This bizarre 1976 sci-fi comedy represents something of an oddity within director Jaromil Jireš’s filmography. Jireš co-wrote the film with Mária Rudlovčáková, who also assisted in his adaptation of a novel by author Vladimír Páral, Mladý muž a bílá velryba (The Young Man and the White Whale, 1977). Vlastimil Brodský plays road repairer Huba, who is distracted from his work by an interest in the cosmos. Though at odds with his job, the hobby proves useful when an alien spaceship crash lands at the city dump. The aliens quickly assimilate into human society. The humanoid alien BA-HU falls in love with the beautiful Maryna; his colleague, professor LU-PU, helps Huba repair the roads in exchange for his helping to repair the ship’s chronometer... Cleverly avoiding the need for any special effects, this feature sees Luděk Sobota playing BA-HU. Iva Janžurová, Dana Medřická and Jan Tříska also appear.
The roadmender František Huba living in a market-town Velký Malíkov is more interested in craters on the Moon than in holes on the district roads. When fishing he chats with other Malíkov inhabitants and thus he misses the extraterrestrials' arrival, but later he meets them. Excited with the extraordinary event he announces his co-inhabitants that ETs will repair the road. No-one, however, believes him. Malíkov celebrates five hundred years' anniversary. One of the events of the celebration is a ceremonial of unveiling a bust of Janata of Janatov, the town founder. The assembled people, together with an ET called BA-HU, cannot wait to see the statue unveiled. The veil slides down and all stare at a woman's nude statue. "You could come to an agreement about Janata's appearance so here you have Janata's wife", says sculptor Mimra. BA-HU asks František to repair an extraterrestrial chronometer. He is busy, though. BA-HU notices a beautiful girl Maryna among the visitors and reveals an emotion inside himself that he has never felt before. The ET professor LU-PU promises Huba to repair the road in the exchange of repairing of the chronometer, and as an advance he gives him an all-knowing carrot. Huba invites all the village people to an Evening of Questions and Responses but a goat Matyáš eats the carrot. LU-PU comes to the Village Centre and watches people. Finally he feels something is beating in his chest. Huba wants to leave with extraterrestrials but finally he grasps a fork and starts repairing the road. It's a miracle for the Malíkov people as it is the first time they see him working. The space ship departs but BA-HU in love remains here.
cestář František Huba
důlní tesař Jaroslav Šalánek
vedoucí Zverimexu Viola Zlatníčková
Zmatlíková
řidič Lojza Hrubec
sochař Mimra
doktor Jiří Doktor
Eliška, Doktorova žena
Václav Hrabě zvaný Šlejfírna
mimozemšťan BA-HU alias Ferda Vidrmoc
mimozemšťan profesor LU-PU
hostinský Tonda Cink
Růžena, Cinkova žena
řidič Jožo
Maryna
profesor
babička
nahý cyklista
Petr, syn Cinkových
dívka
řidič autobusu
muž s pírkem
kapelník
muž ve felicii
žena ve felicii
tanečník
tanečník
tanečnice
tanečník
tanečník
tanečník
tanečnice
tanečnice
tanečnice
tanečnice
tanečník
tanečnice
tanečnice
tanečnice
tanečník
tanečnice
tanečník
tanečnice
tanečník
tanečník
hudebník
hudebník
hudebník
hudebník
dubl za Vlastimila Brodského
venkovanka
kluk s rádiem
tanečník
Bohumír Schwarzer, Jiří Ondráček
Jiří Žák, Vladimír Ježek, L. Schmaus, Ladislav Winkelhöfer
Pavel Jelínek, Antonín Jedlička (zvukové efekty)
Karel Prchal, Lev Veltrubský
Daniela Norová
Olga Kourová (klapka), Jan Kuděla (fotograf)
FISYO (Music Conducted by František Belfín), Orchestr Ladislava Štaidla
Song Composer Ladislav Štaidl
Writer of Lyrics Ivo Fischer
Singer Waldemar Matuška
Song Composer Ladislav Štaidl
Writer of Lyrics Ivo Fischer
Singer Waldemar Matuška
Song Composer František Kmoch
Writer of Lyrics František Kudrna
Singer sbor
Singer dětský sbor
Singer sbor
Song Composer Ladislav Štaidl
Writer of Lyrics Ivo Fischer
Singer Waldemar Matuška
Singer sbor
Talíře nad Velkým Malíkovem
Talíře nad Velkým Malíkovem
Flying Saucers over our Village
film
featuretheatrical distribution
fantastic, comedy
Czechoslovakia
1977
1976—1977
literary Screenplay approved 4 February 1976
start of filming 21 July 1976
technical Screenplay approved 24 August 1976
end of filming 8 March 1977
projection approval 21 March 1977
withdrawal from distribution 31 December 1986
premiere 25 November 1977 /suitable for youths/
Dramaturgická skupina Miroslava Hladkého, Miroslav Hladký (vedoucí dramaturgické skupiny)
feature film
89 min
2 568 meters
16mm, 35mm
1:1,66
colour
sound
mono
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech