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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 Germany, to her lover; and leaves her five-year-old son with his grandmother; when the grandmother dies, Kolya must come and live with his stepfather - Louka.
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| Zdenek Sverák |
(Frantisek Louka) |
| Andrei Chalimon |
(Kolja Bilikov (as Andrej Chalimon)) |
| Libuse Safránková |
(Klára) |
| Ondrej Vetchý |
(Broz) |
| Stella Zázvorková |
(Mother) |
| Ladislav Smoljak |
(Houdek) |
| Irina Bezrukova |
(Nadezda (as Irina Livanova)) |
| Silvia Suvadova |
(Blanka) |
| Liliya Malkina |
(Tamara (as Lilian Malkina)) |
| Karel Hermánek |
(Musil) |
| Petra Spalková |
(Pasa) |
| Nella Boudová |
(Brozová) |
| René Pribil |
(Pokorný) |
| Miroslav Táborský |
(Novotný) |
| Slávka Budínová |
(Bustiková) |
| Jirí Sovák |
(Ruzicka) |
| Josef Lakatos |
() |
| Lubomir Pisa |
() |
| F.X. Thuri |
() |
| Milan Hermánek |
() |
| Netta Deborská |
() |
| Pavel Taussig |
() |
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| Marek Daniel |
() |
| Vera Uzelacová |
() |
| Miriam Chytilová |
() |
| Otmar Brancuzský |
() |
| Regina Rázlová |
(Zubatá) |
| Veronika Freimanová |
(Pediatrist) |
| Magda Sebestová |
(Zuzana) |
| Filip Renc |
(Photographer) |
| Pavel Vondruska |
() |
| Hana Militká |
() |
| Emma Cerná |
(Doctor at Hospital) |
| Eva Klepácová |
() |
| Lena Birková |
() |
| Jan Kaspar |
() |
| Jana Altmanová |
() |
| Petr Splichal |
() |
| Olga Cesková |
(Voice-Over) |
| Lída Rakusanová |
(Voice-Over) |
| Pavel Pechacek |
(Voice-Over) |
| Vera Cermáková |
(Voice-Over) |
| Rafael Kubelik |
(Himself (Philharmonic Conductor)...) |
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