The Halftime of Happiness
1985
89 minutes
Overview
Fifty-year-old Ondřej Bozděch delivers coal around Prague's Žižkov district and he loves it more than anything. He has spent his whole life here and knows all the cellars. He lives his ordinary life among the Žižkov tenement houses, enjoying the joys and sorrows of his teenage daughter Markéta and his restless son Ondra. His best friend is his driver Karel, a former mathematician who once had to leave his job at a research institute for political reasons. Although Karel is an engineer and a completely different person than the straightforward Ondrej, he has become almost a member of the Bozděch family over time. But times are changing. The old houses of Žižkov disappear one by one, Markéta has to get married and Karel is offered to return to his original profession. Ondřej has to stop and think about what kind of life he is living...
Top Cast
Josef Vinklář
Ondřej Bozděch
Jiří Adamíra
Karel
Slávka Španková
Bozděchová
Hana Maciuchová
Monika
Zora Jandová
Markéta
Milan Šimáček
Ondra
Jiří Schwarz
Honza
Miroslav Paleček
Lochman
Dana Syslová
Lída
Viola Zinková
Jana
Zdeněk Dítě
Vrchní
Viktor Maurer
Nápadník
Ladislav Potměšil
Matousek
Zdeněk Hodr
Inženýr
Rudolf Hrušínský
Mirek
Ferdinand Krůta
Benda
Adolf Filip
Hámos
Jiří Růžička
Kuchař
Jaroslav Čejka
Tanečník
Tomáš Hendrych
Vít Kulka
Jan Vít
Jana Marková
Karel Linc
Karel Smyczek
Hrdlička
Ludmila Bílková
Lékařka
Svatopluk Skládal
Milan Klacek
Barman
Jan Cmíral
Ludmila Krajíčková
Václav Stýblo
Martin Faltýn
Oto Ševčík
Pavel Klůs
Milan Riehs
Klidný
Jana Polášková
Irena Ledvinová
Organ Player
Eliška Nejedlá
Vlastimil Pleskač
František Řebíček
Sound Designer
Jiří Priesel
DJ
H. Rejlková
Rostislav Říha
Igor Smržík
A. Pospíšilová
Tomáš Bartoš
Musician
Olga Foučková
Musician
Jan Gariš
Musician
Daniel Hodek
Musician
Jar. Hrubý
Musician
Martin Srb
Musician
Jan Vondráček
Musician
Jan Kanyza
Lochman (voice)