A sincere provincial young man, Frantisek Koudelka leaves to work in Prague. For the trip he buys a computer made horoscope with biorhythms charts, marked according to his date of birth, there are trappy, precarious, unsuccessful and even critical days and few successful days. The clumsy luckless person Frantisek has finally a guidance for his life.
Acting
Luděk Sobota's perfect physical comedy as the luckless František.
Writing
Svěrák & Smoljak's razor-sharp satire of socialist technocracy.
Direction
Lipský's deadpan visual gags that age unsettlingly well.
Director
Oldřich Lipský
Luděk Sobota
automechanik František Koudelka
Marta Vančurová
prodavačka Blanka
Věra Ferbasová
tetička Marie Sýkorová
Josef Dvořák
automechanik Béda Hudeček
Ladislav Smoljak
vedoucí servisu Karfík
Zdeněk Svěrák
podnikový psycholog Klásek
Václav Lohniský
psychiatr docent Chocholoušek
František Husák
zřízenec na psychiatrii Arnošt Holna
Josef Hlinomaz
zřízenec na psychiatrii Arnošt Malota
Miroslav Homola
vyvolávač
Lubomír Lipský
vrátný v servisu Prouza
Petr Nárožný
závodník Stanislav Volejník
Eva Svobodová
Františkova maminka
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film satirizes 1970s Czechoslovakia's actual state-promoted 'scientific' management fads, including biorhythm charts distributed in factories.
Zdeněk Svěrák co-wrote the screenplay; his son Jan would later direct 'Kolya' and become the most internationally celebrated Czech director of his generation.
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