Directed by:
Ivan BalaďaScreenplay:
Lubor DohnalCinematography:
Juraj ŠajmovičComposer:
Štěpán KoníčekCast:
Zlatomír Vacek, Antonín Horák, Vladimír Merta, Elena Zvaríková-Pappová, Zora Rozsypalová, Eva Řepíková, Vlastimila Vlková, Zuzana Fišárková, Hana Slivková (more)Plots(1)
A Czech film by the Slovak director Ivan Balaďa based on the short story by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Ward No. 6, which was among the films whose production began in the late 1960s, but they had to be finished in 1990 after the Velvet Revolution because of a ban. – A whole spectrum of human characters and figures are living in an abandoned hospital – perhaps a former farmstead – in a non-specified Russian governorate. The patients marked by the society as mentally ill are placed in Ward no. 6. The institution is lead by an old head doctor Andrey Ragin, an internally broken man who is aware of his defeat in life. He grows close with a young patient named Ivan Gromov suffering from persecution mania. However, Gromov's opinions are actually based on a certain logic and maybe they are not as far from reality as they seem... (MFFK Febiofest)
(more)Cast
Zlatomír Vacek
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Těžká Barbora (1960) (theatrical recording)
The Devil's Trap (1961)
The Ballad on the Seven Hanged (1968) (TV movie)
Antonín Horák
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Králův kalich (1974) (TV movie)
The Ark of Fools (1970)
Tana and Two Gunmen (1967)
Vladimír Merta
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Yes, My Dear Friends! (1989)
Marta Kubišová 1990 (1990) (concert)
Pražákům, těm je hej (1990)
Elena Zvaríková-Pappová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Forty-Four Mutineers (1957)
Kým kohút nezaspieva (1972)
Zora Rozsypalová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
...and Give My Love to the Swallows (1972)
Catherine and Her Children (1970)
The Night Overtake Me (1985)
Eva Řepíková
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Svatba jako řemen (1967)
Hope (1963)
The End of a Priest (1968)
Vlastimila Vlková
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
My Sweet Little Village (1985)
Joachim, Put It in the Machine (1974)
Happy End (1967)
Zuzana Fišárková
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Romeo, Juliet and Darkness (1959)
Cops and Robbers (2001) (series)
Morgiana (1972)
Hana Slivková
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Sváko Ragan (1976) (TV movie)
The Boxer and Death (1962)
Ladislav Brothánek
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Why? (1987)
The Prince and the Evening Star (1978)
Go Back to Your Grave! (1989)
Vojtěch Ron
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Granny (1971) (TV movie)
The Little Sugar House (1980)
Křehké vztahy (1979)
André Maroun-Gédéon
Best movies:
The Ark of Fools (1970)
Mnislav Hofmann
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Love Between the Raindrops (1979)
Christmas with Elizabeth (1968)
The Nun's Night (1967)
Josef Němeček
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Adelheid (1969)
The Seventh Day, the Eighth Night (1969)
Five Girls Around the Neck (1967)