Overview
Hugh Whitemore adapted Bruce Chatwin's novel for this tale of a New York antique dealer who travels to Prague to buy the porcelain collection of the late Baron Utz, only to become embroiled in the wreckage of the dead man's unusual life history after he discovers that the collection is missing.
Director and cast
- George Sluizer Director
- Armin Mueller-Stahl as Baron Kaspar Joachim von Utz
- Brenda Fricker as Marta
- Peter Riegert as Marius Fisher
- Paul Scofield as Dr. Vaclav Orlik
- Gaye Brown as Ada Krasova
- Miriam Karlin as Großmutter
- Christian Mueller-Stahl as Baron Kaspar Joachim Utz mit 18
- Pauline Melville as Curator
- Jakub Zdeněk as Baron Kaspar Joachim von Utz mit 11
- Christian Rabe Cast
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