Mr Látal has just arrived in Prague after a trip to the West. His wife Helena waits for him at the station and together they drag his bulky luggage to a taxi. Látal asks the driver to take him to his office first. To his wife's great discontent, he can't keep his mouth shut and keeps bombarding the driver with information about his trip - names, contacts and facts about the top-secret production of transmitters in which he is involved as a salesman. Blind to the driver's disapproval, he talks about his colleagues, their jobs and the numbers of their departments. When the taxi finally reaches Látal's company, the driver refuses to wait for them and the couple has to take the luggage to the personnel office. The office clerk Hora is already used to employees lying to him about their meetings and contacts abroad, but the garrulous Látal gives it all away. He allowed his foreign partners to get him drunk and in a fit of boastfulness told them all he knew about his company's secret production programme. Hora is shocked to learn about Látal's shameless violation of professional and state secrets. When the couple leave, he has to get himself a drink.
nákupčí Jaroslav Látal z Duplexu
Helenka, Látalova žena
Hora, kádrový referent Duplexu
sekretářka Zdenička Jánská
taxikář Hora
Pepa, Látalův kolega
Prostě ani muk
Prostě ani muk
Not a Word
film
featuretheatrical distribution
educational
Czechoslovakia
1966
1966
Krátký film Praha, Ministerstvo vnitra ČSSR (zadavatel)
short film
24 min
670 meters
35mm
1:1,37
black & white
sound
mono
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech
