The Way Through the Bleak Woods
7.4
The Šumava Mountains hide buildings lost in the mountains, the Vydra River, a church, a rectory, marshes, a post office, a gold mine, and a hermit's hut. In this environment, the fates of the beautiful girl Anna, a tormented widow, her perpetually drunk husband—a postman—and dentist Holoubek, who left his native Vienna, intertwine. Over the course of the year, their paths cross, but then the summer of 1914 arrives and war intervenes decisively in the lives of all those involved... However, the characters' desires and quests are timeless.
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Cast
39 people
Václav Koubek
Also in
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Pavel Landovský
Known for
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Empties
Ivan Arsenjev
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Deadtown aneb Cesta tam a zase zpátky
Barokní opera
Ivan Vojnár
Cestmír Kopecký
Jana Dolanská
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Caught by Night
Vojtech, Called the Orphan
Galina Sustová
Eliška Sirová
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My Mother Likes Women
Pan Tau
Jiří Soukup
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Little Crusader
Karel Pospíšil
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Velmi křehké vztahy
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Matěj Hádek
Known for
Restore Point
Vojtěch Kristen
Ivan Vojnár Director · Ivan Arsenjev Screenplay Irena Havlová Composer
First release October 9, 1997 · Produced in Czechia · Original title Cesta pustým lesem
Production
Česká televize
Production
Czechia
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Cesta pustým lesem
Original language
Czech
Spoken on screen
Czech
Release dates
Czechia · October 9, 1997
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Czechia
December 14, 2023 · Theatrical · Re-release
Germany
October 9, 1998 · Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival
Netherlands
January 29, 1998 · Theatrical
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