Directed by:
Věra ChytilováScreenplay:
Věra ChytilováCinematography:
Jan ČuříkComposer:
Jiří ŠlitrCast:
Eva Bosáková, Věra Uzelacová, Josef Langmiler, Jiří Kodet, Milivoj Uzelac ml., Jaroslava Matlochová, Luboš Ogoun, Vladimír Bosák, Dagmar Cejnková (more)VOD (1)
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Eva is a gymnast, training for an important competition after which she wants to drop the career of professional sportswoman. Věra is a housewife caring for a four-year old son and a husband. The two women do not know each other, but still have many things in common - they both are in their thirties, and both have found themselves in the whirligig of day-to-day stereotypes which make them worn out and disgusted. Věra tries to solve her dissatisfaction with life by finding a lover, Eva is forced by her husband, her coach and a ballet master to carry on with her endless training for competition. Eventually she manages to learn even the feared backwards salto. After some time, Věra realizes she does not have anything in common with her lover, and splits with him. Eva wins the competition. Now, she will have enough time to indulge in her hobbies and to realize her dreams. She, however, is unable to leave the gym and becomes a coach herself. Věra does not change her life either, although fate offers her a chance: her husband tells her he wants to get divorced. Only then does she begin to fight for her marriage and eventually manages to get her husband to stay with her and the child. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Eva Bosáková
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Something Different (1963)
Bylo čtvrt a bude půl (1968)
Věra Uzelacová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Kolya (1996)
Swingtime (2007) (TV movie)
Nobody Gets the Last Laugh (1965)
Josef Langmiler
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Romeo a Julie na konci listopadu (1971) (TV movie)
Alexandr Dumas starší (1970) (series)
Dařbuján a Pandrhola (1959)
Jiří Kodet
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Cosy Dens (1999)
Higher Principle (1960)
Revizor (1971) (theatrical recording)
Milivoj Uzelac ml.
Best movies:
Something Different (1963)
Místenka bez návratu (1964)
Jaroslava Matlochová
Best movies:
Something Different (1963)
Luboš Ogoun
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Something Different (1963)
Šťastný Jim (1969) (TV movie)
30 Virgins and Pythagoras (1973)
Vladimír Bosák
Best movies:
Something Different (1963)
Dagmar Cejnková
Best movies:
If a Thousand Clarinets (1964)
Something Different (1963)
Five Girls Around the Neck (1967)
Jiří Cejnek
Best movies:
Ikarie XB 1 (1963)
Something Different (1963)
Oldřich Červinka
Best movies:
Something Different (1963)
Rudolf Kyznar
Best movies:
Something Different (1963)
Věra Čáslavská
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
Something Different (1963)
František Filipovský
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Hamlet (1986) (theatrical recording)
Lišák Pseudolus (1960) (TV movie)
Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (1976)
Antonín Bahenský
Best movies:
Something Different (1963)
Martyrs of Love (1966)
Helena Štvánová
Best movies:
Green Gold (1964)
Something Different (1963)
The King of Kings (1963)