''Desire'' ( cs, Touha) is a 1958 Czech
anthology film directed by
Vojtěch Jasný
Vojtěch Jasný (30 November 1925 – 15 November 2019) was a Czech director, screenwriter and professor who has written and directed over 50 films. Jasný made feature and documentary films in Czechoslovakia, Germany, Austria, USA & Canada, and ...
. It was entered into the
1959 Cannes Film Festival
The 12th Cannes Film Festival was held from 30 April to 15 May 1959. The Palme d'Or went to the ''Orfeu Negro'' by Marcel Camus. The festival opened with '' Les Quatre Cents Coups'', directed by François Truffaut and closed with ''The Diary of An ...
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The film consists of four stories – ''About a Boy Who Searched for the End of the World'', ''People on Earth and Stars in the Skies'', ''Anděla'' and ''Mum''
Cast
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Jan Jakeš as Joska Malina
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Václav Babka Václav () is a Czech male first name of Slavic origin, sometimes translated into English as Wenceslaus or Wenceslas. These forms are derived from the old Slavic/Czech form of this name: Venceslav.
Nicknames are: Vašek, Vašík, Venca, Venda
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as Joska's father
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Věra Bublíková as Joska's mother
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Vlastimil Brodský
Vlastimil Brodský (15 December 1920 – 20 April 2002) was a Czech actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films, and is considered a key figure in the postwar development of Czech cinema.
One of his best-known roles was as the title charac ...
as Novosad
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Jana Brejchová as Lenka
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Jiří Vala as Jan
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František Vnouček as Lenka's father
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Otto Šimánek as Brother-in-law
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Eva Blažková as Tonča
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Věra Tichánková as Anděla
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Václav Lohniský
Václav Lohniský (5 November 1920 – 18 February 1980) was a Czech film actor. He appeared in 120 films and television shows between 1950 and 1980.
Selected filmography
* '' Případ dr. Kováře'' (1950)
* ''September Nights'' (1957)
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as Michal
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Zdeněk Kutil as Pavelka
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Vladimír Brabec as Municipal office employee
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Vladimír Menšík
Vladimír Menšík (9 October 1929 – 29 May 1988) was a popular Czech actor and entertainer, born in Ivančice, Moravia, Czechoslovakia.
Both comedian and serious actor, he created a wide range of lively fictional character, characters. He st ...
as Combine driver
References
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1958 films
Czech anthology films
1950s Czech-language films
Czechoslovak black-and-white films
Films directed by Vojtěch Jasný
1950s Czech films
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