Directed by:
Jiří Sequens st.Cinematography:
Josef IllíkComposer:
Jan NovákCast:
Ota Sklenčka, Vlasta Fialová, Svatava Hubeňáková, Monika Ottová, Zdeněk Kutil, Jarmila Kurandová, Nina Popelíková, Zdeněk Braunschläger, Ladislav Gzela (more)Plots(1)
On his way to a colleague's cremation in Olomouc, office worker Ivo Koláčný meets Milča Dlabalová after many years. They were lovers once, and they also share a terrible secret. Milča did not want to divorce her husband Dlabal during the War. To make sure she would not lose his vast fortune, she anonymously informed the Gestapo that there was going to be a secret pig-slaughtering feast at her husband's farm. Eight men from the village were imprisoned, seven of them later died in a concentration camp. Only one of them, Dlabal, returns heavily disabled. Twenty years go by. Koláčný has a young wife and a small daughter. Milča has remained childless and, three months earlier, her paralyzed husband has died. She has now qualms of conscience about what she did and wants to confess to the police. Koláčný, who at the time knew about her crime - a fact that could easily be proved - begins to fear for his comfortable life. He meets up with Milča a couple of times and pretends that the loving sentiment he once had for her has been rekindled. When he takes his daughter out on a picnic, he notices a convenient spot where he could get rid of his lover. In the marshy ground of the floodplain forest her body could disappear without trace. He lures the woman to go with him to his friend's cottage. On the way there, they "accidentally" miss the connecting train and go to take a walk in the forest. There, Koláčný strangles Milča and drags her body into the water. After a few days, he receives a phone call from Ms Dlabalová's neighbour. She has found his number and knows that he was seeing the missing woman. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Ota Sklenčka
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Ubohý pan Kufalt (1981) (TV movie)
Vajíčko (1968) (TV movie)
Sňatky z rozumu (1968) (series)
Vlasta Fialová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Lucerna (1967) (TV movie)
Stromy umírají vstoje (1998) (TV movie)
Racek (1976) (theatrical recording)
Svatava Hubeňáková
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Lokis (1986) (TV movie)
Panoptikum Města pražského (1987) (series)
Voyage to the End of the Universe (1963)
Monika Ottová
Best movies:
The Ninth Name (1963)
Zdeněk Kutil
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Ubohý pan Kufalt (1981) (TV movie)
All My Compatriots (1968)
The Good Soldier Schweik 2: Beg to Report, Sir (1957)
Jarmila Kurandová
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Higher Principle (1960)
Conscience (1948)
Barometr (1969) (TV movie)
Nina Popelíková
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
V zámku a podzámčí (1981) (TV movie)
Nezralé maliny (1980) (TV movie)
Love Between the Raindrops (1979)
Zdeněk Braunschläger
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Revizor (1971) (theatrical recording)
The Stolen Airship (1966)
On the Trail of Blood (1969)
Ladislav Gzela
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Higher Principle (1960)
Witchhammer (1969)
Once Upon a Time, There Was a King... (1954)
Jindřich Narenta
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Higher Principle (1960)
The Cremator (1968)
Run, Waiter, Run! (1980)
Josef Skrčený
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Joachim, Put It in the Machine (1974)
The Petroleum Lamps (1971)
The Princess with the Golden Star (1959)
Karel Pavlík
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Higher Principle (1960)
Charleyova teta (1969) (theatrical recording)
Men About Town (1969)
Oldřich Velen
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (1976)
All My Compatriots (1968)
Joachim, Put It in the Machine (1974)
Sylva Byšická
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Accused (1964)
A 105 p.c. Alibi (1959)
Marie (1964)
Josef Miroslav Bourek
Best movies:
The Ninth Name (1963)
Otakar Fuka
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Ninth Name (1963)
Jiří Havel
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
Poslední dopis (1973) (TV movie)
Královský život otroka (1992) (TV movie)
Lokis (1986) (TV movie)
Antonín Krčmář
Best movies:
The Cry (1963)
The Cassandra Cat (1963)
Rusalka (1962)
Jarmila Novobilská
Best movies:
The Ninth Name (1963)
Dana Richterová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Krev zmizelého (2006) (series)
Na laně (1963)
Shadows of the Deceased (2005)