
While street photographers Máček and Kalabis are vainly offering their services to passersby, a pair of cronies rob a jewelry store almost right in front of their eyes. Kalabis accidentally manages to photograph one of the robbers. Coincidentally, the brutal thug is indistinguishable from the notorious bookseller Karel Pelikán. Hard times await him: the police, led by the experienced district inspector Moudřý, are interested in him, as well as a gang of criminals who accidentally slipped Karl a ticket from the train station locker where they hid the loot. The only ones who trust Karl are his good-natured aunt Klára and his girlfriend in love, Jarmila...
Cast

Miroslav Homola
Pelikán / Sláma

Růžena Nasková
teta Klára

František Kreuzmann
Dufek

Marie Glázrová
Jarmila

Jaroslav Marvan
inspektor

Gustav Nezval
jeho syn, vrchní komisař

Jindřich Plachta
Máček

Stanislav Neumann
fotograf Ferda Kalabis

Vlasta Hrubá
Vlasta
Vlasta Podrabská
Mami

Eman Fiala
vetešník

Miloš Nedbal
komisař

Anna Letenská
sousedka

Bolek Prchal
klenotník Adam

Bohuš Záhorský
nakladatel
Jožka Koldovská
Svobodová, zákaznice v klenotnictví
Marie Vildová
Unknown

Alois Dvorský
Unknown
Vladimír Štros
Unknown
M. Labuťová
Unknown
Adolf Marek
Unknown
Miroslav Rudlof
Unknown
Josef Zezulka
Unknown
Ladislav Janeček
Unknown
Ada Dohnal
Unknown

Jan W. Speerger
Unknown
Jaroslav Orlický
Unknown
Robert Vyhlídka
Unknown
Antonín Frič
Unknown
Jiří Schreinzer
Unknown
Crew

Miroslav Cikán
Director, Screenplay, Story
Jaroslav Mottl
Screenplay, Story, Lyricist
Marie Bourová
Editor
Josef Střecha
Director of Photography
František Milič
Assistant Director
Alois Mecera
Production Design
Emanuel Formánek
Sound

Eman Fiala
Original Music Composer
Ina Kubová-Žáková
Set Decoration
Karel Šilhánek
Production Manager
Karel Feix
Production Manager