"FILMEXPORT HOME VIDEO presents a film with songs and dances" "THE CHICKENS AND THE VERGER" "Story by / Screenplay by" "Director of Photography and Co-Director" "Production Designer Sound by I Edited by" "Music by Film Symphonic Orchestra conducted by" "Ethnographic Advisers" "Songs and dances performed by the Czechoslovak Ensemble of National Songs and Dances and by folk dancers from Moravia" "Cameraman" "Production Designer Assistants Script" "Make-up by Costumes by" "Set Designer" "Production Manager Line Producer" "Production Assistant" "Cast" "Featuring" "Directed by" "Made by a Creative Group of" "Produced by Czechoslovak State Film in Barrandov and Hostivar Studios" "Stupid oaf." "Hey, you!" "Where have you been?" "I've been waiting for you, you dumb verger." "That's easier for you to say." "You're not doing anything." " Quiet!" "But I have to prepare everything for the reverend." "Christenings are on" " Stop bragging!" "I'm not bragging." "And I'm not that late." "As we have agreed." "See!" "Mr. Voznica" " No names!" "You call yourself a collaborator?" "Of course I am a collaborator, Mr. Landowner, of course lam." "So, come on." "So that you know that I keep my word." "Yeah." " Here you go." "Let the entire village laugh tomorrow." "So that no one will want to even look at those co-op folks." "Especially Tony Peknica." " Yeah, yeah." "The best farmer in the village." "He's important!" "If we get him on our side, we'll misguide all the others too." "They'll follow him like sheep." " Don't worry about it, landlord, I'll give 'em a roasting, bloody co-op farmers." "I'll organize it." "Let 'em sniff." " Here you go." "Very generous." " Well, well, well." "Joseph will cope with this." "Stubble breaking will be ready by midnight." "As we have already said." "Tomorrow, Louie, your team will build wheat shocks on the landowners'." "Fred will go with the binders, and the volunteers will help them." "Joseph turns the stubble and Jerry's team transports and threshes." "Do you hear those nuts working the night away?" "Caroline, close that window." "I'm tired of listening to those co-op farmers." "These are tractors from Machinery station anyway." "If those tractors were yours, you wouldn't mind, would you?" "And don't you mind those pagans are working nights and even Sundays?" "It's against God's will." "And when the bishops are against it, there must be something to it." " Bishop or not, if he doesn't work on the field then what business he has with it?" "Stop standing up for them!" "Anyway they already spread rumour that you're almost theirs." "It's only Voznica spreading these rumours, mom." "Yeah." "Yeah, he's the clever one." "Our dad should stand with him." "And they also spread rumour that you're seeing young Rerabek!" "If I see you with that co-op farmer again, then God have mercy on you!" "Daughter with the son, dad with the father, teaming up together to make beggars out of us." "I'm not in the cooperative yet." "And you'll not be!" "Go to bed, Vince." " But mom" "Go and leave those detective stories." "Go, go, go!" "You should tell that to the verger." "That Kodytek." "He keeps on giving them to him." "Dad, you don't know your way with mom." "Is it my fault that I hate seeing women cry?" "When I oppose her, she starts screaming and crying." "Don't worry, girl, everything will be ﬁne." "I have it all thought up." "Teresa likes chickens." "And I You'll see." "I already spoke to Rerabek." " Yeah?" " Yeah." "And if you have nowhere to accomadate your volunteers, then two can still sleep over at our place." "They're all taken care of." "The same way as during the harvest." "And those that are building the duct as every Sunday." "Well, that's ok then." "But you don't know the latest news." "The General Assembly has decided to plough the bulks this autumn." "Even our cow barn helped, right?" " And how many were against it!" "And all that fear!" "And now everyone wants to have the cows there." "Yeah, but where to put them?" "The cow barn is almost full." "To Voznica." "He's got enough place." "He kept two cows only, in order to avoid delivering his share." "The National Committee wrote him to replenish his livestock." "And if he doesn't" " We'll see." "Buchlovan Factory helps Luzanky in building a water duct." "Here they are!" "Welcome!" " Welcome, welcome." "Darn thing!" "There!" "Holly mother!" "Bloody