It's the summer holidays and the German captain of a cargo boat takes his entire family - his wife, his ten-year-old son Klaus and his five-year-old daughter Andrea - on a river cruise to Czechoslovakia. The children have secretly smuggled their fox terrier Jackie on board. The barge sailor Ferdinand is travelling with them. A grumpy man, he is annoyed by the children and their dog. Jackie slips on the wet deck boards and falls into the river Elbe, but is saved by the crew from a Czechoslovak boat travelling in the opposite direction. After a while the children realise that their dog is gone and suspect that Ferdinand has thrown him into the river. They persuade their father to anchor the boat and with their mother's help begin searching for the dog, but to no avail. At night, Klaus hears a dog barking and followed by his adamant sister he takes a dinghy and once again goes ashore to look for Jackie. The children lose their way in the rocks. They meet a group of Czech children playing Indians. Despite the language barrier they eventually reach an agreement and the children bring them dogs from the entire neighbourhood. In the meantime the parents have asked the police for help, and Ferdinand is likewise searching for the escaped children of his own accord. Finally the family is happily re-united. Although Andrea has chosen a replacement dog, she eventually returns it to the Czech children on their way back after the sailors from the Czechoslovak ship deliver Jackie to the family in the town of Hřensko.
The film was distributed to Czech cinemas as part of the series Dog Overboard with the short film Journey into the Age of Oil Lamps (1961; directed byBohumil Vošahlík).
Voice by Jiří Němeček
kapitán lodi Ilmenau
Voice by Vladimír Dlouhý
Klaus
Voice by Inka Šecová
Andrea
Voice by Libuše Švormová
kapitánova žena
Voice by Jan Skopeček
lodník Ferdinand
Voice by Otto Šimánek
lodník na lodi Beskydy
Voice by Oldřich Velen
lodník na lodi Beskydy
Voice by Bohumil Švarc
poručík VB
náčelník party dětí
pihatá holka
holka
Dobrodružství na Labi
Dobrodružství na Labi
Dog Overboard
Hund über Bord
film
featuretheatrical distribution
children
Czechoslovakia, German Democratic Republic
1971
1971
projection approval 27 June 1972
premiere 17 May 1973 /suitable for youths/ (kino Tatra /1 týden/, Praha)
premiere 18 May 1973 /suitable for youths/ (celostátní)
medium length film
37 min
1 064 meters
16mm, 35mm
1:1,37
colour
sound
mono
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech