No community ratings yet on FilmStash · 0 membersOne score per member · Verified member ratings
Emil (Vaclav Chalupa as a teen, Ondrej Vetchy as an adult) has been naughty, and his family is at a loss about what to do with him. He's been dallying with the family maid. They decide to ship him off to spend time with his uncle Ernst Michel Piccoli), who married his family maid. The boy has a good relationship with his uncle, and a touching picture of Czech family life just at the advent of World War II emerges. Since Emil and Ernst are both Jewish, they are eventually carted away by the Nazis.Read moreLess
Emil (Vaclav Chalupa as a teen, Ondrej Vetchy as an adult) has been naughty, and his family is at a loss about what to do with him. He's been dallying with the family maid. They decide to ship him off to spend time with his uncle Ernst Michel Piccoli), who married his family maid. The boy has a good relationship with his uncle, and a touching picture of Czech family life just at the advent of World War II emerges. Since Emil and Ernst are both Jewish, they are eventually carted away by the Nazis.
The story
Emil (Vaclav Chalupa as a teen, Ondrej Vetchy as an adult) has been naughty, and his family is at a loss about what to do with him. He's been dallying with the family maid. They decide to ship him off to spend time with his uncle Ernst Michel Piccoli), who married his family maid. The boy has a good relationship with his uncle, and a touching picture of Czech family life just at the advent of World War II emerges. Since Emil and Ernst are both Jewish, they are eventually carted away by the Nazis.
Cast & crew
Marianne SägebrechtMartha
Michel PiccoliErnst
Klaus GrünbergBerthold
Michael KauschWerner
Václav ChalupaEmil
Ondřej VetchýEmil (older)
Božidara Turzonovová
Soňa ValentováElsa Fuchs
Jana AltmannováCast
Zuzana KocúrikováIlona
Jiří MenzelDoctor BendaExplore the crew
- Screenplay
- Jiří Weiss
- Director
- Jiří Weiss
- Director of Photography
- Viktor Růžička
- Original Music Composer
- Jiří Stivín