vermin!" "Joseph!" "Joseph!" "Zboril!" " What is it?" "Leave it for a while." "I found a knife here." "Look here!" "Something must have disturbed the culprit." "I'll go to the city to see whether they'll find prints." " So, go." "If I could get my hands on that man!" "I'd show him!" "It's actually an escapade intended to ridicule our volunteers." "The entire water duct event." "And to harm our cow barn, which really needs water." " The damage is small." "What?" "Small?" "!" " Well, we'll take over from here." "And how about we publically announce that the culprit will be forgiven, if he compesates the damage." "We'll get the edge off it and the police may investigate anyway." "Well, as Zboril says, Tony Peknica is a suspect, because of the knife." "I don't like it." "I don't know why you still believe that Tony." " Because I know him!" "He allways was a good farmer." "It's because of his wife that he's reluctant to join the cooperative." "He's sniffing around like a hungry cat." "He likes our cow barn." " But the knife is certainly his." "Reverend, thank you very much for baptizing Mary." "Good bye." "God be with you." " God be with you." " Farewell." "Christenings always pay off." "A godfather always knows what belongs to the holy man." "Don't you have a knife?" " I gave it to you before yesterday." "You didn't return it yet." "And it's dad's!" "And it's the same with the motorbike." "You didn't borrow anything for me from Charles!" " You're right." "Bike." "I'll get it, Vince, I'll get it." "Yeah." "Wait." "I have some of those detective stories I promised you." "Be careful not to make them dirty." "Prairie Pirates, Canyon of Horrors." "And Mysterious Disappearance of the Black Sorceress." " Yes, sorceress." "That's something!" " That's something!" "Special report of the local National Committee." "The local National Committee calls upon will not persecute the culprit, if he compensates the damage, caused at Zbori|'s." "End of broadcast." "Charlie, run to Kodytek at once and bring him here." " Right, dad." "There are cooperatives that build a poultry farm and then they sit down and think that is all they can do." "A cow barn, collective sowing and harvest, ploughed bulks, mean nothing to them." "Dad, they're hatching already!" "Right." "Run to Tony Peknica and tell him that he can come, but don't let his Theresa hear." "Throught the chickens he might be able to convince his Theresa to join the cooperative." "Listen" "Maybe once this water thing is over, Mr. Landowner." "I don't know what else to say." " You're suddenly shod of memory." "Come!" "Aren't the top clerics against the cooperative?" "Even the Pope himself?" "Yes, they are." "Promise Mrs. Peknica whatever." "Tony mustn't join the cooperative!" "One can promise anything!" "Landowner, what if I promise Mrs. Peknica something?" "I've just told you that, you moron!" " Aha." "But" "No buts!" "Tell her that the cooperative is hell for cows." " Hell." "And if they plough the bulks, we're done for!" "Done for." "But that" "Mr. Landowner, I'm a spiritual person." "And money doesn't stink?" "Afterwards." "Right?" "All right, I'm going then." "The cooperative is better then those saboteurs that were up to mischief at Zbori|'s." " You start it again!" "And when you should really speak, your mouth freezes!" " Well, I" "Here, here" " Damn vermin just running under one's feet." " Leave the chickens alone!" "What's bothering you?" "And I don't want another word on the cooperative!" "From you or you!" "If such a pagan dared to show his face he wouldn't leave in one piece!" "The church is still standing." "And those pagans go there every Sunday." "We might end up begging them to take us into the cooperative." "What?" "!" "Where did you get that from?" "Yeah right, a water duct." "To become a laughing stock like the Zboril family!" "They had water, but where?" "They were taking it out in buckets." "Tony?" "Off to the field!" "What's the rush?" "It's not dry yet." " It will be by the time we're there." "But Theresa, for a while only." "I'll follow you in a minute." "Come on!" "No slagging, come on, come on!" "And you, either you give enough milk or we'll part ways!" "Gives a litre less!" "But I'll speak to her." "I'll tell you, Rerabek!" " Some cows we have, right?" "And once there's enough water" " Good day." " G'day." "So you came after all?" " And so?" "Tony, you'll be the talk of the village