Anna, a 16 year-old girl from the sticks, trades her military education for life in the big city Running away to Prague opens a whole new world where she drinks her first cappuccino and meets the kind of people she has only seen in movies.
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Cast
40 people
Tatiana Dyková
Anna
Known for
Empties
Loners
Jan P. Muchow
Filip
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Loners
Krásno
Jan Čechtický
Speedy
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Angel Exit
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Martin Myšička
Kytka
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The Sleepers
Mária Terézia
Kateřina Winterová
Irma
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Mária Terézia
Toman
Petra Špalková
Laura
Known for
Kolya
Tatiana Vilhelmová
Anna
Zdeněk David
Jordi
Also in
The Wonderful Years That Sucked
Time of the Servants
Antonín Brtoun
Němec
Also in
A Prague Underworld
Operation Bororo
Zdeněk Suchý
Known for
Loners
Bořivoj Navrátil
Known for
The Ear
The Girl of Your Dreams
Václav Mareš
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A Prague Underworld
Sen noci svatojánské
David Ondříček Director · Tomáš Mašín Screenplay Jan Novák Screenplay
Worldwide gross $5.3M · Budget $12M · First release October 3, 1996
Box office
Budget
$12,000,000
Worldwide gross
$5,290,000
Gross vs. budget
0.4×
Production
Negativ
Production
Negativ s.r.o.
Production
Czechia
Produced in
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Original title
Šeptej
Original language
Czech
Spoken on screen
Czech
Release dates
Czechia · October 3, 1996
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Czechia
July 16, 2026 · Theatrical · Digitally restored
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