Directed by:
Věra ChytilováCinematography:
Jaromír ŠofrComposer:
Jiří ŠustCast:
Antonín Vaňha, Lukáš Bech, Eva Kačírková, Jiří Kodet, Alena Rýcová, Michal Nesvadba, Oldřich Navrátil, Miluše Šplechtová, Bronislav Poloczek (more)Plots(1)
A new housing estate is being built on the edge of Prague. Although the building work has not yet been finished, people are already moving into the flats. Provisional roads made from pieces of boarding snake their way through the blocks of concrete, droning construction vehicles and sludge pits, the residents balancing on them when doing their errands. Day-to-day life begins after a fashion anyway though, albeit in a makeshift way. In the middle of this confusion, a taxi driver is looking for directions but no-one seems to know the street he's looking for. Grandfather Honda is sitting in the back of the taxi and wants to visit his children and grandchildren in the new district. The old man is from a small village and finds it difficult to take in everything he finds here. His path is constantly crossed by a little boy, Pepik, who seems to thrive on the whole chaos. He actually enjoys getting involved in complicated situations and then making them even more complicated. Pepik and Grandpa Honda represent two opposing poles in the tangle of interpersonal relations that unfold before the backdrop of the half-finished construction site. (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Marta Richterová
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
Men About Town (1969)
On the Comet (1970)
I Enjoy the World with You (1982)
Monika Švábová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Přes přísný zákaz dotýká se sněhu (2005) (theatrical recording)
Man versus Ruin (1989)
Celebrity s. r. o. (2007) (theatrical recording)
Jana Viščaková
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping (1983)
The Last Butterfly (1990)
Křehké vztahy (1979)
Kateřina Vlková
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Story from a Housing Estate (1979)
Death of Hitch-Hikers (1979)
Drahý Bedřichu (1985) (TV movie)
Květoslava Vonešová
Best movies:
Story from a Housing Estate (1979)
Traps (1998)
Expulsion from Paradise (2001)
Jaroslav Vozáb
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Conquest of the North Pole (1987) (theatrical recording)
Dlouhý, Široký a Krátkozraký (1987) (theatrical recording)
Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (1976)
Ivan Havlíček
Best movies:
Story from a Housing Estate (1979)
Kam nikdo nesmí (1979)
Iva Hercíková
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Waiter, Scarper! (1980)
Story from a Housing Estate (1979)
Tereza Kučerová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Smoke (1990)
Pražská 5 (1988)
The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun (1983)
Marie Sismilichová
Best movies:
Story from a Housing Estate (1979)
Luděk Pallát
Best movies:
Story from a Housing Estate (1979)
Olga Michálková
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (1976)
Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping (1983)
Lenin, Lord and Mother (1990)
Jana Marková
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
Forbidden Dreams (1986)
All My Compatriots (1968)
Lenin, Lord and Mother (1990)
Marek Vašut
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Mňága - Happy End (1996)
Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003) (TV movie)
La Vie en rose (2007)
Jiří Císler
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Pohádky pod sněhem (1985)
The Ear (1970)
The Golden Eels (1979) (TV movie)
Jiří Ondráček
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Story from a Housing Estate (1979)
Věrní abonenti (2001) (TV movie)
Případ mrtvých spolužáků (1976)
Nina Divíšková
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Příběhy obyčejného šílenství (2009) (theatrical recording)
Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping (1983)
Podivné odpoledne Dr. Zvonka Burkeho (1991) (theatrical recording)