"Yesterday I met you again..." " I don't know why I should tell such a story, such utter banality, something that has been told a thousand times." "But love has been talked about more than a thousand times and who has the nerve to maintain that second love is any worse that first love?" "Although there is only one first love, yes, that's true but there's only one of second and third love too." "I had no idea that so may event were in store for me events to make me lose my illusions so that I do not die of love itself." "HOW POETS LOSE THEIR ILLUSIONS" "Oh please, could you read it?" "Prague Medical School has accepted you for studies." "So you are to be a doctor, Stephen!" "Fellini looks at reality at depicting sex in films in quite a different way that for example Antonioni." " Candy!" "Hello." " Whilst the depicting of a young hero..." "Smile!" " Don't be stupid!" "The Prague Film Faculty has accepted you for studies in the department... film directing?" "Well you know how it is, when one has talent..." " That's a big advantage, being talented one way or another." " Don't say you haven't got any talent look, your application to Medical School wouldn't have been accepted." " You don't need special talent for that." " But you can't be all that stupid either." "You'll be a university graduate!" " All sorts of stupid university graduates walk about in this world, kid." "We'll see." "Nature made it, God created it and you have to learn it." "HOW POETS LOSE THEIR ILLUSIONS" "A doctor even has to worry about such things as the patient putting on all the clothes again that he took off before the examination." "Story and screenplay by:" "Dramaturg:" "Maxi skirts can make a good catch, say, a man with imagination whilst with miniskirts there's more of a chance to catch inflammation of the ovaries." "Starring and Featuring:" "For this illness medical science has two medicaments." "Unfortunately neither of them helps." "Starring and Featuring:" "To make it short:" "Medicine is an amusing science about sad things." "Director of Photography:" "Directed by:" "And mind you study hard!" "Have you got everything?" "Everything." " And your shaving things too?" " I do have my shaving things." "Wait, wait!" " Mum, come on, this isn't a trip to the mountains." "And anyway, who know." "I could be back permanently by winter." " Don't worry, Stephen dear." "I have the feeling you'll do very well." "Just mind you study hard!" "Here's five hundred for you, it'll have to last you the month." " The month?" "But Mum, five hundred that has quite a different value these days." " Five hundred is five hundred!" "Do you realize how hard I have to work for it?" " No, I don't mean it is worth less, but .things keep getting more expensive." "Thank you." "And mind you're careful, in Prague!" "All kinds of dangers lurk in such a city." " Mummy, I'm not going to New York!" "Even Prague can make a young person lose his common sense." "I know!" "What I'm talking about, I lived there before I married." "Mind you eat properly!" " Hm." "Don't drink!" " Hm." "Don't stay out till God knows when at night..." " Hm." "You'd do better to stay home and study!" "Who are you looking for?" " Well, I thought she'd be coming..." " Forget Boruvka!" "And forget girls altogether." "These days they all want to get married right away." "Stephen dear..." "You must study hard." "Study hard." " Look, Mum..." "You've told me twice and that's enough." "Oh and don't forget to get enough fresh air." "Your health's the most important thing!" " And whilst the weeping mother is immersed in the pain of loneliness and parting, her reprobate of a son smiles slyly in anticipation of the wild times beckoning to him from the murky, sinful city." " For this?" " I'm not much better off." "But Prague is a golden ship and maybe there's still a little left for us." "And if the worst comes to the worst we can earn a little on the side." " How?" " You leave that to me!" "That was the last time!" "Next time I shall report it to the Dean, and the Spectabilis minds what I tell him." "I would like to point out to the young ladies visiting the medical students that visits are allowed only till 9 p.m." "Safranek?" "First year." "So that'll be the fifth floor." " You wouldn't have anything on the ground floor?" " Colleague, comrade, we are not the Intercontinental." "Have you got a cigarette?" " Yes." " You have to deserve the ground floor." "That's where you get a room before graduation." "Every year one floor lower." "But wouldn't it be possible that..." " Why don't you call me Mr Janatka, colleague." " Are you the new medical student?" " Yes." " Can you feel my heart beat?" "Don't you know what it could be?" "Hello." "Numira Cassa Thombo from Bujumbura." " Stephen Safranek from..." " And I'm Honza Antos from Kolin." "That's your bed over there." "Hi, kids." " Kids?" "You're from Moravia, aren't you?" " Yes, from Kyjov." " Did you hear that, gentlemen?" "Exotic places." "Don't you have a university in Moravia?" " Yes we have." "A better one!" "Well you seem to have everything better in Moravia, huh?" "I heard that in Moravia you catch tourists and lock them up in your wine-cellars to be hospitable." "And when you haven't caught any you're unhappy all day." " That's right." "In Southern Moravia we take them down into the cellars and in the north into the mines." "Now I'll unpack if you'll excuse me." "Wait!" " We'll help you." "Give me that!" "At home in our cellar?" "Hey, what's your name?" " Mine?" "Venos Pastyrik." "Well, Venos, you have reinstated yourself somewhat." "Czechoslovakia is a beautiful" " Hello." " Industrial country." " Yeah." " With a noteworthy history, rich in cultural and artistic traditions." "Where did you learn Czech so well?" " In Zahradky." "Listen, you're name's Numira can I call you Mirek?" " Why not?" " Get up, gentlemen!" "Here comes the second course." "We have some farm produce here." " Don't touch that suitcase!" " Why not?" " I've got my national costume in it." " What?" "Dear colleagues." "We have met here today." "There are many of us at this, our first meeting and I hope there will be as many of us when you're about to leave our faculty." "The key to success is simple." "Conscientiousness and diligence." "It was Comenius who said:" ""For studying you need a skull of steel and a bottom of lead."" "And patience and staying-power." "I would like to introduce Professor Sejkora who will be lecturing in your parallel class." "I wish you the best possible health in those places where the body meets the chair." "Dear colleagues, from this moment onwards anatomy will be constant companion to you, till the end of your lives." "It is the basic foundation-stone of medicine." "Without perfect knowledge of anatomy you have no hope of succeeding in your further studies, nor in practise." "I would be glad if you would remember that." "All these principles can be upheld." "But of course only under the condition that you will have to forget some things completely for quite some time." "And now let us begin with the actual prose." "You will find these basic diagrams in your anatomy atlas." "Don't worry!" "Anatomy, in spite of being of feminine