A verger, who likes to dress as a priest, is invited, by one of the villagers, to be the pastor at a vacant church. The atheist teacher resents the pastor, and tries to embarrass him in various ways, including being caught with the local girl, Majka.
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Vlastimil Brodský Jan Libíček Jana Brejchová Zdena Škvorecká Jaroslav Satoranský Vladimír Valenta Helena Růžičková Josefa Pechlátová Martin Růžek Gueye Cheick Vladimír Jedenáctík Václav Kotva Jiří Lír Jan Cmíral Jan Schmid Antonín Pražák Pavel Bošek Ivan Kraus Jiří Sýkora Marie Landová Eva Řepíková Libuše Freslová Jana Synková Ludmila Lebedová Antonín Lebeda Andrea Čunderlíková Marie Rybníčková Jiří Hartman Pavel Landovský Karel Bělohradský Petr Kopřiva Jiřina Jandová Karel Semerád Václav Vodák J. Havlíková Zuzana Rumlová Karel Hovorka Blažena Kramešová Paul Leclér Josef Škvorecký Václav Havlík Marie Štrosová-Steinerová Alena Nováková Karel Mareš Vladimír Hrabánek Vladimír Navrátil Petr Čunderlík Jiří Roll Jiří Růžička Jaroslav Moučka
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