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title: 'How Poets Are Enjoying Their Lives (1988)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Dušan Klein'
released: '1988-06-01'
runtime_minutes: 102
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'Czechoslovakia'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/how-poets-are-enjoying-their-lives-1988'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093291/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# How Poets Are Enjoying Their Lives (1988)

1988 · 102 min · Comedy, Romance · Czechoslovakia


## Synopsis

How Poets Are Enjoying Their Lives is a 1988 Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Dušan Klein and written by Klein with Ladislav Pecháček. The third installment in the "Poets hexalogy", the title is preceded by How the World Is Losing Poets (1982) and How Poets Are Losing Their Illusions (1985), and followed by Konec básníků v Čechách (1993), Jak básníci neztrácejí naději (2004), and Jak básníci čekají na zázrak (2016). The film stars Pavel Kříž and David Matásek, and revisits the lives of Štěpán Šafránek and his best friend, Kendy, as they navigate their respective personal and professional lives.

## Credits

- **Screenplay:** [Ladislav Pecháček](https://cinepixo.com/people/ladislav-pechacek), [Dušan Klein](https://cinepixo.com/people/dusan-klein)
- **Director:** [Dušan Klein](https://cinepixo.com/people/dusan-klein)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Zdeněk Marat](https://cinepixo.com/people/zdenek-marat)
- **Director of Photography:** [Josef Vaniš](https://cinepixo.com/people/josef-vanis)
- **Editor:** [Jiří Brožek](https://cinepixo.com/people/jiri-brozek)

## Cast

- [Marcela Martínková](https://cinepixo.com/people/marcela-martinkova)
- [Taťána Puttová](https://cinepixo.com/people/tatana-puttova)
- [Radovan Urban](https://cinepixo.com/people/radovan-urban)
- [Jana Hlaváčová](https://cinepixo.com/people/jana-hlavacova)
- [Soňa Novotná](https://cinepixo.com/people/sona-novotna)
- [Stanislav Zindulka](https://cinepixo.com/people/stanislav-zindulka)
- [Barbora Štěpánová](https://cinepixo.com/people/barbora-stepanova)
- [Joseph Dielle](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-dielle)
- [Ladislav Pecháček](https://cinepixo.com/people/ladislav-pechacek)
- [Monika Hladová](https://cinepixo.com/people/monika-hladova)
- [Jirina Bila-Strechová](https://cinepixo.com/people/jirina-bila-strechova)
- [Jan Schmid](https://cinepixo.com/people/jan-schmid)
- [Blažena Holišová](https://cinepixo.com/people/blazena-holisova)
- [Nina Jiránková](https://cinepixo.com/people/nina-jirankova)
- [Zlata Adamovská](https://cinepixo.com/people/zlata-adamovska)

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