She Kept Asking for the Moon
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Johanka had a fling with a well digger she had not met before and who, she was most likely certain, would never be around again. Just before his departure, they have sex and she eventually becomes single mother of a baby girl. Now, 18 years later, her daughter Paulina commutes by bus to work in the nearby city, which gives the village gossips the occasional opportunity to remind her of her unknown father. A resultant conflict with her mother makes Paulina take up residence in the city. Johanka, prodded by her also-single friend Jozefka who maintains that a woman without a man is nothing, begins to woo the new teacher Jarek only to discover later that he is married. Paulina, in the meantime, loses her virginity to the soldier Jirka who promptly makes himself scarce. Johanka fails to consider that she actually has a better life than some of her married neighbors, begins to see.
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Cast
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Milka Zimková
Johana Ovsená
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Veronika Jeníková
Pavlínka
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A Prague Underworld
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Peter Staník
Berty
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The Willow Tree
Veľká noc
Marie Logojdová
Jozefka
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Velké sedlo
Reportérka
Valéria Jergová
Teca
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Tamara Simková
Margita
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Nora Kuželová
Katarína
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Sitting on a Branch, Enjoying Myself
Two Souls
Ľubomír Paulovič
Štefan
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The Peacemaker
Birthmark
Jiří Klepl
Učiteľ
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Chain
The Millennial Bee
Ivan Klečka
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Žofka z Janovic
Waiting For Patrick
Ferdinand Macurák
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Baščovanský a zať
Anton Načiniak
Chairman
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Povstalecká história
Štefan Uher Director · Milka Zimková Screenplay Svetozár Štúr Composer
First release December 22, 1982 · Produced in XC, Slovakia, Czechia · Languages Czech, Slovak
Production
Slovenská filmová tvorba
Production
Slovenská filmová tvorba Koliba (SFT)
Production
XC · Slovakia · Czechia
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Pásla kone na betóne
Original language
Slovak
Spoken on screen
Czech · Slovak
Release dates
XC · December 22, 1982
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Russia
July 1, 1983 · Theatrical
XC
June 1, 1983 · Theatrical
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