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Flexible, powerful, and naive. The fates of three men intersect at the launch of Czechoslovak television broadcasting. Ambitious actor František Filipovský has no idea that his casual improvisation on the theme of "the miser" will go down in history. For Minister of Information Václav Kopecký, it is a moment of great nervousness: will he convince his comrades that television broadcasting is the golden goose of communist propaganda? A young television technician is fascinated by the "remote transmission of images and sound" – he has a job he never dreamed of. But can a person fulfill their dreams in communist Czechoslovakia in the 1950s without getting involved with the regime?
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2014-05-01
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TV Technician
Václav Kopecký
František Filipovský
František Filipovský (voice)
Camera Operator
Camera Operator
TV Technician No. 2
Sound Technician
Sound Technician
Editor
Assistant Director
Director
Gentleman
Young Woman
Committee Member
Committee Member
Committee Member
Committee Member
Committee Chair
Child
Child
Child
Child
Child
Mother
Father
Interpreter
Mej-I
I. I. Podzniak
Pavlínka Filipovská
Herself
Herself
Himself
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