gender in the Czech language, has charm and logic." "Dear students, from the viewpoint of genetics sexual intercourse is nothing else than exchange of information." "My name is Herman Khon, written with a "c" of course." "I shall be lecturing organics and biochemistry." "Remember that all live matter consists of the following elements:" "Hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and nitrogen." "We have removed haemoglobin HB4 from the equation and this is the form that remains." "This simple equation expresses the balance between oxygen and red blood pigment." "Should anyone have not understood anything in my lecture," "I recommend Physiology by Samson Wright, published in London this year as the fifteenth edition." "Looks like I'll have to look up a bookshop in London when I get the chance." "The cell is the smallest unit of living matter capable of interpotenten..." " Stop!" "This is shocking English!" "Do you understand?" " Yes." "I do." " All right." "And next time I'd like to hear your English without any Moravian dialect." "Those are only basic terms without which we cannot do in anatomy, and also in other fields." "You must know all about them by the next lecture, or you would not understand what comes next." "Did anyone not understand anything?" "Me." " What?" " Nothing." "That's simple, dear colleague." "Chin up!" "Look:" "Termini situm et directionem partium corporis indicantes." "In other words the general names indicating the direction and position in the body are chosen so, that they can be used whatever the position of the body or its parts." "Pay attention to this:" "The central plane is medial parallel with it is the sagital." "The perpendicular and then the transversal and that which is perpendicular to them both the frontal." "The cranial direction is superior, caudal inferior, the dorsal is posterior, the ventral is anterior." "The direction inwards is medial, the direction outwards is lateral." "Then we have the term superficialis - superficial and profundus - deep." "On the extremities we have the terms proximalis and diatalis." "On the upper limbs radialis and ulnaris and on the lower tibialis and fibularis." "Now you do understand?" "Look here, that's what's underlined in red that's what the Professor insists on you knowing." "What's underlined in green that's what Sejkora wants to hear and what's underlined in blue is what the assistants think important." "All right, but .here everything's underlined!" " Correct." "I can see you are a bright lad." " What are we going to do?" " They told us at Zahradky what a great Czech scholar wrote, his name was Jan Amadeus Comenius, study, study, study." " Yeah, study." "But maybe they're just having us on to frighten us sort of." "This... this just isn't possible to remember." " I'm not worried about this." "You see I have a photographic memory." " What's that?" "A photographic memory?" " I just photograph it here and then I read it here." " We'll test you." "This is..." " Quiet!" "This is the name of my grandfather." "We'll give you twenty seconds and then you must say it straight" "I mean right." " Right." "Well?" " Okay." "Let's see." "Stop!" "Now say name of my grandfather." "Lepodotemaceselacogaleocranieleipsona - triumupotrimatosifioparaomelitokata keklumenokyclepkosyfotoperisteralek - trionop." "Is that right?" " Right!" "That is my grandfather!" "And how about you, Mirek?" "Do you think you can learn all this?" " Yes." "But I need a woman." " What woman?" " Makes no difference." "First I must make love very hard and then I can learn very hard." "How do you set about it here in your country?" " Some way as in yours." " No, I mean how do you .catch them?" " You mean how we pick them up?" " Yes." " Well, you fall in love, you keep running after her, she doesn't want you and in the end you marry her." " But that's a programme for the whole semester." "Isn't there something faster?" " Got anything special in mind, Mirek?" "Ciao." " Ciao." "Best of all I like those who don't wear... don't wear bras." "Our chair for Mental Hygiene was given a research task to analyse and propose the optimum way of distributing working tools on the surface of a desk." "We based our work on the original Leffingwell suggestion which seemed very progressive at the time." "For easier orientation, we divided the whole area of your desk into ten sectors." "A1 to B5." "At first sight you can notice the insufficiencies of this method." "It is primarily the quantitatively over-dimensional accumulation of text-books in sectors" "A1, A5 and B1." "Three piles are really too much." "The empty space in sector B5 offer the hypothesis that this is where Leffingwell used to place his cup of coffee." "There is naturally no proof for this." "We felt it was obvious right from the start that a desk arranged in that was is not suitable primarily because there is a redundancy of some elements whilst others are missing." "Our work-team soon realized that if we want to solve this problem..." " You've got a letter at the porter's." "....we have lots and lots of work ahead." "Marcela Boruvkova, Emil Nadenicek." "We thank you in advance for your congratulations." "Don't mention it." "Stephen dear, Emil's great, but you were the first." "Bye." "Boruvka." "So at least in something I was first." "Boruvka." "Stephen." "I'm really out of luck." "Behind me lies my first love, in front of me anatomy and I'll never memorize all that stuff." "Everyone here seems to have some sort of trick to it." "Either a photographic memory, or bras." "The Moravian kid starts studying the very first minute while twenty others are only setting up their books on the table." "But what about me?" "What'll I have now?" "How did you find me?" " Well, you know how it is." "The world's a small place." " At least we shan't get lost." "Candy!" "Boruvka is getting married." " I know." "What did you expect?" "How are you?" " Awful." "But I felt worse still when I had hepatitis." "Even should your paths lead nowhere, you took them and you walked them with pleasure." "You must not ever ask those paths..." "There may be no paths, it's only people walking and one of the stars is yours for all we're talking and from that star you'll hear what it's all about..." " Stephen dear, are you writing little poems again?" " Oh no." "Sramek wrote that." "Your hands!" "Aren't you going to wash your hands?" "What do they teach you at medical school?" "You must know how many germs there are on such a train!" "Well, tell me!" "What about all those professors?" "Are they good to you?" " Yes, Mum." " Don't they make you work too hard?" " Not really." " Are you making do with the money?" "Do you need more?" " I live modestly but keep to healthy regimen." "Maybe you'll get a scholarship if you do well." " Mummy?" " Yes?" " What if I don't pass that exam in anatomy?" " So you'll sit for it again and pass it then." "Dr Wichr, the one I see about my stomach, told me he sat for anatomy seven times." " Ah, but that was the old days, you can't do that now." "But you'd better not show off about me to anyone." "I mean what if I fail." "You can't do that!" "I couldn't show my face outdoors!" "Sulcus tendinis