Synopsis
In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation. Among them is a young man who pines for a female convict.
Ratings
IMDb7.3/10
46 audience votes
Key crew
- Jiří ŠustOriginal Music Composer
- Jiří MenzelDirector
- Jiří MenzelScreenplay
- Bohumil HrabalScreenplay
Cast
- Rudolf HrušínskýTrustee
- Václav NeckářPavel Hvezdár
- Jitka ZelenohorskáJitka
- Vlastimil BrodskýProfessor
- Vladimír PtáčekMlíkar
- Ferdinand KrůtaKudla
- František ŘehákDrobecek
- Leoš SuchařípaPublic Prosecutor
- Eugen JegorovSaxophonist
- Naďa UrbánkováLenka
- Věra KřesadlováConvict
- Jaroslav SatoranskýGuard Andel
Stills
Themes
love of one's lifebased on short story