55,680 --> 00:58:57,989 instead of blaming the little girls 1037 00:58:58,080 --> 00:59:00,116 the state should award them medals 1038 00:59:00,200 --> 00:59:02,839 and hold them in honour? - Yeah. 1039 00:59:03,800 --> 00:59:05,518 I sin, you sin, 1040 00:59:05,720 --> 00:59:10,669 we sin and what's wrong with sinning? 1041 00:59:10,800 --> 00:59:13,872 When it gives men pleasure 1042 00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:17,549 and they ask for it? 1043 00:59:29,400 --> 00:59:30,958 Susan, don't wolf your food down! 1044 00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:33,479 No one is going to take it away from you. 1045 00:59:34,480 --> 00:59:37,552 - I love chicken! Don't you, girls? 1046 00:59:38,280 --> 00:59:39,918 Don't say,, girls". 1047 00:59:40,280 --> 00:59:43,955 That has a low class, vulgar sound... 1048 00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:47,355 Don't say,, girls" even if they are your friends. 1049 00:59:51,480 --> 00:59:53,232 Bozka! 1050 00:59:53,360 --> 00:59:54,952 Look, Susan, 1051 00:59:55,520 --> 00:59:57,954 if you don't know what to do... 1052 01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:02,672 This is permissible. 1053 01:00:02,760 --> 01:00:04,591 With every type of poultry. 1054 01:00:09,080 --> 01:00:10,559 Including duck. 1055 01:00:10,680 --> 01:00:12,159 - That's all right. Now I know. 1056 01:00:14,600 --> 01:00:16,318 - But do it with elegance! 1057 01:00:16,400 --> 01:00:17,958 - Yes, no one will take it away from me! 1058 01:00:21,400 --> 01:00:23,868 - Bozka, don't lick your fingers. 1059 01:00:24,000 --> 01:00:26,560 What are napkins for? 1060 01:00:27,240 --> 01:00:29,356 - But the napkin is clean! - That's what it's there for. 1061 01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:32,355 Susan, you mustn't show what you like... ever. 1062 01:00:32,480 --> 01:00:33,959 That gives a bad impression. 1063 01:00:34,800 --> 01:00:37,917 - But he has eyes like Karel Gott! - Who? 1064 01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:42,560 - Watching you, Mrs. Trckova, 1065 01:00:42,640 --> 01:00:44,119 I think it's getting serious. 1066 01:00:44,400 --> 01:00:45,958 - Serious, is it? 1067 01:00:46,040 --> 01:00:48,508 Bozka! Waiter, please - She said that! 1068 01:00:49,120 --> 01:00:51,680 Three coffees and three,, Cups Malakoff"! - Yes, madam. 1069 01:00:52,800 --> 01:00:55,314 - Well, girls, I wanted to watch you eat. 1070 01:00:55,400 --> 01:00:56,913 I think it's going to work. 1071 01:00:57,000 --> 01:01:00,913 - We shan't go mad because of three big shots! 1072 01:01:01,720 --> 01:01:04,473 - Don't pick your teeth, Bozka! 1073 01:01:05,760 --> 01:01:07,876 - It's going to work, Mrs. Trckova. 1074 01:01:07,960 --> 01:01:10,235 - You are stupid! 1075 01:01:10,320 --> 01:01:13,710 If it wasn't for Mrs. Trckova you'd still be posing at the Art School. 1076 01:01:13,800 --> 01:01:17,759 Naked for seven crowns an hour! You would! 1077 01:01:18,040 --> 01:01:21,510 Don't shout! People don't have to know though it is the truth. 1078 01:01:22,240 --> 01:01:25,471 Can't you even tell us what they look like? 1079 01:01:25,560 --> 01:01:27,357 Great! One looks like pop-star Waldemar Matuska, 1080 01:01:27,440 --> 01:01:29,590 the other like that beatle Vaclav Neckar and the third like Helenka Vondrackova. 1081 01:01:29,680 --> 01:01:31,716 You are killing me! 1082 01:01:32,520 --> 01:01:34,954 Well, surely not like Helen Vondrackova! 1083 01:01:35,200 --> 01:01:36,553 The bill, please. 1084 01:01:36,960 --> 01:01:39,269 Let's have a rehearsal... 1085 01:01:41,480 --> 01:01:46,315 Omelette surprise, Beauf a la mode, 1086 01:01:46,400 --> 01:01:48,550 shwei zhoo shou... or is it shwei shou zhee? 1087 01:01:48,880 --> 01:01:51,235 That's the food we'll order. Tony will do the actual ordering. 1088 01:01:51,320 --> 01:01:53,390 The professor said he is best at pronouncing these strange words. 1089 01:01:53,480 --> 01:01:55,948 - Well, yes, it was far from perfect. 1090 01:01:56,040 --> 01:01:57,871 But I think it sounded all right. 1091 01:01:57,960 --> 01:02:01,270 - It did, it did. Don't you have time to stay for coffee? 1092 01:02:01,360 --> 01:02:03,271 - No, madam, we've come to say goodbye. 1093 01:02:03,360 --> 01:02:05,715 We are through with your house. It's finished and we are going to move on. 1094 01:02:05,800 --> 01:02:06,994 - You've finished? 1095 01:02:07,080 --> 01:02:09,594 - Yes. Yes - I hope you'll be happy and won't hold it against us 1096 01:02:09,680 --> 01:02:11,477 that we broke your window. 1097 01:02:11,560 --> 01:02:14,120 - Of course not. Won't you come again 1098 01:02:14,200 --> 01:02:16,111 before the celebration? 1099 01:02:16,200 --> 01:02:18,316 - Sure, - We will. 1100 01:02:20,920 --> 01:02:25,391 - Goodbye, So long... and good luck! 1101 01:02:25,800 --> 01:02:27,631 - Thank you! 1102 01:02:31,280 --> 01:02:32,508 Good evening. Look, madam... 1103 01:02:32,600 --> 01:02:35,239 - Look, mister, didn't I tell you three times already not to come here? 1104 01:02:35,320 --> 01:02:37,550 Listen, madam, three times or not... Let me explain! 1105 01:02:37,640 --> 01:02:39,949 I've been through the whole house, from door to door, 1106 01:02:40,040 --> 01:02:41,553 tenant after tenant, and I am now convinced it was 1107 01:02:41,640 --> 01:02:42,755 your apartment! - It must have been... 1108 01:02:42,840 --> 01:02:44,796 - You'd dare to... Wait! I could call the police. 1109 01:02:44,880 --> 01:02:45,517 Well, but I'm not going to do it... on one hand, 1110 01:02:45,600 --> 01:02:48,478 I hate the police and on the other, I have no proof... 1111 01:02:48,560 --> 01:02:50,312 - I see! - Wait! Let me finish. 1112 01:02:50,400 --> 01:02:52,914 To hell with the money but I don't like to be made a fool of, 1113 01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:54,638 do you get me? Look, madam, 1114 01:02:54,720 --> 01:02:57,871 why don't you open the door. I'll look at the bedroom and I'll go again...! 