Beauty in Trouble

Beauty in Trouble

2006 · 110 min · ★ 6.3 · Comedy, Drama

Marcela can't bear Jarda any longer, so she threatens divorce and takes the kids to her mom's, whose husband is a creep. While Marcela is there, Jarda is jailed, because he is part of a gang steeling cars and they get caught in the act. Benes, the urbane man whose car got stolen by Jarda and his gang, befriends Marcela. Soon she feels drawn to Benes and all of a sudden she must make up her mind: Jarda is still sexually attractive to her, but Benes offers security, and her own body and mind may not pull at the same strand.

Directed by Jan Hřebejk · Written by Petr Jarchovský

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Anna Geislerová Marcela Molíkov
Roman Luknár Jarda Molíkov
Josef Abrhám Evžen Beneš
Jana Brejchová Zdena Hrstka
Jiří Schmitzer Richard Hrstka
Emília Vášáryová Libuše Molikov
Adam Mišík Kuba Cmolík
Jan Hrušínský Havlík
Jiří Macháček Patočka
Andrei Toader Mirek
Nikolaj Penev Pičus
Jaromíra Mílová Havlíková

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