A passenger plane flies from Bratislava to Prague. The passengers include, amongst others, a conceited football player named Slavko, a student who cannot stop taking photographs, a deputy-director of a large enterprise, a theatre actor, and a teacher. At sunset, the cockpit equipment fails and the plane even disappears off the air traffic control radar. A mysterious figure clad in Renaissance attire suddenly walks down the aisle of the plane. The teacher realizes that the man - who, however, disappears in no time - was Galileo Galilei. The equipment is working again. The captain reports the odd phenomenon to the control tower. After landing, the airport head interrogates the crew, but only the stewardess saw the unknown man and the head accuses her of drinking at work. The TV coverage of the passengers is not convincing and does not explain the mystery either. The student sets off to meet all the passengers. He can see that the teacher himself does not know what to believe after discussing the event with his pupils, the football player is afraid about his position in the team, the deputy-director totally denies his flight – and the unknown man is not on the photographs from the board. The disappointed student throws the list of passengers into a dustbin. Sitting in a pub and watching TV, he hears the words of John Huss about the need to stand up for truth and returns to the dustbin, but it has already been emptied.
Linka do Prahy
Linka do Prahy
Link to Prague
povídka
featuretheatrical distribution
comedy, short-story
Czechoslovakia
1987
1986
medium length film
36 min
1 011 meters
16mm, 35mm
1:1,37
colour
sound
mono
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech