My Uncle Archimedes

My Uncle Archimedes

Drama, Comedy, TV Movie | Jan. 14, 2018

Telling the story of Archimedes, one of thousands of refugees who left Greece for Czechoslovakia at the end of the 1940s, as the Greek civil war meant many communist fighters sought refuge in communist countries. Told through the eyes of Archimedes’ grown-up nephew Aris, who recalls how his uncle's life changed when he escaped from Greece to Czechoslovakia with the naive dream of a rosy future under a socialist regime. But all was not as it seemed.

My Uncle Archimedes

Drama, Comedy, TV Movie | Jan. 14, 2018

My Uncle Archimedes
Telling the story of Archimedes, one of thousands of refugees who left Greece for Czechoslovakia at the end of the 1940s, as the Greek civil war meant many communist fighters sought refuge in communist countries. Told through the eyes of Archimedes’ grown-up nephew Aris, who recalls how his uncle's life changed when he escaped from Greece to Czechoslovakia with the naive dream of a rosy future under a socialist regime. But all was not as it seemed.
IMDb rating 6.5
Producers ARTE, Česká televize, ARTE
Original title Můj strýček Archimedes
Directors Georgis Agathonikiadis
Writers Georgis Agathonikiadis, Petr Hudský

Cast

Ondřej Vetchý

as Archimedes

Miroslav Donutil

as Karel Novák

Dana Černá

as Penelope

Jiří Dvořák

as kapitán

Tomáš Töpfer

as inženýr Goldstein

Jaromír Dulava

as předseda MNV

Veronika Freimanová

as Jarmila Nováková

Oldřich Navrátil

as pan Bureš

Stanislav Zindulka

as hokynář Přibyl

Marina Vlachaki

as matka Archimeda

Daniela Zbytovská

as Marcelka

Kristýna Boková

as Simona

Jan Kolařík

as Hamáček

Ivan Lupták

as Nikos

Monika Maláčová

as Božena

Igor Bareš

as Pan Bureš

Pavla Vojáčková

as Cibulková

Martin Havelka

as ředitel husí farmy

Vladimír Hauser

as mistr na husí farmě

Zdena Herfortová

as bordelmamá

Viktor Skála

as nadstrážmistr VB

Igor Ondříček

as strážmistr

Pavel Zatloukal

as tajemník Vojta

Zdeněk Junák

as ruský poradce

Kostas Zerdaloglu

as překladatel Nikiforos

Kristýna Štarhová

as učitelka