The director of the company Restaurants and Canteens arrives to attend a screening of a film made in various restaurants. A group of villagers come in to one of the restaurants for their lunch. The two waiters carry on chatting and ignore their customers. The head waiter finally brings them a crumpled menu, but whatever they order, he crosses off the menu and urges them to order something they do not want. In another restaurant a customer complains he has found a button in his sauce. The waiter promises to get him another portion but, once out of sight, he simply takes the button out of the food and brings back the same plate on which he has carelessly rearranged the food. Other customers are trying to pay but the staff point to the waiter with the wallet; he, however, is absorbed in watching a chess game and is neglecting his duties. The restaurant director is furious. He regards the film as a distortion of the facts and the situation depicted as a fabrication. The film director ironically points out that there really is no need to invent a situation like this.
The film is taken from the occassional satirical film series Trn (Thorn).
režisér
ředitel Restaurací a jídelen /RaJ/
komentátor
venkovan
venkovanka
vrchní
číšník
kuchař
číšník
host v restauraci
host v restauraci
vrchní
jídlonoš
Platit prosím
Platit prosím
Bill, Please
film
featuretheatrical distribution
satire
Czechoslovakia
1956
1956
projection approval 1956
premiere 2 March 1956 /suitable for youths/ (kino Čas /1 týden/, Praha)
no caption
short film
7 min
190 meters
16mm, 35mm
1:1,37
black & white
sound
mono
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech
