Ball Lightning (film)

Ball Lightning (Czech: Kulový blesk) is a 1979 Czechoslovak comedy film. The screenplay was written by Zdeněk Svěrák, Ladislav Smoljak and Zdeněk Podskalský and the film was directed by Smoljak and Podskalský. Rudolf Hrušínský plays the starring role and is joined in the cast by others including Josef Abrhám, Daniela Kolářová, and Zita Kabátová.

Ball Lightning
Directed by	Ladislav Smoljak Zdeněk Podskalský
Screenplay by	Zdeněk Svěrák Ladislav Smoljak Zdeněk Podskalský
Produced by	Barrandov Studios
Starring	Rudolf Hrušínský Zdeněk Svěrák Ladislav Smoljak Josef Abrhám
Cinematography	Ivan Šlapeta
Edited by	Jiří Brožek
Music by	Zdeněk Lukáš
Production company	Barrandov Studios
Distributed by	Ústřední půjčovna filmů
Release date	1 August 1979 (1979-08-01)
Running time	82 minutes
Country	Czechoslovakia
Language	Czech

Plot

Dr. Radosta organizes a twelve apartment interchange on request of people interested in interchange apartment in Prague, which he called "Ball Lightning", because it had to take place quickly, energetically and all at once. Doctor Radosta is assisted by Mr. Knotek as his assistant and engineer Severín, who has a reliable car including home-made airbags, as a messenger among those involved in the interchange. In order to be able to carry out the "biggest event in the history of moving", as the group's organizer describes it, Dr. Radosta unbeknownst , the of the wedding of the older couple engaged couple Mr. Flieger and Mrs. Opatrná is on a different date and place, because they must be married before the exchange takes place from legal reasons of the time story happend. For this reason, Mr. Knotek must represent the groom's original witness. The wedding festivities result in a nightly moving exercise organized by the drunken Mr. Knotek, after which especially the punctual inspector Mr. Drahota wants to resign from his exchange. Dr. Radosta convinces him to stay among the participants, and Mr. Knotek must personally apologize to everyone for the night's disturbance.

Mrs. Jechová complicate in last days before the interchange of her apartment, although she originally had no objections to apartment of family Knotek, additionally demands a the Knotek´s washing machine from them because there is no laundry in the house, and also the replacement of the basement storage cellar, which is in her view be too far and too deep. However, for Mr. Knotek, the exchange of the cellar with the unpopular neighbor Klabouch also represents a laborious mutual exchange of their coal. Mrs. Jechová surprisingly praises the attic (for drying the clothes) in the house, when the Knotek´s were afraid of further complications from her about attic as well.

External links

• Ball Lightning at IMDb