1115 01:02:58,400 --> 01:02:59,833 - Wait, wait! 1116 01:02:59,920 --> 01:03:02,832 - Au, my foot! Look, madam, don't do that. You'll regret it! 1117 01:03:02,920 --> 01:03:04,831 I'll come again and I'll make so much noise the whole house will... 1118 01:03:04,920 --> 01:03:06,273 - Let go! 1119 01:03:06,360 --> 01:03:08,237 - I said! I'm getting a divorce, I no longer care, madam! 1120 01:03:08,320 --> 01:03:11,730 - Getting a divorce... Who could have known... 1121 01:03:11,160 --> 01:03:14,232 That's wrong! That's where we made a mistake. 1122 01:03:16,560 --> 01:03:19,438 Yes? - Prouza Gustav. 1123 01:03:19,520 --> 01:03:21,875 - 2800 crowns and 500 as premium. 1124 01:03:21,960 --> 01:03:25,191 - Better than nothing. 1125 01:03:25,440 --> 01:03:27,954 - Count your money! 1126 01:03:28,200 --> 01:03:30,350 Skopec. - Here you are... 1127 01:03:30,600 --> 01:03:32,318 - Thanks. 1128 01:03:33,040 --> 01:03:34,837 I wonder who Hovorka is talking to? 1129 01:03:34,920 --> 01:03:36,638 - If it can't be helped, it can't be helped. 1130 01:03:36,720 --> 01:03:40,269 Let me tell you that it's going to cost you a lot in penalties. 1131 01:03:40,360 --> 01:03:43,636 This is your last wage... packet in Prague, boys. 1132 01:03:43,720 --> 01:03:46,154 We are moving the day after tomorrow. - Why? 1133 01:03:46,240 --> 01:03:48,710 - Because the first block is finished and we have no scaffolding 1134 01:03:48,160 --> 01:03:51,357 for the second. Cursed work... 1135 01:03:53,680 --> 01:03:58,629 I am convinced that the looks and beauty of our capital cannot leave 1136 01:03:59,800 --> 01:04:04,749 anyone cold. Especially with a town 1137 01:04:05,000 --> 01:04:08,549 like Prague. 1138 01:04:09,000 --> 01:04:12,993 The indifference and laziness of some people 1139 01:04:13,080 --> 01:04:16,390 who were born in Prague but don't love their town 1140 01:04:16,480 --> 01:04:19,631 enough to ensure a scaffolding for those 1141 01:04:19,720 --> 01:04:21,438 that have come from South Bohemia 1142 01:04:22,920 --> 01:04:27,869 to return Prague its looks. This forces me to ask: 1143 01:04:28,400 --> 01:04:33,349 ,, Where would the National Theatre be if it wasn't for the villagers? 1144 01:04:44,360 --> 01:04:48,592 Isn't it shameful? Can't you find a way to convince 1145 01:04:48,680 --> 01:04:53,629 those incapable bureaucrats? 1146 01:04:54,240 --> 01:04:55,673 Excuse me... 1147 01:04:55,760 --> 01:04:58,558 ...a few incapable bureaucrats who make weak excuse in stating 1148 01:04:58,640 --> 01:05:03,770 that they did not expect plasterers from Velhartice 1149 01:05:03,160 --> 01:05:05,993 to work that fast? Here! 1150 01:05:12,240 --> 01:05:15,380 Quite a good picture. We do look nice... all three of us. 1151 01:05:15,120 --> 01:05:16,872 We do. Even Petrtyl does, look! 1152 01:05:16,960 --> 01:05:20,191 It's nice, but we have to stay modest. 1153 01:05:21,000 --> 01:05:24,959 Hynais Vojtech - Czech painter, 1154 01:05:25,400 --> 01:05:28,631 born to poor Czech... - Born! 1155 01:05:29,760 --> 01:05:33,196 - What I find interesting is... - then in Vienna to poor Czech parents. 1156 01:05:33,600 --> 01:05:36,876 ...that Marie Sklodowska Curie... - Look, you see 1157 01:05:36,960 --> 01:05:38,678 - I'm studying... you know your text by heart... 1158 01:05:38,760 --> 01:05:40,432 Can't you be a bit more considerate? 1159 01:05:41,280 --> 01:05:44,238 - You should have known that when you went to Art School! Naked... 1160 01:05:44,320 --> 01:05:45,548 - I was interested in the impressionists. 1161 01:05:45,640 --> 01:05:46,914 But you don't know what that is... 1162 01:05:47,000 --> 01:05:48,831 It wasn't my idea to pretend to be a painter. 1163 01:05:48,920 --> 01:05:51,992 - It's interesting that I know all about the Curry woman... 1164 01:05:52,080 --> 01:05:54,230 - Curie! - Curie, I know! 1165 01:05:54,320 --> 01:05:58,290 - Girls, it's obvious. Susan is a charwoman at the hospital. 1166 01:05:58,640 --> 01:06:00,517 She is a doctor. 1167 01:06:00,600 --> 01:06:02,875 - Leukaemia, appendix... 1168 01:06:03,240 --> 01:06:07,597 - Bozka works with varnishes... she'll be a chemistry teacher. 1169 01:06:07,680 --> 01:06:09,671 - Madame Curie... - Well... 1170 01:06:10,240 --> 01:06:13,710 And you modelled... you are a painter, graduate of the academy, 1171 01:06:13,800 --> 01:06:16,268 and as a graduate you must know 1172 01:06:16,360 --> 01:06:19,796 who Hynais was and that he painted the curtain of the National Theatre. 1173 01:06:19,880 --> 01:06:20,995 - She ought to know. 1174 01:06:21,080 --> 01:06:22,877 - Of course, but as soon as he asks me something else 1175 01:06:22,960 --> 01:06:24,552 I don't know what I'm going to say. 1176 01:06:24,640 --> 01:06:27,154 - You'll have to bring the conversation back to Hynais. 1177 01:06:27,240 --> 01:06:30,730 What do you think Susan and Bozenka will do? 1178 01:06:30,160 --> 01:06:32,594 - Back to Curry... - I mean Curie. 1179 01:06:33,240 --> 01:06:36,730 Who is to go in first? 1180 01:06:36,160 --> 01:06:37,798 - A gentleman. 1181 01:06:37,920 --> 01:06:40,275 - What are you going to do when someone spills the soup? 1182 01:06:40,360 --> 01:06:42,191 - I'm going to ignore it. 1183 01:06:42,280 --> 01:06:45,317 - Why does the gentleman go first? 1184 01:06:45,400 --> 01:06:48,233 - To divert attention from the lady. 1185 01:06:48,360 --> 01:06:51,113 - What will you do when someone spills sauce all over you? 1186 01:06:51,200 --> 01:06:52,633 - I'm going to notice but I'll pretend 1187 01:06:52,720 --> 01:06:56,679 not to have noticed. - I am ready. 1188 01:06:56,760 --> 01:07:01,390 - Well, girls, this is it. You are quite safe. Susan is great in telling 1189 01:07:02,240 --> 01:07:06,950 about pernicious anaemia... - Marie Sklodowska Curry. 1190 01:07:07,520 --> 01:07:10,340 - Currie. - I know, Curie... 1191 01:07:10,120 --> 01:07:12,998 - But that's my subject! You have the Art School, don't you? 1192 01:07:13,080 --> 01:07:14,718 - Hynais. You have Hynais. 1193 01:07:14,800 --> 01:07:17,314 - As if I didn't know, Christ... 1194 01:07:17,720 --> 01:07:18,516 - Well, repeat it! 1195 01:07:18,600 --> 01:07:21,353 - Look, girls, take no notice of me at all in the cloakroom. 