Directed by:
Pavel GöblCinematography:
Jan HoráčekComposer:
Antonín VeselkaCast:
Jiří Vymětal, Patrik David, Jaroslav Dušek, Iveta Dušková, Igor Chmela, Petra Beoková, Roman Slovák, Milada Jašová, Jozef Polievka, Jan Turner, Vlasta Dušek (more)Plots(1)
An absurd tragicomedy based on the successful theater play by René Levínský, which was nominated for the Alfréd Radok Prize for the best contemporary production. Set against a backdrop of the fading genius loci of their particular world, the main characters work out or, rather, try to work out their entangled relationships. Switchman Franta Bláha ‘shoots’ himself at his own bachelor party: he and co-worker Gábina Kleinová, a cleaning woman for the railways, were planning on getting married. But that evening something else happens: Franta’s identical twin brother dies. The brother was financially much better off than Franta. And he wasn’t about to get married. Can Franta resist a sudden drunken impulse to switch identities with his deceased brother? Thus begins another summer day at a medium-sized Czech train station… (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Jiří Vymětal
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Story of a God-Father (2013)
Walking Too Fast (2009)
Fall of the Innocent (2011)
Patrik David
Best movies:
Gorila (2011)
Rail Yard Blues (2006)
Jaroslav Dušek
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Cosy Dens (1999)
Čtyři dohody (2013) (theatrical recording)
Divided We Fall (2000)
Iveta Dušková
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Divided We Fall (2000)
The Defender (2021) (series)
Restore Point (2023)
Igor Chmela
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Oblomov (2002) (theatrical recording)
Král Lear (2003) (theatrical recording)
Major Case Squad (2014) (series)
Petra Beoková
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Grapes (2008)
Rail Yard Blues (2006)
Roman Slovák
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Nineties (2022) (series)
Burning Bush (2013) (TV movie)
The Cow (1993)
Milada Jašová
Best movies:
Hop nebo trop (2004) (series)
Rail Yard Blues (2006)
Jozef Polievka
Best movies:
Sunrise Supervising (2014)
Supervising the Meaning of Dreams (2018)
Rail Yard Blues (2006)
Jan Turner
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Walking Too Fast (2009)
Gorila (2011)
Rail Yard Blues (2006)
Vlasta Dušek
Best movies:
If a Thousand Clarinets (1964)
Over and Over Again! (2005)
Ro(c)k podvraťáků (2006)
Ryszard Doliński
Poland
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Body (2015)
All Our Fears (2021)