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- In 1929, the 5th Congress of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia is in the preparation. The Politburo Central Committee member Klement Gottwald openly criticizes the party's current leadership for political intrigues with the bourgeoisie when it should be leading the workers in their revolutionary struggle. He predicts a looming crisis in the party. The young members agree with him entirely, while the older and more conservative ones are afraid of the discord.
- The bank officer Bedrich Hroch is sent by the bank director to the zoo, which asked an allocation of one and half kg of gold for a gold tooth for a hippo. During the check up of the hippo's teeth Bedrich is swallowed by the hippo. The man does not die in the hippo's guts and he chats quite happily with his frightened wife Dása. Journalist Pip Karen, his friend is also present to the dialogue and he has immediately an idea how to use this special situation. He tells to the new minister Borovec and his opponent professor Fibinger that there is a hippo in the zoo which can speak. He also tells them how to use this situation for a political propaganda.
- Sunday in September 1977, a celebration of the Miners Day. The old Hepnar is sitting at the cemetery and is recalling events from ten years ago. That time the representative of the ministry Barvír announced at the miners meeting that mining in the mines would decrease. He reasoned this decision by the fact the deposits of coal are almost used up. The boss of the mine and most of the miners protested. Barvír did not take their critical objections into account. He announced at the communist district meeting the closure of the business as the mine according to new economic principles did not prosper.
- At the beginning of the fifties of the 20th century, shortly after the founding of the Unified farmers'cooperative in the town of Mezilesí, there is shot dead a functionary Málek by three unknown men. From the Prague headquarters of the police there are sent to the village two investigators, Lanka and Malinák. The only one trace of the bandits are cans found in a desolate stone-pit in the surroundings of Mezilesí.
- An ambulance is taking a patient from a large half-built housing estate to the resuscitation unit. Foreman Frantisek Pelant has had a heart attack right on the work site. The young crane-operator Hedvika, until recently his girlfriend, carries on Frantisek's efforts to deal with irregularities in the running of the building works and in the factory supplying the prefabricated components. She persuades the veteran communist Zábrana to help her and together they initiate negotiations in the highest organs of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
- Soviet engineer Kuznecov is coming to Prague as an expert on work with the tunneling shield in construction of the metro. He is returning after more than thirty years. In May 1945 as a young soldier in the Red Army he was seriously injured in the liberation of Prague and while recovering experienced a great love with a young teacher called Vera.
- In the thirties of the 20th century, in the time of the economic crisis, Eda Krahulík (Petr Svojtka), an editor of the communist newspapers, comes to Ostrava to help organize a strike in the mine Hedvika. From the same train gets off also Knor (Jaroslav Moucka), a secretary of the social democratic trade union, who is known as a man who most likely helps the owners against the workers. Eda is in Ostrava incognito and therefore he hides in a mining pub in a room of a maidservant Zofka. Before long there explains the arrival of Knor - the directorate of the mine began giving notice. It is also Toník Holas (Ivan Vyskocil), supporting his widowed mother, who receives the notice. Toník is talented and constructed the drill sledge. At reward, the mines inspector promised to protect him from dismissal. The desperate young man now reminds him of the promise but the mining inspector denies everything. In an agitation, Toník shoots him dead with a father's gun.
- The catastrophically dry weather of 1947 causes immense problems in the countryside. In the small village Klícov, only farmers Hánek and Bervida and the old Hromádka have water. The others must queue every day for a drop for themselves and their cattle. All the villagers lament over their previous decision to turn down the cooperative chairman Kouba's proposal to built a new village water-supply system.
- The year is 1953. Engineer Jaroslav Král (Zdenek Kampf) has not joined in the enthusiastic efforts to rebuild the country initiated after the Communist takeover in February 1948, and has been relocated to the archives. The chairwoman of the factory's Communist party committee Lída Jostová (Jirina Svorcová) wants to help Král and invites him to join an important research project. Král receives an unexpected visit from his former friend Weber (Milan Klásek), who moves in with him without explanation. Král is puzzled by the situation as Weber had actually emigrated some years before. He has returned to the country illegally with the object of getting possession of Král's invention. Král doesn't know what to do; he is frightened but doesn't turn Weber in. Weber goes to Král's country cottage where he and a policeman are shot by the assassin. Král is detained but the investigator Major Sýkora (Jirí Sovák), influenced by Jostová, does not believe him guilty.
