Sixty-year old Professor Simek (Vladimír Smeral) is undergoing a serious heart operation. The surgeon Preclík is satisfied with the result, and after the successful operation he and his patient become famous. Simek is, however, indifferent to fame, since the years have robbed him of energy and taste for life. In the 1950s, during the campaign against supposed enemies of the communist regime, he was unjustly condemned to many years of imprisonment. His wife, daughter and friends have abandoned him, and his academic career was ruined. From the window of his hospital room it is only sick children that catch his melancholy eye, and a charming girl who releases carrier pigeons from a basket on the roof of the house opposite. One day she fails to appear on the roof. The professor is disturbed, sure that something must have happened to the girl. He goes out into the street in his hospital gown, even though he is well aware that too much strain could kill him.
在苏联入侵捷克斯洛伐克之后Kachyna以及Prochazka创作出了可称为他们最好的两部影片。一部是在入侵后即刻完成的可笑的老人（Smesny pan, 1969)。这部电影讲述的一个60岁的神经机械学家，在斯大林时期被关禁起来。当他接受完心脏手术后，他能活很多年，但是他的家庭，工作，一切一切都得不到了。这部灰色电影的结尾非常具有象征意义。
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