Eighty Letters

Eighty Letters

75 mins | April 21, 2011

The story takes place in Czechoslovakia in 1987. The father has defected to England and the mother and her son are planning to leave the country to reunite with him. The film is told through the eyes of the fourteen year old boy, his rankled look without the veneer of experience and initiation in one day. Autobiographical.

Eighty Letters

75 mins | April 21, 2011

Eighty Letters
The story takes place in Czechoslovakia in 1987. The father has defected to England and the mother and her son are planning to leave the country to reunite with him. The film is told through the eyes of the fourteen year old boy, his rankled look without the veneer of experience and initiation in one day. Autobiographical.
Producers Cinepost, Bystrouška
Original title Osmdesát dopisů
Directors Václav Kadrnka
Writers Jiří Soukup, Václav Kadrnka

Cast

Zuzana Lapcíková

as Mother

Martin Pavlus

as Son

Gerald Turner

as Englishman

Andrea Miltner

as Englishwoman

Martin Vrtáček

as Doctor

Radoslav Šopík

as Officer

Frantisek Brezík

as Man in Waiting Room

Vlastimil Homola

as Doorman

Hana Brezíková

as Nurse