Introducing the rhythmical soaked with the smoke of Ostrava's steelworks Smoke, beloved by three generations already, was a delegation including the director Tomáš Vorel and the Caban brothers – Michal, who did the choreography for the film, and Šimon, who portrayed the legendary DJ Arnoštek. The filmmakers had prepared a surprise for the audience, which put them in an excellent mood right off the bat: a puppet version of the film's most famous scene from Arnoštek's disco.
Vorel then recollected on the genesis of the work. At first the film studio in Gottwaldov was interested in the movie, but after Vorel signed the "A Few Sentences" petition, they banned the filming and so he moved to Barrandov, where he received much more creative and financial freedom. "We started shooting and then the revolution came along. Actress Holubová was constantly travelling around villages with posters. I said to her, 'Eva, the revolution will come, then there'll be another government, then a revolution, then evolution, back and forth over and over, but this film will be here forever. We have to first shoot this film, then overthrow the government.' In the end we agreed that we'd shoot in the morning, give out pamphlets in the afternoon, demonstrate in the evening, and then go out for beer," was how Tomáš Vorel described how his feature debut came into being.
The director also revealed how the film's musical component was created, with its choral recitation and sultry saxophone leitmotiv: "It was Lumír Tuček who came up with the choral recitations in the 70s. He doesn't exactly agree, but in my opinion he's the founder of Czech rap." Vorel then acknowledged how the destructive period of the end of the 80s, when censorship was letting up but there was still money for film, made the production easier. "The privatization of film put filmmakers into a horrible schizophrenia," the director complained.
