Kouzelníkův návrat (1985)
Overview
Although the title would suggest it, this film has nothing to do with fairy tales at all: it takes place in the North Moravian border region just after the end of the Second War. It presents a fragmented mosaic of the fates of many people, returnees and immigrants, who tried to start a new life and believed in a happier tomorrow. Although the director Antonín Kachlík tried to give the story a certain credibility, he submits to the ideological demands of the 1980s. North Moravian borderlands in the first post-war year: a disparate and fragmented sequence of episodes depicts the individual fates of returnees and new immigrants. Another title that perhaps did not even need to be created.
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Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | cs |
| Popularity | 0.1264 |
Directed By
Antonín Kachlík
Crew
Antonín Kachlík
Marta Křesinová
Jiří Blažek
Vera Sládková
Aleš Voverka
Eva Horázná
Tomáš Baloun
Stanislav Šťastný
Jiří Pavlásek
Jarmila Čajová
Ivana Chobotová
Zdena Kadrnožková
Štěpán Koníček
Boris Moravec
Alexandr Vrbata
Jana Nečasová
František Uldrich
Štěpán Koníček
Alena Šedová
Miroslav Vaic
Běla Suchá
František Kléma
Oldřich Mach
Lubor Červa
Martina Zikmundová
Iva Šetková
Vladimír Bor
Jiří Ondráček
Jindřich Kočí
Jaroslav Česal
Eva Martincová
Jan Helge
František Čížek
Miloslav Mirvald
TOP CAST
Birgit Frohriep
Irma Schneider
Eva Krížiková
Strejcová
Václav Kotva
Klaus Rösler
Jindřich Narenta
Kluge / Klaus Rösler (voice)
Jarmila Derková
Weaver
Cvetana Igová
Weaver
H. Kuklíková
Weaver
Eva Řepíková
Weaver
Zdeňka Rosolová
Weaver
Noemi Zárubová
Weaver
Jitka Zelenohorská
Weaver
Jiřina Zemanová
Weaver
V. Bláha
Policeman
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