Jan J. Vaněk: The Smile of a Dog

The original radio play The Smile of the Dog depicts the dramatic encounter between a doctor and an escaped recidivist. After the death of his wife and his beloved dog, Horáček, a newly retired man, sells his apartment in Prague and moves to Šumava for retirement. The freshly retired pensioner expects nothing from his life, least of all a dramatic fight for his life with a dangerous recidivist. The author of the original radio detective play The Smile of the Dog is Jan Jarmil Vaněk. An experienced author of barrel books, detective stories, and feuilletons, he has also published several books on actors and singers, theatre, film and music.