- Tereza (Eva Trejtnarová), a high-spirited and ambitious country girl is discontented with her subservient position as a maid and quits her job with the haughty countess. She meets the dragoon lieutenant Egon (Pavel Trávnícek) at a garden party. He is stationed in Klatovy, where Tereza has an aunt. At a fair the two young people meet again. Egon gets into a duel with a drunken colleague because of Tereza. Tereza attends to the wounded Egon's injuries and the two become lovers. The girl stays with her aunt and helps the aunt do laundry for the officers. She secretly continues meeting Egon and naively believes he will marry her. She sobers up from her romantic passion after the lieutenant arranges to get transferred to another place.
- Year 1919. Young country girl Anna (Marie Tomásová) arrives in Prague to serve in a rich family of builder Rubes. She encounters Toník (Josef Bek), a foundry worker in the Kolben-Danek Machinery Works and active member of the social democratic party. He, his friends and her mate Mána (Jana Dítetová) teach Anna how to deal with her employer and about the class struggle.
- Engineer Jan Ondrák (Radoslav Brzobohatý) is a hard-working and tenacious man. His work means everything to him and he devotes all his time to it. His colleagues respect him as an expert but they don't really like him because of his strict and uncompromising ways. Ondrák also teaches at the faculty, where his reputation is the same as at the factory. One evening, he meets some friends of his son Petr (David Prachar) and suddenly becomes aware of the enormous barrier that has grown up between him and the young generation.
- The year is 1957. Almost all of the farmers in the Moravian village of Kunovice have joined the Unified Farmers' Cooperative. Joza Jagos (Radoslav Brzobohatý), the best farmer in the village, criticizes the poor management of the cooperative, the disorder, and theft, and refuses to have anything to do with the organization. He refuses to give in to the bombastic tactics of the Communist Party's district committee representative Snopka, and prefers to work himself, his wife Nanka and their three children to exhaustion in order to produce the supplies stipulated by the state on time.
- After returning from the First World War, Jozka Jurík (Vladimír Kratina) takes a job at the Hodonín brick-works. Although they are poor, he and his wife Anka (Jana Paulová) take the abandoned boy Fanos into their family. Factory owner Kholmann (Ilja Prachar) treats his workers with jovial friendliness, but his daughter Kamila (Tatjana Medvecká) is not blind to the fact that there are children forced to work in her father's factory.
- The town is waking up. The bus driver Josef Král is saying goodbye to his wife Vera who is in a state of advanced pregnancy. At the rolling mill, the master craftsman Mares is preparing for retirement, which is now only two days away. Elderly Simon who grows and sells vegetables at the market has problems with his wife. Their little home has to give way to a new development but the wife Simonka refuses to move out. The chairman of the workers'council has troubles with the miner Adam, who has started drinking. He doesn't know that Adam is getting divorced and fears he may lose his young son to his wife.
- Petr Rynes (Svatopluk Matyás) is celebrating his forty-fifth birthday in the company of his friends. He is happy with his wife, and his abilities at work have been rewarded with the medal For Outstanding Work. But a few short seconds are enough to change his life when he makes the ill-judged decision to take his car to bring a friend's wife to the celebration, and hits a pedestrian on the way. He has of course been drinking at the party and is consequently sentenced to sixteen months in prison. Being in jail is not an easy thing for a honorable communist. He soon gets into conflict with several violent inmates, who think they can break his spirit by violence.
- The police investigates the circumstances of death of Tereza Kabátová (Marie Drahokoupilová) who was found in a crashed car. Her husband Frantisek Kabát (Zdenek Hradilák), director of Stavoprojekt, enjoys confidence of the workers, in addition, he comes from the workers family. He is also favored by his secretary Eva Martincová (Karolína Slunécková).
- Military are performing their difficult "Spartakiad" sports composition (National gymnastics festival) at the Strahov stadium in Prague. Major Melichar and major Rybár have been proudly watching the soldiers, sharing the joy over the large applause by the audience. Only captain Chmelar is missing, who was successfully preparing the division unit for their performance. It was not an easy job. The composition was demanding, and major Melichar insisted that the soldiers must not neglect any of their regular military duties.
