Wild Flowers

Dec 6, 2000

1h 21m

★ 6.5

Overview

Seven seemingly unconnected fairy tales - glued together only by folklore, mood, color and light - make up this Czech collection of visual poetry. The original piece of literature, written by Karel Jaromír Erben in 1853, contained twelve tales.

Genres

Drama

Horror

Fantasy

Production Companies

J&J Jakubisko Film

Česká televize

Wild Flowers Trailers

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Cast

Matka

Martina Bezoušková

Deti

Sylvie Kraslová

Deti

Sára Voříšková

Deti

Anna Bezoušková

Vodník

Dan Bárta

Dívka

Linda Rybová

Matka

Jana Švandová

Maly vodnicek

Vojtěch Sahula

Vodni bytost

Naďa Šafratová

Milenec

Karel Roden

Dívka

Klára Sedláčková-Oltová

Umrlec

Jiří Schmitzer

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0.0

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6.9

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6.3

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5.8

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2.5

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5.2

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5.3

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0.0

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6.8

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5.7

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6.2

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