The bank officer Bedrich Hroch is sent by the bank director to the zoo, which asked an allocation of one and half kg of gold for a gold tooth for a hippo. During the check up of the hippo's teeth Bedrich is swallowed by the hippo. The man does not die in the hippo's guts and he chats quite happily with his frightened wife Dása. Journalist Pip Karen, his friend is also present to the dialogue and he has immediately an idea how to use this special situation. He tells to the new minister Borovec and his opponent professor Fibinger that there is a hippo in the zoo which can speak. He also tells them how to use this situation for a political propaganda.
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Oldo Hlaváček Helga Čočková Svatopluk Matyáš Helena Blehárová Miroslav Homola Zdena Hadrbolcová Eduard Dubský Jiří Lír Slávka Budínová Josef Větrovec Jiří Holý Oldřich Velen Jan Skopeček Josef Kobr Miloš Willig Tomáš Sedláček Josef Hlinomaz Karel Hábl Ivana Bílková Jan Pohan Jiří Jelínek Bert Schneider Vladimír Hrubý Karel Hovorka Jaroslav Cmíral Josef Bádal Milan Mach Miloš Vavruška Jana Sedlmajerová Eduard Pavlíček Viktor Maurer Vladimír Bičík Jiřina Zemanová Martin Vrabec Jiří Šulc Miloslav Svoboda Oldřich Hoblík Miroslav Laňka Petr Kučera Jiří Ondroušek Dagmar Štursová Vratislava Jelínková Václav Luks Renata Bauerová Vlastimila Vlková Jiří Kasík Milan Kindl Otakar Rademacher Zdeněk Srstka Jaroslav Tomsa Olga Fleischerová Tomáš Hanták Anna Hantáková Marie Libigerová Lubomír Mohyla Běla Sobotková Václav Štádler Jiří Vrzal Václav Zahradník Karel Bejlek Vladimír Brož Miloslav Bureš Vít Clar Petr Fleischer Emanuel Hrdina Vladimír Hruška Viktor Hynčica Zdeněk John Otto Kotýnek Mirko Krebs Václav Matouš Luboš Nývlt Jiří Pelikán Jan Pospíšil Petr Smolík Petr Šprunk Jaroslav Tichý Vlastimil Voňavka Miloš Vychytil Blažena Holišová Věra Kalendová Mirko Musil Antonín Jedlička
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