About The People Around The Table

Petr Schulhoff / Czechoslovakia / 1959 / The film already had its Czech Premiere / 14 min.

synopsis

Miloš Kopecký comments on himself in the roles of restaurant guests who suffer from various social ills. This satirical parade of grotesque human characters, such as the angry man, the alcoholic, the womanizer, and the thief, reminds us to be kind to restaurant staff, as they truly have much to endure.

biography

Petr Schulhoff (1922–1986) was born in Berlin and died in Prague. Before World War II, he worked as an actor, and after the war he began his career as an assistant director at Barrandov Studios. He then worked for the Documentary Film Studio in Prague, for which he shot satirical, instructional, and advertising films. From the 1960s onwards, he devoted himself to feature detective and comedy films.