105 minutes
11/1/1990
The director Ivan Balaďa was not allowed to finish this gloomy, black-and-white parable, inspired by Chekhov's short story Pavilion No. 6 - only after the fall of communism, more than twenty years later, did the film hit the cinema screens, unfortunately to negligible acclaim. In fact, it is only now that we can fully enjoy the story of an aging, increasingly exhausted mental institution doctor who is inexorably sinking to the level of his patients.
Zlatomír Vacek
as Andrej Jefimyč Ragin
Vladimír Merta
as Ivan Dmitrič Gromov
Slavoj Urban
as Michail Averjanyč Goljubkin
Antonín Horák
as Jevgenij Fjodoryč Chobotov
Hana Slivková
as Marja Prokofjevna Chobotova
Ivan Králík
as Sergej Sergejevič
Milica Linhartová
as Naděžda Osipovna
André Maroun-Gédéon
as Mojsejka
Vojtěch Ron
as Lev Trofimovič
Elena Zvaríková-Pappová
as Varvara
Ladislav Brothánek
as Jefrim
Pavel Michailov
as Nikita
Milena Vopatová
Ladislav Gzela
Zuzana Fišárková
Mnislav Hofmann
Jiří Ptáček
Václav Provazník
Alois Krameš
Vlastimila Vlková
as Darja Pavlovna
Pavel Pekárek
Jana Posseltová
Zora Rozsypalová
Eva Řepíková
Olga Čechová
Marie Hatleová
Julius Albert
Žofie Housová
Jiřina Jelenská
Zuzana Fréharová
Vratislav Žídek
Klára Dohnalová
Jan Drnek
Vladimír Švabík
Vít Haderka
Magdalena Šebestová
Libuše Komancová
Šárka Štembergová
Natalie Švabíková
Klementina Zunová
F. Andres
J. Konůpka
J. Šafránek
J. Zeman
K. Rys
K. Zuna
L. Hanuš
I. Pešl
M. Svoboda
I. Hezinová
M. Stupka
Josef Němeček
J. Navrátil
J. Vacek
Pavel Landovský
as Narrator (voice) / Nikita (voice)
Josef Abrhám
as Narrator (voice) / Ivan Dmitrič Gromov (voice)
Jiří Hálek
as Jevgenij Fjodoryč Chobotov (voice)
Slávka Budínová
as Marja Prokofjevna Chobotova (voice)
František Husák
as Sergej Sergejevič (voice)
Eva Svobodová
as Darja Pavlovna (voice)