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Sarcastic comedy about the Czechoslovakia of the seventies. A young gynaecologist can't figure out whether to get serious with a young nurse or to stay casual with his married lover. Things get complicated when both women don't want to play his game anymore.
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Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 68GoodWatch 65
IMDb6.8
Running time
1 h 40 min
A typical length for comedies
typical 100100Half of all comedies run 91–111 min.
Reach
Streams in 75 countries
+65Released
1978
February 3, 1978
48 years ago
Genres
ComedyDramaLanguage
Czech
Original language
Made in
XC
and 14 more30 people
- Dagmar BláhováAnna Šímová
- Jiří MenzelMUDr. Josef John
- Jiří KodetMUDr. ArnoŠt Rýdl
- Evelyna SteimarováMarta Rýdlová
- Nina PopelíkováJohn's mother
- Bohuš ZáhorskýProfessor
- Jiří LábusPavel Šíma
- Kateřina BurianováDoctor
Jana SynkováLaboratory- JNJitka NovákovaSinger
Nina DivíškováPregnant woman
Petr NárožnýHusband of pregnant woman- MKMiroslav KořínekPianist
- VHVladimír HrabánekTaxi driver
- TKTereza KučerováMarta's daughter
- ŠKŠtěpán KučeraMarta's son
- VUVěra UzelacováTypist
Jitka CerhováHana- ZSZuzana SchmidováJaruna
Ilja PrachařTrain Passenger- EKEva KačírkováSecretary
- ZVZdeňka VanišováNurse Božka
- JPJana PrachařováNurse
Gabriela OsvaldováNurse
Directing · 3
- Věra Chytilová Director, Screenplay, Story
- Petr Švéda First Assistant Director
- Vladimíra Vlková Assistant Director
Writing · 2
- Kristina Vlachová Story, Screenplay
- Jan Schmid Lyricist
Production · 2
- Antonín Vaněk Production Manager
- Jaroslav Cígler Unit Production Manager
Camera · 3
- František Vlček Director of Photography
- Jan Malíř Camera Operator
- Pavel Štecha Still Photographer
Editing · 1
- Alois Fišárek Editor
Sound · 3
- Miroslav Kořínek Original Music Composer
- Adolf Nacházel Sound
- Milivoj Uzelac Conductor
Art · 4
- Vladimír Labský Production Design
- Jiří Žůček Set Decoration
- Josef Müller Set Decoration
- Petr Bárta Assistant Production Design
Costume & Make-Up · 5
- Irena Greifová Costume Design
- František Čížek Makeup & Hair
- Eva Vrbovcová Costumer
- Vlasta Hájková Makeup & Hair
- Jaroslav Hruška Makeup & Hair
Other crew · 2
- Kristian Topič Dramaturgy
- Vladimír Blažek Dramaturgy
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