Plot Summary
The director Ivan Balaďa was not allowed to finish this gloomy, black-and-white parable, inspired by Chekhov's short story Pavilion No. 6 - only after the fall of communism, more than twenty years later, did the film hit the cinema screens, unfortunately to negligible acclaim. In fact, it is only now that we can fully enjoy the story of an aging, increasingly exhausted mental institution doctor who is inexorably sinking to the level of his patients.
Movie Details
- Original Title
- Archa bláznů aneb Vyprávění z konce života
- Status
- released
- Original Language
- cs
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Cast
Zlatomír Vacek
Andrej Jefimyč Ragin
Vladimír Merta
Ivan Dmitrič Gromov
Slavoj Urban
Michail Averjanyč Goljubkin
Antonín Horák
Jevgenij Fjodoryč Chobotov
Pavel Michailov
Nikita
André Maroun-Gédéon
Mojsejka
Ivan Králík
Sergej Sergejevič
Milica Linhartová
Naděžda Osipovna
Zuzana Fišárková
Štěpka
Hana Slivková
Marja Prokofjevna Chobotova
Elena Zvaríková-Pappová
Varvara
Vojtěch Ron
Lev Trofimovič
Ladislav Brothánek
Jefrim
Mnislav Hofmann
Semjonov
Jiří Ptáček
Deaf-Mute
Václav Provazník
Deaf-Mute
Alois Krameš
Inmate
Zora Rozsypalová
Woman
Eva Řepíková
Reporter
Vlastimila Vlková
Darja Pavlovna
Production Companies
Filmové studio Barrandov