Overview
On an early Sunday evening, people of the small town are reading lottery results that are hung on a board. Young man Karel Antos is annoyed that his lottery-ticket missed the main prize, a car, by only one number. Karel is going to the pub to drink away his bad luck with his friend Jirka Broz. The old accountant auditor Zelinka drops a wallet. Karel picks it up and before he gives it back he notices the winning lottery-ticket in it. Both young men accompany the old drunk man. Karel steals the ticket and exchanges it with his own. Next day, Zelinka is found dead. Investigators, Captain Tuma and the Lieutenant Líbal, soon discover that this is a murder case covered up as an accident.
Cast
- Karel Höger as kapitán VB Miloš Tůma
- Josef Bek as nadporučík VB František Líbal
- Otto Lackovič as technical officer Karel Antos
- Josef Vinklář as Jirka
- Vladimír Menšík as Emperor Josef Neumann, called Kici
- František Vnouček as Alfred Batysta, hotel manager
- Eva Kubešová as Sergeant VB Jindriska Hurková
- Miloš Vavruška as laboratory assistant VB Lieutenant Kalenda
- Dagmar Zikánová as saleswoman from the buffet Majka Válková
- Eduard Kohout as Auditor Ferdinand Zelinka