for coming to the co-op openly." "Your wife will get to know." " Well, I'm here because of her." "I came to get the Leghorns!" "But, you know." "I know." "I know." "Just you look after him!" "We know how they can lure." "Holly Mother, what would become of us?" "Cooperative farmers." "Dear God, do not punish me." "Fear not winter in the summer heat!" "Tony has never been in any organization and so it shall remain!" "Rather come and help me before Tony comes!" "Well, I have to go now." "I only came for a minute." "I still have work to do." "Grandfather clock." "Takes a lot to ﬁx them!" "Doesn't want to chime." " You'll come again." "Yeah and the boots for your Tony for Sunday!" "And then I have to go to church." "To tune the organ, it's a bit blown." "Come on, come on, sloth is a deadly sin." "Well, I might for a while." "Since it's just you women here." "Any help is welcomed." "There." "Am I not right?" " Well, I'm only worried that Tony will be attracted by the cooperative now." "We know what they want." " Yeah." "They're grouping to take everything from private farmers." "Horses, cows and even fields!" "What are you talking about, you prophet?" "You see her?" "How upset she is?" "Even the Pope and the Bishops are against it!" "Let not Tony get involved or else there will be conflict with with all the saints." "He'll not get involved in anything!" "I alone deal with involvements!" "Caroline, where are you going again!" "Don't rush them that much!" "They're not made of steel!" "And once" "And once I visited Voznica." "And he told me that those who will not join the cooperative, those will get wine and ploughing, all for free and and chickens!" " Yeah?" " Yeah." "Leave it already and come and sit." "I have a snack with me." "Well, you don't have to." "So, let's go." "You should take a pencil and write out and count everything for Theresa." "So that she can see the advantages of a cooperative." "That joint work on the field saves time and money." "I know, Rerabek, I know." "I'm not stupid." "I'm with you on the farming question." "But Theresa would give her soul for chickens." "And your breeding will be enough for her to see the truth." "Wait." "You can't give me the chickens?" " I can give you a hundred of them!" "You know, Tony, we're not forcing anybody into the cooperative." "And your Theresa is different than you." "She's from a richer family." "What the heck!" "I'll deal with it accordingly!" "I'm the man!" "After all, half of the house is mine and the vineyard is completely mine." "Hold it." "No disagreements should start over the cooperative, Tony." "Come." "Jerry!" "Theresa, don't you see?" " I don't want to see you at all!" "I'm red with anger, you collectivist helper!" "Yeah, I shall settle this at home!" "And you go and milk the cows!" " Yeah." "And prepare the smoked meat." "Oh no, no smoked meat!" "We'll have potatoes!" "Get on and off we go!" "Let's go!" "Wait, my headscarf fell off." " You're pretty even without it." "You're coming from the field!" "But with the co-op folks." "Right." "Mother would show me." " Yeah, your mother." "What to do with her?" "You know." "The ﬁelds." " She's scared to lose them, right?" "If it was easy to convince the village, then we wouldn't need people from factories to help us." "We would cope with the fields." "But with people?" "We can manage with them too." " Even with your mom!" "Tony!" "Tony!" " Yeah?" "Stay at home!" "I'll go and see where's Caroline." "You have little space here, right?" "In the co-op you'd live like queens." "Where were you wandering?" "!" "Come on, dad." "Do you know what is it?" "They're chickens." " Nah!" "This is a historic event in our family!" "These are the chickens, but from the united cooperative." "But for your mom it's a present from Bojanovice's constable, you know?" "I'm not sure you can succeed to conceal the truth." "So that Theresa doesn't refuse outright." "When the right time comes." "And after harvest our family will become a united cooperative." "And I will be the chairman." "Just make sure you're not the vice-chairman as up to now." "As the only cannoneer in our village, I shall be the chair...!" "Come and warm yourselfs up, you rascals." "You're only giving me trouble." "Theresa, chickens." "Where are the chickens from?" "They're chickens." "Nice ones." "Where are they from?" " Leghorn chicks." "From the cooperative." "Cooperative!" "This