Movielogr
Archa bláznů aneb Vyprávění z konce života (1990)
Directed by Ivan Balaďa
Overview
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.
Length 105 minutes
Actors
Zlatomír Vacek | Vladimír Merta | Slavoj Urban | Antonín Horák | Hana Slivková | Ivan Králík | Milica Linhartová | André Maroun-Gédéon | Vojtěch Ron | Elena Pappová | Ladislav Brothánek | Pavel Michailov | Milena Vopatová | Ladislav Gzela | Zuzana Fišárková | Mnislav Hofman (as Mnislav Hofmann) | Jiří Ptáček | Václav Provazník | Alois Krameš | Vlastimila Vlková | Pavel Pekárek | Jana Posseltová | Zora Rozsypalová | Eva Řepíková | Olga Čechová | Marie Hatleová | Julius Albert | Žofie Housová | Jiřina Jelenská | Zuzana Fréharová | Vratislav Žídek | Klára Dohnalová | Jan Drnek | Vladimír Švabík | Vít Haderka | Magdalena Šebestová | Libuše Komancová | Šárka Štembergová | Natalie Švabíková | Klementina Zunová | F. Andres | J. Konůpka | J. Šafránek | J. Zeman | K. Rys | K. Zuna | L. Hanuš | I. Pešl | M. Svoboda | I. Hezinová | M. Stupka | Josef Němeček | J. Navrátil | J. Vacek | Pavel Landovský | Josef Abrhám | Jiří Hálek | Slávka Budínová | František Husák | Eva Svobodová