It is Sunday at the Podoli baths. Mr and Mrs Stovicek observe what is going on around them. Mr Stovicek would like to join in the fun at the swimming pool but cannot, for his wife wants to go on an excursion with a friend. Stovicek hides in the rocks during the outing and his wife thinks that he has fallen and is wounded. Her husband, in the meantime, runs back to the swimming pool where he is mistaken for the new lifeguard Vena Vodopich. After a number of comic situations the wife finds out that Stovicek is at the swimming pool and she also believes him to be Vena. Vena's wife is looking for her husband, she needs him to help her look for their child who has gone missing. All ends well when everything is explained. Mrs Stovicek finds her husband, Vena gets drunk and the child is found.
Probably the first Czech film in which one actor plays two parts. Also one of the first Czech films to be sold abroad – Hungary, the Ukraine, the Balkans, Germany and others.
pan Jan Šťovíček/plavčík Véna Vodopich
Šťovíčkova žena
Drbaný, domácí přítel Šťovíčkových
kandidát filozofie Ruda Pilník
švadlenka Čiperná
vrchní plavčík Maňas
Vrťátko, Šťovíčkův přítel
Kačenka, Vodopichova žena
švadlenčina přítelkyně
švadlenčina přítelkyně
sousedka
nosič
nosič
dítě na plovárně
dítě na plovárně
dítě na plovárně
muž v davu na plovárně
Pražští adamité
Pražští adamité
The Prague Adamites
film
featuretheatrical distribution
comedy
Austria-Hungary
1917
1917
projection approval 1963
withdrawal from distribution 31 December 1991
premiere 19 October 1917 /unsuitable for youths/ (kino Lucerna /4 týdny/, Praha)
renewed premiere 1 October 1963 /unsuitable for youths/ (Filmové kluby)
Bratři Deglové (původní 1917), Ústřední půjčovna filmů (obnovená 1963)
medium length film
48 min
1 271 meters
35mm
1:1,33
black & white
silent
Czech
without dialogue
without subtitles
Czech
Czech