Synopsis
Franta Louka is a concert cellist in Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia, a confirmed bachelor and a lady's man. Having lost his place in the state orchestra, he must make ends meet by playing at funerals and painting tombstones. But he has run up a large debt, and when his friend, the grave-digger Mr. Broz, suggests a scheme for making a lot of money by marrying a Russian woman so that she can get her Czech papers, he reluctantly agrees. She takes advantage of the situation to emigrate to West Germany, to her lover; and leaves her five-year-old son with his grandmother; when the grandmother dies, Kolya must come and live with his stepfather - Louka.
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Director (1)
Actors (2)
Production and distribution (4)
- Co-production : Pandora
- Foreign production companies : Portobello pictures, CT - Czech Television, Biograf Jan Sverak
- Film exports/foreign sales : Portobello pictures
- French distribution : Gaumont
Full credits (5)
- Executive Producer : Eric Abraham
- Screenwriter : Zdeneck Sverak
- Director of Photography : Vladimir Smutny
- Music Composer : Ondrej Soukup
- Foreign producers : Jan Sverak, Ernst Goldschmidt
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Childhood, Family
- Production language : Czech
- Production country : France (100.0%)
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French-speaking Switzerland
Helsinki
Yugoslavia
