Overview

In this character study by Czech director Frantisek Vlacil, a stout middle-aged physician whose marriage has come apart establishes a practice in a small town. Gradually he's drawn into the lives of his patients—a childless couple, a pregnant girl with a stern mother, the son of a duck farmer—and each relationship reveals a bit more about him and the idyllic but insular community.

Genres

Cast

Rudolf Hrušínský

Dr. Meluzin

Věra Galatíková

učitelka Pavla Kodetová

Alois Švehlík

Kodet

Jana Dítětová

Šimonová

Marie Logojdová

Markéta

Nina Popelíková

Markétina matka

Josef Somr

Vlach

Jaroslava Obermaierová

Vlachová

Václav Lohniský

hrobník Jaroš

Vítězslav Jandák

Ota

Věra Tichánková

Pùlpánová

Václav Trégl

Hybs