Wine Working

Wine Working

1976 · 135 min · ★ 7.7 · Comedy

It is the summer of 1968 and also in South Moravian Pálavice appear political clashes. The so far peacefully farming Unified farmers' cooperative starts splitting. Some of the farmers have found the cooperative called Vidrupa and want to deal with wine in private trade. Michal Janák, chairman of the farmers' cooperative is a deliberate man and refuses the latent return to the capitalism. As an excellent farmer he continues preparing planting out new vineyards. His adversaries do not agree - the returns will come many years later. Jozka Hrdlicka, an émigré, notices on the Austrian TV the interview with the representatives of Vidrupa and decides to visit his native village. The new suit and the hired car transform the bankrupt and criminal to the successful businessman with wine.

Directed by Václav Vorlíček · Written by Jan Kozák

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Vladimír Menšík Michal Janák
Božidara Turzonovová Kateřina Mlčochová
Jiří Vala Josef Hrdlička
Čestmír Řanda Stanislav Houkal
Slávka Budínová Manča Houkalová
Eva Trejtnarová-Hudečková Eva Houkalová
Jaroslav Moučka
Zdeněk Kryzánek
Rudolf Jelínek
Iva Janžurová
Lucie Žulová
Oldřich Vykypěl

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