will be the death of me." "You'll have me on your conscience, you and your thick head." "Woe is me!" " But" "What have I done to deserve this." " Stop it!" "Just think ofyour children, how the co-op will rob those poor orphans!" "Just thing about the cows" "We'll lose the cows." " Aw, come on!" "Our cows and fields, even the meadow, that you like so much!" "Please stop moaning!" "Come on, that's it." "I'm begging you, return them." "Return them and I'll be good to you." "I'll prepare smoked meat for you every day, just return them!" "What did I do to deserve this?" "Why am I punished by such a stubborn wife?" "You can see for yourself what good farmers they are!" "Look at the chickens that you've been dreaming about." "I'm dreaming about them?" "I'll wring their necks!" "You who loves chickens so much?" " But not the co-op ones, you moron." "Tony, give me your hand and promise that you will not set a foot there!" "That you will avoid Rerabek and his cow barn and will return the chicks!" "Yeah, yeah!" "All right!" "But now leave me alone." "And take the damn chickens." " Yeah, yeah." "More on that tomorrow, Tony." "Good night, Tony." "And please no more crying and whining." "Well, here I am." "Mr. Landowner, Tony's wife told me this morning, that Tony promised her not to enter the cooperative!" "So that's finished and in the evening he'll come to your table." "Here I am and we said three." "Yeah." "In the pub in the evening." "Depending on whom will Tony sit down with." "Yeah?" "Yeah." "Well, Mr. Landowner, perhaps a little milk." "What?" "Milk?" " Yeah." "Look at my cowshed, you oaf!" "Beautiful, spacious." " Get out!" "Get out before I'll get mad!" "Get out!" "Such a blockhead." "Dad, tonight we'll teach those commies a lesson." "They'll go home crying." "I'd like to see such a brawl myslef." "They would have to spend money from the dances to fix the smashed pub." "And not on a water duct!" "But you stay out of it!" "Let the others fight!" "That biggest one, that belongs to Voznica." "Yeah, yeah." " All nicely on one heap." "It was the same in our village." "The landowner kept the best land." "Afield straight as a line." "Do you see those strips on the hill there?" "Those are surely of the small farmers." " Yeah, yeah." "But they're enlisting already." "Everything is written in these ﬁelds." "Toil and injustice." "Like in a book." "It's already being rewritten." "And after harvest it'll be redone for good!" "Whose is the harvest?" " Ours!" "Of the commies!" "And of all those who bound crops and are now building the water duct!" "And to spite those who don't like it!" "Come over and invite my dad too!" " We will!" "Good day, Mrs. Kodytek." " Good day, what are you bringing us?" "Oh well." "This will be nice." "Listen, auntie, you're not helping Voznica with the harvest?" "I heard he's counting on you." " Let the bloodsucker wait!" "I also made my calculations." " You're right." "It's cheaper to thresh crops in the cooperative." "And is Mr. Kodytek at home?" " Yeah, he's inside." "Ah no, here he is!" "Dear Lord, I didn't see you." "What wonderful guests." " Good day." "Er..., er...,come in." "We almost missed each other." "What a luck." "Here is my place." "Here I'm a cobbler and a clocksmith over there." "Sit down, constable." "I need to fix the hand here." "It's running late." "Aha." "I'll have a look." "I'll fix it in a jiffy." "Please, Kodytek, do it now." " Yeah, yeah, at once." "Wrong place." "Where did you put it?" "It's here." "Julie steals." "That won't be that bad." "Grandfather clock is worse when doesn't chime." "Ah, you have detective stories." "Would you lend me some?" "You won't be interested." "You know it all from practice." "Right now there's not too much to practice on." "Only small pranks, like that water duct, but it doesn't bother us." "Purple Avenger." "It's thrilling, dear me." "They can't find the culprit, he always leaves fake clues." "There, it's all fixed." "You're a real professional, Kodytek." " Well, I am, I guess." "Yeah." "Just here, done." "And that's it." "And free of charge for you, constable." "Wait!" "Wait!" "To dance, drink and sing, to wish ourselves good harvest next year we invite you to harvest festivities!" " Caroline, pass the cake and wine!" "The lady of the house is not in for dancing, she's gone to the village." "Let's dance with the young one then!" "Cooperative