Directed by:
Evald SchormCinematography:
Jaromír ŠofrComposer:
Jan KlusákCast:
Vlastimil Brodský, Jan Libíček, Jana Brejchová, Zdena Salivarová-Škvorecká, Jaroslav Satoranský, Vladimír Valenta, Helena Růžičková, Josefa Pechlátová (more)Plots(1)
A charming story of a church caretaker to whom fate provides the opportunity to pose as a vicar in an obscure mountain village. With personable and rare sympathy for human weakness, he fulfills his role to the general satisfaction of a village longing for spiritual comfort. It's as if this false priest has breathed new life into the villagers and thus changes the absurd image of this idyllic village. In a hectic conclusion full of intrigue and plot twists, he gives into the temptation that has surrounded him. The film deals with tolerance as one of the basic conditions necessary for one's full and undistorted personal fulfillment and for human happiness in this world, as well as belief in honesty, decency, fairness and love as values that are the foundation for everything that makes sense. (Zlín Film Festival)
(more)Cast
![Blažena Kramešová](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/428/428868_75260b.jpg)
Blažena Kramešová
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
Run, Waiter, Run! (1980)
On the Comet (1970)
Young Bohácek's Sufferings (1969)
Paul Leclér
Best movies:
The End of a Priest (1968)
Dita Saxová (1967)
Murder Czech Style (1966)
![Josef Škvorecký](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/225/158225576_67046e.jpg)
Josef Škvorecký
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
A Report on the Party and Guests (1966)
The End of a Priest (1968)
Crime in the Night Club (1968)
![Marie Štrosová-Steinerová](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/275/275700_c506a8.jpg)
Marie Štrosová-Steinerová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The End of a Priest (1968)
Auntie's Fantasies (1941)
Ryba na suchu (1942)
Alena Nováková
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The End of a Priest (1968)
![Karel Mareš](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/268/268163_e0b4d9.jpg)
Karel Mareš
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Larks on a String (1969)
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)
A Report on the Party and Guests (1966)
![Vladimír Hrabánek](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/268/268132_dec367.jpg)
Vladimír Hrabánek
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Give the Devil His Due (1984)
Semafor - Největší hity (2005) (video compilation)
Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (1976)
![Vladimír Navrátil](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/275/275738_0d5dcc.jpg)
Vladimír Navrátil
Best movies:
Witchhammer (1969)
Three Wishes for Cinderella (1973)
The Assassination (1964)
Šulc
Best movies:
The End of a Priest (1968)
Petr Čunderlík
Best movies:
The End of a Priest (1968)
Jiří Roll
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The End of a Priest (1968)
A 105 p. c. Alibi (1959)
Portáši (1947)
![Jiří Růžička ml.](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/268/268649_455037.jpg)
Jiří Růžička ml.
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Give the Devil His Due (1984)
Three Wishes for Cinderella (1973)
The End of a Priest (1968)
Václav Havlík
Best movies:
The End of a Priest (1968)
To the Woods (2012)
![Jaroslav Moučka](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/268/268728_2c516e.jpg)
Jaroslav Moučka
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Men About Town (1969)
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1977)
Sňatky z rozumu (1968) (series)
Jiřina Jandová
Best movies:
The Cremator (1968)
The Petroleum Lamps (1971)
A Report on the Party and Guests (1966)