

97 minutes
4/3/1997
Capturing the dark humor of Czech author Michal Viewegh's chronicle of life after the Velvet Revolution, this black comedy chronicles three decades in the life of a small Czech family. While the original novel centered on the protagonist Kvido from his conception through his adulthood, first time director Petr Nikolaev and screenwriter Jan Novak changed the focus to his parents Milena, an extremely self-effacing lawyer who acts on stage in her spare time, and Ales, a rather aimless government worker who tends to drift wherever the wind takes him. The lives of Ales and Milena change dramatically following the Russian invasion of Prague in 1968.

Ondřej Vetchý
as Kvidův otec

Libuše Šafránková
as Kvidova matka

Vladimír Javorský
as Šperk
Jan Zahálka
as Kvido (chlapec)

Jakub Wehrenberg
as Kvido
Klára Botková
as Jaruška (holčička)

Jitka Ježková
as Jaruška

Vladimír Dlouhý
as Ing. Jiří Zvára

Vilma Cibulková
as Nina

Miriam Kantorková
as babička Věra

Květa Fialová
as babička Líba

Stanislav Zindulka
as dědeček Josef

Otakar Brousek
as dědeček Jiří

Viktor Preiss
as dramatik Milan Holub

Jiří Schmitzer
as Dr. Liehr

Alice Bendová
as Mirjana

Emma Černá
as Zita

Miloň Čepelka
as vrátný

Otmar Brancuzský
as trenér

Lenka Vychodilová
as učitelka

Jan Hraběta
as řezník
Zdeněk David

Vlastimil Zavřel
as komisař v autoškole

Jan Slovák
Jiří Fero Burda

Aleš Najbrt

Bohumil Klepl
as lékař

Jan Vondráček
Gabriela Šromová

František Švihlík
Marie Krbová
Doubravka Svobodová
Michael Zahálka
Petr Koutecký
Jindřich Kauffmann
Jaroslav Horák

Martin Matejka
Bohumila Kuklová
Antonín Pilc
Ladislav Klepal
Lukáš Slivka
Vendulka Hladíková
Vladimír Veleta
Miloslav Uhlíř

Milena Dvorská
as (voice)
Martin Luhan
as (voice)