1196 01:07:21,440 --> 01:07:24,159 If you see me, pretend you've never seen me. 1197 01:07:24,240 --> 01:07:26,549 Vondracek knows how to seat you. 1198 01:07:26,640 --> 01:07:31,270 The gentlemen have a table right next to yours, I've arranged that. 1199 01:07:31,360 --> 01:07:34,790 Listen carefully! When you come, 1200 01:07:34,360 --> 01:07:37,955 you are still going to be ladies, don't you dare searching pockets 1201 01:07:38,040 --> 01:07:41,316 before you are sure they are sound asleep! 1202 01:07:41,400 --> 01:07:44,676 And now! An important alternation: - Wait! 1203 01:07:45,400 --> 01:07:48,312 - When I ring the bell, you are to jump out of the window! 1204 01:07:48,400 --> 01:07:50,470 Not the men! - Money and all? 1205 01:07:50,560 --> 01:07:52,118 - You aren't going to leave it behind, are you? 1206 01:07:52,200 --> 01:07:54,475 - Well. 1207 01:07:55,040 --> 01:07:57,554 - Do you get me? You are to jump out of the window. 1208 01:07:57,640 --> 01:07:58,914 Well, good luck! 1209 01:07:59,160 --> 01:08:01,151 All right... 1210 01:08:01,640 --> 01:08:05,110 - I have to admit it, professor, I've got... 1211 01:08:05,200 --> 01:08:09,751 I've got stage fright. It isn't easy a thing like that... 1212 01:08:10,120 --> 01:08:14,193 - The first step forward into society always makes people nervous. 1213 01:08:14,280 --> 01:08:17,670 Let me repeat that nothing can happen to you... 1214 01:08:18,840 --> 01:08:20,512 I'd only like to ask Mr. Petrtyl 1215 01:08:20,600 --> 01:08:23,433 if you order cucumber salad... 1216 01:08:23,760 --> 01:08:26,320 ...at the dress rehearsal he forgot himself 1217 01:08:26,440 --> 01:08:30,956 and sipped the sauce from the saucer. That is out of the question, dear sir. 1218 01:08:31,080 --> 01:08:35,551 - That was only a rehearsal. - Remember, a tiny little sip 1219 01:08:35,640 --> 01:08:38,438 from the ice-bucket may spoil everything... 1220 01:08:38,520 --> 01:08:40,636 - Remember you'll be sitting with a lady whom such a small slip up 1221 01:08:40,720 --> 01:08:45,510 would hurt more than if you pricked her eye with your fork! 1222 01:08:45,600 --> 01:08:49,832 - You look great, Gustav. 1223 01:08:50,000 --> 01:08:53,197 What a pity you aren't taller, so people could see you better... 1224 01:08:53,280 --> 01:08:54,190 - And what about me? 1225 01:08:54,280 --> 01:08:57,352 - You are all right, you'll do. - Gentlemen... 1226 01:08:57,600 --> 01:09:01,957 this evening's success will be 1227 01:09:02,480 --> 01:09:06,393 the crowning glory of my interrupted career. 1228 01:09:06,640 --> 01:09:08,517 Forgive me for being emotional. 1229 01:09:08,600 --> 01:09:11,956 I'm not superstitious! Well, gentlemen, pfui, pfui, pfui, 1230 01:09:13,640 --> 01:09:15,119 - The most beautiful thing about this is 1231 01:09:15,200 --> 01:09:17,430 that it isn't only ,, from without content" 1232 01:09:17,520 --> 01:09:21,752 we are not only ready to act but to talk too. 1233 01:09:21,840 --> 01:09:23,512 Thank you! 1234 01:09:23,600 --> 01:09:25,272 - There's something else, gentlemen. Let me tell you 1235 01:09:25,360 --> 01:09:29,751 that it's considered quite all right to light a cigarette for a lady 1236 01:09:29,920 --> 01:09:32,354 without knowing her. Who is prepared to do this? 1237 01:09:32,440 --> 01:09:35,000 - The asses would manage to lose it... 1238 01:09:39,880 --> 01:09:41,598 So gentlemen, just remain calm and composed... 1239 01:09:41,680 --> 01:09:44,558 Just make sure you remember everything, everything will turn out fine. 1240 01:09:44,760 --> 01:09:45,988 So, best foot forward, let's go! 1241 01:09:50,720 --> 01:09:53,154 Dirty village louts... They make us take 1242 01:09:53,240 --> 01:09:56,869 the scaffolding apart for them 1243 01:09:59,160 --> 01:10:01,799 while they are stuffing themselves at a reception! 1244 01:10:01,880 --> 01:10:03,677 And we are to do the bloody work overnight! 1245 01:10:09,440 --> 01:10:10,759 Good evening! - Welcome... good evening! 1246 01:10:10,840 --> 01:10:14,549 - Good evening! - Had I tipped Trnava to win 1247 01:10:14,640 --> 01:10:18,235 and Bohemians to lose I'd have... 1248 01:10:18,760 --> 01:10:20,990 Good evening, gentlemen! - Good evening! 1249 01:10:21,080 --> 01:10:23,710 - Good evening! - Good evening! 1250 01:10:23,560 --> 01:10:25,755 - A good night and a good morning, madam! 1251 01:10:25,840 --> 01:10:28,752 I hear you had a fire here about three months ago? 1252 01:10:29,320 --> 01:10:31,959 - Only a tablecloth, nothing much... 1253 01:10:32,040 --> 01:10:34,873 - We'll brush up a bit. 1254 01:10:40,320 --> 01:10:41,799 Do you know them? 1255 01:10:41,880 --> 01:10:44,474 - I am not sure I do, 1256 01:10:44,560 --> 01:10:48,235 but they've reserved a table one of the two over there. 1257 01:10:57,680 --> 01:11:01,719 Diplomat Grill is honoured 1258 01:11:01,800 --> 01:11:04,553 by your visit we offer 1259 01:11:05,560 --> 01:11:08,950 Whisky to the gentlemen 1260 01:11:09,600 --> 01:11:13,752 and Henessy to the ladies... 1261 01:11:18,560 --> 01:11:22,633 Three whiskies on the rocks and Henessy for the ladies 1262 01:11:22,800 --> 01:11:26,190 so we can get going... 1263 01:11:26,320 --> 01:11:29,835 Welcome, gentlemen 1264 01:11:35,720 --> 01:11:38,553 the manager and the chief 1265 01:11:39,640 --> 01:11:42,632 de la cuisine advises you to start 1266 01:11:43,720 --> 01:11:47,110 on oysters in wine... 1267 01:11:47,840 --> 01:11:52,231 Oysters? 1268 01:11:56,600 --> 01:11:58,875 Why not? 1269 01:11:58,960 --> 01:12:00,598 - For all three! 1270 01:12:00,680 --> 01:12:02,398 - And three more whiskies on the rocks! 1271 01:12:02,480 --> 01:12:04,380 - And Henessy for the ladies! 1272 01:12:04,120 --> 01:12:07,271 - So we can get going move closer to our goal! 1273 01:12:17,200 --> 01:12:20,476 Then chateubriand with asparagus 1274 01:12:20,800 --> 01:12:23,109 and roast beef on the grill 1275 01:12:24,760 --> 01:12:27,877 a desert with fine pastry 1276 01:12:28,640 --> 01:12:30,710 you're sure to enjoy... 1277 01:12:31,040 --> 01:12:32,996 - You are sure to enjoy! 