Žemla, one of the five bakers at a pretzel shop, is absent again. He always gets sent on calls to welcome all kinds of delegations. The master baker still insists that the rest of the bakers should sign an agreement obliging them to increase production by twenty percent in honour of the Great Comrade's birthday. The agile baker Kožvara has the idea of baking the biggest pretzel in the world. He prepares sketches and models for the equipment needed to help them complete the difficult task. The managers give him an award for his initiative and send him to visit other firms where he lectures on How to Celebrate Appropriately. Kožvara needs someone to provide him with the right applause, bows and cheers, and takes on first baker Piontek, and then Ledecký. The last remaining baker Josef Dundr is desperate because he can no longer fulfil the plan for everyone. One day, enthusiasm for the Great Comrade evaporates and Kožvara's mission is cancelled. All the bakers are back at their workplace...
pekař Kožvara
pekař Josef Dundr
pekař Václav Ledecký
mistr Lavička
pekař Žemla
mladý pekař Piontek
družstevník s kosou
účastník školení
účastník školení
účastník školení
účastník školení
kuchař
generální ředitel
ředitel
náměstek
převozník
Balabán
horník
horník
Jiří Rulík
Miloš Stejskal
Karel Ješátko (fotograf)
Studijní skupina Karla Duby (Music Conducted by Karel Duba)
Preclík
Preclík
Pretzel
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film
featuretheatrical distribution
satire
Czechoslovakia
1964
1964
literary Screenplay approved 3 February 1964
start of filming 14 April 1964
end of filming 7 May 1964
projection approval 21 July 1964
preview 30 October 1964 (kino Sevastopol /1 týden/, Praha)
premiere 18 December 1964 /unsuitable for youths/ (kina Pasáž /7 týdnů/, Oko /1 týden/, Dukla /1 týden od 25. 12./, Arbes /1 týden od 8. 1. 1965/, Vzlet /1 týden od 15. 1. 1965/, Mír /1 týden od 22. 1. 1965/, Kyjev /1 týden od 29. 1. 1965/, Praha)
premiere 25 December 1964 /unsuitable for youths/ (celostátní)
Tvůrčí skupina Šmída – Fikar, Ladislav Fikar (vedoucí dramaturg tvůrčí skupiny), Bohumil Šmída (vedoucí výroby tvůrčí skupiny)
short film
27 min
759 meters
16mm, 35mm
1:1,37
black & white
sound
mono
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech