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Release Date:	Jan 1997
Genres:	Comedy / Drama / Music
Awards	Won Oscar. Another 19 wins & 11 nominations
Runtime:	105 min.
Cast:	Zdenek Sverák (Frantisek Louka), Andrei Chalimon (Kolja Bilikov (as Andrej Chalimon)), Libuse Safránková (Klára) Ondrej Vetchý (Broz) Stella Zázvorková (Mother) Ladislav Smoljak (Houdek) Irina Bezrukova (Nadezda (as Irina Livanova)) Silvia Suvadova (Blanka) Liliya Malkina (Tamara (as Lilian Malkina)) Karel Hermánek (Musil) Petra Spalková (Pasa) Nella Boudová (Brozová) René Pribil (Pokorný) Miroslav TáborskĂ˝ (Novotný) Slávka Budínová (Bustiková) Jirí Sovák (Ruzicka) Josef Lakatos () Lubomir Pisa () F.X. Thuri () Milan Hermánek () Netta Deborská () Pavel Taussig () Marek Daniel () Vera Uzelacová () Miriam Chytilová () Otmar Brancuzský () Regina Rázlová (Zubatá) Veronika Freimanová (Pediatrist) Magda Sebestová (Zuzana) Filip Renc (Photographer) Pavel Vondruska () Hana Militká () Emma Cerná (Doctor at Hospital) Eva Klepácová () Lena Birková () Jan Kaspar () Jana Altmanová () Petr Splichal () Olga Cesková (Voice-Over) Lída Rakusanová (Voice-Over) Pavel Pechacek (Voice-Over) Vera Cermáková (Voice-Over) Rafael Kubelik (Himself (Philharmonic Conductor)...)

Storyline: 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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