The director Ivan Balaďa was not allowed to finish this gloomy, black-and-white parable, inspired by Chekhov's short story Pavilion No. 6 - only after the fall of communism, more than twenty years later, did the film hit the cinema screens, unfortunately to negligible acclaim. In fact, it is only now that we can fully enjoy the story of an aging, increasingly exhausted mental institution doctor who is inexorably sinking to the level of his patients.
Zlatomír Vacek
as Andrej Jefimyč Ragin
Vladimír Merta
as Ivan Dmitrič Gromov
Slavoj Urban
as Michail Averjanyč Goljubkin
Antonín Horák
as Jevgenij Fjodoryč Chobotov
Hana Slivková
as Marja Prokofjevna Chobotova
Ivan Králík
as Sergej Sergejevič
Milica Linhartová
as Naděžda Osipovna
André Maroun-Gédéon
as Mojsejka
Vojtěch Ron
as Lev Trofimovič
Elena Zvaríková-Pappová
as Varvara
Ladislav Brothánek
as Jefrim
Pavel Michailov
as Nikita
