A dead baron, 10,000 missing figurines, and the communist bureaucrat who knows too much.
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.
Acting
Mueller-Stahl's heartbreaking fragility behind aristocratic composure.
Production
Authentic Prague locations shot weeks after the Velvet Revolution.
Director
George Sluizer
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