Smoke on the Potato Fields
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.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Rudolf Hrušínský, Věra Galatíková, Alois Švehlík, Jana Dítětová, Marie Logojdová, Nina Popelíková, Josef Somr, Jaroslava Obermaierová, Václav Lohniský, Jan Faltýnek, Vítězslav Jandák, Věra Tichánková, Václav Trégl
Crew: František Vláčil (Director), Miroslav Hájek (Editor), Jan Oliva (Production Design), Ladislav Winkelhöfer (Set Decoration), Bohumil Nový (Assistant Production Design)