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Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 431
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Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
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IMDB Votes: 13
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 769
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 314
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 371
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
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IMDB Votes: 303
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 12000
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IMDB Votes: 437
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IMDB Votes: 134
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IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Votes: 231
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IMDB Votes: 474
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IMDB Votes: 93
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IMDB Votes: 3000
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IMDB Votes: 241
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IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Votes: 3000
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IMDB Votes: 8000
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IMDB Votes: 3000
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