1278 01:12:40,680 --> 01:12:42,989 Well start serving the dishes and bring 1279 01:12:43,080 --> 01:12:44,752 - only the best 1280 01:12:44,840 --> 01:12:46,512 - and bring us three more 1281 01:12:46,600 --> 01:12:48,113 - whiskies for the ladies - Henessy! 1282 01:12:48,200 --> 01:12:49,553 - Six helpings of the oysters 1283 01:12:49,640 --> 01:12:51,312 - the ladies like such stuff 1284 01:12:51,400 --> 01:12:54,551 - so we can get going move closer to our goal! 1285 01:13:05,200 --> 01:13:07,395 And what about the coffee? 1286 01:13:08,720 --> 01:13:11,473 And salted almonds? 1287 01:13:12,720 --> 01:13:15,598 Whisky gives you headache 1288 01:13:16,440 --> 01:13:20,353 and coffee is supposed to cure it. 1289 01:13:33,880 --> 01:13:36,155 Six helpings of the oysters 1290 01:13:36,240 --> 01:13:37,832 - popular with the ladies 1291 01:13:37,920 --> 01:13:39,592 - six chateaubriand steaks 1292 01:13:39,680 --> 01:13:41,272 - music on six pianos! 1293 01:13:41,360 --> 01:13:43,320 - Six roast beefs with asparagus 1294 01:13:43,120 --> 01:13:44,678 - waiter, where the hell are you? 1295 01:13:44,760 --> 01:13:48,360 - Twelve pitch-black coffees for those that lose their heads 1296 01:13:48,120 --> 01:13:51,351 and dozens of anchovies 1297 01:13:51,600 --> 01:13:56,151 and barrels of good whisky and tons of Henessy! 1298 01:13:58,200 --> 01:14:01,476 So we can get moving 1299 01:14:01,560 --> 01:14:06,509 move closer to our goal, 1300 01:14:07,200 --> 01:14:12,149 ...our goal... ...our goal... 1301 01:14:35,320 --> 01:14:37,629 Here I am. The gentlemen wish to dine? 1302 01:14:37,720 --> 01:14:41,110 - Later. Let's start with an appetizer... 1303 01:14:42,080 --> 01:14:46,517 - Apéritifs? I can offer you Dubonnet, dry Martini, Campari bitter 1304 01:14:47,120 --> 01:14:49,310 if you wish something stronger, 1305 01:14:49,120 --> 01:14:53,591 we have Long John, Black and White, Vat 69... 1306 01:14:53,680 --> 01:14:56,956 - Campari, I think. Three Camparis. 1307 01:14:57,520 --> 01:15:00,800 - For the time being. - Three Campari Bitters, please. 1308 01:15:41,720 --> 01:15:44,314 Sit down! - I am sitting. 1309 01:15:46,800 --> 01:15:49,553 - She's sitting! - You are sitting? 1310 01:15:55,000 --> 01:15:56,690 - We are sitting too... 1311 01:15:56,440 --> 01:16:01,389 - Look, over there, look carefully 1312 01:16:03,600 --> 01:16:05,636 do you think those three are here alone? 1313 01:16:06,000 --> 01:16:07,558 That must be them. 1314 01:16:07,640 --> 01:16:10,598 - I know. And they are looking at us. 1315 01:16:11,280 --> 01:16:14,556 - Men usually do when ladies enter. 1316 01:16:14,920 --> 01:16:17,229 - Don't look at them! 1317 01:16:17,320 --> 01:16:21,757 - I won't. What are we going to do? 1318 01:16:23,280 --> 01:16:25,953 - Watch me, girls! 1319 01:16:26,880 --> 01:16:29,872 - Good evening. What will it be? 1320 01:16:30,200 --> 01:16:32,634 - A large rr... - Three coffees. 1321 01:16:32,720 --> 01:16:33,277 - Yes. 1322 01:16:37,760 --> 01:16:39,398 Matches! 1323 01:16:39,480 --> 01:16:44,429 - I meant. It's stuck. Have you got a knife? 1324 01:16:45,160 --> 01:16:47,276 Are you mad? A knife? - What are you doing? 1325 01:16:47,360 --> 01:16:50,193 - You do want to smoke, don't you? I know what I'm doing sit and watch! 1326 01:16:51,080 --> 01:16:54,720 I'll give it a try. - Don't, you are clumsy. 1327 01:17:01,200 --> 01:17:03,395 May I? - Thank you. 1328 01:17:05,800 --> 01:17:07,472 - May I? 1329 01:17:08,000 --> 01:17:10,360 - Really, thanks... 1330 01:17:10,120 --> 01:17:11,917 - Anthony architect Skopec. 1331 01:17:12,000 --> 01:17:14,514 - Pleased to meet you, Mr. Skopec. 1332 01:17:14,600 --> 01:17:17,876 Looking at you one knows that elegant men are not yet extinct! 1333 01:17:18,000 --> 01:17:21,595 Aren't you afraid I'll pinch this charming object? 1334 01:17:22,040 --> 01:17:23,678 If I were sure not to offend the ladies, 1335 01:17:23,760 --> 01:17:26,350 I'd suggest a way I could keep an eye 1336 01:17:26,120 --> 01:17:29,351 on my lighter. 1337 01:17:30,760 --> 01:17:32,637 - Would you tell me how? 1338 01:17:32,720 --> 01:17:36,429 - Let's push our two tables together. - Of course! 1339 01:17:37,120 --> 01:17:42,690 - A plan worthy of an architect! All ask my colleagues, shall I? 1340 01:17:42,400 --> 01:17:46,473 Do... I am sure you'll find my suggestion of interest. 1341 01:17:47,320 --> 01:17:49,197 - Aren't you stupid...? 1342 01:17:49,280 --> 01:17:51,953 That looked great. Congratulations! 1343 01:17:52,080 --> 01:17:53,274 I'd have never believed it... 1344 01:17:53,360 --> 01:17:57,350 - Captain, I am an expert on movement. I was sure of that, 1345 01:17:57,800 --> 01:18:00,300 but as to the dialogue, I have some doubts... 1346 01:18:08,680 --> 01:18:11,148 Anything interesting, madam? 1347 01:18:11,240 --> 01:18:15,119 - Nothing. Everything is fine... 1348 01:18:17,960 --> 01:18:22,158 Those snobs no longer excite me either, madam... 1349 01:18:33,600 --> 01:18:37,559 What are we eating, Mr. Architect? 1350 01:18:39,200 --> 01:18:41,589 - Tournedos Rossini, madam. 1351 01:18:41,680 --> 01:18:44,672 - Men prefer beauf á la mode. 1352 01:18:45,920 --> 01:18:50,755 - How interesting! With a job like mine... 1353 01:18:52,280 --> 01:18:55,272 ...I don't have time to clock. All I can manage is a snack 1354 01:18:55,360 --> 01:18:56,918 in the canteen at the Academy. 1355 01:18:58,440 --> 01:18:59,919 - I am in a similar position. 1356 01:19:00,320 --> 01:19:02,629 When I finish my visit to the patients I rush to the canteen, 1357 01:19:02,720 --> 01:19:05,757 from the canteen to the patients and before I can disinfect myself 1358 01:19:05,840 --> 01:19:07,159 it's evening... 1359 01:19:07,400 --> 01:19:10,392 - Let's not bore the gentlemen with cooking... 1360 01:19:10,480 --> 01:19:13,400 - No, no, you aren't boring us! 1361 01:19:13,120 --> 01:19:15,839 Nothing strange is human. 