- A young woman heavily injured in a car accident is dying in Strakonice's maternal hospital. Her new born son is given by three Fates a faithful girlfriend and a talent for singing as a compensation for his life without parents. After years Jirka Svanda (Karel Gott) makes his living as a decorator, he dates a loving Dorotka (Jitka Molavcová), but he sings only in the local wine bar U Dudáka. The Fates give him a worn out embroidered tail-coat for good luck. A photographer from a fashion magazine Kalenda (Jirí Sovák) invites Svanda who told him about his desire to sing professionally to Prague. Still before leaving Svanda substitutes a non-operating equipment and he sings for guests at a unique fivefold wedding which is covered by TV. Then he goes to Kalenda but first he is taken care of a by a cheater and a shark Vocílka (Josef Somr), who imposes himself on the naive Svanda as a manager.
- Student Eva (Jana Bousková) is dashing up a steep slope to try to catch a bus, but she twists her ankle and the bus doesn't wait. There won't be another bus until the next day, and so Eva returns to her parents' cottage where she has been studying by herself for several days. She finds the door open, and inside a young man, Dusan (Jan Hrusínský), who behaves as if he were at home. Eva is a little scared and so she pretends to be a chance passerby who can't go any further because of her injured ankle. The boy offers her a bed for the night. He also fetches some plum brandy, they drink toasts to each other, and Eva starts to play Patience.
- Two years after the end of the Second World War, the remnants of Ukrainian Insurgence Army, called the Bandera's after their former commander Stepan Bandera, are trying to get from Poland through Slovakia to Germany in the West. They resort to sabotages also on Czechoslovak territory, and therefore army and police units are deployed to capture them. Soldiers and policemen are warned about the danger of encountering spies and collaborators of the Bandera's. In the meantime police investigators are arresting catholic clergy for supplying the saboteurs with weapons and false documents. Soldiers are operating in the area of Small Fatra, and it seems there must be someone amongst them who provides the Bandera's with information about planned movements of the army.
- Hundreds of workers from various parts of the country work at a future Prague residence neighborhood. The bricklayer Fery (Josef Dvorák) is known as a racy strange man that refuses to stay at a lodging house and stays in a caravan just at the construction site. At a football match an Ostravian Fery has a fight with an Slávie fan Pepík Perlík (Jan Hartl. Both of them have to pay a fine. Nevertheless, Fery is friendly and suggests Pepík making up as he realizes they know each other from work. They go together to a dance café and Pepík falls in love with a singer Virzinie (Jana Janeková). Fery arranges Pepík is taken into a work group of foreman Skácel where they are not very particular about long working hours but they can earn nice money.
- The group of five soldiers is charged to secure an undisturbed transit of the military column through Prague. According to the order they are to await the column at midnight at the end of the Prague housing estate. The military transport guard arrive to the place of destination early and thus they gain a walk in Prague from the commander, Corporal Velich. Velich has to stay at the wagon. The soldiers have their ideas how to spend free time in the big town.
- Artur Drmola (Jirí Dohnal) is the spoiled son of a rich family who proclaims to one and all that every young woman retains his interest for three months at the longest, and if he were to have a wife it would be no different. One morning the young man, still drunk, meets his old childhood friend Leontýna Sobotová (Lída Baarová). The young woman reproaches him for his way of life, but Artur does not recall from where she could know him. Leontýna is also from a wealthy family, yet she works in her father's company. Artur's affection for her completely transforms him and he also begins to work in his father's office. His worried mother (Zdenka Baldová) thinks that something is missing in Artur's life, and she intends to have him married.
- A small locomotive has come to the end of its working life at the Cicenice brick-works. The brick-works director sends his employees Kudrna, Kaplan and Sinták to Turnov for another. On their way the men are supposed to stop at a Prague hospital to get the director of the housing co-operative Dr Marek to sign an invoice for the supply of a wagon of bricks for internal construction, because the brick-works is expecting an audit.
- The bridegroom Jan Kaspar is an officer in the Klement Gottwald's Nová Hut rolling-mill. After bidding farewell to his freedom, he accidentally takes a sip from the bottle of tetrachlore which he stores at home. He disregards the dizziness, but the next day, he faints in the factory and has a brain concussion. During her regular tests, doctor Dudková is shocked by a high percentage of residual nitrogen found in Kaspar's blood. Doctor Bohácek, with whom Dudková consults, thinks that it is a liver disease and informs the head physician Filip. The doctors know nothing about tetrachlore and are in the dark about the case. Despite that, they immediately start to fight for Kaspar's life and their struggle consequently affects their personal lives.
