With Lecture by Mel Gordon: "V & W Liberated Theater: Slapstick on the Edge of the Abyss" (Svet patri nam). Voskovec and Werich's last feature as a team, this aggressive social and anti-Fascist satire spoofs propaganda and sloganeering; V & W resolve it would be better to make the endorsement, "Long Live Nobody." In a series of agitprop skits, thinly veiled as vaudeville, V & W seriously lampoon 1937 world politics. In one inspired sequence, an automated factory run amok seems intent on grinding, drilling, pressing and perforating its human prey. The final gag is played out in gas masks. The film was immensely successful when released, serving as a morale booster to the resistance-minded supporters of Czechoslovak democracy. Inevitably it attracted German attention and V&W were forced to spend the war years in the U.S. Voskovec stayed on, becoming a successful actor (George Voskovec). Werich returned to Czechoslovakia (he played the wise and wily magician in Vojtech Jasny's Cassandra Cat).