Dobytí severního pólu

About the show

A performance begins with mock lectures about the fictional polymath Jára Cimrman before turning to four Czech winter swimmers on a comic expedition to the North Pole. Their journey is beset by melancholy, hunger, a mistaken penguin encounter, and a frozen explorer who revives after serving as part of a supposed cryogenic experiment. The expedition's triumph is kept secret so Austria will not receive credit.