Directed by:
Susan KodicekScreenplay:
Susan KodicekCinematography:
Ivan ŠlapetaComposer:
Ilona SekaczCast:
Hugh Laurie, Florence Hoath, Alex Kingston, Joan Plowright, Ian Bannen, Imogen Stubbs, Tomáš Hanák, Ian Hogg, Věra Kalendová, Zdenka Procházková (more)Plots(1)
A British-Czech coproduction FROM British director Hannah Kodicek which looks at the postwar Communist dictatorship in Czechoslovakia through the eyes of a seven-year-old girl. Maruška grows up in Prague in the fifties, raised more by her relatives than her zealous, society-building mother. (official distributor synopsis)
Cast
![Hugh Laurie](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/157/162157167_4debaa.png)
Hugh Laurie
UK
Best movies:
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012) - a.f.
The Place of Lions (1997) (TV movie)
Florence Hoath
UK
Best movies:
The Governess (1998)
Agatha Christie's Marple (2004) (series)
Tom's Midnight Garden (1999)
![Alex Kingston](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/424/424173_72a9a7.jpg)
Alex Kingston
UK
Best movies:
Macbeth (2013) (theatrical recording)
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
Croupier (1998)
![Joan Plowright](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/269/269467_ec631f.jpg)
Joan Plowright
UK
Best movies:
Drowning by Numbers (1988)
Moby Dick (1956)
Dinosaur (2000)
![Ian Bannen](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/270/270764_9cb143.jpg)
Ian Bannen
UK
Best movies:
Braveheart (1995)
The Hill (1965)
Gandhi (1982)
![Imogen Stubbs](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/064/158064347_59f014.jpg)
Imogen Stubbs
UK
Best movies:
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Twelfth Night: Or What You Will (1996)
Agatha Christie's Marple (2004) (series)
![Tomáš Hanák](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/647/161647185_e9a84a.jpg)
Tomáš Hanák
Czechoslovakia
Ian Hogg
UK
Best movies:
Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003) (TV movie)
The Last Valley (1971)
Lady Jane (1986)
![Věra Kalendová](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/268/268376_708fdb.jpg)
Věra Kalendová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Ball Lightning (1978)
Hostinec „U kamenného stolu“ (1948)
Cops and Robbers (2001) (series)
![Zdenka Procházková](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/268/268430_201aa6.jpg)
Zdenka Procházková
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Distant Journey (1948)
A Dead Man Among the Living (1946)
I ve smrti sami (2004) (TV movie)
![Miriam Hynková](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/268/268357_e2de62.jpg)
Miriam Hynková
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Případ Platfus (1985) (TV movie)
Egyptologové (1974) (TV movie)
Opory společnosti (1972) (TV movie)
![Zuzana Geislerová](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/444/444275_f9ad7b.jpg)
Zuzana Geislerová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Forbidden Dreams (1986)
Borg vs. McEnroe (2017)
Lovers in the Year One (1973)
![Jan Nemejovský](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/242/161242736_14aa00.png)
Jan Nemejovský
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
Loners (2000)
All My Loved Ones (1999)
The Last Butterfly (1990)
![David Schneider](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/275/275748_5965fb.jpg)
David Schneider
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Give the Devil His Due (1984)
On the Trail of Blood (1969)
Cops and Robbers (2001) (series)
![Stanislav Hájek](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/143/058/143058462_7d6054.jpg)
Stanislav Hájek
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Give the Devil His Due (1984)
The Elementary School (1991)
Merlin aneb Pustá zem (1988) (theatrical recording)
![Rosalie Crutchley](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/330/160330959_4964a9.jpg)
Rosalie Crutchley
UK
Best movies:
Cadfael (1994) (series)
The Nun's Story (1959)
Agatha Christie: Poirot (1989) (series)
Miki Kučera
Best movies:
The Millennial Bee (1983)
Like Rabbits (1981)
A Pin for the Butterfly (1994)
![Miroslav Táborský](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/268/268556_7a349b.jpg)
Miroslav Táborský
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Maškaráda čili Fantom Opery (2009) (theatrical recording)
Soudné sestry (2007) (theatrical recording)
Kolya (1996)
Barbara Keogh
UK
Best movies:
The Hiding Place (1975)
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
Whoops Apocalypse (1986)
Desmond Mcnamara
UK
Best movies:
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Lucky Break (2001)
A Pin for the Butterfly (1994)