
How Poets Are Enjoying Their Lives(1988)
Overview
While Kendy returns to his hometown as an assistant director to film a thirteen-part series with a television crew, Štěpán Šafránek, equipped with his mother's advice after graduation, takes up his first position - as an intern at the local hospital. However, his inadaptability to local conditions and his sense of ethics in his chosen profession do not suit his other established colleagues. While they are amused by his zeal and responsibility, Štěpán has increasing problems with his superiors, until he is finally transferred to the position of rural district doctor, which everyone rejects. In Bezdíkov, however, he meets a new, perhaps permanent and reciprocated love, with whom he eventually decides to live and work in northern Bohemia.
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Pavel Kříž
Štěpán Šafránek

David Matásek
Kendy

Eva Vejmělková
Alena Hubáčková (Píšťalka)

Jana Hlaváčová
Tonička

Rudolf Hrušínský
Hubáček

Blažena Holišová
Hubáčková

Karel Roden
Jan Antoš

Václav Svoboda
Václav Pastyřík

Joseph Dielle
Numira Cassa Thombe (Mireček)

Eva Jeníčková
Vendulka (Utěšitelka)

Pavel Zedníček
Písařík

Josef Somr
Libor Ječmen

Rostislav Kuba
Libor Hájek

Tomáš Töpfer
Milan Sahulák
Věra Vlčková
primářka (Kóča)

Míla Myslíková
Blažena Šafránková

František Filipovský
Adolf Valerián

Josef Větrovec
Alice Chrtková

Kateřina Burianová
Alena Karešová
vrchní sestra

Bára Štěpánová

Zita Kabátová

Jiří Hálek
Monika Hladová
Marcela Martínková

Jana Andresíková
Vlasta Jelínková
Hugo Kaminský
Jan Kostroun
MUDr. Klíma

Věra Koktová
Luďa Marešová
Zuzana Talpová
Official

Isabela Soukupová

Jan Schmid

Stanislav Zindulka
Bohouš Lorenc
Věra Mezerová
Z. Tothová
J. Nedvědová
Jiřina Jelenská

Jiří Kodet
režisér Pergl
Iveta Höschlová
Makeup Artist
Václav Helliman
Camera Operator
Naďa Kubásková
TV Crew
Z. Krejčová
TV Script Supervisor
Pavel Melounek
TV Producer
Gregorij Dymič
Property Master

Soňa Novotná
Clapper Girl
Stanislav Krbec
Gaffer
Boris Halmi
Production Designer
P. Fišerová
Costumer
Jiřina Bílá

Stanislav Aubrecht

Valentina Thielová
Eva Vidlařová
Zdeněk Blažek
Graduation Officer / Lecturer in Ophthalmology (voice)
Jana Robenková

Vlastimila Vlková
Slávka Španková

Ondřej Vetchý
Anna Wetlinská
Pavel Želízko

Jitka Asterová
Taťána Puttová
Alena Knotková
I. Horáková

Antonín Hardt
Milan Vyskočil
Eduard Pavlíček
Karel Hovorka
Miloslav Štibich
Hedvika Šustová
O. Bergerová
TV Crew
Jaroslav Tomsa
Y. Baban
Delegate
K. Delan
Delegate
Pavel Štoll

Dušan Klein
Ladislav Pecháček
Radovan Urban
J. Nečas
Musician
F. Kostuřík
Musician
Jiří Košík
Musician

Zlata Adamovská
Alena Hubáčková (Píšťalka) (voice)

Zdeněk Žák
MUDr. Klíma (voice)

Eva Klepáčová
Official (voice)

Jiří Pleskot
Lecturer in Internal Medicine (voice)
Mirko Musil
Lecturer in Otorhinolaryngology (voice)

Karel Houska
Lecturer in Surgery (voice)
Viktor Maurer
Lecturer in Gynecology
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