A solitary man riding a donkey in the middle of a desert comes across an old man lying unconscious in the shadow of a luxury car. The rider loads the man on the donkey and takes him to an oasis, thus saving his life. On the doctor's request, he leaves his name and address. Two years later, the assembler Lojza Králů has already returned to Prague, to the flat he shares with his forever drowsy friend Eda. Lojza receives an offer of a very cheap car by post. The next day, Lojza is not surprised to hear that a man in a car has come to look for him in the factory. But instead of Mr Pšenička with the old Prague car, Lojza sees an exotic looking Ismail el-Sharif with a large limousine. As the envoy of the Tamanian island kingdom, the man has brought official credentials from the recently deceased king of Tamania, the old man whose life Lojza had saved, which declare Lojza to be the king's successor. Lojza refuses the offer, but then learns that he could help his factory by securing a contract for pumping equipment, and that he could also be of assistance to this faraway country, as the king's relative prince Abdullah is selling the country's vast oil fields to the United Oil Company. Lojza's fiancée Lenka already sees herself as the queen. Lojza gets the approval of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to leave for Tamania, and even has a villa placed at his disposal. He is lured to come to a hotel where he is nearly killed by Poupard, a paid killer and Abdullah's secret agent. In the end Lojza doesn't go to the island. The people of Tamania have rebelled and declared their country a republic.
The opening credits state the 1962 copyright. The shooting, however, took place between the 27th September 1962 and the 20th March 1963.
montér Lojza Králů
Izmail el Šarif ben Šerfi
Eda Brabec, Lojzův spolubydlící
kadeřnice Lenka, Lojzova snoubenka
nájemný vrah Poupard
ředitel podniku
vedoucí osobního oddělení ministerstva zahraničních věcí Novák
úředník ministerstva zahraničních věcí Pantůček
Pšenička, majitel staré pragovky
náměstek ministra zahraničních věcí
komorník
vrátný v továrně
učitel řečí
konstruktér
strážný
lehká dívka
předseda dílenského výboru Smíšek
babička s kozou
soudruh
soudruh
soudruh
soudruh
soudruh
soudruh
knihovník
kadeřnice Stáňa
lékař
sekretářka na ministerstvu zahraničních věcí
strážmistr SNB
referent osobního oddělení
vrátný v rozhlase
fotograf
taxikář
pohraničník
otec
vedoucí provozu
starší dělník
krejčí
ošetřovatelka
knihkupec
rezident
listonoška
kamelot
muž v knihovně
dáma
listonoš
sekretářka
taneční mistr
hlas agenta skrytého na toaletách
Radim Cvrček, Mojmír Ticháček, Helena Pokorná
Vladimír Zajíc
Josef Calta, Ludmila Sovová, Miloš Sršeň
Vlasta Synkulová, Jaroslav Jaroš
R. Černá, Jarmila Müllerová, Bohumil Nový
Král Králů
The King of Kings
film
feature
comedy
Czechoslovakia
1963
1962—1963
12 July 1963
Feix – Brož, Miloš Brož, Karel Feix
long
91 min
Czech