''Shameless'' (), is a 2008 Czech comedy film directed by

Jan Hřebejk Jan Hřebejk (; born 27 June 1967) is a Czech film director and actor. Life and career Born in Prague, Hřebejk graduated from high school in 1987 and continued his studies at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague ...

. Following their collaborations on ''A Novel for Women'' and ''The Holiday Makers'', Czech filmmaker Hřebejk and author

Michal Viewegh Michal Viewegh is one of the most popular contemporary Czech writers. He is the most published Czech author of all time, with over a million books sold. In 1993 he earned the prestigious Jiří Orten award for Czech writers 30 years old or yo ...

reunited for ''Shameless'', a comic romp based on Viewegh's bestselling ''Tales of Marriage and Sex''. Overall, the film was a commercial success.

Plot

Oskar (

Jiří Macháček Jiří Macháček (born 6 July 1966 in Litoměřice) is a Czechs, Czech actor and singer. Education Macháček graduated from high school in Prague before attending Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory, the Law Faculty at Charles University in Prague, ...

), a popular TV weather forecaster, suddenly wakes up to an altered sense of identity: rather than belonging to easygoing wife Zuzana (a bewildered

Simona Babčáková Simona Babčáková (born 21 February 1973) is a Czech actress. Life and career Babčáková graduated from the Zlín Zlín (in 1949–1989 Gottwaldov; ; ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 75,000 inhabitants. It is the seat of t ...

), he feels he ought to belong to the whole wide world – hence the national embarrassment. His first entanglement is with babysitter Kocicka (Eva Kerekéšová), a lean teenybopper who's more attached to her pet turtle than her older lover – at least until he accidentally smothers it in the dryer. Next in line is mature pop icon Nora (

Emília Vášáryová Emília Vášáryová, Doctor Artis Dramaticae ( hon.) (; born 18 May 1942) is a Slovak stage and screen actress, whom '' Variety'' and other publications refer to as the "First Lady of Slovak Theater". During a career of more than five decades ...

), who's about to teach him a thing or two about freedom: the more people you let in, the more alone you end up feeling.

Cast

as Oskar *

as Nora *

as Zuzana * Pavel Liška as Matěj *

Nina Divíšková Nina Divíšková (12 July 1936 – 21 June 2021) was a Czech actress. She appeared in more than seventy films since 1967. She was the wife of the film director Jan Kačer Jan Kačer (3 October 1936 – 24 May 2024) was a Czech actor and thea ...

as Marta, Oskar's mother * Pavel Landovský as Bedřich, Oskar's father * Eva Kerekéšová as Kočička *Martina Krátká as Simona *Vojta Husa as Jakub *Viktorie Fedorová as Terezka *

Roman Luknár Roman Luknár (born 1 June 1965) is a Slovak actor. He appeared in more than fifty films since 1988. Selected filmography References External links

* 1965 births Living people Male actors from Bratislava Slovak male film actors ...

as Nora's son *Andy Hajdu as Nora's son *Kryštof Mucha as Robert *Marie Látová as Marie *Miloš Pokorný as radio speaker *Roman Ondráček as radio speaker *Peter Kracík as TV7 chief *Hana Seidlová as waitress *Karla Mráčková as bell-frog *Petra Eliáš-Voláková as bell-frog *Adam Holý as photographer *Renata Vajdáková as Matěj's wife *Lukáš Příkazký as cop *Štefan Capko as cop *

Tomáš Hanák Tomáš Hanák (born March 27, 1957) is a Czech actor, comedian, screenwriter, and TV presenter who has appeared in several films and television shows since 1984. He is also an occasional singer. Biography Hanák was born in Kremnica, Czechosl ...

as theatre actor *Jiří Fero Burda as theatre actor *Jiří Gajdošík as hotel director *Ester Janečková as herself *Halina Pawlovská as herself * Přemek Podlaha as herself *Milan Šteindler as herself *

Petr Čtvrtníček Petr Čtvrtníček (born 5 April 1964 in Prague) is a Czechs, Czech actor and comedian. Selected filmography * ''Kouř'' (1991) * ''Fany'' (1995) * ''Tomík'' (1997) * ''Mazaný Filip'' (2003) * ''Ivánku, kamaráde, můžeš mluvit? aneb Tak t ...

as herself *

as herself *Martin Reiner as herself *

Hana Hegerová Hana Hegerová (20 October 1931 – 23 March 2021) was a Slovak singer and actress. Often referred to as the Queen of Czechoslovak chanson, she gained popularity primarily as a singer of chansons. Outside of Czechoslovakia, Hegerová attained r ...

as herself *

Karel Gott Karel Gott (14 July 1939 – 1 October 2019) was a Czech singer, considered the most successful male singer in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. He was voted the country's best male singer in the annual ''Český slavík'' (''Czech Nighti ...

as herself *Petr Malásek as musician *Zdeněk Fišer as musician * Robert Balzar as musician *František Kop as musician

References

External links

* 2008 comedy films 2008 films Films directed by Jan Hřebejk Czech comedy films 2000s Czech films 2000s Czech-language films {{2000s-CzechRepublic-film-stub