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Movie profile

Pearls of the Deep

5.8/ 1019661h 47m

Comedy

A quintet of vignettes based on short stories by Bohumil Hrabal: an eventful trip to the motorcycle races results in drunkenness, long-winded discussions, and death; two elderly men create false biographies; insurance agents visit an eccentric painter/goat farmer and his mother; guests at a wedding reception remain oblivious to outlying misery; and a working-class boy romances a Roma girl.

Directed by Evald Schorm

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Behind the frames

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The cast

Faces behind the story

Pavla Maršálková

Mother (segment "Smrt pana Baltazara")

Ferdinand Krůta

Ferdinand Krůta

Father František (segment "Smrt pana Baltazara")

Alois Vachek

Disabled Man (segment "Smrt pana Baltazara")

Emil Iserle

Uncle (segment "Smrt pana Baltazara")

Miroslav Nohýnek

Lover (segment "Smrt pana Baltazara")

Slávka Španková

Lover (segment "Smrt pana Baltazara")

Bohumil Hrabal

Bohumil Hrabal

Spectator (segment "Smrt pana Baltazara")

Jiří Menzel

Jiří Menzel

Cyclist (segment "Smrt pana Baltazara")