If you think shopping malls are crowded, you probably haven’t experienced a Prague canteen in the late 1940s. Two thousand hot dogs sold every day, two thousand human faces and destinies. This film essay presents Prague’s vending machines, snack bars, and cheap cafeterias as a mini-zoo crowded with human specimens. They fight for space, food, or a loving embrace under the microscope of a comically touching director, searching for a theme.
Pavel Blumenfeld
Director
Věra Bublíková
Karel Pech
Oldřich Musil
Václav Špidla
Zdeněk Buchvaldek
(uncredited)
Jiřina Švorcová
(uncredited)
Jarka Pižla
(uncredited)
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