''Lost in the Suburbs'' ( cs, Návrat domů, alternative English title: ''Homecoming'') is a 1948

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starring

Karel Höger Karel Höger (17 June 1909 – 4 May 1977) was a Czechoslovakian film actor. He appeared in nearly 100 films between 1939 and 1977. Selected filmography * '' In the Still of the Night'' (1941) * '' Enchanted'' (1942) * ''Gabriela'' (1942) * ...

about soldiers returning from

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. Based on the story written by

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the movie was directed by

Martin Frič Martin Frič (29 March 1902 – 26 August 1968) was a Czech film director, screenwriter and actor. He had more than 100 directing credits between 1929 and 1968, including feature films, shorts and documentary films. Throughout his life, Fri ...

. Though some

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are ranking this movie among Top 10 of Frič's fruitfull filmography, at the time of its release the film met mostly negative reviews and even today is still ignored by publishers as well as by public. Probably due to the depressive nature of the movie's story.

Plot

The story begins on 16 May 1945. The war is over, citizens of

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cheer the Czechoslovak soldiers returning from Eastern front. As soon as the

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is over, they see that the return to the peaceful life is no way easy. And for the

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Kliment Mareš (Karel Höger), the only native of Prague in his unit, there is no reason to celebrate the peace because as he step by step finds out all his pre-war life is ruined: his mother and sister were executed by

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and their flat is inhabited by strangers, his friends from the club either died or emigrated, and his former girlfriend already married another man. When Mareš realizes that the men and women from his unit are the only family left, he gratefully welcomes the new orders and leaves Prague - to recapture the

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Cast

* Běla Jurdová * Josef Pehr *

František Smolík František Smolík (23 January 1891 – 26 January 1972) was a Czechoslovak film actor. He appeared in more than 75 films between 1920 and 1968. Selected filmography *'' The Mystery of the Blue Room'' (1933) * '' The Ruined Shopkeeper'' (1 ...

Terezie Brzková Terezie Brzková (11 January 1875 – 19 November 1966) was a Czechoslovak film actress. She appeared in 28 films between 1939 and 1959. She is buried at the Vyšehrad Cemetery in Prague. Selected filmography * '' The Magic House'' (1939) * ...

Zdenka Procházková Zdenka Procházková (4 April 1926 – 25 August 2021) was a Czech actress. She was married to Karel Höger, who she starred with in the 1949 film ''A Dead Man Among the Living'', but they were already divorced by the time of his death in 1977. ...

Zdeněk Štěpánek Zdeněk Štěpánek (22 September 1896 – 20 June 1968) was a Czech actor. He appeared in 65 films between 1922 and 1968. Selected filmography * ''St. Wenceslas'' (1930) * '' Paradise Road'' (1936) * '' The World Is Ours'' (1937) * ''Skeleton ...

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References

External links

* 1948 films 1948 drama films 1940s Czech-language films Czechoslovak black-and-white films Films directed by Martin Frič Czechoslovak drama films 1940s Czech films {{1940s-CzechRepublic-film-stub