Cast and characters

Vratislav Brabenec

Vratislav Brabenec
Musician

Underground musician, saxophonist, whose body is the only thing that withers with time. In the eighties of the 20th century he was imprisoned as a dissident. Behind the bars he met and became friends with other two heroes.

Jozef Polievka

Jozef Polievka
Thief

Retired thief, so-called Jojo. Good-hearted character, who is able to dissolve any conflict.

Jiří Vymětal

Jiří Vymětal
Circus Performer

Circus animal caretaker – anything from mice to large cats. Romantic by nature, not sure of himself, and thus he sees himself and also “his” whole civilization constantly endangered by any shadow that flashes at his doorstep. That actually makes him the main hero of the story… he has also trouble respecting secrets.

Nikol Fischerová

Nikol Fischerová
Girl

Former prostitute. She used to work on the corner of the house that now belongs to our heroes. Later the gentlemen, under the leadership of the Circus Man, bought her out from her pimp… and she becomes their housekeeper. During the story she gives birth to a girl – Anička.

Anna Langrová

Anna Langrová
Grandmother

Sudeten German who was at the end of the WWII between childhood and adolescence. Thanks
to her surrounding and the spirit of the time she was fascinated by the figure of The Leader. Contrary to her parents who remained silent. From that time she carries an undefined guilt connected to someone who used to live in the house where our heroes live today. With childlike foolishness of an aging person she longs for sleeping in the house and for the dream in which she would get the reconciliation.