An army unit is being trained for cases of medics' intervention in combat. One of the "wounded" soldiers is loaded onto the back of a large ambulance that leaves for the barracks. The soldier remembers told words that co-operation among those involved in the action was the main prerequisite for success. He recalls all the different situations in which he met the medical orderly in charge of the ambulance, and how the man looked on with complete indifference, without doing the slightest thing to help, as other soldiers tried hard to fulfil their tasks. Therefore, when the ambulance is trapped in the mud, the soldier takes a seat some distance away from the scene; unconcerned, he then watches the medic help himself out of the problem with a shovel. After a while, the ambulance continues on its journey and reaches an overturned civilian truck on the side of the road. The truck has been loaded with scores of wicker baskets full of live poultry that are now scattered all around the highway and the surrounding fields. Without thinking twice, both the medic and the soldier set to catching chickens and again they talk about the importance of co-operation.
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Stanislav Pánka, J. Boháčová, P. Kroupa
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A Blow Below the Belt
Kapka z Vltavy
film
featuretheatrical distribution
slapstick
Czechoslovakia
1968
1968
projection approval 6 November 1968
premiere 1969 /suitable for youths/
no caption
short film
11 min
310 meters
16mm, 35mm
1:1,37
black & white
sound
mono
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech
