Directed by:
Viktor PolesnýComposer:
Karel SvobodaCast:
Ondřej Vetchý, Zuzana Norisová, Jiří Langmajer, Zlata Adamovská, Danica Jurčová, Jakub Prachař, Veronika Žilková, Petra Špalková, Pavel Řezníček (more)Plots(1)
Set in a Northern Bohemian factory town in the 1960s, Vladimír Páral´s cult novel has been transferred to the screen as a grotesque reflection of human fate. An apartment building serves as the plot´s focal point: a workers´ room hosting occasional and long-term inhabitants, the factory director´s apartment, and men´s and women´s residence halls. Everyone here longs for love but their desires are appeased through rather vulgar sex. Then a young and gifted engineer named Borek Trojan enters this world and proceeds to live out a passionate love story, while at the same time reaching the peak of his professional carrier. But the feelings of contentment and happiness he expected as a victor are replaced by the nagging doubt that he is actually a loser. Is there an escape from this world? (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Ondřej Vetchý
Czechoslovakia
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Zuzana Norisová
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Jiří Langmajer
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Zlata Adamovská
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Danica Jurčová
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Jakub Prachař
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Veronika Žilková
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Petra Špalková
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Pavel Řezníček
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Saša Rašilov nejml.
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Tatiana Dyková
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Vladimír Dlouhý
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Marek Taclík
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Jan Vlasák
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Tereza Duchková
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Jitka Sedláčková
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František Šec
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Kristina Kloubková
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Kristýna Badinková Nováková
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