Der nächtliche Gast

During one rainy evening, an unexpected guest, German businessman Walter Huppert, breaks into the calm atmosphere of a small inn by the Benešov highway. There is something wrong with his Mercedes and he is thus trying to find a car-mechanic. Just to make sure, he books a room in the inn and smuggles in his companion, a very young Czech girl named Jana. He himself then returns to the bar, offers wine to all people present with great geniality, and does not stop talking. Publican Kalous listens to him with increasing nervousness - Huppert strongly reminds him of an SS-man who handled him brutally in a concentration camp. When Huppert gets drunk and begins to claim openly his Nazi conviction, Kalous loses all remaining control and shoots at him. Jana, alarmed by the shooting, goes down to the bar and reveals to Kalous and the old Remunda that she joined Huppert only out of curiosity. The night bus brings over Kalous's mother and subsequently the police arrive with Huppert, who immediately reported on the incident with Kalous. The commanding corporal cannot grasp why Kalous began to shoot, beginning to understand only when Huppert bursts out in uncontrollable rage. Huppert leaves in the repaired car and the policemen take Kalous away. There are only Kalous' mother and Jana left in the inn, and the latter just came to learn about the twists of life. (Verleiher-Text)