An elderly paper-crusher branded a fool in Prague secretly stashes condemned books, preserving their contents and extrapolating from them eccentric scenarios of wit.
Director:
Writer:
Philippe Noiret
Hanta
Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Chief
Vlastimil Brodský
Uncle Albert
Jiří Menzel
Professor
Květa Fialová
Old Mancinka
Dana Morávková
Young Mancinka
Michaela Kuklová
Turquoise gypsy
Agathe de La Fontaine
Ilonka
Ivan Gübel
Giant
Milan Šteindler
Driver
Markéta Hrubešová
Diva
Luba Skořepová
Countess
Chantal Neuwirth
Waitress
Vincent Martin
Sexton
Bohumil Hrabal
Man with trolley
Martin Dejdar
Pedro