- Fresh graduate Pavel Tomás (Juraj Durdiak) enters a job as an assistant in a district town's public health office. As the health officials pass the river Kamenice, Pavel notices large patches of foam on the water surface, and the river also has an unpleasant smell. Pavel's superior Dr Slivenec (Václav Voska) is a nice and talkative man, but the suggested radical solutions to the violations of public health norms are greatly diluted after a phone-call is made by somebody influential who calls on behalf of the offender.
- The actors in theatre don't like much the top scene in Othello. They decide together with the prompter to make their own work. The plot of the drama should start joyfully - with a wedding. So the actors start to look for a bride and a groom. They choose the butcher Sárka (Ladislava Kozderková) who loves music and the shy clockmaker Ctirad (Ludek Sobota. They fall in love with each other at first sight.
- Fifteen-year-old Honza Kánský dreams of getting to compete in the national swimming championship. He practices conscientiously at the swimming association and does extra training on his own. He finally achieves the speed required, and is bitterly disappointed to learn that he has not been nominated for the team because the other club members' times are better than his. He has a row with the coach, and decides to give up swimming altogether. He leaves home early in the morning and comes back late at night and pretends to his parents that he is continuing with his training. When his club goes to South Bohemia for summer practice, he pretends to go with them, but he is really hitchhiking aimlessly.
- The brother and sister Zuzana (Dagmar Havlová) and Petr (Jirí Lábus) are quite a notorious couple. They are fond of preparing people unpleasant surprises and are amusing by it. They dress a figure in a shop-window after a man standing at the pavement. The resemblance of the figure and a living man, whose name is Zezulka, is so striking, that they decide to take a figure, which they call Ronald, to a trip with Karel (Ludek Sobota), Zuzana's suitor.
- Not far from Prague, a drunk driver of the car with West German front license plate comes into collision with a girl hitchhiker. The police detains the offender - the business agent Grandner. In West Berlin, in his home firm Tanass, it makes a stir. Tanass is in fact the branch office of the American secret service and Grandner was one of the agents. Nobody suspects that Peter Halva (Radovan Lukavský), a senior director, Czech émigré, working in the firm for ten years, is a member of the Czechoslovak espionage.
- Cyril Dadák (Václav Postránecký), a TV reporter falls in love at first sight with a young engineer Milena (Jaroslava Obermaierová) while he makes a reportage in a chemical factory. Milena has been dating for several years with a test driver Pavel (Rudolf Jelínek), however when she meets Cyril she feels that he might be the Mr Right. She accepts Cyril's invitation for a date and she spends a night with him. In the morning she finds in her flat Pavel. She wants to explain to him everything but Pavel makes coffee with a smile and gives her back the keys from the flat.
- A British citizen by the name of George Reiner (Jirí Sovák) arrives at Prague airport. He was once a Czech safe-breaker, and has now returned home after thirty years to steal twenty-dollar gold coins still kept in the safe at a private villa in Pilsen whose owner fled to the West.
- In the Prague Old Town and the adjoining streets there is always plenty of life. Housewives shop, beggars arouse sympathy, the Salvation Army tries to put the godless on the road to salvation by hymns and sermons, and Ferdys Pistora (Martin Stepánek) hunts in the pockets of his fellow men and isn't even put off by the presence of an officer of the law. Ferdys sets off to burgle villa of the banker Rosenstok (Martin Ruzek), but a fire breaks out in the house and Ferdys ends up saving the banker's two small children. For this he is celebrated as a hero and gets a place as an errand boy with the Rosenstoks. At home he is visited by representatives of the Salvation Army, Captain Kosterka (Zdenek Rehor) and Terezka (Katerina Machácková), with whom Ferdys instantly falls in love.
- A West German businessman Friedrich Schmidt is arriving to Czechoslovakia with private mission and mission for Intelligence service. He wants to settle the old event from the time of the Second World War when he as a student of the Czech grammar school in the town of Kostelec took part at the denunciation of his schoolmate Pavel Richter. Pavel was during the period of Nazi terror following the assassination of Acting Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia Heydrich executed. Schmidt has also to enter into relations with persons suitable for cooperation with the West Intelligence service. Schmidt - earlier, before the German occupation Smíd - meets the schoolmates and endeavors to avert suspicion that arose already at the time of the tragic event.
