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Release year: 1966

Storyline

A small group of bourgeois guests head for a birthday party of a prominent figure. As they go through the woods and have a picnic, they are suddenly surrounded by a bunch of suspicious strangers.

Top credits

Directors

Jan Nemec

Writers

Cast

Helena Pejsková — Marta
Jana Pracharová — Paní
Zdena Skvorecky — Eva
Pavel Bosek — Frantisek

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Did you know

• In this film there are no professional actors, but different personalities from the artistic circle of Prague. Ivan Vyskocil is a real-life theater director, Zdena Skvorecky and Josef Skvorecký are writers, Jan Klusák and Karel Mareš are composers, Jiri Nemec was a philosopher and translator, his wife Dana Nemcova is a psychologist, Pavel Bosek is a theater author, Evald Schorm is a film director, Milon Novotny is a photographer, etc. Their friends play the other roles.

• Famous as being "banned forever" in Czechoslovakia after the Soviet invasion.

• Jirina Jandová's debut.