

In this character study by Czech director Frantisek Vlacil, a stout middle-aged physician whose marriage has come apart establishes a practice in a small town. Gradually he's drawn into the lives of his patients—a childless couple, a pregnant girl with a stern mother, the son of a duck farmer—and each relationship reveals a bit more about him and the idyllic but insular community.

Rudolf Hrušínský
Dr. Meluzin

Věra Galatíková
učitelka Pavla Kodetová

Alois Švehlík
Kodet

Jana Dítětová
Šimonová

Marie Logojdová
Markéta

Nina Popelíková
Markétina matka

Josef Somr
Vlach

Jaroslava Obermaierová
Vlachová

Václav Lohniský
hrobník Jaroš
Jan Faltýnek
Karel

Vítězslav Jandák
Ota

Věra Tichánková
Pùlpánová

Václav Trégl
Hybs

Jaroslava Tichá
Ema Meluzinová
Claudi Niubò
Eduard Pavlíček
Daniel Novák
Tomáš Novák
Josef Střecha
Milena Štampová
František Vláčil
Václav Nývlt, František Vláčil
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