1362 01:19:15,920 --> 01:19:20,596 - Naturally. I think it's an interesting fact that Marie Sklodowska Curie, 1363 01:19:21,080 --> 01:19:26,290 the first woman to teach... the first woman at the Paris Sorbonne also... 1364 01:19:27,280 --> 01:19:30,780 ...managed to cook for her family. - Yes... 1365 01:19:30,320 --> 01:19:33,676 - Nowadays, life is full of absurdities. I think, ladies, 1366 01:19:33,760 --> 01:19:37,719 that is best demonstrated on present drama in its pregnancy. 1367 01:19:37,880 --> 01:19:42,320 - Of course. You wouldn't believe 1368 01:19:42,280 --> 01:19:45,590 how many people nowadays suffer from leukaemia. 1369 01:19:47,120 --> 01:19:49,873 That's a disease of the blood-cells. - I am sure the gentlemen know that. 1370 01:19:49,960 --> 01:19:52,679 - We cannot be surprised, with this state of affairs, 1371 01:19:52,760 --> 01:19:54,352 that some colleagues consider 1372 01:19:54,440 --> 01:19:57,830 the existence of interplanetary contacts of different civilisations 1373 01:19:58,520 --> 01:20:00,192 to be a real prospect. 1374 01:20:00,280 --> 01:20:03,477 That's what the absurd theatre is based on. 1375 01:20:03,560 --> 01:20:05,232 It reasons with logical nonsense 1376 01:20:05,320 --> 01:20:07,390 and thus with the rational incomprehension of that 1377 01:20:07,480 --> 01:20:11,439 in which we live. - How surprising! In medicine, 1378 01:20:11,520 --> 01:20:15,354 we now have the hope that the appendix may disappear 1379 01:20:15,440 --> 01:20:16,919 the same as the spleen does... 1380 01:20:20,440 --> 01:20:24,399 - The spleen, madam...? - In childhood. Isn't that interesting? 1381 01:20:25,280 --> 01:20:29,478 - It's far more interesting that Marie Sklodowska Curie invented 1382 01:20:29,560 --> 01:20:33,633 a method that helped her in 1910 in the Joachimsthal pitch 1383 01:20:35,440 --> 01:20:38,750 ...I mean from Joachimsthal pitch to make a radio... 1384 01:20:39,600 --> 01:20:41,716 From metal ore... 1385 01:20:41,800 --> 01:20:45,918 - Darling, you have to think of yourself a little we are always in such a rush! 1386 01:20:46,560 --> 01:20:49,916 - Jesus, what a rush we are in. - It's like a merry-go-round... 1387 01:20:50,000 --> 01:20:52,230 - I understand, madam. 1388 01:20:52,320 --> 01:20:56,677 People that love their profession cannot simply, after working hours, 1389 01:20:57,360 --> 01:21:00,477 forget everything bang and change to another subject. 1390 01:21:00,920 --> 01:21:04,629 - Of course it can't be done flip-flap bang... 1391 01:21:06,480 --> 01:21:10,359 Do you think Marie Sklowodska Curie could have been 1392 01:21:10,520 --> 01:21:13,353 that successful if she'd spend her time gossiping 1393 01:21:13,440 --> 01:21:15,795 about stupid things like... 1394 01:21:17,680 --> 01:21:21,229 - Are you having difficulties with your appendix, Mr. Architect? 1395 01:21:22,000 --> 01:21:24,309 - I am rather interested in the problems of UFO. 1396 01:21:24,400 --> 01:21:26,516 Take the monoliths of the Balbet terraces 1397 01:21:27,080 --> 01:21:29,753 in Lebanon, for instance, they weigh 1500 tons 1398 01:21:31,160 --> 01:21:35,233 and here, on Earth, haven't found technical means 1399 01:21:35,720 --> 01:21:38,154 to move them yet 1400 01:21:38,240 --> 01:21:39,673 ...that simply isn't doesn't exist... 1401 01:21:39,760 --> 01:21:42,877 - Do you hear them, madam? The two of us who love painting 1402 01:21:43,720 --> 01:21:45,233 can't get a word in edgeways. 1403 01:21:46,320 --> 01:21:49,756 Just try to get such technical experts to speak about Salvador Dali, 1404 01:21:50,080 --> 01:21:51,559 for instance. 1405 01:21:52,320 --> 01:21:54,276 - You are mistaken, Mr. Architect. 1406 01:21:54,880 --> 01:21:57,474 Bobina and I talked of that painter what's his name... the one 1407 01:22:02,400 --> 01:22:04,356 who did the allegories for the curtain of the national theatre only 1408 01:22:04,440 --> 01:22:05,873 a short while ago... 1409 01:22:05,960 --> 01:22:07,951 - You can't know Salvador Dali then. 1410 01:22:09,160 --> 01:22:10,752 - I know them all personally, 1411 01:22:10,840 --> 01:22:12,353 Mr. Architect... - Oh hell! 1412 01:22:12,440 --> 01:22:14,158 - Yes, even Hynais, Vojta. 1413 01:22:15,320 --> 01:22:17,276 He may seem a bit old-fashioned to you, 1414 01:22:17,400 --> 01:22:21,154 but his... figural compositions... 1415 01:22:22,040 --> 01:22:23,792 - I understand, yes, Of course 1416 01:22:24,280 --> 01:22:28,114 but I am rather fascinated by that shocking Spaniard who has such 1417 01:22:28,480 --> 01:22:32,996 a fantastic capacity for seeing things in irritating contexts. 1418 01:22:33,160 --> 01:22:37,995 I am sure you know his portrait of the oily wife 1419 01:22:38,160 --> 01:22:39,593 of an oil-king... 1420 01:22:39,680 --> 01:22:43,360 - Yes. There was a period I went to see these pictures daily. 1421 01:22:43,120 --> 01:22:45,634 But of course I do know the curtain of the National Theatre too. 1422 01:22:45,880 --> 01:22:49,156 - Naturally, but I am fascinated by that shaking I mean shocking 1423 01:22:50,400 --> 01:22:51,833 Marie Curie 1424 01:22:51,920 --> 01:22:55,674 who sacrifices everything for the sake of science! 1425 01:22:57,760 --> 01:23:01,230 A few minor mistakes occurred in the dialogue, that's only natural, 1426 01:23:01,360 --> 01:23:04,352 but still... the pronunciation of all the foreign words... 1427 01:23:04,480 --> 01:23:08,290 - I have a feeling I've met those ladies before. 1428 01:23:08,120 --> 01:23:10,953 - You can't have. Let's have the same again. 1429 01:23:11,560 --> 01:23:13,390 Let's have it. 1430 01:23:14,520 --> 01:23:18,513 Even biblical events, such as the detraction. 1431 01:23:18,800 --> 01:23:22,236 I mean destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah can be 1432 01:23:22,320 --> 01:23:24,390 explained as result of thermo-nuclear 1433 01:23:24,480 --> 01:23:27,438 reactions, caused by civilisations of other worlds. 1434 01:23:27,680 --> 01:23:30,877 - No no! The appendix must have been - Yes. 1435 01:23:30,960 --> 01:23:33,155 - Quite an epidemic in those days, far worse than now, 1436 01:23:33,320 --> 01:23:35,880 though it is sometimes quite a bother... 1437 01:23:35,960 --> 01:23:38,349 - On the other hand, 1438 01:23:38,600 --> 01:23:40,192 people that consider today simply as today 1439 01:23:40,520 --> 01:23:43,671 are the people who considered yesterday only as yesterday. 