The central character of the romantic comedy Casting for Love is Stela Nebeská, an unsuccessful actress who, approaching forty, realizes that she is unlikely to make it big. She loses her job at the theater, where she only played minor roles anyway. Her career failure is followed by personal failure - her husband starts cheating on her and doesn't even try to hide it. But Stela is not willing to accept defeat and is determined not to give up without a fight. She vows that, come what may, she will find someone who will make her husband green with envy. So she launches a grand audition for a new love. She starts dating, but every date is with an eccentric and unsuitable suitor, and every date ends in disaster. Will Stela finally find the right one? Or have all the decent men died out?
Acting
Tereza Němcová commits fully to Stela's spiraling dignity.
Writing
Suitor disasters escalate with genuinely absurd Czech specificity.
Director
Eva Toulová
Tereza Němcová
Stela Nebeská
Martin Sitta
manžel Stely
Jan Řezníček
Adam Koníček
Igor Bareš
Marcel
Milan Šteindler
Ondřejův otec
Václav Vydra
David
Jan Čenský
řidič limuzíny
Zdeněk Maryška
otec Stely
Jitka Sedláčková
Ondřejova matka
Valérie Zawadská
matka Stely
Lukáš Latinák
režisér
Lukáš Langmajer
Olda
Zuska Velichova
Tamara
Anna Schmidtmajerová
matka ve vlaku
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Czech romantic comedies often embrace darker, more pathetic protagonists than their Hollywood counterparts—Stela fits this tradition perfectly.
Director Eva Toulová came from television soap operas, which explains the episodic structure of Stela's suitor encounters.
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