musculi flexoris pollicis longi..." "Oh, nonsense!" "Sulcus tendinis musculi hallucis longi!" " Stop torturing yourself." " The groove for the tendon that bears the same name as the muscle is at the back..." "Switch the light off and go to sleep!" "....and medially on..." " Or you'll lose the last of your sense with all this stuff." " Don't worry, Mum." "At least I'll have gone bla-bla on something noble and uplifting." " Stop trying to be clever!" " So what?" "If I don't become a member of the working intelligentsia" "I'll become an intelligent member of the working classes." "Well, young man?" "How's your chemistry coming?" " Oh, good morning, Professor." "Actually I'm still making do whit what you taught me." "But I have a problem with anatomy." "I still don't seem to know how to tackle it." " Well you know Safranek, there are things you have to really work out with your brain, so's your brain doesn't go rusty." "But there are other things where I wouldn't recommend any brainwork for the same reason see?" " I see you've bought a dog." "Well you know how it is, children grow up and one needs to have something cute at home." "Do you know that Boruvka is getting married?" "She sent me an announcement." " Me too." " Don't let it get you down, Stephen." "The end of anything brings the beginning of something else and that's nice." "Meeting with death is always an unusual event, but all depends on the circumstances." "Whilst a corpse would look unnatural on a kitchen table, on the dissecting table it looks quite normal." "Dear colleagues." "Today we shall have some practical work in anatomy, the theory of which you should already have at your fingertips." "Remember this:" "The most precious of all is your own experience." "That is why you must know everything." "Only a person who works with patience..." " Aaa!" "....and zest can convince himself that what he believes in truly exists." "You needn't worry!" "I, assistant Professor Sejkora and all my assistants know..." "Isn't it interesting how useful these dead people are even after their death, whilst you can't say that about others even while they're alive." "What are you to work on, colleague?" " The nervus fibularis, Professor." " Start working then!" " Yes." " Start working." "With the blunt edge of the instrument!" " Hm." "Mind you don't cut it trough!" " No." "Christ alive, man, you've cut it right through!" "Get away from it." "What's your name?" " Sa..." "Safranek." "Sa..." "S..." "Safranek." "I'm taking note of this." "Where'll we go tonight?" " Aren't you coming to have lunch?" " I'm broke this month." " Wait!" "You're neither the first nor the last." " We'll show you something." "Did you notice how Franek caught on when I asked him about ways and means of using the erotic in music?" " His aesthetic perceptions are of the early stone age standard." "So you needn't be surprised!" " There." "And now we'll sin against the medical ten commandments." " Hm." " And just imagine, Franek told me at the last lecture that..." " Excuse me, may I?" " Do." " Enjoying it?" " Hm." " Hm." " What did you do in the dissecting-room today?" " Man, I don't get to scratch a thing." " How's that?" " There aren't any corpses." " Knock me down with a feather we're even out of corpses now." "I had a high old time last time I went dissecting." "I looked for the gall bladder for an hour." " Did you find it?" " Yeah." "As flattened out as this schnitzel it was." " And as green?" " That's right." "Here we are, Mr Safranek." "For you!" " A double portion." "Stop!" "Stop that!" "Stop!" "Everything back!" "Sorry boys, nothing to be done about it." "The car should have gone to Kolin." "She kidnapped a child and the pram!" " Prague Evening Paper!" "Prague Evening..." " The ruffian wanted to rape her but she resisted!" "The unknown thief got caught in the loo window." "The careless pensioner burnt to death with the child." " Death struck those searching for Moldavite." "Cooperation in the production of modern machinery." " Kidnapped a child with the pram." " We are holding our finger on the pulse of life." "Innovation without starvation." " Death struck those searching for Molavite." " Kidnapped a child with the pram." " He fell out of a moving train in the station." " Everyone is responsible for the good of all." " Pensioner burnt to death with child." " We are fighting against mediocrity!" " Death for those searching for Moldavite." " Looking for reserves within ourselves." " What did you say, young man?" " Let us look for reserves within ourselves, lady." " Thank you my boy, I think I'm past that." " Pensioner burnt to death with child." " Even a small team can do great things!" " With pocket-knife he attacked the taxi-driver." "Hello!" "It's you, is it?" "What'll you have?" "Hm?" " A glass of wine." " Good." "Shall I put it on Candy's bill?" " Better not." "I'll leave these papers here with you." " Hm." "Look chum please don't." "Look." "I've got five watches here, three calculators, here's a jacket and even a bike." "But papers?" "Hm." "We haven't had that yet." "When'll you come and fetch them?" " Never." "You can keep them." "Prague is a golden ship..." " Yes." "But for those who can effort it." " Do you think I'm playing for love of art?" "You've got to be nifty." " I've tried being nifty." " So there." "And how are you off?" " Work it out with me, okay?" "I had six hundred." "Three hundred for the Anatomy Atlas, a hundred and sixty for meals and text-books for a hundred, second-hand." "Sixty for my bed at the hostel." "And what I made by being nifty I invested in the papers." "Work it out and tell me the balance." " I make it minus twenty." " Correct!" "And I need those from you, so it s not to be owing." " Let's not talk about trifles." "Come!" "I'll introduce you to our bandmaster." "Bedrich, I've brought you a great guy for writing lyrics." "Writing lyrics is much more difficult that ordinary poems." "Such a poet sits down and he waits." "And he waits for inspirations." "He has an aspirin and a brandy..." "And then what's the problem?" "Easy as pie!" "He isn't limited by anything, dependent on anything." "A rhyme here and there an association..." "He can do anything." "Absolutely anything he likes." "On the other hand..." "what can a lyrics-writer do?" "Practically nothing." "Such a poet can unveil his innermost self if he likes." "Whilst I should I unveil my innermost self, well... not a should 'be interested." " Thanks." " Here I have such a lyrical little tune." "It isn't even finished yet, just a thought..." "Two bare feet sailing through the grass..." "Da da da..." "Continue!" "Can't think of anything?" "Two bare feet sailing through the grass..." "Da da da..." " The left foot the right does pass." " Not bad!" "Two bare feet sailing through the grass" "the left foot the right does pass." "Continue!" " Behind them furrows churned white" " Churned white." " Only dolphins don't seem quite right." "Two bare feet sailing through the grass" " Through the grass." " Two white does with graceful toes." " Two white does with graceful toes." " Will they cast anchor by the well." " By the well." " Don t expect them to tell." " Listen chum a refrain and