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title: 'How Poets Are Losing Their Illusions (1985)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Dušan Klein'
released: '1985-04-01'
runtime_minutes: 98
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'Czechoslovakia'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/how-poets-are-losing-their-illusions-1985'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087495/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# How Poets Are Losing Their Illusions (1985)

1985 · 98 min · Comedy, Romance · Czechoslovakia


## Synopsis

How Poets Are Losing Their Illusions is a 1985 Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Dušan Klein and written by Klein, together with Ladislav Pecháček. The second in the "Poets hexalogy", the title is preceded by How the World Is Losing Poets (1982) and followed by How Poets Are Enjoying Their Lives (1988), 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 focuses on the young poet Štěpán Šafránek as he studies to become a doctor in Prague.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Dušan Klein](https://cinepixo.com/people/dusan-klein)
- **Screenplay:** [Dušan Klein](https://cinepixo.com/people/dusan-klein), [Ladislav Pecháček](https://cinepixo.com/people/ladislav-pechacek)
- **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

- [Jiří Štěpnička](https://cinepixo.com/people/jiri-stepnicka)
- [David Matásek](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-matasek)
- [Josef Somr](https://cinepixo.com/people/josef-somr)
- [Leoš Suchařípa](https://cinepixo.com/people/leos-sucharipa)
- [Rudolf Fleischer](https://cinepixo.com/people/rudolf-fleischer)
- [Karel Koloušek](https://cinepixo.com/people/karel-kolousek)
- [Michaela Dolinová](https://cinepixo.com/people/michaela-dolinova)
- [Eva Vidlařová](https://cinepixo.com/people/eva-vidlarova)
- [František Filipovský](https://cinepixo.com/people/frantisek-filipovsky)
- [Stanislav Hájek](https://cinepixo.com/people/stanislav-hajek)
- [Vladislav Beneš](https://cinepixo.com/people/vladislav-benes)
- [Slávka Hamouzová](https://cinepixo.com/people/slavka-hamouzova)
- [Adriana Tarábková](https://cinepixo.com/people/adriana-tarabkova)
- [Joseph Dielle](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-dielle)
- [Eva Jeníčková](https://cinepixo.com/people/eva-jenickova)

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