Overview

To Moscow have arrived the participants of the international conference of the zoophilologists and also the international jury which is to elect for the world festival the best performance of the program of Moscow circus. Mrs Whistler (Iva Janzurová), British associate professor, makes her understood with the animals in their language but the Czech professor Ruzicka (Jirí Sovák), though he is capable of using the animals language, prefers teaching the animals the human language. Ruzicka's friend, the poodle Archibald, speaks "in Human" very well. The scientific dispute ends with a bet - if Ruzicka teaches the circus elephant to sing, Mrs Whistler will eat up her hat.

Top Cast

Evgeni Leonov

Circus Principal

Jiří Sovák

Professor Růžička

Iva Janžurová

Elisabeth Whistle

Aleksandr Lenkov

Alyosha

Natalya Varley

Tanya

Leonid Kuravlyov

Grisha

Savely Kramarov

Lopukhov

Marie Drahokoupilová

French Juror

Zdeněk Dítě

Italian Juror

Lubomír Lipský

Czech Juror

Oldřich Velen

Norwegian Juror

Ján Mistrík

Indian Zoophilologist