My Uncle Archimedes

Comedy

Drama

TV Movie

Telling the story of Archimedes, one of thousands of refugees who left Greece for Czechoslovakia at the end of the 1940s, as the Greek civil war meant many communist fighters sought refuge in communist countries. Told through the eyes of Archimedes’ grown-up nephew Aris, who recalls how his uncle's life changed when he escaped from Greece to Czechoslovakia with the naive dream of a rosy future under a socialist regime. But all was not as it seemed.

Production Companies

Česká televize

ARTE

ARTE

Cast

Ondřej Vetchý

Ondřej Vetchý

Archimedes
Miroslav Donutil

Miroslav Donutil

Karel Novák
Dana Černá

Dana Černá

Penelope
Tomáš Töpfer

Tomáš Töpfer

inženýr Goldstein
Jaromír Dulava

Jaromír Dulava

předseda MNV
Veronika Freimanová

Veronika Freimanová

Jarmila Nováková
Stanislav Zindulka

Stanislav Zindulka

hokynář Přibyl
Marina Vlachaki

Marina Vlachaki

matka Archimeda
Jan Kolařík

Jan Kolařík

Hamáček
Igor Bareš

Igor Bareš

Pan Bureš
Martin Havelka

Martin Havelka

ředitel husí farmy
Vladimír Hauser

Vladimír Hauser

mistr na husí farmě
Viktor Skála

Viktor Skála

nadstrážmistr VB
Igor Ondříček

Igor Ondříček

strážmistr
Pavel Zatloukal

Pavel Zatloukal

tajemník Vojta
Zdeněk Junák

Zdeněk Junák

ruský poradce
Kostas Zerdaloglu

Kostas Zerdaloglu

překladatel Nikiforos

Release date

14th Jan 2018

Status

Released

Spoken languages

Deutsch, Český