Three passengers are traveling in the luxuriously appointed saloon car of an international express train: the famous Czech police inspector Trachta, the industrialist Meyer, who manufactures everything needed to keep warm (fur coats, rum, fireclay bricks), and the factory owner Bierhanzel, a manufacturer of hair-thickening ointment. At the Istanbul station, the trio is joined by the inspector’s protégé, police trainee Jindřich Hlaváček, who is finishing his thesis on train crime. The journey proceeds smoothly until factory owner Bierhanzel is struck by a toothache...
DirectorLadislav Smoljak
WritersLadislav Smoljak, Zdeněk Svěrák
Part of
Includes: Lijavec, Posel z Liptákova, Blaník, Murder in a Parlor Car Compartment, Pub in the Glade, Dumb Bobes, or Czech Tarzan, The Stand In, Plum Tree, The Nude, Investigation of the Loss of a Class Book, Africa, Cimrman in the World of Music, The Conquest of the North Pole, Long, Broad and Nearsight, 40 let Divadla Járy Cimrmana aneb Ze hry do hry, Czech Heaven, Psaní do nebe
