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Cast

* Matěj Hádek as Vojtěch "Grass Snake" Šťastný * Kryštof Hádek as Petr "Cobra" Šťastný * Jan Hájek as Tomáš *

Lucie Žáčková Lucie Žáčková (born 16 February 1978) is a Czech film and stage actress. She won the Young Talent award at the 2003 Thalia Awards and 2003 Alfréd Radok Awards. She won the Czech Lion award for Best Supporting Actress in 2015 for her role in ...

as Zůza *

David Máj David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...

as Ládík *

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as Grandma * Jana Šulcová - as Mother * Lucie Polišenská as Kača

Reception

The film has received generally positive reviews. It holds 74% at Kinobox, a Czech film review aggregator.

Awards

The Screenplay was awarded by Film foundation in 2011. The film won Best Actor Award at 2015 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival for Kryštof Hádek. Kryštof noted that the award belongs to his brother Matěj too. In March 2016 the film won the

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prize for best film. It also won in the categories of Best Director (Jan Prušinovský), Best Cinematography (Petr Koblovský), Best Actor ( Matěj Hádek) and Best Actor and Actress in supporting roles ( Kryštof Hádek and Lucie Žáčková). It also won two non-statutory prizes for Best Poster Award and the Prize of film fans. It did not win another 6 nominations (best screenplay, editing, sound, set design, costumes and masks).

References

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