1440 01:23:43,880 --> 01:23:47,395 - Just what I say. 1441 01:23:47,760 --> 01:23:49,591 I simply don't understand 1442 01:23:50,160 --> 01:23:52,833 how Marie Curie managed. 1443 01:23:53,440 --> 01:23:56,477 - Managed what? - She was only a woman, 1444 01:23:58,040 --> 01:24:00,760 after all, you have to admit... 1445 01:24:00,160 --> 01:24:02,720 - That's nonsense, madam, 1446 01:24:02,800 --> 01:24:04,279 those that know where the bee has its sting 1447 01:24:04,360 --> 01:24:05,793 doesn't have to wear trousers, long or short... 1448 01:24:06,360 --> 01:24:09,796 Salvador Dali put that correctly in his irritating way. 1449 01:24:09,880 --> 01:24:12,633 And others... many others... - I knew them all in person... 1450 01:24:12,720 --> 01:24:14,358 - That's what life is... real life... 1451 01:24:14,440 --> 01:24:16,780 - I even knew Hynais. 1452 01:24:17,040 --> 01:24:18,632 How do you think he ever reached the top of that curtain? 1453 01:24:20,080 --> 01:24:22,230 - On a ladder. A long ladder. 1454 01:24:24,040 --> 01:24:26,554 - Must have been a ladder. That's how he reached up to the top! 1455 01:24:26,840 --> 01:24:29,559 - A bottle of cognac, waiter. - Right away. 1456 01:24:29,640 --> 01:24:32,393 A bottle of Curvoisier as a digestive? - What... as what? 1457 01:24:32,560 --> 01:24:34,198 - Does madam prefer Henessy? 1458 01:24:34,360 --> 01:24:36,430 - Henessy then, but certainly as a digestive. 1459 01:24:36,600 --> 01:24:38,790 - Yes. Oh yes! 1460 01:24:38,160 --> 01:24:40,515 - I haven't dined so well in a long time. 1461 01:24:40,880 --> 01:24:42,711 And what do the ladies propose wee do with the rest of the evening? 1462 01:24:42,960 --> 01:24:44,996 - I've been thinking we ought to talk a bit, dance a bit, 1463 01:24:45,120 --> 01:24:49,557 tomorrow we all have to be back at work and the ladies with their husbands! 1464 01:24:50,120 --> 01:24:52,236 - Husbands... - Yes. Of course. 1465 01:24:52,360 --> 01:24:54,476 Just my idea too. Shall we dance? 1466 01:24:54,560 --> 01:24:55,834 - Jesus Christ! 1467 01:24:56,920 --> 01:25:00,356 The tango has always been my star number, Captain. 1468 01:25:05,280 --> 01:25:08,556 When the lights go on in Prague 1469 01:25:09,480 --> 01:25:12,790 I hear the neons call: 1470 01:25:13,800 --> 01:25:17,760 I can't help it: 1471 01:25:18,240 --> 01:25:22,119 I hear them call, 1472 01:25:22,720 --> 01:25:26,300 I slip into my Sunday suit 1473 01:25:27,160 --> 01:25:30,436 put on my best shirt 1474 01:25:31,720 --> 01:25:34,598 and like a bumble-bee 1475 01:25:35,920 --> 01:25:38,639 I have to taste some fun. 1476 01:25:42,160 --> 01:25:46,153 Isn't this a symbol of our problematic society. 1477 01:25:46,520 --> 01:25:48,351 A plasterer and a lady? 1478 01:25:49,680 --> 01:25:51,557 - I think we ought to go, professor. 1479 01:25:52,720 --> 01:25:55,678 I am afraid there may be a spot of trouble and I don't want you 1480 01:25:56,080 --> 01:25:58,435 to get involved. 1481 01:25:58,800 --> 01:26:03,749 - I see. Captain, would you do something for me? 1482 01:26:03,880 --> 01:26:06,110 - Of course. - I beg you... 1483 01:26:06,400 --> 01:26:10,750 ...really beg you... don't have them arrested. 1484 01:26:10,360 --> 01:26:12,396 I knew those,, ladies" for what 1485 01:26:13,200 --> 01:26:15,714 they really are the minute they walked in. 1486 01:26:15,800 --> 01:26:19,315 You see, it's a profession. A real lady walks differently. 1487 01:26:19,800 --> 01:26:24,320 But trust my knowledge of psychology in this case I can promise you 1488 01:26:24,440 --> 01:26:27,955 that the there gentlemen will not be robbed. 1489 01:26:29,600 --> 01:26:31,790 They are safe. 1490 01:26:32,680 --> 01:26:36,958 Girls, I feel so happy. 1491 01:26:39,040 --> 01:26:42,350 I'd love to run away so they d never see us again... 1492 01:26:42,600 --> 01:26:45,831 - Why? - You want to know why? They are... 1493 01:26:45,920 --> 01:26:48,150 They are intellectuals, 1494 01:26:48,240 --> 01:26:50,629 but somehow a bit different... 1495 01:26:51,800 --> 01:26:54,234 - You are funny! - Silly geese! 1496 01:26:55,800 --> 01:26:58,155 Life isn't only romance. 1497 01:26:59,000 --> 01:27:00,433 Going home already, Mr. Prouza? 1498 01:27:00,520 --> 01:27:04,672 - No, no, I'd like to... 1499 01:27:05,880 --> 01:27:09,475 - I don't know how to tell you. 1500 01:27:09,800 --> 01:27:12,758 Try to understand, madam... They - I mean the ladies - 1501 01:27:12,880 --> 01:27:17,749 are married... not that that means anything, 1502 01:27:18,120 --> 01:27:21,829 but... they think this is too public a place 1503 01:27:21,920 --> 01:27:24,753 and someone may see them with us... so... 1504 01:27:25,600 --> 01:27:28,751 Mr. Prouza, do you want me to lend you the keys to my apartment? 1505 01:27:29,520 --> 01:27:33,559 Madam, I wouldn't dare... never... 1506 01:27:34,120 --> 01:27:38,750 but as you've brought up the subject yourself... you told us 1507 01:27:38,840 --> 01:27:42,230 that you don't get away from here till the early hours so I thought... 1508 01:27:42,320 --> 01:27:46,438 - I'll do it for you... I'd never do it for anyone else. 1509 01:27:48,520 --> 01:27:52,479 But tell me, Mr. Prouza, do you know the ladies well? 1510 01:27:52,640 --> 01:27:56,997 - These ladies are highly intelligent. They come from the best circles. 1511 01:27:57,080 --> 01:27:58,513 I am quite sure of that... 1512 01:27:59,400 --> 01:28:00,992 - Well, but only once... 1513 01:28:01,440 --> 01:28:05,353 - Jesus, madam, you know we are leaving tomorrow. 1514 01:28:11,000 --> 01:28:12,558 Oh! - It's cold! 1515 01:28:12,640 --> 01:28:15,552 - An evening like this has got to last till the morning. 1516 01:28:16,160 --> 01:28:18,674 - No, sir, - Our motor - vehicle 1517 01:28:18,760 --> 01:28:20,876 is ready, ladies! - We aren't going to drink any more. 1518 01:28:20,960 --> 01:28:22,439 Only if there's a lot! 1519 01:28:23,080 --> 01:28:24,832 - Let's sit down. 1520 01:28:28,600 --> 01:28:30,790 Wait a minute! 1521 01:28:32,800 --> 01:28:34,438 Hey, wait a minute! - Where are you going? 