farm Luzanky performs at 115,4 %" "Here's the bond for the water duct." "Uncle, won't auntie blame you for all this merriment?" "I'll show her who's the master of the house!" "Play me a solo!" "As soon as I set my foot out of the house!" "Wine to booze you'd like?" "Outta my house!" "NOW!" "Didn't you hear?" "There's the door!" "Well, all the best then and we'll see you next year." "I'll smack you!" "But with the water pipes!" "Where's Tony?" "Tony is" " Yeah?" "he is a little late." "Look at Charlie!" "How handsome he is." "Yeah, yeah." "But Tony" " He'll come soon." "They say we should start immediately." "Now all the ﬁelds are ours." "And not only the little piece I'm now sitting on." "And how's the new cow barn doing?" "Voznica did not express himself yet." "Good evening." " Good evening." "We've got the fingerprints." "It's Kodytek." "What?" " You see." "Good evening, Mr. Landowner." "Where's that Tony you had promised me?" "Don't drink that much!" "Then you're too talking!" "I'm still breathing heavily from that Tony!" "I'd rather go to hell twice then trying to convince Tony again." "What?" " Yes." "Listen, Kodytek, you shouldn't be spreading rumours around the village." "Dear Lord, reverend, I did no such thing!" "Do you know that the culprit left a clue at Zbori|'s?" "Come on and why?" "Well, even Voznica can listen to." "Good evening, reverend." "I was just saying to Kodytek, that the scoundrel left so many ﬁngerprints at Zbori|'s, that the police doesn't know what to do with them." "Really?" "Then let them to get him." " Just get him." "But a culprit is a mislead person." "We want to warn him still." "You know, Kodytek?" "Iwould" "Reverend." "Ah, Voznica." " Yeah, it's me." "I only wanted to remind you." " Me?" "And why?" "I've read some writings of your superiors." "During the preaching you might" "You don't think well of me, Voznica." "I wouldn't remain indebted to you." " Good evening." "As to the former reverend." "I'm not here to preach from the altar on behalf of anyone." "I'm here to tell the truth." "I take care of people to have a little piece of eden already here on earth." "That's that." "Farewell." "Well." "So, where's that Tony?" "!" "You dumb moron!" "But Tony, Mr. Landowner," "Tony is, you know Here he is!" "Tony, dear Tony!" "They tried to force me with tears." "They even ivoked the Pope and bishops." "They were too many for me." "Don't talk rubbish!" " But Iwould say that" "You lazy oaf!" "What am I paying you for?" "To have Tony meeting with Rerabek?" " But it's not my" "Wait here!" "I'll be right back." "Musicians, play us a song!" "Do you know what this is?" "Some box." " Yeah, a machine." "You're going to copy pamphlets." "Mr. Landowner, isn't it too much?" "Well, return money and wine before I'll have you locked up for the water duct!" "Dear Lord, I'll do anything you want." "I swear on my soul." " And I know whys and wherefores." "I wrote it here." "You will rewrite, copy and distribute it among houses." "And bring me back that paper." " All right." "Vince, Vince!" "I have something for you." " What is it?" "A motorbike?" " Soon it will be." "I'd need some facts." "Something to grip on." "Wait, I might have something here." "Here are the cooperative figures showing how we're doing." "You know, Tony, we're honest in our dealings with people." "Is that knife yours?" " It is." "I gave it to my son some time ago." "It was found yesterday morning on the water duct at Zbori|'s." "Some good friend wanted you to be suspect." "Thank you, Rerabek." "Where's Vince?" "Well, where's Vince?" "So, this is the way you keep your promise!" "Love thy neighbour, comma, - bour," "but not from the cooperative farm, - farm, who wants to steal, comma," "who renounced Our Lord" "Wait!" "Wait!" "And shall renounce you too." "I don't like this." "Couldn't we find something else?" " Nothing else." "If you want to get rid of your cows, then take them to the collect... what?" "coo-perat-ive cow-shed." "Cow shed." "Full stop." "Carry on." "Come on." "If you want to have your house full of water, build a wa..., wat..., water duct." "Wa-ter..." "Wa-ter duct." "Wat." "Water duct." "There." "So, write!" "Come on, come on!" "Earn your motorbike." "You'll get it on Monday." "You hit the gas and" "Through the entire village." "All ducks will be fleeing from under your wheels." "So, on with it." "Carry on!" "Those are