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A few busloads of holidaymakers from the agricultural cooperative on a day trip arrive to see the show at the Slavia Circus. But, they have bad luck. It is Monday, the day on which the employees have their extra day off. The only person, Bláha, the leader of the group finds in the empty circus is the stage manager Liška and the box-office girl Maria. In a heated discussion, Bláha proves to Liška that the holidaymakers have reserved and paid their tickets for that night three months ago. Unfortunately, in the meantime, the extra day off was moved from Friday to Monday. Nobody remembered that one Monday performance was already booked. After a shorter argument with Bláha, Liška decides that the holidaymakers will have their show. He sends Maria to get the circus artists from all the different places around Prague - from the artists' exercising arena, from their flats, from the Lucerna Palace, and even from the Central Hotel, where one of the female artists is just getting married. They all understand the situation and show up in the circus ring. The success of the evening is even assisted by the always complaining wardrobe man Rudolfek. Only the bureaucratic manager Ostrý, who is trying to halt the performance, is booed out of the circus. (texto oficial de la distribuidora)

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D.Moore 

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inglés No, it's not that bad... Oldřich Lipský manages to keep the ideology at bay quite reasonably, the film has many funny and nice parts and most of the participating artists give really admirable performances. The cast is generally sympathetic, only the constant glosses of Mr. Trégl and Mr. Záhorský get boring with time, not to mention the interviews of Rudolf Hrušínský and Rudolf Deyl Jr. Jaroslav Marvan in the role of the energetic stage manager is, of course, irresistible, as is the great clown act by Miloš Kopecký and Lubomír Lipský. ()

Othello 

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inglés It's interesting to see how the circus milieu, which is inherently extravagant, enclosed, and a bit "Western decadent", meets here with the knowledge that the circus itself is actually the ideal leisure reward for the working class, because it is entertainment without any intellectual pretensions, and it's within this framework that the film tries to blend the two worlds. Well, it tries; it's clear here that the film serves more as a stage to showcase the various circus acts, which still raise a lot of eyebrows (especially with how much it's possible to let animals degenerate). Here Lipský introduces his directorial method of gradually accelerating the plot into surreal mania, and it's bizarre to see the young Kopecký, Kemr, Hlinomaz, Sovák, Hrušínský, and even Věra Čáslavská as one of the acrobats. František Filipovský, with his hair here, has unwittingly created a model for J. Jonah Jameson. ()

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