1522 01:28:38,880 --> 01:28:40,950 Kindly follow these two! I'm going up first! 1523 01:28:49,600 --> 01:28:51,955 Don't be stupid! I've got the keys! 1524 01:28:53,640 --> 01:28:54,755 Hey, wait. 1525 01:28:56,400 --> 01:28:58,755 - I've got to... - Me first! 1526 01:28:58,880 --> 01:29:00,552 - This way! 1527 01:29:05,040 --> 01:29:09,989 - Professor! 1528 01:29:11,800 --> 01:29:13,358 Take me to the nearest police-station! 1529 01:29:22,640 --> 01:29:26,300 He told me he feels something for me 1530 01:29:27,840 --> 01:29:30,957 and that something was true love 1531 01:29:33,000 --> 01:29:37,915 what's the use of true love all it gets 1532 01:29:38,600 --> 01:29:41,273 you is sorrow and regrets. 1533 01:29:41,400 --> 01:29:44,631 - How right you are! Love only costs a lot of money 1534 01:29:44,720 --> 01:29:46,995 and nothing happens! I don't know how to do this 1535 01:29:47,120 --> 01:29:49,714 let's dance ring-a-ring... o roses... - Wait! Wait! 1536 01:29:50,840 --> 01:29:54,799 Doctor, I've learned to value doctors 1537 01:29:54,880 --> 01:29:56,757 since I had diphtheria! 1538 01:29:57,280 --> 01:30:00,397 A doctor... I'd never dare touch a doctor... 1539 01:30:00,720 --> 01:30:03,154 - Do... Why don't you? 1540 01:30:03,400 --> 01:30:06,676 - To me, a doctor is... 1541 01:30:07,000 --> 01:30:10,390 - If you ask me, any doctor could call herself lucky to get... 1542 01:30:10,600 --> 01:30:13,876 ...to spend an evening with a man... 1543 01:30:15,000 --> 01:30:18,549 ...like you! 1544 01:30:19,000 --> 01:30:22,720 - With me? With me it wouldn't be much fun... 1545 01:30:22,200 --> 01:30:25,158 - It would be a lot of fun! - I have eleven 1546 01:30:25,640 --> 01:30:28,279 silver fenix chicken Japanese breed... 1547 01:30:28,800 --> 01:30:30,392 - Were you born in a village? 1548 01:30:31,000 --> 01:30:34,276 - Yeah, and I have a cockerel 1549 01:30:35,000 --> 01:30:37,514 he jumps that high, 1550 01:30:40,880 --> 01:30:42,290 see? 1551 01:30:43,560 --> 01:30:45,357 Excuse me for interrupting. 1552 01:30:45,480 --> 01:30:47,198 I must talk to you. 1553 01:30:47,280 --> 01:30:51,717 - Sir! - Madam, my friend is calling me. 1554 01:30:51,800 --> 01:30:53,756 - No, I won't let you go. 1555 01:30:54,160 --> 01:30:56,833 - Madam, it's... It's rather urgent. 1556 01:30:58,280 --> 01:31:00,271 You are sweet! 1557 01:31:01,040 --> 01:31:04,350 Why haven't we met sooner? Everything could have been different! 1558 01:31:05,800 --> 01:31:07,358 - Are we intruding? - Why should you? 1559 01:31:07,440 --> 01:31:09,829 - We've come to have a smoke. - Go right ahead gentlemen. 1560 01:31:09,960 --> 01:31:11,916 - Yes... no, no, I'll lay the table in the next room... 1561 01:31:12,000 --> 01:31:14,700 - We'll join you soon. 1562 01:31:14,160 --> 01:31:16,515 Gentlemen, let me inform you 1563 01:31:16,600 --> 01:31:19,910 that this evening has already cost us 3.780 crowns 1564 01:31:20,200 --> 01:31:21,952 and we've never even touched... - Tony... 1565 01:31:22,040 --> 01:31:23,758 Wouldn't you be sorry for your old girl at home? 1566 01:31:24,000 --> 01:31:26,116 - Sure, but what can we do if it's cost us much money already? 1567 01:31:26,320 --> 01:31:27,753 Surely we're not going to run away from this now... 1568 01:31:27,840 --> 01:31:29,751 - I've never been unfaithful in my life. 1569 01:31:29,840 --> 01:31:30,955 - Tut. - Neither have I. 1570 01:31:31,080 --> 01:31:32,479 It's all his fault. - Tut. 1571 01:31:32,640 --> 01:31:36,189 - He'd fall even for a she-goat if it put a skirt on. 1572 01:31:36,280 --> 01:31:39,352 - Tut. My old girl will be getting up 1573 01:31:39,480 --> 01:31:41,152 in two hours. 1574 01:31:41,800 --> 01:31:44,872 I couldn't do it to my dear old Rosie... 1575 01:31:44,960 --> 01:31:49,158 - I think, gentlemen, that it would be best to skip 1576 01:31:49,240 --> 01:31:51,515 by way of the scaffolding. 1577 01:31:51,600 --> 01:31:53,750 - Yes, but the ladies would stay locked in here. 1578 01:31:53,960 --> 01:31:56,793 - Don't you think they ought to split the bill with us 1579 01:31:57,200 --> 01:31:58,952 if it comes to nothing? - Tony... 1580 01:31:59,040 --> 01:32:02,237 - How can you! Here you are... 1581 01:32:03,000 --> 01:32:05,275 As far as I'm concerned, you can keep it... it's beneath my dignity. 1582 01:32:05,720 --> 01:32:07,836 - Did you hear her? It's beneath her dignity! 1583 01:32:07,920 --> 01:32:11,435 I put my architect's wallet back into his pocket ages ago! 1584 01:32:11,960 --> 01:32:13,951 - All right, you did... but... - Yes, I did. 1585 01:32:14,440 --> 01:32:17,432 - Let's put it back. And disappear through the window. 1586 01:32:18,000 --> 01:32:20,360 - No, I'm not going! 1587 01:32:20,120 --> 01:32:22,111 And you are to return the fifty... do... 1588 01:32:22,240 --> 01:32:24,993 - My intellectual had such sad eyes. 1589 01:32:25,080 --> 01:32:27,230 - Girls, do you know what I'm going to tell Mrs. Trckova? 1590 01:32:27,400 --> 01:32:29,197 - Mrs. Trckova, go to hell! 1591 01:32:29,800 --> 01:32:31,836 Look, I was enticed to come to this apartment for... 1592 01:32:31,920 --> 01:32:34,115 for some fun... and I was fleeced! 1593 01:32:34,200 --> 01:32:35,872 Fleeced! 1594 01:32:36,000 --> 01:32:37,115 Sergeant! Do your duty! 1595 01:32:37,200 --> 01:32:40,476 - Wait a minute, I can do my duty as soon as someone opens the door! 1596 01:32:41,200 --> 01:32:42,155 Oh dear! 1597 01:32:43,920 --> 01:32:47,196 Ow! - I'm going to tell her... 1598 01:32:48,800 --> 01:32:50,677 Don't! - Must be a neighbour 1599 01:32:50,760 --> 01:32:51,636 to complain about the noise! 1600 01:32:51,720 --> 01:32:53,390 Pssst! - Open the door! 1601 01:32:53,160 --> 01:32:54,798 - Oh hell, where did I put the keys? - Pssst! 1602 01:32:55,600 --> 01:32:58,433 - I'm glad I found someone I can hit... He lost the keys! 1603 01:32:59,360 --> 01:33:01,715 - Gentlemen, gentlemen, I think it's the neighbour. 1604 01:33:01,800 --> 01:33:04,633 If you'd let me, I'll explain in a ladylike manner... 