Sugar House

Sugar House (1981)

DramaWar

In the final days of the Second World War in 1945 Frantisek Pribyl is killed during a shoot-out with the Germans. After the funeral, the widow (Jana Svandová) and her two young sons Martin and Ondra move to her deceased husband's native village at the foot of the Kralický Snezník mountains. Life in the borderlands is far from easy for the lonely woman. The village is almost deserted, food supplies are delayed; the Werwolf (Nazi guerrilla squads) are hiding in the mountains, and shooting is heard from time to time. The elder son Ondra (Michal Dlouhý) is helping out his mother and at the same time absorbing intense new experiences. He meets an old Czech resident Skurek (Lubomír Kostelka), German women working in the forest, soldiers from the engineering units removing the mines, and a young first lieutenant. At night he dreams about his dead father whom he loved very much. This is why he runs away from home when he finds out that the lieutenant is courting his mother.

Director: Karel Kachyňa
Writers: Karel Kachyňa, Vladimír Körner.

Casts

	Jana Švandová as maminka Přibylová
	Michal Dlouhý as Ondra - syn Přibylové
	Marek Mikuláš as Martin - Ondrův mladší bratr
	Lubomír Kostelka as správce Škurek
	Miroslav Macháček as antifašista Alfred Bartl zvaný Freda
	Jiří Kodet as František Přibyl, otec Ondry a Martina
	Ivan Vyskočil as nadporučík Bedřich
	Bára Štěpánová as Trudi
	František Němec as kapitán, později učitel
	Michal Pešek as Rudi, Bartlův syn
	Magdaléna Holendrová as jeptiška
	Lena Birková as Němka
	Blanka Lormanová as Němka
	Gabriela Najmanová as Němka
	Zuzana Talpová as Němka
	Gabriela Wilhelmová as Němka
	Pavel Jiras as přistěhovalec Libor
	Hana Pastejříková as Liborova žena
	Jiří Knot as voják
	Jiří Kodeš as voják
	Ivan Pokorný as voják
	Martin Učík as voják
	Zdeněk Srstka as povozník
	Bořivoj Navrátil as sovětský důstojník
	Zdeněk Martínek as starý učitel
	Jiří Prýmek as venkovan
	Vojtěch Ron as venkovan

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