The protagonist (Rudolf Hrusinsky) is a dull, fat, shy government clerk indulging in voyuerism and ego fantasies. In love with another clerk (Kveta Fiolova), he is urged on in his pursuit by a commiserate executive. The story is told in a flashback sequence as the cuckolded Hrusinsky attempts suicide by gassing himself in his bathtub. The "Murder" of the title is not a murder as such, rather the murder that Hrusinsky remembers planning upon discovering his wife's unfaithfulness with his supposed friend and advisor. Both plots failing in his mind, he loses himself in fantastic reveries of his funeral and of hypocritical mourners. ' Deciding (perhaps) that this is not the way out either, he gives up the attempt and imagines a life of reconciliation and eventual affluence.
Květa Fialová
as Alice Pokorná
Rudolf Hrušínský
as František Pokorný
Václav Voska
as Námestek
Vladimír Menšík
as Emil
Jindřich Narenta
as Redítel
Libuše Švormová
as Jindriská
František Šlégr
as Vrátný
Jaroslav Solnička
as
Věra Uzelacová
as Bindrová
Milivoj Uzelac
as
Luďa Marešová
as
Gabriela Bártlová-Buddeusová
as
