Directed by:
Josef MachCinematography:
Josef StřechaComposer:
Josef StelibskýCast:
Jaroslav Marvan, František Filipovský, Eduard Linkers, Jana Dítětová, Stanislav Neumann, Ota Motyčka, Jaroslav Seník, Robert Vrchota, Josef Kotapiš (more)Plots(1)
A comedy film, set in the Second World War. Engineer Bureš has managed to escape the Germans and has fled the border. His fiancée Věra is blackmailed by an SA man Fritz Heinecke who has discovered her relationship with Bureš after receiving a letter from an informer. During their conversation they get into a skirmish, Fritz accidently hits himself and falls unconscious. Věra thinks that he is dead and tries to get rid of him. She is helped by her neighbours - tramwaymen Martin and Petr. They put Fritz in a large basket which then ends up in the water. The basket also contains their address, however, and the basket and Fritz is returned by the honest finder. The men then hide him in a double-bass case and Fritz then finds himself in a theatre cloakroom. After waking up he gets drunk. The men put him in a child's pram and, after many adventures, they arrive at Fritz's hotel. Věra rushes over to them with a pack of German soldiers after her. All of them manage to escape out of Fritz's hotel room window. During their flight from the Germans they are saved by the English dive-bomber pilot Karel Bureš. (official distributor synopsis)
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A perfect occupation silent comedy, perhaps even better today than I remembered it (sometime from my childhood). It lacks only a little to achieve perfection, because Jaroslav Marvan and František Filipovský are a very good comic duo and the script loves all kinds of substitutions and counts on the viewer being in the same boat. The yodeling with the carriage was especially good. ()
Nobody Knows Anything is a crazy World War II-era occupation comedy, at times resembling more of a slapstick that contains a whole series of really excellent jokes and gags. Unfortunately, the filmmakers were running out of steam toward the end. I would have preferred not to see the final very naive denouement because it spoiled my overall impression. (65%) ()
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