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Why?

1987-10-01 · 86 min · ★ 6.4

Drama

Why? (Czech: Proč?) is a 1987 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Karel Smyczek. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. The film deals with the hooliganism in Czechoslovakia, particularly with the fans of football club Sparta from Prague, whose supporters were the pioneers of the football fan riots in Czechoslovakia, starting with hooligan actions already in the 1960s, like breaking the trains in which they travelled when they went on Sparta's away games. The film deals with one of such episodes

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Directors
Karel Smyczek
Production companies
Filmové studio Barrandov
Countries
Czechoslovakia
Status
Released

Top Cast

Jiří LangmajerJiří LangmajerJirka
Martin SobotkaMartin SobotkaMichal
Pavel Zvarič
Pavlína MourkováPavlína MourkováMarie
Jan PotměšilJan PotměšilMilan
Daniel Heyna Větrovský
Daniel LandaDaniel LandaPavel
Markéta ZmožkováMarkéta Zmožková
Martin DejdarMartin DejdarSury
Milka ZimkováMilka Zimková
Karel PospíšilKarel Pospíšil
Adolf Kohuth
Eva LecchiováEva Lecchiová
Emma ČernáEmma Černá
Vladislava Macháčková
Gabriela WilhelmováGabriela Wilhelmová
Zdeněk Pecháček
Kateřina Šavlíková
David Schneider
Jan VlasákJan Vlasák

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