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Summary
After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly take responsibility for her son. However, it’s not long before the communication barrier is broken between the two new family members.
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- Date night
- Family movie night
- Friends night
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Critics like it more than audiences (+11)
Critics 96Audiences 85GoodWatch 88
Tomatometer96%
Audience score92%
IMDb7.7
Box office
7.3×its budget
- Budget
- $1 M
- Worldwide
- $8 M
Worldwide it earned $7 M more than it cost.
Running time
1 h 45 min
A typical length for dramas
typical 109105Half of all dramas run 98–125 min.
Reach
Streams in 3 countries, rent or buy in 33 more
Released
1996
May 15, 1996
30 years ago
Genres
DramaComedyLanguage
Czech
Original language
Also spoken
SlovakRussianMade in
- Czechia
United Kingdom
France
24 of 24
Zdeněk SvěrákFrantišek Louka
Andrei KhalimonKolya
Libuše ŠafránkováKlára
Ondřej VetchýBrož
Stella ZázvorkováMom
Ladislav SmoljakHoudek
Irina BezrukovaNadezda
Silvia ŠuvadováBlanka
Liliyan MalkinaAunt Tamara
Karel HeřmánekMusil
Petra ŠpalkováPaša
Nela BoudováBrožová
René PřibilPokorný
Miroslav TáborskýNovotný
Slávka BudínováBuštíková
Jiří SovákRůžička
Regina RázlováZubatá- MŠMagdalena ŠebestováLover
Filip RenčPhotographer
Pavel VondruškaConductor- OČOlga Češková(voice)
- LRLída Rakušanová(voice)
- PPPavel Pecháček(voice)
- VČVěra Čermáková(voice)
Directing · 5
- Jan Svěrák Director, Producer
- Mykola Geyko Second Assistant Director
- Daniela Huml Script Supervisor
- Slávek Horák Second Assistant Director
- David Rauch First Assistant Director
Writing · 2
- Zdeněk Svěrák Screenplay
- Pavel Taussig Story
Production · 15
- Pavel Šolc Executive Producer
- Jiří Ježek Executive Producer
- Eric Abraham Producer
- Soňa Ticháčková Casting
- Jana Veselá Production Assistant
- Ilann Girard Production Assistant
Camera · 7
- Vladimír Smutný Director of Photography
- Radek Štefan Grip
- Zdeněk Vávra Still Photographer
- Miroslav Vojkůvka Grip
- Vaclav Ksandr Grip
- Jan Carda Assistant Camera
Editing · 2
- Alois Fišárek Editor
- Ivan Frössl Assistant Editor
Sound · 7
- Ondřej Soukup Original Music Composer
- Ivo Špalj Sound Mixer
- Roman Čapek Sound Assistant
- Tomás Lylo Sound Assistant
- Zbyněk Mikulík Sound, Sound Mixer
- Juraj Ďurovič Sound Mixer
Art · 12
- Karel Vaňásek Set Decoration, Property Master
- Jan Vlasák Assistant Set Designer
- Ivan Vilímek Set Decoration
- Martin Slavíček Set Decoration
- Vaclav Klabik Construction Grip
- Filip Heyduk Title Designer
Costume & Make-Up · 6
- Katarína Hollá Costume Design
- Božena Došlá Makeup & Hair
- Marta Jenčová Costumer
- Mária Hubáčková Costumer
- František Příhoda Makeup Artist
- Alexander Kiss Lead Costumer
Visual Effects · 4
- Miroslav Šnábl Visual Effects
- Boris Masník Visual Effects
- Pavel Kryml Visual Effects
- Jiří Šimůnek Visual Effects
Lighting · 5
- František Panocha Electrician
- Viktor Brůna Electrician
- Leopold Rozboud Electrician
- Jaroslav Betka Gaffer
- Ivan Ksandr Electrician
Other crew · 6
- Václav Šašek Dramaturgy
- Anna Vášová Dramaturgy
- Jaroslav Peterka Stunts
- Antonín Hausknecht Stunts
- Jaroslav Pšenička Stunts
- Jitka Scoffin Translator
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