Link to Prague

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1987

Production year

1986

Runtime

36 min

Director

Petr Šícha

Category

povídka

Genre

comedy, short-story

Typology

featuretheatrical distributionmedium

Original title

Linka do Prahy

Czech title

Linka do Prahy

English title

Link to Prague

Synopsis

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.

Crew and creators

Director

Petr Šícha

Production info

Original Title

Linka do Prahy

Czech Title

Linka do Prahy

English Title

Link to Prague

Category

povídka

Typology

featuretheatrical distribution

Genre

comedy, short-story

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1987

Production Year

1986

Technical info

Duration typology

medium length film

Duration in minutes

36 min

Original length in metres

1 011 meters

Distribution carrier

16mm, 35mm

Aspect ratio

1:1,37

Colour

colour

Sound

sound

Sound system/format

mono

Versions

Czech

Dialogue languages

Czech

Subtitles languages

without subtitles

Opening/End credits languages

Czech