Flexible, powerful, and naive. The fates of three men intersect at the launch of Czechoslovak television broadcasting. Ambitious actor František Filipovský has no idea that his casual improvisation on the theme of "the miser" will go down in history. For Minister of Information Václav Kopecký, it is a moment of great nervousness: will he convince his comrades that television broadcasting is the golden goose of communist propaganda? A young television technician is fascinated by the "remote transmission of images and sound" – he has a job he never dreamed of. But can a person fulfill their dreams in communist Czechoslovakia in the 1950s without getting involved with the regime?
Directed byJan Bušta

Featuring

Braňo Holiček
TV Technician

Pavel Nečas
Václav Kopecký

Martin Matejka
František Filipovský

Petr Jablonský
František Filipovský (voice)
Daniel Šváb
Camera Operator

Jakub Štěpán
Camera Operator

Jakub Albrecht
TV Technician No. 2

Ondřej Anděra
Sound Technician

Mikuláš Čížek
Sound Technician
Ondřej Hlas
Editor
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