Summary
In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation. Among them is a young man who pines for a female convict.
Good for
- Date night
- Friends night
- Teens
Where to watch
Not streaming in United States. Where it is:
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 81GoodWatch 77
Audience score89%
IMDb7.3
Running time
1 h 34 min
Shorter than most dramas, −15 min on the typical 109
typical 10994Half of all dramas run 98–125 min.
Reach
Streams in 6 countries, rent or buy in 3 more
Released
1990
February 1, 1990
36 years ago
Genres
DramaRomanceComedyLanguage
Czech
Original language
Made in
XC
and 14 more18 people
- Rudolf HrušínskýTrustee
- Václav NeckářPavel Hvezdár
- Jitka ZelenohorskáJitka
- Vlastimil BrodskýProfessor
- Vladimír PtáčekMlíkar
- Ferdinand KrůtaKudla
- František ŘehákDrobecek
- Leoš SuchařípaPublic Prosecutor
Eugen JegorovSaxophonist
Naďa UrbánkováLenka
Věra KřesadlováConvict
Jaroslav SatoranskýGuard Andel
Jiřina ŠtěpničkováPavel's Mother
Věra FerbasováConvict
Vladimír ŠmeralMinister
Jiřina TřebickáDrobečková- EBEva BlažkováConvict
Jiří MenzelConvict
Directing · 4
- Jiří Menzel Director, Screenplay
- Marie Zahradníková Script Supervisor
- Josef Sandr Assistant Director
- Miloš Kohout First Assistant Director
Writing · 2
- Bohumil Hrabal Short Story, Screenplay
- Pavel Juráček Creative Producer
Production · 5
- Jaroslav Kučera Executive Producer
- Jaroslav Koucký Unit Manager
- Karel Kochman Production Manager
- Taťána Bargárová Assistant Production Manager
- Karel Škop Unit Manager
Camera · 4
- Jaromír Šofr Director of Photography
- Jiří Kučera Assistant Camera
- Josef Janoušek Still Photographer
- Petr Čech Camera Operator
Editing · 2
- Jiřina Lukešová Editor
- Eva Horázná Assistant Editor
Sound · 3
- Jiří Šust Original Music Composer
- Štěpán Koníček Conductor
- Jiří Pavlík Sound
Art · 5
- Oldřich Bosák Production Design
- Rudolf Beneš Set Decoration
- Bohumil Nový Assistant Production Design
- Vladimír Mácha Set Decoration
- Václav Kozel Set Decoration
Costume & Make-Up · 6
- Josef Lojík Makeup & Hair
- Dagmar Krausová Costumer
- Dana Poláková Costumer
- M. Dostálová Costumer
- Jiří Nevařil Makeup & Hair
- Marie Džbánková Makeup & Hair
Other crew · 1
- Václav Nývlt Dramaturgy
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