A British-Czech coproduction by British director Hannah Kodicek which looks at the postwar Communist dictatorship in Czechoslovakia through the eyes of a seven-year-old girl. Maruška grows up in Prague in the fifties, raised more by her relatives than her zealous, society-building mother.

Cast / Ian Hogg , Florence Hoath , Joan Plowright , Hugh Laurie , Steven Rimkus , Imogen Stubbs , Ian Bannen    Writer / Hannah Kodicek    DoP / Ivan Šlapeta    Editor / Kant Pan    Sound / John Midgley    Music / Ilona Sekacz