- Jirka Hudecek (Alexei Okunev) wins a car race and receives congratulations from his friends. Here the dream ends, and the young man realizes that he is facing a court trial together with other members of his gang of thieves. Jirka is the only one to be put on probation; the others - including Rosmery (Marta Raslová), Jirka's secret love - go to jail. Jirka's parents have never taken much care of him. His father (Josef Langmiler) slaps him in the face on leaving the court hall, but Jirka immediately hits back. The young man starts to work in a quarry, keeping to dream about a car racing career. He irritates his co-workers by his rebellious views, cynicism, and even by his long hair.
- On the coast of Yugoslavia lives fisherman Ivo Kralj, his wife Marie, son Vuk, and Ivo's mother in one happy home. Marie, who loves her husband and always looks forward to his return from sea, attracts Nikola, with whom Ivo, out of jealousy, has a scuffle at a dance. After the outbreak of World War I Ivo is mobilized. He ends up in a P.O.W. camp where he is subjected to hard labour. His family then receives news of his death. The years pass and the lonely widow Marie is occasionally visited by her friend Nikola. Ivo's mother would like her to remarry. Soon after the wedding Marie becomes pregnant. Ivo, who has been thought dead, succeeds in escaping the P.O.W. camp where he has spent several years. Upon his arrival home he finds his name on a memorial erected to the victims of the war...
- It is the year 1944. Despite the ban imposed by the German occupiers, students at a teacher training institute in a small town decide to hold a secret ball in the clubhouse of the swimming pool. Lenka (Andrea Cunderlíková) is one of the students preparing for the ball, even though before his departure on a business trip her father has strictly forbidden her to get involved in any such thing. The initiator of the ball is Lenka's friend, the doctor's son Slávek Olejník (Petr Svojtka). While the students are making preparations for the ball, members of a resistance group meet in the boiler room of the Sokol PE organization. They decide to send Vasek Potuzník (Jaromír Hanzlík) to warn a gamekeeper that he is in danger of betrayal, but before Vasek manages to get away, the town is surrounded by SS units that have been catching partisans in the surrounding woods.
- Czech counter-espionage intercepts a coded message from the West German secret service ordering death for an unknown person on Czech territory.
- Police find a girl with a bleeding face in a small town park at night. First the girl, a textile factory worker Jana, refuses to talk, and then she decides to tell the truth. After her father's death she, by herself, takes care of her younger brother called Pinda. She does not like the influence that a gang of older boys from the factory exercise over her brother. The gang leader Jirka, called King, is admire by local girls whose number exceeds boys in the town because there are many textile factories where only girls are working. They easily yield to him and then he easily gets rid of them. Jana is a hard nut for him. She refuses his purposeful courtesy and thus she unintentionally gets his attention. King inspires the gang on how to get money by stealing textile from the factory warehouse.
- The situation in the Czech borderland of 1947 is not easy. After the transfer of the Sudeten Germans, new inhabitants are moving into villages and towns of the borderland. Some of them have fair intentions; the others want to gain land, property, and power. Just like that it is in the village Potocná. The honest settlers as the mayor Bagár and his wife Zdena, Communist party Secretary Galcík, police officer lieutenant Kalenda, members of a grocery cooperative, workers in a textile factory, and Mariechen - a young daughter of a German anti-fascist Palme - all of them want to get the life back in its peaceful rut. When striving to do so they come across the interests of the Rosmus family - landowners who want to extend their property.
- More than twenty years after the Second World War, a mining engineer named Fischer is revealed as a former member of the Gestapo, Karel Kraus. He is sentenced for murder to eight years in prison and now works with other prisoners on the renovation of the Convent of St Agnes of Bohemia in Prague. Then a car with a foreign registration begins to park regularly close to the construction site. Its crew, a man and a woman, contact the construction foreman, who probably would not reject a bribe offer to perform some service. The prisoner Bicík is appointed to work with Kraus; Bicík gives him a message from Kraus' brother Bert, who lives abroad, that he wants to help him escape.
