An elderly paper-crusher branded a fool in Prague secretly stashes condemned books, preserving their contents and extrapolating from them eccentric scenarios of wit.
Philippe Noiret
as Haňťa
Jean-Claude Dreyfus
as Boss
Vlastimil Brodský
as Uncle Albert
Jiří Menzel
as Professor
Květa Fialová
as Old Mančinka
Dana Morávková
as Young Mančinka / Ilonka (voice)
Martin Dejdar
as Pedro
Michaela Kuklová
as Turquoise Gypsy
Yvetta Blanarovičová
as Atlas Gypsy
Agathe de La Fontaine
as Ilonka
Ivan Gübel
as Giant
Milan Šteindler
as Driver
