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Dým bramborové nate

  • 19771977
  • 1h 35m
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Dým bramborové nate (1977)
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At the airport terminal lobby a husband and wife are parting calmly but seemingly for good. Unlike his wife Ema, the medical doctor Meluzin (Rudolf Hrusínský) is returning to his home countr... Read allAt the airport terminal lobby a husband and wife are parting calmly but seemingly for good. Unlike his wife Ema, the medical doctor Meluzin (Rudolf Hrusínský) is returning to his home country. He has become a district doctor in an area that reminds him of his childhood. He is giv... Read allAt the airport terminal lobby a husband and wife are parting calmly but seemingly for good. Unlike his wife Ema, the medical doctor Meluzin (Rudolf Hrusínský) is returning to his home country. He has become a district doctor in an area that reminds him of his childhood. He is given a room in the health-care center next to the flat of a childless Kodet's married couple... Read all
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  • Director
    • Frantisek Vlácil
  • Writers
    • Václav Nývlt(screenplay)
    • Frantisek Vlácil(screenplay)
    • Bohumil Ríha(novel "Doktor Meluzín")
  • Stars
    • Rudolf Hrusínský
    • Vera Galatíková
    • Jana Dítetová
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  • Director
    • Frantisek Vlácil
  • Writers
    • Václav Nývlt(screenplay)
    • Frantisek Vlácil(screenplay)
    • Bohumil Ríha(novel "Doktor Meluzín")
  • Stars
    • Rudolf Hrusínský
    • Vera Galatíková
    • Jana Dítetová
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    Vera Galatíková, Rudolf Hrusínský, and Marie Logojdová in Dým bramborové nate (1977)
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    Rudolf Hrusínský
    Rudolf Hrusínský
    • Dr. Meluzinas Dr. Meluzin
    Vera Galatíková
    Vera Galatíková
    • Pavla Kodetováas Pavla Kodetová
    Jana Dítetová
    Jana Dítetová
    • Simonováas Simonová
    Marie Logojdová
    • Markétaas Markéta
    Vítezslav Jandák
    Vítezslav Jandák
    • Otaas Ota
    Josef Somr
    Josef Somr
    • Vlachas Vlach
    Alois Svehlík
    Alois Svehlík
    • Kodetas Kodet
    Nina Popelíková
    Nina Popelíková
    • Markétina matkaas Markétina matka
    Václav Lohniský
    Václav Lohniský
    • Jarosas Jaros
    Jan Faltýnek
    Jan Faltýnek
    • Karelas Karel
    Jaroslava Obermaierová
    Jaroslava Obermaierová
    • Vlachováas Vlachová
    Vera Tichánková
    Vera Tichánková
    • Pùlpánováas Pùlpánová
    Václav Trégl
    Václav Trégl
    • Hybsas Hybs
    Jaroslava Tichá
    Jaroslava Tichá
    • Ema Meluzinováas Ema Meluzinová
    • Director
      • Frantisek Vlácil
    • Writers
      • Václav Nývlt(screenplay)
      • Frantisek Vlácil(screenplay)
      • Bohumil Ríha(novel "Doktor Meluzín")
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    At the airport terminal lobby a husband and wife are parting calmly but seemingly for good. Unlike his wife Ema, the medical doctor Meluzin (Rudolf Hrusínský) is returning to his home country. He has become a district doctor in an area that reminds him of his childhood. He is given a room in the health-care center next to the flat of a childless Kodet's married couple. The chairman of the Local National Committee Vlach (Josef Somr) can't stop wondering why Meluzin has left his prestigious position at his former clinic, but in time the considerate doctor wins his trust, and the trust of his patients. —NFA.cz
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    9/10
    "That's not allowed! What are you, crazy?"
    A measured, evenly paced, extremely controlled, psychologically mesmerizing film about a doctor's split with his wife, and his subsequent return to his Communist homeland, brilliantly underplayed by Rudolf Hrusinsky, a man in real life who was blacklisted in Czechoslovakia for his anti-Communist leanings, and only the slightest movement in his face could ever be detected. But he was superb in this role, his dignity challenged at every turn, but always remaining intact. He is introduced to a countryside clinic by the local Communist lackey, his quarters are spare and without possessions. Immediately, as the outsider, he is the object of the entire town's suspicion, represented in a single scene where he is smoking potatoes, something he must have learned as a child, in a small attempt to gather some semblance of himself. Yet across the landscape a cry is heard for him to put out the fire; that's not allowed; what is he, crazy? Every attempt to help someone is met with whispers behind his back and with the town's scorn. The psychological pressure to allow so little to be shown, always holding everything inside, as who knows, someone near could, and would use any piece of information against you. This film reminded me of some of the early Kieslowski films, such as the rarely seen CURRICULUM VITAE, where in that film the Communist Party pressure is relentless to obtain confessions from your neighbors for the most ordinary actions of men. To live under the pressure of such a constant cloud of suspicion, where the Party representative is rarely even seen or heard, is wonderfully transparent in this film.
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    • Jul 24, 2002

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    • Release date
      • April 1977 (Czechoslovakia)
    • Country of origin
      • Czechoslovakia
    • Language
      • Czech
    • Also known as
      • Smoke on the Potato Fields
    • Production company
      • Filmové studio Barrandov
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 35 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 4:3

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