Directed by:
Evald SchormCinematography:
Jaromír ŠofrComposer:
Jan KlusákCast:
Vlastimil Brodský, Jan Libíček, Jana Brejchová, Zdena Salivarová-Škvorecká, Jaroslav Satoranský, Vladimír Valenta, Helena Růžičková, Josefa Pechlátová (more)Plots(1)
A charming story of a church caretaker to whom fate provides the opportunity to pose as a vicar in an obscure mountain village. With personable and rare sympathy for human weakness, he fulfills his role to the general satisfaction of a village longing for spiritual comfort. It's as if this false priest has breathed new life into the villagers and thus changes the absurd image of this idyllic village. In a hectic conclusion full of intrigue and plot twists, he gives into the temptation that has surrounded him. The film deals with tolerance as one of the basic conditions necessary for one's full and undistorted personal fulfillment and for human happiness in this world, as well as belief in honesty, decency, fairness and love as values that are the foundation for everything that makes sense. (Zlín Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Eva Řepíková
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Svatba jako řemen (1967)
Hope (1963)
The End of a Priest (1968)
Libuše Freslová
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Wolf Trap (1957)
The End of a Priest (1968)
Poslední růže od Casanovy (1966)
Jana Synková
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
Forbidden Dreams (1986)
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Ludmila Lebedová
Best movies:
All My Compatriots (1968)
The End of a Priest (1968)
Antonín Lebeda
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Good Soldier Schweik (1956)
The End of a Priest (1968)
The Return of the Prodigal Son (1966)
Andrea Čunderlíková
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The End of a Priest (1968)
Ticket to the Memorial (1975) (TV movie)
Viktor Veliký (1988) (TV movie)
Karel Bělohradský
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
Witchhammer (1969)
Ball Lightning (1978)
Adelheid (1969)
Jiří Hartman
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The End of a Priest (1968)
The Return of the Prodigal Son (1966)
Jak se krade milión (1967)
Petr Kopřiva
Best movies:
Joachim, Put It in the Machine (1974)
You Are a Widow, Sir (1970)
The End of a Priest (1968)
Pavel Landovský
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Revizor (1971) (theatrical recording)
The Valley of the Bees (1967)
Adelheid (1969)
Marie Rybníčková
Best movies:
The End of a Priest (1968)
Kovařík
Best movies:
The End of a Priest (1968)
Kučírek
Best movies:
The End of a Priest (1968)
Zuzana Rumlová
Best movies:
The Cremator (1968)
Witchhammer (1969)
The End of a Priest (1968)
Karel Semerád
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Tale of John and Mary (1980)
The End of a Priest (1968)
Třetí skoba pro Kocoura (1983)
Václav Vodák
Best movies:
The Cremator (1968)
Oil Lamps (1971)
The Party and the Guests (1966)
J. Havlíková
Best movies:
Oil Lamps (1971)
The End of a Priest (1968)
The Seventh Day, the Eighth Night (1969)
Čelakovský
Best movies:
The End of a Priest (1968)
Kropáček
Best movies:
The End of a Priest (1968)
Why? (1987)
Karel Hovorka st.
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Jako kníže Rohan (1983) (TV movie)
The Cremator (1968)
Secluded, Near Woods (1976)