A classic comedy about long-planned courtship and the fear of getting married once and for all performed by actors from Prague's Divadlo Na Jezerce theater.
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Barbora Hrzánová
Radek Holub
Miluše Šplechtová
Věra Kubánková
Tereza Němcová
Marek Taclík
Jan Hrušínský
Miroslav Vladyka
Zdeněk Hruška
Roman Štabrňák
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