Boomerang (1997)

8.5/10 97 min Drama History

Overview

The story, written by former George Stransky former political prisoners and today's chairman Pen Club is situated to 50 years and uranium camp of political prisoners in Pribram, where after the fall of the Stalinist cult comes at the end of 1958 as a prisoner of the former Chief of Main Administration of correctional facilities Colonel Good. Former chief topic of coexistence, "a guard" and political prisoners in the Bolshevik camp served timeless makers to reflect on the possibility (or impossibility) of forgiveness and a sense of justice. The film, unfortunately, below expectations - mainly because of its rarity and lack syžetovou arching dramatic arc of the story, including natural gradation. Nice camera and vice versa are cast, formed literally myriad of top Czech actors. A representative of one of the main roles - Jiri Schmitzer in 1997 was awarded the Czech Lion.

Cast

Jiří Schmitzer

Jaroslav Svoboda

Vladimír Dlouhý

Luboš Příhoda

Karel Heřmánek

Miloslav Dobrý

Miroslav Noga

Imre

Leoš Suchařípa

Robert Jensen

Milan Šteindler

Pingl

Jan Schmid

Vlastimil Venclík

Břetislav Rychlík

Stanislav Zindulka

Jiří Krampol

Frantisek Jezek

Miroslav Vladyka

Jan Čenský

Arnošt Goldflam

Pavel Handl

Jiří Wohanka

Otto Lackovič

Jiří Strach

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