Réalisation:
Karel KachyňaPhotographie:
Josef IllíkMusique:
Jan NovákActeurs·trices:
Jana Brejchová, Mnislav Hofmann, Gustáv Valach, Josef Kemr, Josef Elsner, Čestmír Řanda st., Jaroslav Moučka, Josef Větrovec, Valerie Kaplanová (plus)Résumés(1)
One day of autumn 1950, during the forced collectivization, the farmers lead their cattle into the common stables of the new cooperative. The cooperative's chairman, Picin, publicly calls out the farmers' names. Only one among the farmers - the rich farmer Konvalinka - opposes the imposed violence in a horrific way, shooting all his cattle and himself committing suicide. The village witnesses the return of Konvalinka's daughter, nicknamed Miss [Slečna], a former nun whose cloister was closed by the new regime. She is running the remaining property alone, only with the help of the village fool Ambrož. Besides that, Miss is also feeding the cooperative's pigs. The farm-labourer Ambrož becomes the target of disgusting jokes suggesting a sexual relationship with the strict young woman employer. Picin is well aware that the members of the cooperative steal grain and not all of them have handed over their guns. Before Christmas, Miss decides to revive the village tradition and goes to the banned midnight mass on sledge. Clad in a nun's habit, she arrives at the church and blesses the people. The religious excitement of the crowd of villagers makes the priest serve the ceremony. Picin's common-law wife Filipa dies, and while the undertaker and his wife prepare her for the grave, Picin sets off to the church with a loaded gun. The priest, in front of the gathered people, scolds the former nun for pride and the young woman runs away to the fields, where in the freeze out to death. Picin, desperate of Filipa's death and blinded by hatred, shoots dead one of the farmers in front of the church. Miss dies in the frost and the members of militia arrive to the village from town. (texte officiel du distributeur)
(plus)Acteurs·trices
![Josefa Pechlátová](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/275/275144_3bb4c7.jpg)
Josefa Pechlátová
Autriche-Hongrie
Meilleurs films :
Jáchyme, hoď ho do stroje! (1974)
Šíleně smutná princezna (1968)
Dařbuján a Pandrhola (1959)
![Josef Koza](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/275/275722_fd06d3.jpg)
Josef Koza
Tchécoslovaquie
Meilleurs films :
Jáchyme, hoď ho do stroje! (1974)
Po stopách krve (1969)
L'As de pique (1963)
Antonín Novotný
Meilleurs films :
Ďáblova past (1961)
La Nuit de la nonne (1967)
Tři přání (1958)
![Ladislav Kazda](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/275/275753_fe633f.jpg)
Ladislav Kazda
Tchécoslovaquie
Meilleurs films :
Ďáblova past (1961)
Roméo, Juliette et les ténèbres (1959)
Naděje (1963)
Lubomíra Willigová
Tchécoslovaquie
Meilleurs films :
Comment on réveille les princesses (1977)
La Nuit de la nonne (1967)
Sólo pro starou dámu (1978)
![Jan Kraus](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/399/161399980_35cc76.jpg)
Jan Kraus
Tchécoslovaquie
Meilleurs films :
L'Incinérateur de cadavres (1968)
Happy End (1967)
Le Dirigeable volé (1966)
![Magdaléna Holendrová](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/851/159851802_adadec.jpg)
Magdaléna Holendrová
Tchécoslovaquie
Meilleurs films :
Pozor, vizita! (1981)
La Nuit de la nonne (1967)
Cukrová bouda (1980)
Simona Uhlířová
Meilleurs films :
La Nuit de la nonne (1967)
Když má svátek Dominika (1967)
Eva Dyková
Meilleurs films :
La Nuit de la nonne (1967)
Katia et le crocodile (1965)
![Ladislav Gzela](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/275/275655_74f196.jpg)
Ladislav Gzela
Autriche-Hongrie
Meilleurs films :
Monsieur principe supérieur (1960)
Un marteau pour les sorcières (1969)
Byl jednou jeden král... (1954)
![Jozef Sodoma](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/407/158407049_7bab49.jpg)
Jozef Sodoma
Tchécoslovaquie
Meilleurs films :
Sváko Ragan (1976) (téléfilm)
Štyridsaťštyri (1957)
Hernani (1967) (téléfilm)
![Pavel Handl](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/165/252/165252326_c3a4a0.jpg)
Pavel Handl
Meilleurs films :
Kamenný řád (1975) (série)
La Nuit de la nonne (1967)
Bumerang (1996)
![Miloš Vávra](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/693/162693807_f16466.jpg)
Miloš Vávra
Tchécoslovaquie
Meilleurs films :
Un cas pour un bourreau débutant (1969)
Dobří holubi se vracejí (1988)
Četnické humoresky (2001) (série)
![Jindra Rathová](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/354/159354840_d8867a.jpg)
Jindra Rathová
Meilleurs films :
Vive la république ! (1965)
La Nuit de la nonne (1967)
Zločin v šantánu (1968)
![Josef Abrhám](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/166/323/166323293_f95e62.jpg)
Josef Abrhám
Protectorat de Bohême-Moravie
Meilleurs films :
„Marečku, podejte mi pero!“ (1976)
Revizor (1971) (pièce de théâtre filmée)
Hráči (1983) (pièce de théâtre filmée)
Vladimír Očenášek
Tchécoslovaquie
Meilleurs films :
La Nuit de la nonne (1967)
Kdyby tisíc klarinetů (1964)
Máte doma lva? (1963)