some strange things written here." "And dad speaks good of the co-op!" " Don't listen to your dad!" "He's influenced by their propaganda." "It's like this." "Those sitting in the puddle, always want the others to fall in too." "Aha." "And signature." "Are you mad?" "Signature!" "Are you a collaborator?" "You don't sign this!" "I thought maybe:" "The Black Hand!" "Or the Ghost of the Praerie." "Like in the detective stories." " Yeah, yeah." "Hold it!" "Patriotic Committee." " Of Revenge." " Right." "Pat-rio-tic." " Written together." "Patriotic." " Aha." "Commi-ttee of Re-venge." " ...venge." "There." "And here's the machine." "Wait." "Wait." "Those are hinges." " There are some hooks here." "I know that." "Where?" " Here." " See!" "Wait." "There." "Gee." "Well, this" "There." "This is this." "You know?" "There." "This is probably for teeth." "This here, you know?" "This here!" "No!" "Like so." "And here we have" "Who threw that?" "It wasn't me, it was you!" "Aha, it was me." "Yeah, yeah, yeah." "Come on." "That's it, there!" "Do you get it?" " Yeah, but" " Now." "I would" " You would nothing." "And lock behind me." "I'll be back in a while." "Why are you hollering?" "Show me how you wrote it." "I don't have it yet." "I'm coming to ask." "Mr. Landowner, should I really write it?" "Sure thing." " And what if" "What if somebody reads it?" "Who is it?" "'Tux "Q!" "I'm not here!" " What you're on about?" "Who is it?" "It's me, dad, you Praerie Ghost!" "Anyone could say that!" "Password!" "I'll show you a password as soon as I get my belt out!" "Open!" "That could be my dad." "Open up!" "You stupid bumpkin, what you're so crazy about?" "What is that?" "Give it here!" "Daddy, I can't give it to you even if you threaten to kill me!" "Why would I kill such a small brat?" "Daddy, don't read it or something horrible will happen!" "We lived before the cooperative and we shall live after it." "If you join the cooperative, you'll lose your property." "I didn't know, Vince, you were a writer too." "What a great man we have in our family." "Milk still running down his chin and already heading for the gallows!" "Did Kodytek give this to you?" "!" "He did." "Quiet!" "Quiet!" "The cooperative farm has a solo!" "Calm down." "Why brawl over such an innocent joke." "I as the chairman of the cooperative, thank you for the solo." "The volunteers deserve it for all the hard work they did on the water duct for our homes." "And for the repaired machinery, not only of the cooperative." "And our youth deserves it, for not stabbing each other with knives during the dances." "But which has other business for the beneﬁt of the entire village." "And perhaps even we, the cooperative farmers, deserve this solo." "And I start it with this dancer, the beset one in every household, lying dormant after sweeping out the nazis and all other evils!" "And play the partisan song for me!" "We also distributed pamphlets during the war." "But different ones." "Not this dirt here." "Daddy, I wanted a bike." "And you wouldn't buy me one." "You deserve a beating!" "And not a bike." "I'll throw out all those Arizona monsters of yours!" "And you all, including your mom, will get a different kind of literature." "And I'll break every bone in Kodytek's body, none of his saints will recognize him." "Listen, Vince, you know how to handle this thing, right?" "Well, Kodytek showed me." "You have to take this here" "And that's it." "We could change them a little." "Take a new paper and write." "To all the people" "Get back home!" " But It was enough!" "Come!" "There will be an afterpaﬂy tomorrow." " Yeah, aﬁerpaﬂy will be at home!" "I'll show you and your dad!" "Run!" "Caroline, go to bed!" "Go, go!" "And you sit down!" "We have serious matter to discuss." "Court!" "And you're the accused." "How dare you talk to me this way after all that has happened?" "Vince is accusing us of bad upbringing." "He became a criminal." "Read!" "Someone taught the co-op folks a lesson." "And you tell me honestly, without anger, does this pamphlet speak the truth?" "Well, what do I know?" "I still don't understand the connection to Vince." "You're quite slow." "Vince wrote it." "And through this we can even lose our property." "One can go to jail for this!" " Stop scaring me." "And even if he wrote it." "Who's responsible for such escapade?" "You're responsible." "If it wasn't for people like