Directed by:
Dagmar KnöpfelScreenplay:
Dagmar KnöpfelCinematography:
Jan MalířComposer:
Aleš BřezinaCast:
Corinna Harfouch, Bolek Polívka, Petr Forman, Ondřej Vetchý, Anna Polívková, Táňa Fischerová, Libuše Geprtová, Adrian Jastraban, Robert Gwisdek (more)Plots(1)
The film portrays the final days of the most famous Czech authoress, Božena Nemcová, who in the mid-19th century dared to live a life free of social constraints. The novelist of the legendary "Grandmother", which Kafka still recommended for his sisters to read, sits down one evening in 1861, exhausted and deathly ill, on her last journey, which is also a final attempt to flee a broken marriage, and formulates in her desperation three draughts of a letter to Vojtech Náprstek, her last friend and patron, a letter which will never reach its intended recipient. These three draughts contain gaps and omissions, and yet they form a conclusive, self-contained portrayal of the way 19th century society revenged itself on a woman who dared to settle into a liberated life, and was doomed to fail. (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Corinna Harfouch
East Germany
Best movies:
Dying (2024)
Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997)
Downfall (2004)
Bolek Polívka
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Cosy Dens (1999)
The Elementary School (1991)
Major Case Squad (2014) (series)
Petr Forman
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Behold Homolka (1969)
The Defender (2021) (series)
Homolka and Pocketbook (1972)
Ondřej Vetchý
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Give the Devil His Due (1984)
The Elementary School (1991)
Major Case Squad (2014) (series)
Anna Polívková
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Major Case Squad (2014) (series)
The Defender (2021) (series)
Zločin v Posázavském Pacifiku (2013) (theatrical recording)
Táňa Fischerová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Operace Silver A (2007) (TV movie)
Lekár umierajúceho času (1983) (series)
Záchvěv strachu (1984)
Libuše Geprtová
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
Bratři Karamazovi (1981) (theatrical recording)
V zámku a podzámčí (1981) (TV movie)
Dnes ještě zapadá slunce nad Atlantidou (1978) (TV movie)
Adrian Jastraban
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Král Lear (2003) (theatrical recording)
Major Case Squad (2014) (series)
Burning Bush (2013) (TV movie)
Robert Gwisdek
Best movies:
Dying (2024)
3 Days in Quiberon (2018)
Die Glasbläserin (2016) (TV movie)
Matyáš Valenta
Czech Republic
Best movies:
Oběti (1999) (series)
Through This Night (2005)
Šejdrem (2008) (TV movie)
Martin Umbach
West Germany
Best movies:
The House of the Spirits (1993)
Habermann's Mill (2010)
Ace of Aces (1982)
Eva Maria Bayerwaltes
West Germany
Best movies:
Through This Night (2005)
Inga Lindström (2004) (series)
Manfred Erdmann (narrator)
Best movies:
Peter in Magicland (1990) - narrator
Through This Night (2005) - narrator
Felix - Ein Hase auf Weltreise (2005)
Michael Rüth (narrator)
Best movies:
Through This Night (2005) - narrator
The Nutcracker and the Mouseking (2004) - narrator
Driving Me Crazy (1991)