Voskovec and Werich's first movie, directed by Jindrich Honzl, is an invaluable record of their early work in theater: an improvisational stew of vaudeville, Surrealism, and poetic comedy. Marvelous vignettes include a sun-splashed picnic casually furnished with absurd bourgeois trappings, a comic fox-trot ballet (one of the earliest pieces of deliberate camp captured on film), and an excursion to Prague Castle by a group of Edward Gorey-type tourists marshalled by their cavalier guide, Werich, and his multilingual megaphone. A Czech-French co-production, the film's interior sequences were produced in Paris at Gaumont Studios; exteriors were shot in and around Prague and in northern Bohemia. Gaumont's involvement afforded the first use of live environmental sound in Czech features.