The inexplicable similarity of four men forms the basis for this simple comedy made by director Josef Mach in 1973. The story – from a screenplay devised by Mach himself – starts out with the robbery of a cinema box office. One after another, car thief Halama, shy bridegroom Poupě, the jealous and divorcing Pic and cinema projectionist Vlk become the prime suspects. However, they are so similar in appearance that jovial police detective Panenka (Josef Bek) keeps getting them mixed up. The rather mechanically construed plot of Tři nevinní (The Tree Innocent), which verges on an action movie, first puts the men behind bars and then into the same hospital... Starring as all four suspects is Jiří Sovák, who tries to dramatically differentiate between the three innocent and one guilty man. Libuše Švormová, Marie Drahokoupilová and Kateřina Buriánová appear in the female roles of this motion picture in which all the clues point to the town of Kolín.
The police are investigating a robbery in the Avia cinema. The injured cashier gives a description of the robber which fits exactly the thief Halama having just stolen a Citroën car with all luggage inside. He is being watched by Boženka who has "bills outstanding" with him. When she spots him then at the florist's, she does not hesitate and calls the police. However, the man with a bunch of flowers is not Halama but Poupě who is going to marry on this day and looks very much like Halama. Halama parks his car in front of the station and sends the luggage to Kolín by train. In no time he is taken in the custody and accused of the robbery. The bride Jaruška waits at the town hall for her bridegroom in vain and sets out to look for him. She finds him in a phone booth, very angrily calling to a woman. Mr Pic, looking just like Poupě, is getting divorced; the crying bride is a nuisance to him and he is shocked. Also Pic is apprehended by the police and so the three men looking just alike meet behind bars, and Jaruška cannot tell who her fiancée is. The cinema cashier cannot identify the robber, and so all of them are released. Halama picks keys to the stolen car from a hide. Boženka wants to get her share and goes to Kolín with him. On their way, after being hunted by the police, Halama crashes. Poupě does not want to tell Jaruška where he spent the last night and jumps into the river. Pic makes up with his wife, then has a row again and in a fit of temper he falls into the lift shaft. Finally the three innocent meet in the hospital. The film operator Vlk, who differs from the others only in wearing moustache, is convicted of the robbery.
Voice by Zdeněk Kryzánek /promítače Vlka/
zloděj aut Halama/ženich Jan Poupě/žárlivec Láďa Pic/promítač Vlk
nevěsta Jarmila Poupětová
Věra, Picova žena
Boženka Voráčková
major VB Panenka
cizinec Kandl
svatební svědek Emil Rosůlek
děda Václav
příslušník VB Kára
příslušník VB Kos
příslušník VB Hloušek
příslušník VB Havránek
praporčík VB Vaněk
příslušník VB Kroupa
pokladní Jalovcová
teta Nora
zdravotní sestra Mája
Rousek
hlídač parkoviště
MUDr. Novák
matka Pice
Hedvika
vedoucí květinářství
vedoucí restaurace Kadraba
strýc Karel
dozorce podpraporčík Vomáčka
teta Pepička
poručík VB Kokora
Tonda
tchán Oldřich
zřízenec v úschovně Vondra
advokát Koutný
družička Dana
družička Monika
družička Hana
družička Jana
příslušník VB
holčička na svatbě
svatebčanka
svatebčanka
svatebčanka
svatebčan
svatebčan
svatebčanka
svatebčan
svatebčanka
kluk na svatbě
mohutný ženich
příslušník VB u Piců
prodavačka
drbna
drbna
dubl
dubl
dubl
dubl
Jiří Bžoch, Karel Kracík, Dana Smržová
kpt. Miloslav Misauer
Jindřiška Novotná (klapka), Zdeněk Dukát (fotograf)
FISYO (Music Conducted by František Belfín)
Song Composer Antonín Ulrich
Writer of Lyrics Zdeněk Svěrák
Singer ženský hlas
Tři nevinní
Tři nevinní
The Three Innocent
film
featuretheatrical distribution
comedy, crime
Czechoslovakia
1973
1973
literary Screenplay approved 30 October 1972
start of filming 15 January 1973
technical Screenplay approved 23 March 1973
end of filming 3 October 1973
projection approval 10 October 1973
withdrawal from distribution 31 December 1986
premiere 1 March 1974 /suitable for youths/ (celostátní)
premiere 7 March 1974 /suitable for youths/ (kino Sevastopol, Praha)
Dramaturgická skupina Vladimíra Kaliny, Vladimír Kalina (vedoucí dramaturgické skupiny)
feature film
91 min
2 550 meters
16mm, 35mm
1:1,66
black & white
sound
mono
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech