Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Mark Eaton I finally found this film on the web! So it wasn't just my imagination. I rank this as amongst the very best films I've ever seen. I saw it some 25-30 years ago on British TV as part of what must have been a foreign film series on BBC2. The complexity of the plot and the straight-faced comedy are superb. Who can forget the nonchalant way the star says words to the effect 'it doesn't matter' when someone bounces on the trampoline and over the side of the building, or the Nazi's killing themselves off? There was also a good French film (about a ?hitman who commits suicide in a hotel and the man in the next room gets mistaken for him) but this is the only one I remember the name of. Now to go back and read the other people's comments... And then to try to find it on DVD somewhere.

Dennis Sisterson Like the user below, I saw this late one night on the BBC about 20 years ago - probably the only place it's been seen in the English-speaking world-! The plot as I remember it goes something like this: There are two twin brothers sharing an apartment. One is an untidy layabout, the other is a time machine pilot for a company that does tourist trips into the past. The smart brother is engaged to a nice girl whom the slob brother is also in love with. One of the time machines is hijacked by a group of Neo-Nazis who want to give Hitler the atom bomb (there is a scene of Hitler watching a movie of the fall of the Reich, brought to him by these people to prove who they are). Something goes wrong, of course, which somehow results, in the present day, of the smart brother, his girlfriend and all her family falling off a balcony to their deaths. The slob brother is left to sort things out and somehow manages to return to the present before he left and take the place of the dead brother, and marry the nice girl, who now isn't dead. So there are now two of him, one pretending to be the dead smart brother. If anyone else can add their fuzzy memories to this page please do - eventually we might be able to reconstruct the whole story; it seems unlikely we'll ever get to see the film again-! Maybe it only exists in another time continuum.

D-Slam One morning, Jan Bures (or is it Karel Bures? I forgot which is which :) discovers that his twin brother Karel (Jan?) has choked to death on a bread roll. However, Jan knows what to do - Karel was a pilot for Universum, a time travel agency. So he dresses up as his brother and goes to his brother's job. He soon discovers that his brother was part of a Nazi ploy to hijack a time travel rocket, go to 1944 (when Germany is in trouble) and give Adolf Hitler an A-bomb. Although he can do little to prevent this, the ploy fails - firstly, the hijackers are double-booked with two American tourists, and secondly, they land in 1941 - when German soldiers are threatening to conquer Moscow. When they return, they return before they actually took off (this is Jan's attempt to save his brother by preventing him from suffocating). And things go downhill from there...Firstly, this is a very original take on the topic of time travel. Secondly, Petr Kostka does a great job in this double-role (which is in fact more of a single role after all). The effects and styling appear naive now, but they're good for their time and place. (The Universum scenes were mostly filmed in the then-new Prague subway.) Finally, the writers and director must be commended for not getting lost in the screenplay and for not letting us get lost or bored - there's always something going on and if you're willing to believe that time travel was possible in the 1970s as demonstrated in the film, there are few (if any) plot holes or inconsistencies. Music doesn't play much of a role here.The near-obligatory compromises to Communism (this was the 1970s, y'know) are present, but in a way that just makes it even more entertaining - the aforementioned American tourists react to the sight of Hitler in the flesh by demanding to take photographs with him, much to the Führer's frustration (the guy who played him was great too). Can't really think of any other examples right now.If you like this film, an obvious recommendation would be Zabil jsem Einsteina, pánové (I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen), but I found Zítra vstanu a oparím se cajem more entertaining.

forgeit Amazing How can you be a pilot of a very special flight, go back in time to Nazi Germany, scald yourself with tea and still win the girl??? I saw this film in 1978 on British TV .... I recorded then lost it.... its a great film...what is is with Czech directors? Even as we speak I am watching Conspirators Of Pleasure...just as funny 9 out of 10