A poetic attempt to show the state of mind of people critical of the regime in Prague who vacillate between their love of their homeland and their desire to emigrate, illustrated by the example of a philosophy professor who has to work as a gravedigger and luggage transporter at the airport.
Pavel Landovský
Professor Pavel Navrátil
Marina Vlady
Ljuba
Rudolf Wessely
Frisör
Ulrich Reinthaller
Milos
Katharina Thalbach
Judith
Mark Zak
Soldat
Guido Föhrweißer
Gepäckträger Ost
Jürgen Heinrich
Emigrant
Dominique Horwitz
Gepäckträger West
A poetic attempt to show the state of mind of people critical of the regime in Prague who vacillate between their love of their homeland and their desire to emigrate, illustrated by the example of a philosophy professor who has to work as a gravedigger and luggage transporter at the airport.
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