The Halftime of Happiness

The Halftime of Happiness (1985)

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Fifty-year-old Ondřej Bozděch delivers coal around Prague's Žižkov district and he loves it more than anything. He has spent his whole life here and knows all the cellars. He lives his ordinary life among the Žižkov tenement houses, enjoying the joys and sorrows of his teenage daughter Markéta and his restless son Ondra. His best friend is his driver Karel, a former mathematician who once had to leave his job at a research institute for political reasons. Although Karel is an engineer and a completely different person than the straightforward Ondrej, he has become almost a member of the Bozděch family over time. But times are changing. The old houses of Žižkov disappear one by one, Markéta has to get married and Karel is offered to return to his original profession. Ondřej has to stop and think about what kind of life he is living...

Director: Zbyněk Brynych
Writer: Vojtěch Měšťan

Casts

	Josef Vinklář as Ondřej Bozděch
	Jiří Adamíra as Karel
	Slávka Španková as Bozděchová
	Hana Maciuchová as Monika
	Zora Jandová as Markéta
	Milan Šimáček as Ondra
	Jiří Schwarz as Honza
	Miroslav Paleček as Lochman
	Dana Syslová as Lída
	Viola Zinková as Jana
	Zdeněk Dítě as Vrchní
	Viktor Maurer as Nápadník
	Ladislav Potměšil as Matousek
	Zdeněk Hodr as Inženýr
	Rudolf Hrušínský as Mirek
	Ferdinand Krůta as Benda
	Adolf Filip as Hámos
	Jiří Růžička as Kuchař
	Jaroslav Čejka as Tanečník
	Tomáš Hendrych as
	Vít Kulka as
	Jan Vít as
	Jana Marková as
	Karel Linc as
	Karel Smyczek as Hrdlička
	Ludmila Bílková as Lékařka
	Svatopluk Skládal as
	Milan Klacek as Barman
	Jan Cmíral as
	Ludmila Krajíčková as
	Václav Stýblo as
	Martin Faltýn as
	Oto Ševčík as
	Pavel Klůs as
	Milan Riehs as Klidný
	Jana Polášková as
	Irena Ledvinová as Organ Player
	Eliška Nejedlá as
	Vlastimil Pleskač as
	František Řebíček as Sound Designer
	Jiří Priesel as DJ
	H. Rejlková as
	Rostislav Říha as
	Igor Smržík as
	A. Pospíšilová as
	Tomáš Bartoš as Musician
	Olga Foučková as Musician
	Jan Gariš as Musician
	Daniel Hodek as Musician
	Jar. Hrubý as Musician
	Martin Srb as Musician
	Jan Vondráček as Musician
	Jan Kanyza as Lochman (voice)

Crew