Directed by:
Evald SchormScreenplay:
Evald SchormCinematography:
František UldrichComposer:
Jan KlusákCast:
Jan Kačer, Jana Brejchová, Jiří Menzel, Milan Morávek, Dana Medřická, Anna Lebedová, Antonín Lebeda, Jiřina Třebická, Jiří Kylián, Nina Divíšková (more)Plots(1)
A psychological drama reflecting the existential anxiety and moral dilemmas of a seemingly successful, thirty-year-old engineer with an attractive wife and a good job in a project office, who - despite all this - attempts suicide. This disconcerting story of a deep psychological crisis of a man looking for his freedom and for his true self becomes a penetrating analysis of the desolate state of the whole society. (Summer Film School)
(more)Cast
![Jan Kačer](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/268/268666_f9ae76.jpg)
Jan Kačer
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Král Lear (2003) (theatrical recording)
The Valley of the Bees (1967)
Death Is Called Engelchen (1963)
![Jana Brejchová](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/281/164281468_a9e15f.jpg)
Jana Brejchová
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
Higher Principle (1960)
Půlpenny (1974) (TV movie)
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1961)
![Jiří Menzel](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/762/164762519_8e2558.jpg)
Jiří Menzel
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Elementary School (1991)
The Cremator (1968)
Larks on a String (1969)
Milan Morávek
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Riders in the Sky (1968)
The Return of the Prodigal Son (1966)
Poslední růže od Casanovy (1966)
![Dana Medřická](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/268/268983_2bfaf7.jpg)
Dana Medřická
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Kočičí hra (1982) (theatrical recording)
Sňatky z rozumu (1968) (series)
Půlpenny (1974) (TV movie)
Anna Lebedová
Best movies:
Antonín Lebeda
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Good Soldier Schweik (1956)
The End of a Priest (1968)
The Return of the Prodigal Son (1966)
![Jiřina Třebická](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/274/274108_c10370.jpg)
Jiřina Třebická
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Larks on a String (1969)
Dobří holubi se vracejí (1988)
Love Between the Raindrops (1979)
Jiří Kylián
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Kylián - Mosty času (2018) (theatrical recording)
The Return of the Prodigal Son (1966)
![Nina Divíšková](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/268/268300_2e99ee.jpg)
Nina Divíšková
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Příběhy obyčejného šílenství (2009) (theatrical recording)
Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping (1983)
Podivné odpoledne Dr. Zvonka Burkeho (1991) (theatrical recording)
Klára Kačerová
Best movies:
![Hana Kreihanslová](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/157/950/157950045_f75233.jpg)
Hana Kreihanslová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Vajíčko (1968) (TV movie)
Honour and Glory (1968)
Nobody Will Laugh (1965)
![Josef A. Stehlík](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/165/809/165809785_655718.jpg)
Josef A. Stehlík
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping (1983)
Joachim, Put It in the Machine (1974)
Půlpenny (1974) (TV movie)
![Bohumil Koška](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/157/950/157950112_ac6404.jpg)
Bohumil Koška
Best movies:
Three Wishes for Cinderella (1973)
All My Compatriots (1968)
Adela Has Not Had Her Supper Yet (1978)
![Leoš Suchařípa](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/268/268151_cd68f2.jpg)
Leoš Suchařípa
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Revizor (1971) (theatrical recording)
Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping (1983)
Larks on a String (1969)
Josef Šulc
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Ear (1970)
Marketa Lazarová (1967)
The Return of the Prodigal Son (1966)
![Josef Vondráček](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/097/319/97319158_c0754e.jpg)
Josef Vondráček
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
My Sweet Little Village (1985)
Revizor (1971) (theatrical recording)
Hráči (1983) (theatrical recording)
Josef Janeček
Best movies:
Olympie Janečková
Best movies:
![Karel Hovorka st.](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/275/275705_643e4d.jpg)
Karel Hovorka st.
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Jako kníže Rohan (1983) (TV movie)
The Cremator (1968)
Secluded, Near Woods (1976)