The aging police commissioner, who has a twenty-five-year-old fiancée, Olga, is disturbed at his sixtieth birthday party by the news from the administrator Psekov that his master, the cornet Klyausov, has been murdered. A commission, headed by an investigating judge, is sent to the estate of the debauched nobleman. The decisive evidence is a Swedish match.

• Československá televize Praha
• Josef Somr
• Josef Abrhám
• Rudolf Hrušínský
• Jiří Menzel
• Libuše Šafránková
• Jan Schmid
• Ladislav Křiváček
• Oldřich Vlach