Overview

The story takes place in Czechoslovakia in 1987. The father has defected to England and the mother and her son are planning to leave the country to reunite with him. The film is told through the eyes of the fourteen year old boy, his rankled look without the veneer of experience and initiation in one day. Autobiographical.

Top Cast

Z

Zuzana Lapčíková

Mother

M

Martin Pavlus

Son

G

Gerald Turner

Englishman

Andrea Miltner

Englishwoman

M

Martin Vrtáček

Doctor

R

Radoslav Šopík

Officer

F

Frantisek Brezík

Man in Waiting Room

V

Vlastimil Homola

Doorman

H

Hana Brezíková

Nurse