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The Wonderful Years That Sucked (1997)
Directed by Petr Nikolaev
Comedy, Drama · 1h 37m
Capturing the dark humor of Czech author Michal Viewegh's chronicle of life after the Velvet Revolution, this black comedy chronicles three decades in the life of a small Czech family. While the original novel centered on the protagonist Kvido from his conception through his adulthood, first time director Petr Nikolaev and screenwriter Jan Novak changed the focus to his parents Milena, an extremely self-effacing lawyer who acts on stage in her spare time, and Ales, a rather aimless government worker who tends to drift wherever the wind takes him. The lives of Ales and Milena change dramatically following the Russian invasion of Prague in 1968.
Cast
Ondřej Vetchý
Kvidův otec
Libuše Šafránková
Kvidova matka
Vladimír Javorský
Šperk
Jakub Wehrenberg
Kvido
Jitka Ježková
Jaruška
Vladimír Dlouhý
Ing. Jiří Zvára
Vilma Cibulková
Nina
Miriam Kantorková
babička Věra
Květa Fialová
babička Líba
Stanislav Zindulka
dědeček Josef
Crew
- Director
- Petr Nikolaev
- Screenplay
- Jan Novák
- Novel
- Michal Viewegh
- Director of Photography
- Martin Duba
- Original Music Composer
- Michal Dvořák
- Editor
- Alois Fišárek
- Producer
- Jiří Ježek, Helena Slavíková
Details
- Original title
- Báječná léta pod psa
- Release date
- 1997-04-03
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Original language
- CS
- Spoken languages
- Czech
- Countries
- Czech Republic
- Production
- Space Films, Magic Box, Krátký film Praha