Directed by:
Dušan HanákCinematography:
Viktor Svoboda st.Composer:
Ladislav GerhardtCast:
Václav Lohniský, Lucyna Winnicka, Josef Abrhám, Miroslav Macháček, František Zvarík, Vladimír Weiser, Emil Horváth st., Viktor Blaho, Jana Švandová (more)Plots(1)
Dušan Hanák's feature debut is one of the key titles of the Czechoslovak New Wave shot in the late 1960s. The main character of the minimalistic, documentary-like story with experimental elements is a cook called Lauko (Václav Lohniský) who is confronted with the imminence of death: he has been diagnosed with throat cancer. In Hanák's metaphoric film language it is the whole society that suffers from the "impossibility to speak". (Summer Film School)
(more)Cast
![Václav Lohniský](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/268/268136_cc0c4b.jpg)
Václav Lohniský
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Higher Principle (1960)
Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (1976)
Witchhammer (1969)
![Lucyna Winnicka](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/270/270599_8f4611.jpg)
Lucyna Winnicka
Poland
Best movies:
Night Train (1959)
Through and Through (1973)
Mother Joan of the Angels (1961)
![Josef Abrhám](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/166/323/166323293_f95e62.jpg)
Josef Abrhám
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (1976)
Revizor (1971) (theatrical recording)
Hráči (1983) (theatrical recording)
![Miroslav Macháček](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/268/268539_1fadf5.jpg)
Miroslav Macháček
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Hamlet (1986) (theatrical recording)
Sňatky z rozumu (1968) (series)
The Valley of the Bees (1967)
![František Zvarík](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/275/275155_de5ee9.jpg)
František Zvarík
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Na skle maľované (1980) (TV movie)
Red Wine (1976) (TV movie)
![Vladimír Weiser](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/278/278192_943bc6.jpg)
Vladimír Weiser
Best movies:
322 (1969)
Tam za lesem (1962)
![Emil Horváth st.](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/271/271111_11f738.jpg)
Emil Horváth st.
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Millennial Bee (1983)
Ja, stará mama, Iliko a Illarion (1988) (TV movie)
Naši synovia (1975) (series)
![Viktor Blaho](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/261/160261433_f20386.jpg)
Viktor Blaho
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Red Wine (1976) (TV movie)
Lekár umierajúceho času (1983) (series)
Hernani (1967) (TV movie)
![Jana Švandová](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/281/164281473_77e93c.jpg)
Jana Švandová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Jumping Over Puddles (1970)
Brakýři (1983) (TV movie)
Lenin, Lord and Mother (1990)
Božena Šérová
Best movies:
322 (1969)
![Marta Rašlová](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/268/268433_1c2983.jpg)
Marta Rašlová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Sitting on a Branch, Enjoying Myself (1989)
Naši synovia (1975) (series)
The Garden (1995)
Rudolf Thrún
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Forty-Four Mutineers (1957)
322 (1969)
The Miraculous Virgin (1966)
Oľga Chodáková
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
322 (1969)
Július Mazanec
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Zemianska česť (1957)
322 (1969)
Saša (1983) (TV movie)
František Török
Best movies:
The Bells Toll for the Barefooted (1965)
Maroško (1968) (TV movie)
Tri dcéry (1967)
Michal Kožuch
Kingdom of Hungary
Best movies:
The Valley of the Bees (1967)
On the Trail of Blood (1969)
Death Is Called Engelchen (1963)
![Anton Trón](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/354/159354841_1cc930.jpg)
Anton Trón
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Dutý kameň (1985) (TV movie)
Rose Tinted Dreams (1976)
Noční jezdci (1981)
Milan Hrabinský
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Forty-Four Mutineers (1957)
322 (1969)
Niet inej cesty (1968)
Ferdinand Mazal
Best movies:
322 (1969)
Jaroslav Veškrna
Best movies:
Prípad jasnovidca Hanussena (1969) (TV movie)
322 (1969)
Smrť sa volá Engelchen (1960) (TV movie)