I'll send it in for the Lyre Competition!" "When you and me get together, we'll be something!" "Real quality!" "And we need that in pop music!" "Here's an advance." "The lyrics are rather sweet." "I like you." " Me?" "Why me?" "Because you've got a clean collar and because you haven't got a crooked mouth." "Come and see me some time when Bedrich's out." "He plays every Wednesday." "Don't worry!" "Ours is more of a spiritual relationship." " I'll come." " When?" "There are things you'll just have to forget for the next few years." "Well, when?" " Well, some time." "We've got lots of studying on right now." "You're all such chickens!" "Are you asleep or just relaxing?" " I don't really know." "As soon as I start looking at this stuff my eyes shut." " Go and see Masarik, then." "He'll give you some advice." " Who's that?" " He's a know-all in fourth year." " Hm." " Listen Stephe, could you clarify this haemoglobin mystery?" " Do you still remember Mirek's grandfather's name?" " Sure." "Lepodotemaceselaco..." " That's enough." "Why do you need anything explained?" "Take a photograph of them page and that's it." " But I don't understand it." "It's simple!" "You remove the blood pigment from this equation and that's the result." " How can you remove blood pigment from an equation?" " Yes, you have to take it as a symbol, then you can." " Hm, I believe you." " But you mustn't believe me!" "You must understand it!" " You're wrong!" "Believing is more comfortable sometimes." "It's certainly easier." "I'm off to get it out of my system." "What?" "Where's he going?" " Oh..." "Just to exchange genetic information." "Damn it all that was quick." "Do you ever anything?" " Oh yes." " What?" "Do you speak or does she?" " She." "Keeps babbling." "What did she say?" " Such nonsense, kids." "For example she asked me what came first:" "The chicken or the egg?" " And what did you tell her?" " Nothing." "They didn't teach us in Zahradky." " Looking at him I'd say first came the cockerel." "Thanks." "Bye." "I'm sorry, do excuse me." "Hello." "I'm looking for Mr Masarik." " Have you got an appointment?" "Masarik, listen, I need something so it s not to fall asleep, to be able to study and..." "That's simple." "But only one a day!" " Listen, is it safe?" " Don't worry!" "I'm an assistant research-worker in pharmacology now." " Thanks, then." "Bye." " Wait!" "I'm not the Socialist Health Centre!" "I want fifty from you." "Masarik was really something." "I stood up to it all right." "But oh dear in the morning .the brain." "The cortex is the significant protective layer." "During sleep the organism .has time to renew its tissue." "Safranek, sir." "You made quite an impression on Bedrich." " On who?" " Our bandmaster of course." " I made more of an impression on his wife." " Take that as income tax." "Let's go." " Wait, I don't really know what I should do." " What have you got a director for?" "All you do is walk up to one of these girls and ask:" ""Excuse me, didn't you lose an orange by any chance?"" "And I'm going to take shots of their reactions." "Get me?" "Go!" "Okay, what?" "Lt'll be better next time." "You mustn't look into the camera!" " I'm not playing any more." "You just hide behind a tree and I nearly got my head knocked off." " I'll make a star of you yet." "Just fun and games this can't be enough." " Listen chum, you didn't spout that from your own head." "Must have read it somewhere." "What do you mean, fun and games?" "I'm interested in direct reality, no National Theatre stuff." "No pretending to adventure, but adventure itself." "Unfalsified reality caught through the merciless eye of the camera." "Something like Dziga Vertov used to create." "Using the latest technology, of course." " You just live in a different world." " But we have one thing in common." "Both your and my professions are mission." " Mission my foot..." "Aaa..." "I liked something about that film, but I don't quite know what." " Correct!" "Now is the right moment to discuss the work." " Now is not the right moment!" "I have to study." "If you happen to know what the word means." "When studying the actual sources, here at the chair of mental hygiene we discovered the work by Alexander Bronstein and we'd like to state that this study moved our research task quite far forwards." "We have in front of us the original diagram of Leffingwell's desk naturally with the Bronstein modification." "At first sight it is obvious that this is a very novel and noteworthy work." "Bronstein reduced the redundant number of textbooks from there piles to two" "A1, A5." "Now then, can you tell me why?" "Well?" "Because he thus cleared B1." "But that is not all, friends." "Bronstein's contribution consists primarily of the fact that he moved the note-book from the dominant sector A2 to the ergonomically much more favourable position in B5." "Sectors B1, B2, and B3 as well as B4 remained empty." "Here Bronstein's experiments were interrupted by the war." "....and from the rete venosum comes the cephalic vein..." " Yes, correct." " And here we have the saphena magna vein, which leads up and up and higher..." " Wait!" "We haven't done that yet." "So let's go through it again." " Okay." "As a boy I wasn*t quite stupid," "I had good marks and some bright ideas." "Oh ho ho!" "Oh ho ho!" "But by now lots time has passed" "I still have bright ideas but not good marks." " Instead of trying to become" " Instead of trying to become" " An educated man" " my bright ideas is all I have" " Exactly as my Mamma fears I*ll be an idiot with bright ideas" "I've brought Be .drich..." "No..." "I've brought Bedrich some lyrics here in my pocket!" "Bobby hotted up the wires besotted as he was with love." "Bobby hotted up the wires besotted as he was with love." "Well, after this exchange of information" "I'm sure there's no way of getting any other into my brain." "Wendy the Comforter." "I wonder what she wanted?" " She's an excellent medium." "Old Gajdos at psychiatry maintains that under hypnosis a medium never fulfils orders that go against his or her conviction." "Like not killing anyone, see?" " And what about her?" " Exactly!" "She fulfils absolutely everything." " You want her to kill someone?" " You're stupid!" "I give her entirely different orders." "For example the medium never wants to undress for old Gajdos." "And she gets undressed without any fuss at all." "Then I'll show her to Gajdos." "I'm an assistant research worker at psychiatry now." " But Masarik, look," "I don't want to doubt the success of your scientific experiments, but isn't it because she doesn't mind getting undressed even without hypnosis?" " Damn it all!" "See, man, and I didn't think of that." " Never mind." "Try me, if you like." " You?" " Why not?" "Won't it work with me?" " Yes of course it will." "One can hypnotize practically everybody except for the mentally retard." "But why?" " Why?" "Well, I need swilling clean, if you know what I mean, so I can concentrate and .so it s I'll think better..." " Enough!" "Don't say another word!" "I shall bring you into of hypnotic sleep." "I shall motivate you positively and evoke a feeling of fresh strength after you wake up." "Lie down