Báječná léta pod psa

Báječná léta pod psa (English - Those Wonderful Years That Sucked)^[1] is a 1997 movie, adapted from the book of the same title by Michal Viewegh. The film is directed by .

Plot[]

It's the beginning of the 1960s in Czechoslovakia where the heavy impact of the Soviet Union influences all the happenings in the country. A young mother, played by Libuše Šafránková and a father, played by Ondřej Vetchý, are expecting their first baby. They have already agreed on a name - Quido. The baby is due to be born on August 5, but because nothing happens as planned, Quido is born earlier, during the performance Waiting for Godot written by Samuel Beckett. This might have influenced his life because since that moment he seems to be a genius boy. Of course his intelligence makes him trouble during his teenage years at school and also during his attempts to get a girlfriend. Eventually he manages to pick the right one.

For Quido everything suddenly looks wonderful, when another disaster comes. His father starts to suffer from persecution mania after he has been degraded from his job and asked to come to a police interrogation. He changes completely and thinks that the situation becomes unbearable. That's why he is making himself a coffin. Quido's mother feels desperate and comes with an idea which could save her husband. She wants Quido to have his own baby so that her husband could see the world from a better perspective again.

Eventually the whole situation is saved not only by Quido's child, but mainly by The Velvet Revolution in 1989. As a result, Quido's father starts to feel much better. The whole atmosphere is then interrupted by the fact that it becomes more and more obvious that the situation hasn't changed that much.

Cast list[]

• Libuše Šafránková as Quido's mother
• Ondřej Vetchý as Quido's father
• as Quido - young boy
• as Quido - young man
• as Jaruška - young girl
• as Jaruška - young woman
• Vladimír Javorský as Šperk
• Vilma Cibulková as Šperková
• Miriam Kantorková as grandmother Věra
• Vladimír Dlouhý as Zvára
• Květa Fialová as grandmother Líba
• as grandfather Josef
• as dědeček Jiří
• Viktor Preiss as playwright
• Jiří Schmitzer as Dr. Liehr
• Alice Bendová as Zita
• as gateman

References[]

External links[]

• Báječná léta pod psa at IMDb

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