you, there would be no reason for such pamphlets!" "And if it wasn't for those who wish to serve all kinds of scoundrels, these scoundrels like Voznica would be long gone!" "To all people, I, undersigned Joseph Kodytek, declare that all people refusing to join the cooperative farm and refusing the water duct are stupid" "Is water duct better than a well?" " Maybe it is." "Is anyone preventing you from going to church?" " Well, no, no." "Bulks will be handed out." "It was already decided." "Because they know what's better." "As well as the common cow barn." " But I" "I know, Tony, I know." " Because of your worry to lose land, you almost became an idol worshiper." "And what did the land give you?" "Lately you think about toil and money only." "Let it be already." "You should have explained this to me earlier, you're the master of the house." "When troubles start, I'm suddenly the master of the house." "Here, read the co-op figures." "They'll make you wiser." "And we shall now include ourselves among the rest of the decent folks." "Dad!" "Oh, my poor boy." "But give him a beating, dad." "Beat him black and blue!" "Aren't you going to church today?" "What?" "Leave me alone." "Eight hundred per one hectare of deep ploughing for non-members and for a member four hundred." "Four hundred." "Ifyou take our eight hectars, that's" "I can't count it." "Tony!" "Tony!" "Just you wait, Tony, I won't forgive you this." "This could have been in our pockets!" " And the water duct as well." "Quiet, you don't understand it." "We're going to the harvest home in the afternoon." "You'll ask all the neighbours to forgive." " I?" "No, you will!" "Theresa, are you telling me this after yesterday?" "It didn't have to happen, if you had sooner told me what you've told me yesterday." "Theresa?" "What do I have a man for?" "To explain me everything." "You're a sissy and not a man." "I couldn't sleep the whole night." "You gave away so much money just like that." "And I long wanted chickens." " What?" "Even if they're Even if they're of cooperative." "Am I alive or dead?" " You're stupid." "I'll go insane from this." " Go ahead." "Not right now!" "Vince, did you hide it from your dad?" "I did!" " Everything is in order?" "I'll come and get the machine in the afternoon." "That's everything" " Everything, except the motorbike." "You'll get it." "You're a good boy." "Now go home, I still have work to do." "Good bye." " Good bye." "What's wrong with you, Kodytek?" "You were quite obtuse at the dances last night." "And in the morning I see your great deeds." "This should go to the newspapers." "Reverend, anything but that." "This really deserves publishing, so that everyone knows who Kodytek really is." "You are involved in this thing, right?" " How could I" "I was cheeky at times, reverend, but I do not deserve this." "Not the newspapers!" "Two hundred hectars ploughed according to plan last year and all have seen the harvest after the use of a tractor." "Sounds more like an agriculturist and not Kodytek." "He's changing sides very abruptly." " This is not of Kodytek's doing." "Good day." " Good day." "You know, Rerabek, now when I look at it" "I thank you for the chickens." "And come to visit us." "Cannoneer!" "Dad!" " Yeah." "Here you have it." " Show me, show me." "Let's hope he distributed it in all the houses!" "Over the entire village." " It is alright then." "In today's agricultural boadcast" " Bragging again." "Switch if off." "We have own report on the co-op." " Right, we have." "I'm going to squash that moron like a frog!" "Charles!" " Special report of the Local National Committee." "As of today, our village fulﬁlled crop deliveries up to the level of hundred and fourteen percent." "Let's go!" "No celebratory speeches?" "Well, Ann, go ahead!" "I'd like to thank you very much on behalf of all the city kids, which we're supplying with healthy milk." "And on behalf of all our cows" "Enough about water, Ann!" "Let's get the wine from the cellars!" "He's comming!" "I'll smack this plate against your wise head, that no one recognize you!" " Not right now." "We have to deal with this wise guy." "Lord's blessing and peace to this house." "Give it here!" " What?" " That machine, hurry!" "Hurry up, give it!" "Come on, come on!" "Lookie here, Kodytek!" "What's that you have there?" " These are, these are some books." "Books." "Vince!" "Go and do as I've told