An angel who breaks everything gets 24 hours to fix his cosmic clumsiness — Czech chaos ensues.
An angel who ruins everything he touches is sent to Earth to learn about love, forgiveness and selflessness -- and he has just one day to do it.
Acting
Ivan Trojan's physical comedy as a celestial disaster is genuinely endearing.
Production
Heaven as dusty celestial office — bureaucratic afterlife aesthetics done right.
Writing
Devil-as-chaotic-ally dynamic steals every scene he's in.
Director
Jiří Strach
Ivan Trojan
Petronel
Jiří Dvořák
Uriáš
Zuzana Kajnarová
Dorotka
David Švehlík
Hrabě Maxmilián
Zuzana Stivínová
Francka
Oldřich Navrátil
Správce Metoděj
Klára Issová
Panna Maria
Jana Štěpánková
Róza
Josef Somr
Rychtář
Jiří Bartoška
Pán Bůh
Oldřich Vlach
Josef
Martin Zahálka
1. dráb
Otmar Brancuzský
2. dráb
Gabriela Osvaldová
Archanděl Gabriel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Czech Christmas fairy tales (like this one) are a national television tradition; this film deliberately echoes the beloved 1955 classic 'Anděl na horách' while adding bureaucratic satire.
Director Jiří Strach specialized in exactly this niche — heavenly bureaucracy and folk spirituality — making him essentially the Czech Spielberg of angel movies.
CZ
