Smoke on the Potato Fields

6.6

94m

1977

Drama

In this character study by Czech director Frantisek Vlacil, a stout middle-aged physician whose marriage has come apart establishes a practice in a small town. Gradually he's drawn into the lives of his patients—a childless couple, a pregnant girl with a stern mother, the son of a duck farmer—and each relationship reveals a bit more about him and the idyllic but insular community.

Starring

Rudolf Hrušínský, Věra Galatíková, Alois Švehlík, Jana Dítětová, Marie Logojdová, Nina Popelíková, Josef Somr, Jaroslava Obermaierová, Václav Lohniský, Jan Faltýnek

Directed By

František Vláčil