Antonín Novotný

The title refers to the office of records in the basement of a large company... sort of the place where a troublesome employee may be dumped in a dead end job. If fact, the story is a simple romantic comedy, with Burian as the kindly old stick-in-the-mud who helps the young man to sort out his romance with the daughter of the company's owner.

The story of high school students, talented Jan and Karel, who has a problem with math. Their life affects pedantic professor of mathematics Klec, that goes with them on a school trip, which escalates the conflict between them. Jan wants to escape, but Professor Donat will discourage him. Karel fails the exam of mathematics and decides to commit suicide.

It's a detective comedy, total Czech classic, with the legendary Czech actor Vlasta Burian, filmed by legendary Czech director Martin Fric. In the story Burian acts in three different roles (good private detective, bad adventurer and Russian duke), meets with Nick Carter and indian maharajah and protects precious diamonds from robbers. It is considered as one of the best first republic comedies.