Directed by:
Jan HřebejkScreenplay:
Petr JarchovskýCinematography:
Jan MalířComposer:
Aleš BřezinaCast:
Petr Forman, Emília Vášáryová, Jan Tříska, Ingrid Timková, Kristýna Boková, Jiří Macháček, Nataša Burger, Jan Budař, Zdeněk Suchý, Pavel Liška, Marek Daniel (more)Plots(1)
Three interconnected, tragicomic stories about friendship, losing and finding love, and about parents and children rediscovering each other. A truck loaded with refugees approaches the Czech Republic. After crossing the border, the smugglers leave the new immigrants in the middle of nowhere - all but one of them that is: a newborn is left behind in the truck. Years ago Martin Horecký emigrated after bitter words with his father Otakar. Otakar left his wife for Hana, Martin's former love, and Lenka was born soon after. The family comes together once again when Otakar falls seriously ill. A security guard and his wife can't have kids. The smugglers sell her the newborn refugee. Hana works for the humanitarian organization People in Need. They just happen to be working on a case involving two distraught parents who have lost their baby boy. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Petr Forman
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Behold Homolka (1969)
The Defender (2021) (series)
Homolka and Pocketbook (1972)
Emília Vášáryová
Best movies:
Cosy Dens (1999)
Na skle maľované (1980) (TV movie)
The Copper Tower (1970)
Jan Tříska
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Král Lear (2003) (theatrical recording)
The Elementary School (1991)
Secluded, Near Woods (1976)
Ingrid Timková
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Swingtime (2007) (TV movie)
Staroružová dráma (1989) (TV movie)
Let There Be Light (2019)
Kristýna Boková
Czechoslovakia
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Identity Card (2010)
Toman (2018)
Justice (2017) (series)
Jiří Macháček
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Oblomov (2002) (theatrical recording)
Monahikoi typoi (2000)
Living Large (2024)
Nataša Burger
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
The Defender (2021) (series)
Idle Running (1999)
The Zookeeper's Wife (2017)
Jan Budař
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
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Burning Bush (2013) (TV movie)
Cops and Robbers (2001) (series)
Zdeněk Suchý
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Monahikoi typoi (2000)
Innocent Lies (2013) (series)
Whisper (1996)
Pavel Liška
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Cops and Robbers (2001) (series)
BrainStorm (2008) (TV movie)
Return of the Idiot (1999)
Marek Daniel
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Kolya (1996)
Cops and Robbers (2001) (series)
Srdce temnoty (2013) (theatrical recording)
Jaroslav Dušek
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Cosy Dens (1999)
Čtyři dohody (2013) (theatrical recording)
Divided We Fall (2000)
Jiří Maria Sieber
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
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Jiřina Třebická
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
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Love Between the Raindrops (1979)
Martin Huba
Slovak state
Best movies:
Burning Bush (2013) (TV movie)
Divided We Fall (2000)
Adolf Eichmann (1988) (TV movie)
Václav Havel
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
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Marta Kubišová 1990 (1990) (concert)
Largo desolato (1991) (theatrical recording) - narrator
Andrei Toader
Czechoslovakia
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Monsters of the Shore (2019) (series)
Pět mrtvých psů (2016) (series)
Hynek Schneider
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Story of a God-Father (2013)
Up and Down (2004)
I'm All Good (2008)
Ester Geislerová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Samota (2001) (TV movie)
Innocent Lies (2013) (series)
Krev zmizelého (2006) (series)
Jakub Sommer
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Up and Down (2004)