here!" "The light... you must fix it with your eyes." "You are very tired." "Your eyelids are heavy, heavy jaded." "As if they were of lead." "As if they were of lead." "From far away you feel silence and darkness approaching." "You are slowly falling asleep." "Your hands and feet are getting heavier and heavier..." "You are not fighting back." "You are asleep." "Could I make a call?" " You are impossible to work with." " I must be mentally retarded." "Candy?" "Listen, could you please show me that film once more?" "Which..." "Which indeed." "Have you shot so many, then?" "What?" "Why?" "What, why?" "Oh, because I'm interested in direct reality." "Slow it down!" "I thought so." "That cap!" " What's with you, what cap, man?" " The kind of cap nurses in hospital wear." "Take it back a bit!" "The bus number is 117." " I don't get you." " Stop!" "See her?" " Yeah." "Who is it?" " My sweet reality." "My love to Dziga Vertov!" " What are you doing?" " So it's you." " And you are the newsboy, the violator and orange cultivator." " This one I cultivated especially for you." "Would you believe it?" "Till today I was convinced that I had only dreamt you up." " How did you discover me?" " I'll have to tell you all about that." "I have a friend and he..." " Stop!" "Where are we going, young man?" " Pardon?" "Oh, we came together..." "Well... actually I came because..." "because of this job." " Personnel department." "First building on your left." " Do you happen to know what sort of work it is?" " You'll be a messenger-boy." "Good day to you, Doctor." " Do you think I'll be able to study at the same time?" " Study?" "Well, that depends..." "Illness and death choose their own times." "But Mr Homolka..." "Oh!" " You again?" " What a coincidence." " That's right, sometimes coincidences are quite difficult to arrange, aren't they?" " Safranek." "Stephen Safranek." " Now then Mr Safranek, please take the patient from ward six to the operating theatre." " Where?" " Oh, come with me." "Nurse, why aren't you wearing that badge?" " I'm still a student-nurse." " What did you say you are?" " A student-nurse." " And what do they call you?" " Nursie of course." " Nursie... nursie you could .do worse." "Thanks, nursie!" " That's all right." "Worse." "Hurry up, hurry up, colleague!" "Not that way!" "The other way round!" "His head will be over there!" "What are you doing, man?" " I'm sorry." "Who did they take on?" "Now then, who hasn't scrubbed up yet?" "Anette!" "This is the way to do it." "Remember!" "Which year are you?" " First year." " Yes, first..." "What are you wearing?" "You're in the operating theatre wearing this?" "Didn't you get your whites?" "I did, but I thought..." "You know where the tragedy lies?" "That it's always those who know least who think most." "Professor, how does one find out one isn't completely stupid?" " Well, a clever guy never does find out." "And a stupid guy doesn't care." "I've tried everything I could." "Pills, hypnosis..." " How about sex?" " Don't even mention that!" "It was even worse afterwards." " Maybe you didn't have the right partner." " I don't know." "I'll probably throw medicine overboard and go back home." " Don't give up, man!" "There are other ways, you know." "Ways well tested and proven." "Contacts, friends in the right places." "Or what is loosely called a bit of push or pull." " Well..." " Don't protest!" "You could try that if the worst came to the worst, couldn't you?" "The other day I did a bit of business and met a really bright guy." "Nothing that's a stranger's is strange for him, if you know what I mean." " What does he do?" " Nothing and everything." "That's just it." "He's a sort of he's one of these who tug away milking at socialism." " What?" " Yes, he doesn't do anything, but he's already milked out a fantastic house and garden, two cars and a mill on the Sazava." "And why?" "Because he's got contacts." "Everywhere." "Also at Medical School." " Ah." "So I go and see him I hand him a nice fat envelope with my last fifty in it and I ask him politely if he could arrange that I pass my anatomy exam, right?" " Wait!" "You can wave fat envelopes around when you're fifty!" "For the time being you'll have to depend on making an impression with your looks and your intelligence." "Well, intelligence will have to do." "Because this guy's got a daughter, see?" "How old is she?" " Eighteen." "But the problem is she is a so-called book virgin." " A book virgin?" "What's that?" "Well, that's a virgin who... well to put it plainly if she stops wanting to be a virgin she does well if she puts and open book over her face when she lies down." " Bobby hotted up the wires besotted as he was with love." "The girl however said heavens above You*d better hot up my wire too!" " Where are you hiding my love?" "Why don*t you answer when I call?" "I'm Sasha." " I'm Stephen." " Oh, isn't that just great." " Hm." " Stephen and Sasha." "Sort of sweet together, isn't it?" " Hm." " Do you like sweets?" " No." " I do, ever so." " What are you planning to do after high school?" " I don't know yet." "Maybe I'll be a doctor like you." "Or an actress." "My Daddy said he'd find out what was best and tell me." " Yup." "Bobby hotted up the wires They were truly nicely hot by now" "The only problem - would you know is that Bobby has no telephone!" " Where are you hiding, my love?" "Why don't you answer when I call?" "That was quite a jig." " Hm." "Oh, it was rock, wasn't it?" " Yeah." "Oh... that Bobby... he sure was hotting it up, wasn't he?" "That was just perfect." "Yes, well I'll go and get some lemonade." " Wait!" "I can drink wine now too." " You can?" " I'll be eighteen next week." "Are you coming?" "Well, will you come?" "What's that?" " What do you think?" "A cake." " Ah, there'll be a feast." " Oh no, gentlemen." "I've got that for a little sweetie." "I spent my last fifty on it." " Silence!" "Those gherkins belong to sector B5." "Well, enjoy yourselves, gentlemen!" " Same to you." " The school gate has shut behind you you*ve passed your exams so scram!" " On the thing wings of illusion." " Goodbye, you innocents." "To be adult is quite a way to be." " Scram, kid, and stop arguing." " The boy with poetry in his soul now learns to accept many a blow." "Love is more than a common cold." "Ah, where are the text-books of old?" "Go ahead and don*t look back!" "At the station the train is waiting." " Mind you protect the wings of your illusions." " In monthly instalments if it must be life has already shorn your wings." " Bad luck is always depressing." " Your poet*s soul is regressing." "Jealousy shakes you to the soul." "Wise-guy or fall-guy?" "Can you take the toll." "Stephen!" "Oh, so you came?" "Mummy, Daddy, this is Stephen." "He's going to be a doctor, aren't you?" " Well, yes... all the best." " Thanks." "Is this for me?" " Yes, just some goodies." " Oooh!" "Christ, chum!" "That's a script that was written by life itself." "Whang!" "No way of arranging such a thing..." "It's perfect." "Absolutely perfect!" "Crash!" "Aren't I rolling in bad luck?" "I could kick them both!" "And they could have sent me down from the faculty for that!" " Don't be stupid!" "As a joke