

21/04/1967
This three-part ballad, which often uses music to stand in for dialogue, remains the most perfect embodiment of Nemec’s vision of a film world independent of reality. Mounting a defense of timid, inhibited, clumsy, and unsuccessful individuals, the three protagonists are a complete antithesis of the industrious heroes of socialist aesthetics. Martyrs of Love cemented Nemec’s reputation as the kind of unrestrained nonconformist the Communist establishment considered the most dangerous to their ideology.

Petr Kopřiva
as

Marta Kubišová
as

Hana Kuberová
as

Jan Klusák
as

Karel Gott
as

Vladimír Preclík
as

Josef Koníček
as

Denisa Dvořáková
as

Zdeněk Fanta
as

Pavel Bošek
as

Miloň Novotný
as

Alena Čepková
as

Olga Světelská
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Jiří Mucha
as

Marta Kadlečíková
as

Inka Zemánková
as

Eva Olmerová
as

Jiří Verberger
as

Pavel Vitoch
as

Ferdinand Havlík
as

Eugen Jegorov
as

Karel Pilar
as

Laco Déczi
as

Jan Hammer
as

Miroslav Vitouš
as

Laco Tropp
as

Jaroslav Boťa
as

Milan Tesař
as

Zdeněk Bruderhans
as

Jitka Cerhová
as

Ivana Karbanová
as

Jiří Kovařík
as

Helena Anýžová
as

Antonín Bahenský
as

Vlasta Bambulová
as

Jana Dufková
as

Libor Fára
as

Karel Greif
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Šárka Horáčková
as

Miroslav Hotový
as

Pavel Jaderník
as

Marie Jančová
as

Jiřina Jandová
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Herbert Kisza
as

Zdena Korčáková
as

Jan Krumbach
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Ela Květoňová
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Jana Lauferová
as

Jana Lichtenbergová
as

Jana Mašíková
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Emanuel Pejška
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Irena Pejšková
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Antonín Pražák
as

Jiří Reichl
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Zuzana Schnöblingová
as

Marie Simínová
as

Marie Sixtová
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Miloš Šafránek
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Jana Ševčíková
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Zdena Škvorecká
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Václav Vodák
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Karel Volf
as

Roman Weiss
as

Lindsay Anderson
as Man in traffic police booth (uncredited)
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