In 1983, Ladislav Smoljak directed the film, “Jára Cimrman ležící, spící”( Jára Cimrman, lying, sleeping) starring Zdeněk Svěrák as the protagonist, a film which among other things, contains the episode with which we opened this article.
Ladislav Smoljak (1931, Praha – 2010, Kladno, Česká republika). Vybraná filmografie: Kulový blesk (1978), Vrchní, prchni (1980), Jára Cimrman ležícíCimrman became a favorite among the Czechs, following the fate of the Good Soldier Švejk. Our story is taken from the collection Hry Járy Cimrmana, which was published in 1988. An epic version of this summary appeared on the screen two years earlier, in the movie “Jára Cimrman ležící, spící.” H4lU.