it was fantastic." "I'll take a few shots and it'll be the making of my film." "How about giving up medicine and writing scripts instead?" "Kindly note some of these physiological anomalies." "The S-shaped spine consist of two lordoses and two kyphoses." "Stephen!" " Stop it!" "You can go and have some king angel help you with your problem, but I've got to pay attention." " I'll take you with me." "You can go in first." " Yeah, I've heard that before." "You'll let me in first and then you'll be the hero." " Stephen, they taught us at Zahradky that we should always refrain from bending our spine." " As you see, some deformations are normal." " Normal, yes, but..." "Aren't you interested in my lecture, colleague?" "What's your name?" " Safranek." " Dear colleague Safranek, I am truly not trying to force you to listen to me." "Anatomy is a subject not attractive for everybody and to learn it isn't as easy as getting a girl into bed." "Actually, it's no harder or easier .it just happens to be quite different." "Right?" "And moreover, you are disturbing your colleague from the developing countries." "What is your name colleague?" " Numira Cassa Thombo from Bujumbura." "Could you repeat what I have just been saying?" " That... that some deformations are normal." " Quite correct." "And I am taking note of your name again, Safranek." "A crooked twist to the spin..." " Don't worry!" "They taught us at Zahradky that eventually the truth always will out." " Yes." "But by then we might be absent." "Miss!" "You've lost something." "A little something from a patient." " Which patient?" " Me of course." "You've really made me into a sick man." "I feel like a cup of coffee." "Hot as hell, sweet as a kiss." " Yes of course, Doctor." "Excuse me." "Student nurse no bribes are ever taken at our department!" "You admire our nurse?" "Yes, a fine girl." "This used to be such a quiet department." "And as soon as she arrived" "It's changed into a "risky work-place"." "Keep to the safety regulations, colleague, or you'll go and fall in love." "You see she casts spells with those legs of hers." " I am sure she has other fine attributes too." " Yes?" "What for example?" " Well..." "A positive relationship towards her job, say." " That yes, definitely." "But let us admit, dear colleague, that people usually love each other for quite different values." " Doctor, I..." " Please!" "And the real values are then very hard to come by when searched for only after the act." " Seriously?" " Hm." " You have already searched?" "That guy Fast is and idiot!" "He's an idiot!" "May be, but he did pass anatomy." "Cook something good, will you, Mum?" "What?" "Well how about potato dumplings with pork and sauerkraut." "Something really Czech." "What?" "Yes, you can make Moravian sauerkraut." "What?" "Whom am I bringing down?" "Mirek!" "Me fellow student, Mirek." "We are room-mates." "What?" "Yes, a nice boy." "He's the oldest around and he looks after us." "He doesn't have any family here, Mum." "Coming!" "Wait!" "It's me, Mum, Stephen!" " Hello." "What does your father do?" " He's a teacher, Mrs Safrankova." " And your mother?" " My mother doesn't do anything." "Ah, what we call a home-maker." "Have you got enough money, boys?" " Rots." " You mean pots!" "But mind you're back early." "You know you still have to study up that... what's it..." "anatomy." " Mummy, now we're sitting for our exams in physics and Russian, then histology and only then will there be time for Annie." " What?" " Annie." "Anatomy." " They seem to be overloading you with work, boys." "And don't overdo it!" "Money is the root of all evil!" "One, two, three, four, five." "Five pints for these young doctors!" " Coming up." " Yeah, chum," "I used to play the trombone too." "Man alive, when I gave it a good blow here, the pigeons took off the roof in Prague." "Yeah, but then I got a hernia and all the strength in that tone dropped down into the hernia." "So I played sort of... con sordino." "Well and then they started wanting me only for funerals." "That's the sound that's when the coffin is being lowered into the grave and the widow's crying, see." "And I trumpeted with such feeling that it cost me a hernia." "But you boys are medical students, so you know all about that." "To your good health!" "My steps are getting shorter, my breath gets shorter too, even roses smell less sweet..." "The head surgeon always told me:" ""Listen, Valerian, if you blow that trumpet once again those stitches are going to burst."" "My dear Doctor, I*ve brought you a goose, I*d like to get married but what*s the use." "Well and since then I play heligone." "A song for a beer or the other way round." "And when the Tyrs house was ablazing I was playing it too:" "Fire!" "And that clear note was heard by firemen far and wide." "Because they were all sitting here at the pub." "My home is that quiet pub my love is a pint of beer" "My favourite style the Gothic..." " When you come and visit us, boys," "I'll show you my folklore too." "Every artist must finds just the right time to die so he becomes immortal." "I dreamt about you my love that I slept with you all night." "I woke up and turned around and how disappointed I was." "You young men, who just like me don*t really mean what you say." " Love them and leave them just don*t let them have their way!" "Love them and leave them just don*t let them have their way!" " Czechoslovakia is a lucky country!" " Love them..." " Here money is the root of all evil!" "Stephen!" "Prepare the patient and take him into the operating theatre!" " What sort of a case is it?" " Acute appendicitis." " And where is the patient?" "This is the most risky job of all." "Shaving patients before the operation." " No!" "Not with a razor!" "I haven't had any fun yet." "Wait!" "I thought you'd only got as far as cutting up corpses?" " And what do you think where I'm taking you?" "But Mr Homolka..." "What would your Granny say if she saw this?" "!" " But Granny is far away, my dear." "And I like what I like." "There now..." "They're all done in the operating theatre." "Wake up!" "Do you hear me?" "Come on, wake up, you idiot!" "Hey, Miss, would you know where my glasses are?" "What do you do in that hole of a place all the time?" " What?" "I'm studying anatomy." "All the time." " Afraid you won't pass?" " Do I look like I wouldn't pass?" " Hoards of medics have dropped out." "They're sitting in some office or other clerking by now." " Wait!" "Where do you live?" " At the hostel." "And you?" " At the faculty hostel." "What are we going to do?" " We'll long for each other." "And suddenly I knew I'd pass that dammed anatomy exam." "In spite of old Sejkora's sarcasms, in spite of Fast, to spite Honza and his photographic memory." "Spite Boruvka, for whom I was never number one." "And to spite you, dear Nursie, for allotting a small warm office as my future." "I'll show you all!" "When the band plays I*m a man my horses back home must do as they can." "Or I*ll tell my Dad when I get back from town to have all those horses shot down." " What's that?" " What?" "I'm off to the Moravian ball." " Boys, I want a suit like that too." " When you go and see Wendy, ask