Release date: 15 May 1996
Stars:
Stella Zázvorková
(Mother),
Pavel Pechácek
(Voice-Over),
Slávka Budínová
(Bustiková),
Jirí Sovák
(Ruzicka),
Eva Klepácová
,
Ladislav Smoljak
(Houdek),
Zdenek Sverák
(Louka),
Lena Birková
,
Regina Rázlová
(Zubatá),
Libuse Safránková
(Klára),
Jana Altmanová
,
Jan Kaspar
,
Pavel Vondruska
,
Karel Hermánek
(Musil),
Emma Cerná
(Doctor at Hospital),
Nella Boudová
(Brozová),
Ondrej Vetchý
(Broz),
Miroslav Táborský
(Novotný),
Otmar Brancuzský
,
Liliyan Malkina
(Tamara),
Silvia Suvadová
(Blanka),
René Pribil
(Pokorný),
Marek Daniel
,
Petra Spalková
(Pasa),
Veronika Freimanová
(Pediatrist),
Petr Splichal
,
Filip Renc
(Photographer),
Vera Uzelacová
,
Irina Bezrukova
(Nadezda),
Miriam Chytilová
,
Hana Militká
,
Andrey Khalimon
(Kolja),
Pavel Taussig
,
Vera Cermáková
(Voice-Over),
Josef Lakatos
,
Lubomir Pisa
,
F.X. Thuri
,
Milan Hermánek
,
Netta Deborská
,
Magda Sebestová
(Zuzana),
Olga Cesková
(Voice-Over),
Lída Rakusanová
(Voice-Over),
Rafael Kubelík
(Himself)
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Franta Louka is a concert cellist in Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia, a confirmed bachelor and a lady's man. Having lost his place in the state orchestra, he must make ends meet by playing at funerals and painting tombstones. But he has run up a large debt, and when his friend, the grave-digger Mr. Broz, suggests a scheme for making a lot of money by marrying a Russian woman so that she can get her Czech papers, he reluctantly agrees. She takes advantage of the situation to emigrate to West Germa