Flower Buds () is a 2011 Czech drama film written and directed by Zdeněk Jiráský.
Plot
The film is about the Hrdina family, who live in an
industrial town Czech
border town. Jarda Hrdina is a middle-aged railway
signalman who is deep in debt from his addiction to
slot machines. His wife Kamila, a
cleaning lady, is focused on rehearsing a performance of the song "Poupata" ("Flower Buds"), twenty five years after she and her peers performed the routine in the Spartakiad gymnastics festival. Their son Honza, who grows
cannabis in his basement, falls in love with a
prostitute named Zuzana, and after unsuccessfully asking her out decides to purchase ownership of her. Their daughter Agáta, whose boyfriend Matěj becomes
wheelchair bound after nearly freezing to death while drunk, is dealing with an unplanned pregnancy, and can only bring herself to tell her close friend Magda.
Cast
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Vladimír Javorský as Jarda
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Malgorzata Pikus as Kamila
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Marika Šoposká as Agáta
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Miroslav Pánek as Honza
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Natalie Řehořová as Magda
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Aneta Krejčíková as Zuzana
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