Venos to lend it to you." " Yes." "And when she sees a black boy in the Kyjov folk costume..." " You'll never get rid of her!" "I've got a new study method now." " What's that?" " Oxygen." " Wait!" "What do you mean?" " Watch this!" "Which cell is the most sensitive when there's a dearth of oxygen?" " Which..." "The heart?" " Balls!" "You were taught that." " Yes." "I know!" "The... brain!" " Correct." "In other words what must be done?" " What must be done?" " Brain cells need more oxygen!" "Right?" "What a head!" "I'm the scientific assistant at the intern department now." " So what, do I run about in the park?" " Ugh!" "How primitive!" "Think a bit!" " Hm." " If you run around in the park you'll use up the oxygen again." "What you is simple inhale oxygen straight from the cylinder." " Wow." " I tried it today at the intern department." "Man alive, was my brain red-hot bright!" "Had I known that earlier I'd have my red diploma within the year." " You really do have a head on your shoulders, Masarik!" " Wait!" "I get hundred." " Have your prices gone up?" " Better quality advice, innovations..." " I'll try your innovation out first." "Facies superior inferior," "Facies superior inferior, lateralis medialis," "facies arti..." " Knock, knock, knock..." " Who's that?" " Open the door for us." " Is that your, Nursie?" " Just show us two little fingers..." " Yeah, I've heard that one before." "Come on in then, both of you." "But Stephen dear there's only one of us." " Articularis..." " Studying, are you?" " What am I to do, if you take no notice of me?" " Are you unwell?" " No." "This was only..." "An experiment." "Anything wrong?" " There's an exitus." "And you're on." " Who died?" " Mr Homolka." "The one who kept slapping my bottom." " But I..." " Don't be scared." "I'll come with you." "Thanks." "Bye." "Mr Homolka sure knows what he knows by now." " I'd rather spend a bit longer not knowing, then." "Stephen, you're crazy!" " Hold on, hold tight!" "I heard that your write poems." " Candy's blabbed." "I only tell poems." "Like when somebody gets married I send them a card saying:" "You'll be happy never you fear, there'll be twins within the year!" " But he said that you've written some lovely poems." " No, I can't Nursie." "You wouldn't be able to resist me afterwards." "And then I'd have a bad conscience." " But I'm capable of resisting even Doctor Fast." "See, that's me." " You're blue." " Blue?" " You're blue as the river." "You're blue as the river that falls asleep." " Stephen..." " You're like the sky at dawn you believe in lying out of sympathy..." " What else do I believe in?" " In illness and in getting well in sin and in forgiveness." " Tell me what do you long for?" " In every season of the year may you seep into me as I into you my landscape of loveliest of spots my book in which I am learning to read." "May your lap not cast love aside even when wearing your mantle of mercy." "This oxygen truly creates miracles!" "Damn it all, it's dark in here!" "What's this?" " Well?" " These are the liver." " Listen, what did they teach you at Zahradky?" "Hey, Safranek, would you please explain to Mirek what's singular and what's plural." " Yes." " Well?" " Singular." " Hm." " Well to put it simply in Czech some words are singular only and some plural only, in addition to the normal singular and plural." " Very good!" "So you do think when you have to." " Hm." " Well, Mirek, how will you say it?" "Hm?" "Hm?" " Ah!" "The liver." " Very good." "Except that this is a kidney!" "During the last five years our team at the chair for mental hygiene has arrived at the final solution the so-called Leffingwell-Bronstein table, the so-called Zajic variant." "I would only like to point out that my name is Miroslav Zajic, not Miloslav." "People often make a mistake there." "That was just by the way." "Even at first sight every layman will notice that the whole desk area is used up." "We left two piles of text-books as well as the exceptionally successful positioning of Bronstein's of the note-book in sector B5." "We moved the card index from the dominant sector A3 to the empty B1 and we used the A3 for placing" "Emerson-Votocka's weekly performance and time-table graphicon." "Do you think Wendy' will like them?" " She'll fall silent with amazement." " That would be great." "Stephen, do tell me a poem." " Oh, poems are too long, you're never there longer than fifteen minutes." "A motto should be enough." " A motto..." "That's it!" " A loving motto!" "Loving and yet witty." "It must express love and fate." "That it's forever, that's what goes with women." " With Wendy forever - in the hay!" "You freak!" "You've dishonoured the folk costume!" " What are you on about?" "Nothing's happened!" " Wait!" "We thought of it." "We wanted to do something for him, considering it's his..." " His .name-day." "....yes, name-day." " Is it St. Miroslav day today, then?" " Not here." "But in their country it is." "Apologize to him and tell him how nice." " Yes." " Okay." "Sorry, Mirek." "And all the best on your name-day." "But take the costume off this minute or I can't guarantee for my reaction!" " Just a minute!" "You look after your folk costume as if it were your own skin but you don't know a thing about it." " Me... and not know about it?" "This here is worn with a feather by the single men, the hat." "The shirt, the vest, the belt." "Blue trousers and boots without spurs." " Yes, but you don't know why the costume exists at all." " Of course I do!" "It's the expression of a sovereign, national, material and spiritual culture." " Okay." "You know that from the newspapers." "But I'm sure you haven't read the latest ethnographic study about the origin and function of folk costumes, have you?" "There now, see?" "!" "Your relationship is only emotional." "But where is your brain, I ask you?" "Because the folk costume has a very close connection with sexuality!" " With sexuality?" " Of course!" "Surely you know that costumes often differ from region to region, from village to village?" " Sure." "There's a different national costume in Kyjov, in Vracov, in Dolno..." " There now!" "And why do you think that these folk costumes differ from place to place?" " Why..." "For example the costume of Wallachia is poor, that of Hanna richly embroidered and embossed." "This is according to the fertility of the land, according to the farms and so on." " Oh, you work everything out in financial values." "That's the fashion these days." " Well and so what?" "Economic are of primary importance!" " Oh no indeed!" "Because:" "When a young man chose a girl wearing another folk costume, he could be pretty sure she wasn't his relative." "That they wouldn't have retarded children." "Well, there weren't roads to all these village, petroleum lamps were used for lighting, and everyone had a dozen aunties in the village and two dozen cousins." "So how could they keep count?" "But as soon as he saw another costume at the fair, he knew right away that he could go and woo that girl, because she wasn't one of them." "So that actually this was unconsciously a selection process, in which folk culture played the positive role of guaranty for