Tony, You Are Nuts

In the village cemetery, the funeral of a married couple - victims of a car crash - is ending. The relatives unscrupulously take away the facilities of the dead people's little cottage, totally ignorant of the fate of eight-year old Ruda, whom the childless couple took from a children's home and adopted. Fortunately, an elderly lonesome uncle named Tony remains in the empty cottage and decides to take care of the boy, nicknamed Münchie [Prášílek] after Baron Münchhausen for his wild imagination. They manage the house together in a somewhat cack-handed way and Münchie keeps knocking off the "forays" of their neighbour, widow Koťátková, who constantly forces herself on the bachelors with baked yeast buns and offers of help. The summer holidays begin and Münchie convinces Tony to invite his one-year older brother Joska from the children's home to join them. The two brothers enthusiastically enjoy the countryside, making mischief, but they love both Tony and each other. Upon their insistance, their little sister Anička is yet another newcomer to the house. The "woman's hand" who is to make order in the cottage belongs to a cute six-year old girl whom Tony has no strength to send back to the orphanage. After Anička, the last of the siblings, thirteen-year old Růžena, runs away from the children's home. The social worker refuses to give Tony approval to care for all the four children. During her visit, she, however, cannot resist an offer of homemade, sliwowitz and, placated by alcohol, admits that the mutual love relationship is much more important for the children than top hygiene.