Funebrák / Man in the Air - DVD

Funebrak
Czech Republic, 1932, 89 min., b&w
They play: Vlasta Burian, Josef Rovenský, Theodor Pisztek, Růžena Šlemrová, Betty Kysilkova, Jan Sviták, Čeněk Šlégl, Lida Baar, Martin Frič, Jaroslav Marvan

An employee of Pleticha Funeral Home will perform the funeral instead of the wedding. To cheer up the wedding guests, he will perform songs and dances of different nations. One of the guests recounts his experience of a recent train collision and Pleticha then poses as the victim.

Man in the Air
Czech Republic, 1955, 83 min, b&w
They play: Vlasta Burian, Pavla Maršálková, Alena Vránová, Rudolf Hrušínský, František Filipovský, Jiří Sovák, Hana Vítová, Růžena Šlemrová, Václav Trégl, Karel Effa

Silvestr Čáp, a former employee of the match factory and eternal inventor, disturbs the peaceful life of the small town of Krásnov, which is a constant witness to his futile and noisy attempts to invent the eternal match. He feels disrespected and does not appreciate what he has already accomplished in life. He messes up what he can and ends up scaring his neighbours with an alleged suicide. Eventually, he realizes the futility of his research efforts and tries to make it up to those around him.

Bonuses:
• the word of a historian
• photos, biography and filmography
• contemporary documentation