healthy descendants." " Go to your Wendy then." "And keep the costume on." "So you don't have retarded kids." " You can take it off." "With your looks it's obvious even without a folk costume that you come from other parts." "I would like to point out to young ladies in the rooms of medical students that visiting hours end at 9 p.m. I repeat:" "I would like to point out to young ladies in the rooms of medical students that visiting hours end at 9 p.m. Thank you." "That's that!" "What we didn't manage to get done by now, we just can't get done any more." "We must now relax." " Relax?" "I'm in favour!" " Wait, we mean something else." " Silence!" " Aren't you coming with us?" "What's the matter with you?" " I'm taking my anatomy exam tomorrow." " So what..." "I'm sitting for an exam tomorrow too." "I'll take a keep at the stuff tonight and that's that." " Except that you're at your school because of you talent, but I've spent a year pretending to be intelligent." "Candy, keep this letter on you." "Tomorrow hand it over to those sitting with me." "There should be another one." "Well, bye." " Stephen, you're crazy!" "Life's beautiful, isn't it?" " That depends for whom." "If I die, boys, put me in my coffin dressed up in my costume." "B!" "C!" " On..." " But only just." "What did you get?" " Sex organs." " I bet you were good!" " I don't know." "I only know that instead of men's and women's" "I kept saying gentlemen's and lady's." "Kids" "I muddled it up with what it says on the loo." "You should have left me home." " Did he throw you out?" " I don't know if I failed or not." " Let's see!" "You've got a B, you idiot!" "Hoy hoy hoy hoy hoy - mummsey o'mine!" "Start cooking for the feast!" "Eh Eh Eh!" "Come in." "What's your name?" " Safranek." " Safranek, Safranek." "But what do I see?" "Why a B for your practical." "Why?" " Well, I cut right through the fibularis first time on, and I got myself a bad name that way, you see." " Well then we'll see how good you are at theory." "So what is your first question?" "The veins to the brain." "Let's have it!" "The brain vessels are the brain arteries and the brain veins." "The brain arteries are the arteriae vertebrales and the arteriae carotida internae." "At the caudal edge of the Varolov brain the two arteriae vertebrales join to produce the artery basilaris." "Thank you." "You answered all three questions." "That's an A." "He botched something up in the practicals, Professor." " Oh, Sejkora..." "That'll happen to him many more times." "It's in the bag I've got Annie coming tomorrow." "Stephen." " Mrs Safrankova, has your Stephen caught some awful disease or does he have to get married?" "Wendy!" "Oh, sorry." "Wendy, I need some help." "What is it?" "Did you fail anatomy?" " No." " Ah, you want a bit of relaxation?" "You won't be the first nor the last." "You know they call me Wendy the Merciful?" " No, don't be daft." " My, what a puritan you are." "Have you forgotten that this breast was the first you held in your hand in Prague?" " I haven't forgotten." "And I held a suitcase in my other hand." " So you don't want to drown you sorrows?" "Well... no, I've got an A in anatomy and I'm Mirek's friend!" " That's what friends are for, Stephen dear." " Wendy, what a one-track mind you've got!" "Considering how busy you are, I just don't see how you could have passed your anatomy exam." "You must be a genius!" " Yes, I am." "Don't forget I failed three times last year." "And this time I slipped through first time." "But it's you I truly love, Stephan." "You are my secret love." "Look, when I'm sitting in a nice job at the ministry, and I will be, remember that you've got somebody there if you ever need any pull." " Do you know what?" "If you love me that much, will you do some thing for me?" "Forgive me, but I saw you at the club last night." "You really impressed me, honest!" "You see, I heard that black men..." "I once danced with you at the Moravian ball." "And since that day I can think of nobody but you..." "I would just love to meet you again." "Of course." "If you come to the club tonight and don't keep me waiting too long..." " You can be sure!" "I'll be there." "For sure." "A..." "Chums, forgive me this trick, mates." "But I am expecting a very special visitor tonight." "A bottle of red wine is paid for with the waiter." "But I presume you'll drink more than that and that you won't hurry back to our room." "Thanks." "Your second-year colleague, Stephen." "Gentlemen!" "This is for you." "By the way, colleague!" "Complicates life unnecessarily - four letters." "Love!" " Colleague!" "It starts with a "b" and ends with and "n"." " The it must be brain, Mr Janatka." "Come in!" " Just for a minute." "I don't have much time." " Don't you hurry away again, Nursie!" "You can't imagine how hard I worked to get them out." "A nice room you've got." " Yes." "That took quite some doing too." "I'd like to thank you." " For what?" " Just for being alive." "I wouldn't have passed that exam without you." "I just had to prove to you that I'm no goon." "So thanks again." "Don't you mind me not being as clever as you are?" " But if people were to love each other according to their intelligence, human-kind would have died out long ago." "I would like to point out to young ladies visiting the rooms of medical students that visiting hours end at 9 p.m." "You are blue again." " Like the river." " You're blue as the river that falls asleep." "You're like the sky at dawn" "You believe in lying out of sympathy." " What else do I believe in?" " In illness and in getting well in sin and in forgiveness." "In every season of the year may you seep into me as I seep into you my landscape of loveliest of spots my book in which I am learning to read." " My landscape of loveliest of spots my book in which I am learning to read." "What a coincidence." "Hey Nursie, I've forgotten which hospital will you be in after the holidays?" "Do you hear me?" "Nursie!" "What's the matter..." "Aren't you well?" "I've got a small flat bottle of something neat in my suitcase." " It'll pass." "I'll be expecting another wedding announcement after the holidays." "We're staying here." "Get going!" " Listen Candy, will you do something for me?" " What?" " If you ever see me wanting to whisper poems to a girl like that, will you kindly sock me in the jaw?" " Sure thing." "What wouldn't I do for a friend." "Every end is nice in the fact that something new is beginning." "I shan't whisper any more verse into girls' ears." "Now I'll only listen to the poems." "That's how poets lose their illusions, so they don't die of love itself." "Starring and Featuring:" "Film Staff:" "2nd Unit Director:" "Continuity:" "Cartoons:" "Cameraman:" "Production Manager s Assistant:" "Costume Designer:" "Wardrobe:" "Properties:" "Make-up:" "Music by:" "Lyrics by:" "Vaclav Neckar sings with the Bacillus" "Played by the Film Symphony Orchestra Conducted by:" "Set Designer:" "Trick Sequences:" "Sound Recordist:" "Film Editor:" "Production Manager:" "Director of Photography:" "Directed by:" "Produced at the Barrandov Film Studios 2nd Dramaturg-Production Team:" "Processed at the Barrandov Film Laboratories" "The end"