Prague Blues

Nov 15, 1963

1h 14m

★ 0.0

Overview

African student Omar would like to return home to Angola, but he is enrolled in a three-year postgraduate research fellowship at a clinic in Prague. One day while seeing off a friend at the airport, he and a girl named Mariama are brought together by chance as he offers to accompany her in an unfamiliar city toward the International Student Club, where she plays bass in a jazz orchestra.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Filmové studio Barrandov

Prague Blues Trailers

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Cast

Mariama

Amina Hasci

Omar

Sissoko Woandioun

Dana Ouředníčková

Jarmila Veselá

Vratislav Blažek

Darek

Jiří Stivín

Radovan Lukavský

Andrea Čunderlíková

Karel (voice)

Otto Lackovič

Orlando da Costa

Karel Velebný

Karel

Míša Polák

Alan Vitouš

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