''Flower Buds'' () is a 2011 Czech

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written and directed by Zdeněk Jiráský.

Plot

The film is about the Hrdina family, who live in an industrial Czech

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. Jarda Hrdina is a middle-aged railway

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who is deep in debt from his addiction to

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. His wife Kamila, a

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, is focused on rehearsing a performance of the song "Poupata" ("Flower Buds"), twenty five years after she and her peers performed the routine in the

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gymnastics festival. Their son Honza, who grows

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in his basement, falls in love with a

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named Zuzana, and after unsuccessfully asking her out decides to purchase ownership of her. Their daughter Agáta, whose boyfriend Matěj becomes wheelchair bound after nearly freezing to death while drunk, is dealing with an

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, and can only bring herself to tell her close friend Magda.

Cast

Vladimír Javorský Vladimír Javorský (born 2 May 1962 in Ostrava Ostrava (; ; ) is a city in the north-east of the Czech Republic and the capital of the Moravian-Silesian Region. It has about 283,000 inhabitants. It lies from the border with Poland, at the co ...

as Jarda * Malgorzata Pikus as Kamila *

Marika Šoposká Marika Šoposká (born 12 November 1989 in Havlíčkův Brod) is a Czech actress. Selected filmography Films * ''Bába (2008 film), Bába'' (2008) * ''Flower Buds'' (2011) * ''Lidice (film), Lidice'' (2011) * ''Můj vysvlečenej deník'' ...

as Agáta * Miroslav Pánek as Honza * Natalie Řehořová as Magda *

Aneta Krejčíková Aneta Krejčíková (born 29 April 1991 in Prague) is a Czech actress, known mainly for her role in the TV soap opera Ulice. Selected filmography Films * ''Sama v čase normálnosti '' (2010) TV * '' Poupata'' (2011) * ''Láska je láska'' ...

as Zuzana

References

External links

* 2011 films 2011 drama films 2010s Czech-language films Czech Lion Awards winners (films) Czech Film Critics' Awards winners Czech drama films {{2010s-CzechRepublic-film-stub