you!" "And if you don't, then you'll see!" "And where's Vince going?" "Did you read the pamphlets that were distrubuted throughout the village?" "No, no, |didn't." "I don't care about bragging." "I have a strong character." "And what does Vince do with the pamphlets?" "He printed and distributed them." "That's not possible, what a shame!" "You see, you're also quite astonished." "I didn't tell anyone yet, so you have to help me!" "Don't tell anyone and don't spread rumours." "But that stupid boy refuses to tell me who lead him to it." "It must have been some good-for-nothing person, who wanted to get so young chap to prison." "If I If I had him in my hands," "I would beat the living daylight out of him." "Iwould too." "That's why I sent Vince to the police station to make a confession." "They'll find that person!" " What a stupid thing to do!" "Why owning up freely and willingly when no one is forcing you!" "Go there at once and tell them, that your son is crazy!" "Hold on, see?" " No." "The police is already going through the village." "Yeah, yeah." "Healthy one minute, sick the next." "But don't worry, I'll bring you some medicine." "One spoon can bring down a horse." "Oh, my poor head." "Tony, I hope you don't think that I confirmed by the bishop" "As soon as they catch the culprit, the entire village will see him on his way." "I'm just not sure whether he'll reach the last house alive." "Tony, dear Tony, I'll light" "I'll light a huge candle for you on the altar if you protect me." "I'll confess to you." "You have to confess to the village!" " Gee!" " Get up!" "Come on!" "Turning for the better!" "Get up!" "Let's go!" "Tony, the books." "Books?" "Come, come, come!" "Not like that, no hiding!" "Dear Lord, Tony, I have to write my last will!" "I'll leave everything to you!" "I'll leave you everything, Tony." "And during the procession you'll be wearing a baldaquin!" "Come!" "Stop bragging!" " Baldaquin." "Baldaquin!" "We'll visit the cellars!" "Why are you looking so tired?" " It's that overnight business!" "Do you also know about me?" " Yeah and what?" "When I write something down, I should own up to it like a man, right?" "I beg you, Tony, please don't!" " Go!" "Go,go!" "Go on!" "Quiet!" "Quieeet !" "Now, my dear neighbours, Joseph Kodytek will read out loud all that he has written." "And not to forget this is Mr. Kodytek's wish and he insists on reading it out loud for all ofyou." "Read." "My dear neighbours." "I'll never do it again." "I promise you." "What is it?" "Read!" "I, undersigned Joseph Kodytek," "hereby report to general attention, that all good people would be stupid not to join the cooperative." "If you don't want a water duct, as you did not want electricity in the past, saying it's an unholy force" " All know it already anyway!" "So, what do you say, Jerry?" "I wrote it well!" "Don't say a word." " Why?" "I swear on my name that I wrote it!" "And don't hold me, I have a meeting with the boss, well, the chairman." "Well, then have some of our wine." "Yeah, when we're about to leave!" "You'll come again." "Let's drink to the new co-op member." "To him for finding the path to us." " If Tony is with you, why wouldn't I?" " Right." "Mr. Chairman, since I'm here in the presence of the whole village, accept me into the co-op too." "You can't even imagine how I like all you co-op folks." "I was secretly thinking about you." "Well, Kodytek, you'd have to earn the membership in a different way." "Not only by talking." " And by writting." "Kodytek is a spiritual person." "And a writer too." "What's that?" "That's nothing." "That's just" "Kodytek dictated it to my son last night." "Hectograf is at my place still." "I found out and held back the pamphlets." "Voznica gave it to me." "Honestly, I swear." "It's all of his doing!" "He made me do it with the water duct!" "I'm just a simple person, I need some extra income." "You'll come and sign the protocol tomorrow." "I wonder how you're going to get out of this." "My dear neghbours, I'm otherwise a just person." "We shall see about that, Kodytek." "And Voznica is done for." " Yeah." "And your cows will be in our new cow shed." "Tony, I can't believe, how you convinced Theresa." " You know, I'm a cannoneer!" "Tony!" "Cannoneer?" "That I'm a cannoneer!" "And one more time!" "To our co-op ploughing the bulks!" "And to the health of all new people born to our lands!"