She Kept Asking for the Moon

IMDb 6.9 1983 81 min ComedyDramaRomance

Director

Štefan Uher

Country

XC

Plot Summary

Johanka had a fling with a well digger she had not met before and who, she was most likely certain, would never be around again. Just before his departure, they have sex and she eventually becomes single mother of a baby girl. Now, 18 years later, her daughter Paulina commutes by bus to work in the nearby city, which gives the village gossips the occasional opportunity to remind her of her unknown father. A resultant conflict with her mother makes Paulina take up residence in the city. Johanka, prodded by her also-single friend Jozefka who maintains that a woman without a man is nothing, begins to woo the new teacher Jarek only to discover later that he is married. Paulina, in the meantime, loses her virginity to the soldier Jirka who promptly makes himself scarce. Johanka fails to consider that she actually has a better life than some of her married neighbors, begins to see.

Top Cast

Milka Zimková
Milka Zimková Johana Ovsená
Veronika Jeníková
Veronika Jeníková Pavlínka
Peter Staník
Peter Staník Berty
Marie Logojdová
Marie Logojdová Jozefka
Valéria Jergová
Valéria Jergová Teca