- Vera, wife of the plumber Simandl (Josef Somr), is found murdered in the cinema next to the IDOC (Information and Documentation) agency where she worked. Police captain Marha (Frantisek Nemec), who is leading the investigation, is informed by Simandl that on the day of the murder Vera promised to bring home fifty thousand crowns to buy a car. Marha's primary suspects are the three men working at the agency: deputy editor-in-chief Brandl (Jirí Pleskot) and editors Pernata (Eduard Cupák) and Remes (Ludek Munzar, and of course also Simandl.
- It is the autumn of 1950 and a small border army unit is awaiting the reinforcements, but the only one to arrive is Lance-Corporal Maryska, a teacher of Latin and Greek in civilian life. The population of the border settlement is small. Horse-trader Permanec convinces the stud-farm manager Jezbera that the commander of the frontier guard is going to write a report on his work for the directorate. The sudden death of the pub landlord gets in the way of a planned dance party with girls from the porcelain factory. Jezbera's pretty niece Tereza sweeps Private Puchmeltr off his feet but his night visit to the girl's house is interrupted by machine gun fire on the German side of the border. The new landlord Sebek starts assisting foreign secret agents.
- Twenty-three-years-old Martin Holík (Svatopluk Skopal) works in soil drainage gang and shares lodgings in a trailer with the other workers. From time to time he stays over with attractive Manca (Jana Brejchová), the local shop assistant. Just as the tattoo on his chest reminds the others more of a chicken than of an eagle, so Martin himself is more of an immature boy than the grown-up man that he would like to be seen as. His insecurity has been the cause of his unfounded jealousy and distrust of his wife Bozena (Nada Konvalinková), and he has run away from their home village leaving her behind with their young son.
- A van and a motorbike crash on a crossroad. Fortunately nobody was injured and there is not any damage. The parties of the accident - and oldish stuntman and a rider on the wall of death Piskácek (Josef Kemr) and a young motorbike driver Milan (Lubomír Paulovic) - only tell off each other. The motor biker for whom life means speed is not happy with his work in the factory. Out of curiosity he comes to see Piskácek's performance. There he meets his daughter Esmeralda (Eva Sitteová) and in the end he joins them as an assistant in this wandering business.
- Placek (Josef Kemr), the head of research in a chemical plant, appreciates the help of his younger colleague Bernát (Alois Svehlík) in the creation of a new synthetic material. Before introducing it into production, however, he wants to get purification equipment installed to prevent the countryside around the town, already suffering from pollution, from being devastated any more. Bernát is just completing a burner for this purpose. Placek's own solution would require another year of development while the management is pressing production to commence as soon as possible. The two previously amicable chemists are now on opposite sides.
- Jan Bernard (Vladimír Ráz) reports to the district police department that his wife Hilda did not return from visiting her sister in East Berlin. For young investigator Tereza Machátová (Jirina Svorcová), this is the first serious case; she was hitherto responsible only for petty crime and juvenile delinquents. The testimonies given by neighbors, relatives, acquaintances and Bernard's colleagues gradually begin to constitute the complete image of the events preceding Hilda's disappearance. At the same time, Bernard was to leave for a business trip to Italy, but the trip was canceled for business reasons. Tereza's superior, Captain Landa (Gustav Heverle), who trusts Bernard far less than does the young investigator, suspects him of planning emigration - for it seems that Hilda has illegally crossed the border to West Germany.
- The Ronov castle has been changed into a hotel, offering stylish facilities to its guests: weddings in the torture chamber, a Black Lancer kidnapping brides, a night's lodging in a family tomb etc. The reformed petty swindler Felix Pacínek (Bohumil Smída) runs the hotel. The business is far from thriving; the place is half-empty, and the jazz band Skeleton, together with their singer Zuzanka (Jaroslava Obermaierová), decide to leave. Nobody in the hotel has any idea that the band is in fact a gang of thieves who have just robbed the Prague State Bank, taking two million crowns from its vaults.
- Young engineer Vondrák is thrilled to be given his first independent assignment. The entrepreneur Podrousek entrusts him with the project for a modern reinforced concrete building. The deadline for completion is far too tight but Vondrák fears he would not be given another chance, and his fiancée's father condition of approving his marriage depends on his employment. Vondrák pays no heed to his friend Cirkl's sensible reservations about the job. He works day and night and completes the plans in the six weeks demanded.