Smoke on the Potato Fields

In this character study by Czech director Frantisek Vlacil, a stout middle-aged physician whose marriage has come apart establishes a practice in a small town. Gradually he's drawn into the lives of his patients—a childless couple, a pregnant girl with a stern mother, the son of a duck farmer—and each relationship reveals a bit more about him and the idyllic but insular community.

• František VláčilDirector
• Václav NývltScreenplay
• František VláčilScreenplay
• Zdeněk LiškaOriginal Music Composer

• Rudolf HrušínskýDr. Meluzin
• Věra Galatíkováučitelka Pavla Kodetová
• Alois ŠvehlíkKodet
• Jana DítětováŠimonová
• Marie LogojdováMarkéta
• Nina PopelíkováMarkétina matka
• Josef SomrVlach
• Jaroslava ObermaierováVlachová
• Václav Lohniskýhrobník Jaroš
• Jan FaltýnekKarel
• Vítězslav JandákOta
• Věra TichánkováPùlpánová