Lost Children (1957)
In the middle of the eighteenth century, at the time of the Prusso-Austrian War, a cuirassier, a hussar and an infantryman meet by chance and hide together in a secluded place. The war has left different marks on each of them, but they all long for normal human happiness. Although they initially have different attitudes towards military service, they are changed by their stay in seclusion and the atmosphere of life in a peasant cottage and refuse to return to the Austrian army. But all three Theresian "misfits" take up arms again, which they no longer want to touch, when the solitude is overrun by the Prussians. They manage to cover the escape of the family and their child, but pay with their lives.
Director:
Miloš Makovec
Writers:
Miloš Makovec, Jiří Kolář, Otomar Krejča, Jiří Brdečka.
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Gustáv Valach as Cuirassier |
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Stanislav Fišer as Infantryman Václav |
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Vladimír Hlavatý as Hussar |
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Alena Vránová as Baruska |
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Radovan Lukavský as Jira |
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Karel Enzmann as Prussian officer |
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Jan Maška as Soldier Safarík |
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Vladimír Huber as Peasant |
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Ladislav Gzela as Ziethen's hussar |
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Vladimír Klemens as Ziethen's hussar |
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Eva Očenášová as Peasant woman |
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Ivana Fišerová as Child on the car |
| Directing | Věra Chytilová | Assistant Director |
| Production | Rudolf Fencl | Production Manager |
| Directing | Zdena Štekrová | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Miroslav Kubišta | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Jiří Šafář | Assistant Camera |
| Art | Ladislav Winkelhöfer | Set Decoration |
| Production | Václav Cajthaml | Unit Production Manager |
| Art | Michael Romberg | Art Designer |
| Sound | Štěpán Koníček | Conductor |
| Camera | Jan Kváča | Assistant Camera |
| Writing | František Daniel | Creative Producer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Jarmila Romanová | Costumer |
| Sound | Jan Rychlík | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Jiří Brdečka | Story |
| Production | Karel Feix | Executive Producer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Vladimír Černý | Makeup & Hair |
| Directing | Miloš Makovec | Director |
| Camera | Vladimír Novotný | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Alois Jirásek | Short Story |
| Writing | Miloš Makovec | Screenplay |
| Sound | Emil Poledník | Sound |
| Writing | Jiří Kolář | Screenplay |
| Writing | Otomar Krejča | Screenplay |
| Editing | Josef Dobřichovský | Editor |
| Writing | Jiří Brdečka | Screenplay |
