- HD 1080
- Runtime: 107m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: cs
- Country: Czechoslovakia
- Director: Evald Schorm, Věra Chytilová, Jiří Menzel, Jaromil Jireš, Jan Němec
- Stars: Pavla Maršálková, Ferdinand Krůta, Alois Vachek, Emil Iserle, Miroslav Nohýnek
- keywords: insurance salesman, fairy tale, bride, anthology, avant-garde, railroad, based on short story, woman director, boasting, riff raff, gypsy girl, czech new wave
- Production_studio: Filmové studio Barrandov
- providers: Criterion Channel
- The Pearls of the Deep is featured in the top rankings of 1966
- #49 in Top Comedy Movies of 1966
A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave, this five-part anthology shows off the breadth of expression and the versatility of the movement’s directors. Based on stories by the legendary writer Bohumil Hrabal, the shorts range from the surreally chilling to the caustically observant to the casually romantic, but all have a cutting, wily view of the world.