Directed by:
Zbyněk BrynychCinematography:
Jan KališComposer:
Jiří SternwaldCast:
Jiří Vala, Jiřina Švorcová, Jiřina Jirásková, Valtr Taub, Ivo Palec, Josef Vinklář, Jarmila Kurandová, Libuše Matějová, Ota Sklenčka, Karel Pavlík (more)Plots(1)
Czech immigrant Frantisek Král has a terrible car accident in West Berlin. The West German secret service immediately takes advantage of the situation, provides him with a new identity and starts training Král, who is suffering from partial amnesia, to become a spy and to get hold of a microfilm from Prague. At first everything goes according to plan, but when he realises his home town is anything but the dreary, suffering place that had been drummed into him, things move in a different direction. (International Film Festival Rotterdam)
(more)Cast
Jiří Vala
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Naši furianti (1983) (theatrical recording)
Sňatky z rozumu (1968) (series)
Byl jednou jeden dům (1974) (series)
Jiřina Švorcová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Paní Marjánka, matka pluku aneb Ženské srdce (1980) (TV movie)
Radúz a Mahulena (1959) (TV movie)
Smugglers of Death (1959)
Jiřina Jirásková
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Men About Town (1969)
Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping (1983)
Sňatky z rozumu (1968) (series)
Valtr Taub
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Death Is Called Engelchen (1963)
Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (1966)
The End of Agent W4C (1967)
Ivo Palec
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Valmont (1989)
I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen (1969)
Skok do tmy (1964)
Josef Vinklář
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Ikaros' Fall (1977) (TV movie)
Dva na koni, jeden na oslu (1977) (theatrical recording)
Ubohý pan Kufalt (1981) (TV movie)
Jarmila Kurandová
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Higher Principle (1960)
Conscience (1948)
Barometr (1969) (TV movie)
Libuše Matějová
German Empire
Best movies:
Dissolved and Effused (1984)
Léto s kovbojem (1976)
Silvery Wind (1954)
Ota Sklenčka
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Ubohý pan Kufalt (1981) (TV movie)
Vajíčko (1968) (TV movie)
Sňatky z rozumu (1968) (series)
Karel Pavlík
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Higher Principle (1960)
Charleyova teta (1969) (theatrical recording)
Men About Town (1969)
Jaroslav Moučka
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Men About Town (1969)
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1977)
Sňatky z rozumu (1968) (series)
Jiří Smutný
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Lucerna (1967) (TV movie)
Merlin aneb Pustá zem (1988) (theatrical recording)
Forgotten Light (1996)
Josef Kozák
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Higher Principle (1960)
Romeo, Juliet and Darkness (1959)
The Secret of Blood (1953)
František Miška
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
I Survived Certain Death (1960)
When the Woman Butts In (1959)
That Kind of Love (1959)
Václav Podhorský
Best movies:
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
The Stolen Airship (1966)
Death Is Called Engelchen (1963)
Milena Zahrynowská
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
Lemonade Joe (1964)
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)
Prípad jasnovidca Hanussena (1969) (TV movie)
Zdeněk Štábla
Best movies:
Skid (1960)
Karel Vlach
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
If a Thousand Clarinets (1964)
In the Penalty Area (1950)
Okénko do nebe (1940)
Jindřich Narenta
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Higher Principle (1960)
The Cremator (1968)
Waiter, Scarper! (1980)
Jan Kühmund
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Higher Principle (1960)
Funeral Ceremonies (1969)
The Chintamani Carpet and a Swindler (1964)