Franta Louka is a concert cellist in Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia, a confirmed bachelor and a lady's man. Having lost his place in the state orchestra, he must make ends meet by playing at funerals and painting tombstones.
But he has run up a large debt, and when his friend, the grave-digger Mr. Broz, suggests a scheme for making a lot of money by marrying a Russian woman so that she can get her Czech papers, he reluctantly agrees.
She takes advantage of the situation to emigrate to West Germany, to her lover; and leaves her five-year-old son with his grandmother; when the grandmother dies, Kolya must come and live with his stepfather - Louka.
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Kolya
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American Quartet
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Antonín Dvorák:
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Hospodin jest muj pastyr (The Lord is My Shepherd)
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Antonín Dvorák:
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Als die alte Mutter mich noch lehrte singen (When My Old Mother...)
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Antonín Dvorák:
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Slavonic Dance No. 15 in C Major
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Antonín Dvorák:
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Impressions and Recollections
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Zdenek Fibich:
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The Wedding March
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Nocturne
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky:
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A Drop In The Ocean
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Vyacheslav Dobrynin:
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My Country: Tabor
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Bedrich Smetana:
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