Pearls of the Deep

Jiri Menzel directs the first segment, Mr. Baltazar’s Death, Pavla Marsalkova a mother, Jan Pech her son and mechanic, Ferdinand Kruta the distracted dad, headed for a motorcycle race, from the compilation of stories by the Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal, Pearls Of The Deep 1966.

Jan Nemec directs the second of five stories by writer Bohumil Hrabal, Milos Ctrnacty plays the “journalist,” Frantisek Havel the “singer,” hospitalized together in a piece called The Impostors, in the Czech New Wave anthology Pearls Of The Deep, 1966.

From the vignette The Restaurant The World, directed by Vera Chyltilova, (her husband, Jaroslav Kucera, the cinematographer), Alzbeta Lastovkov operates the automat, debriefing artist Vladimir Boudnik, Vera Mrazkova a passing bride, in the anthology Pearls Of The Deep, 1966.