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To Moscow have arrived the participants of the international conference of the zoophilologists and also the international jury which is to elect for the world festival the best performance of the program of Moscow circus. Mrs Whistler (Iva Janzurová), British associate professor, makes her understood with the animals in their language but the Czech professor Ruzicka (Jirí Sovák), though he is capable of using the animals language, prefers teaching the animals the human language. Ruzicka's friend, the poodle Archibald, speaks "in Human" very well. The scientific dispute ends with a bet - if Ruzicka teaches the circus elephant to sing, Mrs Whistler will eat up her hat.Read moreLess
To Moscow have arrived the participants of the international conference of the zoophilologists and also the international jury which is to elect for the world festival the best performance of the program of Moscow circus. Mrs Whistler (Iva Janzurová), British associate professor, makes her understood with the animals in their language but the Czech professor Ruzicka (Jirí Sovák), though he is capable of using the animals language, prefers teaching the animals the human language. Ruzicka's friend, the poodle Archibald, speaks "in Human" very well. The scientific dispute ends with a bet - if Ruzicka teaches the circus elephant to sing, Mrs Whistler will eat up her hat.
The story
To Moscow have arrived the participants of the international conference of the zoophilologists and also the international jury which is to elect for the world festival the best performance of the program of Moscow circus. Mrs Whistler (Iva Janzurová), British associate professor, makes her understood with the animals in their language but the Czech professor Ruzicka (Jirí Sovák), though he is capable of using the animals language, prefers teaching the animals the human language. Ruzicka's friend, the poodle Archibald, speaks "in Human" very well. The scientific dispute ends with a bet - if Ruzicka teaches the circus elephant to sing, Mrs Whistler will eat up her hat.
Cast & crew
Evgeni LeonovCircus Principal
Jiří SovákProfessor Růžička
Iva JanžurováElisabeth Whistle
Aleksandr LenkovAlyosha
Natalya VarleyTanya
Leonid KuravlyovGrisha
Savely KramarovLopukhov
Marie DrahokoupilováFrench Juror
Zdeněk DítěItalian Juror
Lubomír LipskýCzech Juror
Oldřich VelenNorwegian Juror
Ján MistríkIndian ZoophilologistExplore the crew
- Director
- Oldřich Lipský
- Screenplay
- Miloš Macourek
- Screenplay
- Yakov Kostyukovskiy
- Screenplay
- Moris Slobodskoy
- Screenplay
- Oldřich Lipský
- Director of Photography
- Jaroslav Kučera
- Editor
- Miroslav Hájek
- Original Music Composer
- Vlastimil Hála