Eighty Letters ( 2011 )

Overview

The story takes place in Czechoslovakia in 1987. The father has defected to England and the mother and her son are planning to leave the country to reunite with him. The film is told through the eyes of the fourteen year old boy, his rankled look without the veneer of experience and initiation in one day. Autobiographical.

Top Cast

Zuzana Lapčíková

Mother

Martin Pavlus

Son

Gerald Turner

Englishman

Andrea Miltner

Englishwoman

Martin Vrtáček

Doctor

Radoslav Šopík

Officer

Frantisek Brezík

Man in Waiting Room

Vlastimil Homola

Doorman

Hana Brezíková

Nurse