In this film there are no professional actors, but different personalities from the artistic circle of Prague. Ivan Vyskocil is a real-life theater director, Zdena Skvorecka and Josef Skvorecký are writers, Jan Klusák and Karel Mares are composers, Jiri Nemec was a philosopher and translator, his wife Dana Nemcova is a psychologist, Pavel Bosek is a theater author, Evald Schorm is a film director, Milon Novotny is a photographer, etc. Their friends play the other roles.
Famous as being "banned forever" in Czechoslovakia after the Soviet invasion.
Jirina Jandová's debut.