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.

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Cast

Rudolf Hrušínský

Věra Galatíková

Alois Švehlík

Jana Dítětová

Marie Logojdová

Nina Popelíková

Josef Somr

Jaroslava Obermaierová

Václav Lohniský

Jan Faltýnek