1605 01:33:04,760 --> 01:33:06,512 - Please do, madam professor, if necessary, 1606 01:33:07,000 --> 01:33:09,195 I'll even hit the neighbour! - Don't worry, Mr. Architect, 1607 01:33:09,280 --> 01:33:12,556 I can do that myself. - Thank you. 1608 01:33:12,680 --> 01:33:14,511 Ah... ah... open up, - Open up! 1609 01:33:14,720 --> 01:33:18,759 I've recognized you, Bozka! Open up! I've caught you! 1610 01:33:20,480 --> 01:33:22,357 My husband! He followed me! 1611 01:33:22,440 --> 01:33:23,873 - Stupid! We are to tell a different story today! 1612 01:33:24,000 --> 01:33:27,276 - Gentlemen! My colleague must be mistaken. 1613 01:33:27,360 --> 01:33:29,510 - We'll hit the husband. Why not? 1614 01:33:30,400 --> 01:33:32,197 - Look! Why don't you yell,, Police"? 1615 01:33:32,960 --> 01:33:35,760 You don't have to be ashamed of that or do you? 1616 01:33:35,320 --> 01:33:37,151 - Police! - This is the police! 1617 01:33:38,720 --> 01:33:40,517 Let's scram through the window! 1618 01:33:40,600 --> 01:33:43,340 - It's different today. - We are to take the window! 1619 01:33:43,360 --> 01:33:45,316 - We can't go through the window. We've got the keys! 1620 01:33:45,400 --> 01:33:46,913 - We are going through the window! It's different today! 1621 01:33:47,000 --> 01:33:48,149 - But... au... au! 1622 01:33:48,880 --> 01:33:50,472 - I believe we have to get away through the window! 1623 01:33:50,560 --> 01:33:54,750 - Yes. - We'll go through the window, madam, 1624 01:33:54,160 --> 01:33:55,752 we know our way about even on a ladder! 1625 01:33:55,840 --> 01:33:58,877 - We'll see you through the window safely and go by way of the door. 1626 01:33:59,320 --> 01:34:00,799 We have the keys! Your jacket! 1627 01:34:01,520 --> 01:34:03,317 - I'll help you from outside. - My bag! My bag! 1628 01:34:03,440 --> 01:34:05,749 - I trust you. 1629 01:34:05,880 --> 01:34:07,740 - Dear madam, - Let's go! 1630 01:34:07,160 --> 01:34:08,912 - Put yourself in my care. 1631 01:34:09,040 --> 01:34:11,713 - Oh dear! 1632 01:34:13,360 --> 01:34:16,591 - The scaffolding seems rather low. - Never mind, Mr. Architect! 1633 01:34:21,320 --> 01:34:23,595 Officer, that's her! That's her! 1634 01:34:23,680 --> 01:34:26,752 - What goes on outside of my apartment? What do you want? 1635 01:34:26,840 --> 01:34:29,354 - I am going to tell you, madam. You are a childless widow... 1636 01:34:29,680 --> 01:34:31,671 You have no visitors... but you lend your apartment to other people... 1637 01:34:32,280 --> 01:34:34,271 - How dare you...! - Why shouldn't I dare? 1638 01:34:34,440 --> 01:34:35,919 Do you want us to believe there's no one in there? 1639 01:34:36,520 --> 01:34:38,988 - Officer, would you kindly tell me what's wrong 1640 01:34:39,080 --> 01:34:41,230 with lending my apartment to three friends 1641 01:34:42,240 --> 01:34:44,710 hardworking... - Yes, and I was working hard too 1642 01:34:44,160 --> 01:34:45,593 when they fleeced me... - Just a minute! 1643 01:34:45,680 --> 01:34:47,989 ...received a medal today for the reconstruction of Prague... 1644 01:34:48,880 --> 01:34:50,199 why shouldn't they have a party!? 1645 01:34:50,440 --> 01:34:53,637 Do you expect them to camp outside? - You are telling as nice sob story 1646 01:34:53,720 --> 01:34:55,517 Like in a novel! Just unlock the door, will you... 1647 01:34:55,880 --> 01:34:58,300 and we'll see for ourselves. - You'll see they are alone in there. 1648 01:34:58,120 --> 01:35:00,680 - You'll see for yourself. - Go right ahead, see for yourself. 1649 01:35:01,600 --> 01:35:03,830 He is mad! - Quite a witch, isn't she?! 1650 01:35:05,200 --> 01:35:06,952 There you are. Why do I have to stand for this? 1651 01:35:07,040 --> 01:35:10,396 Such harassment... Why do I have to put up with this... 1652 01:35:10,720 --> 01:35:13,712 Here, officer, wait! 1653 01:35:14,920 --> 01:35:18,117 Wait, don't make sings to anyone. 1654 01:35:18,720 --> 01:35:21,750 The closets! Come here, come here. Well? What? 1655 01:35:21,160 --> 01:35:22,593 There's no one in there. - There's no one... 1656 01:35:23,840 --> 01:35:26,400 - There's no one... of course, Officer, how could there be? 1657 01:35:26,480 --> 01:35:29,438 People don't leave this place through the door! They go trough the window... 1658 01:35:29,520 --> 01:35:32,398 I'll show you... watch me... that's how... ouch! 1659 01:35:32,480 --> 01:35:34,391 - Get back, get back! Come back immediately! 1660 01:35:36,640 --> 01:35:39,234 - There's no scaffolding! Madam, the scaffolding's gone! 1661 01:35:39,320 --> 01:35:41,914 - This won't do! Don't take me for a fool! 1662 01:35:42,000 --> 01:35:44,275 - There's no scaffolding! 1663 01:35:46,640 --> 01:35:48,710 I sin, you sin, 1664 01:35:48,840 --> 01:35:53,789 we sin and what's wrong with sinning 1665 01:35:54,360 --> 01:35:59,309 if the men enjoy it, if they ask for it? 1666 01:36:06,560 --> 01:36:10,951 What? - A lot of fun with intellectuals. 1667 01:36:12,280 --> 01:36:14,748 - A lot of fun with intellectuals! 1668 01:36:14,840 --> 01:36:17,274 - You don't have to tell me... 1669 01:36:17,680 --> 01:36:19,830 - Girls, I have to go to... 1670 01:36:40,320 --> 01:36:43,198 When the neon... lights make the city bright... 1671 01:36:53,000 --> 01:36:56,754 - He had no childhood to speak of... because there were eleven children... 1672 01:36:57,280 --> 01:36:59,919 - No youth either... wading through mortar 1673 01:37:00,000 --> 01:37:03,436 from the age of fourteen. 1674 01:37:03,520 --> 01:37:06,637 - So what's left to him? - His legs in a plaster-cast. 1675 01:37:08,000 --> 01:37:12,730 - Idiots, it doesn't matter that things didn't really happen... 1676 01:37:12,440 --> 01:37:16,513 They could have. That's what's important! 1677 01:37:17,160 --> 01:37:19,720 - We had a grand time, anyway! 1678 01:37:19,960 --> 01:37:24,158 Hovorka, you aren't going to let us down? 1679 01:37:24,680 --> 01:37:29,629 Don't I know by now...? Accident at work. 1680 01:37:30,480 --> 01:37:34,314 A badly secured scaffolding. I am not going to let down people 1681 01:37:34,400 --> 01:37:36,675 whom the press wrote up as examples of socialist morals! 1682 01:37:42,000 --> 01:37:43,672 THE END