On screen
Cast
110 credited performers
Rufus
Guillaume Apollinaire
Christine Boisson
Marie Laurencin
Béatrice Bruno
Madeleine Pagès
Věra Galatíková
Olga, Guillaume's mother
Svatopluk Matyáš
Character not listed
Paloma Matta
Jacqueline Kolb
Madelon Violla
Louise de Coligny-Châtillon
Barbara Ward
Elisabeth
Marc Mallory
Character not listed
Jean-François Delacour
Friend of Apollinaire and Picasso
Bruno Balp
Painting dealer
Roland Amstutz
Colonel
Philippe Avron
Jules-Louis Breton
Michèle Bernard
Singer
Jana Brejchová
Mrs. Milhau
Marc Cémin
Chief warden
Alexandra Cissé
Waitress
Cheik Doukouré
Senegalese rifleman
Mike Hawkaines
Character not listed
Jaromír Kučera
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Luděk Kopřiva
Emperor Franz Joseph I
Jan Cmíral
Empereo Guillaume II
Jean-Claude Leguay
Character not listed
Philippe Lobut
Georges Braque
Fred Personne
Baron Ignace
Jan Sobotka
Guillaume Apollinaire as a child
David Rýdl
Character not listed
Mark Burns
Willy
Jiří Untermüller
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Roman Hájek
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Aleš Helcelet
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Gabriela Hyrmanová
Gabrielle de Milhau
Petr Potužník
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Tomáš Faust
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Dominique Pinon
Albert de Kostrowitzky
Daniel Mesguich
Franz Kafka
Pierre-Olivier Scotto
Friend of Apollinaire and Picasso
Guy Maldrose
Character not listed
Béatrice Houplin
Flower seller
Filip Klevno
Character not listed
Eve Cotton
Young red-haired woman
Naima Bentaleb Nahmoudi
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Bernard Roumaneix
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Philippe Clévenot
Ecclesiastic
Luděk Nešleha
Brave soldier Chveik
Václav Sloup
Bretschneider
Vlastimil Hašek
Innkeeper in Prague
Karel Hlušička
Commander
Julie Jurištová
Character not listed
Jana Viščaková
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Arnošt Böhm
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Jana Robenková
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Oto Ševčík
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Jana Pragerová
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Josef Střecha
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Miroslav Hedánek
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Dana Horčicová
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Ludmila Grossmannová
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Miloslav Homola
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Vladimír Pospíšil
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Mirko Musil
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Oldřich Semerák
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Zdeněk Skalický
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Karol Zych
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Miloš Větvička
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Alice Pinková
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Lenka Pichlíková
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Hana Heřmánková
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Bohumil Šmída
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Hana Talpová
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Anna Wetlinská
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Jaroslav Tomsa
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Pierre Laurent
Cassino Player
Véronique Leblanc
Marie Dubois
Claude Weisz
Train Passenger
Sylvie Bellec
Cabaret singer
Jean-Marc Rouleau
Officer in the Train
Alain Marguerite
Marseille soldier
Jiří Kosek
Character not listed
Jan Zíma
Character not listed
Julius Neumann
Match soldier
Alain Ilan
Rouveyre
Anne Bataille
German lady
Marie-Christine Jabolet
Character not listed
Anne-Marie Nicot
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O. Lavický
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Vítězslav Bouchner
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Dušan Sitek
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Michael Tarant
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Pavel Pitner
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Lucie Zychová
Character not listed
J. Toman
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Radovan Urban
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Zdena Lukášová
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Zdeněk Oves
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Jarmila Benešová
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Karel Engel
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Ladislav Lahoda
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Petr Jákl
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František Jákl
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Miroslav Jíra
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Jaroslav Klenot
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Jiří Kraus
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Pavel Myslík
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Miroslav Falout
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Luboš Hadač
Musician
Jan Šmíd
Musician
Bohumil Holeček
Musician
Josef Pospíšil
Musician
Albert Delpy
The second deputy