from one restaurant booth to another, expertly dodging the restaurant's real waiters. Smoljak insisted on filming that scene, as well as a late one, set in Karlovy Vary's Grandhotel Pupp, in a single take, because, he said, "we wanted the viewer to be able to see for himself every move, to see that coordination, whether it clicks or not. In an edit that can't be seen." Cast Josef Abrhám as Dalibor Vrána Libuše Šafránková as Helenka Vránová Daniela Bakerová as Mrs. Pařízková Zdeněk Svěrák as Pařízek Eliška Balzerová as Saleswoman Věra Jiří Kodet as Rudy Vyskočil, classmate Dagmar Patrasová as Manuela, Rudy's girl Karel Augusta as Nephew Ludva Zuzana Fišerová as Libuše Douchová, saleswoman References External links 1980 films 1980 comedy films Czechoslovak comedy films Films set in Prague Films directed by Ladislav Smoljak Films with screenplays by Zdeněk Svěrák