She Kept Asking for the Moon (1983)
Johanka had a fling with a well digger she had not met before and who, she was most likely certain, would never be around again. Just before his departure, they have sex and she eventually becomes single mother of a baby girl. Now, 18 years later, her daughter Paulina commutes by bus to work in the nearby city, which gives the village gossips the occasional opportunity to remind her of her unknown father. A resultant conflict with her mother makes Paulina take up residence in the city. Johanka, prodded by her also-single friend Jozefka who maintains that a woman without a man is nothing, begins to woo the new teacher Jarek only to discover later that he is married. Paulina, in the meantime, loses her virginity to the soldier Jirka who promptly makes himself scarce. Johanka fails to consider that she actually has a better life than some of her married neighbors, begins to see.
Director:
Štefan Uher
Writers:
Milka Zimková, Štefan Uher.
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Milka Zimková as Johana Ovsená |
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Veronika Jeníková as Pavlínka |
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Peter Staník as Berty |
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Marie Logojdová as Jozefka |
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Valéria Jergová as Teca |
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Tamara Simková as Margita |
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Nora Kuželová as Katarína |
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Ľubomír Paulovič as Štefan |
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Jiří Klepl as Učiteľ |
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Ivan Klečka as |
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Ferdinand Macurák as |
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Anton Načiniak as Chairman |
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Mikuláš Laš as Micha |
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Karel Riegel as |
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Peter Vonš as Studniar |
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Ján Mildner as |
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Anton Trón as |
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Jaroslav Sypal as |
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Jozef Friňák as |
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Jozef Rafaj as |
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Alena Fabiánová as |
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Želmíra Kačková as |
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Benjamín Michalský as |
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Ján Németh as |
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Andrej Šilan as |
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Oľga Vronská as |
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Jaroslav Trón as |
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Darina Chmúrová as Pavlínka (voice) |
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Emília Došeková as Margita (voice) |
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Karol Spišák as Chairman (voice) |
| Directing | Štefan Uher | Director |
| Editing | Maximilián Remeň | Editor |
| Camera | Stanislav Szomolányi | Director of Photography |
| Costume & Make-Up | Mária Šilberská | Costume Design |
| Sound | Svetozár Štúr | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Peter Drobka | Production Manager |
| Directing | Milan Zavřel | First Assistant Director |
| Art | František Perger | Assistant Production Design |
| Directing | Jaroslav Rihák | First Assistant Director |
| Production | Ivan Janovský | Unit Production Manager |
| Crew | Ingrid Hodálová | Script |
| Sound | Štěpán Koníček | Conductor |
| Writing | Milka Zimková | Screenplay |
| Camera | Ján Magdolen | Camera Operator |
| Art | Mikuláš Vida | Property Master |
| Art | Anton Krajčovič | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Jozef Škopek | Makeup Artist |
| Production | Jozef Prochác | Unit Production Manager |
| Writing | Milka Zimková | Book |
| Writing | Štefan Uher | Screenplay |
| Costume & Make-Up | Zdenka Bočánková | Lead Costumer |
| Crew | Slavomír Rosenberg | Dramaturgy |
| Sound | Milan K. Némethy | Sound |